"SAVANNAH GUTHRIE'S MOTHER ABDUCTED, 'DANCES WITH WOLVES' PREDATOR CONVICTED & NORWEGIAN PRINCE'S RAPE TRIAL BEGINS"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Wednesday, February fourth, twenty twenty six. Today's show anchor Savannah Guthrie is not in a newsroom this morning. She's in Tucson, Arizona, searching for her mother. Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old, was taken from her bed sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Blood found inside the home, signs of forced entry, personal belongings left behind, wallet, phone, car keys. An eighty four year old woman who can't walk fifty yards without help, who needs daily medication to survive vanished. Pima County Sheriff says she was taken against her will. FBI is now involved, no ransom demands, no suspects, and Savannah Guthrie just had what she's calling the worst phone call of her life.

0:57 Nathan Chasing Horse, you'll remember we covered his trial when it began back on January sixteenth, the Dances with Wolves actor who played Smiles a lot in the nineteen ninety film. Prosecutors said he used his reputation as a Lakota medicine man to build a cult of up to three hundred fifty followers and prey on Indigenous women and girls. Friday, a Las Vegas jury convicted him on thirteen of twenty one charges sexual assault of a minor under sixteen, lewdness, child pornography. Faces a minimum of twenty five years in prison sentencing March eleventh. And in Norway, Crown Princess Meta Mariite's twenty nine year old son, Marius borg Hoybie, walked into Oslo District Court yesterday to face thirty eight criminal charges, four counts of rape, domestic violence, assault, drug trafficking. Seven alleged victims pleaded not guilty to the rapes. But here's the twist. He was arrested again on Sunday, the day before his trial started, on new charges of assault, knife threats, and violating a restraining order. And his mother her Jeffrey Epstein emails just resurfaced nearly a thousand mentions in newly released files, emails calling Epstein charming and sweet. Years after his guilty plea for soliciting a minor. Norway's royal family is in crisis. I'm read Carter today, a mother missing, a predator convicted, and a prince on trial. This is

2:29 celebrity trials. Let's start in Tucson, Catalina Foothill's neighborhood. Quiet, affluent, the kind of place where million dollar homes sit behind landscaped yards and people know their neighbors. Nancy Guthrie lives there alone, eighty four years old, mother of three, grandmother, the woman who raised Savannah Guthrie, America's Morning anchor, after Savannah's father died of a heart attack during her high school years. Nancy raised those three kids by herself, and she's been living independently in Tucson for years. Saturday night, January thirty, first last confirmed sighting of Nancy Guthrie between nine thirty and nine forty five PM in her home.

3:18 Normal evening, nothing unusual. Sunday morning, Nancy was supposed to be at church. She didn't show up. Nancy Guthrie always shows up, the kind of woman who doesn't miss church, who follows a routine, who people notice when she's absent. Around noon on Sunday, someone went to check on her. The house was wrong, blood inside, signs of forced entry. Nancy was gone, her wallet was still there, her phone, her car in the driveway, her keys, everything a person would take if they were leaving voluntarily all left behind. An eighty four year old woman doesn't walk away from her home in the middle of the night without her phone, her wallet, her car, and her keys, especially not a woman who can't walk fifty yards without assistance. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed Monday that Nancy Guthrie was believed to have been taken from her bed against her will.

4:11 His words, taken from her bed against her will. That's not a welfare check. That's not a missing person's case. That's a kidnapping. The Sheriff's department activated immediately. Homicide detectives assigned the home, declared an active crime scene, DNA evidence collected and sent for testing. FBI brought into assist a two five hundred dollars reward offered through the eighty eight Crime nonprofit for information leading to Nancy's recovery. But here's what makes this terrifying. Nancy Guthrie requires daily medication. Without it, her condition deteriorates rapidly. The Sheriff's office has said that going without her medication could be fatal. Fatal. That word changes everything. This isn't just a missing person, this is race against the clock. Sheriff Nanos said Nancy has no cognitive issues sharp as attack of sound mind. She's not someone who wandered off confused. She's someone who was taken and she doesn't have the physical ability to escape on her own, can't walk fifty yards, depends on medication to stay alive, and has been missing since sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. That's days now. The investigation has raised more questions than answers. No ransom demands. Nobody has called the family or law enforcement asking for money.

