Television journalist Savannah Guthrie has made a fresh emotional appeal for information about her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, saying her family is living through "a nightmare that will not end." The plea, posted in a video on Monday, comes nearly six months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her home just outside Tucson, Arizona — a city in the southwestern United States near the border with Mexico.
Nancy Guthrie disappeared on the night of 1 February after being dropped off at her home by relatives. She failed to appear the following morning for a virtual church service with a friend. Authorities found blood near her front doorstep, and surveillance footage later released by the FBI showed a masked, armed man covering the home's doorway camera that same evening. Search teams and volunteers have since scoured the surrounding desert terrain, and a volunteer group recently conducted searches near the Arizona-Mexico border.
In her latest video, Savannah Guthrie — the host of the long-running American morning programme Today — addressed those she believes are responsible for her mother's abduction. "It has been months since our mum was taken from us," she said. "Our family is in agony. We are in a nightmare that will not end." She urged whoever holds information to come forward: "Tell us where to look for her. I truly believe it is never too late to do the right thing."
The case has been complicated by a series of ransom notes sent to the family and to news organisations in the weeks following the disappearance. An initial note, sent the day after Nancy Guthrie vanished, demanded millions in Bitcoin and included specific details about the layout of her home. A subsequent note claimed she had died. The FBI has dismissed some of the notes as fraudulent extortion attempts, but investigators say others remain under active evaluation as potentially legitimate. The Pima County Sheriff's Department, which is jointly handling the investigation with the FBI, has declined to comment on the contents of any notes and confirmed only that the case remains open.
Savannah Guthrie has previously offered a $1 million reward for information leading to her mother's recovery and has publicly acknowledged the possibility that Nancy Guthrie may no longer be alive. The case has drawn widespread attention in the United States, raising broader concerns about the vulnerability of elderly people living alone and the challenges investigators face when ransom communications cannot be quickly verified.