Savannah Guthrie’s NBC Co-Stars Issue Plea for Information About Her Missing Mom Nancy—1 Month After She Disappeared From Arizona Home
“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie‘s NBC colleagues have issued multiple pleas to viewers and fans for information that might lead to the recovery of her missing mother, Nancy, who vanished from her Arizona home more than one month ago.
Nancy, 84, was reported missing Feb. 1 after she failed to turn up to a friend’s home, where she had been due to watch a livestreamed church service.
Video footage taken from a doorbell camera at her Tucson-area dwelling later revealed a masked and armed intruder approaching the entrance to the property in the early hours of that morning, leading investigators to conclude that she was likely abducted.
Savannah, 54, has made multiple requests to the public for their help in tracking down her missing mother—even announcing on Feb. 24 that her family is now offering a $1 million reward to anyone who provides information that leads to Nancy’s recovery.
Hundreds of FBI agents and members of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department have spent weeks searching for the 84-year-old mother of three, but they have yet to identify any prime suspects or persons of interest.
As the search for Nancy passed the one-month mark, Savannah’s co-stars shared their own messages to fans about the investigation, with “Today” host Willie Geist writing in a post on X: “Today marks one month since Nancy Guthrie—our dear friend Savannah’s mom—was abducted from her home in the middle of the night. Please dial 1-800-CALL-FBI if you have any information about the case.”
Meanwhile Hoda Kotb, who has been filling in for Savannah on air since Feb. 2, shared a photo of her co-star with Nancy on Instagram, simply writing in the caption: “Bring her home.”
Anyone with any information about Nancy Guthrie’s case should call 1-800-CALL-FBI, 520-351-4900, 88-CRIME, or visit https://tips.fbi.gov/.
On the morning of March 2, the “Today” show ran multiple segments about Nancy’s case, including heartbreaking footage of a vigil that was held by volunteers and locals near the missing 84-year-old’s home on Sunday.
Since Nancy disappeared, NBC’s many programs have featured the case prominently, with several of Savannah’s co-stars sharing their own posts about the investigation over the past four weeks.
Investigators are currently poring over more than 10,000 hours of video footage taken in and around Nancy’s Catalina Foothills neighborhood, including multiple clips retrieved from a Ring doorbell camera located at a home around 2.5 miles away from her dwelling.
Those videos are understood to show multiple vehicles driving on the road that leads to and from Nancy’s home, according to the camera’s owners, Elias and Danielle Stratigouleas.
Speaking to Fox News, the couple explained that the videos were taken between the hours of 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Feb. 1, the same day that a masked and armed intruder was caught on camera approaching Nancy’s front door.
They further explained that authorities had not initially asked them for the camera footage, noting that they live around half a mile outside of the 2-mile zone that was being canvassed by the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
Retired Pima County Search and Rescue Commander Bob Krygier told Fox News that the footage was likely the best lead to arise from the investigation—but noted that there is every likelihood the video will result in no new information.
“I think it’s a great little bit to follow up on if I had to guess I would say it’s probably not related,” he said, adding that it may take authorities a lot of time to identify the vehicles in the footage, then determine whether any of them were making unusual trips.
However, he said it should be easy to spot any cars that don’t normally travel along that road, because it is not a track that is used heavily by anyone who doesn’t need to journey to Nancy’s neighborhood.
“It’s not just a road that you stumble upon,” he said. “You have to be very planned to go in there … I think this is the best lead probably since day one.”
Last week, it was revealed that the FBI had made the decision to pull almost all of the agents assigned to Nancy’s case out of Tucson and return them to the agency’s Phoenix headquarters—as reports surfaced that Savannah was preparing to make her way back to her home in New York.
Law enforcement sources told ABC News that the majority of agents who were sent to work on the ground near the 84-year-old’s home will now head back to the closest FBI headquarters.
While some agents will remain on the ground, the rest will continue their work on the case from the Phoenix office and it has been made clear that this development should not be viewed as a sign that the investigation is over or that authorities are any less hopeful about finding Nancy.
