Nancy Guthrie Update: Abductor Allegedly Used Her ‘Flower Pots’ to Hold Back Doors Open

As the search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains ongoing, more and more people are trying to crack the case.

During the Tuesday, March 31 episode of Drop Dead Serious, host and journalist Ashleigh Banfield said she has spoken with law enforcement sources who claimed that the back doors of Nancy’s Arizona home were left open during the abduction.

A detail that “really floored me,” Banfield said, “was that the perpetrator used Nancy’s flower pots to do this.”

“He took her beautiful flower pots that I can only imagine she spent time nurturing and making beautiful for her back patio, and he used them for his evil f**king plot,” Banfield claimed on her podcast.

“It’s just so frustrating to think that filthy, vile beast deflowered that kitchen, that entrance, that family home. But he did,” she continued. “My sources say that’s where he got his entry. But that’s not the only thing that he did. He also took Nancy’s beautiful flower pots, and he propped open the back gate.”

If the back doors were being held open, Banfield pondered, “Did he plan to make Nancy walk at gunpoint out that back kitchen door and then out through the propped-open screen door” to avoid house cameras?

“But then, did he think, ‘Oh dear, I didn’t plan for this. Mrs. Guthrie can’t walk that far’? Because Savannah’s now told us that on a good day her mom could get to the mailbox, but there weren’t many days like that,” said Banfield. “So maybe this guy didn’t count on Mrs. Guthrie not being able to walk as far as he had planned to walk her. And so now he’s got to change his plan.”

Nancy’s blood was found at the front entrance of the house after she was reported missing by family members on February 1. Her whereabouts remain unknown, and no suspects nor persons of interest have been announced.

The Today anchor’s mother is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs around 150 pounds; she has brown hair and blue eyes.

Savannah and her family are offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the recovery of Nancy, and she said during her interview with Hoda Kotb that she hopes and prays someone will come forward.

People with any information regarding the case are asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324). You may also contact your local FBI office, the nearest American Embassy or Consulate, or you can submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.