Just three weeks before the unsettling disappearance of Nancy Guthrie from her Tucson, Arizona home, a masked individual, resembling the suspect in her abduction, was reportedly spotted on her doorstep. This information comes from various law enforcement sources closely following the case.
Nancy Guthrie, aged 84 and the mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been forcibly taken from her residence in the early hours of February 1, according to statements from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
The investigation took a significant turn on February 10 when the FBI disclosed surveillance images sourced from Guthrie’s Nest doorbell camera. Notably, as previously reported by Fox News Digital, these images were captured on different dates, suggesting a possible timeline of events leading up to her disappearance.
In a bid to gather more information, authorities have made several appeals to the community, urging neighbors to review footage from their home security systems. They have focused on different timeframes, including the entire month of January, the specific night of January 11, as well as the critical period surrounding Guthrie’s vanishing between January 31 and February 2.
The FBI released two key images from the Nest camera, though it remains uncertain if they depict the same individual. The investigation continues to probe these visual clues for potential leads.
Adding another layer to the inquiry, January 24 has also been highlighted as a significant date. According to News Nation, neighbors were asked to provide any video footage from that day, further emphasizing its importance in piecing together the events leading to Guthrie’s abduction.
“We don’t know what that indicates, obviously, but the most hopeful read on it is that they’re looking at somebody and that they’re trying to place that person or persons in the vicinity at that hour on those dates to see if in fact, they can begin to work backwards,” retired NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor said on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday morning. “Less hopeful, is let’s say they have something in the forensics…that shows some kind of unusual activity that they’re trying to hone in on.”
The masked suspect remains unidentified. According to FBI analysts, he is around 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches tall and has a medium build. Authorities said he was wearing a 25-liter, black Ozark Trail backpack.
WATCH: Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell cam records masked suspect
Other items have not been officially identified, but he appears to be wearing a holstered pistol near his groin.
The Jan. 11 date is both when residents using the Ring Neighbors app were asked to check video early in the case — and when two law enforcement sources say the masked man was pictured without the holster or the backpack.
An undated photo of Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie provided by NBC in repsonse to the disappearance of the 84 year-old mother of the Today Show host. (Courtesy of NBC)
A post on the app from a neighbor said investigators were seeking video from 9 p.m. to midnight on Jan. 11 and also mentioned a “suspicious vehicle” spotted on Via Entrada, a street near Guthrie’s home, around 10 a.m. on Jan. 31. Pima County authorities noted that it was not an official post from their department.
“Please check your recordings before they are overwritten,” the post reads. “Footage of vehicle traffic is particularly helpful.”
There was no description given for the vehicle.
Savannah Guthrie visits the “Today” show at Rockefeller Plaza on Thursday, March 5, 2026, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Separately, a neighbor said she saw a strange man walking in the neighborhood in mid-January.
“He didn’t have your typical walking gear on, and he had his hat pulled really far over his eyes,” local homeowner Aldine Meister told Fox News Digital in February.
She told Fox News Digital that she knew it was after Jan. 8, when she had visitors in town, and at least three weeks before Guthrie’s abduction.
A tent was placed over the front entrance to Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Arizona, Thursday, February 12, 2026. The tent is covering where Guthrie’s blood was found. (Fox Flight Team)
“It could’ve been the 11th,” Meister said.
Michele Young, another longtime resident of the Catalina Foothills area said investigators came to her house a total of five times.
“On that last visit, when I was talking to the FBI and the sheriff together, they did mention the 11th,” Young said. “I had mentioned that the sheriff’s department came back for additional footage, and they mentioned something about a different date.”
Investigators look over paperwork in the neighborhood where Annie Guthrie, whose mother Nancy Guthrie has been missing for more than a week, lives just outside Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has declined to discuss that date specifically, publicly asking for local residents to submit video of any suspicious activity, people or vehicles recorded between Jan. 1 and Feb. 2.
There’s still a question about whether the masked suspect had any help.
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)
“The sheriff has said all along that while investigators are working to identify the person seen on doorbell video, they are not ruling out that that was the only person involved,” a department spokesperson said last month.
At least two men were detained and released without charges in the investigation. Police have not publicly named any suspects, persons of interest or vehicles connected to the case.
There is a combined reward of more than $1.2 million for information that leads to Nancy’s recovery.
Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
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