Finding Nancy: The Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Jul 14, 2026 · 23 min · 23 segments
Six months into the search for Nancy Guthrie, this episode goes deeper into the one piece of evidence that may matter more than everything else combined: a note her family received that investigators…
Lisa HalePanelist
Todd MichaelsPanelistAnyway, we're at six months in, and the Nancy Guthrie case still refuses to sit still.
Blood on a porch, a masked man on a doorbell camera, ransom notes that turned out to be fake, except for the ones the FBI still won't rule out.
Savannah Guthrie has spent half a year doing the thing no one should have to do, and that is grieving in public while still holding out hope.
How does an 84-year-old woman just vanish from her own home in the middle of the night, and six months later, law enforcement still can't tell us if she's the victim of a kidnapping or murder or something they haven't even named yet? Joining me again, as I said, is Todd Michaels and our amazing Lisa Hale.

So when you're looking at six months out, the problem that I have with this entire case isn't so much that we haven't found Nancy yet, because there are so many missing people that we just have not found yet.

But because of Nancy's connection to celebrity, we've been paying more attention to this case.

And I think that's the hardest thing to talk about, is how this is affecting Savannah, because she has to go in, just pretend none of this is bothering her every morning, every day, doing her job.

I know eventually, even if we don't find Nancy, this case is going to drop out of the media.

And it's going to drop out, but it's still going to be with Savannah for the rest of her life, no matter what happens.

And that going on and acting like nothing is happening is the hardest thing and something that some of us who've been in broadcast can relate to.
Yeah, she's got to definitely maintain that professionalism that she does every day.
And so it's a challenge and a struggle, but I don't think it's something that she's unfamiliar with because, I mean, you and you two have been in broadcasting a long time.
Anyway, we're at six months in, and the Nancy Guthrie case still refuses to sit still.
Blood on a porch, a masked man on a doorbell camera, ransom notes that turned out to be fake, except for the ones the FBI still won't rule out.
Savannah Guthrie has spent half a year doing the thing no one should have to do, and that is grieving in public while still holding out hope.
How does an 84-year-old woman just vanish from her own home in the middle of the night, and six months later, law enforcement still can't tell us if she's the victim of a kidnapping or murder or something they haven't even named yet? Joining me again, as I said, is Todd Michaels and our amazing Lisa Hale.

So when you're looking at six months out, the problem that I have with this entire case isn't so much that we haven't found Nancy yet, because there are so many missing people that we just have not found yet.

But because of Nancy's connection to celebrity, we've been paying more attention to this case.

And I think that's the hardest thing to talk about, is how this is affecting Savannah, because she has to go in, just pretend none of this is bothering her every morning, every day, doing her job.

I know eventually, even if we don't find Nancy, this case is going to drop out of the media.

And it's going to drop out, but it's still going to be with Savannah for the rest of her life, no matter what happens.

And that going on and acting like nothing is happening is the hardest thing and something that some of us who've been in broadcast can relate to.
Yeah, she's got to definitely maintain that professionalism that she does every day.
And so it's a challenge and a struggle, but I don't think it's something that she's unfamiliar with because, I mean, you and you two have been in broadcasting a long time.
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