BREAKING DEVELOPMENT: Family of Savannah Guthrie speaks out, saying her missing mother was not ‘missing by choice’ — disturbing truths behind the case are now coming to light

Savannah Guthrie and her siblings want the public to know that their mother, Nancy Guthrie, didn’t go missing by accident.

Nancy, who shared Savannah and her siblings with her late father Charles Guthrie, disappeared on January 31, 2026, between 9:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. from her home in the Catalina Foothills outside of Tucson, Arizona. “We believe now, after we’ve processed that crime scene, that we do, in fact, have a crime,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said at a press conference on February 2. “She is very limited in mobility. We know she didn’t just walk out there, that we know. There are other things at the scene that indicate she did not leave on her own, we know that.”

Who are Savannah Guthrie’s siblings?

Savannah Guthrie

Savannah has two siblings: an older sister named Annie and an older brother named Camron, a pilot with the National Air Guard. “We can confirm this is a missing persons case, and the family is working closely with local law enforcement,” the Guthrie family said in a statement after Nancy’s disappearance.

While not much is known about Savannah’s siblings, Nanos noted that the Today anchor’s family—including her brother and sister—want the public to know that their mom didn’t just “wander off,” even though Nancy is being treated as a “vulnerable adult” due to her age. “Nancy Guthrie is of great sound and mind, this is not dementia related. She is as sharp as a tack. Her family wants everybody to know, this is not somebody that just wandered off,” Nanos said, adding that if she does not take her necessary medication in 24 hours, it “could be fatal.”

 

“So we make a plea to anyone that knows anything about this, who has seen something, heard something, to contact us. Call 911,” he said before explaining why search efforts were called off. “Right now, we don’t see this as a search mission, as much as we do a crime scene.”

NBC News’ Tom Winter also confirmed that FBI are involved in the search, with him telling reporters at a press conference that that was “concerning evidence” that led to the involvement of homicide investigators. “This one stood out because of what was described to us at the scene and what we found and located just in looking at the scene,” he said. “We hope we find her safe and sound, but we are very concerned.”

Before her disappearance, Nancy had been prominently featured on the Today show. “When I was in my 30s, I really wished to be married and to be a mom, and things just did not happen that fast for me,” Savannah said in a 2013 episode with her mom. “And my mom’s confidence that I would be a mom — even as the years ticked by and ticked by and ticked by — meant so much to me. “She said, ‘Of course you’ll be a mom, and you’re going to be a wonderful mom. And for her to have that confidence and faith was so meaningful to me. It got me through some really hard times.”

 

Savannah also credited her career to her mother’s parenting in a Today episode in 2022 on her mom’s 80th birthday. “She loves us, her family, fiercely, and her selflessness and sacrifice for us, her steadfastness and her unmovable confidence is the reason any of us grew up to do anything,” she said.

Savannah’s father, Charles, died when she was a senior in high school. “My father died when I was entering my senior year in high school. I then lived at home all through college. We didn’t have money to afford the dorm. And that was thing one, but the other was that my sister and I really felt like we should stick with my mom and not leave her alone,” Savannah said in the 2022 episode. “But when I moved to Butte, Montana, this was it. And it was really hard for me to leave her. And that’s when she said, ‘If you can’t leave me, then I didn’t do my job right, Savannah.’ She just gave me permission to go, you know?”

Savannah shares two children with her husband, Michael Feldman, whom she married in 2014. She has a daughter named Vale and son named Charley.