5:34 That's unusual in a kidnapping. If someone took Nancy Guthrie to extort her famous daughter, you'd expect a demand by now, unless the motive isn't money. Sheriff Nano's told reporters he doesn't believe the general public is in danger, but he also said he can't rule out that Nancy was targeted because of Savannah's fame. Can't confirm it, can't deny it, just can't rule it out, which means investigators are looking at everything, every angle, every possibility, including whether someone went after an eighty four year old woman to get to the woman who wakes up America every morning. There are no known threats against Savannah Guthrie, no stalker cases, no public disputes that would motivate violence against her family. But fame creates visibility, and visibility creates vulnerability, especially for elderly family members living alone. Now Savannah, she was supposed to be in Milan right now the Winter Olympics NBC's Marquee coverage.

6:35 Savannah was scheduled to co host the opening ceremony on February sixth with Mike Tarico, one of the biggest assignments in broadcast journalism. Instead, she got a phone call. She's described it as the worst phone call of her life. Dropped everything, flew to Arizona immediately, traveling with a security team. The Milan Olympics assignment is gone. Someone else will co host the opening ceremony. Savannah Guthrie is in Tucson searching for her mother. She posted on Instagram a plea for help, for prayers, for tips. We believe in prayer. Please raise your prayers with us, bring her home. Her statement thanked. Supporters asked anyone with information to call the tip line, begging the public for anything, any detail, any sighting, any clue.

7:22 The Today's Show has covered the story two days running, led the broadcast with it. Her co host's visibly shaken. Carson Daley said on air, I don't think I've ever prayed for anything harder in my life. Hoda Cutbee, Craig Melvin, Chanelle Jones all emotional. This isn't just a news story to them. This is their friend, their colleague, and her mother is missing. Anyone who watches The Today Show knows this. Nancy has appeared on air, been referenced in segments, Mother's Day tributes, Thanksgiving stories. The relationship between Savannah and her mother is something the audience has watched for you. Nancy raised three children alone after her husband died, taught them resilience, faith, strength, and now she's gone. Here's the pattern that concerns investigators.

8:11 Elderly woman, living alone, affluent neighborhood, famous daughter, no security system that prevented entry, blood inside the home, forced entry, no belongings taken, no phone, no car, someone came for Nancy Guthrie specifically, didn't ransack the place, didn't steal valuables, took the person. DNA evidence is being tested. That takes time, but it could be the break investigator's need. Blood in the home, could belong to Nancy, could belong to whoever took her, could tell us if there was a struggle, how violent it was, whether Nancy was injured before being removed. The FBI's involvement suggests this is being treated with maximum urgency, federal resources, forensic capabilities, intelligence databases, the kind of tools local law enforcement doesn't all always have access to. When the FBI gets involved in a missing person's case, it means they believe there's a credible threat and the resources are warranted. Sheriff Nanos has been measured in his public comments. Careful, doesn't want to compromise the investigation, doesn't want to speculate.

9:17 But the facts speak for themselves. Blood, forced entry, an elderly woman who can't walk on her own, no voluntary departure possible. This is an abduction. The question is who and why? And is Nancy Guthrie still alive? Every hour that passes without her medication makes the answer to that last question more uncertain. Nancy Guthrie is eighty four years old, mother, grandmother, a woman who raised her children alone, who should be in church on Sunday morning, who should be talking to her daughter on the phone, who should be safe in her own home. Bring Nancy home. We'll be right back. With the conviction of Dances with Wolves actor Nathan cha Horse, a medicine man, a cult leader, a predator, and a jury that said guilty on thirteen counts. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed, Carter Friday, January thirtieth, twenty twenty six, Las Vegas, Nevada, Clark County Courtroom. The jury returned its verdict in State versus Nathan Chasing Horse, guilty thirteen of twenty one charges. We brought you this story back on January sixteenth, when the trial began. Nathan Chasing Horse, forty nine years old, best known for playing smiles a lot in Kevin Costner's nineteen ninety Academy Award winning film Dances with Wolves. He was a teenager when he got that role,

