Homicide investigators are now involved in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie after Pima County Sheriff’s Department officials discover a ‘crime scene’ at her home north of Tucson
Homicide investigators have been brought into the search for the missing 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, according to authorities in Arizona.
Nancy Guthrie was last seen in the Catalina Foothills area on Saturday night, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. Her family reported her missing on Sunday around noon local time, authorities said. “She did not leave on her own, we know that,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told reporterson Sunday.
“It’s very concerning what we’re learning from the house,” Nanos said at the news conference late Sunday. He declined to comment on details, however, he pointed out that Guthrie was of “good, sound mind” with no cognitive issues.
“This isn’t somebody that just wandered off,” Nanos reiterated Monday morning.
On Monday morning, “Today” hosts shared a statement from Savannah Guthrie that thanked viewers for their “thoughts, prayers and messages of support.”
The mother of “Today Show” host Savannah Guthrie is missing in Arizona.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told reporters Sunday evening that a family member called 911 around noon on Sunday to report that 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was missing.
“We’re here on “a search and rescue mission, we hope,” Nanos said.
Earlier this month, U.S. Park Police and the DNA Doe Project identified 24-year-old Eddie Devone as the man found along the northbound lanes of the highway near the interchange with the beltway back in 1981.
A man whose body was found along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway 45 years ago has finally been identified, with help from a group of volunteer genealogists.
Earlier this month, U.S. Park Police and the DNA Doe Project identified 24-year-old Eddie Devone as the man found along the northbound lanes of the highway near the interchange with the Capitol Beltway back in 1981.
“They checked local hospitals, any missing persons reports, took fingerprints, did all their investigatory work. And at the time, it just came up with no leads,” said Lt. Daniel Bahamonde, acting commander of U.S. Park Police’s criminal investigations.
When Devone’s body was found, the cause of death was never determined, though there was no sign of any foul play. After years of dead ends on everything else, U.S. Park Police turned to the DNA Doe Project, which is based in California.
But it was Matthew Waterfield, who lives in London, England, who became the team lead and took up the cause.
“We are a nonprofit, so all of the research we provide is completely pro bono,” Waterfield said. “The benefit of that is that even if a case is particularly tricky and may take dozens or hundreds or even thousands of hours to resolve, we can put in that time because all of the people working on that case are volunteers.”
In this case, it took hundreds of hours to identify Devone, whose DNA was uploaded into databases that took genealogists to North Carolina — far away from the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
“It was complicated, because we were looking at this couple from North Carolina, and we knew, based on our research, based on the amount of DNA that our John Doe shared with other members of their family, that this couple probably had a child who was the grandparent of our Doe,” Waterfield said.
“We looked into their children, their grandchildren, great grandchildren, couldn’t find anything, and we couldn’t find any link to Baltimore or D.C., which we had kind of been expecting, considering where this gentleman had been found,” he added.
U.S. Park Police went to North Carolina and spoke to relatives who turned up in the family tree that was created. What they learned eventually brought them back to the D.C. region.
“It was indeed discovered that that couple had had another daughter, a daughter who was given up for adoption 100 years ago,” Waterfield said. “That daughter had stayed in contact with certain members of her biological family, and they could tell investigators that they knew she had moved to Baltimore. So at that point, that was really the breakthrough.”
From there, detectives were eventually able to track down Devone’s sister. In an era with no social media and no easy way to contact someone who wanted to be left alone, he had become estranged from his family.
“That’s pretty much why there was no missing person (report),” Bahamonde said. “It was good closure for them, but to be honest, they weren’t even aware that they were missing.”
This isn’t the first time the DNA Doe Project has helped identify someone in this region. In 2022, the group helped identify a man found dead inside a home on Naylor Road SE as 59-year-old Darryl Williamson.
Waterfield said the Doe Project is hoping to help solve more cases like this one in the future.
