TUCSON, Ariz. – Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, was taken from her home in Tucson’s upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood in the early hours of Feb. 1, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI.
She was last seen there just before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, when a relative dropped her off.
In the weeks after her suspected abduction, authorities struggled to publicly identify a person of interest, suspect or any vehicles connected to the crime.
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Here’s a timeline of events:
Saturday, Jan. 31 —
5:32 p.m.:
Nancy Guthrie travels to dinner at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
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9:48 p.m.:
Guthrie is last seen at her residence in the Catalina Foothills Saturday evening, when a relative dropped her off at home, according to Sheriff Chris Nanos. Two minutes later, her garage door closes.
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Sunday, Feb. 1:
1:47 a.m.:
The doorbell camera at Nancy Guthrie’s home “disconnects,” according to Nanos’ timeline. Authorities would later recover video from her missing Nest camera, despite the fact that the device is unaccounted for, and she did not pay for a cloud subscription.
It shows a masked man, wearing long sleeves and gloves, carrying an Ozark Trail backpack and what appears to be a holstered pistol.
WATCH: Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell cam records masked suspect
2:12 a.m.:
A security camera detects an unidentified person’s presence.
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2:28 a.m.
The last time Guthrie’s pacemaker synced with her phone via a Bluetooth connection. It is presumed that this is when she was physically taken out of range.
11:00 a.m.:
Guthrie fails to meet friends to watch a stream of their church service. They alerted relatives, who went to check on her and reported her missing.
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11:56 a.m.:
Relatives arrive at the home to find her missing and blood drops on her front porch. They placed a 911 call 7 minutes later, and deputies arrived at 12:15 p.m.
8:55 p.m.:
PCSD announces a search and rescue effort involving helicopters, infrared cameras and drones. They found no trace of her.
“Guthrie is 84 years old and is not of good physical health, and so naturally that’s a great concern,” Nanos said. “This is very concerning to us. We don’t typically get the sheriff out at a scene like this, but it’s very concerning what we’re learning from the house.”
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Monday, Feb. 2:
9:17 a.m.:
Nanos holds the first of three news briefings in the days after Guthrie’s suspected abduction.
“We believe now, after we processed that crime scene, that we do, in fact, have a crime scene that we do, in fact, have a crime,” he says. “She did not leave on her own. We know that.”
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Nanos downplays concerns that Guthrie had become disoriented and wandered off, adding that she has limited mobility and has medication that she needs to take every 24 hours.
“[She’s] sharp as a tack,” he said.
Investigators were seen in the area where Nancy Guthrie lives, including sheriff’s department helicopters.
WATCH: Sheriff’s helicopter hovers over missing Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood
Wednesday, Feb. 4:
The FBI is brought into the case.
Savannah Guthrie responds to a purported ransom note, publicly asking anyone who may be holding her mother to provide proof that she is alive.
No proof of life has been publicly confirmed, and the family’s offer to pay the ransom did not result in Nancy’s return.
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WATCH: Sheriff’s office deputies walk up driveway of house in area of Nancy Guthrie’s house
Thursday, Feb. 5:
Authorities confirm blood found outside the home belongs to Guthrie through DNA testing.
Her only son, Camron Guthrie, releases a video appeal pleading for contact from his mother’s potential captors.
Authorities also announced an arrest connected to a separate impostor ransom demand, which investigators said is unrelated to Guthrie’s disappearance.
Friday, Feb. 6:
Investigators return to Guthrie’s home, clearing the media from the immediate area. They search the property again and are seen on drone video removing home security cameras from the pool house roof.
Authorities later remove a blue SUV from Guthrie’s garage and towed it to an impound lot.
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President Donald Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he believes the case could soon be solved.
“I think we’re doing very well on that regard,” Trump said. “We have some clues, I think, that are very strong. And I think we could have some answers coming up fairly soon.”
“I’m talking about a solution. We have some things I think that will maybe come out reasonably soon from DOJ or FBI, or whoever,” he continued. “It could be definitive.”
Saturday, Feb. 7:
WATCH: Savannah Guthrie releases new video amid search for mother, saying ‘We will pay’
About 4:30 p.m.:
Savannah Guthrie shares a new video on her Instagram account telling her mother’s potential captors the family received their “message” and “will pay.”