10:48 a young Lakota man from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Hollywood loved him, the indigenous community embraced him. He was supposed to be a symbol of Native American pride on the big screen. Instead, prosecutors say he used that fame, that reputation to build something monstrous Chasing Horse positioned himself as a Lakota medicine man, a holy man, a spiritual leader. He founded what followers called the Circle, up to three hundred and fifty people at its peak, mostly Indigenous women and girls, people who believed in him, who trusted him, who thought he had spiritual authority, and he allegedly weaponized that trust for nearly twenty years. The main victim in the Nevada case was fourteen years old in twenty twelve. Fourteen.

11:36 Her mother had cancer was dying. Chasing Horse told the girl that the spirits demanded her virginity, that if she didn't submit, her mother would die. That if she told anyone what happened, her mother would die. That's not spirituality, that's not medicine. That's predation disguised as prayer, using a dying woman's cancer to rape her daughter. The assaults continued for years. The victim said she was trapped, believed him, believed the spirits would punish her family if she spoke. That's the power of a cult leader. You don't need locks on the doors when you've locked people's minds. Deputy District Attorney Biancapucci told the jury Chasing Horse spun a web of abuse for nearly two decades, exploiting indigenous traditions, manipulating vulnerable families, targeting women and girls who were already marginalized by poverty, by geography, by the isolation of reservation life.

12:34 The jury deliberated and came back with their verdict guilty on thirteen counts sexual assault of a miner under sixteen, lewdness with a child, possession of child sexual abuse material. These aren't minor charges. These are the kind of convictions that end with decades behind bars. He was acquitted on eight charges, including the kidnapping counts. The jury apparently drew a line between the sexual offenses, which they believed were proven, and the more complex allegations around movement and control. But thirteen guilty verdicts is devastating enough to put Nathan Chasing Horse away for the rest of his functional life. Minimum sentence twenty five years. He's forty nine. Do the math.

13:20 He'll be at least seventy four before he's eligible for anything resembling freedom, and that's the minimum the judge could go higher. Sentencing is scheduled for March eleventh. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson released a statement, Exploitation and abuse will not be tolerated regardless of the defendant's public persona or claims of spiritual authority. That's the line right there. Public persona, spiritual authority neither protects you from accountability. Doesn't matter if you were in a Kevin Costner movie. Doesn't matter if three hundred and fifty people called you a holy man. You assault a child, you answer for it. Defense attorney Craig Muller said he was confused and disappointed by the verdict, plans to file a motion for a new trial, called the accuser's credibility into question standard defense posture.

14:09 But the jury heard the evidence, heard the testimony, decided they believed the victims thirteen times over. And Nevada isn't the only jurisdiction with its eyes on chasing Horse. He faces charges in other states and in Canada. British Columbia has said it will assess next steps after the American sentencing and any appeals are resolved. The web of abuse apparently crossed state lines and international borders. This is what happens when a community places someone on a pedestal and nobody questions them when spiritual authority becomes absolute, when a famous face provides cover for unspeakable acts. Three hundred and fifty followers, women and girls who trusted him, and a fourteen year old who was told the spirits demanded her body to save her mother's life. Nathan Chasing Horse was smiles a lot in a movie. In real life, he was something much darker, and now a jury has told him so. The victims in this case were Indigenous women and girls, communities that are already disproportionately affected by sexual violence, communities where cases are underreported, where investigations are underfunded, where justice is rare. The fact that this case made it to trial, that prosecutors pursued it, that a jury convicted on thirteen counts, that matters. It matters for every Indigenous woman and girl who's been told nobody will believe her.