“It’s something that we are able to do in our spare time, and which people willingly give their spare time to, because it’s such a frankly rewarding thing,” he said. “A disproportionately large number of our volunteers are people who took a DNA test and found a surprise in their family tree, or took a DNA test to address a mystery in their family tree — maybe they were adopted or maybe they had a grandparent they never knew about.”
Waterfield added that many of the volunteers who dedicated their time to the project aren’t necessarily professional genealogists.
“They are passionate people who had a career and started getting into genetic genealogy on the side, and then became so good at genetic genealogical analysis, that they decided to apply to join us and lend their skills in a different way,” he said.
But the time spent volunteering as genealogists is only possible after the costly process of generating a DNA profile inside a laboratory is complete. That’s why the group also solicits donations, and helps those looking to identify someone apply for grants and other ways to pay for the cost of lab work.
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A 15-year-old boy who went missing in Denver on Thursday is described by police as an Alaska Native who was last seen wearing a baggy black and white checkered outfit.
Missing Indigenous Person Alert Activation Michael Davis, described as a 15-year-old Alaskan Native male, last seen at 11:00 AM January 22, 2026 in the 1000 block of North Cherokee Street in Denver, Colorado.
Shaida Ghaemi was last seen Sept. 9, 2007, in Wheat Ridge. (Photo courtesy Colorado Bureau of Investigation)
Arash Ghaemi has wondered for 18 years what happened to his mother after she disappeared from a Wheat Ridge motel.
So Ghaemi, an artificial intelligence developer and entrepreneur, turned his profession into his passion.
“What if I can get the case files and run it through AI?” he said of the police investigation into his mother’s disappearance. “Maybe it will show me something and make the connections. If I could build it to solve my mom’s case, I could likely build it to solve other cases.”
Ghaemi launched CrimeOwl, an AI program that searches cold-case files to generate new leads for investigators, last year.
So far, the AI platform is in the hands of a few private investigators who are using it to chase leads on behalf of families searching for missing loved ones. Ghaemi hopes one day the program will have its big break in solving a case, and maybe — just maybe — it will help figure out what happened to his mother, Shaida Ghaemi, when she disappeared in 2007.
Ghaemi, who goes by “Ash,” on Tuesday met with investigators, information-technology staff and commanders at the Wheat Ridge Police Department to show off his AI tool and to ask for an update on his mother’s case.
For now, Wheat Ridge police say CrimeOwl is too unproven to use in the department’s investigations, including Shaida Ghaemi’s disappearance.
And they are tight-lipped about her case.
“We were really happy to meet with Ash. It’s part of our philosophy of relationship policing,” said Alex Rose, a Wheat Ridge police spokesman. “It was a twofold meeting to explain what we could about the case and to give some professional insight on the AI tool so it can become more widespread and of use to agencies across the country.”
‘Still trying to make sense of it’
When Arash Ghaemi was growing up, his mother was almost too good a mother, he said, describing her as “almost overbearing” in taking care of him and his older sister.
But when Arash was 17, his parents divorced, and everything changed.
Shaida Ghaemi became distant from her children. She left home a lot.
“It was weird,” he said. “She went from always needing to be in contact with me and my sister to she could take it or leave it.”
Shaida Ghaemi did not have a permanent home and did not have a job, her son, now 40, said. She traveled between Colorado and Maryland, where her parents lived.
In 2007 — five years after the divorce — she moved into the American Motel in Wheat Ridge with her boyfriend, Jude Peters.
“I am still trying to make sense of it,” he said of the changes in his mother’s behavior.
Arash Ghaemi was a 22-year-old server at a Red Robin restaurant in Highlands Ranch when his grandfather called from Maryland on a September night and told him they were unable to reach his mother. He asked his grandson to call the police.
Shaida Ghaemi, then 44, was last seen on Sept. 9, 2007, by Peters. Drops of her blood were found in their motel room. At the time, Peters told 9News it was menstrual blood and that Ghaemi often left for months at a time.
Wheat Ridge police still consider her disappearance a missing-person case, and there is no “clear indication of foul play,” Rose said. “Jude is not considered a person of interest in this investigation at this time,” Rose said of Peters.
