Nancy Guthrie: The Woman the World Needs to Know

Everybody knows her name. Almost nobody knows her.

Nancy Guthrie isn't a missing poster. She's not a crime scene. She's not a case number or a headline or a hashtag. She's a woman who fell in love at a basketball game and told everyone around her she was going to marry that man before he'd even introduced himself. She was right. She followed him around the world, raised three children in the Arizona desert, and made a home she'd live in for five decades.

When her husband died at 49, Nancy was 46 with three kids, no career, and a mother and a brother who both needed her. She didn't fold. She went to work at the University of Arizona. She created a program that brought live music into a hospital. She built a career in public relations. She raised a fighter pilot, a poet, and Savannah Guthrie — who has said everything she became started with her mother. Nancy was a 30-year churchgoer. Her absence one Sunday morning was enough for a friend to call the family. That's how present she was. That's how known.

This week we look back at the most important stories in this case — including the one that isn't about the investigation at all. It's about the person the investigation exists to find.

And the institution searching for her is fracturing. Her own investigators — 241 of them — voted unanimously that they have no confidence in the man running the case. The Board of Supervisors has invoked a state statute to compel the sheriff to answer under oath. He says he'll comply. But compliance may be the very thing that lets him stay — because the statute's removal trigger is refusal, not bad answers. County attorneys are working through that question now. April 7 is the date.

Nancy spent her life showing up for other people. Now the system responsible for finding her can't even agree on who's in charge.

She deserves better than this. She always did.

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