Nancy Guthrie is in fragile health, as noted in Savannah Guthrie’s emotional video last Wednesday in which she pleaded with whoever has her mother to reach out.
“Our mom is a kind, faithful, loyal, fiercely loving woman of goodness and light. She has grandchildren that adore her and crowd around her and cover her with kisses. Her health, her heart is fragile,” Savannah said in the tearful video message.
Nancy Guthrie is in “constant pain” and needs medication to prevent suffering and to survive, her daughter said. She is without that medication, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.
Nancy has a pacemaker, according to a source briefed on the investigation. She is “of great sound mind” but has limited mobility and “couldn’t walk 50 yards,” Nanos has said.
“The clock is ticking here because the victim is so uniquely vulnerable due to her age, due to her physical ailments and things of that nature,” Andrew McCabe, CNN senior law enforcement analyst and former deputy director of the FBI, said last Thursday. “The stress of being detained in the way she likely is, is just enormous for anyone, and particularly for … an older person like her.”
Authorities previously said deputies checked pharmacies and local hospitals for any sign of the woman or an effort to get medication for her.