The Guthrie family is directly addressing Nancy Guthrie's potential captors. One day after Today anchor Savannah Guthrie and her siblings released a video announcing their readiness to engage in dialogue with her missing mother's potential abductors, her brother, Camron Guthrie, shared that they have yet to receive any response. "Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you," Camron said in a Feb. 5 Instagram video. "We haven't heard anything directly. We need you to reach out, and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward." The 61-year-old added, "But first we have to know that you have our mom. We want to talk to you, and we are waiting for contact."
One day prior, Savannah, Camron, and their sister, Annie Guthrie, tearfully pleaded for the safe return of Nancy, who was reported missing on Feb. 1, while acknowledging TMZ and other outlets' reporting of a ransom letter. "As a family, we are doing everything that we can," Savannah said in the Instagram video. "However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her."
Since then, authorities confirmed that they have arrested a total imposter who was impersonating Nancy's captor in an attempt to profit from her disappearance. However, the FBI emphasized that they are taking the TMZ ransom note extremely seriously.
"This was a note that came in with facts associated with it, with a deadline and a monetary value they were asking for," said FBI special agent Heith Janke, who is in charge of the bureau's Phoenix division, at a Feb. 5 press conference. "The ransom itself mentioned an Apple watch and a floodlight, but we're not going to go into specifics."
Noting that the FBI did not want to "put more facts out there that others can use to try to profit from," the agent confirmed that they had not received contact from the possible captors. "There has been no proof of life and no other demands within that letter," Janke shared, adding that the Guthrie family was "still waiting for communication."
