Updated July 27, 2026, 2:20 p.m. ET
Savannah Guthrie has launched an emotional new video assertion as authorities in Arizona continue to search for her 84-year-old mother.
The “Today” host, 54, shared a “very specific message” to her followers in a video posted to Instagram on July 27, almost six months after mom Nancy Guthrie‘s disappearance.
“Our family is in agony. We are in a nightmare that will not end; nothing about our situation has changed,” she mentioned within the minute-long video. “We will never stop looking for her. We will always ache for her and feel that hole in our hearts.”
Guthrie, who was not on air Monday morning as she continues filming for NBC’s newWordle game show, then appeared to talk to whoever is aware of details about her mom’s whereabouts.
“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,” she continued. “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.”
When did Nancy Guthrie disappear?
She was reported missing on Feb. 1 and has not been seen since she returned residence from a household recreation evening the prior night. Investigators in Arizona consider she was taken from her residence towards her will.
No arrests have been made amid the continued search. In February, the FBI launched images of a suspect appearing to tamper with the digicam at Nancy Guthrie’s entrance door earlier than her disappearance, however authorities have but to determine the person. The individual within the images is described as a man, “approximately 5’9″-5’10” tall, with an average build,” who was “wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack.”
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos instructed People magazine in a May 13 interview that he thinks they’re “getting closer” on solutions.
The FBI is providing a reward of $100,000 for data resulting in Guthrie’s restoration and/or the arrest and conviction of anybody concerned in her disappearance. The Guthrie household has additionally provided their very own reward of $1 million.
Has Nancy Guthrie been discovered?
Nancy Guthrie has not been discovered.
Savannah Guthrie previously spoke out about the case in a video on Feb. 24, the fourth week of the seek for her mom. She mentioned within the clip that “every hour and minute and second and every long night has been agony” since her mom was taken. Though Guthrie mentioned she was holding out hope for “a miracle,” she acknowledged that her mom is probably not alive.
In the times that adopted Guthrie’s disappearance, unverified ransom notes containing alleged particulars about Nancy Guthrie’s suspected abduction had been despatched to KOLD News, CBS’ Tucson affiliate, and TMZ. KOLD’s notice reportedly contained particulars concerning the residence and what Nancy Guthrie was sporting that evening, although the sheriff’s division wouldn’t remark on its accuracy on the time, and the latter demanded tens of millions of {dollars} within the type of Bitcoin to launch Nancy Guthrie, with a deadline that got here and went.
NBC News, ABC News and CBS News reported in June {that a} notice acquired early on within the case claimed Nancy Guthrie was dead.
Savannah Guthrie mentioned throughout an NBC interview in March that she and her household consider two of the various notes despatched “were real.”
“There are a lot of different notes, I think that came. And I think most of them, it’s my understanding, are not real,” Guthrie told Kotb in a “Today” interview phase launched March 26. “But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those were real.”
The Guthrie household has launched a number of movies on social media all through the investigation. The household’s earliest movies addressed the ransom notes presupposed to have been written by the kidnapper. The household mentioned they had been “ready to talk” however didn’t have any strategy to get involved with the individual apparently holding their mom. “We haven’t heard anything directly,” Camron Guthrie, Savannah’s brother, mentioned in a video on Feb. 5. “We need you to reach out, and we need a way to communicate with you so that we can move forward.”
Law enforcement has additionally continued to research the ransom notes despatched to the Guthrie household and media retailers, with the bureau reporting a few of the notes may have been legitimate.
In a video posted Feb. 15, the “Today” present host instructed the suspect that it is “never too late to do the right thing.”