“The FBI will keep agents in Tucson and continue to partner with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, but many agents are returning to Phoenix to work the case from there,” the outlet reported.
The update came as the latest indication that the search for the missing mother of three is being scaled back, with the Daily Mail later claiming that Savannah was preparing to leave Arizona and return to her home in New York, where she lives with her husband, Michael Feldman, and their two young children.
“She can’t stay in Arizona forever,” an insider said. “Her kids and her life are in New York City. It’s what her mom would want her to do. Nancy was Savannah’s biggest cheerleader.”
Savannah has been absent from the “Today” show since the news of her mother’s disappearance was revealed, having traveled immediately to Arizona soon after it was revealed that Nancy was missing.
It has been reported that the on-air host had been staying at a rental property in the area with her sister, Annie, and her brother, Cameron, while the search continued.
Meanwhile, Nancy’s home has now officially been returned to the care of her family, after FBI agents were seen conducting a “final sweep” of the property on Feb. 25.
Images and video taken outside of the $1 million Tucson-area dwelling showed multiple officials arriving in a convoy of vehicles.
According to NBC News, authorities spent two hours walking through the dwelling and searching in the area directly outside the property, with sources revealing that the sweep was “related to efforts to turn the home back over to the Guthrie family.”
Law enforcement officials have since confirmed that they no longer see a reason to keep the home sealed as a crime scene or prevent Nancy’s relatives from entering the abode.
The authorities seen at the home were not pictured with any equipment, however a truck from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department was seen parked directly outside the entryway to the dwelling.
On Feb. 24, Savannah shared her first video update with the public in more than a week, posting an emotional clip in which she revealed her family is offering a $1 million reward to anyone who provides information that leads to Nancy’s return.
The mother of two acknowledged that her mother may have died, but said that the family just wants to know where she is—and to bring her home.
“We still believe in a miracle. We still believe that she can come home,” she said. “We also know she may be lost. She may already be gone. She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves and is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad and with her beloved brother.
“But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason we are offering a family reward of $1 million for any information that leads to her recovery.”
The Guthrie family’s reward will be added to the $100,000 already offered by the FBI, as well as an additional $100,000 that was given by an anonymous donor.
“So please, if you hear this message, if you’ve been waiting and you haven’t been sure, let this be your sign to please come forward, tell what you know and help us bring our beloved mom home so that we can either celebrate a glorious, miraculous homecoming, or celebrate the beautiful, brave, courageous, and noble life that she has lived,” Savannah continued.
“Someone knows how to find our mom and bring her home,” the TV host added in her caption.
Within 12 hours of that post going live, the FBI received 750 calls to its tip line, NBC News reports, adding to the tens of thousands of tips that have been sent since the start of the month.
What is the full timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance?
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos noted during a media briefing on Feb. 5 that, while times are approximate, his team has pieced together several pieces of evidence that indicate Nancy’s movements—and the timeline of her apparent abduction.
Nancy, 84, was reported missing at around 12 p.m. local time on Feb. 1, around 14 hours after she was dropped off at the property following a family dinner. When she failed to turn up at her usual church gathering on Sunday, her friends alerted her family, who found her home was empty.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31
5:32 p.m. Nancy travels to Annie’s house in an Uber for “dinner and playing games with the family.”
9:48 p.m. A garage door at Nancy’s house opens when she was dropped off at the property by her daughter.
9:50 p.m. The garage door closes, indicating that Nancy was inside the home.
SUNDAY, FEB. 1
1:47 a.m. Nancy’s doorbell security camera is disconnected.
2:12 a.m. Movement is detected on a security camera at the home. No footage of this is currently available.
2:28 a.m. Nancy’s pacemaker app indicates that the device has been disconnected from her phone.
11:00 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at the home of a friend, where she had been due to watch a church service livestream.
11:56 a.m. Nancy’s family travels to her home to check on her and finds the property empty.
12:03 p.m. The family calls 911 to report Nancy missing.
12:14 p.m. Police officers arrive at Nancy’s home.
