The desperate search for Nancy Guthrie has taken another troubling turn.
More than 100 days after the 84-year-old mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie vanished from her Tucson, Arizona home, the sheriff leading the investigation has made a surprising admission: he is no longer personally in contact with the Guthrie family.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed the update in a new interview with People, raising fresh questions about the state of the high-profile case that has gripped viewers across the country.
“I personally am not,” Nanos said when asked whether he was still communicating with the family.
Instead, the sheriff said direct contact has been left to his detectives and the FBI.
“If they need the family for anything, they get in touch with them and the family,” he said. “It works both ways.”
The admission comes as frustration continues to build around the mysterious disappearance, which has produced no arrests, no named suspects, and few public updates since Nancy vanished on February 1.
Savannah, 54, has been open about her family’s heartbreak, using social media to plead for information and urge whoever took her mother to bring her home safely.
She and her siblings have also offered a staggering $1 million reward for information that leads to Nancy’s recovery or an arrest.
But despite the massive reward and national attention, the case appears to have stalled.
Sources told Page Six last week that investigators have had no major new leads in months. The few pieces of evidence reportedly include a strand of hair, a glove found near Nancy’s home, and chilling doorbell camera footage showing an armed, masked man at her door on the night she disappeared.
The sheriff’s latest comments are especially striking because they mark a clear shift from what he said just days after Nancy vanished.
Back on February 6, Nanos said he had been in regular contact with Savannah.
“We text or, every now and then a phone call,” he told People at the time. “But no, I’ve not even sat down with her face-to-face. She’s got a lot on her plate.”
He added that FBI agents and detectives were speaking with Savannah directly, saying, “She doesn’t need to talk to me.”
Now, months later, the sheriff says he is no longer personally communicating with the family at all.
It remains unclear exactly when that changed or why.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office declined to comment further on Nanos’ interview. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Those close to the Guthrie family are reportedly growing increasingly frustrated as the investigation drags on with no visible breakthrough. Savannah has since returned to her duties on Today, even as the painful mystery surrounding her mother continues to hang over the family.
Still, Nanos insists he has not lost confidence in the case.
“My team, I’ve said all along, they’re gonna solve this,” he said. “I fully 100 percent believe that.”
“When you have the best minds of the country working on problems, I think they’re gonna solve them,” he continued. “It just takes a while.”
For Savannah and her family, however, every passing day brings the same agonizing question: where is Nancy Guthrie?
