Savannah Guthrie, siblings break down in tears in first visit to memorial at mom Nancy’s home
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings broke down in tears during their first visit to a memorial outside their missing mom’s Arizona home on Monday as the investigation enters its second month.
The “Today” co-host, her sister, Annie, and brother-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, were seen visiting the makeshift memorial for Nancy Guthrie around 10:45 a.m. local time, per a video shared via X by NewsNation correspondent Brian Entin.
Footage from the clip showed the trio crying and carrying yellow flowers to the 84-year-old’s memorial, where countless other flowers already lay alongside signs made in Nancy’s honor.
Savannah and her siblings — who were flanked by officers from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department — grabbed each other in a tight and loving embrace after placing down the flowers for their missing mom.
Monday marked 30 days since Nancy was first reported missing from her Tucson home on Feb. 1.
Last week, just a few days before Savannah was spotted back at her mom’s residence, it was revealed that the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department were preparing to release Nancy’s home back to her children.
After the FBI spent several hours at Nancy’s home on Feb. 25, sources told The Post that the federal agents were most likely looking for any last scraps of evidence that could have been overlooked in the ongoing case.
Last week also saw Savannah release a heartbreaking new video to say that she and her family accept that Nancy may “already be gone.”
She also announced a $1 million reward for any information that leads to her mom’s “miracle” return.
“We also know that she may be lost. She may already be gone,” Savannah said through tears on Feb. 24. “She may have already gone home to the Lord that she loves and is dancing in Heaven with her mom and her dad and with her beloved brother, Pierce, and with our daddy.”
She added, “And 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.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department announced early in its investigation that they believe Savannah’s beloved mother was kidnapped in her sleep because a trail of blood belonging to Nancy was found outside the front door of her Catalina Hills home.
A ransom note was also sent to several news outlets demanding $6 million in bitcoin — including a deadline of 5 p.m. MT on Feb. 9.
That deadline came and went, however, and an FBI spokesperson said that Savannah and her siblings never shared “any continued communication” with the suspected abductor.
Investigators later released photos and videos of an unidentified masked individual breaking into Nancy’s home on Jan. 31, the night she was last seen.
Although several possible suspects were detained in connection with Nancy’s mysterious disappearance, each one was released shortly after.
The FBI, meanwhile, has since relocated most of its team searching for Nancy away from Tucson and back to Phoenix.
But that shift doesn’t necessarily mean that the bureau is giving up or scaling back its search for the missing 84-year-old, according to former FBI Special Agent Tracy Walder.
“The FBI was probably taking agents from Phoenix down to Tucson. And they can’t be there indefinitely,” Walder told The Post last week.
“Clearly, the FBI has processed or gotten as much physical evidence as they need at the scene. So they don’t need agents there full-time.”
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