Federal agents seized a gray Range Rover in connection with the ongoing search for Nancy Guthrie, Newsweek reports. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing on February 1.
The FBI seized and searched the vehicle during a Friday night operation in Tucson, the release said.
Video from local station KGUN 9 showed FBI agents and Pima County deputies photographing, inspecting and covering the SUV in the parking lot of a Culver’s restaurant about two miles from Guthrie’s home as part of the expanding investigation into her disappearance, the report said.
A photographer at the scene said the SUV’s trunk was sealed and the vehicle was thoroughly searched before being impounded, Newsweek reports.
Authorities have not disclosed who the vehicle belongs to or its connection to the case.
FBI agents and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department process evidence from a late model gray Range Rover as they investigate the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of American journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, at Culver’s in Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 13, 2026. REUTERS/Rebecca(REUTERS)
Officials are concerned about Guthrie’s health because he requires daily medication. She reportedly has a pacemaker and has a history of high blood pressure and heart problems, according to a sheriff’s audio dispatcher posted on broadcastify.com.
Authorities discovered her blood on the front porch of her Tucson home. The alleged ransoms were sent to news organizations, although two deadlines for payment had already passed.
Investigators reviewed the footage, sifted through thousands of tips and submitted DNA and other evidence to labs for analysis.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released surveillance footage showing a masked person with a holstered gun outside Guthrie’s Tucson home the night she disappeared, the AP reported.
Video from a porch camera captured a person carrying a backpack and dressed in a ski mask, jacket, gloves and long pants. On Thursday, the FBI identified the person as a suspect, the AP reported.
Authorities described him as a man approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall with a medium build, and that he was carrying a 25-liter Ozark Trail “Hiker Pack.”
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Investigators initially said no surveillance footage was available because Guthrie did not have an active subscription to the doorbell camera service.
FBI agents and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department process evidence from a late model gray Range Rover as they investigate the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of American journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, at Culver’s in Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 13, 2026. REUTERS/Rebecca(REUTERS)
However, digital forensics specialists continued to examine the system’s back-end software in an attempt to recover any images that may have been deleted, damaged or otherwise inaccessible.
DNA study
Investigators collected DNA from Guthrie’s possessions that do not belong to Guthrie or those in close contact with her, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said.
Investigators are working to find out who it belongs to.
“Evidence requiring forensic analysis is being sent to the same out-of-state laboratory that has been used since the beginning of the case,” the department said.
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Investigators found several gloves, the closest being about 2 miles from Guthrie’s home, and submitted them for laboratory analysis, the sheriff’s department said.
It did not specify what type of gloves.
The sheriff emphasized that his department is working closely with the FBI.
Sort by tips
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI have announced phone numbers and a website where they offer tips. Several hundred detectives and agents were assigned to the case, the sheriff’s department said.
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The FBI said it has received more than 13,000 tips since Guthrie was reported missing on Feb. 1. Meanwhile, the local sheriff’s department said it had logged at least 18,000 calls related to the case.
Authorities did not say whether any of the information provided led to significant progress in the investigation.
Intensive search
Late Friday, authorities closed the road about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Guthrie’s residence as part of the ongoing investigation. Numerous sheriff’s and FBI vehicles – including forensics units – moved through the restricted area.
The sheriff’s department confirmed the activity was related to the Guthrie case, but did not provide further details.
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On Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies detained a person for questioning during a traffic stop south of Tucson. Authorities did not say what led them to stop the man, but confirmed he had been released, the AP reported.
That same day, deputies and FBI agents conducted a court-authorized search in Rio Rico, about an hour’s drive south of the city.
Family pleas
Savannah Guthrie, her sister and her brother shared several video messages to their mother’s alleged kidnapper on social media.
The family’s Instagram videos have shifted in tone from impassioned pleas to whoever can have their mom, say they want to talk and are even willing to pay a ransom, to more somber and desperate pleas for the public’s help.
Thursday’s final video was simply a home video of their mother and a promise to “never give up on her.”
Quiet neighborhood
Nancy Guthrie lived alone in the affluent Catalina Foothills neighborhood characterized by widely spaced homes, long driveways, gates, and dense desert landscaping.
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Her daughter, Savannah Guthrie, grew up in Tucson, attended the University of Arizona and previously worked at a local television station. In 2011, she joined the “Today” show.
In the video, she described her mother as a “loving woman of goodness and light”.
(With input from agencies)