Savannah Guthrie made an emotional on-air plea for answers Tuesday as new details emerged in the mysterious disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, saying her family continues to live in “agony” months after Nancy Guthrie vanished.
The “Today” co-anchor fought back tears while addressing viewers following reports about notes allegedly sent to media outlets claiming that Nancy Guthrie is “buried with nature.” Savannah Guthrie once again begged anyone with information related to her mother’s disappearance to please come forward.
“This is unusual and unprecedented to say the least, to be sitting here. I don’t have any comment on this story, and I’m not involved in our coverage, but I can’t pretend I’m not here,” the co-anchor stated during a message on the morning show.
“And so, since I am, I want to just take the opportunity to ask people, to really to beg people to come forward,” she continued. “Somebody knows something, and this is a new story today that is on your radar. But this is the life that my sister lives, that I live, that my brother lives, that our extended families live, that our children live, every day. And we are in agony. We cannot be at peace.”
This week, News Nation’s Brian Entin reported that a source had told him that the note said Nancy Guthrie had died, and that the elderly woman’s death was not intentional.
Despite some reports claiming that the note contained an apology, Entin said that his source told him there was “no direct apology in the note.” The note also reportedly didn’t contain any information about the timing of Nancy Guthrie’s death, according to News Nation.
Authorities have been searching for the missing mother of the “Today* show co-anchor ever since she was reported missing after not attending a virtual church service on the morning of Feb. 1.
Investigators believe that Guthrie disappeared from her Arizona home between 9:45 p.m. local time on Jan. 31 and the following morning. She was last seen having dinner with her other daughter, Annie, and her son-in-law.
Following the elderly woman’s disappearance, multiple ransom notes were sent to media outlets. TMZ reported that the writer of one of the notes demanded millions in cryptocurrency.
In its reporting this week, TMZ said the ransom note it had received was real, according to the FBI. The news outlet also reported that the note didn’t contain an apology, nor did it reveal if Nancy Guthrie was dead.
TMZ also reported that it had received dozens of emails from an individual who claimed to have information about the kidnappers and Nancy Guthrie’s location, but said that he was not the one who abducted the elderly woman. The writer of the messages sent the initial email not long after the 84-year-old woman disappeared.
The writer said that he would provide information in exchange for a single bitcoin, but “time is of the essence,” TMZ reported. In a separate message the following day, the writer sent another email saying, “time is no longer of the essence.”
Authorities have yet to announce any arrests in connection with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.
Earlier this year, investigators released doorbell camera footage that shows a masked man at Nancy Guthrie’s front door on the day of her disappearance. The man in the video appears to be tampering with the camera.
On Easter Sunday, Savannah Guthrie reflected on how the Son of God assumed human form and, while He was without original sin, experienced human emotions.
“Recently, though, in my own season of trial, I have wondered, I have questioned whether Jesus really ever experienced this particular wound that I feel,” she said. “This grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not knowing, of uncertainty and confusion and answers withheld.”
“In those darkest moments, I have thought bitterly, and perhaps irreverently, that I have stumbled upon a feeling that Jesus did not know,” the “Today” show co-anchor said.
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
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