Savannah Guthrie Reveals Sister Annie's 3 Haunting Words in Panicked Call the Night Mom Nancy Disappeared

Savannah Guthrie opened up about her initial reactions when her sister, Annie Guthrie, called to tell her their mother, Nancy Guthrie, was missing from her home. In her first interview since Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, the Today co-host described the moment as chaotic.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her Tucson home on February 1. The search for Nancy Guthrie has now stretched into its eighth week.

Getting into the details, Savannah Guthrie told Today co-host Hoda Kotb, “I had given Mike (her husband) for Christmas a boys’ trip to go play tennis, and so he had been gone for the weekend. So I took my kids, actually, to Carson’s. We had a beautiful, fun night together,” she said.

She continued, “And then I came home, and really, I had just gotten home at the same time that Mike came home. We were saying hi, putting down our stuff, and the kids were running around. And my sister called me, and I said, ‘Is everything ok?’ And she said, ‘No. Mom’s missing.’ And I said, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ She said, ‘She’s gone.’ And she was in a panic. I was in a panic.”

When Savannah urged her sister to call 911, Annie Guthrie said authorities were already at the house. “We thought that she must have had some kind of medical episode in the night and that somehow the paramedics had come because the back doors were propped open. And that didn’t make any sense,” she said.

“We thought maybe they came and there was a stretcher and they took her out the back. But her phone was there and her purse was there and all her things. Annie and Tommie had already called all the hospitals, but then I told them, ‘I’m going to call the hospitals.’ It was just chaos and disbelief,” Savannah Guthrie said.

From the very early moments, Annie Guthrie and Tommaso Cioni told Savannah Guthrie, “This isn’t that case that you are used to where someone wanders off, because she can’t wander off.”

She added, “My mom was in tremendous pain. Her back was very bad. On a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail. But most days, not.”

Describing her mom, Savannah Guthrie said, “My mom is incredible and strong. She had quiet strength and faith. She is funny and a little mischievous in her humor. She does what’s right.”

Meanwhile, the Guthrie family issued a fresh statement on March 22, expressing gratitude for the continued support from the Tucson community.

“We are all family now,” they said.

The family believes Tucsonans and the greater Southern Arizona community may hold the key to solving the case. “Someone knows something. It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant,” the statement read.