Savannah Guthrie is making a heartfelt plea for help in the search for her 84-year-old mother, who is believed to have been taken from her home nine days ago.
“We believe our mom is still out there,” Guthrie, 54, said in an Instagram video posted Monday. “We need your help. Law enforcement is working tirelessly, around the clock, trying to bring her home, trying to find her. She was taken, and we don’t know where, and we need your help.”
“We are at an hour of desperation,” she added. In the caption, Guthrie wrote, “please. bring her home. we need you. she needs you. all of you.”
Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on Feb. 1 from her home near Tucson, Arizona, and is believed to have been kidnapped.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said that his team found blood and signs of forced entry at her home. The FBI is investigating a purported ransom note demanding that Guthrie’s family pay $6 million by 7 p.m. ET on Monday.
In her Instagram video, Guthrie thanked people for their “prayers and love,” but pleaded for people to join the search.
“I’m coming on just to ask you not just for your prayers but no matter where you are, even if you’re far from Tucson, if you see anything, hear anything, if there’s anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement,” she said.
Guthrie directly addressed her mother’s alleged abductors in an Instagram video she posted on Saturday, offering to meet their demands in exchange for Nancy’s safe return.
“We received your message, and we understand,” Guthrie said in the video while supported by her siblings, Annie and Camron.
“We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Guthrie previously addressed the alleged kidnappers in a video on Wednesday, requesting formal “proof of life” of her mother.
The FBI arrested a 42-year-old man on Thursday after he allegedly tried to deceive the Guthrie family into sending him ransom money through bitcoin payments.
Nancy was last seen on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 31, when her son-in-law dropped her off after dinner, according to a sheriff’s department timeline.
A timeline of events compiled by authorities found that her doorbell camera was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. the following morning. Shortly after, her pacemaker disconnected from an app on her phone.
President Donald Trump called Guthrie on Wednesday, offering every resource available. He claimed on Friday that federal law enforcement was doing “very well” and teased a “solution.”
“We have some things I think that will maybe come out reasonably soon from DOJ or FBI or whoever that could be definitive,” he said, without sharing further details.
