Investigators believe the 84-year-old mother of US journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie was abducted, a local sheriff in \u2060Arizona said, after she vanished from her home near Tucson and was reported missing over the weekend.<\/p>\n
“We believe 100% right now she could not have walked away from that home,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News.<\/p>\n
“I believe she was abducted, yes. She didn’t walk from there. She didn’t go willingly. We don’t believe that.”<\/p>\n
Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her home on Saturday night, when she was visited by her children, and was reported missing on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
She has limited mobility and could not have left her home unaided, Sheriff Nanos told a press conference yesterday, when he said her \u2060disappearance was being treated as a crime.<\/p>\n
He later expanded on his remarks in an interview with CBS to \u2060say he believes she was abducted.<\/p>\n
Ms Guthrie’s family was especially worried because she needs to take daily medication.<\/p>\n
“She’s 84, she needs \u2060her meds, \u2060her family needs her too,” the sheriff told reporters, imploring the public to send in tips.<\/p>\n
“This is not dementia-related, she is as sharp as a tack. The family wants \u2060everybody to know this isn’t somebody who just wandered off.”<\/p>\n
Savannah Guthrie did not appear in her usual seat on NBC’s Today show yesterday morning, which broadcasts from New York City.<\/p>\n
“Right now, our focus remains on the safe return of our dear mom,” the presenter said in a statement read out by her colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators believe the 84-year-old mother of US journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie was abducted, a local sheriff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-278408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}