Rollingstone | Thursday, March 26, 2026 
Savannah Guthrie Recalls the Moment She Was Told Her Mom Was Missing — and the Clues Left Behind

Tuesday will mark two months since Savannah Guthrie‘s 84-year-old mother was abducted, and the Today anchor is sharing new details about the day she went missing. In a new interview with Today’s Hoda Kotb, who has been filling in for Guthrie, she recalled getting a call from her sister saying their mom was missing. The family initially thought Nancy might have had a medical episode, and paramedics had come to the Arizona home, since the octogenarian’s back doors were propped open. “We thought maybe they came and there was a stretcher and they took her out the back,” Guthrie said. “But her phone was there, and her purse was there, and all her things. And it just didn’t make any sense.” When Guthrie arrived at her mother’s house, she realized there was no “wander off,” as she put it. “The doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep,” she said. “And the Ring camera had been yanked off. So we were saying, ‘This is not OK. Something is very wrong here.’” Guthrie said that her brother, a former fighter pilot, identified Nancy’s disappearance as an abduction right away. “He said, ‘I think she’s been kidnapped for ransom,’” she said, adding that she didn’t want to believe it at first. Guthrie said she worried initially that the abduction was because of her status as a…Read more