Savannah Guthrie held back tears as she described her ‘deep disappointment with God’ on the first Easter without her beloved mother Nancy by her side. 

The Today Show host, who recently made her way back to New York City after more than two months without any indication of where her missing 84-year-old mother is, delivered a personal message on Sunday morning. 

During the holiday mass at her church, Good Shepard New York, Savannah shared what this day means for her, as Nancy has yet to be seen or heard from since her mysterious disappearance from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on February 1. 

After speaking about what Easter is all about, including family time and Spring cheer, Savannah said it’s been challenging for her to navigate the day. 

‘We celebrate today the promise of a new life that never ends in death. But, standing here today, I have to tell you, there are moments in which that promise seems irretrievably far away,’ she said as her voice trembled. 

‘When life itself seems far harder than death. These moments of deep disappointment with God, the feeling of utter abandonment. 

‘For most of us, there will come a time in our lives when these feelings hold sway. In our tradition, we are taught to take comfort in the fact that our friend, Jesus, in his short life, experienced every single emotion that we humans can feel. 

‘That his taking on the form of humanity made him not a distant observer to our pain, but a hands-on experiencer of it. Recently, though, in my own season of trial, I have wondered, I have questioned whether Jesus ever experienced this particular wound that I feel,’ Savannah shared, referring to the ‘grievous and uniquely cruel injury of not known’ she is enduring. 

Since her mother vanished, there have been a series of blackmail messages sent to the family and to media outlets demanding money in bitcoin in return for Nancy. 

None of the ransoms were ever paid as the Guthrie family demanded that they proof of life, but never got it. 

Authorities and the family also could not verify the authenticity of the ransom notes, despite their willingness to pay. 

Over the course of the investigation, only a few people have been taken in for questioning. No one has been arrested. 

Various pieces of evidence have also been found at the home and in the surrounding area, including drops of blood on Nancy’s front porch, a torn-down doorbell camera, and various gloves. 

Surveillance footage also captured a masked person outside her front door, appearing to tamper with the doorbell camera before it was snatched off. 

Nearly two weeks ago, Savannah revealed she will return to anchoring the Today Show on Monday, April 6, but warned her comeback might be short-lived because of her mother’s abduction. 

In a tearful interview with her NBC colleague Hoda Kotb, Savannah said of her Today colleagues: ‘I have been so grateful to have this family.

‘I consider this my family, my greater family, and when times are hard, you want to be with your family and I want to be with my family,’ she said.

‘I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore but I would like to try.’ 

She’s been off-screen since the horrible news broke,  and suggested she is a fundamentally different person from the one last seen hosting from Studio One at NYC’s Rockefeller Center.

‘I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not. But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now,’ she told Kotb in the portion of the interview that aired Friday.

‘I want to smile, and when I do, it will be real. My joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer. And being there is joyful.

‘And when it’s not, I’ll say so.’

Savannah, in her interview with Kotb, also suggested that she could forgive Nancy’s kidnapper if they come forward.

‘We need an answer and someone has it in their power to help,’ she said, before directly addressing her mother’s abductor and potential witnesses.

‘It is never too late and when you do, the warmth of love and forgiveness, that will come, will be greater than can be imagined.

‘I know what it is to be forgiven. And there is no greater joy. And that joy awaits whoever can hear this and find it in their heart to help.’

The Today show co-host further shared how her Christian faith has kept her connected to her mom and helped her survive the horrific nightmare.

‘God doesn’t tell us not to wrestle with him. This isn’t some cheap faith and my mom taught me that. God only requires our authentic presence, and that he has,’ she said.

Savannah said she ‘never doubted’ God despite the pain that her family was enduring.

‘Faith is how I will stay connected to my mom. God is how I’m holding hands with my mom. And I won’t let sadness win.’

By ROGER DOBSON

Published: 18:05 EDT, 28 March 2026 | Updated: 01:26 EDT, 29 March 2026

As the search for Nancy Guthrie stretches past 50 days with no answers, one woman who has spent more than two decades searching for her own missing sister says this is the moment families fear most – when urgency begins to fade and the fight for answers becomes even harder.

Julie Murray, whose sister Maura Murray vanished in New Hampshire in 2004, said what the Guthrie family is experiencing right now is something she recognizes immediately.

