Shortcut: The Nancy Guthrie Case with Nancy Grace and Ann Burgess - ATC International
5/31/202613 min
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The disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, has become one of America's most closely watched missing persons cases.
US media superstar Nancy Grace joins the show to discuss the case, before Dr. Ann Burgess, one of the pioneering behavioural science experts whose work helped inspire the profiling work seen in Mindhunter, offers her expert analysis of the investigation.
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Host: Meshel Laurie
Guests: Nancy Grace and Ann Burgess
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First 90 secondsMeshel Laurie· Host0:00
[gentle music] This is Australian True Crime International with Michelle Lawrie. On this episode, we're looking into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie on the night of January 31st, 2026. We're now over 100 days into this investigation. We have an 84-year-old woman taken violently from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in the middle of the night, and the offender caught on camera. We have a million-dollar award and intense media attention, due in part to the fact that the victim's daughter is a very famous journalist, Savannah Guthrie, co-host of America's Today Show. And yet, according to law enforcement, we have no suspects. It hasn't played out like a normal abduction from the very beginning. The ransom demands are now believed by many to have all been hoaxes. We'll talk to two high-profile experts today to find out what they're thinking about the case. Dr. Ann Burgess was part of the team that invented profiling in the basement of the FBI headquarters in Quantico. You've probably seen the series Mindhunter, which is based on that experience. But first, we go to firebrand media personality and former prosecutor Nancy Grace, who is keeping the pressure on law enforcement in the matter. This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions