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Where is Nancy Guthrie?

March 5, 2026·25 min·4-min readnarrativenews
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The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, has become a national obsession, not for breakthroughs in the investigation, but for the swarm of online true crime influencers who have descended on Tucson to livestream, speculate, and profit from the case.

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Luke Winkie

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Nancy GuthrieSavannah GuthrieDominic EvansLuke WinkiePerry VandelJonathan Lee Riches

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FBIPima County Sheriff's Department

Topics

Criminal JusticeInvestigative JournalismLong Form JournalismTrue CrimeUs Politics

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