Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, has been missing for more than two weeks. The Today show host Monday shared a new plea to her mother’s potential kidnappers. But now, her friends reportedly fear for her after finding this one detail disturbing.
The search for Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today show host Savanna Guthrie, is continuing. A masked man caught on the Ring camera at Nancy’s home outside Tucson, Arizona, has been the main clue in finding the 84-year-old.
Meanwhile, investigators recovered a glove two miles from her house, believed to belong to the suspect in her kidnapping. Investigators hoped the recovered DNA would match through the FBI’s CODIS database. However, the DNA didn’t get a DNA hit.
Moving forward, investigators will search commercial genealogy databases with the same DNA profile in hopes of a possible match, a federal law enforcement source told CBS News. Those databases are completely different from the CODIS national database.
Additional DNA evidence that was found at Guthrie’s home was also being analyzed. On Tuesday, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said the Nancy Guthrie case will not be considered cold as long as there are leads to pursue. He stated that 400 investigators are working on the thousands of tips and leads.
“As long as we have the ability to chase a lead, it’s not cold,” Nanos said on Tuesday, per NBC. ‘We’re not going to give up. We’re going to find Nancy, and we’re going to find out who did this.”
Search for Nancy Guthrie
Further, Chris Nanon made a plea to the suspect in the kidnapping case, urging the individual to “just ler her go.”
“It will work out better for you in the long run,” Nanos said. “Take her to a park. Take her to the hospital. Just let her go.”
The County Sheriff added that he remains optimistic. He stated that the investigation remains a rescue operation, not a recovery mission.
“You have no proof, nobody does, that she’s not [alive],” Nanos continued. “I’m going to have that faith. Sometimes that hope is all we have.”
“My team, 400 people out there in the field today, woke up this morning and went out there with the hope and the belief that they’re going to find Nancy, and she’s going to be okay.”
Meanwhile, Nancy’s daughter, Savannah Guthrie, has put everything aside to be with her family in the search for her mother. As late as Monday, she posted a plea on Instagram
In the clip, Savannah appealed to the abductor, insisting on the “essential goodness of every human being..
Friends of Savannah Guthrie fear for her health
“I wanted to say to whoever has her, or who 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,” Savannah Guthrie said.
While it’s an unimaginably horrifying situation Savannah and her family are in, friends of the Today host are concerned. Speaking with Express, one source said the footage of the tearful plea was “profoundly disturbing.”
“She looks devastated, she looks like she’s struggling. She can’t be doing well,” the source told PageSix.
The insider continued, “Anyone who knows her is obviously so worried about her.”
Another friend stated that “it looked like the light has gone out of her eyes,” from the plea she put out this last weekend.
Savannah Guthrie continues to receive huge support from friends, family, fans, and colleagues. Hoda Kotb, who has been standing in for Savannah on the Today show, wrote on Instagram, “We believe,” adding praying hands and a heart emoji. Morgan Radford wrote, “We are all with you, Savannah.”
Her co-host Dylan Dreyer commented, “I continue to pray every chance I get…I love you.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Guthrie family.
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