02/13/2026
For 10 Days, FBI Searched Nancy's House. On Day 10, They Went to Her Other Daughter's.
It's 8:00 PM on February 7. Two black SUVs pull up to a quiet house in Tucson. The garage door is already open. Someone is waiting.
FBI agents walk inside carrying a white suitcase and a brown bag. Two and a half hours later, they leave with the same items. But heavier now.
This is not Nancy Guthrie's house. This is Annie's house. The daughter you don't see on TV. The woman whose husband drove Nancy home at 9:48 PM on January 31.
By 1:47 AM, a masked figure is at Nancy's door. Gloves. Backpack. Carrying something holstered at the belt—the way someone carries a weapon when they've never done this before.
Forty-one minutes later, Nancy's pacemaker stops syncing. She's gone.
Her daughter is Savannah Guthrie—the woman America sees every morning on the TODAY show. For 12 days, Savannah begs on national television. FBI searches Nancy's house seven times.
But on Day 10, they search Annie's house for the third time. They find something. They won't say what.
Seventy-two hours later, agents pull over a man 60 miles south in Rio Rico—a border town half an hour from Mexico. His name is Carlos Palazuelos. He lives with his wife and his mother-in-law.
They detain him for hours. Search his home. Search his vehicle. By sunrise, they release him.
"I hope they catch the real person," Carlos tells reporters, wrists still swollen from handcuffs. "Because it wasn't me."
A family member says Carlos was "just delivering a package."
But there's something else.
Nancy's pacemaker kept recording for 41 minutes after the camera went dark. It tracked her heart rate. Her stress levels. Whether she was moving or still.
FBI extracted that data on February 7—the same day they searched Annie's house and carried out that white suitcase.
Two days later, they drove 60 miles to detain Carlos. He says he was just delivering a package. His family says he was "at the wrong place at the wrong time."
But the pacemaker data shows Nancy's heart was still beating at 2:15 AM. Which means someone kept her alive for at least 28 minutes after taking her.
And whoever that someone is, they knew Nancy well enough that her heart rate never spiked when they walked through the door.
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