Savannah Guthrie described learning her mother was missing: ‘Something is very wrong here’

Savannah Guthrie can remember the moment she and her family first discovered their mother, Nancy, was missing.

To talk “Today” showGuthrie said his sister Ann called to describe the scene at Nancy’s home in Tucson. The back doors were open and the front door’s security camera had been removed. Nancy’s cell phone and other belongings were still in her home.

“It didn’t make any sense,” Guthrie said.

“My sister called me. ‘Is everything okay?’ I said. And he said ‘No’. “He said, ‘My mother is missing,'” he said. “And I was like, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ I said. ‘He’s gone,’ he said. And he was in a panic. I was in a panic.’”

“We thought he had some sort of medical episode overnight and somehow the back doors were open so paramedics showed up… and it didn’t make any sense,” Guthrie said. “We thought maybe they came and there was a stretcher and they took her out the back, but her phone was there, her bag was there, all her belongings were there and it didn’t mean anything.”

They searched the hospitals but couldn’t find him.

Guthrie’s interview took place almost two months after Nancy’s Guthrie was kidnapped.

Despite extensive searches, he could not be found.

Guthrie was abducted from his home in the Tucson area on February 1. The kidnapping drama has captivated the country, but there are relatively few clues.

Investigators got the first major breakthrough in the case days later when images were released showing an armed man wearing a ski mask, gloves and a backpack. The man was seen approaching the front door of Guthrie’s home and tampering with the Nest camera at 1:47 a.m. on the night of Guthrie’s abduction.

Numerous ransom notes emerged, but no evidence of life was found and the investigation slowed considerably.

Guthrie said in the interview that the reason for the kidnapping was unclear, but he was concerned his fame might have been a factor.

“I don’t know because she’s my mother and someone thought, ‘Oh, that girl, that woman, has money. We can… make money quick,'” he said. “I mean, that might make sense. But we don’t know.”

He said he believed the two ransom notes demanding millions for Nancy’s return were legitimate.

More than a dozen gloves have since been seized in the surrounding community. However, authorities say the glove matching the one worn by the person in the video is unrelated and belongs to a nearby restaurant employee.

There are no DNA matches to known criminals in the federal database.

In the interview, Guthrie said his family assumed his mother may have had a medical emergency because she was frail.

“My mother was in a lot of pain,” he said.

But the scene they discovered on Sunday morning made it clear that something was wrong.

“This isn’t right. Something is very wrong here.”