For the first time since April, Savannah Guthrie posted a new video to Instagram directly addressing her mother’s kidnappers.
“I’m coming on today with a very specific message. It has been months since our mom was taken from us. Our family is in agony. We are in a nightmare that will not end. Nothing about our situation has changed,” the “Today” host said. Her mom, Nancy, went missing in February and has yet to be found. “We have done our part, and we will never stop looking for her. We will always ache for her and feel that hole in our hearts.”
Guthrie then tried to appeal directly to the people who took her mother or may know where she is now. “The world can be a cruel and unforgiving place, and I know that you have tried to do things the right way. So I’m asking you, begging you to do the right thing now,” she continued. “Make the right choice. Help us find her. Tell us where to look for her. I truly believe it is never too late to do the right thing. Help us bring this situation to an end. For all of us, no matter where we’ve been and what we’ve done, I believe there is always a way home. Please make the right choice.”
Nancy went missing on Feb. 1 after she did not show up to her usual Sunday church service. The next day, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department called her disappearance a presumed kidnapping after they found concerning evidence at her home in Tucson, Ariz. The FBI joined in the search for Nancy and posted a $100,000 reward for information leading to her recovery. It was later increased to $200,000 and then $1 million on Feb. 24.
On Feb. 10, the FBI recovered footage from a destroyed Ring doorbell camera at Nancy’s home that showed the only person of interest in the case. The video shows “a male, approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build” approaching Nancy’s front door while armed and wearing a hiking backpack. After the footage was released, the FBI said it had received more than 13,000 tips about Nancy, but no arrests have been made.
Guthrie has posted several videos on her social media asking for her mother’s kidnappers to return her safely.
“We also know that she may be lost,” she said on Feb. 24. “She may already be gone. She may have already gone home to the lord that she loves and is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad and with her beloved brother Pierce and with our daddy. If this is what is to be, then we will accept it. But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home.”