Authorities have discovered traces of blood inside the residence of Nancy Guthrie, mother of Savannah Guthrie, following a forceful entry by a kidnapper, according to police insiders.

This unsettling development was reported by the Los Angeles Times, subsequent to the Daily Mail’s account of the 84-year-old being taken from her bed at her Tucson, Arizona home, valued at $1 million, sometime between late Saturday and early Sunday.

The search for Nancy is ongoing with great urgency. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos was visibly emotional during a press briefing on Monday night when questioned about the likelihood of Nancy still being alive.

During an interview with AZFamily’s Briana Whitney, Nanos was asked, “Do you believe you are still searching for Nancy Guthrie alive? Could she be held locally in the Tucson area, or might she have been taken elsewhere?” His voice faltered as he assured that he and his team remain hopeful of locating Nancy, who is described as frail and in dire need of her regular medication.

Savannah, 54, hurried to Arizona upon receiving the distressing news of her mother’s abduction, which CNN described as “the worst phone call of her life.”

Savannah Flies to Arizona As Hunt For Missing Mom Continues

Savannah, 54, flew to Arizona shortly after learning that Nancy had been abducted – a moment CNN reported was ‘the worst phone call of her life’.

Sheriff Nanos said they did not believe Nancy had been targeted because of her rich and famous daughter, but said he could not rule out that line of inquiry.

Meanwhile, Savannah is said to be traveling with a security team. She has dropped out of hosting the Milan Winter Olympics, which begins on Wednesday.

Today – the show she hosts – led with Nancy’s abduction for the second day in a row on Tuesday and shared Guthrie’s request for ‘prayers’.  

Nancy was last seen around 9:45pm Saturday night, at the family’s longtime ranch-style home in the upscale Catalina Hills neighborhood. 

She was reported missing the next morning when she didn’t show up at church, and when her family went to her home they found her personal belongings including her wallet, cellphone and car, but no sign of the 84-year-old. 

Sources told the LA Times that there were signs of forced entry at the home. 

Investigators Treating Disappearance as Possible Abduction  

Nanos added that while the exact nature of Nancy’s disappearance remains unknown, investigators believe they are ‘looking at a possible kidnapping or abduction.’ 

‘She did not leave on her own, we know that,’ he said. ‘She’s very limited in her mobility.’ 

An NBC source told CNN that Savannah was preparing to go to Europe to cover the Winter Olympics at the time, and had spent much of the last week with her children before she would make the trip. 

Savannah, who only recently returned to NBC after throat surgery, is now set to remain off-air indefinitely.  

On Tuesday, Nanos announced that a $2,500 reward was being issued for information leading to an arrest in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. 

He stressed that the hunt for Nancy remains a search-and-rescue operation. DNA tests have been performed but the results could take another few days.

Sheriff Warns Nancy Needs Her Medication and Pleads For Release

 Nanos said that Nancy is of sound mind but that she suffers from mobility issues that mean she cannot walk more than 50 yards.

She was taken without her medication, which she requires to stay alive; depriving her of it could be fatal, Nanos warned.  

The sheriff said investigators have not yet ruled out the potential abduction being a ‘targeted’ incident, but said evidence does not yet support that conclusion either. 

‘Nothing that we see is leading us that way, but we’ll never dismiss anything. We’ll continue to look at everything, and we’ll just keep moving forward with it,’ he said. 

On Monday, Nanos appealed to a potential abductor while speaking with NBC. 

‘Just call us. Let her go. Just call us. The family will tell you, there’s no questions asked here,’ he said. 

Savannah Guthrie Issues Prayer Plea as Search Continues

Savannah’s father died of a heart attack while she was in high school, and officials said Nancy lived alone in her Tucson home. 

With the search for her mother ongoing, Savannah Guthrie made a heartbreaking plea for fans to keep her family in their prayers. 

‘We believe in prayer. We believe in voices raised in unison, in love, in hope,’ Savannah wrote on Instagram. ‘We believe in goodness, we believe in humanity. Above all, we believe in Him.’

‘Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant,’ Savannah wrote.

She then asked her social media followers to ‘raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment,’ adding: ‘We need you’ and ‘Bring her home’.

Jenna Bush Hager breaks down in tears as she reports on Savannah Guthrie’s mom amid her disappearance

 Jenna Bush Hager was visibly overcome with emotion as she reported on Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, Nancy. It was revealed on Monday morning that the 84-year-old mother of the Today show anchor, 54, was last seen on Saturday night near her home in Tucson, Arizona. 

According to officials, aspects of the scene at Nancy’s home prompted ‘grave concern’ and drones, a helicopter, an airplane, search-and-rescue dogs and volunteers are searching the local area. 

After Sheinelle Jones read out the phone number for the tip line for the case, Bush Hager said that she hopes people will call in.

‘We love Nancy,’ she continued. ‘I know her personally. And we want to just report, too, that she takes daily medication and she needs them for survival. She’s without her medication.’ 

Ending her sentiments, Bush Hager added: ‘We are thinking of our dearest, dearest Savannah and her whole family right now, and our prayers go out to Savannah and her entire family.’ 

Co-host Jones also offered her heartfelt thoughts to Guthrie and her family. She initially broke the story on the Today show alongside Craig Melvin while filling in for Guthrie. 

‘When Craig and I did the story, we first reported this morning and put the phone number up, we can put the number up as many times as we can, I thought this is when we’re at our best as a community,’ she said. 

‘The people in this area and in this county, if you know anything, if you’ve seen anything, no matter how small, we’ve heard people say that before, this is when people say let’s call in and do what we can.’ 

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