As the investigation into the Nancy Guthrie case intensifies, law enforcement agencies are actively gathering tips, and a significant reward is being offered to encourage public assistance. Michael Hupy, a Wisconsin attorney and president of Crime Stoppers Milwaukee, has emphasized that Crime Stoppers, rather than the sheriff’s office, provides the most secure avenue for witnesses to share information. This method also offers a financial incentive for those who can provide credible tips while maintaining their anonymity.
“I believe that anonymity coupled with a reward will motivate people to come forward,” Hupy stated. His organization is offering a $100,000 reward for information that could help solve the case.
In Pima County, Arizona, individuals with information can contact the local Crime Stoppers program, known as 88-CRIME, by dialing 520-882-7463.
Hupy has previously disbursed $75,000 in rewards and pledged an additional $200,000 to solve crimes in his community. However, he told Fox News Digital that the severity and mysterious nature of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance prompted him to pledge a six-figure reward in this particular case.
Nancy Guthrie vanished from her home in northern Tucson around 2 a.m. on Sunday, February 1. Officers responding to the scene discovered a faint trail of blood leading from her front door to the driveway. The back doors of her house were left open, and her Nest doorbell camera was missing. The trail went cold until the FBI and Google managed to retrieve security footage showing an unidentified masked man at her doorstep.
She is believed to have been taken from her bedroom in northern Tucson around 2 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 1. Responding officers found a thin trail of blood droplets from her front door to the edge of her driveway. Her back doors were propped open. Her Nest doorbell camera was missing. And the trail seemingly ended there, until the FBI and Google recovered home security video showing a masked man on her doorstep — who is still unidentified.
“I was very sad that an 84-year-old woman in poor health was taken from her home, without her medication, her heart pacemaker stopped [synching], there’s blood at the crime scene, and I thought something had to be done quickly,” he told Fox News Digital. “And I thought this is a place I could step in, as I have in Milwaukee.”
He also criticized the early handling of the investigation, saying the sheriff released the crime scene too quickly and made other missteps.
Annie Guthrie, her husband Tommaso Cioni, and Savannah Guthrie at their missing mother Nancy Guthrie’s home on Monday, March 2, in Tucson, Arizona. (Fox News)
“I don’t think they secured the scene long enough to process it,” he said. “They went in, looked, opened it up, then they had to come back later.”
Hupy said he believes that the anonymity guaranteed by Crime Stoppers can’t be matched by the county sheriff’s tip line or even the FBI, whose tip line the Guthrie family has promoted publicly.
Tipsters can avoid being labeled “snitches” or facing retaliation, he said.
“That’s the point of it,” he added. “They get a reward anonymously, and they help society by getting criminals off the street.”
A source familiar tells Fox News Digital that two photos of the suspect in the Nancy Guthrie doorbell video were taken on different days. (FBI)
And with the investigation entering its third month this week, Hupy said the chance that someone who knows something about Guthrie’s suspected abduction told someone else has only increased.
“Somebody will learn something,” he said. “An ex-girlfriend will get mad and tell the authorities or Crime Stoppers that her boyfriend confessed to her. A bartender will say a drunk came in and spilled the beans on himself or someone else. So the longer it goes on, the more likely we are to get the criminal.”
Tipsters who use Crime Stoppers can also avoid getting in the middle as both the PCSD and FBI vie for information on the case independently, Hupy said.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos gives an update on the investigation after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of U.S. journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 5, 2026. (Rebecca Noble/Reuters)
“Avoid the bickering and avoid the nonsense and call Crime Stoppers,” Hupy said. “We know how to handle this. We have solved thousands of cases, and we’re not in the middle of something.“
And because Crime Stoppers is not a government agency, Hupy said it is not subject to freedom of information laws and does not keep identifying records of the informants it pays.
Tipsters are not asked for their names and receive a unique code number when they give information instead, he said. If there’s an arrest based on that information, they can collect by giving the code, not their name.
In an aerial view, law enforcement and news broadcasters are stationed outside of Nancy Guthrie’s residence on Feb. 10, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona. Searches continue for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of U.S. journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, after she went missing from her home on the morning of Feb. 1. Guthrie’s possible abductors had set a deadline of 5 p.m. on Feb. 9 for a $6 million payment. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
“If your tip results in an arrest, you get a reward,” he said. “We don’t even know your name or your address or your phone number.”
And there are no records kept of those details either, he added.
The national crime fighting organization has given out tens of millions of dollars in reward money over the years, he said.
The Crime Stoppers reward is $102,500 for information that leads to an arrest. The FBI is separately offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to either Guthrie’s recovery or an arrest and conviction. And “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie is offering $1 million for information that brings her mother home.
“Come forward, you’ll be anonymous…and if you have the right information, you’ll get a reward,” Hupy said. “It’s that simple.”
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