NBC “TODAY” co-host Savannah Guthrie made a desperate plea for the public’s help in a Saturday morning social media post, exactly six months since her mother Nancy was reported missing.
“This is our beautiful Mom. Six months ago, someone took her out of her bed in the dead of night. We have lived every moment, every breath, and every heartbeat in agony and despair ever since,” Guthrie wrote to open her Instagram message.
“Every day, we wake up and try to be strong and go on – because that’s what our joyful and resilient Mom taught us to do,” she continued. “But make no mistake – our hearts are in ruins. Cam and Kristine, Annie and Tommy, Mike and me – we spend every waking moment thinking of her, longing for her, looking for her.”
“There is a hole inside us that can never be filled,” Savannah wrote. “There is an ache that cannot be softened. And there is a determination in us that cannot be quenched – to find out what happened to her, so that we can give her the dignity of a proper goodbye – a celebration of her remarkable life that she so deserves.”
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Guthrie’s early morning post came just one day after the Pima County Sheriff’s Department released a pair of ransom notes Friday in the hopes that someone might recognize the documents’ “unique linguistic style.”
“We are begging for help. We are desperate,” Savannah’s post continued. “We need someone to come forward. Someone knows something. Someone suspects something. Someone recognizes the writing in the ransom demand notes.”
“Someone has noticed something different, strange, troubling or just unusual – perhaps with someone they deeply love,” she wrote. “Perhaps they are afraid to come forward. Perhaps they are conflicted. Perhaps they are angry or upset for being in this situation. There is a way out – to tell what you know. You can do so anonymously. The reward is available. There is a way to end this situation and do the right thing.”
“We are real people, facing real grief, doing the best we can, and counting our many blessings along the way – most especially the prayers and love from good people, which we feel deeply. We need your prayers, we need your kindness. We need the good to be stronger than the evil. If you are following this story for entertainment or for profit, you are not on her side – you are part of the harm perpetrated against her. We will never stop looking for answers – and we will never stop looking for the light. We will always be hoping and praying and believing in the best of our world – in spite of circumstance. This is what our faith makes possible. Please. Bring her home,” she concluded.
The 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was last seen outside her home in the Catalina Hills near Tucson, Arizona, on Jan. 31.
The home’s doorbell camera recorded a masked intruder disconnecting the cameras at approximately 1:47 a.m. local time on Feb. 1.
At 2:28 a.m., her pacemaker lost its Bluetooth connection to her cell phone, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
The newly released ransom notes, which the sheriff’s department said were sent on Feb. 2 and Feb. 6, demanded a ransom of $4 million to be paid in Bitcoin, while the author threatened to kill Nancy Guthrie.
The notes included references to the crime scene that may not have been public at the time they were sent — including details about the location of Guthrie’s Apple Watch and the smashed floodlight in her backyard. Fox News Digital first learned about the watch on the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 3. According to authorities, the note had been sent the day before, on Monday, Feb. 2, indicating the sender knew about it before the information began to seep out into the public sphere.
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The second note claimed that Nancy Guthrie had “perished.”
Fox News Digital contacted the Pima County Sheriff’s Department for further comment.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
