Feb. 24, 2026

BREAKING: Guthrie Family Offers $1 Million to Bring Home Nancy

BREAKING: Guthrie Family Offers $1 Million to Bring Home Nancy

Savannah Guthrie just posted an emotional 4 minute video offering up to $1 million for the recovery of her 84 year old mother Nancy, who has been missing since February 1st. Amy and T.J. play part of her impassioned plea for information where we hear for the first time, Savannah acknowledge that her mom may “already be lost, she may already be gone.”

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00:00:09
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.

00:00:10
Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, February twenty fourth, and we are just getting a significant update and the search for Nancy Guthrie. The update is coming to us from her daughter Savannah, who has now put up a one million dollar reward for information on her missing mother. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. I should say, Rose, they put this up on behalf of the family is doing this. But in a case that had constant updates for a week, we haven't gotten significant ones lately.

00:00:39
Speaker 3: Yes, we have not actually put out an episode on the search for Nancy Guthrie because we only wanted to when there was something meaningful to report. And yes, there have been some fancy headlines out there, but nothing of significance until today, where Savannah Guthrie, yes, made an emotional plea to the person who knows where her mother is, and she said multiple times, someone knows, someone knows how to find our mom, someone knows how to bring her back home. And she acknowledged for the very first time that her mom may not be alive, that they are just tortured not knowing. But they've obviously gotten to a point now four weeks into this search that they understand it could be the outcome they have feared the most, but not knowing is even worse.

00:01:31
Speaker 1: This is going to move things.

00:01:34
Speaker 2: And you know what with the authorities now and police, you know how they got inundated initially, Robes. The people don't report anything, they sniff out even a little bit. This is going to move this thing along. There's going to be a lot of tips that don't result in anything but Robes. The story has not been in the forefront here lately. It hasn't been the thing that's been leading. And it was for two weeks, I would say solidly.

00:01:57
Speaker 3: In fact, I think it was the biggest story certainly in this country but possibly even internationally other than Epstein. Nancy Guthrie Missing Nancy Guthrie dominated the headlines for two straight weeks, and still there was nothing actionable for police to follow through on. That's remarkable.

00:02:18
Speaker 2: They had to even come out and say it's not a cold case, because as long as we got tips to pursue, then we will be doing this actively. Now, Rolds, we thought things would change. We had two major moments recently. There was DNA and a glove that was found. They released a video from the ring cam, which we really thought. I'm frankly surprised more didn't come of that.

00:02:39
Speaker 3: I am too. They were able to say the height, the build, the shape of the eyes. There was even some distinguishing features in terms of the backpack he was wearing where he purchased it from. So yes, it seemed as though this was just a matter of hours, days at the most before they were going to find this person and nothing. And they believe he may have been working with an accomplice. They don't know that he could have pulled this off on his own. They don't have a motive, they don't have a suspect, they don't have a person of interest, and they cleared the entire family and circle of friends, which is almost always where you find your suspect. These random violent acts kidnapping, etcetera, rarely happen by strangers taking strangers. It's almost someone you're connecting here.

00:03:29
Speaker 2: You're certainly not going to snatch an eighty four year old woman with serious medical issues. We're going to play a portion of this video from Savannah Guthrie. Now this is the significant portion in the middle where you mentioned Roges. She's acknowledging that they're acknowledging that maybe the mom isn't with us anymore.

00:03:47
Speaker 1: Rogues, is it not? It's this is the first one. I think I have this right.

00:03:53
Speaker 2: Where they were making well several of them, they were making appeals in their videos to the kidnapper. They even said one in one of the videos, we will pay It's shifted a little recently to where the videos come out. They're asking for the public's health. What have you seen? Not necessarily talking to a kidnapper. This seems to be an extension of that now to where they're not even appealing to someone who took her.

00:04:16
Speaker 1: They're appealing to everybody else. And here's some money to.

00:04:18
Speaker 3: The people around the person who, oh yeah, somebody know yeah, someone who knows the kidnapper, someone who knows of the kidnapping. They are appealing them. At first they were saying, please do the right thing. That was a big part of it. Now it's we will pay you up to one million dollars. It is specific though for the recovery. They didn't even say they're rescue or but they want to they want to physically see their mother.

00:04:42
Speaker 1: All right, And here is now. Listen to Savannah Guthrie.

00:04:44
Speaker 2: She put this out just a short time ago, really within minutes ago, and we are playing this for you here now. It's about a four plus minute long video. We're only going to put play for you. The significant portion in the middle of this video here now is Savannah Guthrie.

