Nancy Guthrie once played along in staged childhood ‘kidnapping’ tradition, daughter’s book says<\/p>\n
In one of her books,\u00a0Savannah Guthrie\u00a0recalled how her cousin annually staged a childhood “kidnapping” game, with her mother,\u00a0Nancy Guthrie,\u00a0playing along.<\/p>\n
In her book, “Mostly What God Does,” which was released in February 2024, Savannah Guthrie described the tradition where her cousin would stage a “kidnapping” of herself and her sister at their home in\u00a0Tucson, Arizona. When she was a child, Savannah Guthrie’s cousin would take her and her sister to Phoenix, calling their mother along the way.<\/p>\n
“About once a year, in the summertime, Cousin Teri orchestrated a \u2018kidnapping\u2019 of my sister and me. It went down like this: The cousins would visit for a few days at our house in Tucson, and then, on the morning they were to leave, Teri would wake us up early, shushing us in the predawn darkness as we made our escape,” Savannah Guthrie wrote in her book. “We would all pile into her rickety station wagon and head north, the sky streaking with bright oranges and pinks as the sun rose over the colorless desert landscape.”<\/p>\n
“Somewhere between Phoenix and Tucson, Teri would make a pit stop and let Annie and me call home at a pay phone. \u2018Mom! Cousin Teri kidnapped us to take us to her house!\u2019 My mother would feign shock, protest how terribly she would miss us, then assure us she\u2019d drive up to retrieve us in a few days,” she added.<\/p>\n
There is no indication that the passage has any connection to the ongoing investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. Nancy Guthrie’s family members and their spouses have been cleared as suspects in the investigation into her disappearance, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.<\/p>\n