Thirty-five days into the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of TODAY anchor Savannah Guthrie who was abducted from her Tucson, Arizona home on February 1, a new investigative thread has emerged: authorities are now actively asking neighbors whether they experienced internet disruptions the night she disappeared — and at least one adjacent household says their Ring camera went mysteriously dark during that exact timeframe.

Neighbor's Ring Camera Went 'Not Available' During Abduction Window

Investigators from both the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI canvassed Nancy Guthrie's Catalina Foothills neighborhood on Thursday, going door to door and asking residents specifically about internet connectivity issues on the night of January 31 into February 1, according to NBC News, which spoke with several homeowners.

According to those residents, agents told them that multiple people in the area had already reported internet glitches that night. But the most striking account came from a couple living directly adjacent to Guthrie's home. They told NBC News that one of their four Ring cameras — the one positioned closest to her property — displayed a "not available" warning when they later tried to retrieve footage from the overnight hours of the abduction. Their other three cameras, situated farther from Guthrie's home, experienced no such issue.

"That's really weird, isn't it?" the couple told NBC News, noting they had never seen that warning before and called it "uncanny" that it occurred during that specific timeframe. NBC News said it has reached out to Ring for comment. Neither the FBI nor the sheriff's department has officially commented on the reported internet issues or explained the line of questioning.

Sheriff Nanos Acknowledges Jammer Theory Examined with FBI

When NBC News asked Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos directly whether the suspect may have been carrying a Wi-Fi jammer, Nanos said: "I've not looked at that closely, but yeah, I know that my team has looked at it with the FBI every angle." It marks the first time Nanos himself has publicly confirmed on the record that the jammer hypothesis has been jointly examined by his department and the FBI.

The theory received significant scrutiny from Morgan Wright, CEO of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, who offered pointed skepticism in comments to Fox News Digital. Wright argued that the successful recovery of clear doorbell footage by the FBI and Google actually works against the jammer hypothesis. "If they were using Wi-Fi jammers, then I would expect that we would not be able to see any video from the front door cameras," Wright stated. He added that a radio frequency jammer capable of affecting a neighboring property "would have to be high-powered, military-style stuff" and that such a device "operates at the radio layer" — making it undetectable through standard router logs. His bottom line: "Whether investigators could detect a jammer, the answer is almost certainly no."

Wright did note, however, that jammers have been used in organized burglary operations before, citing a South America-linked ring that was busted in Houston, Texas.

Adding another layer to the canvassing effort, two homeowners told NBC News that agents also asked them about any video footage from January 11 — a date that has not previously surfaced in the investigation. Authorities have not confirmed what, if anything, they are looking into regarding that date.

Unconnected Phoenix Discovery Briefly Draws Attention

A brief surge of public anxiety occurred Saturday morning when a woman's body was discovered alongside the Grand Canal in Phoenix, near 27th Place and Grand Canal Trail, at approximately 7:40 a.m. Phoenix police investigated the death. However, Fox News Digital reporter Michael Ruiz confirmed that the Pima County Sheriff's Department stated it "has not been advised of any law enforcement activity at the canal in Phoenix this morning being connected to the Nancy Guthrie case." The Phoenix location is approximately 120 miles from Guthrie's Catalina Foothills home, and authorities have drawn no connection between the two incidents.

Expert Raises Possibility Suspect May Be Visiting Memorial

Betsy Brantner Smith, a forensic expert, retired police sergeant, and spokesperson for the National Policing Association, publicly raised the possibility that the suspect or suspects may have visited the growing memorial outside Nancy Guthrie's home — potentially to monitor the investigation or relive the crime, according to reporting by FilmoGaz. Smith also suggested separately that law enforcement may already have solid suspects in mind but is withholding that information to protect the integrity of the investigation. Neither assertion has been confirmed by any law enforcement agency.

The Influencer Circus: Staring at a Static Shot of a House

Away from the investigative developments, a feature published Saturday by Vox and the Today, Explained podcast — based on reporting by Slate journalist Luke Winkie, who traveled to Tucson — offered a detailed examination of the media and influencer scene camped outside Nancy Guthrie's home.

Winkie described arriving to find cars lining the street, drones overhead, and media figures wandering freely with no police barricade in sight. He reported that livestreamer Jonathan Lee Riches, known online as JLR, was drawing "almost 80,000 concurrent views of people just staring at a static [shot] of Nancy Guthrie's house."

Winkie told co-host Sean Rameswaram that he found little meaningful difference between the influencer presence and cable news coverage. "I didn't get a great sense that ultimately what these influencers were doing and what these cable news entities were doing were especially different," he said. "I think at the end of the day, everyone was sort of milling around Nancy Guthrie's house waiting for the sheriff to show up to make their statements."

Winkie documented one true crime streamer who, after the sheriff publicly reiterated that Nancy Guthrie's immediate family had been cleared of suspicion, polled his chat audience on whether they believed that official clearance. According to Winkie, the majority of respondents said they still suspected family involvement. Winkie noted that the streamer did not use the moment to correct the record. "You could ruin someone's life," Winkie observed of unfounded speculation amplified to large online audiences.

Where the Investigation Stands

Nancy Guthrie has now been missing for 35 days. The key physical evidence — a black glove found two miles from her home — was definitively ruled out on March 4 after DNA linked it to an unconnected restaurant employee, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Lab analysis on other DNA evidence collected from inside her home remains ongoing. No suspect has been publicly identified and no arrest has been made.

Savannah Guthrie visited the TODAY show studios in New York City on March 5 and has indicated she plans to return to co-hosting duties, though no timeline has been given, according to a show spokesperson. The family continues to offer a $1 million reward for information leading to Nancy Guthrie's recovery, on top of rewards from the FBI and Crime Stoppers.

In the coming days, observers will be watching for any official statement from authorities regarding the internet disruption canvass and whether the January 11 date holds investigative significance. The neighbor Ring camera outage, if corroborated, could represent the most direct physical evidence yet to support — or at least warrant — the Wi-Fi jammer hypothesis.