Nancy Guthrie Update: How a Different Approach Could Solve the Case, Says Detective
A detective recently explained how car tracking could solve Nancy Guthrie's case, as the mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie remains missing four months after her abduction in Tucson, Ariz.
During an interview with Jon Buehler published on June 1, NewsNation senior national correspondent Brian Entin spoke with the detective on Brian Entin Investigates.
"Most of the newer cars have a tracking capability in them that I don't think you can turn it off, from the high-tech people that I talk to," he pointed out. "Car tracking would be something I would look into. I would get somebody who really knows what they're doing on that. Because you would want to try and see any cars that were coming that area that particular night, what their destination was, where they were going, and see what you can find on that."
Buehler added, "If somebody ever plugged her address into a Google search for a Google Maps or whatever, if they did a reverse keyword search on that because those records are maintained for a period of time, to see any random person that would have typed in her address that had a reason to do it and then you'd contact that person and find out why did you put that address."
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By doing that, Buehler said detectives could "eliminate people from suspicion as easy as you can focus on somebody."
He also told Entin, "Any tradespeople that maybe were doing plumbing repair, electrical repair, anybody who was delivering furniture-anything that came up where somebody could see her as a source of ransom because of the connection with Savannah and Savannah's notoriety, I would be looking at people like that."
Another group to look into, according to Buehler, is parolees who were violent offenders and targeted women.
Nancy, 84, was last seen at her Tucson home on the evening of Jan. 31. Since then, the FBI has released video footage and stills from a doorbell camera of a masked individual on Nancy's front porch. Savannah has also offered a $1 million reward; however, no suspect has been named in the case four months later.
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This story was originally published June 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM.