Michael Feldman, the Washington communications consultant married to NBC Today anchor Savannah Guthrie, flew into Arizona on February 17, 2026, seventeen days after his mother-in-law Nancy Guthrie, 84, vanished from her Tucson home. She has not been found. The reward for information leading to her safe return now stands at more than $1.2 million.
Savannah Guthrie’s mother had been missing for seventeen days when her husband got on a plane.
Michael Feldman landed at Tucson International Airport on February 17. He came off the plane in a gray sweatshirt, jeans, and sneakers, carrying two bags and a backpack. A photographer was waiting outside the terminal. He said he had nothing new to report and got into a car.
Feldman and Savannah were married in Tucson in March 2014. Nearly twelve years later, he was back.
That same morning, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told reporters that DNA collected from a glove found two miles from Nancy’s home had matched nothing in the FBI’s national CODIS database. Investigators had no match and no suspect.
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Who Is Michael Feldman?
Feldman, 57, is a founding partner and North American co-chairman of FGS Global, an international communications and consulting firm headquartered in Washington. He co-founded its predecessor, The Glover Park Group, in 2001 alongside Carter Eskew, Joe Lockhart, and Chip Smith. That firm merged in 2021 and became FGS Global.
He spent eight years in Democratic politics before that, from the U.S. Senate to the Clinton White House. He served as a senior advisor to Vice President Al Gore through both Clinton terms and was Gore’s traveling chief of staff during the 2000 presidential campaign. He also worked as a congressional liaison for the Clinton administration.
On his firm’s website, Feldman wrote his own biography. He described himself as “Savannah’s husband, Vale and Charley’s dad, frustrated creative and recovering political hack.”
Savannah described how they met in an essay for Guideposts. “I met a man named Mike Feldman at a party, a political consultant who made me laugh. We fell in love,” she wrote. That was October 2008, at his 40th birthday party. They got engaged in May 2013 and married the following spring in Tucson.
What Happened to Nancy Guthrie?
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen on the evening of January 31, 2026. Savannah’s sister Anne and her husband Tommaso Cioni dropped Nancy home after a family dinner. The next morning, she missed church and could not be reached. She was reported missing that day.
Investigators arrived at her home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson and found signs she had not left on her own:
- Blood at the front entrance, later confirmed through DNA testing to belong to Nancy
- The doorbell security camera physically removed from the property
- Personal items left inside the home
- Separate doorbell footage from that morning showing an armed individual at Nancy’s front door, described by the FBI as between 5 feet 9 and 5 feet 10 inches tall and carrying a black 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI classified the property as a crime scene. All family members were cleared of suspicion.
Savannah posted a video on Instagram in the days that followed. “We believe our mom is still out there,” she said. “Law enforcement is working tirelessly around the clock, trying to bring her home. She was taken, and we don’t know where.” She later posted surveillance images of the masked suspect with the caption, “We believe she is still alive.”
Inside the Investigation: DNA Evidence, Genetic Genealogy, and 10,000 Hours of Footage
When Feldman landed in Tucson, investigators had spent seventeen days collecting evidence without identifying a suspect. After the glove DNA came back with no CODIS match, the FBI turned to genetic genealogy testing to trace the unknown profile.
NBC News reported in February that the FBI had collected 10,000 hours of recordings connected to the case. Late that month, neighbors on a back road leading out of Nancy’s neighborhood handed over Ring camera footage from the morning of February 1 that showed vehicles leaving the area. Deputies had not canvassed their street in the 25 days since Nancy disappeared.
Eleven weeks into the case, a private laboratory in Florida that had been analyzing DNA from inside Nancy’s home transferred the samples to the FBI for more advanced testing.
Sheriff Nanos said in May that investigators had cataloged all available video footage to match vehicles to potential suspects. “It’s connecting all the pieces,” he said. He told Fox News Digital the same month that investigators were getting closer to solving the case, though he gave no specifics.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors opened a formal investigation into Nanos over his handling of the case. A separate recall effort against him also began.
Is Nancy Guthrie Still Missing? Case Update for June 10, 2026
Nancy Guthrie has not been found. Investigators have not named a suspect or made an arrest. Today marks 130 days since she disappeared.
Savannah returned to the Today show on April 6, wearing yellow. The color had been tied to the search from the beginning, after neighbors placed yellow flowers and ribbons outside Nancy’s Tucson home in the first days of February. On air that morning, Savannah told colleague Jenna Bush Hager, “It’s really hard to come back.”
Since Feldman’s February trip to Tucson, the case has kept moving:
- The total reward for information about Nancy’s safe return has grown to more than $1.2 million, with the Guthrie family contributing $1 million
- The FBI brought new technology into the investigation in early June to help with evidence analysis
- Three men running YouTube channels and a local crime blog were cited or arrested near Nancy’s home in early June, after Nanos described the activity around the neighborhood as “becoming pretty scary and frightful”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office released a statement this month. “The Pima County Sheriff’s Department remains fully committed to the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance,” it read. “This is an active and ongoing investigation, and we continue to work closely with our partners at the FBI. DNA and video analysis are underway, supported by laboratories across the country.”
Retired FBI agent Jason Pack told Parade in June that he still expects the case to break. “Four months is a long time to keep a secret, and people start to crack,” he said. “They make calls they shouldn’t make. They spend money they can’t explain.”
Nancy Guthrie has been missing for 130 days.
Anyone with information about Nancy Guthrie’s whereabouts is asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
