Savannah Guthrie has posted a new video asking for her missing mom Nancy’s return, increasing the reward for her recovery to $1 million. It has been 24 days since Nancy went missing.
“Every hour and minute and second, and every long night, has been agony since then,” Savannah says in the video. “Worrying about her and fearing for her and aching for her. Most of all, just missing her. We know that millions of you have been praying. So many people, of every faith and of no faith at all, praying for her return. We feel those prayers. Please keep praying without ceasing. We still believe in a miracle. We still believe she can come home. Hope begets hope, as my sister says. We are blowing on the embers of hope.”
The “Today” show anchor continued, “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 heaven with her mom and her dad and with her beloved brother Pierce and with our daddy. If this is what is to be, then we will accept it. But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery. All of the information about this reward is in the caption below. You can call the 1-800 tipline, you can be anonymous if you want. Someone out there knows something that can bring her home. Somebody knows. We are begging you to please come forward now.”
Nancy went missing on Feb. 1, and the following day, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department declared her disappearance a crime after investigators found “concerning” evidence at her Arizona home. Little progress has been made in the investigation as the search entered its third week on Sunday. The FBI originally posted a $100,000 reward for anyone with information leading to her recovery, which was later increased to $200,000.
On Feb. 12, the FBI released a description of their only publicly known suspect, who was caught on a front door camera trying to break into Nancy’s home. The Phoenix bureau of the FBI described the perpetrator as “a male, approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build. In the video, he is wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack.”
Savannah has released several videos on Instagram since her mother’s disappearance, either bargaining with the abductor or asking her supporters for help. In a post on Feb. 15, Savannah Guthrie said she still believed her mother was alive and told the kidnapper that “it’s never too late to do the right thing.”
“It’s been two weeks since our mom was taken, and I just wanted to come on and say that we still have hope and we still believe,” she said. “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, and it is never too late to do the right thing. “We are here. We believe. And we believe in the essential goodness of every human being, and it’s never too late.”
