“Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie released a new video pleading for the return of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, and saying that people can submit information anonymously as officials continue to try and find the missing woman weeks after she disappeared.
“Someone out there knows something that can bring her home,” she said in a video on Friday. “Somebody knows. We are begging you to please come forward now.”
Nancy Guthrie, 84, went missing on Jan. 31 from her Tucson, Arizona-area home in what officials have suggested was an abduction. Although she was reported missing on Feb. 1, there have been no arrests and no suspects have been named.
“Be the one who brings her home,” Savannah Guthrie said in the video. She wrote in a post that “you can be anonymous,” adding that those anonymous individuals can “find a way to reach out to me” rather than going through the FBI.
Also in the post, Guthrie wrote that a previously announced family reward of up $1 million would be paid “only for the recovery of Nancy Guthrie” and would have to be “consistent with FBI criteria for payment of its reward in this case,” including a link to the FBI’s website.
The FBI this month also announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect or suspects in connection to the case or information about the woman’s whereabouts. A local Tucson Crime Stoppers organization said it is offering a $102,500 reward.
Few details about the case have been publicly released this week by either the FBI or the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. On Feb. 23, the sheriff’s office issued a statement in response to claims that a suspect who was seen on Nancy Guthrie’s porch camera was wearing different attire and said that suggestions that the images were taken on different days are conjecture.
“There is no date or time stamp associated with these images,” the department said. “Therefore, any suggestion that the photographs were taken on different days is purely speculative.”
The FBI released video footage and images of a masked male wearing gloves who appeared to be tampering with the woman’s doorbell camera around the time she went missing, describing the subject as having a medium build between 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches in height.
Drops of her blood were also found on the front porch, according to DNA evidence that was disclosed. Since the first days of her disappearance, authorities have expressed concern about Nancy Guthrie’s health because she needs vital daily medicine and said she wears a pacemaker.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said more than a week ago that members of the Guthrie family, including siblings and their spouses, are not considered suspects.
Savannah Guthrie said in the reward announcement Tuesday that her family also will donate $500,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the largest child protection program in the United States.
“We are hoping that the attention that has been given to our mom and our family will extend to all the families like ours,” the news anchor said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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