“Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie issued a plea for the public’s help on Monday at what she called “an hour of desperation,” as the search for her missing mom, Nancy Guthrie, has entered its second week.
“We believe our mom is still out there,” she said in the video posted to her Instagram account. “We need your help.”
“Law enforcement is working tirelessly around the clock trying to bring her home, trying to find her,” she continued. “She was taken and we don’t know where, and we need your help.”
Savannah Guthrie asked “not just for your prayers, but no matter where you are, even if you’re far from Tuscon, if you see anything, if you hear anything, if there’s anything at all that seems strange to you — that you report to law enforcement.”
“We are at an hour of desperation and we need your help,” she added.
The FBI says it is taking two emails seriously, including what appeared to be a ransom note with a second deadline set for Monday. The first deadline was 5 p.m. Thursday, authorities have said. Ransom payment was demanded in bitcoin, but authorities have relesed few details.
Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings shared a third videotaped plea over the weekend to whoever may have taken their 84-year-old mother from her Tucson, Arizona, home in what the sheriff has called an overnight abduction. Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on Feb. 1.
Anyone with possible information on Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is asked to call 520-882-7463.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
