{"id":492601,"date":"2026-06-24T03:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/492601\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T03:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:02:14","slug":"guthrie-family-remains-in-agony-over-missing-mum-begs-public-for-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/492601\/","title":{"rendered":"Guthrie family remains ‘in agony’ over missing mum, begs public for info"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today show host Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal to viewers overnight to come forward with any information about her missing mother, a day after news organisations said a ransom note<\/a> received months ago had indicated that she was dead.<\/p>\n

“We are in agony, and we cannot be at peace… We love our mum. We’ll never stop looking for her,” Guthrie said at the Today desk in New York, holding a tissue in her left hand.<\/p>\n

Investigators have said for more than a week that they believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will. (Source: 1News)<\/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. Her blood was found on the porch, but the case remains unsolved.<\/p>\n

Some media outlets had previously reported receiving ransom notes in the days after Guthrie\u2019s disappearance but had not disclosed the details while the investigation was at an early stage. Guthrie’s family was aware of the notes.<\/p>\n

Tucson TV station KOLD said that it had received two notes, one demanding millions in Bitcoin in exchange for 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

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The home of Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, is seen from above in Tucson, Arizona. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

CNN said a note indicated that those who kidnapped Guthrie did not mean to kill her but that she died shortly after her disappearance.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have any comment on this story. I’m not involved in our coverage,” Savannah Guthrie said Tuesday, referring to NBC News. “But I can’t pretend I’m not here. And since I am, I want to just take the opportunity to ask people \u2014 really to beg people \u2014 to come forward. Somebody knows something.”<\/p>\n

The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department referred questions about the ransom notes to the FBI, which declined to comment.<\/p>\n

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A Pima county sheriff’s vehicle is parked out front of Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home. (Source: Associated Press)<\/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 didn’t 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

The morning headlines including rising Ebola cases in DR Congo, scorching temperature across Europe and the loudest man in the world is crowned. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today show host Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal to viewers overnight to come forward with any information…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-492601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}