00:05:00
Speaker 4: We also know that she may be lost, she may already be gone, she may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves. And this is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad, and with her beloved brother Peers, and with our daddy. If this is what is to be, then we will accept it. But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to one dollars for any information that leads us to her recovery.

00:05:58
Speaker 1: What do you make rolled down? It jumped out?

00:06:01
Speaker 2: Two things jump out, certainly the change in her tone and also, just as a matter I guess is where's reporters and journalists hanging on to every word? Up to a million dollars? So two things kind of just jumped out. We'll hit on those.

00:06:13
Speaker 3: The first one meaning that the acknowledgment that Nancy Guthrie might not be alive. I think the thought is that maybe anyone around this kidnapper or who knows of the kidnapping might have been afraid to come forward because they knew that Nancy Guthrie wasn't alive. So maybe even by acknowledging it, hey we get it, she might not still be alive. It doesn't mean we still don't want to have her remains back with us. We still want her recovered and we want to know what happened to her. So I think that was an acknowledgment of something to someone who knows, who might have been afraid to come forward because they knew the outcome was bad. So we're saying, hey, we know, we know, we get it. Well, still still give you up to a million dollars. I don't know what to make of that. What do you think?

00:06:59
Speaker 2: I don't Maybe she just kind of misspoke in the moment and it might mean nothing.

00:07:03
Speaker 1: But she said up too.

00:07:05
Speaker 3: As well in her note, and it's also online, so I actually think it was deliberate in saying up to a million dollars. I don't know if they have caveats. Maybe if you get part of the information, maybe it doesn't lead to her recovery. But it leads to a step that the next I'm sure this is legal in a lot of ways, because if you say it and you print it, you are bound by that. So maybe there are caveats in which a portion of the money would go to them, a portion of that million dollars would be rewarded for some of the information.

00:07:37
Speaker 2: And that was more I'm reading this, but you at the end of the video. We didn't play the whole thing, but she made other I guess relevant statements and announcements.

00:07:47
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and she said. The Guthrie family said that they planned, in addition to putting up this million up to a million dollars for information leading to Nancy's recovery, they also are donating five hundred thousand dollars to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Savannah said this specifically. Look, they are living through what I think most people would consider the hardest part of dealing with someone's potential death is not knowing if they're dead, and not knowing where they are, and not knowing what they may have gone through. So, yes, they are commiserating. They say, we know there are millions of families who have suffered with this same kind of uncertainty. So there's real empathy coming from them in that sense where they understand now probably for the first time in their lives, what it's actually like to not know. I've thought about this. You and I have covered so many stories about missing children, and as a parent, the first thing you think is that would be absolute living hell to not know. It's hard enough to get the information that you didn't want to hear, but it's even harder to have zero information, to have it be this mystery that you can't solve. And that's what they're facing right now.

00:08:57
Speaker 2: How she sounds, I mean robes There's nothing has ever changed in any of these videos coming from them that leads you to believe they think they're close. They this seems day one, no idea what happened to Nancy Guthrie eighty four years old? Not much of an update necessarily with the case. The sheriff hasn't been doing uh what was the last press conference either? Weeks it's weeks and weeks ago. He said he wouldn't do any until there were significant updates. But there have been updates trickling in and including the sheriff recently having to come out and kind of calm people down about a clue that Internet sleuts thought they had picked up.

00:09:38
Speaker 1: Stay here, all right, folks, We continue.

00:09:49
Speaker 2: Here on Amy and TJ major headline and the Nancy Guthrie disappearance. The family of Nancy Guthrie now offering up to one hundred excuse me, up to a million dollars in reward for in leading to what they're saying is the recovery of Nancy Guthry.

00:10:03
Speaker 3: And something I thought was interesting in that plea, Savannah Guthrie made it very clear you can remain anonymous. You don't have to give your name. They say they have something set up where you can give this information that would lead to Nancy Guthrie's recovery and they would be able to find a way to pay you without your identity ever being known. This is what she's claiming. They gave the one eight hundred call FBI number. She also said, you can find a way to reach out to me. I guess she figures there are enough crafty people out there who can find emails and a way to texture. But she's saying, however, you want to get in touch with us. FBI has also put something out on x asking anyone with first hand knowledge of Nancy Guthrie's whereabouts to contact them for that reward money. So they are blasting this out to everyone that there is a million dollars up for grabs. If you want to sell out the person you know who kidnapped Nancy.

