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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 went missing more than three weeks ago.
“Someone knows how to find our mother and bring her home,” Savannah Guthrie wrote in a caption accompanying a video posted to Instagram shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday.
In the video, a visibly emotional Savannah Guthrie urged audience members to continue to keep her mother in their thoughts.
“Please keep praying without ceasing,” she said. “We still believe. We still believe in miracles. We still believe she can come home, hope against hope, as my sister says. We blow on the embers of hope.”
“We also know that she may be lost,” she added. “She may have already left.”
The Guthrie family plans to donate $500,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “We know that millions of families have suffered from this kind of uncertainty,” Savannah Guthrie said.
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Guthrie, 84, was reported missing around noon on Feb. 1 after she failed to 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 house.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office said early on that investigators believed Guthrie was “taken from her home against her will, possibly in the middle of the night, which includes possible kidnapping or abduction.”
Authorities have not identified a suspect in the case, although FBI released doorbell camera images and videos of an armed, masked man outside Guthrie’s home the morning he disappeared. (Two police sources said Monday that one of the pictures was captured earlier.)
All Guthrie family members exonerated as possible suspects, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said previously, adding that “to suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it’s cruel.”
“The Guthrie family are victims, pure and simple,” Nanos added.
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted a series of Instagram videos since their mother’s disappearance. In some videos, Savannah Guthrie made direct appeals to her mother’s possible kidnapper.
THE FBI offers $100,000 reward for information leading to Guthrie or an arrest, and an additional $102,500 reward is being offered by Tucson Crime Stoppers, known locally as 88-CRIME.
