- Today show host Savannah Guthrie got emotional on air Tuesday as she addressed new reports about her missing 84-year-old mother , Nancy Guthrie, who disappeared from her Tucson-area home on Feb. 1.
- Multiple media outlets had previously reported receiving ransom notes in the days after Nancy’s disappearance. Tucson TV station KOLD said Monday that it had received two notes, one demanding millions in Bitcoin in exchange for Nancy’s return and another that said she died. Separately, CNN reported that one note indicated that those who kidnapped Nancy did not mean to kill her but that she died shortly after her disappearance.
- Speaking about the latest developments Tuesday morning on Today, Savannah said: “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. And so since I am, I just wanted to take the opportunity to ask people, really to beg people, to come forward. Somebody knows something.”
- She continued, “This is a new story today that is on your radar, but this is the life 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 love our mom and we’ll never stop looking for her. Never.”
- Investigators have said they believe Nancy was taken against her will after finding blood near the entrance of her home outside Tucson. The FBI later released surveillance footage showing a masked individual near the property around the time she disappeared.
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Savannah Guthrie breaks down live on Today after chilling update in mother’s disappearance
