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An aerial view of the home of Nancy Guthrie (Rebecca Noble\/AP)\n<\/p>\nToday show host Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal to viewers on Tuesday to come forward with any information about her missing mother, a day after news organisations said a ransom note received months ago had indicated that she was dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in agony, and we cannot be at peace. \u2026 We love our mom. We\u2019ll never stop looking for her,\u201d Guthrie said at the Today desk in New York, holding a tissue in her left hand.<\/p>\n
Nancy Guthrie, 84, who lived alone, was reported missing from her Tucson-area home on February 1. The FBI released video more than a week later from a camera outside her front door showing a masked stranger.<\/p>\n
Her blood was found on the porch, but the case remains unsolved.<\/p>\n
An aerial view of the home of Nancy Guthrie (Rebecca Noble\/AP)\n<\/p>\n
Some media outlets had previously reported receiving ransom notes in the days after her disappearance but had not disclosed the details while the investigation was at an early stage. Her family was aware of the notes.<\/p>\n
Tucson TV station KOLD said on Monday that it had received two notes, one demanding millions in Bitcoin in exchange for Ms Guthrie\u2019s return and another that said she had died. Separately, CNN cited law enforcement sources in reporting on the contents of the notes.<\/p>\n
CNN said a note indicated that those who kidnapped Ms Guthrie did not mean to kill her but that she died shortly after her disappearance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have any comment on this story. I\u2019m not involved in our coverage,\u201d Savannah Guthrie said on Tuesday, referring to NBC News.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can\u2019t pretend I\u2019m not here. And since I am, I want to just take the opportunity to ask people \u2013 really to beg people \u2013 to come forward. Somebody knows something.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department referred questions about the ransom notes to the FBI, which declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Volunteers and search teams scoured the nearby desert terrain filled with cactuses, bushes and boulders in the weeks after Nancy Guthrie vanished. A group recently conducted a search near the Arizona-Mexico border but did not report finding her.<\/p>\n
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings occasionally appeared in social media videos earlier in the saga, urging the public to come forward with tips. She asked people to \u201craise your prayers with us\u201d and acknowledged that her mother might be in heaven dancing \u201cwith our daddy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today show host Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal to viewers on Tuesday to come forward with any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-514835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514835","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=514835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}