Woman Claims She Bought Tablet Allegedly Linked To Missing 84-Year-Old Nancy Guthrie for $10

A Tucson woman claims she bought a pink tablet for $10 that she was later told came from the property of missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, but authorities have not confirmed any link to the case.

The claim, circulated through a YouTube video and social-media posts, has not been independently verified. The unverified account has now become the latest point of speculation in the high-profile search for Nancy.

Nancy, mother of Today anchor Savannah Guthrie, was last seen at her Tucson home on 31 January and is believed by investigators to have been abducted in the early hours of 1 February.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department released doorbell camera footage showing a masked suspect and said a hair sample processed at a private laboratory in Florida was later sent to the FBI Laboratory for further testing. No suspect has been publicly identified, and Nancy has not been found.

The tablet claim surfaced on the YouTube channel A.J.DoubleU News and was later summarised on X. According to that account, the unnamed woman says she bought a pink tablet from a 'smelly man' on Speedway Boulevard near Alvernon Way in Tucson. She says she paid $10, turned the device on and connected it to Wi-Fi.

The woman claims that shortly afterwards law enforcement officers approached her and asked where she had obtained the device. An X post recapping the YouTube video said the woman was told the tablet 'came from Nancy's property.' She also claims officers took the tablet, her backpack and other personal belongings, including her wallet.

This remains her version of events, passed through at least one layer of online retelling. The Pima County Sheriff's Department has not confirmed that the device was ever in its possession or that it came from Nancy's home.

Nancy Guthrie Case and the 'Pink Tablet' Claim

The unverified story has nevertheless drawn quick attention from social-media users who have been following the Nancy investigation for months. With official updates limited, almost any new detail, however shaky, is seized on and dissected.

One X user, reacting to the summary of the A.J.DoubleU News video, suggested the claim implied some form of real-time device tracking by investigators. 'So the police swarmed her so they had to be monitoring it somehow and the minute she logged on they found her. Interesting. Maybe this is a break,' they wrote.

Another user focused on timing rather than tech, saying they found it striking that, in the woman's account, officers appeared just after the device was connected to Wi-Fi. The implication, at least in these posts, is that the tablet might have been under surveillance, though no official statement or court filing has supported it.

The reactions illustrate how quickly unverified theories around Nancy can circulate online. Some users tried to link the description of a 'smelly man' to previous, equally unverified discussions about activity near Nancy's home, layering one shaky claim on top of another. This is the sort of stuff that keeps true-crime forums spinning long after the press conferences end.

Sheriff's Department Stresses No Stolen iPad Mentioned in Nancy Guthrie Probe

Others watching the case have been far more blunt about the alleged $10 purchase, questioning both its plausibility and its usefulness to investigators.

Some social-media users questioned the tablet claim outright. 'I don't believe it. Anybody can say anything they want to say; it doesn't make it true,' one X commenter wrote, arguing that if the device were really an iPad stolen from Nancy's home, police would have treated the woman very differently. Another user described the account as inconsistent and said the suggested sale price did not make sense to them.

Several commenters also doubted investigators would tell the public that a device in their hands came from a specific crime scene. 'The police would never have disclosed anything to this woman. This story is nonsense,' one person insisted, again speaking from opinion rather than any stated police policy.

Amid the swirl of reaction, the Pima County Sheriff's Department has provided at least one clear on-the-record statement. After the page TrueCrime_Inc asked about the 'pink tablet' mentioned in the A.J.DoubleU News video, the department responded in writing.

'There has been no mention of a stolen IPAD during this investigation,' the Sheriff's Department said. The statement added: 'The Pima County Sheriff's Department remains fully committed to the investigation into Nancy's disappearance. This is an active and ongoing investigation, and we continue to work closely with our partners at the FBI.'

Notably, the department's wording refers specifically to an 'IPAD' rather than a generic tablet, which TrueCrime_Inc highlighted. It does not verify the woman's account that officers told her the device came from Nancy's property, nor does it confirm that any such device is relevant to the case.

Put simply, the sheriff's statement does not corroborate the alleged $10 sale. It reiterates that investigators are working with the FBI on an active case, but it also makes clear that, in the department's official description of the inquiry so far, no stolen iPad has been mentioned.

That leaves the tablet story where it began: a claim moving through YouTube and X rather than a documented lead in Nancy's disappearance. Nancy's family, and the public watching from afar, remain dependent on what investigators choose to release, and for now the alleged tablet connection sits firmly outside that official record.