Savannah Guthrie is sharing a heartbreaking mantra as her mom Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance reaches the one-month mark.
“I believe, I believe,” Savannah, 54, wrote over biblical imagery via Instagram on Sunday, March 22, also sharing the illustration her to her Stories.
Hours earlier, Savannah and her siblings issued a statement as Nancy, 84, has remained missing for over a month.
“We are deeply grateful for the outpouring from neighbors, friends and the people of Tucson. We are all family now,” the statement read, which Savannah shared to her Instagram page. “We continue to believe it’s Tucsonians, and the greater Southern Arizona community, that hold the key to finding resolution in this case. Someone knows something.”
Savannah and her family further stressed that they won’t be able to find peace until Nancy is located and she is brought home.
“We cannot grieve; we can only ache and wonder,” the statement concluded. “Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home. We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life but we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest.”
Nancy was reported missing on February 1, with local Arizona law enforcement officers revealing that she was last seen on January 31.
“On behalf of our family we want to thank all of you for the prayers for our beloved mom, Nancy,” the Today show cohost said in a February 4 social media video with siblings Annie and Camron. “We feel them and we continue to believe that she feels them too. Our mom is a kind, faithful, loyal, fiercely loving woman of goodness and light. She is funny, spunky and clever.”
Savannah continued, “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.”
Savannah and her siblings also acknowledged the possibility that their mother had been kidnapped, pleading for her safe return. (There have been no suspects or arrests regarding Nancy’s disappearance, aside from one arrest for making a fake ransom letter.)
“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,” Savannah said at the time. “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, who has been absent from Today amid her mom’s disappearance, frequently kept fans updated via social media.
“It is Day 24 since our mom was taken in the dark of night from her bed,” Savannah said in a Tuesday, February 24, Instagram video. “Every hour and minute and second and every long night has been agony since then of worrying about her and fearing about her and aching for her. Most of all, just missing her.”
While thanking supporters for their continued prayers, Savannah also revealed that her family would offer a $1 million reward for anyone with legitimate updates on Nancy’s whereabouts.
“We still believe in a miracle [and] that she can come home,” she said. “We also know that she might be lost [and] 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 and with our daddy. If this is what is to be, then we will accept it, but we need to know where she is.”
Savannah explained that the “family reward” would be given out for “any information that leads” her siblings to Nancy’s recovery.
“You can be anonymous if you want,” she added. “Someone out there knows something that can bring her own. Somebody knows, and we are begging you to please come forward now.”
Savannah offered a subsequent explanation of the reward requirements on Friday, February 27.
“Please — be the one that brings her home. Tips can be anonymous, reward can be paid in cash,” Savannah wrote via Instagram. “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.”
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