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Today Show Host Appeals for Tips on Missing Mother
Savannah Guthrie asked viewers for information about her missing 84-year-old mother during a Tuesday broadcast. The request followed reports that ransom notes received months earlier indicated the woman had died.
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Today Show host Savannah Guthrie asked viewers Tuesday to provide any information about her missing mother. Guthrie spoke from the program’s New York studio while holding a tissue. She said the family remained in agony and would continue searching. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her Tucson-area home on Feb.
1. Blood was found on the porch, and video from a front-door camera showed a masked person.
KOLD reported Monday that it received two notes.
One demanded millions in Bitcoin for her return; the second stated she had died. CNN cited law enforcement sources saying the notes indicated the kidnappers had not intended to kill her but that she died shortly after the disappearance. Guthrie said she was not involved in NBC News coverage of the case but used the broadcast to urge anyone with information to come forward.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department referred questions about the notes to the FBI, which declined to comment. Search teams have covered desert areas near the home and near the Arizona-Mexico border without locating her. Guthrie and her siblings have posted social-media videos asking for tips and have asked viewers to raise prayers with the family.
