Savannah Guthrie wants her mother’s kidnapper to know “there’s always a way home” for her missing mom as well as whoever’s responsible for the 84-year-old woman’s disappearance. The NBC News’ personality’s plea follows a message of hope from a public figure who’s an expert on abductions.
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“It has been months since our mom was taken from us,” Guthrie said in a recording posted Monday. “Our family is in agony, we are in a nightmare that will not end. Nothing about our situation has changed.”
Investigators have released little information about what may have happened to Nancy Guthrie since she was last seen by loved ones on Jan. 31. Snippets of footage retrieved from her broken doorbell camera show an armed man outside her house wearing a mask and gloves hours before she’s believed to have been seized from her southern Arizona home.
Savannah’s new and “very specific” message seeks to assure her mother’s kidnapper that all involved will find peace once Nancy is found.
“The world can be a cruel and unforgiving place and I know that you have tried to do the right thing,” the 54-year-old television personality says.
She asks that the assumed kidnapper do what’s right by leading the Guthrie family to their missing matriarch.
“For all of us, no matter where we’ve been and what we’ve done, I believe there is always a way home,” she concluded. “Please make the right choice.”
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No one is known to have come forward with information about Nancy despite a $1 million reward offered by her family. The credibility of ransom notes sent to select media outlets have been greeted with skepticism and appear to be unuseful.
Rescued kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart says “there’s still reason to have hope” than Nancy comes home.
“I want to remind people that there isn’t a body, so there is still reason to have hope that she is alive and that we shouldn’t give up until we find her,” Smart told E! News in an interview published Friday.
Smart, 38, was abducted from Utah home in June 2002 when she was 14 years old. She was located by police fewer than 20 miles away in March 2003.
Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee were arrested for kidnapping Smart. Mitchell was in prison. His accomplice was released in 2018 after spending 15 years behind bars.
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