Sheriff's office probing Nancy Guthrie vanishing faces intense backlash over social media post: 'tone deaf'

The Pima County Sheriff's Department, which is already facing scrutiny for the mode it has handled the precocious illustration missing persons lawsuit involving Nancy Guthrie, is facing furious online backlash aft a station connected X that immoderate users person deemed insensitive.

"Update: Nancy has been located," said a station from 10:50 p.m. connected Thursday night.

The sheriff's bureau made the station successful notation to a missing pistillate named Nancy Radakovich, an 84-year-old who the section had announced was missing 12 hours earlier.

Nancy Guthrie, the parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, remains missing and the household is urging renewed attraction arsenic the hunt hits 7 weeks Sunday. (NBC)

Nancy Guthrie, parent of "TODAY" big Savannah Guthrie, went missing from her suburban Tucson location connected Feb. 1. The case, which has not been solved, captured weeks of planetary attention, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Chris Nanos proceed to look vigor for their handling of the probe.

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"Ok present you’re each conscionable being a--holes connected purpose.," 1 X idiosyncratic responded to Thursday night's post. "Thank deity she was recovered but COME ON. Can you beryllium anymore code deaf???"

"What a miserable code deaf retired of interaction constabulary dept," said another. "WTF is incorrect with you people? And the station is STILL up with NO EDITS. Morons."

"Are you kidding? So unprofessional! You couldn’t database the past name?" said a third.

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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 successful Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 5, 2026. (Rebecca Noble/Reuters)

"Pima County Sheriff’s Department announces 'Nancy has been located.' Now they're conscionable trolling us," different idiosyncratic said.

Other users said the wording of the station seemed "deliberate," with 1 idiosyncratic calling the section "evil."

Nanos has faced disapproval passim the Guthrie lawsuit for a perceived deficiency of practice with the FBI, on with different investigatory decisions that critics accidental whitethorn person hindered the investigation.

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On Thursday night, Fox News Digital reported that DNA evidence, including trial results from a hairsbreadth sample, person been obtained by the FBI.

Investigators collected the DNA grounds from Guthrie's location and shared it with the FBI.

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The sheriff's section took to X to reiterate that it has been cooperating with the national instrumentality enforcement agency.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos exits the property country past a missing persons poster aft giving 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)

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"PCSD has worked with the FBI since the opening of the Guthrie investigation. This is not caller information," the section wrote connected X. "The backstage laboratory we utilize successful Florida continues to stock accusation with the FBI laboratory & different spouse labs crossed the country. DNA investigation remains ongoing."

A mitt that was considered to beryllium imaginable grounds successful the lawsuit was sent to a laboratory successful Florida alternatively of the FBI, 1 instrumentality enforcement root told Fox News Digital connected Feb. 12.

"The FBI asked Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos for carnal grounds successful the case, including a mitt and DNA from the location of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, to beryllium processed astatine the FBI's nationalist transgression laboratory successful Quantico, Virginia, but Nanos has insisted alternatively connected utilizing a backstage laboratory successful Florida," the authoritative said.

Members of the property enactment extracurricular the location of Nancy Guthrie, the missing parent of "Today" amusement big Savannah Guthrie, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, successful Tucson, Ariz. (Caitlin O'Hara/AP)

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A root told Fox News Digital that aft the investigating successful Florida, the FBI would request to retest the grounds anyway.

"It’s conscionable the FBI developed this method and tin bash it truthful overmuch amended without destroying the evidence," the root said. "I’ve seen truthful galore cases spell to Florida and beryllium consumed. Also, they are not arsenic fast, and successful this case, clip matters."

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Another national instrumentality enforcement root accused Nanos of blocking the FBI from obtaining the evidence, archetypal reported by Reuters and confirmed by Fox News Digital.

A supportive motion near by neighbors is posted extracurricular of the location 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 4, 2026. (Rebecca Noble/Reuters)

"It risks further slowing a lawsuit that grows much urgent by the minute," the authoritative told Reuters, citing unspecified "earlier setbacks" successful the investigation. The authoritative besides criticized Nanos for not requesting assistance from the FBI earlier successful the case.

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Pima County has a declaration with DNA Labs International, located successful Deerfield Beach, Florida for investigating of evidence.

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Nanos besides faced allegations that the archetypal hunt for Guthrie was delayed due to the fact that helium had busted the department’s high-tech hunt craft aviator down to thoroughfare patrol implicit a idiosyncratic dispute, leaving the bureau scrambling to get the level successful the aerial connected time Guthrie went missing.

Nanos has been plagued by different unit scandals, including an autarkic probe into bullying and retaliation allegations against the sheriff which recovered that a "preponderance of the evidence" showed helium abused his bureau for governmental summation during a adjacent contention successful 2024 against erstwhile PCSD Lt. Heather Lappin.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Pima County Sheriff's Department.