“What they’re going through is something you never forget,” Murray said. “You can see it on their faces. You can hear the desperation in their voices.”

Murray said cases often begin with an intense surge of attention, resources, media coverage and public engagement, but that momentum can fade, leaving families to carry the burden.

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“Most families… have to fight to be heard and beg for that level of attention,” she said. “And some families don’t get any at all.”

That attention, she emphasized, can be lifesaving.

“Media pressure saves lives.”

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Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen Feb. 1 after being dropped off at her Tucson, Arizona home. Authorities believe she was taken against her will in the early morning hours.

Surveillance video captured a masked man, described as average height and build, approaching her home carrying a black backpack and what appeared to be a handgun. Investigators say Guthrie’s phone and watch were later recovered inside the home, while her pacemaker last synced with her Apple devices around 2:30 a.m., helping establish a possible timeline.

Despite weeks of investigation, authorities have not announced a suspect. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said Guthrie was likely targeted.

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The case has drawn national attention, driven in part by emotional public appeals from Guthrie’s daughter, NBC “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie.

“Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony,” Guthrie said in a preview of her first formal interview since her mother’s disappearance.

In the same interview, she described the toll the uncertainty has taken.

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“I wake up every night in the middle of the night… and in the darkness, I imagine her terror,” she said. “She needs to come home now.”

Authorities are urging anyone with information to contact the FBI tip line.

Murray said the level of attention surrounding the Guthrie case can generate a surge of tips, but not all are actionable.

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“You’re begging the public for information, but at the same time you’re getting speculation and hearsay,” she said. “Some of those tips you just can’t chase down.”

Her family, she said, still receives tips more than 20 years after her sister vanished, none of which have led to answers.

Each one, however, carries emotional weight.

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“I call it the hope roller coaster,” Murray said. “You want it to be the one that breaks the case open… and then it doesn’t.”

Retired LAPD Detective Moses Castillo said that emotional toll is already visible in the Guthrie family’s public appeals.

“You can feel every ounce of her pain, her strength, and her desperation,” Castillo said. “That kind of resolve matters. It moves people. It forces attention.”

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He described Savannah Guthrie’s interview as “a call to action” that could help generate new leads.

Murray warned that one of the most difficult turning points in a case comes when investigators exhaust immediate leads.

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For Murray’s family, that moment came just weeks after Maura disappeared.

“The worst day wasn’t the day she went missing,” she said. “It was the day we were told they had done all they could.”

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From that point forward, she said, the responsibility shifted to the family to keep pushing for answers—through media coverage, public pressure and independent efforts.

“You can’t let up on the pressure,” she said.

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Investigators have said the Guthrie case remains active, but have also warned the public not to assume there is no ongoing threat.

Families also face growing challenges as cases gain visibility, including online speculation and bad actors.

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“Trust becomes a casualty,” Murray said, warning that some individuals attempt to exploit high-profile cases or spread misinformation.

More than two decades later, Murray said her family has come to terms with the likelihood that her sister is no longer alive—but they are still searching for answers.

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“There’s no such thing as closure,” she said. “It’s resolution.”

For families like the Guthries, that means continuing to push for answers, while hoping the right tip finally comes in.

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Authorities are asking anyone with information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance to contact the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI. A combined reward of more than $1 million is being offered for information leading to her return.

Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood, Hanna Panreck and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.  

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The Guthrie family is clinging to hope that someone in the Arizona community where their missing 84-year-old mother lived has critical information about her abduction, they said in a heartbreaking statement.

Nancy Guthrie’s three children expressed their gratitude to residents of Tucson for their support in a statement to KVOA on Saturday, but urged renewed focus on the case as the search for the missing mother enters its seventh week.

“We continue to believe it is Tucsonans, and the greater southern Arizona community, that hold the key to finding resolution in this case,” the statement said.

“Someone knows something. It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant. We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11.

“We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom’s case – please consult camera footage, journal notes, text messages, observations or conversations that in retrospect may hold significance,” they added.

“No detail is too small. It may be the key.”

The heartbroken family said they miss their mother deeply and won’t find peace until she is home.

“We cannot grieve; we can only ache and wonder,” they said.

