In a press conference Thursday, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos provided an update on the desperate and ongoing search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.
Nanos laid out a timeline on the hours leading up to and including the abduction of Guthrie.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
5:32 p.m. – Nancy travels to her daughter Annie’s home for dinner and games
9:48 p.m. – Annie’s husband, Tommaso Ciolo, drops Nancy off at her home and garage door opens
9:50 p.m. – Garage door closes
Sunday, February 1, 2026
1:47 a.m. – Doorbell camera disconnects
2:12 a.m. – Software detects person on camera (No video available, due to no subscription)
2:28 a.m. – Pacemaker app shows disconnect from phone
11:56 a.m. – Family checks on Nancy (after receiving call that she wasn’t at church)
12:03 p.m. – Family makes 911 call to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department
12:15 p.m. – Law enforcement arrives
Fox News shared a transcript of Nanos’ remarks:
“About 5:32 p.m. these are approximate times, 5:32 p.m., Nancy travels to her local family’s home for dinner and playing games with the family. Just visiting. At 9:48 p.m., which is very consistent to what we were told by the family, that Nancy was dropped off at home and we know that because we have a garage door open at approximately, I can’t stress that enough, at approximately 9:48 p.m. At 9:50 p.m., that garage door closes, which at that time we assume that Nancy’s home and probably going to bed,” Nanos said.
“Sunday morning, early morning at 1:47 a.m., the doorbell camera disconnects. At 2:12 a.m., software detects a person on a camera, but there’s no video available. They had no subscription and therefore it would rewrite itself, cut up. It just kind of loops right and covers up. That’s what our analysis teams have told us,” Nanos continued. “We’re not done with that. We’ll do all we can. But that’s what it says. So it detects a person on camera, could that be an animal? I imagine that’s possible. We don’t know that. We just have no video. But we’re not giving up on that.”
“Two twenty-eight, Nancy’s pacemaker app shows that it was a disconnect from the phone. And at 11:56 a.m., the family checks on Nancy, discovers her missing, and at 12:03 p.m., 911 is called in to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department,” Nanos added.
“I believe it’s about approximately ten minutes later, 12 minutes later, our patrol teams arrive. They see the scene and we start our response with our search and rescue teams and our detectives from homicide and various units,” Nanos also said.
New timeline:
FullScreen released by @PimaSheriff in the Nancy Guthrie investigation during press conference pic.twitter.com/KR61QYrFGq— Laura Ingle (@lauraingle) February 5, 2026
A reporter asked the sheriff about rumors that Guthrie’s son-in-law Tommaso Ciolo may be a suspect. The sheriff said no one has been eliminated as a suspect, but again, no one has been accused either, and said the family has been very cooperative.
“We’re actively looking at everybody we come across in this case, everybody. We would be irresponsible if we didn’t talk to everybody — the Uber driver, the gardener, the pool person, whoever. Everybody –- it’s so cliche — but everybody’s still a suspect in our eyes. That’s just how we look at things and think as cops,” Nanos said.
No suspect or person of interest has been identified in the Nancy Guthrie investigation, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said during a press briefing on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/2d7Oqz1CKw
— ABC News (@ABC) February 5, 2026
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