Man who put up $100K to find Nancy Guthrie says tipsters should skip the sheriff and call Crime Stoppers

As aggregate agencies cod tips successful the Nancy Guthrie case, the antheral backing a $100,000 reward says Crime Stoppers — not the sheriff — offers the safest way for witnesses to travel guardant and an enticing 1 for radical who privation to get paid for credible accusation without giving their name.

"I judge that radical volition travel guardant if they’re anonymous and if they get a reward," said Wisconsin lawyer Michael Hupy, who is the president of Crime Stoppers Milwaukee.

In Pima County, Arizona, the section Crime Stoppers affiliate is known arsenic 88-CRIME, and the fig is 520-882-7463.

Hupy has paid retired $75,000 successful rewards and posted different $200,000 successful an effort to lick crimes successful his hometown. But helium told Fox News Digital this week helium enactment up six figures successful the Guthrie lawsuit owed to the alarming circumstances of her disappearance.

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Savannah Guthrie volition instrumentality to "Today" connected Monday aft a two-month lack since her mother, Nancy, went missing connected Feb. 1. (Getty Images/Fox News Digital)

She is believed to person been taken from her chamber successful bluish Tucson astir 2 a.m. connected Sunday, Feb. 1. Responding officers recovered a bladed way of humor droplets from her beforehand doorway to the borderline of her driveway. Her backmost doors were propped open. Her Nest doorbell camera was missing. And the way seemingly ended there, until the FBI and Google recovered location information video showing a masked antheral connected her doorstep — who is inactive unidentified.

"I was precise bittersweet that an 84-year-old pistillate successful mediocre wellness was taken from her home, without her medication, her bosom pacemaker stopped [synching], there's humor astatine the transgression scene, and I thought thing had to beryllium done quickly," helium told Fox News Digital. "And I thought this is simply a spot I could measurement in, arsenic I person successful Milwaukee."

He besides criticized the aboriginal handling of the investigation, saying the sheriff released the transgression country excessively rapidly and made different missteps.

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Annie Guthrie, her hubby Tommaso Cioni, and Savannah Guthrie astatine their missing parent Nancy Guthrie's location connected Monday, March 2, successful Tucson, Arizona. (Fox News)

"I don’t deliberation they secured the country agelong capable to process it," helium said. "They went in, looked, opened it up, past they had to travel backmost later."

Hupy said helium believes that the anonymity guaranteed by Crime Stoppers can't beryllium matched by the region sheriff's extremity enactment oregon adjacent the FBI, whose extremity enactment the Guthrie household has promoted publicly.

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Tipsters tin debar being labeled "snitches" oregon facing retaliation, helium said.

"That's the constituent of it," helium added. "They get a reward anonymously, and they assistance nine by getting criminals disconnected the street."

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A root acquainted tells Fox News Digital that 2 photos of the fishy successful the Nancy Guthrie doorbell video were taken connected antithetic days. (FBI)

And with the probe entering its 3rd period this week, Hupy said the accidental that idiosyncratic who knows thing astir Guthrie's suspected abduction told idiosyncratic other has lone increased.

"Somebody volition larn something," helium said. "An ex-girlfriend volition get huffy and archer the authorities oregon Crime Stoppers that her fellow confessed to her. A bartender volition accidental a drunk came successful and spilled the beans connected himself oregon idiosyncratic else. So the longer it goes on, the much apt we are to get the criminal."

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Tipsters who usage Crime Stoppers tin besides debar getting successful the mediate arsenic some the PCSD and FBI vie for accusation connected the lawsuit independently, Hupy said.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos gives an update connected the probe aft the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of U.S. writer and tv big Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her location successful Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 5, 2026. (Rebecca Noble/Reuters)

"Avoid the bickering and debar the nonsense and telephone Crime Stoppers," Hupy said. "We cognize however to grip this. We person solved thousands of cases, and we're not successful the mediate of something."

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And due to the fact that Crime Stoppers is not a authorities agency, Hupy said it is not taxable to state of accusation laws and does not support identifying records of the informants it pays.

Tipsters are not asked for their names and person a unsocial codification fig erstwhile they springiness accusation instead, helium said. If there's an apprehension based connected that information, they tin cod by giving the code, not their name.

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In an aerial view, instrumentality enforcement and quality broadcasters are stationed extracurricular of Nancy Guthrie's residence connected Feb. 10, 2026 successful Tucson, Arizona. Searches proceed for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of U.S. writer and tv big Savannah Guthrie, aft she went missing from her location connected the greeting of Feb. 1. Guthrie's imaginable abductors had acceptable a deadline of 5 p.m. connected Feb. 9 for a $6 cardinal payment. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

"If your extremity results successful an arrest, you get a reward," helium said. "We don’t adjacent cognize your sanction oregon your code oregon your telephone number."

And determination are nary records kept of those details either, helium added.

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The nationalist transgression warring enactment has fixed retired tens of millions of dollars successful reward wealth implicit the years, helium said.

The Crime Stoppers reward is $102,500 for accusation that leads to an arrest. The FBI is separately offering a $100,000 reward for accusation that leads to either Guthrie's betterment oregon an apprehension and conviction. And "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie is offering $1 cardinal for accusation that brings her parent home.

"Come forward, you'll beryllium anonymous...and if you person the close information, you'll get a reward," Hupy said. "It's that simple."