Savannah Guthrie renewed appeals to residents of Tucson and southern Arizona for clues that could help solve the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, in a family statement posted Sunday.
The “Today” co-host, who has been focused on the search for weeks, shared the new statement on her Instagram account hours after the show’s Instagram account posted it as well. In the statement, the family thanked the community for its support and asked people to keep looking in their own memories for information that could matter to the case.
The family said it believes someone in Tucson or southern Arizona “may ‘hold the key to finding the resolution in this case.’” It emphasized that “Someone knows something,” adding that it is “possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant.”
The statement asked people to go back over their memories from Jan. 31, when Nancy Guthrie was last seen, through Feb. 1, and also to consider the evening of Jan. 11. It urged residents to “consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations, or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance,” and told them, “No detail is too small.”
In the statement, the family acknowledged that Nancy Guthrie may no longer be alive. “We cannot grieve; we can only ache and wonder,” the family wrote.
Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on Feb. 1, and authorities have said they believe the 84-year-old was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will. The FBI has released surveillance videos of a masked man outside Guthrie’s front door on the night she vanished, and the family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of their mother.
Tucson is a little over 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Phoenix and about 70 miles (115 kilometers) north of the Arizona-Mexico border. Nancy Guthrie lives in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood, an affluent area known for hiking trails.
Savannah Guthrie visited the “Today” studio in New York City on March 5 for the first time since her mother’s disappearance, and the show said she plans to return to the air at some point. For now, it said she is “remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home,” while Hoda Kotb returned to fill in on the NBC morning program.