A family insider has come forward to correct widely circulated reports about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, revealing that crucial details about when and where she was last expected have been fundamentally misreported since the story broke.
Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing on Sunday, Feb. 1.
Initial news accounts stated she had failed to appear at an in-person church service in Tucson that morning.
A source close to the Guthrie family now says that narrative is completely inaccurate.
Nancy Guthrie had not planned to attend any physical church service that day, according to the family source.
For several years, stretching back to the COVID pandemic, she had maintained a different Sunday tradition with a tight-knit circle of friends.
The group gathered weekly at rotating homes to watch a livestream of a church service broadcast from New York.
The congregation they tuned into is the same one attended by Savannah Guthrie when she is in New York for her weekday morning show duties.
On the first Sunday of February, Nancy was supposed to join her friends at one of their residences to participate in their usual livestream viewing.
When she never arrived, alarm bells went off among the group.
One member of the friend circle reached out to Annie, Nancy’s other daughter and Savannah’s sister, to report their concern.
Nancy had not shown up to the gathering and no one could get in touch with her.
The family source stressed that the widespread belief Nancy missed a Tucson church service is simply wrong, reported Fox News. The error has created significant confusion about the actual timeline and circumstances of her disappearance.
Resist the Mainstream reported over the weekend one of Nancy’s neighbors said he spotted a suspicious unmarked white van parked on her street just days before she vanished.
“It was a white van, full sized, with no printing on the sides. It was parked on the street,” McIntire told reporters, noting it did not resemble normal work or service vehicles.
McIntire informed police about this observation after Nancy disappeared, telling officers he had seen it lingering in the area several days earlier.
The neighbor, clearly spooked, also told reporters that he now carries a pen and paper on his daily walks so he can write down anything suspicious he sees in the neighborhood.
The incident also rattled his wife, who said the disappearance has forced her and her husband to rethink their own sense of security. “I’m kind of a deep sleeper,” she said, adding that despite heavy metal doors, the situation has made them uneasy.
“It’s unlikely someone could get past one of the metal doors, but we’re a little concerned,” she added, revealing they are considering installing security cameras.
On Sunday, investigators with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department conducted an extensive search of Nancy’s property. They examined a septic tank through a manhole cover in the backyard as the search for Nancy Guthrie enters a critical phase, Resist the Mainstream reported.