00:10:56
Speaker 2: Guthrie, Well that's the phone is going to ring off the hook. I mean, stand by for TMZ to get twenty new notes from somebody. Right, they've never said any of those notes that came in the TMZ were credible, So we seem nowhere, Robes, this is going This has to work if and I just worry about how many thousands of leads they are going to get that aren't actually.

00:11:22
Speaker 3: Legitimate, But that just goes to show you they've calculated that and they're willing to take in all of those thousands and thousands of leads that they know they're going to get to find the one that they're looking for.

00:11:34
Speaker 1: That means they really don't have anything. Robes.

00:11:37
Speaker 2: How can you have a picture of the guy on the porch and have and be nowhere and.

00:11:42
Speaker 3: To your pipe what you teased? There was another image of this suspect on Nancy Guthrie's porch without the backpack, and people started jumping to conclusions, making headlines out of this other image, saying he came the night before the suspect was scoping out Nancy Guthrie's home in the days leading up to her kidnapping. See here's a picture of him without the backpack. The sheriff had to come in and correct.

00:12:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's well, he calmed people down. He said, anything about that is speculative, but actually we don't know. I mean, that was someme thing. He said, Yeah, that could have been the same day, could have been a different day.

00:12:20
Speaker 1: We don't know.

00:12:22
Speaker 2: So the idea though ropes that would be a big clue, would it not if we hear that the culprit was there more than one day, wouldn't this give you a chance to go back to different months. But they don't have any time stamps. They don't know when this stuff is nothing.

00:12:36
Speaker 3: And the other headline that the sheriff over the last couple of days has tried to backpedal, so to speak. Folks have put up headline saying the case is cold. They're taking off investigators, they're downsizing their force that's investigating the Guthrie disappearance because after two three weeks, that's just standard operating procedure. You don't have any more leads to follow. You bring down the numbers of investigators you have devoted to that particular investigation. And the Shark came out and said, that is not true. Our investigation continues, it is growing, it is not being downsized. So he now is finding himself seeing headlines and having to either soften them or completely refute them. But that's as far as we've gotten in terms of new information on this case up until today.

00:13:27
Speaker 2: This story is fascinating Robes because quite frankly, I don't know the last time we were in the middle of this type of mystery. But there have been cases that have gone on for decades and decades and decades and people don't get answers to what happened. I'm sitting here forty eight. I can still remember Morgan Nick, little girl that went missing in nineteen ninety six in Alma, Arkansas from a park. I was a freshman in college when she went missing. To this day, I remember that story. They still don't know what happened to her. Look, I'm saying these stories, I remember stories exist.

00:14:03
Speaker 3: Madeline McCann to think how many years ago McCann is years ago, I.

00:14:08
Speaker 1: Believe, but we were working in the industry.

00:14:10
Speaker 3: Correct, she's missing, never to be found again. I know John Benny Ramsay's body was found, but it's still a complete mystery if a stranger came in or if a member of the family had anything to do with it. Despite the fact that police have ruled out the family in that case, there are still yes and those cases stay with you. Those cases stay with the public.

00:14:28
Speaker 2: But the ones staying with Savannah right now are Elizabeth smart right. They are rare. We've seen them Robes over year, and this does happen. Miracles happen, and maybe it will. But Rogues, I still wanted to know. If it wasn't about money, why the hell did somebody take Nancy Guthrie, And if they did, digger, why do we not know a single one of these notes is credible? This is just a mystery now that Robes, I think this move. I thought the images and the and the tips came, we thought they would produce more results, But this is this could be the.

00:15:06
Speaker 3: One money motivates.

00:15:08
Speaker 2: We know that you're in somebody that knows the guy who knows the guy who's just on the outskirts of being in that circle can feel safe. Now possibly, Oh are these complete loaners ropes? How do how does someone get away with this?

00:15:22
Speaker 3: I know that good because you know the theory I operate with in terms of the way people operate. Everyone tells one person, Yes, everyone tells one person. A secret is not really a secret. And even if he didn't tell someone, it seems as though given what we've seen happen and what it would take to cover up your tracks, it seems like someone would have to be suspicious in this suspect's life about the timing, what happened around that period of time you were gone for that area. Yes, there has to be someone out there who knows something. Just like Savannah said, I think we all believe that law enforcement believes that someone else knows about what happened, and they're hoping that a million dollars we'll make that person finally finally give the information we've all been waiting for. But most importantly, the Guthrie family desperately wants answers to We will continue to follow the story, bring you any developments as they are warranted in the meantime, though, thank you so much for listening to us. Everyone, I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.