NBC's "Today" show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie spoke to NBC morning show host Hoda Kotb in the first interview since her mother, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, went missing. The interview was released in three parts on Thursday and early Friday.
"Someone needs to do the right thing," Savannah said in the interview, begging viewers to come forward with any information they might have about her mother's whereabouts. "We are in agony."
There has been no sign of Nancy since the morning of February 1, when a doorbell video camera at the front door of her Tucson house captured footage of a man wearing a ski mask, backpack, gloves, and a holstered gun tampering with the camera. Soon after, Guthrie's pacemaker lost contact with her phone line.
"I'm glad that people saw what came to our door," she said, noting that she was also terrified to see the footage, imagining that the figure in the video is who her mother "saw standing over her bed" on the night of the disappearance.
While there was no video testimony of the moments of the kidnapping, Savannah told Kotb that they knew she had left the house without her phone, purse, or shoes, and that there was blood on the doorstep.
Savannah further emphasized her mother's fragility, clarifying that there was no way this was a case of Nancy having just wandered off.
"She was in a great deal of pain," she said. "On a good day, she could walk down the mailbox and get the mail. But most days she can't."
Savannah explained that family had initally thought Nancy had been taken to the hospital by paramedics during the night. However, after calling every hospital and examining the home, they quickly realized that something more sinister had occured, a theory eventually confirmed by the video doorbell footage.
The footage also laid to rest the myriad of rumors claiming that someone within the family was responsible for Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, according to Savannah.
As more information about the case came to light, Savannah told Kotb, the family was able to confirm with near certainty that their mother had been kidnapped for ransom, specifically because Savannah is a well-known public figure. She added that they had received many fake ransom notes, as well as two that she believed were real.
The Guthrie family is still searching for their mother, two months after her disappearance.
Nancy Guthrie's family offers $1 million reward for information leading to her recovery
Nancy's disappearance has drawn intense worldwide public interest. Although two purported ransom notes were delivered to news media outlets, there has been no known direct contact between any suspects and Nancy's family or authorities.
The Guthrie family offered up to $1 million as a reward for information that leads to the recovery of Nancy, according to a video posted on Instagram in February by Savannah, who also addressed for the first time the possibility that the missing woman is dead.
In February, Savannah said her family was "blowing on the embers of hope" that Nancy was still alive, but recognized that "she may already be gone."
"If this is to be, then we will accept it, but we need to know where she is," Savannah said in the video. "Someone out there knows something that can bring her home."
A $100,000 FBI reward offered earlier in February for information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie also remains active, according to the agency.
Hopes for a major break in the case were last dashed on February 17 when authorities said DNA from a glove found near her Arizona home failed to match any known genetic profiles in a national database.