What To Know
- Nancy Guthrie, 84, remains missing nine months after her disappearance from her Tucson-area home.
- Retired homicide detective Chris McDonough theorized that two people may have been involved in her abduction.
- No suspect has been named, and Nancy’s daughter Savannah Guthrie has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to an arrest.
Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie‘s mother, Nancy Guthrie, is still missing nine months after her Tucson, Arizona, kidnapping — and a retired homicide detective made a bold prediction about her abductor.
In an interview for NewsNation published on November 9, Ashleigh Banfield spoke with The Interview Room host Chris McDonough, a retired homicide detective. They discussed his theory on who abducted Nancy, 84, back in February, among other details of the case.
“What it’s pointing to is a disorganized offender who has attributes, potentially, of being an organized offender,” McDonough said, based on the evidence that is publicly available. “The guy shows up on the front porch, if he’s the guy that wrote the notes. I’m not convinced of that, personally yet. But he could be.”
The former murder detective added, “Or, it could be a second person. I do believe there’s more than one. I think there are two involved in this.”
To that, Banfield clarified, “The brains and the brawn?”
McDonough explained, “It could be the chef and the waiter. It could also be somebody, a murder for hire. It could be somebody that you say, ‘Hey, here’s A, B, C, and D, E, F, and G. I need you to do this.’”
He continued, “One of my old partners just did a case, the [Laura] Troiani case, where a wife had hired six Marines to kill her husband… It’s not uncommon for somebody to say, ‘Hey, here’s what you’ll get out of the situation. So don’t take that theory off the plate, either. I mean, I’ve heard everything from, you know, it’s a wrench attack, to people down in Mexico…”
As of writing, no suspect has been named in Nancy’s case. The 84-year-old was last seen at her Catalina Foothills home on the evening of January 31, with her family members reporting her missing on February 1. Investigators have released photos of a masked suspect (aka “Porch Guy” and published alleged ransom notes. Meanwhile, Savannah has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to an arrest.