Nancy Guthrie Investigation Update: New Doorbell Footage Captures 12 Cars Near Abduction Site

Fresh doorbell-camera footage has emerged showing 12 vehicles driving past a property near Nancy Guthrie's Tucson neighbourhood in Arizona on the same morning the 84-year-old is believed to have been abducted.

One vehicle was recorded at approximately 2.36am — roughly eight minutes after Guthrie's pacemaker last synced with her iPhone, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department timeline.

The footage was captured by local homeowners Elias and Danielle Stratigouleas, who said law enforcement never canvassed their street in the 25 days since Guthrie disappeared, Fox News Digital reported on 26 February.

They were never asked for it.

The new material matters because the investigation, as publicly described so far, has leaned heavily on a narrow geographic sweep around Guthrie's home and on a grainy picture of a masked, armed figure seen on her own doorbell camera.

Nancy Guthrie And The Doorbell Trail

The footage at the centre of the latest update comes from Catalina Foothills homeowners Elias and Danielle Stratigouleas, who told Fox News they recorded 12 cars passing their property on the same morning Guthrie disappeared. The clips, Fox News reported, were captured between midnight and 6 a.m. local time, a window that inevitably invites second-guessing as investigators try to pin down a timeline.​

One frame is timestamped at around 2.36 am, which Fox News said was when Guthrie's pacemaker app disconnected. That detail is the sort that can sharpen a case or muddy it, because a disconnected app can hint at movement, interference, or something more mundane, and the public does not yet know which it was.​

The Stratigouleases said their home sits on a back road leading towards Guthrie's area and is about a seven-minute drive from her house. Yet they added, officers never asked for their video because they live roughly 2.5 miles from Guthrie, while police were seeking information within a two-mile radius.​

Danielle Stratigouleas said she found it 'odd' that police never searched her part of town. It is a loaded word, 'odd,' because it carries what so many families of missing people eventually feel, that official logic can look tidy on paper and strangely incomplete on the ground. At the same time, nothing in the report establishes what the 12 cars were, who was in them, or whether any are connected to Guthrie's disappearance.​

What Still Isn't Known In The Nancy Guthrie Search

Alongside the traffic footage, another neighbour in the Stratigouleas' area told Fox News they saw a 'suspicious' man on 2 February walking near a car that appeared to be abandoned. The witness described the person as a Hispanic man, around 5ft 9 in, wearing a silver bracelet and smoking a cigarette. On its own, that description is more atmosphere than evidence, but in cases like this, atmosphere is often what fills the gaps until something concrete arrives.​

What police have publicly been chasing, according to OK!, is a masked and armed man seen on Guthrie's own doorbell camera who appeared to be trying to disable the device. Guthrie was reported missing on 1 February, and OK! reported that drops of her blood were found near her front door.​

Authorities, the report says, believe some of the clothing and a backpack worn by the suspect were purchased from Walmart, but they have not shared any new leads on the suspect's identity. That combination, a specific retail clue without a named suspect, is the kind of detail that can sound reassuring in a headline but frustrating in real life, because it signals effort without offering the public a clear next step.​

The story has also carried the unsettling suggestion of a kidnapping, with OK! reporting that Savannah Guthrie and her family said they would pay the alleged ransom fee, though no deal was made. Without further confirmation, the ransom element remains an allegation rather than an established fact, and should be treated with a grain of salt.​

What is indisputable is the family's decision to put money behind information, and to do it loudly. On 24 February, Savannah Guthrie, described by OK! as the Today star, said they were offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to her mother's 'recovery.'​

She also acknowledged, with a bluntness that lands like a punch, that her mother may no longer be alive, while insisting the search will not stop. 'She may already be gone. She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves and is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad and with her beloved brother, Pierce, and with our daddy,' she said. 'And if this is what is to be, then we will accept it, but we need to know where she is. We need her to come home.'

Anyone with information is urged to contact the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI.