Savannah Guthrie Discusses Mom Nancy: Reveals if Any Ransom Notes Were Real, Speaks to Rumors About Family Involvement, & What Happened That Morning
Savannah Guthrie sat down for a multi-part interview on the Today show regarding the disappearance of her mom Nancy.
If you don’t know, Nancy was taken in the middle of the night on February 1, and has not been seen since.
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She spoke of learning of her mom’s disappearance.
She said she had gifted her husband a tennis weekend, so he was away. She had taken her kids to Carson Daly‘s for the night and they had all just arrived back home when they received a phone call from Savannah‘s sister Annie.
Her sister told her, “Mom’s missing.” They called local hospitals to see if there had been some kind of medical emergency, seeing as the doors to the back of their mom’s house had been left open. “She was in a panic, I was in a panic,” Savannah recalled.
They also called 9-1-1, calling the whole thing, “chaos.”
Savannah recalled asking her brother Camron if the reason their mom might’ve been taken was because of her status.
“He said, ‘Well, I’m sorry sweetie, but yeah, maybe.’ But I knew that. I hope not. I mean, we still don’t know. Honestly, we don’t know anything. So I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that lady has money, we can make a quick buck.’ I mean, that would make sense, but we don’t know,” Savannah said, adding it was “probably” the case and that thought was “too much to bear.”
She broke down in tears, saying, “To think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me. And I just have to say, I’m so sorry, mommy. I am so sorry. I’m sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law. I’m so sorry. If it is me, I’m so sorry.”
About the ransom notes, she said, “There are a lot of different notes, I think that came and I think most of them … are not real and I didn’t see them. But, you know, a person that would send a fake ransom note … it really has to look deeply at themselves. Yeah. To a family in pain.”
“But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to. I tend to believe those are real. Really,” she added.
She then addressed rumors that her family was involved: “It piles pain upon pain. There are no words. I don’t understand, I will never understand. No one took better care of my mom than my sister and brother-in-law. No one protected my mom more than my brother. And we love her and she is our shining light, she’s our matriarch. She’s all we have.”
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