By Myles Miller, Bloomberg
The family of Nancy Guthrie is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to her recovery, her daughter Savannah Guthrie announced in a video posted to Instagram, marking 24 days since the 84-year-old was taken from her Tucson-area home.
“We still believe in a miracle. We still believe that she can come home,” Guthrie, the NBC News anchor, said Tuesday. But she acknowledged the family is also grappling with the possibility that her mother may already be dead. “She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves,” she said.
RELATED: Nancy Guthrie kidnapping suspect appeared to have made a previous visit
Authorities believe she was taken from her home against her will by a masked, armed individual who disconnected her doorbell camera. The FBI has received more than 20,000 tips and is also offering a $100,000 reward, but no arrests have been made and a DNA profile obtained from a glove found about two miles from the home produced no matches when entered into the FBI’s national database.
The family is also donating $500,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, saying they hope the attention on their case will extend to other families facing similar ordeals.
Guthrie made a direct appeal to anyone who may have knowledge of the case, saying the tipster can remain anonymous. “Somebody knows,” she said. “We are begging you to please come forward.”
RELATED: Volunteers scour the Arizona desert for Nancy Guthrie despite authorities urging them to stop
Investigators have positively identified an Ozark-brand backpack seen in surveillance footage and are working to determine where other items worn by the suspect were purchased. Authorities previously said they were working with Walmart management to trace the backpack purchase and canvassing gun shops with the doorbell video released by the FBI.
©2026 Bloomberg L.P.
Leave a Reply