Frustrated volunteers have taken the search for Nancy Guthrie into their own hands — combing the garbage-filled desert ditches and homeless camps near her home for clues.
And on Sunday, they came up with a possible lead — a black backpack was discovered just two miles away.
The Post was at the scene Sunday morning when the torn-up black, Swiss Gear-brand bag was found in a storm drain that doubles as a homeless encampment.
The location was a short drive from the 84-year-old Nancy’s house in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood north of Tucson.
Volunteer Catherine Lopez found the backpack around 11 a.m. in the tunnel just off West Orange Grove Road, close to State Route 77.
She called the Pima County Sheriff’s Office, and a deputy arrived around 15 minutes later.
A picture from the scene shows Lopez holding the backpack with a large stick while on the phone with the sheriff’s office.
Another photograph shows an officer wearing gloves gingerly picking up the closed backpack.
Two homeless people were in the storm drain at the time of the discovery, but the arrival of the authorities reportedly spooked them, and they fled.
It doesn’t appear to be the same backpack as the masked perp wore in surveillance footage from Nancy’s Nest camera earlier this month.
This week, investigators identified that backpack as a black Ozark Trail Hiker, sold exclusively at Walmart.
Yet another glove was also found nearby on Sunday, just off North First Avenue.
With no suspects or persons of interest identified, more than three weeks after Nancy was reported missing on Feb. 1, authorities are set to scale back the search in the coming days.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/23/us-news/nancy-guthrie-volunteers-find-backpack-in-nearby-storm-drain/
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