Nancy Guthrie's neighbor saw suspicious man walking nearby 2 weeks before suspected abduction

FIRST ON FOX: TUCSON, Ariz. — A neighbour of Nancy Guthrie said she saw a suspicious young antheral walking successful her vicinity astir 2 weeks earlier the 84-year-old parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie is believed to person been abducted from her Tucson home. 

"He didn’t person your emblematic walking cogwheel on, and helium had his chapeau pulled truly acold implicit his eyes," said Aldine Meister, who told Fox News Digital she’s lived successful the Catalina Foothills for astir 30 years. 

The vicinity is known to beryllium comparatively affluent and typically sees small crime.

She said she saw the antheral walking successful the neighborhood, adjacent an intersection starring to Guthrie’s home. 

An undated photograph of Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie was provided by NBC successful effect to the disappearance of the 84-year-old parent of the Today Show host. (Courtesy of NBC)

"He was benignant of younger, and helium conscionable didn’t look similar helium was going retired for a walk," she added. 

She mentioned it to her hubby but did not study it astatine the time, she said. 

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After the abduction, she said, she told authorities astir the suspicious man. 

"He conscionable didn’t fit," she said.

A heap of flowers grows extracurricular Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Arizona connected Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. Guthrie has been missing for 24 days arsenic of Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Olivia Palombo / Fox News Digital)

She didn’t person immoderate video to springiness detectives, however.

Guthrie’s suspected kidnapping took spot astir 2:30 a.m. connected Feb. 1, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

The FBI and Google teamed up to retrieve doorbell camera footage adjacent though her Nest instrumentality is physically unaccounted for, and she did not person a unreality subscription. 

FBI Director Kash Patel released inactive images and video connected Feb. 10.

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FBI investigators hunt Catalina Foothills successful Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday, February 11, 2026. The probe into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie continues. (DWS for Fox News Digital)

The video shows a masked antheral with gloves on, prowling connected her beforehand porch. 

According to a root with cognition of the investigation, 1 of the doorbell images was taken connected a antithetic day than the others. It shows a antheral who whitethorn beryllium the aforesaid masked intruder astatine Guthrie’s doorstep, without his Ozark Trail backpack oregon holstered pistol.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has called the timeline surrounding the images speculation. 

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However, neighbors person been asked to cheque their location information cameras for immoderate video taken betwixt Jan. 1 and Feb. 2 — arsenic good arsenic connected Jan. 11, specifically. 

Michele Young, different longtime nonmigratory of the Catalina Foothills country said investigators came to her location a full of 5 times.

Australian-born presenter, Savannah Guthrie poses alongside her parent Nancy Guthrie during a accumulation interruption whilst hosting NBC's "Today Show" unrecorded from Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)

"On that past visit, erstwhile I was talking to the FBI and the sheriff together, they did notation the 11th," Young said. "I had mentioned that the sheriff’s section came backmost for further footage, and they mentioned thing astir a antithetic date."

Neighbors mentioned a consciousness of unease successful the community, awaiting answers from instrumentality enforcement officials.

"I deliberation everyone’s anxious," Young said. "We each ticker retired for 1 different present truthful it would beryllium bully if thing happened."

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The Jan. 11 day has travel up repeatedly successful the investigation, including successful a Ring Neighbors app station asking for residents to crook implicit video taken betwixt 9 p.m. and midnight connected that day.

The sheriff’s section has downplayed the value of the date, telling Fox News Digital that investigators are looking for a afloat month's worthy of video, successful lawsuit thing suspicious shows up.

These 2 images were released by the FBI, recovered from Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera. It's unclear whether they amusement the aforesaid person. (FBI)

Nanos said antecedently that helium did not privation to absorption connected a circumstantial clip successful lawsuit thing of usage to detectives took spot extracurricular that window.

And Meister said investigators had asked her astir it, too. As for whether she saw the suspicious antheral connected that day, she wasn’t sure.

"It could’ve been the 11th," Meister said. She said she knew it was aft Jan. 8 and astatine slightest 2 weeks earlier Guthrie’s abduction. 

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A subordinate of the Pima County Sheriff's Office remains extracurricular of Nancy Guthrie's home, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026 successful Tucson, Ariz. (Ty O'Neil/AP Photo)

Next, she said she plans to summation information astir her home, due to the fact that her existing strategy didn’t grounds anything. She said she’d adhd much surveillance cameras astir her house. 

Guthrie’s big children are offering a $1 cardinal reward for accusation that leads to their mother’s recovery. 

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At slightest 2 men were detained and released without charges successful the investigation. Police person not publically named immoderate suspects, persons of involvement oregon vehicles connected to the case.

Anyone with accusation successful the lawsuit is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.

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