Nancy Guthrie Sheriff Chris Nanos says he's 'still positive' case will be resolved despite long wait

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says he's "still positive" the Nancy Guthrie lawsuit volition beryllium resolved arsenic investigators proceed to excavation done grounds much than 25 weeks aft her location penetration abduction successful Tucson, Arizona.

"We person truthful overmuch DNA to benignant through," Nanos said successful an interrogation aired connected "Today."

Guthrie is the 84-year-old parent of 1 of the show's co-hosts, Savannah Guthrie.

NANCY GUTHRIE'S SUSPECTED ABDUCTION: TIMELINE OF EVENTS IN DISAPPEARANCE OF 'TODAY' HOST'S MOM

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos speaks successful the Pima County Sheriff's Department successful Tucson, Arizona, connected Friday, May 8, 2026. Nanos said that investigators are getting person to solving the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie. (Matt Symons for Fox News Digital)

"We person truthful much, successful presumption of video evidence, to look at," Nanos added. "So I'm inactive affirmative that we're present to resoluteness this case."

The sheriff's remarks came hours aft Savannah Guthrie released a caller video plea to her mother's abductors connected Instagram, urging them to "make the close choice" and archer the household wherever to look for her.

A national root told Fox News Monday that Guthrie consulted with instrumentality enforcement earlier releasing the video.

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE'S EMOTIONAL PLEA TO MOM'S KIDNAPPER MAY SIGNAL 'NEW LINE OF COMMUNICATION': REPORT

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

"It's not wide wherefore Savannah decided to merchandise this connection now, but it could beryllium a effect to a imaginable caller enactment of communication," Guthrie's NBC workfellow Erin McLaughlin reported Tuesday. "Experts accidental the connection appears to beryllium pointed astatine whoever committed the crime, though instrumentality enforcement person not provided immoderate nationalist updates successful the probe recently."

FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X

Recent comments from FBI Director Kash Patel explained the method process investigators utilized to retrieve cached recordings from Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera that were facing imminent deletion successful a back-end Google system. But Patel made the video nationalist backmost connected Feb. 10.

SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS

A Pima County Sheriff's Office patrol car sits extracurricular the location of Nancy Guthrie successful Tucson. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Nanos did not instantly respond to follow-up questions from Fox News Digital. Investigators had scoured the neighborhoods surrounding Guthrie's location and her girl Annie's location adjacent successful hunt of video grounds that mightiness amusement a fishy oregon fishy conveyance earlier successful the investigation.

GOT A TIP?

"I wonderment however galore 'leads' they’ve covered," said Jason Pack, a retired FBI supervisory cause who has been intimately pursuing the case. "There would beryllium thousands...running down each instrumentality connected the telephone operation and their Wi-Fi router etc."

The lawsuit would not beryllium considered acold until each imaginable leads are exhausted without answers, experts person told Fox News Digital, and Pack said it doesn't look to person gone acold yet.

Deputies analyse a flyer taped to Nancy Guthrie's mailbox connected Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. They were called to the country aft unpaid searchers and respective streamers walked onto Guthrie's spot with a shovel. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST

"If the sheriff says they person that overmuch DNA and each of that video, past I don’t deliberation you tin telephone it acold until they’ve rectified those leads 1 mode oregon the other," helium said.

There are apt terabytes worthy of integer grounds successful the case, helium said.

Anyone with accusation connected the lawsuit is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. An anonymous reward tin besides beryllium obtained by calling 520-88-CRIME with accusation that leads to an apprehension successful the case.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

"It’s a batch of unit connected criminals to support specified a hard secret, particularly thing truthful precocious profile," Pack added. "You person the unit from others progressive of perchance being killed for talking oregon ratting them out. And the unit of the implicit million-dollar reward connected the different side."

Fox News' Matt Finn contributed to this report.