Savannah Guthrie offers $1 million reward to recover missing mother
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
Tucson, Arizona: Television news anchor Savannah Guthrie said her family is offering up to $1 million for information leading to the discovery of her mother, Nancy, who was kidnapped from her home more than three weeks ago.
Guthrie, USA Today The host of the program made the new offer with a four-minute video published on Instagram; In this video, he acknowledged that his 84-year-old mother may have already died, but said the family was holding out hope for a miracle. He said even if Nancy Guthrie is dead, the family still needs to know where she is.
The family is also donating $500,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit group that works to find missing children and prevent children from being sexually exploited.
In addition to the $1 million prize current FBI reward is $100,000and both will be paid to anyone who provides information leading to Guthrie’s location.
“If you’re waiting and you’re not sure, please let that be your cue to come forward,” Guthrie said.
“Tell us what you know and help us bring our dear mother home so we can either celebrate a wonderful, miraculous homecoming or celebrate the beautiful, brave, courageous and noble life she lived.”
Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her home just north of Tucson, Ariz., in the early morning hours of Feb. 1 and “taken from her bed in the dark of the night,” Savannah Guthrie said in a video released Tuesday morning.
The FBI and local sheriff’s department received tens of thousands of tips but offered few clues as to who might have kidnapped her.
The most important evidence so far was 44 seconds of footage from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera showing a masked, armed man approaching her door shortly before she was kidnapped.
Savannah Guthrie said she hopes people will pay attention to other missing persons cases not linked to celebrities like hers.
“We hope that the attention shown to our mother and our family will spread to all families in need like us,” he said.
