Savannah Guthrie makes emotional plea to kidnappers in new video

Savannah Guthrie has made an emotional plea in a new video as her mother’s abduction case enters its second week. “It’s been two weeks since our mom was taken. And I just wanted to come on and say that we still have hope. And we still believe,” the Today host tearfully said in the video. 

“I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is that it’s never too late. And you’re not lost or alone. And it is never too late to do the right thing. And we are here. And we believe. And we believe in the essential goodness of every human being,” she continued.

“It’s never too late,” she concluded the post. Her plea comes after evidence came to life as a glove found just two miles from her Tucson home “appears to match” the pair that the suspect from the doorbell footage was seen wearing. 

“The one with the DNA profile recovered is different and appears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video,” the FBI said in a statement, adding that they were waiting on final test results that were just hours away. 

Last week, investigators released surveillance footage of an unidentified masked person wearing gloves attempting to obscure a Nest doorbell camera. 

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The FBI has since described the suspect as a male approximately five-foot-nine to five-foot-ten with an average build, carrying a black 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack. Nancy, 84, was last seen near her home in Tucson, Arizona after spending the evening with her family on January 31. 

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She was reported missing on February 1 after failing to show up to church. Since then, her daughter Savannah has taken a step back from hosting TODAY, spending time in Arizona with her siblings Annie and Camron. Several ransom notes were also allegedly sent to a variety of media networks, with some claiming ransom demands for up to a multi-million sum in Bitcoin. 

Savannah has also said they are willing to “pay” for the return of their mom, who is also believed to be without life-saving medication in the 10 days she has been missing. The FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department believe that Nancy was taken “against her will” from her home, with signs of blood being detected in her home as well (they were later proven to be Nancy’s), plus DNA. 

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Authorities also discovered signs of forced entry at her residence, which is now being treated as a crime scene, and the FBI and Border Patrol subsequently joined the search, deploying technology teams for cellular analysis and tracking dogs to locate her. 

Chris Nanos, the Arizona sheriff leading the search for Nancy, recently revealed that there were around 400 people working on the case. Talking to the New York Times, he said that they were still “looking hard to find her” and that he was remaining positive. “Maybe it’s an hour from now,” he said. “Maybe it’s weeks or months or years from now. But we won’t quit. We’re going to find Nancy. We’re going to find this guy.”