Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie‘s mom, Nancy Guthrie, is still missing eight weeks after the abduction from her Tucson, Ariz., home—and crime journalist Ashleigh Banfield recently speculated about a detail that “really floored” her about the back doors that were propped open.
During the March 31 episode of Drop Dead Serious with Ashleigh Banfield, the former NewsNation host discussed a new tidbit of information her sources told her about the 84-year-old’s case.
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“Another detail that really floored me was that the perpetrator used Nancy’s flower pots to do this,” she shared. “He took her beautiful flower pots—that I can only imagine she spent time nurturing and making beautiful for her back patio—and he used them for his evil f–king plot.”
Banfield reiterated, “He took her beautiful flower pots, and he propped open that screen door.” She also revealed that the perpetrator reportedly propped open Nancy’s back gate with the flower pots.
Additionally, the journalist brought up that Nancy reportedly rarely locked her back doors. “This might have been one of the ones that was unlocked.”
Speaking directly to the unknown person or people responsible for Nancy’s disappearance, Banfield asked, “What’s so fascinating about this is why. Why’d you prop them open? What was the reason that you needed those things to stay open—the back gate and her back kitchen doors, the screen door and the heavy door?”
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During an interview with Hoda Kotb that aired on Today on March 26, Savannah revealed new details about Nancy’s home after her disappearance—including that the back doors were left open.
“We thought that she must have had, like, some kind of medical episode in the night. And somehow, the paramedics had come because the back doors were propped open, you know?” Savannah explained of the initial theory she and her siblings, Annie Guthrie and Camron Guthrie, had. “We thought maybe they came, and there was a stretcher, and they took her out the back. But her phone was there, and her purse was there, and all her things. And it just didn’t make any sense.”
Because of Nancy’s bad back, her kids quickly ruled out the possibility of her wandering off.
“On a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail. But most days, not,” she pointed out. “So there was no wander off. And the doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep, and the Ring camera had been yanked off.”
Nancy was last seen at her Tucson home on the evening of Jan. 31. As of writing, neither the Pima County Sheriff’s Department nor the FBI has named a suspect.
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