Nancy Guthrie's Tucson neighborhood searched again after monsoon shifts landscape, neighbor says

TUCSON, Ariz. — A neighbour of Nancy Guthrie's successful the Catalina Foothills tells Fox News Digital she saw the FBI instrumentality to hunt the brushwood down the missing 84-year-old's location days earlier her unsolved disappearance reached the six-month mark, a neighbour told Fox News Digital.

While a spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff's Department said that nary task unit investigators had returned to the country recently, the neighbour said she recognized faces from earlier instrumentality enforcement enactment successful the vicinity connected to the case. The FBI did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The neighbor, who lives conscionable a fewer doors down, reported seeing them combing done the godforsaken brush.

Guthrie, the parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to person been taken by unit from her location successful the aboriginal hours of Feb. 1, according to authorities.

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Savannah Guthrie and parent Nancy Guthrie connected Thursday, June 15, 2023. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)

Bob Krygier, a retired Pima County Sheriff's Department lieutenant and erstwhile SWAT commander, said determination are a fewer reasons wherefore investigators would instrumentality to the area, ranging from caller leads to the accidental that grounds has been shifted astir by caller weather.

"There's a mates of antithetic reasons that spell done my caput archetypal is going to beryllium they got immoderate leads, they got immoderate caller tips that are viable and they're retired determination looking for thing circumstantial oregon successful an country circumstantial to that, due to the fact that I'm definite that they've searched those areas already," helium told Fox News Digital.

A Pima County sheriff's authoritative stays extracurricular of Nancy Guthrie‘s location connected Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026 successful Tucson, Ariz. (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

It could besides beryllium that, six months into the investigation, authorities are putting a caller acceptable of eyes connected the case, helium said.

And dense rains whitethorn besides person altered the landscape, perchance exposing oregon moving grounds investigators hadn't antecedently seen, helium said.

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"About a period ago, monsoon play started present successful Tucson and a batch of h2o has travel down — a batch of h2o astatine once, and it pushes things," helium said. "So it's moved the environment. Rocks person been pushed away."

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos gives an update connected the probe aft the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of U.S. writer and tv big Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her successful Tucson, Arizona, connected Feb. 5, 2026. (Rebecca Noble/Reuters)

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Depending connected the area, floodwaters tin emergence from conscionable a fewer inches to arsenic overmuch arsenic 12 feet, Krygier said, with capable unit to expanse distant vehicles, trees, rocks and adjacent people.

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"I'm not definite if they recovered him yet, but determination was a study of a antheral successful the lavation floating down, being pushed downstream by the h2o — and the Santa Cruz is what that feeds into, which is, you're looking astatine 20, 30 feet heavy erstwhile it's astatine its highest and 50, 60 feet across," helium said. "All that water, it's rushing fast, and it's taken not lone the people, but it's taken cars, it's taken trees, branches, rocks, each of this stuff, and fundamentally turned into a large blender."

A wide presumption of a lavation adjacent the location of Nancy Guthrie successful Tucson, Ariz., connected May 5, 2026. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)

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Authorities did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Fox News Digital past week that investigators are inactive pursuing up connected progressive leads, reviewing "tens of thousands" of videos and bash not see the lawsuit cold.

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On Friday, his bureau besides released a brace of purported ransom notes successful the case, successful the anticipation that idiosyncratic successful the nationalist tin assistance place the sender's "unique linguistic style."

Anyone with accusation connected the lawsuit is asked to telephone 1-800-CALL-FBI. Tipsters tin stay anonymous by calling 520-88-CRIME.

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The combined sum of rewards successful the lawsuit is implicit $1.2 cardinal and remains unclaimed.