Savannah Guthrie weighs in on ‘Today’ amid chilling ransom reports
Savannah Guthrie broke down on the Today show while discussing new reports a ransom note involving missing mother Nancy claimed she had died.
RadarOnline.com can reveal, the anchor told her co-hosts that while she has “no comment” on the headlines and is “not involved in… reporting” on her mother’s kidnapping, she could not “pretend” not to be present for the conversation.
After reporter Liz Kreutz shared the news, Savannah said, “This is unusual and unprecedented to say the least, sitting here.”
“So since I am, I just wanted to take the opportunity to really ask people and really beg people to come forward because someone knows something.
“This is a news story that’s on your radar today, but this is the life that my sister (Annie Guthrie) lives, that I live, that my brother (Camron Guthrie) lives, that our extended families live, that our children live every day,” she explained.
Savannah, 54, and her family members are “in agony,” she added.
“We cannot have peace,” the journalist said. “No matter how much I try to come here every day and smile and find that joy – and I will, I promise I will – this is a moment to say we need your help. … I’m not going to miss that opportunity.”
“No matter how small, the reward is there. Tell us, it can be anonymous. Please do the right thing,” Savannah concluded while surrounded by colleagues Craig Melvin, Al Roker, Carson Daly and Jenna Bush Hager.
She promised: “We love our mother, and we will never stop looking for her. Ever.”
Melvin, 47, agreed to point the public to an FBI tip line to give the Guthrie family “a little peace.”
RadarOnline.com recently told how Nancy’s alleged kidnappers reportedly issued a chilling “apology” for the missing 84-year-old’s death just five days after she disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona.
According to a shocking new report, the suspected kidnappers initially demanded a ransom of $4 million in Bitcoin on February 5 at 5 p.m. But after the deadline passed, a disturbing follow-up message allegedly arrived claiming that Nancy was already dead and demanding the same payment of millions of dollars in exchange for the return of her body.
The poignant report by Air Mail claimed that an initial email letter was sent to TMZ on February 2 and that two local TV news stations in Tucson contained details that only someone familiar with the crime would know.
The note described what Nancy was wearing when she disappeared from her home in the early morning hours of February 1, and referenced a damaged spotlight in the backyard of her home in Tucson, Arizona.
Although authorities have never released details that the frail grandmother was taken from the back of her home, Savannah revealed in an April 6 interview that the back door was already open when her sister, Annie, first discovered their mother was missing.
