Arizona police say bone found near Nancy Guthrie home is 'prehistoric'

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on May 8, 2026

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The bone found near the Tucson, Arizona, home of Nancy Guthrie, believed to have been kidnapped from that residence in February, is not evidence of a crime, according to local officials.

Tucson Police have regarded the discovery, made Thursday roughly 7 miles from Guthrie’s residence, as part of a “prehistoric anthropological investigation,” according to a statement obtained by People. “Mixed DNA” that was found outside the 84-year-old matriarch’s home is still being tested.

Blood identified as belonging to Guthrie — mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, who returned to the NBC morning show last month — was found outside the home shortly after authorities began frantically searching.

Footage from Guthrie’s doorbell camera shows a masked individual approaching in the early morning hours of Feb. 1. That The FBI described the suspect as a man of average build, standing between 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-10. He had an Ozark Trail Hiker Backpack on him at the time the footage was captured.

Amid the desperate search, the Guthrie family in late February offered a $1 million reward leading to the “recovery” of Nancy, though they acknowledged at the time she might no longer be alive. TMZ in April cited a tipster as saying Nancy was deceased but was still alive when she was last seen in Mexico.

Prior to that, the FBI had doubled its reward to $100,000. Tip line 88-CRIME had already put up $2,500, along with $100,000 offered by an anonymous donor.

News broke last month that TMZ had “tipped” the Guthrie family that Nancy was last seen alive in Mexico and had

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