Nancy Guthrie abduction latest: Savannah Guthrie pleads with public, 'We need your help'

[ad_1] "Immediately" host Savannah Guthrie on Monday launched a brand new direct plea to the general public, begging for assist to search out her mother, Nancy Guthrie, multiple week after the 84-year-old was kidnapped.

"We're at an hour of desperation, and we want your assist," Savannah Guthrie mentioned in an Instagram video, talking on to the digicam.

"We consider our mother continues to be on the market. We'd like your assist," she mentioned. "Legislation enforcement is working tirelessly, across the clock, making an attempt to deliver her dwelling."

"She was taken, and we don’t know the place, and we want your assist," she mentioned. "So I am approaching simply to ask you … regardless of the place you might be ... should you see something, should you hear something, if there's something in any respect that appears unusual to you, that you just report back to legislation enforcement."

Savannah Guthrie thanked everybody for his or her prayers and love, and mentioned she believes her mother is feeling these prayers, too.

On this picture offered by NBCUniversal, Savannah Guthrie, proper, her mother Nancy converse, Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in New York.

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The seek for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie started after she was kidnapped from her dwelling close to Tucson, Arizona, early on Sunday, Feb. 1, authorities mentioned.

The precise time of her kidnapping will not be clear. Nancy Guthrie's doorbell digicam disconnected at 1:47 a.m., Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos mentioned, after which at 2:12 a.m., the digicam software program detected an individual. At 2:28 a.m., Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker app disconnected from her cellphone, which was left behind at her home, Nanos mentioned.

Investigators looking the house of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mom of U.S. journalist and tv host Savannah Guthrie, who went lacking from her dwelling in Tucson, February 6, 2026.

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This weekend, confronted with a requirement for a bitcoin ransom and a Monday deadline by somebody claiming to be Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings mentioned they'd pay for his or her mom's return.

"We obtained your message and we perceive," Savannah Guthrie mentioned in an Instagram video this weekend. "We beg you now to return our mom to us so we will rejoice along with her. That is the one means we can have peace. That is very invaluable to us, and we can pay."

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Savannah Guthrie By way of Instagram/through Reuters

The message Savannah Guthrie references in her new Instagram submit is identical message the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Division mentioned they have been finding out Friday, in keeping with a supply conversant in the investigation. Investigators haven't confirmed the authenticity of the newest message, which was obtained by a Tucson tv station, nor any of the opposite ransom notes mentioning Nancy Guthrie, in keeping with the supply.

Because the search intensifies, a 5 p.m. Monday deadline set in an preliminary ransom be aware from earlier final week is the purpose of focus for authorities, although investigators are nonetheless not sure of the ransom notes' authenticity and proceed to pursue all leads, a supply conversant in the investigation informed ABC Information on Monday.

The house of Nancy Guthrie is seen, Feb. 5, 2026, in Tucson, Ariz.

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Investigators have returned repeatedly to the house of Savannah Guthrie's sister, Annie Guthrie, the place Nancy Guthrie loved dinner and a sport evening earlier than returning to her dwelling a couple of minutes away on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 31.

Investigators have additionally returned to Nancy Guthrie's dwelling, the place they've examined rooftop cameras, towed away a automobile and made inquiries of neighbors.

The sheriff's division mentioned it's "an lively and ongoing investigation," however added that "investigators haven't recognized any suspects, individuals of curiosity, or autos related to this case."