Savannah Guthrie posted a new video statement to her Instagram account Thursday night pleading for her mother’s kidnappers to “reach out … so we can move forward.”
The statement was read by the “Today” show host’s brother, Camron Guthrie.
“First we have to know that you have our mom,” Camron Guthrie said. “We want to talk to you and we are waiting for contact.”
Guthrie acknowledged that the family has had no direct contact with the alleged kidnappers.
The statement was the second released by the children of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, who was taken from her Arizona home sometime in the night on Saturday, as CrimeOnline previously reported.
In the first video, Savannah Guthrie acknowledged ransom letters received by multiple media outlets earlier in the week, and, as her brother did in the new video, called for the kidnappers to let the family “know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her.”
Although investigators have not released details of what was contained in the ransom letters, media that received them said the kidnappers demanded millions of dollars in Bitcoin, and FBI Special Agent in Heith Janke said that the letters contained two deadlines, one of which passed late Thursday afternoon. The second deadline is on Monday, he said.
Investigators have said that Nancy Guthrie had dinner with her oldest daughter, Annie Guthrie, and son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, Saturday night. Family checked on her Sunday morning after she didn’t appear for church and found her missing. Police said the scene told them Nancy Guthrie didn’t leave the house on her own — including a small amount of blood found by the front door that investigators said belonged to the missing woman.
The FBI announced a $50,000 reward in the case on Thursday and announced the arrest of a man in California for an “imposter ransom demand” made in text messages to Annie Guthrie and Cioni. That demand was not believed connected with the letters received by media outlets on Monday.
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[Featured image: Nancy Guthrie/Instagram]
