{"id":1517653,"date":"2026-06-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=b56573670f7db6f5ca26ae11ee94160b"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:09:24","slug":"savannah-guthrie-speaks-out-after-reports-that-ransom-note-said-nancy-guthrie-died-after-kidnapping-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1517653","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie speaks out after reports that ransom note said Nancy Guthrie died after kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/c454374d45d77d6fd27def2fce849818.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie, June 15, 2023. (Nathan Congleton\/NBC via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>An emotional Savannah Guthrie spoke out on Tuesday following new reports that a ransom note said her mother, Nancy Guthrie, died shortly after she was abducted.<\/p><p>The <em>Today<\/em> show host's 84-year-old mother was kidnapped from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the early hours of Feb. 1 and remains missing, according to authorities.<\/p><p>Various ransom notes were sent to the media in the days after Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. The second ransom note received by a Tucson television station, days after Nancy Guthrie's abduction, said she died shortly after she was taken and was buried in nature, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.<\/p><p>Savannah Guthrie wiped away tears as she addressed the news on <em>Today<\/em>, saying, \"I'm not involved in our coverage, but I can't pretend I'm not here.\"<\/p><p>\"And so, since I am, I wanted to just take the opportunity to ask people -- to really, to beg people -- to come forward,\" she said. \"Somebody knows something.\"<\/p><p>\"This is a news story today that is on your radar, but this is the life that my sister lives, that I live, that my brother lives, that our extended families live, that our children live, every day. And we are in agony,\" Savannah Guthrie said through tears.<\/p><p>\"Please do the right thing. ... We love our mom, and we'll never stop looking for her, ever,\" she said.<\/p><p>Images from Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera showing a masked man at her house were released by authorities early on in the investigation, but the 84-year-old's whereabouts remain unknown, and the suspect remains unidentified.<\/p><p><em>Anyone with information is urged to call 911, the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI, or the Pima County Sheriff's Department at 520-351-4900.<\/em><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie, June 15, 2023. (Nathan Congleton\/NBC via Getty Images)An emotional Savannah Guthrie spoke out on Tuesday following new reports that a ransom note said her mother, Nancy Guthrie, died shortly after she was abdu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8854,"featured_media":1517661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/c454374d45d77d6fd27def2fce849818.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 12:31:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/c454374d45d77d6fd27def2fce849818.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517662,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517653\/revisions\/1517662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}