Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

On Day 65 of the search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, a major new twist has now emerged in the Nancy Guthrie case. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down stunning new reporting tied to the original ransom notes sent to TMZ and Tucson media outlets, including the revelation that those first two notes allegedly threatened to kill Nancy Guthrie and that Harvey Le...

Savannah Guthrie returned to TODAY, but the mystery surrounding her mother, Nancy Guthrie, is still impossible to ignore. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down Savannah’s emotional return to the show, the moments that stood out, and the questions that still remain about Nancy’s disappearance. Joining Ashleigh is Brian Balthazar, veteran television producer and longtim...

On Day 64 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie speaks publicly in an emotional Easter message just hours before her return to the Today show, while new questions continue swirling around the investigation into her mother’s case. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down Savannah’s heartfelt remarks, the significance of her message, the growing scrutiny...

For weeks now, one disturbing question has been hanging over the Nancy Guthrie case: is the blood on her front porch just spatter, or could it contain trace evidence that might help identify whoever took her?  On Day 62 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, Ashleigh Banfield zeroes in on one of the most unsettling details in the entire case and brings in three top forensic experts to help break i...

On Day 60 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, investigators are now digging into a new angle in the case: contractors, subcontractors, and day laborers who may have had access to Nancy’s home or her neighborhood. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down new reporting that law enforcement is now trying to track down the many workers who may have been coming and going a...

Disturbing New Details: On Day 59 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, an alarming new detail raises questions about how this investigation was handled from the very beginning. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield shares new reporting that the detective initially leading Nancy Guthrie’s case had only two years of experience, even as the investigation quickly became a major, hi...

On Day 58 of the search for Nancy Guthrie, a chilling new detail is raising even more questions about what happened inside her home. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the biggest developments in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie, who vanished from her Tucson-area home under deeply suspicious circumstances....

On Day 56 of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, disturbing new reporting is raising even more questions about what investigators are, and are not, seeing inside her home. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the chilling new information suggesting there is almost nothing inside Nancy Guthrie’s house that clearly explains how Savannah Guthrie’s mother could have vanishe...

Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, is still missing, and on Day 55, as this case drags deeper into uncertainty, one haunting question is getting louder: Will the masked perpetrator ever be identified? In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh is joined by renowned investigative genetic genealogist CeCe Moore, the chief genetic genealogist at Parabon NanoLabs, whose work using DNA and f...

Bombshell New Interview: Savannah Guthrie is speaking out for the first time since her mother Nancy Guthrie vanished, and her emotional Today show interview is putting this heartbreaking mystery back in the national spotlight. Ashleigh Banfield breaks down what Savannah said, what stood out, and what it may reveal about where this case stands now, as new questions continue to swirl around Nancy’s...

Bombshell New Details: On Day 52 of the search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, a deeply unsettling new detail has come to light: the location of blood found inside Nancy Guthrie’s home has now been revealed, adding a shocking new layer to an already haunting case. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is joined by Dr. Peter Valentin, Associate Professor and Chair of Forens...

Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, is still missing, and as this case drags deeper into uncertainty, one haunting question is getting louder: will Nancy ever be found... and will the person who took her ever be caught? In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the latest on the Nancy Guthrie case, the ongoing search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, the myster...

A University of Kentucky cheerleader is now facing even more serious charges after a shocking secret birth case took a devastating turn. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the latest developments in the case of Laken Snelling, the Kentucky student accused after her newborn baby was found dead in a closet at an off-campus home in Lexington. She is joined by Digital...

Day 47 feels like an especially ominous milestone in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, because it brings to mind another case that haunted the public for weeks: the Idaho student murders, where Bryan Kohberger was arrested 47 days after the killings, just as many people were starting to fear no one would ever be caught. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield recaps everything th...

On Day 45 of the Nancy Guthrie case, Savannah Guthrie’s mother remains missing, and the mystery only seems to be getting stranger. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the weirdest developments so far, including new dates that suggest investigators believe the person responsible may have been stalking Nancy for weeks before she vanished, reports that family members w...

n this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield takes a hard look at the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savannah Guthrie, and breaks down what she believes are the biggest mistakes made in the case so far. Joining Ashleigh is Chris McDonough, retired homicide detective, director of the Cold Case Foundation, and host of The Interview Room. The Interview...

In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the biggest developments on Day 41 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie, who vanished from her Tucson-area home under deeply suspicious circumstances. Ashleigh covers the newly recovered thumbnail images from security cameras at Nancy’s home, what investigators say those i...

In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is joined by Ross Coulthart to break down the mystery of the missing Air Force general, William Neil McCasland. Ross Coulthart is an Australian investigative journalist, author, documentary producer, and host of the podcast Reality Check. As of 2023, he is the senior special investigations correspondent for NewsNation. He believes that govern...

The forensic details in this case are as brutal as they are revealing. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh is joined by Dr. Laura Pettler to break down the brutal murders of Monique and Spencer Tepe and the case against Monique’s ex-husband, vascular surgeon Dr. Michael McKee, who is charged in the killings. They walk through the brutal forensic details, including the wounds, defensive...

Another woman vanished from her own property under deeply suspicious circumstances, and the case bears disturbing similarities to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield examines the 2018 murder of Nancy Woodrum in Paso Robles, California, a case involving blood evidence, a growing list of suspects, and a killer hiding in plain sight, with Clint Cole, retired detecti...

The FBI is investigating a suspicious internet outage in Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood around the time of her disappearance. Was a WiFi jammer used? New reporting suggests there may have been a mysterious internet blackout in the neighborhood overnight, when Nancy Guthrie vanished, raising new questions about whether security cameras or home surveillance systems could have been affected. In this ep...

The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, has now reached Day 33, and the mystery surrounding what happened inside her Catalina Foothills home continues to deepen as investigators search for answers and the public races to understand the growing list of possibilities. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is joined by an ex...

Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, vanished from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson under deeply suspicious circumstances, and as the investigation continues a new question is emerging: could organized burglary crews known as South American Theft Groups, or SATG, be connected to cases like this one, targeting wealthy homes through surveillance, digit...

The search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, has now entered a critical new phase as investigators focus on the power of forensic DNA and genetic genealogy to identify the mysterious intruder caught on camera outside her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson. 31 days after Nancy vanished, law enforcement sources say there are still no active leads stro...

It is Day 30 in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, and investigators have now searched a specific set of cell tower coordinates in the Arizona desert looking for a body. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is joined by Dr. Tracy Sargent. Dr. Tracy Sargent has a PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in criminal justice...