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Savannah Guthrie‘s mom, Nancy Guthrie, is still missing, going on eight weeks after the abduction from her Tucson, Ariz., home—and the Today co-anchor just revealed new details about the 84-year-old’s condition when she was kidnapped.
During a March 26 interview on Today, Savannah sat down with her friend and colleague, Hoda Kotb, to discuss her mother’s case for the first time since Nancy went missing.
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“We thought that we must have had, like, some kind of medical episode in the night. And somehow, the paramedics had come because the back doors were propped open, you know?” Savannah explained, of what she and her siblings — Annie Guthrie and Camron Guthrie — initially thought happened to their mother. “We thought maybe they came ,and there was a stretcher, and they took her out the back. But her phone was there, and her purse was there, and all her things. And it just didn’t make any sense.”
Additionally, the NBC morning show journalist said they quickly ruled out the idea that Nancy might have “wandered off.”
“She can’t wander off. My mom, she was in tremendous pain. Her back was very bad, you know?” she told Kotb. “On a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail. But most days, not. So there was no wander off. And the doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep, and the Ring camera had been yanked off.”
They quickly knew “something was very wrong here,” Savannah noted.
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Later during her sit-down with Kotb, Savannah shared yet another previously unknown detail about Nancy’s condition on the night she was abducted: She was in her pajamas and wore no shoes.
“It is surreal,” she said of making a message with her siblings to her mother’s kidnappers. “How is it possible that we are having to make a video speaking to a kidnapper who took an 84-year-old woman in the dead of night, in her pajamas with no shoes, without her medicine. This little person. To beg for mercy.”
Nancy was last seen at her Catalina Foothills residence on the evening of Jan. 31. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI have continued their search since Feb. 1 — however, no suspects have been named.
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‘Today’: Jenna Bush Hager Says Filming In Jamaica Is ‘Hard’ Amid Savannah Guthrie Struggles
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Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones on the March 26, 2026, episode of NBC’s ‘Today With Jenna & Sheinelle.’ – NBC
Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones kicked off the first of their two Today With Jenna & Sheinelle shows in Jamaica by sending love to Savannah Guthrie.
“We’re gonna have a beautiful show. But before we get started here in Jamaica, we have to just say, we are here by the Caribbean Sea, the wind in our hair, but our hearts are also with our dearest friend, Savannah,” Bush Hager stated on Thursday, March 26. “She spoke out today to Hoda [Kotb], and, you know, it’s hard. Life is this crazy thing of happiness and joy — we’re surrounded with all of you, we’re so happy you’re here — and also, pain.”
The earlier hours of Today aired the first of Savannah’s two-part interview with Kotb about the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie. Nancy was reported missing on February 1 after last being seen at her Tucson, Arizona, home the night prior. No suspects have been named, and the Guthrie family has offered a reward of up to $1 million for information about Nancy’s location.
“When you love somebody the way we love our girl, you can’t help but feel like she’s with us,” Bush Hager continued. “I will say, it’s hard to come to a place like this and not feel close to God, and she talked a lot about her faith. And this has been planned for months and months, and it’s important that we’re here, because if anyone knows the type of resilience that Savannah’s fighting for every day, it is the people of Jamaica. They fight for their joy.”
Bush Hger said it was “important” that the show celebrated Jamaica’s “strength” and “beauty” after the country was hit hard by Hurricane Melissa in October 2025. “The strength of the people here [is] so much stronger,” she declared.
Jones stated, “If we’re gonna find a common thread, it’s hope and it’s resilience,” to which Bush Hager added, “And you know what else it is? It’s love.”
Thursday’s episode of Jenna & Sheinelle featured segments of Bush Hager and Jones exploring local sights, trying delicious Jamaican dishes, and chatting with celebrities such as Sheryl Lee Ralph and Shaggy. The show will air another episode from Jamaica on Friday, March 27.
Both Savannah and Kotb shed several tears during their emotional conversation aired on Today. Savannah recalled learning that her mother was missing, as well as when her brother, Camron Guthrie, suggested that Nancy was taken for ransom because of Savannah’s celebrity status.
“To think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me — and I just say, ‘I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry to my sister [Annie Guthrie] and my brother, and my kids and my nephew, and Tommy, my brother-in-law.’ I’m just, like, so sorry,” she stated.
