Every little tidbit about the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, is big news these days. Part of the reason is that even though it’s been a month, it feels like we know very little about what might have happened. What is certain is that Nancy was abducted from her home sometime between the night of January 31 and the morning of February 1, when her family reported her missing. But who did it and why remains a big mystery.
There was a potential breakthrough in the case late Thursday when a man was arrested for drunken driving outside Nancy Guthrie’s home after he was allegedly seen driving “50 to 100 times” while looking at photos on her phone. The man, whose identity has not been released, was spotted by the outlet driving slowly past the Tucson home and stopping multiple times to look at the monument outside, NewsNation’s Brian Entin reported.
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Police eventually stopped him and questioned him for about 20 minutes before arresting him for DUI. “It’s probably nothing, but, it’s weird. Some people are like, some creepy people walking by,” he said. The Sheriff’s Office has not yet made any comment on the arrest.
It’s another thing that doesn’t really make sense in a case that has dominated headlines for a month, and it comes after Savannah Guthrie said she had “accepted” that her missing mother “may have died.” In a video shared on February 24, Savannah said that she and her siblings, sister Anne and brother Karen, had accepted the possibility that their mother might pass away, but she did not clarify that they “still believe in miracles.”
“It’s been 24 days since our mom was taken from her bed in the dark of night, and every moment, every long night since then has been painful – worrying about her, worrying about her, suffering for her, and most of all, just missing her,” Savannah said. “We still believe in miracles. We still believe she will come home. Hope and hope. As my sister said, we are blowing out the embers of hope.”
Considering the medication Nancy Guthrie needs every day, the Today show host admits it may already be too late. “We also know she may be lost; she may be gone. She may have returned to the Lord she loved and is dancing in heaven with her mom, her dad, her beloved brother Pierce, and our dad,” Savannah said. “If that’s what it is, then we’ll all accept it. But we need to know where she is. We need her home.”
Guthrie and her family are now offering a $1 million reward for any information leading to Nancy’s disappearance. Police have released surveillance video and photos of the kidnapping suspects and reportedly found a glove that may contain DNA, but have not yet been able to make any kind of arrest.
Volunteers have been helping search for Guthrie. Tucson resident Lupita Tello, a member of the Mexican volunteer search group Madres Buscadoras de Sonora, explained the search to USA TODAY. Tello poked the dirt outside the house with a sharp metal rod welded to a handle, shook the rod, pulled it out and smelled it. “If it smells bad like rotten stuff, that’s where we start,” she said.
So far, they’ve found nothing.
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