“They still don’t know where she’s at and they don’t have any trace of her,” Ghaemi said.
‘True value’ of AI
Artificial intelligence is gaining ground as a law enforcement tool. Multiple police departments across Colorado are using the technology, most commonly for converting body-worn camera footage into written crime reports. It’s also being used to track license plates and to scan people’s faces.
The Wheat Ridge Police Department uses Axon’s Draft One to help write police reports, based on their body-worn camera footage.
“Our officers know they’re accountable for every single word,” Rose said. “It gives them a who, what, when and where and can save them time, but it’s not a substitution for good police work.”
Ghaemi launched CrimeOwl about six months ago. He is also developing AI programs for the dental industry and a new sports statistics program that could eventually be used by the NBA.
He programmed CrimeOwl to sort through all of the documents in a case file and build a map of the people connected to the missing person, such as partners, family, close friends and neighbors. The AI also creates a timeline of events leading to the disappearance or death and then maps all of the geographic locations connected to the crime, he said.
The platform has a chat function so investigators can ask the AI to sift through files to find answers to their questions.
While CrimeOwl was designed to help with missing-persons cases, Ghaemi said he hopes it can be used to solve other crimes.
No police departments have bought the product so far.
Ghaemi, who lives in Miami, said he tested CrimeOwl on a solved cold case in Florida and, after uploading the police case file into his program, the AI created a list of credible suspects within 30 minutes, he said. Police confirmed it had identified the actual perpetrator, he said.
“It took me 30 minutes to do what it could have taken them weeks or months to do,” Ghaemi said. “That’s the true value here.”
Not ready for police use
CrimeOwl, however, is not ready for active law enforcement investigations, Rose said.
The CrimeOwl platform would need to be secure so no one could tamper with the evidence once it is uploaded, Rose said. It would need to receive various certifications before any law enforcement agency used it, he said.
It would also need to be vetted by lawyers so any leads it generated would hold up at trial, he said.
“There are a lot of details and a lot of hypotheticals that would need to be heavily vetted for AI technology in a real-world police setting,” Rose said.
Still, Wheat Ridge police are intrigued by Ghaemi’s AI tool and were more than willing to offer advice and expertise, he said.
“We’re always going to applaud somebody who is trying to use technology to find ways to help,” Rose said.
Ghaemi said the Wheat Ridge investigators declined to hand over his mother’s case file because of the security concerns. He had wanted to upload those documents into CrimeOwl to see if it could generate new leads.
Police officials also told him that if they used CrimeOwl to identify a suspect, that person’s defense attorney would likely argue bias since the AI platform was built by the missing woman’s son, Ghaemi said.
“My stance is it has been 18 years. You guys have passed it on to other investigators. It’s not solving the case,” he said. “I’m willing to take that risk.”
Ghaemi hopes to overcome the legal barriers and law enforcement skepticism before his new company folds under financial pressure. He said CrimeOwl has a revenue stream, but it loses money every month.
“I built this thing with a mission in mind at first,” he said. “I didn’t really know how it would work or if it would work or if I would go broke. Even if it’s not me and CrimeOwl went broke tomorrow and we had to shutter the doors, I just want investigators to use AI to solve these cold cases.”
Zimmerman Police are asking local residents to check their homes and the surrounding areas for 7-year-old Brynlee.
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Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office
Police say that she was last seen getting off the bus at 13th Street West in Zimmerman, Minnesota. A public safety alert says that she entered a black sedan around 3:30.
She was last wearing a black jacket, blue snowpants, white boots, a pink Nike hoodie, and a grey and white hat. She was also carrying a backpack with a lot of keychains.
Anyone who may have seen Brynlee or may know her whereabouts are encouraged to call 763-220-9949.
The father of missing Texas teenager Camila Mendzoa Olmos said he is still holding out hope for her safe return as authorities released new video that they believe shows the 19-year-old shortly after leaving her San Antonio home on Dec. 24.
