Nancy Guthrie’s news anchor daughter Savannah has opened up about the impact of public speculation about the disappearance of her mother as she remains missing after months
Savannah Guthrie has responded to “cruel speculation” about her mother’s disappearance, after some wondered if the family were involved. Nancy Guthrie has been missing since 1 February and the family have offered a reward for any information that leads to her safe return.
In an interview with the Today show, where Savannah worked, the news anchor was asked about how the family “weather” the “cruel speculation, the whispers, the innuendo that it was somebody in your family”. She responded that the rumours were hard to cope with.
“It’s unbearable,” she said. “And it piles pain upon pain. There are no words, there are no words. I don’t understand and I will never understand.” The Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has also previously shared a statement where he made it clear that the family “are victims” and not suspects.
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“The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,” the sheriff said on 16 February. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel. The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple.”
Savannh’s sister Annie Cioni and her husband Tommaso were two of the last people to see Nancy before she disappeared, as she visited their home the night before she went missing. Savannah told her former colleague Hoda Kotb that “no one took better care” of Nancy that Annie and Tommaso.
She added that “no one protected” Nancy more than her brother Camron either. “We love her and she is our shining light. She is our matriarch. She’s all we have.”
Savannah tearfully continued: “And to think of what she went through. I wake up every night in the middle of the night – every night – and in the darkness, I imagine her terror and it is unthinkable but those thoughts demand to be thought. And I will not hide my face. But she needs to come home now.”
Nancy was last seen on the evening of 31 January and the police believe she was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona. She was reported missing the following day and subsequent investigation revealed footage of a masked man approaching the house. As of yet, no suspects have been brought forward.
As Nancy’s disappearance drew near to a month long, Savannah and her family offered a $1 million reward for any information that helps the family get the 84-year-old woman back.
“We still believe in a miracle, we still believe that she can come home – hope against hope,” said the presenter in a teary Instagram video at the time. “We also know that she may be lost, she may already be gone, she may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves.”
In the video, posted on 24 February, news anchor Savannah added that she and her family would donate $500,000 to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, in the hopes that the “attention that has been given to out mom and our family will extend to all families”.
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