Today cohost Savannah Guthrie has frequently appealed to the public for help following the mysterious disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, in Arizona.
Pima County police suspect that Nancy was abducted from her home in the Catalina Foothills north of Tucson, Arizona, in the early hours of February 1, 2026. Per law enforcement, a friend of Nancy’s from church first noticed that she had not attended that Sunday’s virtual worship service and contacted one of Nancy’s children, who checked on her home and eventually alerted police.
Since Nancy’s disappearance, local police and federal investigators have recovered DNA evidence and surveillance camera footage from her home but have yet to publicly name a potential suspect in the kidnapping, as of publication.
Federal investigators are offering a $100,000 reward for successful tips, while the Guthrie family is putting up their own $1 million reward that will be “paid only for recovery of Nancy Guthrie,” per Savannah’s Instagram.
“Please bring her home. You can be anonymous,” Savannah urged the public on February 27.
Keep scrolling for everything Savannah has said about Nancy’s disappearance.
Savannah Guthrie Breaks Her Silence With a Message About Faith
Hours after Nancy Guthrie was reported missing, NBC News announced that Savannah Guthrie would no longer travel to Milan and Cortina, Italy, to cover the 2026 Winter Olympics. The journalist broke her silence to say that her family believed in “voices raised in unison, in love, in hope.”
“We believe in goodness. we believe in humanity. above all, we believe in Him,” Savannah wrote via Instagram on February 2, 2026. “Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant. raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment. We need you.”
The Today host closed the Instagram post with a slogan that would eventually become a rallying cry in the case: “Bring her home.”
Savannah Guthrie Posts Emotional Joint Statement With Siblings Annie and Camron Guthrie
As the statewide search for Nancy Guthrie entered its third day on February 4, 2026, Savannah Guthrie delivered a poignant video statement alongside her siblings, sister Annie and brother Camron Guthrie.
“On behalf of our family, we want to thank all of you for the prayers for our beloved mom, Nancy. We feel them and we continue to believe that she feels them too,” Savannah told her Instagram followers. “Our mom is a kind, faithful, loyal, fiercely loving woman of goodness and light. She is funny, spunky and clever. She has grandchildren who adore her and crowd around her and cover her with kisses. She loves fun and adventure. She is a devoted friend. She is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you’ll see.”
Annie spoke next, admitting to viewers that the “light” was missing from her entire family’s lives without Nancy.
“Nancy is our mother; we are her children. She is our beacon,” Annie said. “She holds fast to joy and all of life’s circumstances. She chooses joy day after day despite having already passed through great trials of pain and grief. We are always going to be merely human, just normal human people who need our mom. Mama, if you’re listening, we need you to come home. We miss you.”
Savannah Guthrie Kwaku Alston/NBCUniversal
Describing Nancy as her family’s “heart and home,” Savannah warned that her mother’s “health” and “heart” were in danger because she lives in “constant pain” and needs “medicine to survive.” The Today cohost also addressed reports that police had received a possible ransom note.
“We too have heard the reports about a ransom letter in the media,” she said. “As a family, we are doing everything that we can. We are ready to talk. However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you, and we are ready to listen. Please, reach out to us.”
Savannah went on, “Mommy, if you are hearing this, you are a strong woman. You are God’s precious daughter, Nancy. We believe and know that even in this valley, He is with you. Everyone is looking for you, Mommy, everywhere. We will not rest. Your children will not rest until we are together again. We speak to you every moment. And we pray without ceasing, and we rejoice in advance that the day that we hold you in our arms again. We love you, Mom.”
Camron spoke last as he encouraged Nancy to “stay strong.”
As reports of multiple ransom notes swirled, a California man, Derrick Callella, was later arrested on February 5 on suspicion of making “an imposter ransom demand,” according to the FBI. The U.S. The Attorney’s Office charged Callella with transmitting a demand for ransom in interstate commerce, and without disclosing his identity, utilizing a telecommunications device with intent to abuse, threaten or harass a person.