The family had previously posted two other videos pleading with the potential captors for her return.
7:10 p.m.:
Pima County Sheriff’s Department deputies return again to Guthrie’s home.
Sunday, Feb. 8:
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department says it will maintain a security presence at Nancy Guthrie’s residence at the request of her family. Deputies remained stationed there for weeks, before the FBI released the home back to Guthrie’s family.
Monday, Feb. 9:
3:42 p.m.:
Savannah Guthrie issues another public plea for help bringing her mother home, thanking supporters around the country for their prayers.
“My sister and brother and I and our mom have felt this love, because we believe that somehow, somehow, she is feeling these prayers and that God is lifting her, even in this moment and in this darkest place,” she says.
WATCH: Savannah Guthrie pleads for help in new video
5 p.m.:
A second purported ransom deadline passes in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, despite the family’s offer to meet the ransom demand.
Tuesday, Feb. 10:
12:52 p.m.:
FBI Director Kash Patel releases images of a suspect at Nancy’s front door. The subject appears covered head to toe, wearing a ski mask and gloves, and what appears to be a holstered gun.
Savannah Guthrie later reposts the photos to her Instagram account, and shares a brief message with her followers.
“Someone out there recognizes this person. We believe she is still out there. Bring her home.”
9:18 p.m.:
A delivery driver named Carlos Palazuelos, of Rio Rico, Arizona, is detained and questioned by authorities in relation to the case. An address associated with him, located in a tiny desert town just north of the border with Mexico, is searched.
However, several hours later, he is released without charges.
Wednesday, Feb. 11:
Authorities conducting a canvass of North Campbell Avenue find more than a dozen gloves, including one pair deemed of interest about 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home. They are tested for DNA, which ultimately is not a match in the FBI’s CODIS database for known offenders and are traced back to a local restaurant worker. Authorities say the worker has no connection to the case.
Thursday, Feb. 12:
10:48 a.m.:
A white tent is erected outside of Nancy Guthrie’s home, and investigators shuffle in and out. It is later revealed that the FBI sent experts to the scene to create a physical description of the man seen on her Nest doorbell camera video.
6:04 p.m.:
The FBI raises the reward for information that cracks the case to $100,000.
The agency also provided more descriptors for the man seen on doorbell camera footage outside her home the night of the suspected kidnapping, describing him as between 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches tall.
The FBI also said he was wearing a black 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack.
Friday, Feb. 13:
Nanos confirms investigators recovered DNA from the scene from an unidentified person, calling it a key focus of the investigation. He sends the evidence to a private lab in Florida.
That evening, a major SWAT operation involving officers from local departments and FBI agents targets a local ex-con named Luke Daley, who was pulled over at a Culver’s restaurant near Guthrie’s home as officers raided his mother’s home near Orange Grove Road.
However, hours later, Daley is released without charges.
Sunday, Feb. 15:
The FBI says that gloves found about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home appear to match that of the suspect seen on Guthrie’s doorbell camera. They are sent to CODIS, the bureau’s federal database of known offenders, to look for a match. They later came back with no hits and the gloves were ultimately linked to a restaurant worker with no connection to the case, according to authorities.
7:56 p.m.:
Savannah Guthrie pleads on Instagram for the return of her mother in the fourth video posted on her social media since her mother disappeared.
“I wanted to come on, and um, it’s been two weeks since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to come on and say that we still have hope, and we still believe,” Savannah Guthrie said. “And I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is that it’s never too late, and you are not lost or alone.”
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Monday, Feb. 16:
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department issues a statement on X ruling out Guthrie’s adult children and their spouses as suspects in the case.
“To be clear…the Guthrie family – to include all siblings and spouses – has been cleared as possible suspects in this case,” Nanos says. “The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.”
The family members are victims, too, he adds.
“To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel,” he says.
Wednesday, Feb. 18:
Authorities confirm that there is no evidence to suggest that Nancy has been across the southern border into Mexico, adding that they had communicated with Mexican officials about the possibility.
Tuesday, Feb. 24:
Savannah Guthrie announces a $1 million reward for information leading to Nancy Guthrie’s recovery or the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for her disappearance. She urges anyone with information to call 1-800-CALL-FBI or contact her directly.