“Our focus is solely on finding her and bringing her home. We want to celebrate her beautiful and courageous life. But we cannot do that until she is brought to a final place of rest.

Nancy, mother of “Today” show star Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been taken from her Tucson, Arizona, home during the early hours of Feb. 1.

She was reported missing after she failed to show up at church, and security footage recovered from her doorbell camera captured a masked man loitering around doorstep the night police believe she was kidnapped.

Police have still not identified any suspects.

Investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie are reportedly zeroing in on evidence from two specific dates in the days before she vanished – suggesting her kidnappers may have been casing out her Arizona home for weeks before the crime.

The FBI has been asking the 84-year-old’s Tucson neighbors for any home security footage that may have from Jan. 11 and Jan. 24, NewNation’s Brian Entin reported.

Agents were adamant about those dates as spoke with neighbors about the disappearance, and even watched over shoulders as the neighbors scanned through their archives for the footage, according to Entin.

Nancy vanished from her home on Feb. 1 – with investigators’ interest in Jan. 11 and 24 suggesting her captors may have been in the neighborhood at least twice before the kidnapping.

The news also suggests that the FBI is retracing the steps of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, which is accused of botching the investigation.

“Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie is “livid” over early claims her brother-in-law was a prime suspect in her mom Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, according to her former NBC colleague Megyn Kelly.

The conservative firebrand said she had learned Guthrie was left fuming after fellow journalist, Ashleigh Banfield, had alleged the brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, was somehow tied to the Feb.1 kidnapping in Tucson, Ariz.

Kelly dropped the revelation amid reports Guthrie is planning to sue Banfield over the false allegation — and especially since the Pima County Sheriff’s Office publicly cleared the family of having any involvement.

“I have not been able to confirm that the Guthrie family wants to sue Ashleigh Banfield, but I have confirmed that Savannah is livid about that report and definitely does not suspect her or her brother-in-law,” Kelly said during an episode of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show late last week.

“Can you blame her? I mean, of course, she loves her sister, I’m sure she loves her brother-in-law, and I’m sure she genuinely doesn’t believe they had anything to do with it.”

Cioni and his wife Annie Guthrie were the last known people to see Nancy after having dinner with her the night before she vanished, according to investigators.

Just days after her disappearance, Banfield went on air citing a single law enforcement source who said Cioni was possibly being eyed as a suspect.

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Banfield later doubled down on her reporting — even after Sheriff Chris Nanos insisted there were no persons of interest in the case.

The college fraternity pledge who died in a horrific hazing incident this year was forced to drink so much liquor his blood-alcohol level was more than five times the legal driving limit, an autopsy revealed.

Colin Daniel Martinez, 18, died of alcohol poisoning during a Delta Tau Delta house party at Northern Arizona State University in January, where he and others rushing the fraternity were urged to chug vodka until they vomited.

His blood-alcohol level was an incredible 0.425% — more than five times Arizona’s legal limit for driving and generally considered enough to kill a person, an autopsy report released Monday confirmed, according to CBS News.

Students at the house called police the morning of Jan. 31, after Martinez passed and had been heard snoring loudly around 3 a.m., six hours prior to the phone call. Witnesses told police students readjusted his sleeping position and checked his pulse. 

Others searched for symptoms of alcohol poisoning online, court papers said. 

Students were desperately performing CPR on Martinez when police arrived — but despite additional life-saving efforts, he died at the scene, according to the Flagstaff Police Department.

Three frat leaders — new member educator Carter Eslick, vice president Ryan Creech and treasurer Riley Cass — were arrested on suspicion of hazing, police said.

The Coconino County Attorney’s Office said it is reviewing the case to determine whether formal charges will be filed against the three frat bosses, who were 20 at the time, according to CBS.

Martinez and three others were involved in a “rush” event to join Delta Tau Delta when they were tasked with downing two bottles of vodka to ensure they vomited as a rite to join the fraternity, according to court papers.

Some witnesses told police that the booze had been diluted with water.

After Martinez died, the university suspended the fraternity. The national organization, which is based in Indiana, later voted to shutter the NAU chapter.

Northern Arizona University said in a statement that the school was “mourning the tragic death of a student.”

“Violence hazing or any other behavior that endangers others has no place at NAU,” a school spokesperson said. 

