Savannah Guthrie is scheduled to resume her role as co-anchor on Today on Monday, more than two months after her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, was last seen on the night of Jan. 31. The family announced Nancy missing on Feb. 1, and Savannah has been largely away from the studio while investigators search for answers.
Guthrie has said her decision to come back to work was motivated by her mother’s example. “I won’t let sadness win. For her,” she told colleague Hoda Kotb in a recent interview. She has described watching Nancy persevere after the early death of her husband, Charles Guthrie, who died at 49, and said that resilience helped her find the strength to return to broadcasting even amid uncertainty.
Savannah had been slated to anchor NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics in Milan before Nancy’s disappearance. After the family reported that Nancy had been abducted, Guthrie flew from New York to her mother’s home north of Tucson, Arizona. There, she found signs that “something was very wrong,” including blood on the front doorstep and a removed Ring doorbell camera.
Police have released surveillance footage that appears to show a masked, gloved man tampering with the doorbell camera in the early hours of Feb. 1. Investigators have continued to examine Nancy Guthrie’s movements after she returned from a family dinner on Jan. 31 and are pursuing leads in the case.
The family has addressed ransom notes publicly and posted video messages offering to pay for Nancy’s return, but they say they have received no response. Guthrie has repeatedly urged anyone with information to come forward, saying the community holds a key to finding answers: “We need an answer, and someone has it in their power to help.”
The search remains active, and authorities have reported no major breakthroughs to date. The Guthrie family has offered a $1 million reward for information that leads to Nancy Guthrie’s safe return.