Arizona sheriffs slammed for 'Nancy has been located' post that wasn't about Nancy Guthrie

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on Apr 17, 2026

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The Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona is facing backlash not just for its investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s abduction but for posting that it had found another elderly Nancy, leading many to believe it was the matriarch who’s been missing for more than two months.

The department shared on X, formerly Twitter, late Thursday, “Update: Nancy has been located,” along with the word “LOCATED” stamped over the missing person’s poster for Nancy Radakovich, which identified the 82-year-old as a vulnerable adult.

One user slammed the sheriff’s office as “absolutely brain dead to not know people would think this was Nancy Guthrie, they even look alike.”

Another asked why the department even identified the missing woman by just her first name: “Of all the posts you’ve made about a missing person being located ... you chose THIS ONE to use first name only??”

The outrage ran the gamut from calls to “fire your social media manager” to dubbing the department “evil,” “a satirical organization,” and “a--holes on purpose.”

It’s unclear why Pima County has not removed the post to share the news again with Radakovich’s surname.

Guthrie — the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie — went missing from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the dead of night on Feb. 1, with authorities quickly dubbing her disappearance an abduction.

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