Finding Nancy: The Nancy Guthrie Investigation
An 84-year-old woman vanishes from her Tucson home. No witnesses. No ransom call that makes sense. And a family waiting in the kind of silence that breaks people. Nancy Guthrie—mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie—disappeared on January 24, 2025, setting off a national investigation that has exposed deep dysfunction between federal and local law enforcement, raised more questions than answers, and captivated a country watching in real time. This is Finding Nancy—the only podcast dedicated entirely to this case. Hosted by Tony Brueski, veteran true crime podcaster and Court TV legal analyst, this channel delivers what mainstream coverage can't: daily monologues breaking down every development as it happens, multi-part expert interview series with former FBI agents, behavioral analysts, and criminal defense attorneys, and unflinching analysis of the investigative failures, jurisdictional conflicts, and unanswered questions surrounding this case. We don't do speculation dressed up as insight. We don't recycle what you've already heard. Every episode is built on verified reporting, primary sources, and expert perspective—delivered with the kind of clarity and directness this case demands. You'll hear from voices like Robin Dreeke, former chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI Special Agent, breaking down what the evidence actually tells us—and what it doesn't. You'll get real-time analysis of Sheriff Chris Nanos's public statements, the FBI's involvement, and the contradictions piling up between them. This isn't entertainment. This is accountability journalism in podcast form. Whether you're following because of who Nancy's daughter is, or because an elderly woman deserves answers regardless of her family's fame, this is where you come to understand what's really happening—not what someone wants you to believe is happening. New episodes drop daily as the case develops. Subscribe now.
Episodes
Nancy Guthrie has been missing since February 1, and the people exploiting her disappearance are now part of the story. Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer says she received an extortion demand in April at a private personnel email address. The sender also used a middle name she does not publicly use. Coffindaffer reported the contact to the FBI and says it was not a genuine message from Nancy's abductors, but the ...
Someone sent former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer a ransom demand for Nancy Guthrie — and they knew things they shouldn’t have known. The email arrived at a private personnel address and used a middle name Coffindaffer doesn’t publicly go by. For someone who spent a career in federal law enforcement, that level of personal access is alarming. She reported the demand to the FBI. Local authoritie...
A text message reached Nancy Guthrie’s family on September 28 claiming she’s alive and being held in Mexico. Bitcoin was demanded. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department rejected it within 24 hours. A retired FBI agent identified it as a known scam recycled from months earlier.
It’s been eight months since Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken from her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson. Her daughter An...
The first Nancy Guthrie ransom note contains details that only someone standing inside her house could have known, and Tony Brueski, retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke, and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer lay out exactly what those details are and what they mean six months into this investigation.
Released by the Pima County Sheriff's Department on July 31, the first letter opens with 'Hello S...
You've followed the Nancy Guthrie case from the first night, so you know what the July 31 release of the ransom notes actually changed: for the first time, the public can read the writer's own words. Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke spend this episode inside them, guided by your questions.
The details you've been waiting to discuss are all here. The 'Hello Savannah' opening. The $4 million Bitcoin d...
Sheriff Nanos sat down for his six-month message on the Nancy Guthrie case and called his office's relationship with the FBI great. In the same stretch, the ransom letters were finally released, and Nanos acknowledged thousands of hours of video still haven't been reviewed. Six months into the disappearance of a 74-year-old woman taken from her own Tucson home. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Bruesk...
Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper had every opportunity to send real proof she was alive — her voice, a photo, anything with her in it — and instead described a smartwatch on the floor and a broken floodlight. Pima County released both ransom notes in full, and this episode is a complete breakdown of what's actually in them and what the investigation has gotten wrong since.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of...
Eight sentences. No location. No demands. The second note told the family Nancy died shortly after she was taken, said it was heart related, and ended with an apology. The writer walked away from six million dollars and a family that had already publicly said they would pay.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the second note line by line — the phrase buried in nature, the claim about her condition from someone who wa...
The entire first ransom note uses we. We have your mother. We will be holding her. Then one sentence: You will not be able to contact me from here on out. One me sitting in the middle of a wall of we. The sheriff's department has said it has not ruled out that one person did this alone.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks the first note down line by line with Tony Brueski — the demand structure, the proof-of-presence, t...
Sheriff Nanos went on camera and stated what happened to the only man convicted in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance — and he got it wrong. The actual plea deal for Derrick Callella is probation on harassment charges. He hasn't been sentenced yet. Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI, breaks down what it means when the lead investigator can't describe the outcome of his own case. This conversation covers the FBI-sheriff commu...
For six months, Savannah Guthrie has spoken to the camera the same way every time: proof of life, an open line, a family ready to negotiate. On July 27th, for the first time, she didn't.
The new message dropped every demand she'd made since January and replaced it with something that sounded less like a negotiation and more like a woman who has made peace with an answer nobody has confirmed publicly. It came the same ...
Anger didn't work. Reward money didn't work. The biggest law enforcement mobilization in the country didn't work. So on July 27th, Savannah Guthrie tried the one thing she had left. She recorded a video, addressed it directly to whoever took her mother, and offered something that nobody in this family has offered before. Not a deal. Not a demand. Something harder than both.
The video arrived the same week the first ransom note...
Three FBI sources. Same day. Three different answers about whether the ransom notes in this case are real.
Reuters was told every note is fabricated. The Phoenix field office said some may be legitimate. TMZ's sources said the original two carry more credibility than not. The agency investigating Nancy Guthrie's disappearance cannot agree internally on the nature of its own central evidence.
Nancy has been missing from her Tucs...
Every new development in the Nancy Guthrie case seems to raise more questions than it answers, and this one might be the most infuriating yet. The man who sent the Guthrie family fake bitcoin ransom demands has been sentenced, and Tony Brueski breaks down why the punishment doesn't come close to matching what he put this family through.
The charge: harassment, reduced down from something far more serious. The sentence...
The first forty-eight hours are the only hours that really belong to you. Everything after that is archaeology. In the Nancy Guthrie case, the two agencies responsible for those hours cannot agree on what happened during them.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the Bureau was kept out for four days. Sheriff Chris Nanos says he was on scene the night it happened, an FBI task force member was present, and coordination began without de...
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 still won't rule out.
She was eighty-four, last seen the night blood was found on her porch and a masked figure appeared on her own doorbell camera. Since then, more than one note claiming responsibility has surfaced. Mos...
The sentence is what has people talking. His charge was pled down to harassment, which caps at two years federally, and the final sentence was five ye...
Nancy Guthrie has now been missing for five months, taken from her Tucson home at 84 years old, and the case has produced more written communications than actual leads. Start with the notes. One reportedly came from the man who took her, describing her as at rest somewhere in nature. A second, sent to a Tucson television station days later, was described by law enforcement as a legitimate communication from the actual kidnappe...
Five months after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her home, a detail that had been kept private was finally made public. A second note sent to a Tucson station days after the abduction claimed Nancy died shortly after she was taken. The senders expressed regret. They made no more demands. Investigators have reportedly described the note as a legitimate communication from the actual kidnappers.
For the case-specific audience f...
Five months after Nancy Guthrie was allegedly taken from her Tucson home, the sheriff leading the case went on local radio and said he thinks the FBI has made “a number of arrests” for fake ransom notes. He thinks. The lead investigator doesn’t know the details of what the FBI has done inside his own investigation.
Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke take apart the listener questions that keep flooding the comments...
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