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Savannah Guthrie said that she and her family have accepted that her missing mother, Nancy, may “already be gone,” but that they are still holding out hope while announcing a private reward of up to $1 million for her recovery.
“We still believe in a miracle, we still believe that she can come home,” the co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” show said in an emotional video posted Tuesday morning to Instagram.
“We also know that 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 Pierce, and with our daddy. And if this is what is to be, then we will accept it,” she says in the video. “But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery.”
Nancy Guthrie is believed to have been abducted from her Tucson-area home by a masked, armed man more than three weeks ago. Video and photos released by the FBI captured a person outside the 84-year-old’s front door on the morning of Feb. 1 wearing a backpack, a ski mask, gloves and a handgun at their waist.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified in the case.
Savannah Guthrie, while fighting back tears, acknowledged that it’s now been 24 days since her mom vanished, leaving her in perpetual pain.
“Every hour and minute and second, and every long night has been agony since then, of worrying about her, fearing for her, aching for her, and most of all just missing her,” she says.
The FBI on Tuesday shared news of the Guthries’ reward on social media, while reminding that its $100,000 reward also remains active.
Savannah Guthrie said her family has also donated $500,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
“Somebody knows something that can bring her home. Somebody knows,” she says in the video.
The announced reward increase comes one day after law enforcement sources told ABC and CBS News that Nancy Guthrie’s front door camera captured the suspect outside her home at another, unknown time before her Feb. 1 disappearance. During that alleged visit, the person appeared wearing similar clothing but was without a backpack.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department on Monday shot down those reports, however, saying it’s “purely speculative” to say that the suspect visited the home at an earlier date based on those images.
“There is no date or time stamp associated with these images,” the department said of images showing the individual not wearing the backpack. “Therefore, any suggestion that the photographs were taken on different days is purely speculative.”
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