TUCSON, Ariz.— A neighbor of Nancy Guthrie's in the Catalina Foothills tells Fox News Digital she saw the FBI return to search the brush behind the missing 84-year-old's home days before her unsolved disappearance reached the six-month mark, a neighbor told Fox News Digital.While a spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff's Department said that no task force investigators had returned to the area recently, the neighbor said she recognized faces from earlier law enforcement activity in the neighborhood connected to the case.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The neighbor, who lives just a few doors down, reported seeing them combing through the desert brush.Guthrie, the mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been taken by force from her home in the early hours of Feb.1, according to authorities.NANCY GUTHRIE CASE POINTS TO CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD 'WRENCH ATTACK' THEORY, RETIRED DETECTIVE SAYSSavannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie on Thursday, June 15, 2023.
(Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)Bob Krygier, a retired Pima County Sheriff's Department lieutenant and former SWAT commander, said there are a few reasons why investigators would return to the area, ranging from new leads to the chance that evidence has been shifted around by recent weather."There's a couple of different reasons that go through my mind first is going to be they got some leads, they got some new tips that are viable and they're out there looking for something specific or in an area specific to that, because I'm certain that they've searched those areas already," he told Fox News Digital.A Pima County sheriff's official stays outside of Nancy Guthrie‘s home on Saturday, Feb.14, 2026 in Tucson, Ariz.
(Ty ONeil/AP Photo)It could also be that, six months into the investigation, authorities are putting a fresh set of eyes on the case, he said.And heavy rains may also have altered the landscape, potentially exposing or moving evidence inves...