The mysterious disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has plunged her daughter, “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, into a tense and ongoing saga that began nearly two months ago.
In a heartfelt interview on “Dateline” with her NBC colleague Hoda Kotb, Savannah recounted the terrifying moment she learned that her 84-year-old mother had gone missing from her home in Arizona. This led to a frantic journey across the country to join her family.
The unsettling episode unfolded after what had seemed like an uneventful evening spent with her children at the home of fellow “Today” co-host Carson Daly, she shared with Kotb last week.
“We had a wonderful and fun evening together,” Savannah recalled, reflecting on their visit.
Savannah Guthrie appears on the Today show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
That Sunday, her husband, Mike Feldman, returned home after a day on the golf course.
“We were just saying hi, putting our stuff down, and the kids were running around — and my sister called me,” she said.
Their mother, who has debilitating back pain and other mobility issues, was missing, she said.
It was around 2 p.m. in New York and noon back in Tucson. Savannah told her sister, Annie, to call 911. She already had.
Savannah Guthrie poses alongside her mother Nancy Guthrie during a production break whilst hosting NBC’s “Today Show” live from Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)
Pima County deputies were at the home — where they found concerning evidence: blood on the front porch, the backdoors propped open, Nancy’s valuables undisturbed but no sign of her whereabouts.
Annie and her husband, Tommaso “Tommy” Cioni, had already called local hospitals, hoping she’d been picked up by paramedics, to no avail. Savannah called them too.
“That was at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, but I was on a plane at 7:30 to Phoenix,” she told Kotb. “And then a two-hour drive down to Tucson, and I probably got to my sister’s house at 2 in the morning.”
FBI agents arrive at the home of Annie Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday, February 4, 2026. The family filmed a video response to a ransom demand deemed potentially credible. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Their brother Camron, who lives in Vermont, had also flown in. After arriving late at Annie’s, Savannah remembers speaking with authorities again on the phone.
The following morning, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos held the first of three news briefings he delivered in the first week after Nancy’s suspected kidnapping. He hasn’t held any since.
Off the bat, he had concerns, he said. He deployed search and rescue teams to scour the area — and also sent homicide detectives to the home.
Annie Guthrie, her husband Tommaso Cioni, and Savannah Guthrie at their missing mother Nancy Guthrie’s home on Monday, March 2, in Tucson, Arizona. (Fox News)
“It’s very concerning what we’re learning from the house,” he told reporters.
Nancy had last been seen between 9:30 and 10 p.m. on Jan. 31, when her son-in-law dropped her off at home after dinner at Annie’s, according to authorities.
Nancy was taken in her pajamas, Savannah said. She had no shoes on. And the suspected abductor or abductors left behind valuables, like her purse, phone and Apple watch, as well as medication her life depended on.
Photos released on Feb. 10, 2025, show a “subject” on Nancy Guthrie’s property. (Provided by FBI)
Soon ransom demands started coming in — although many are believed to be from impostors. But Savannah said at least two seemed credible to her family, and the siblings recorded video responses.
“How is it possible that we are having to make a video speaking to a kidnapper who took an 84-year-old woman in the dead of night, in her pajamas, with no shoes, without her medicine and to beg for mercy?” Savannah asked Kotb.
An undated photo of Nancy Guthrie provided by NBC in response to the disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of Today Show host, Savannah Guthrie. (Courtesy of NBC)
Investigators and the family have repeatedly appealed to the public for help. There is a combined reward of more than $1.2 million in connection with the case — a million of it from the Guthrie family for their mother’s recovery.
“How can someone vanish without a trace? How? Someone knows something,” Savannah said in her Dateline interview. “Even if that something’s someone has been acting strange for the last 7, 8 weeks. Even if it’s just that. Somebody knows.”
The family has asked anyone with information to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
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