NBC Anchor Offers One Million Dollar Reward for Information on Kidnapped Mother
Twenty-four days after Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance from her Arizona home, Savannah Guthrie announces a one million dollar family reward as investigators continue searching for the masked suspect.
Twenty-four days have passed since Nancy Guthrie, the elderly mother of NBC presenter Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home, and the identity of the masked individual captured at her front door remains unknown.
Nancy’s family is hoping for a miracle, and Savannah released a video offering a substantial reward for information leading to her mother’s whereabouts.
“We want her home and we need to know where she is,” she said.
Media personality Savannah Guthrie announced on Tuesday that her family is offering a one million dollar reward for information that leads to the discovery of Nancy — her eighty-four-year-old mother, who was abducted from her home.
Nancy has been missing for more than three weeks.
She was last seen on January thirty-first outside her home in Tucson, Arizona, after returning from a family meal.
On February first, her family reported her missing in the afternoon after she failed to attend church as she does every Sunday.
From the outset, suspicions pointed to an abduction.
Due to Nancy’s medical condition and limited mobility, investigators ruled out the possibility that she left her home on her own.
Authorities and family members have expressed grave concern for Nancy’s safety.
She suffers from heart problems and high blood pressure and would struggle to survive for long without her medication.
Nancy’s abduction has shaken the United States, and President Donald Trump stated that he has ordered all available resources to be allocated to locating the mother of Savannah Guthrie, the veteran NBC journalist and co-host of the popular morning program “Today.” Savannah said the family continues to hope for a miracle and pray that Nancy will be found alive, even while acknowledging that it may already be too late.
“She may no longer be with us, but we need to know where she is,” she said in a video posted to Instagram.
“We need her to come home.
That is why we are offering a family reward of one million dollars for any information that leads us to her,” Savannah said.
The offer comes in addition to the one hundred thousand dollar reward announced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week for information that helps solve the mystery.
During the search efforts, two ransom letters were sent to media outlets in the United States, though their authenticity remains unclear.
Savannah released videos expressing willingness to pay the ransom, but no proof of life has been provided, and the latest deadlines for payment have already passed.
With a mask, gloves, and a gun, the suspect in Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping was recorded disconnecting the door camera at her home.
During the investigation, drops of blood were discovered on the front entrance steps of the house.
DNA testing confirmed the blood belonged to Nancy.
In mid-February, in an effort to break open the case, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released the first footage of the kidnapping suspect, who was recorded disconnecting the doorbell camera at the entrance to her home on the night of the abduction.
The footage shows him standing outside the door wearing a mask.
He wore gloves, had a shoulder holster with a handgun at his waist, and carried a backpack.
In the video, he is seen reaching toward the camera, apparently moments before disconnecting it.
The door camera at Guthrie’s private residence, which captured the suspect, was disconnected at one forty-seven in the early hours between January thirty-first and February first.
At two twenty-eight, Nancy’s pacemaker monitoring application was also disconnected.
Hope for a significant breakthrough in the investigation faded on February seventeenth, when authorities announced that DNA sampled from a glove found near her Arizona home did not match any genetic profile in the national database.
Officials said investigators also discovered DNA inside Nancy’s home that does not belong to her or to anyone in her close circle.
That DNA does not match the sample taken from the glove, and at this stage it remains unclear to whom it belongs — more than three weeks after the abduction.
As part of the investigation, two individuals were arrested and later released.
Investigators have yet to determine a possible motive for the kidnapping.
Last week, amid speculation and various theories, the county sheriff clarified that none of Guthrie’s family members are suspects in the case.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said: “I will not sit by while others attack innocent people.
The family is cooperating and they are the victims in this case.
To suggest otherwise is not only wrong — it is cruel.”