It’s been nearly six months since Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, was taken from her home in Tucson AZ in the middle of the night by an armed and masked man. Today, Savannah posted another plea to those involved to please “do the right thing.”
It is believed that Ms Guthrie did not live long after she was taken. It has recently come out that the second ransom note (of the two believed to be real) stated that she was no longer living. Regardless, a large reward remains as the family is desperate to lay her to rest.
As a main host of The Today Show on NBC, Savannah has a large platform of followers and has posted several videos with messages to the kidnappers throughout the ordeal.
Sharing this for visibility. I hope that Nancy’s remains are returned to her family soon so that they can properly grieve and find closure.
Transcription (using Apple’s accessibility features but I don’t believe any typos):
“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.
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.
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.
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.”
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Transcript:
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.
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.
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.
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.
That’s a horrible situation
Watching her as a mother and daughter is painful. I just hope that this message will get the kidnappers to confess and help the family start to try to heal however they can. Waking up not knowing where she is or what happened to her must be excruciating.
I literally cannot imagine being in this situation. What a hellish nightmare.
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So sad and scary.
May she get the help she needs.
At this point, it’s kind’ve performative no? She’s gone c you know she’s gone, you know the people will not tell you where she is. What is the point of this?
I would burn down this city to find my mother. My God this is horrific.
This let the whole mainstream media know to not cover the files. Not report, not investigate. This poor lady and her family. Nobody is touching the story with a ten foot pole now as Guthrie has been made the example of. These people can get to you, they can get to your families.
I hope that family gets some closure.
To that end, I have seen a lot of people making objective claims about the investigation, that the FBI has botched it or hasn’t done all they can do. I’ll admit, I don’t have the credentials or experience to speak definitively on that, but I haven’t seen that proven to be the case. Even though there is a weird dumb dude as the bureau head, I don’t know to what degree that has impacted the agents in the field, that this would have been resolved under different circumstances. I think it’s possible there are a lot of really smart people doing everything they can for this case.
unfortunately if these awful people have any smarts (which sadly they might considering they are still at large) the body is likely destroyed. returning it opens them up to a lot of risk of being caught.
of course on my end I hope that Savannah and her family are able to find her mother’s body and put her to rest.
Well said. I have nothing but respect and sympathy for this woman and the rest of Nancy Guthrie’s friends and family. If there is just the tiniest trace of humanity within the hearts of perpetrators of this act perhaps this message will reach it.
This is so insane.
I have no faith in this criminal ever doing the right thing, but hopefully someone in his life eventually will.
Sad. Hopefully the FBI has a strategy with this. I don’t know…I can’t imagine the kidnappers have anything to gain by breaking silence. It would only lead to arrest. My complete guess is the mother is long dead and the perpetrators took that as the moment to abandon ransom plans. Terrible for her and that family. I wouldn’t be able to function. I’d think and think and think and get nowhere.
God, this poor family.
Unfortunately I do not think anyone involved would be swayed by any moral pleas to do the right thing.
I am, however, proud of her for continuing to talk about it and make those pleas however futile they may or may not be.
They have just been left to exist in a literal living hell. The pain and anguish they must be going through.
My heart breaks for this poor family. I just cannot imagine how horrific this is for them.
It sounds like she knows exactly who she’s talking to.. can’t imagine the agony
What could’ve possibly happened to her? Do we have any insight?
Losing your mom is a nightmare I know almost everyone will face, but that I wish no one had to.
Having your grief be suspended by not having her with you to do our nation’s grieving ceremony would be even worse. Holy shit.
I cry everytime I see one of these. It is a situation only a fraction of people can truly relate to and that therapists might even fall short on helping.
I am not religious, but I truly wish God could give everyone that loses someone like this peace or the ability to heal even slightly.
I don’t think they will get the answers they’re looking for. I hope at some point that other families who have been through this, especially for high profile crimes, might be able to reach out to them and help them through these early stages. Many people have loved ones abducted and live the rest of their lives without knowing. I’m not pessimistic, I just think the odds have dwindled significantly.
I fear this will never be resolved
I really don’t have words when it comes to this case.. it’s too agonising. It hurts me to think about it but they are living this every second of every day and very likely will be for the rest of their lives. Just beyond cruel torture. I’m so sorry to this family, to the women. Why must us women always be made to suffer at the hands of men? I want off this planet.
This is heartbreaking and I can’t believe so many have forgotten and there’s no closure for her and so many who’ve lost loved ones to kidnapping.
I cannot believe she is still missing. This is absolute insanity.
I dont know why but I onky heard something about this the first time a couple of weeks ago.
I looked it up and couldnt really find anything that was coherent.
I hate this so much. I feel horrible for her.
With such limited evidence, not even the FBI couldn’t find her, info not effort the people that did this horrific act to come forward.
Jesus how’s this the first I’ve heard of this
Wow! You can tell this had taken a toll on her.
i hate how tired she looks /:
This is such a heartbreaking situation💔💔💔😞. My heart aches for Savannah and her family! What a nightmare 😞😢. I can’t believe it’s been almost 6 months and they have no answers. The FBI led under Patel is no help at all. I wonder what the sheriff in Arizona, is doing. It’s suspicious that no one has come forward to admit to something. The family has offered millions and silence.
Absolutely sickening.
Just have mercy on them and give them closure wtf
This almost certainly seems like something where the body *may* be stumbled on in a few years, but I doubt the kidnappers will ever fess up. There’s just too much risk of getting caught, and they have no incentive to turn themselves in. Incredibly sad for the Guthrie family.
She’s appealing to the one person in the group who has a small bit of conscience left. I think that person is her sister. I think her sister and brother-in-law and possibly one or two other individuals are responsible for this.
This is terribly sad. I hope someone does the right thing so that the family can grieve. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if this was my mom.