Savannah concluded the interview segments by stating, “Whether she’s on this Earth, still, or whether she’s in heaven, I know where she is. I know who she’s with. But we need to know.”
The second half of Savannah and Kotb’s interview will air on Friday’s episode of Today.
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Nancy Guthrie’s impact on dozens missing in her community
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Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping represents one of more than 80 reported missing persons cases in the Tucson, Arizona, area, and calls attention to families’ ceaseless efforts to locate loved ones.
As law enforcement searched for clues in Nancy Guthrie’s case in February, a team of retired law enforcement officers was trying to find Jimmy Hendrickson, a 12-year-old Tucson boy who vanished in 1991, his sister Tammy Tacho told News 4 Tucson (KVOA) in a March 23 news segment.
“Back in the ’90s we didn’t have social media like now; we made homemade posters, we walked this neighborhood,” Tacho said. She also weighed in on the Guthrie family’s situation, saying, “They are just going through so much pain… and nowadays with social media, the anger talk and the ugly talk, it’s just not fair. Can we have compassion?”
The group is part of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Team Adam program, which assists nationwide law enforcement and federal agencies by rapidly deploying to aid in serious missing children cases.
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Search for Nancy Guthrie and person suspected of taking her continues
“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, was seemingly abducted from her home outside Tucson, Arizona, in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2026. Authorities released photos and videos on Feb. 10, of a potential suspect who was caught tampering with a camera on her front door on the morning of her disappearance.
“It is a group of retired law enforcement officers no longer active, but they have had a long distinguished career [and are] sometimes a second set of eyes of looking at what’s available through the optics of today,” John E. Bischoff III, vice president vice president of the NCMEC’s Missing Children Division, told News 4 Tucson.
Guthrie family took action amid ‘personal heartbreak’
Bischoff also addressed Savannah Guthrie and her family’s pledge in February to donate $500,000 to the organization as investigators continued to search for clues that might lead to her mother’s recovery.
“What a wonderful and generous gift from the Guthrie family,” Bischoff said. “In their time of pain, in their time of uncertainty, to recognize, to understand, that there are so many families out there looking for this type of media coverage, looking for this type of attention.”
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In a Feb. 24 post on social media, the NCMEC shared Guthrie’s video and thanked her family “for turning their personal heartbreak into a commitment to helping others.”
“Because of their generosity, NCMEC will be able to assist more families of missing children going through some of the hardest days of their lives,” the caption read. “Our hearts remain with the Guthrie family as they continue to fight for Nancy.”
Nancy Guthrie, left, and “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie are pictured in an undated photograph.
Guthrie, who has not been seen since Saturday, Jan. 31, was first reported missing the following day, on Feb. 1. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has said they believe she was taken from her home outside of Tucson against her will.
Local law enforcement, with the help of federal agencies, has been looking into DNA samples collected from Guthrie’s Catalina Foothills home, as well as a backpack worn by a suspect who “tampered” with her doorbell camera the night of her disappearance, for more information about her suspected abduction.
Law enforcement previously confirmed the discovery of DNA in Guthrie’s home that does not belong to Nancy Guthrie or her inner circle. They have not provided updates on this analysis.
Guthrie family asks Tucson residents to ‘search their memories’ for clues
The Guthrie family issued a plea for “renewed attention to our mom’s case” in a March 23 statement shared by News 4 Tucson.
“Someone knows something. It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant. We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11,” the statement read.
It continued, “We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom’s case – please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance. No detail is too small. It may be the key.”
Tips can be submitted by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI or visiting tips.fbi.gov.
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Search for Nancy Guthrie and person suspected of taking her continues
“Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother Nancy Guthrie was reported missing in February 2026. See photos of the mother-daughter duo together through the years on NBC and beyond. Here, they’re pictured in an undated photograph. Arizona officials say they are investigating Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance as a “crime.”
Missing persons over 80 years old are rare
There are 88 missing persons cases in Tucson, dating back to August 1966 — and Guthrie’s is the latest.
It’s rare for people in their 80s to go missing long enough to end up on the Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs. Nancy Guthrie was added to NamUs Feb. 9, more than a week after she was reported missing. However, it can sometimes take years since someone went missing before being added to the database.
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