She was last seen on the morning of Christmas Eve, when a neighbor’s doorbell camera appears to have spotted her standing next to her car just before 7 a.m., according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. She was wearing a blue and black hoodie, blue pajama bottoms and white shoes. Her family said that she frequently goes for morning walks.
On Monday, the sheriff’s office released new dashcam video that they believe shows Mendoza Olmos. Sheriff Javier Salazar said in a news briefing that he was “not able to say with a hundred percent certainty” that she is the the figure in the video, but noted that the person in the footage is wearing clothes that “certainly match up with what she was wearing at the time.”
Dashcam video shows a person who Bexar County law enforcement believes may be Camila Mendoza Olmos.
Bexar County Sheriff’s Office
The footage shows the person walking by herself a few blocks from the teen’s home. Salazar said that officials believe that she did “walk away from the residence on her own.” Her mother has said that her daughter left her phone at home.
Salazar said officials are investigating all possibilities as the search continues. Dozens of volunteers are searching locally, while the Department of Homeland Security monitors border crossings. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also involved.
“We’ve got to consider all possibilities from disappearing willfully to the possibility of of self-harm to somebody may have taken her,” Salazar said.
Alfoso Mendoza told “CBS Mornings” that he has been “praying to God” since his daughter vanished.
“She’s out there watching this, seeing me,” he said. “I miss her, come home.”
“It’s hard. It hurts,” he continued. “I might sound strong … but it hurts.”
A boy with autism, 6, was rescued from a pond on Christmas Day by Florida police, fewer than 18 months after a similar incident led to the child being enrolled in swimming lessons.
The boy, identified by police as Coco, was found in chest-deep waters, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release shared Friday morning. Deputies in a sheriff’s helicopter helped lead officers to the child.
Video shared by the sheriff’s office shows the police searching the area for Coco before the helicopter crew spots him in the water. The child was cold but unharmed, police said.
Coco is nonverbal and known to be attracted to water, police said.
Helicopter imagery shows a missing child standing in a Florida pond.
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
In August 2024, Coco, then 5, escaped his home through a second-story door. His escape set off an alarm inside the house and led his family to call the police. Coco’s family said at the time he was attracted to water.
Volusia County Sheriff’s Deputy Wes Brough found Coco clinging to a branch in a pond in his Deltona neighborhood, the office said on social media at the time. Brough carried the boy to dry land, where he was medically cleared and returned to his family.
After the incident, Coco started swimming lessons, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies also spoke with his family about improving precautionary measures on the house and having Coco wear a GPS tracker at all times.
Authorities urge families of children with autism or special needs to use multiple layers of protection, including door alarms, secure fencing, and wearable tracking devices, CBS affiliate CBS12 reported.
“Most importantly, we’re just glad he’s back home safe,” the sheriff’s office said.
Virginia State Police issued a regionwide critical missing persons bulletin on behalf of the Herndon Police Department for the public to be on the lookout for 79-year-old Leonard Thompson.
Police are asking for the public’s help to find a Herndon, Virginia, man who has been missing since Monday night.
CLICK TO ENLARGE: A missing person flyer for 79-year-old Leonard Thompson of Herndon, Virginia. (Courtesy Virginia State Police)
Virginia State Police issued a regionwide critical missing persons bulletin on behalf of the Herndon Police Department for the public to be on the lookout for 79-year-old Leonard Thompson.
Thompson was last seen on surveillance video pumping gas at an Exxon on Pacific Boulevard in Sterling around 8:30 p.m. Monday.
His car was discovered around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday morning in a southbound travel lane on Interstate 81 north of Roanoke, near the town of Troutville. The car had a flat tire, and the keys were missing.
Thompson was nowhere to be found, officials said.
Family members told D.C. News Now that Thompson had attended a funeral Monday evening and then had dinner with some friends. They also said he was acting normally.
Thompson is diabetic and without his medication, according to D.C. News Now.
He is described as a white man who is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and about 160 pounds. He has white hair and wears glasses.
Police ask that anyone with information immediately call the Herndon Police Department at (703) 435-6846 or contact the Virginia State Police.
