When a beloved family member goes missing, the pain is immeasurable. For NBC Today anchor Savannah Guthrie, that unimaginable reality became her life on the morning of January 31, 2026, when her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared from her home in the Tucson area of Arizona. What followed was not only a deeply distressing family crisis, but also a nationwide search effort, an active multi-agency investigation, and — troublingly — a wave of false information that spread rapidly across social media, adding confusion and heartache to an already devastating situation.