Savannah Guthrie and her brother broke down in tears as they visited the memorial outside their missing mother’s home in Arizona for the first time on Monday as the investigation entered its second month.
The “Today” co-host, her sister Annie, and brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni were seen visiting Nancy Guthrie’s makeshift memorial around 10:45 a.m. local time, according to a video shared by NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin via X.
Footage in the clip showed three people weeping as they carried yellow flowers to the 84-year-old’s memorial, where countless flowers had already been placed next to a sign erected in Nancy’s honor.
Flanked by Pima County Sheriff’s Office officers, Savannah and her siblings placed flowers for their missing mother before hugging each other tightly and lovingly.
Monday marks 30 days since Nancy was first reported missing from her home in Tucson on February 1st.
Last week, it was revealed that the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department were preparing to open Nancy’s home to her children days before Savannah was discovered returning to her mother’s residence.
After the FBI spent several hours at Nancy’s home on February 25, officials told the Post that federal agents were likely looking for the last piece of evidence that may have been overlooked in the ongoing case.
Last week, Savannah released a heartbreaking new video in which she said she and her family accepted that Nancy may be “no more.”
She also announced a $1 million reward for information leading to her mother’s “miraculous” return.
“We also know that she may be gone. She may already be gone,” Savannah tearfully said on February 24th. “She may already be home with her beloved Lord, dancing in heaven with her mom and dad, her beloved brother Pierce, and our dad.”
“And if this is real, we’re going to accept it, but we need to know where she is. We need her to come home,” she added.
Early in the investigation, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office said they believe Savannah’s beloved mother was abducted in her sleep after blood stains were found outside the front door of her Catalina Hills home.
A ransom note was also sent to several media outlets, demanding $6 million in Bitcoin with a deadline of February 9th at 5pm MT.
But that deadline has come and gone, and an FBI spokesperson said Savannah and her brother have had no “ongoing communication” with the suspected kidnapper.
Investigators later released photos and video of an unknown masked person breaking into Nancy’s home on January 31, the night she was last seen.
Several suspects were detained in connection with Nancy’s mysterious disappearance, but all were quickly released.
Meanwhile, the FBI has since relocated most of the Nancy search team from Tucson to Phoenix.
But former FBI Special Agent Tracy Walder said the change doesn’t necessarily mean the agency will give up or scale back its search for the missing 84-year-old.
“The FBI was probably taking people from Phoenix to Tucson, and they can’t stay there forever,” Walder told the Post last week.
“Clearly, the FBI processes or obtains as much physical evidence as it needs at the scene. Therefore, the FBI does not need to have agents at the scene full-time.”