15:31 Someone believed them this time, thirteen times. Sentencing March eleventh will be there coming up. A Norwegian prince walks into court on thirty eight criminal charges, including four counts of rape. He was arrested again the day before his trial started, and his mother, the Crown Princess, is drowning in Jeffrey Epstein emails. Norway's royal family is in freefall. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter Oslo, Norway, Oslow District Court. Yesterday morning, February third, twenty twenty six, Marius borg Hoybee walked into the court room to face thirty eight criminal charges, including four counts of rape. Twenty nine years old, son of Crown Princess Meta Marite of Norway from a previous relationship, step son of Crown Prince Hagen, who is heir to the Norwegian throne. Marius has no royal title, no official duties.

16:32 He's not a member of the Royal House of Norway, but he grew up in the Royal Palace, raised alongside the children of the future King, lived a life of extraordinary privilege, and now he's standing trial for rape four counts, spanning twenty eighteen to November twenty twenty four, six years of alleged sexual violence against multiple victims. Seven women are expected to testify against him over the course of this trial. Seven The charges don't stop at rape, domestic violence, aggravated assault, breaking restraining orders, transporting three and a half kilos of marijuana. That's nearly eight pounds, death, threats, traffic violations, thirty eight charges total, a catalog of alleged violence and criminality that reads like a case study and entitlement gone catastrophically wrong.

17:19 Hoybe's plea not guilty to the four rape charges, guilty to some driving offenses and a drug charge. And here's where it gets interesting. Partly guilty to threats and aggravated assault. Partly what does partly guilty mean? It means his defense is going to argue about degrees, about context, about what constitutes a threat versus an argument about what constitutes assault versus a physical altercation. The trial is scheduled to run seven weeks until March nineteenth. Seven weeks of testimony, seven alleged victims, thirty eight charges. This is the biggest criminal trial in Norwegian royal history. But wait, it gets worse. Sunday, February first, the day before his trial opened, Marius Borg Hoybee was arrested again, new charges assault, threats with a knife, violation of a restraining order. The court granted a four week detention order, citing risk of reoffending. Risk of reoffending.

18:17 The day before your rape trial starts, you get arrested for threatening someone with a knife. His defense is contesting the detention and considering an appeal. Make it make sense. You're about to stand trial on thirty eight charges, including four rapes. You know the world is watching, you know every move you make is under scrutiny, and you allegedly assault someone and threaten them with a knife the day before. If you wanted to hand prosecutors a gift, you couldn't have wrapped it better. Crown Prince Hockin released a statement measured careful. Royal said Marius borg Hoybee is not a member of the Royal House of Norway and is therefore autonomous. Autonomous translation, he's on his own. The Palace won't attend the trial, won't intervene, won't defend him publicly. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess Meta Marite will not be in that courtroom. Haken emphasized confidence in the Norwegian justice system, said the process should be allowed to run its course.

19:16 That's the diplomatic version of we're not touching this. But here's the part that makes this story explode beyond one man's criminal trial. Crown Princess Meta Marite, Marius's mother while her son faces rape charges, she's facing her own reckoning with Jeffrey Epstein. Friday, January thirty, first new batch of Epstein files released, and Crown Princess Meta Marite is all over them. Nearly a thousand mentions emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein from twenty eleven to twenty fourteen. Let that sink in twenty eleven to twenty fourteen. Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in two thousand and eight to soliciting a miner for prostitution, served thirteen registered as a sex offender. Everyone knew what he was. The conviction was public, the sex offender registry was public, and Crown Princess Meta Marie was emailing him three years later. The emails are devastating. She called him charming, sweet, said he tickled her brain, called him soft hearted. These aren't formal diplomatic exchanges. These are intimate, familiar messages between people who considered themselves friends. In twenty twelve, she asked Epstein in an email whether it was quote inappropriate for a mother to suggest two naked women carrying a surfboard for my fifteen year old son's wallpaper. She's asking a convicted sex offender about suggestive images involving naked women in the context of her teenage son's bedroom. Read that sentence again. They discussed Epstein's wife hunt in Paris.