Savannah Guthrie Sends Direct Message to Her Mom’s Kidnapper
Savannah Guthrie confirmed in a February 7, 2026, Instagram video that her family had received a message from Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnapper.
“We received your message and we understand,” she said in a message where she was flanked by both siblings, Annie and Camron Guthrie. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us and we will pay.”
The NBC News reporter captioned her message with a familiar plea, writing: “Bring her home.”
Savannah Guthrie Addresses Ransom Deadline Expiring
On February 9, 2026, Savannah released a new statement in order to “share some thoughts as we enter into another week of this nightmare.” At the time, the latest ransom deadline from a suspected kidnapper was mere hours away from expiring.
“We believe that somehow, some way, [Nancy] is feeling these prayers and that God is lifting her even in this moment and in this darkest place,” the Today cohost said. “We believe our mom is still out there.”
Savannah and her siblings previously appealed directly to the alleged kidnapper in their February 7, 2026, video, though this time they asked for the public’s assistance.
Savannah Guthrie in February 2024. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
“We need your help. Law enforcement is working tirelessly around the clock, trying to bring her home, trying to find her. She was taken, and we don’t know where, and we need your help,” Savannah said. “So, I’m coming on just to ask you, not just for your prayers, but no matter where you are, even if you’re far from Tucson, if you see anything, you hear anything, if there’s anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement.”
She captioned the video by pleading with viewers, “Please. Bring her home. We need you. She needs you. All of you.”
Savannah Guthrie Reacts to Pictures of Potential Suspect
FBI Director Kash Patel released new security camera images of a possible suspect in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance on February 10, 2026. The photos showed a masked individual approaching Nancy’s property and seemingly trying to disable her security camera.
“We believe she is still alive. Bring her home,” Savannah asked via Instagram following the release of these new photos. “Anyone with information, please contact 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or the Pima County Sheriff’s Department 520-351-4900.”
Savannah Guthrie Shares Home Videos of Her Mother Nancy Guthrie
On February 12, 2026, Savannah Guthrie shared an Instagram Reel of home movies featuring her mother, Nancy Guthrie. The archival footage showed Nancy hugging her young children in their garden and posing with them for family portraits.
“Our lovely mom. 💛,” Savannah captioned the video. “We will never give up on her. Thank you for your prayers and hope.”
Savannah Guthrie Offers Update on Her Family’s Mood 2 Weeks After Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapping
Amid reports of continuing ransom demands, local authorities deployed a digital scanner to help track Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker. Savannah Guthrie subsequently told her Instagram followers that her family still had “hope” that her mother would be found.
“We still believe, and I wanted to say to whoever has her, or knows where she is, that it’s never too late and you’re not lost or alone,” she said on February 15, 2026.
Savannah also reminded the kidnapper that “it is never too late to do the right thing and we are here.”
“We believe. We believe in the essential goodness [of] every human being, and it’s never too late,” she added.
The following day, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed in a statement that the Guthrie family had been “cleared as possible suspects in this case.”
“The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,” Nanos noted.
Savannah Guthrie Raises Personal Reward to $1 Million
With the one-month anniversary of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance nearing, Savannah Guthrie announced on February 24, 2026, that her family was increasing its personal reward offer to $1 million. She clarified that the “family reward of up to $1 million will be paid only for recovery of Nancy Guthrie, consistent with FBI criteria for payment of its reward in this case.”
“Someone knows how to find our mom and bring her home,” she captioned the post.
In the accompanying video, Savannah said that her family was still “blowing on the embers of hope” amid Nancy’s disappearance, though they realized she may no longer be alive.
“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 eaven 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 said. “But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home.”
Two days later, she reiterated that “tips can be anonymous [and the] reward can be paid in cash.”
“Please bring her home. You can be anonymous,” she pleaded on February 27, 2026.
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