She also announces a donation of $500,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to support other families facing similar circumstances.
Savannah Guthrie releases a new video message pleading for her mother’s safe return and asking the public for help. In the video, she makes an emotional appeal for information as the search continues.
Separately, a neighbor reports seeing a suspicious young man in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood about two weeks before the 84-year-old is believed to have been abducted from her Tucson home.
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Aldine Meister, who told Fox News Digital she has lived in the area for nearly 30 years, described the man as appearing out of place.
“He didn’t have your typical walking gear on, and he had his hat pulled really far over his eyes,” Meister said.
Thursday, Feb. 26:
Fox News Digital receives Ring surveillance video from a Catalina Foothills neighborhood resident that shows a dozen vehicles coming and going from Camina Real, a back road in and out of the community, including one that could potentially align with the timing of Guthrie’s suspected abduction.
The house is roughly a seven-minute drive from Guthrie’s address, according to Google Maps. One of the videos was recorded at around 2:36 a.m. on Feb. 1, which is roughly eight minutes after Guthrie’s pacemaker last synced with her iPhone, according to the sheriff’s timeline.
The FBI and PCSD were alerted to the video.
The route itself had been flagged to Fox News Digital by another neighbor — who said she also saw a suspicious man walking in the area on Feb. 2, around the corner from what appeared to be an abandoned car. The young mother asked not to be named due to concerns for her children’s safety amid the unsolved kidnapping investigation.
Monday, March 2:
Savannah Guthrie, her older sister Annie, and brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni, make a solemn visit to the growing display of yellow flowers at Nancy’s mailbox.
Yellow signifies hope for a safe return.
The trio, escorted by private security and local deputies, place flowers of their own. Annie also leaves a card addressed to her mother.
WATCH: Family lays flowers outside Nancy Guthrie’s home
Wednesday, March 5:
Savannah is back in New York City, where she’s seen visiting “Today” show colleagues at NBC’s midtown Manhattan studio.
Friday, March 13:
Law enforcement sources reveal that investigators have uncovered additional images from Guthrie’s home security cameras — but nothing new from the night of the abduction and nothing considered a major break in the case.
The images were taken in the days and weeks leading up to her disappearance and were recovered from three separate cameras — at Guthrie’s front door, over her driveway and in the backyard, a law enforcement official close to the Guthrie case tells Fox News. There is no new video.
Nancy Guthrie’s whereabouts remain unknown. The reward, risen to more than $1.2 million, remains unclaimed.
Monday, April 6:
Savannah Guthrie returned to the “Today” show over two months after her mother first went missing.
“Good morning, welcome to ‘Today’ on this Monday morning. We are so glad you started your week with us, and it is good to be home,” Savannah Guthrie said.
During her return to NBC’s morning show, fans cheered Savannah Guthrie as she walked out to Rockefeller Plaza.
“You guys have been so beautiful,” Savannah Guthrie said.
Thursday, July 16
Fellow “Today” co-host Craig Melvin was attacked inside a vestibule near Studio 1A. The NYPD arrested 41-year-old Andrew Truelove on hate crime charges for allegedly hurling a racial slur at Melvin after sneaking into a secure area of NBC’s space at Rockefeller Center while allegedly looking for another host, Al Roker.
Monday, July 27
WATCH: Savannah Guthrie pleads with mother’s kidnappers
Savannah Guthrie released her first statement on the case in weeks, pleading with her mother’s abductors to help bring the ordeal to a close.
“Do the right thing now,” Guthrie urged her mother’s unidentified kidnappers. “Make the right choice. Help us find her. Tell us where to look for her.”
Friday, July 31
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department released a pair of ransom notes on July 31 in the hope that someone can identify the author due to similarities between them that indicate they were written by the same person, who authorities said used a “unique linguistic style.” They were sent on Feb. 2 and Feb. 6.
The style is so distinct, that someone may be able to recognize the writer, authorities said.
The notes included references to the crime scene that may not have been public at the time they were sent — including details about the location of Guthrie’s Apple Watch and the smashed floodlight in her backyard.
Anyone with information is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI or, to remain anonymous, call 520-88-CRIME.
Fox News’ Alex Koch, Peter D’Abrosca, Julia Bonavita, Olivia Palombo and Stepheny Price contributed to this report.
