Nancy Guthrie Update: Sheriff Puts New Information on Investigators' Radar
The task force investigating Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is aware of a new cybersecurity report examining a rise in targeted crimes, and Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed the information has been flagged for investigators, according to Fox News Digital's Mike Ruiz.
Rumors of a possible "wrench attack" in the Guthrie case have circulated since early in the investigation. The concept refers to situations in which criminals orchestrate a crime and hire others to carry it out.
In these cases, "the victim of the violence is a more vulnerable relative of the person criminals are looking to extort," Ruiz wrote on X.
While there is no official indication that Guthrie's case involved this type of crime, experts say the report highlights a growing concern in cases involving vulnerable targets.
"The bad guys in these cases and in many types of criminal cases utilize open source information and social media information to find their targets and the targets' vulnerabilities, the pressure point," Lisa J. Miller, a retired detective and law enforcement executive at the Colorado Attorney General's Office, told Fox News Digital. "News releases from companies describing wealth, social media posts showing off big expenditures, big toys, big homes. Many of us put at least some of our lives out there for everyone to see - and it's usually the happiest part."
"Nancy Guthrie could have been viewed by someone watching [her Today] segment as a vulnerability-Savannah Guthrie's pressure point," Miller added.
Miller's comments comes on the heels of CertiK-a cyber-security firm-putting out a report that designated Guthrie's abduction as a wrench attack by proxy.
When Fox News Digital asked Sheriff Nanos about the potential relevance of a wrench attack in the Guthrie case, he said he had "flagged it to the investigation team."
Guthrie, 84, has been missing since Sunday, Feb. 1.
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This story was originally published June 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM.