Savannah Guthrie sat down for an emotional interview with former “Today” co-host Hoda Kotb to discuss the disappearance of her mom, Nancy Guthrie. In the lengthy chat, Savannah detailed the 84-year-old’s medical issues.
Nancy Guthrie Was in ‘Tremendous Pain’
Early in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed that the mother of three was in need of daily life-saving medication. It was later revealed that Nancy relied on a pacemaker due to a heart condition.
Nearly two months after her mother’s abduction, Savannah Guthrie went into more detail about her mom’s condition.
“From the very early moments, Annie and Tommy were saying, this isn’t the case that you are used to where someone wanders off,” Savannah said, referring to her sister and brother-in-law, in an interview shared on Thursday, March 26. “She can’t wander off. My mom, she was in tremendous pain. Her back was very bad. She was trying to—on a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail, but most days not. So there was no wandering off.
She continued, “How is it possible that we are having to make a video speaking to a kidnapper who took an 84-year-old woman in the dead of night in her pajamas with no shoes, without her medicine, this little person. And to beg for mercy.”
Investigators Dig Into Pharmacy Records
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department, along with the FBI’s Phoenix division, have been working around the clock for nearly two months to bring Nancy Guthrie home.
“She’s very alert, of good, sound mind — just some physical ailments that limit her ability to move around,” Nanos said during a February 2 press conference. “We don’t typically get the sheriff out to a scene like this, but it’s very concerning what we’re learning from the house. It’s not standard — typically our homicide team comes out when we have a homicide, a body. But simply by what the scene was telling us, we felt the need to bring the homicide team.”
Just last week, Nancy Grace reported on her “Crime Stories With Nancy Grace,” that investigators are digging into pharmacy records looking for clues. According to Scott Eicher, a founding member of the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, it’s possible that Guthrie’s abductors “wanted to keep her alive” and opted to refill her necessary prescriptions.
“Maybe they didn’t do that. But can we find other people, newer people, that just started the same type of prescriptions that Nancy was on?” he added.