20:50 The Crown Princess replied that Paris was good for adultery, said Scandinavians made better wife material, casual joking, friendly banter with a man convic did of sex crimes against miners. In twenty thirteen, Meta Mariee borrowed Epstein's Palm Beach property for four days, his home where some of the abuse occurred. She stayed there, and in twenty eleven she told Epstein she had googled him. It didn't look too good, she wrote, with a smiling emoji. She knew she googled him, read what came up, and kept the friendship going with a smiley face. The Palace says she ended contact in twenty fourteen when she felt Epstein was trying to use the relationship as leverage too little, too late. Three years of emails after his conviction, borrowing his property, calling him charming, asking him about naked women for her son's wall, Meta Mariite released a statement Saturday, her words, I showed poor judgment, and I deeply regret having had any contact with Epstein, called it simply embarrassing, said she must take responsibility for not investigating Epstein's background more thoroughly not investigating his background.

21:58 He was a convicted sex offense. It was on the front page of every newspaper in the western world. She googled him and it didn't look too good. What more investigation did she need? She expressed deep sympathy and solidarity with Epstein's victims. But sympathy doesn't erase the emails, doesn't erase the property stays, doesn't erase the friendly banter with a predator. She'd already apologized once back in twenty nineteen, when her Epstein connections first became public, But these new files contain details that make the twenty nineteen apology look hollow. The depth of the friendship, the casual tone, the joke about naked women and her teenage son, the smiling emoji after googling a sex offender. So here's the picture for Norway's royal family right now. The Crown Princess's son is on trial for four rapes thirty eight charges total, arrested the day before his trial on new allegations. The Crown Princess herself is buried in Jeffrey Epstein emails that show she maintained a friendly relationship with a convicted sex offender for years. The Crown Prince is trying to distance the monarchy from both crises while maintaining public confidence. And this isn't even the only scandal. Crown Prince Hakin's sister, Princess Martha Luise, married an American self proclaimed shaman named Durrek Verat in twenty twenty four. Her business ventures and his mystical claims have drawn criticism for years. Norwegian royal expert Tovi Talisen described the last year and a half as shocking for the Norwegian people. Said the country loves its

23:31 royal family, said there's compassion for what the royals are going through, but the Hoybee trial, combined with the Epstein emails, is testing that goodwill. King Harold is eighty eight years old, still serving, still popular, the monarchy itself still supported, but the institution is being battered from every direction. A prince on trial for rape, a princess married to a shaman, a Crown princess linked to Jeffrey Epstein. How much can one royal family absorb before the public says enough. The trial runs until March nineteenth, seven weeks. If convicted on the most serious charges, Hoybee faces ten to sixteen years in prison. Mariusborg Hoybe grew up in a palace, had every advantage, every opportunity, every privilege a person could have, and he allegedly spent six years raping and assaulting women.

24:24 Privilege isn't character. A palace address doesn't make you a good person, and a crown princess's son answers to the same laws as everyone else, at least in Norway. That's celebrity trials for Wednesday, February fourth, twenty twenty six. Nancy Guthrie, eighty four years old, believed abducted from her Tucson home, blood inside, forced entry, needs daily medication to survive. Her daughter Savannah, has dropped everything to search for her. If you know anything, five two zero three five one four nine zero zero. Nathan Chasing Horse convicted on thirteen charges sexual assault of a miner, lewdness, child pornography, The Dances with Wolves actor who used his fame and spiritual authority to prey on Indigenous women and girls faces minimum twenty five years sentencing. March eleventh, and Marius borg Hoybe's rape trial opened in Oslow. Thirty eight charges, four rapes, seven alleged victims. Arrested again the day before trial. His mother, Crown Princess Meta Marite, drowning in Epstein, emails, Norway's royal family and crisis. I'm reed Carter Tomorrow. Updates on the search for Nancy Guthrie and whatever else breaks. This is celebrity trials.