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The California Highway Patrol has issued a Silver Alert for an elderly woman who was last seen in San Jose last week and is believed to be at-risk.
On Sunday, the agency issued an alert for 82-year-old Karin Godfrey on behalf of the Gilroy Police Department. Authorities said Godfrey was last seen in the area of San Carlos and South 4th Street in downtown San Jose around 5:30 p.m. on Friday.
SILVER ALERT – Santa Clara, Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties Last seen: San Carlos and South 4th Street, San Jose @GilroyPD
A 15-year-old Denver boy is missing after he was last seen Thursday morning in the Athmar Park neighborhood, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Michael Davis was last seen at 8 a.m. in the 700 block of South Lipan Street, state officials said in a Missing Indigenous Person Alert.
Michael is affiliated with the Athabascan tribe and is described as 5 feet, 10 inches tall and 130 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. He also wears glasses.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts should call 911 or the Denver Police Department at 720-913-2000.
ACTIVATION – Michael Davis (15-Year-Old Indigenous Male) last seen on 12/11/25 at about 8am in the 700 block of S. Lipan Street in Denver, CO. Michael is affiliated with the Athabascan tribe. Michael’s last clothing is unknown, but Michael does wear glasses. If seen Call 911. pic.twitter.com/G1CVuFc0zk
Authorities are working to locate 46-year-old Travis Turner, who went missing just days before a playoff game for the undefeated Union High School football team in Appalachia, Virginia. As Tom Hanson reports, state police said agents in their criminal division were en route to Turner’s home as “part of the early stages of an investigation.”
Editor’s note: Around 7:27 p.m., the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office reported that the missing child was found safe.
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The missing child, 11, is described as being 5 feet 4 inches tall, 130 pounds, with black cornrow-style hair and brown eyes. According to SCSO, he was last seen on Monday around 4:30 p.m. on foot near the 4300 block of 46th Avenue in South Sacramento wearing a gray hoodie with a black cat on the front, black pants, blue Crocs, and 49ers socks. SCSO said it has put together an active search and rescue operation.
Anyone with information on Stewart-Raney’s whereabouts can call the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office at (916) 874-5115.
The search for the girl was momentarily suspended at 9 p.m. Friday due to weather and lighting conditions, but the sheriff’s office resumed the search on Saturday, along with several other agencies, with the help of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.
Authorities said Saturday night that the large-scale search operation was suspended. Officials will return to the scene on Sunday to search the shoreline on foot.
The sheriff’s office was asking drivers on Highway 1 not to stop at Garrapata State Beach so emergency crews have space to conduct their search.
The girl was pulled into the ocean at Garrapata State Beach, north of Rocky Point Restaurant, around 1 p.m. by a wave that was possibly 15 to 20 feet high, the sheriff’s office said.
Her father — later identified as 39-year-old Yuji Hu, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada — went into the water to try and rescue her, but the sheriff’s office said both were swept into the ocean. The child’s mother then tried to reach out to them while the man held onto their daughter, but she was swept into the water as well.
She ultimately made it back to shore on her own, and an off-duty State Parks Peace Officer/Lifeguard rescued the man. However, despite CPR attempts, he was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The girl’s mother was also taken to the hospital, where she is recovering from mild hypothermia.
The sheriff’s office said a 2-year-old child was found unharmed at the scene.
Golden Valley Police are asking the public for help in finding 19-year-old Jayanna Maree Starks.
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Police say Starks was last see Saturday near the 6000 block of Golden Hills Drive in Golden Valley, Minnesota. She was wearing a gray sweater, black leggings, black shoes and a butterfly bonnet when she was last seen.
If anyone knows her whereabouts or has seen her, they are asked to call the Hennepin County Dispatch at 952-258-5334.
A massive search operation continued Wednesday in West Virginia, where officials said crews were “working around the clock” and continuing “aggressive” efforts to locate a missing coal miner who became trapped in a flooded coal mine Saturday afternoon.