“The university has robust hazing prevention training and requirements, and has high standards for the conduct of all NAU-associated organizations and individual students.”

Delta Tau Delta told CBS News hazing “is the antithesis of brotherhood and a violation” of the fraternity’s values and that it supports anti-hazing legislation nationwide.

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It just made cents.

Major League Baseball star Merrill Kelly will pocket nearly $2.5 million more per year over the next two seasons of his $40 million deal by signing in Arizona instead of California.

The massive difference in cash reflects the spread in state income taxes as well as California’s disability insurance levy and typical property tax differences on a luxury home.

However, the overwhelming driver of the disparity is state income tax.

California’s top marginal rate reaches 13.3% — a 12.3% bracket plus an additional 1% Mental Health Services Tax on income above $1 million. On a $20 million salary, that translates to roughly $2.63 million owed to the state.

Arizona, by contrast, imposes a flat 2.5% income tax regardless of earnings. On the same $20 million contract, the bill comes to about $500,000.

That difference alone — approximately $2.13 million per year — accounts for nearly all of the gap.

California also withholds 1.3% for State Disability Insurance, with no wage cap. On a $20 million salary, that’s another roughly $260,000 — a levy Arizona does not impose.

Property taxes and sales taxes pale in comparison.

On a $10 million home, California’s effective property tax rate of roughly 0.70% would translate to about $70,000 annually, versus roughly $44,000 in Arizona at an effective rate near 0.44% — a difference of around $26,000 per year.

Even if the home price climbs higher, the property tax gap amounts to tens of thousands

Sales taxes vary by city and spending habits, but they are unlikely to materially alter the overall gap.

For example, if a player spent $1 million annually on taxable goods, a roughly 1 to 1.5 percentage-point difference between jurisdictions would amount to about $10,000 to $15,000 per year.

Even with lavish consumption, the sales tax impact would likely total tens of thousands.

The eye-popping gap came into focus after veteran right-hander Kelly cited California’s tax burden as a key reason he spurned the San Diego Padres and returned home to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

“I don’t think it’s any secret on how much money you get taken out of your pocket when you go to California,” the 37-year-old said.

“It’s just, like I said, they take too much money out of my pocket, man. The taxes over there are a different level.”

After mulling over a potential tax bill, the decision became clear.

“We had my numbers guy run the numbers, and it just made more sense to come home,” Kelly said.

Kelly isn’t the only professional athlete that has been impacted by the taxman in the Golden State.

Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold will owe California roughly $249,000 in “jock taxes” after winning Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara — about $71,000 more than the $178,000 he earned for the game.

The bill stems from California’s rule that forces out-of-state athletes to pay state income tax based on the number of “duty days” they work in the state, with Darnold and the Seahawks accumulating eight days during their Super Bowl trip.

The $249,000 California bill was calculated by taking Darnold’s $35 million annual salary, dividing it by his total duty days for the year (roughly 200), then multiplying by the 8 duty days in California, and applying California’s13.3% rate.

If you swap in Arizona’s 2.5% rate with the same formula, Darnold’s bill would have been roughly $47,000 instead of $249,000 — about 80% less. He still would have come out ahead of his $178,000 Super Bowl bonus rather than losing money on it.

So the difference between playing the Super Bowl in California vs. Arizona would have been roughly $200,000 in Darnold’s pocket.

Investigators in Nancy Guthrie’s case have turned their attention toward a pinky ring that they believe her alleged abductor was wearing in the chilling doorbell camera footage taken before she vanished.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said on Tuesday that the unknown male suspect seen on the porch of her Tucson, Arizona home appeared to be wearing a ring under his black gloves.

‘I look at the same photo you look at and I get it, I see it,’ Nanos told NBC News, referring to the mysterious figure who was seen in the clip. 

‘I’m going to give that to my team. They’ll look at that. They’ll analyze it and we’ll see. Maybe, maybe it is.’

Meanwhile TMZ announced on Wednesday that it has received a new ‘sophisticated’ ransom note in connection to missing Nancy, who is the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie.

It comes as the search for the 84-year-old enters its 17th day, with still no sign of a suspect or person of interest.

‘We have received yet another ransom demand—this one is sophisticated and puts the media right in the middle of it,’ TMZ wrote in an Instagram post. 

