Savannah Guthrie fears her fame and fortune caused her mother’s kidnapping
Guthrie told how her conversation with her brother, an ex-military officer, confirmed her worst fears that her profile was a major factor behind Nancy’s disappearance.
She said: “I just said ‘are you thinking because of me?’ And he said, ‘I’m sorry, honey, but yes, maybe.’ But I knew that.”
Guthrie added: “I don’t know if it’s because she’s my mother and someone was like, ‘oh that girl, that lady has money, we can make money fast.
“It’s too much to think that I brought this to her bed, that it’s because of me. I just have to say, I’m so sorry, Mom. I’m so sorry.’
During the phone call with her sister, she added: “My sister called me and I said, ‘Is everything OK?’ and she said, ‘No, Mom’s missing.'”
Guthrie recalled that the couple panicked after she admitted that she initially thought Nancy had suffered a medical episode that night, but soon realized something more sinister had happened.
She explained: “Her phone was there and her bag was there and all her stuff, and it just didn’t make sense.
“I started calling the hospitals and the police were there talking to her at the same time, and it was just chaos and disbelief.”
The beloved grandmother was taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in the early hours of February 1 and has been missing ever since, with images of a masked figure on her doorstep around the time of her abduction.
Despite the Guthries offering a $1 million reward for information, there has been little movement in the investigation.
No suspect has been identified and announcements of possible leads – including discarded gloves – have not led to further progress.
In her first interview since Nancy’s kidnapping, Guthrie said “someone has to do the right thing” and come forward with information to help the investigation.
“We are in agony,” she told Kotb in part of the interview that aired Wednesday Today Toon.
Guthrie said she wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks about what her mother went through.
‘To think of what she’s been through. I wake up in the middle of the night every night, every night,” she said, tears streaming down her face, as well as Kotb’s.
‘In the darkness I imagine her fear. And it’s unthinkable, but those thoughts require thinking about. And I won’t hide my face. But she has to come home now.”
She added that while it is unbearable to think of the fear her mother must have felt, “those thoughts require reflection.” And I won’t hide my face. But she has to come home now.”
Meanwhile, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos – who is in charge of Nancy’s case – has been urged to resign after being accused of botching the search for the missing grandmother.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors, the county’s governing body, has been highly critical of the sheriff and wants to question him about his checkered past as signatures flow in. remember effort against Nanos.
One member said he hopes the sheriff “does the right thing” and resigns in light of damaging revelations about his troubling work history.
NewsNation reporter Brian Entin spoke with supervisor Dr. Matt Hines a day after county residents testified at a special meeting about how much they wanted to see Nanos out of a job.
Hines cited how Nanos “came to Pima County from El Paso, Texas, 42 years ago and withheld his deeply troubling work history,” which included eight separate suspensions totaling 37 days.
“I hope he does the right thing. I hope he doesn’t, you know, force us to call him before the board and make him testify under oath about these things, because he should really just hang it up,” Hines told Entin during the March 25 episode. Brian Entin reports.
