‘Desperate’ Savannah begs public for help before Bitcoin ransom deadline expires: Live updates

Savannah Guthrie asked the nation for help in finding her missing mother as her family is in an ‘hour of desperation.’

‘We need your help. Law enforcement is working tirelessly around the clock to bring her home, trying to find her. She was taken, and we don’t know where,’ she said.

‘I’m coming on, just ask you not just for your prayers but, no matter where you are, even if you’re far from Tucson, if you see anything, if you hear anything, if there is anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement.’

She concluded, ‘We are at an hour of desperation, and we need your help.’

At the Thursday press conference, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos provided an updated timeline on the night of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance.

January 31

• 5.32pm – Nancy travels to local family’s home
• 9.48pm – Family drops Nancy off at home & garage door opens
• 9.50pm – Garage door closes

February 1

• 1.47am – Doorbell camera disconnects
• 2.12am – Software detects person on camera (No video available, no subscription)
• 2.28am – Pacemaker app shows disconnect from phone
• 11.56am – Family checks on Nancy
• 12.03pm – 911 call to PCSD
• 12.15pm – Patrol arrives

Savannah Guthrie posted a new Instagram video saying she believes her mother is still alive.

‘I wanted to come on and just share a few thoughts as we enter into another week of this nightmare,’ she said.

She thanked her fans for praying for her mother’s safe return.

‘We believe that somehow, someway she is feeling these prayers and that God is lifting her even in this moment,’ she said.

‘We believe our mom is still out there.’

The man who was charged with texting Savannah Guhrie’s family has been released on $20,000 bail, the Department of Justice confirmed to The Daily Mail.

Derrik Callella, 42, was arrested Thursday for sending a hoax demand for Bitcoin to Nancy’s daughter Annie Guthrie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni.

Officials confirmed Callella had also been charged in a 2023 embezzlement scheme in which 13 Los Angeles County employees allegedly stole over $430,000 in unemployment benefits from the county.

He’s due back in court on in Los Angeles on March 31.

Donald Trump said that federal law enforcement may release ‘some things’ in the coming hours in the Nancy Guthrie case.

The president spoke about the case on Air Force One Friday night.

‘We have some things, I think that will maybe come out reasonably soon, from DOJ or FBI, or whoever, that could be, could be definitive. A lot has taken place in the last couple of hours. A lot of things have happened with regard to that horrible situation in the last couple of hours,’ he said.

Trump praised the work of the FBI and DOJ.

‘I think we’re doing very well on that regard. Very well meaning we have some clues, I think that are very strong, and I think we could have some answers coming up,’ he said.

Savannah Guthrie and her siblings – Annie and Camron – have issued three pleas to their mother’s captors for her save return.

Watch them below.

Savannah’s first plea

Savannah fought back tears in a gut-wrenching video alongside her two siblings on Wednesday night.

Camron’s desperate attempt

Camron Guthrie shared another video to social media on Thursday pleading for his mother’s abductors to contact the family.

Siblings offer to pay ransom

On Saturday, the Today Show host shared a video holding hands with her sister Annie and brother Camron, saying that they had received communications from her mother’s abductors and offered to pay the ransom.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CNN on Thursday that getting surveillance video in the Nancy Guthrie case has been difficult because of the terrain surrounding her home.

Nanos described the area as ‘a very suburban, rural area of the Tucson area, in a very mountainous side of town where vegetation is extremely thick,’ adding it is ‘not very well lit.’

‘We are still canvassing that neighborhood and other neighborhoods and still drawing down from cameras on our streets, at our intersections, with hopes that maybe we’ll find something,’ Nanos said.

Retired FBI special agent Jason Pack explained the importance of Savannah Guthrie using the word ‘celebrate’ in her Saturday night plea video with her mother’s captors.

‘The word “celebrate” stood out to me immediately. Savannah didn’t say “surrender her” or “give her back.” She said return her so we can “celebrate,”‘ he told Fox News Digital.

‘That’s the language of resolution, not confrontation. In any negotiation, you want to offer the other party a way to see this ending positively and peacefully for them too. That’s exactly what the family is doing.’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Donald Trump is monitoring the Nancy Guthrie investigation, NBC News reported.

The president has been ‘closely following’ the investigation and is ‘receiving frequent updates.’

Savannah Guthrie is waiting out the search for her missing mother in a $1.2million mansion tucked away in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

Savannah, 54, initially stayed with sister Annie, 56, at the sprawling ranch-style property she shares with Italian husband Tommaso Cioni, 50.

But the sisters – along with their brother Camron, 61 – did a midnight flit after the constant presence of news cameras became unbearable.

New images obtained by Fox News Digital appear show that a security camera on the exterior of Nancy Guthrie’s home was removed on Monday as investigators searched the property.

A lack of footage remains a huge problem for investigators, and police have said that Nancy’s doorbell camera was disconnected at 1.47am on February 1.

They said that her home’s surveillance software detected movement at 2.12am, but there is no video of the motion, so it is unclear whether it was a person, an animal or something else.

Tech expert Kurt ‘CyberGuy’ Knutsson told Fox News that investigators are gathering security camera footage near Nancy’s home in case they find ‘unseen data.’

‘Cameras facing the Guthrie house right now show very little activity, but I promise you there’s an enormous amount of activity going on on the digital side,’ Knutsson said.

On Monday

Over the weekend

Savannah Guthrie says she has agreed to pay a ransom in exchange for her mother Nancy’s return in a new video message to the 84-year-old’s captors on Saturday night.

‘We received your message, and we understand,’ Savannah said. ‘We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her.

‘This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.’