Is Nancy Guthrie still alive? Former FBI agent shares new theories

The search for Today show star Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother, Nancy Guthrie, has continued into its 10th day, after the 84-year-old was reported missing on February 1 when she failed to show up to her usual church service.

Authorities have asked the public to come forward with any information on Nancy’s whereabouts, and recently released footage of an armed individual wearing a mask and gloves tampering with her security camera on the morning of her alleged abduction.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos previously told the Daily Mail that he believed Nancy had been taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home, as she was too frail to go far by herself. “She did not walk away,” he told the publication. “We believe she was forced to leave that residence. It was against her will.”

“This was, in our opinion, someone entered her home in the middle of the night and removed her. It could be more than one person, we don’t know that yet,” he continued. Savannah and her family have noted several times that Nancy requires daily life-saving medicine, which was left at the house when investigators arrived.

Many of Savannah’s supporters have speculated as to Nancy’s condition, with some theorizing that she may have passed on. Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino spoke to Fox News on Monday and shared alternative theories to the primary kidnapping hypothesis.

“The second possibility would be this was just a crime that went awry. Someone is at the house. Maybe it was a burglary,” he said on the show. “Something went bad, and that you’ve got some bad actors committing another crime, unrelated in other words, requesting a ransom for something you didn’t do just to take advantage of a situation like this.”

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“The third possibility, again…and this is where I think you have to kind of think outside of the box, especially given some of the messaging that we’ve seen lately, is the possibility that there may have been some kind of maybe a medical emergency or something, and maybe this was not a kidnapping,” he continued.

See the chilling footage taken at Nancy’s house below…

“And I say that only because – and again, I’m not weighing these possibilities – when you can’t find someone at a crime scene like this right away, within the first couple of days, you either have really good surgical type operators, or the story you’ve been told or you may have believed may not be the story.”

Fox News Digital then spoke to former Denver FBI agent Jonny Grusing, who agreed that Nancy could’ve been in the wrong place at the wrong time. “It could be a variety of reasons here, and we had multiple home invasions that I worked where the people going into the house were seeking money or jewelry or drugs or whatever, and it could be upscale neighborhoods or remote neighborhoods, and somebody’s in there, and then they have to deal with that somebody,” he explained.

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“And I had a victim die, I had other ones fight, I had the perpetrators leave. Lots of bad things can happen if you enter a house and someone’s there, and you don’t suspect they’re going to be there. So that could have happened; it’s there. She was a victim of circumstance, and being in a very nice neighborhood.”

Jonny added that the mom of three’s home may have been mistaken for another. “I’ve had that happen as well to where they think they have an address of someone, and it’s the wrong house, which is an awful situation because people have come to this house to do violence, and it is the wrong person, and the violence happens anyway.”

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The former FBI agent pointed out that some of the facts did not add up in the abduction theory, as the ransom notes were sent to various media outlets rather than to the family directly.

The alleged abductors reportedly demanded a $4 million ransom from Savannah’s family to be paid by Thursday, February 5, and a $6 million ransom by the following Monday should the initial demand not be met. The authorities were unable to verify the messages.