Savannah Guthrie asks for answers about mom Nancy after notes released
Savannah Guthrie said she and her family have been "in agony and despair ever since" her mother Nancy's disappearance in February.
Updated on: August 1, 2026 / 2:13 PM EDT / CBS News
"Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie asked again for answers in the disappearance of her mother Nancy in a message shared Saturday morning, one day after Arizona officials released the ransom notes the Guthrie family received in the days after the 84-year-old's disappearance.
Nancy Guthrie went missing from her Tucson, Arizona, home six months ago . Guthrie wrote that she and her family have "lived every moment, every breath, and every heartbeat in agony and despair ever since."
"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," Guthrie wrote on social media , alongside an undated photo of Nancy. "But make no mistake — our hearts are in ruins."
The second of the two notes shared by the kidnappers said that Nancy Guthrie had "perished shortly after she was taken" and was "buried in nature now." The note said her death may have been related to heart-related causes.
Guthrie said the family spends "every waking moment thinking of her, longing for her, looking for her," and wants 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."