TUCSON, Ariz. — More than seven months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Arizona home, a retired FBI agent is theorizing that the 84-year-old mother of "Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie was taken in a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme that spiraled out of the captors' control, potentially ending in her death from a medical emergency shortly after she was seized.

Frank Storey, a retired FBI agent, laid out the theory during an appearance on the YouTube channel of fellow former FBI officer Jennifer Coffindaffer. Storey said he believes Guthrie was abducted as part of a ransom plot, but that something unexpected happened after the abduction that the captors had not anticipated. He suggested Guthrie may have experienced a medical emergency that ultimately led to her death, though he was careful to characterize the theory as speculation rather than a confirmed finding.

Guthrie has remained missing since vanishing from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2026. Investigators have continued searching for her from multiple angles, including the working theory that she was kidnapped, though no suspect has been publicly identified or arrested seven months into the case.

The prolonged lack of an arrest, combined with the sheriff's........

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