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“TODAY” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie announced her family is offering a reward of up to $1 million for the recovery of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, who disappeared more than three weeks ago.
“Someone knows how to find our mom and bring her home,” Savannah Guthrie wrote in a caption accompanying a video published on Instagram just before 9 a.m. Tuesday.
In the video, Savannah Guthrie urged members of the public to continue to keep her mother in their thoughts.
“Please keep praying without ceasing,” she said. “We still believe. We still believe in a miracle. We still believe that she can come home, hope against hope, as my sister says. We are blowing on the embers of hope.”
“We also know that she may be lost,” she added. “She may already be gone.”
The Guthrie family plans to donate $500,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “We know there are millions of families that have suffered with this kind of uncertainty,” Savannah Guthrie said.
In a post on X, the FBI’s Phoenix office said anyone with “firsthand knowledge” of Nancy Guthrie’s whereabouts should contact the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing around noon Feb. 1 after she did not show up for virtual church services at a friend’s house. She was last seen the previous night around 9:45 p.m., after dinner at her daughter Annie Guthrie’s home.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office said early on that investigators believe Guthrie was “taken from the home against her will, possibly in the middle of the night and that includes possible kidnapping or abduction.”
Authorities have not identified a suspect in the case, though the FBI released doorbell camera images of an armed and masked man outside Guthrie’s house on the morning she disappeared. (Two law enforcement sources said Monday that one of the images was captured earlier.)
All members of the Guthrie family have been cleared as possible suspects, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos previously said, adding that to “suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel.”
“The Guthrie family are victims, plain and simple,” Nanos added.
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted a series of Instagram videos since their mother went missing. In some of the videos, Savannah Guthrie made direct appeals to her mother’s possible captor.
The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for any information that leads to Guthrie or to an arrest, and an additional $102,500 reward is being offered through Tucson Crime Stoppers, known locally as 88-CRIME.