The latest letter demands another large amount of money, but in another cryptocurrency form other than the previously requested $6 million in bitcoin, per the outlet. 

The email also ‘graphically describes the consequences if the ransom isn’t paid,’ the report stated. 

The message included a cryptocurrency account number which differs from one that was originally sent in previous ransom demands.

The outlet also revealed that the FBI has contacted law enforcement in Mexico, though the expansion of the investigation has not yielded any new leads. 

The latest update in the mysterious investigation comes after a similar glove found two miles from Nancy’s home failed to match DNA found inside of her property, officials said. 

Nanos said the glove offered no new leads after failing to match the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) – a national archive of all DNA from arrestees nationwide.

The singular glove was discovered on Sunday and became a briefly regarded piece of evidence in the ongoing case.

Several leads and pieces of evidence have popped up along the way, but none of them have stuck. 

Persons of interest were previously taken in for questioning, but later released. A number of ransom notes, including several sent to TMZ, have also been revealed. 

Nancy was last seen on the night of January 31 after going to her eldest daughter’s house for dinner and a game night. 

Her daughter Annie’s husband, Tommaso Cioni, then drove her back home, just a few miles away. 

Cioni told police he watched his mother-in-law enter her garage door that night. 

Hours later, around 2.12am, Nancy’s Nest doorbell camera detected a person on camera. 

Around 2.30am Nancy’s Apple Watch and iPhone stopped syncing with her pacemaker. 

She was reported missing at around 11am after local church friends grew worried after Nancy failed to show up for services.

They then notified her family, leading her relatives to check on her home. 

After not locating her, the family dialed 911 and reported her missing. She has not been seen or heard from since. 

Her heartbroken children have taken to social media multiple times pleading for their mother’s safe return home. 

On Sunday night, Savannah shared a somber video to Instagram, begging her mother’s captors to ‘do the right thing’.

‘And I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is that it’s never too late, and you’re not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing,’ the Today Show host said. 

‘We are here and we believe, and we believe in the essential goodness of every human being, and it’s never too late,’ she concluded the video, which she captioned ‘bring her home’.

An Arizona gun store owner says an FBI agent asked him to review recent firearm purchases tied to a list of nearly two dozen people, as the search for Nancy Guthrie continues into a third week.

Phillip Martin, co-owner of Armor Bearer Arms in Tucson, told Fox News’ Amalia Roy that an FBI agent visited his store with three pages of approximately 18 to 24 individuals with corresponding photos and names.

The agent, Martin said, asked to check whether any of those people had purchased a firearm from his store within the past year.

“He actually had given me a list of paper, list of people that had pictures and names on it, and he wanted to know if I could help him pull up in my system if any of these people have purchased a gun in the last year,” Martin said.

Martin said he initially questioned the request but ultimately agreed to help out of concern for Guthrie’s family.

“I felt bad for the family. Anything that could help them find the person I was willing to help,” he said.

Martin said he entered each last name into his store’s electronic records system, which would display identifying information if the individual had made a purchase.

He said none of the names returned a match for firearm purchases within the past year.

According to Martin, the agent told him investigators planned to visit additional gun stores to determine whether anyone on the list had recently bought a weapon.

On Tuesday, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos disputed reports that authorities have narrowed the suspect pool to a few dozen individuals.

During an interview with Fox News’ Jonathan Hunt, Nanos denied that investigators had focused on a specific group.

“That’s not true,” Nanos said when asked whether authorities had identified around 40 people as potential suspects.

“We haven’t narrowed it down to anything other than we have pieces of evidence that we’re looking at to try to find this individual,” Nanos said.

Nancy Guthrie disappearance timeline:

Jan. 31, 2026

• Between 9:30–9:45 p.m. – Family drops Nancy off at home

• 9:50 p.m. – Garage door closes (per authorities)

Feb. 1, 202

• 1:47 a.m. – Doorbell camera disconnects

• 2:12 a.m. – Security camera detects motion

• 2:28 a.m. – Pacemaker disconnects from phone application

• 11:56 a.m. – Family checks on Nancy after she misses weekly church livestream gathering

• 12:03 p.m. — 911 called

• 12:15 p.m. — Sheriff’s deputies arrive at home

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.