'Nancy Guthrie Investigation Is a Mess': Ashleigh Banfield Claims Authorities Are Now Speaking to Contractors and Subcontractors Weeks After Savannah's Mom Was Abducted
Ashleigh Banfield revealed the latest investigative hurdle in the Nancy Guthrie investigation.
April 2 2026, Published 5:29 p.m. ET
As the search for Nancy Guthrie hits day 61, Ashleigh Banfield claimed the Pima County Sheriff Department's investigation into what happened to the 84-year-old is still a complete "mess," RadarOnline.com can reveal.
During her April 1 Drop Dead Serious podcast, she told listeners that authorities are just now getting around to doing interviews with contractors and subcontractors who worked on the Tucson, Arizona, home from which Guthrie was abducted, and how "messy" the situation has become.
'It's a Mess'
Ashleigh Banfield revealed why her sources claim the Nancy Guthrie investigation was fumbled.
"I'm learning something else from my sources in the investigation. And that is that at this stage, they are now running down the contractors and subcontractors and doing the interviews. Can you imagine the number of people that you'd have to find and then just getting through all of those interviews, the ones who will agree to it?" the journalist explained.
"I've got information on how messy that can be in just a moment from a guy who has been to this rodeo before. Also, when my sources told me about running down the contractors and subcontractors and doing the interviews, the quote was, 'It's a mess. It's a mess," Banfield huffed.
The List of Contractors 'Is Endless'
Asheigh Banfield described how arduous it will be to track down all of the workers from Nancy Guthrie's home and neighborhood.
"Think about this for a minute, okay? Your own home excluded. Just think about every other home out there and all the things that happen at your home where strangers are on your property, right?" Banfield pointed out as she set up a menu of all the people who might have come across Guthrie and her neighbors.
"Maybe some painting, maybe some roofing, maybe some yard work. A lot of people get yard work. Delivery people. Those aren't really contractors, but how about the TV repair? The guy who moves the fridge, the guy who removes the old mattress, the folks that clean the pool, the folks that fix the window. I mean, just the list is endless," she noted of all of the workers involved in a home and neighborhood's upkeep who will need to be questioned.
Somebody Planned This Fairly Meticulously'
Investigators are reportedly trying to interview an 'endless' list of workers.
"Mrs. Guthrie had money. It was a nice home. Not a ton of money, but enough to have people help her with the pool and the yard. The yard is meticulous. Must have had some electrician work done at some. The air conditioner guys, I mean, there's just an endless list of folks that come to the home to do work. And that is the list they're running down and doing the interviews now," the former NBC News correspondent explained.
Banfield went on to point out that any of those types of workers could have spotted frail Guthrie as she went down to her mailbox each day and realized that a vulnerable person lived in the home.
"There's an older woman. I think I'll scout that out and see if she lives with anybody, and see if any of the doors are unlocked at night," she described a possible suspect's way of thinking. "Is that who did this? Is it somebody who was working on someone else's home? Is it someone who was working on her home?"
"Somebody had an idea. Somebody got an idea, and somebody planned this fairly meticulously now that we know that the back kitchen screen door was propped open with Nancy's flower pots, right? And that the back gate was propped open with Nancy's flower pots. This is information from my sources as well," Banfield told viewers.
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'We Still Don't Know Anything'
Savannah Guthrie gave a heartbreaking interview about her mom's abduction.
Banfield said this next stage of the investigation could take ages and run into numerous dead ends, as many general contractors don't keep detailed files, especially for day laborers or other transient workers they may hire to do work.
It's been more than two months since Savannah Guthrie's mom was abducted from her home in the early hours of February 1. She has not been seen or heard from since, and the only clear evidence in the case so far showed a masked man holstering a gun trying to disable Nancy's front doorbell Nest cam around the time she disappeared.
Savannah is scheduled to return to work co-hosting Today on April 6, after giving a lengthy and heartbreaking interview.
She revealed that her brother believed their mom may have been targeted as a kidnap for ransom because of the NBC personality's TV fame. However, she noted, "We still don't know anything" about how or why someone took her mother.
