Savannah Guthrie’s latest message to the people who took her mother came down to one desperate demand.
After six months without Nancy Guthrie, the “Today Show” host returned to Instagram and pleaded for someone to end the silence surrounding her family’s nightmare.
In the post, Savannah put the family’s torment in the starkest terms.
“Six months ago, someone took her out of her bed in the dead of night. We have lived every moment, every breath, and every heartbeat in agony and despair ever since,” she said.
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Nancy, 84, was last seen at her home just outside Tucson, Arizona, on Feb. 1. The abduction investigation has produced no arrests, while major unknowns remain about whether more than one person was involved and whether the person who took her already knew her.
The family’s pain has only deepened since authorities made public two ransom notes that had been sent in the days after Nancy went missing.
One note put a price on Nancy’s life. Another told the family she was already dead.
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The ransom messages reached Tucson television station 13 News first, then landed with the Pima County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI.
On Friday, the sheriff’s office released them publicly in hopes that the writer’s wording would sound familiar to someone.
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“We believe these distinctive linguistic characteristics may be recognizable to someone who knows or has interacted with the notes’ writer,” the sheriff’s office said.
The first note, sent Feb. 2, did not rely only on threats. It included details from Nancy’s home, including a white smartwatch at the foot of her bed and a destroyed floodlight in the backyard.
The demand started at $4 million in bitcoin by Feb. 5, then moved to a 5 p.m. Feb. 9 deadline with the ransom rising to $6 million if the money was not paid immediately.
It also warned the family not to involve authorities. “Do not play games, law enforcement will not be able to help you,” the note read.
Nancy, the note claimed, knew “her life is in your hands.”
The Feb. 6 note shifted from ransom demand to alleged death notice, claiming Nancy was gone and that the family could not have prevented it.
The note called the death “heart related” and added, “She is buried in nature now.”
It also said nothing the family did could have changed the outcome, told them the writer hoped they could find peace and ended with an apology.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News that investigators are trying to reach the person who recognizes the writer, whether that person is close to the suspect or simply knows something others do not.
“All the investigators agree: There is somebody out there that knows something. They know who did this,” he said.
The tip investigators need could come from almost anywhere in the writer’s orbit, from a relative to a neighbor, the sheriff suggested.
“We just want to hear from you. And I think the notes speak for themselves.”
The search has also turned back to Nancy’s own front door. The sheriff’s office said Friday that two doorbell-camera videos may have been recorded on different days and could show an unidentified man preparing before Nancy was taken.
Savannah’s anniversary message made clear that the family has not accepted silence, even after six months of waiting.
She and her siblings are trying to be strong because Nancy would have wanted that, Savannah wrote, but their “hearts are in ruins.”
“We spend every waking moment thinking of her, longing for her, looking for her,” Savannah wrote. “There is a hole inside us that can never be filled. There is an ache that cannot be softened.”
The family wants the truth, Savannah wrote, so Nancy can be given “the dignity of a proper goodbye” and “a celebration of her remarkable life that she so deserves.”
Then Savannah turned to anyone still holding back information.
“There is a way out – to tell what you know,” she wrote. “You can do so anonymously. The reward is available. There is a way to end this situation and do the right thing.”
Savannah also thanked those who have prayed for her family and sent support as the case has dragged on.
“We are real people, facing real grief, doing the best we can,” she wrote, while also crediting “the prayers and love from good people, which we feel deeply.”
She asked for prayers, kindness and for “the good to be stronger than the evil.”
Six months later, Savannah said the family is still searching, still praying and still trying to believe in the best of the world.
“We will never stop looking for answers – and we will never stop looking for the light,” she wrote. “Please. Bring her home.”