“There is nothing that we would spare to try to save the life of the miner,” West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey told reporters on Monday.
Morrisey said Tuesday that about 6,000 gallons of water were being pumped out of the mining complex every minute, which he called “a significant increase from earlier efforts as additional pumps became available.”
A simultaneous drilling operation could allow rescuers to reach the miner a different way, the governor previously said.
“While estimates from setup and completion vary for each method, using both approaches together offers the clearest path to success,” he said.
In an update Tuesday night, Morrisey said the effort was still a rescue mission and rescuers were trying to give the miner a “chance to live,” adding that diving teams and mine safety teams were taking part.
The miner is the foreman of a 17-person team that struck a pocket of water inside of south-central West Virginia’s Rolling Thunder Mine, causing water to rush into the complex, said Nicholas County Commissioner Garret Cole, citing information from the local emergency management and homeland security agency as well as reporting by CBS News affiliate WOWK. Rolling Thunder Mine is in Nicholas County.
All of the other miners were accounted for in the aftermath of the flood, Cole said on Facebook late Sunday. Officials believe the foreman helped the team escape the flooding and that he is about three-quarters of a mile into the mine.
Morrisey said in a statement that “a section of the mine operation flooded after an old mine wall was compromised.”
Multiple local, state and federal agencies were involved in the search, in addition to specialized mining, cave diving and drilling crews attempting to pump water out of the mine, Cole said. By 8:45 p.m. local time Sunday, dive teams had entered the mine for a third time.
“From reporting from homeland security and media, it is amazing to see the mobilization of these many agencies getting to work so quickly and working around the clock in order to move as quickly, and safely as humanly possible,” he said.
In an update Monday, Nicholas County Commissioner Cole said the governor said there had been concerns about removing water while dive crews are simultaneously deployed, so crews were trying to remove the water as fast as possible.
Cole said that coal seams inside the mine have “created air pockets in the ‘peaks’ of the mine,” and that officials hope the miner was able to find them.
“It was stated to me that the air and water is approximately 52-54 degrees, which means the miner would be less likely to suffer hypothermia, but would more be tasked in trying to become dry and keep in an open air pocket of the mine,” Cole said.
The commissioner called the emergency response “a learning experience” for him, in part because of the challenges the mine’s terrain presents to search and rescue crews, and the fact that “it takes so much time to safely and properly” reenter it.
“This is a waiting game, in a most unfortunate way,” Cole said.
An Indigenous woman’s remains were discovered last week in a remote part of Washington state, five years after she went missing, authorities said. An investigation into Mary Johnson-Davis’ death is still ongoing, and her tribe as well as the FBI have offered a $60,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person, or people, responsible.
Johnson-Davis, 44, was last seen on November 25, 2020, walking to a friend’s house on the Tulalip Reservation, about 40 miles north of Seattle, according to the FBI. She was reported missing on Dec. 9 of that year.
The FBI’s Seattle field office announced Friday that DNA tests had recently identified human remains that were discovered in June in Snohomish County, between Seattle and the Tulalip Reservation, and matched them to Johnson-Davis.
“With deep respect for the family and Tulalip community, the Tulalip Police Department is heartbroken to confirm that human remains have been positively identified as Mary Johnson-Davis, a member of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington,” said Shawn Ledford, the Tulalip Police Chief, in a statement. “This case remains an active and ongoing investigation, and the Tulalip Police Department will continue to work in partnership with the family and the FBI.”
Mary Johnson-Davis
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Johnson-Davis’ family said they were “saddened by the news” in a statement sent via text message by the woman’s estranged husband to KING-TV. He sent the statement on behalf of her family and the family’s attorney, according to the station.
“Our hearts are heavy, also because so many loving people are feeling sadness for our sister and our family. We are in disbelief that we will never see Mary again. We all wanted her to come home. She is now being brought back to us, but not like we hoped,” the statement said. “At the same time, our family finally has closure. We are at peace and now we can rest, knowing our sister has been found and will be brought home, where she is loved and will always be remembered.”