Guthrie's past-tense remark about missing mother fuels online speculation

Savannah Guthrie's use of the past tense when referring to her missing mother, Nancy, during a broadcast of the Today show has sparked online speculation about the status of the long-running kidnapping case. The anchor made the remark on Thursday, September 10, 2026, while discussing the show's upcoming trip to Ireland. During the segment, Guthrie expressed excitement about the trip and shared her family's connection to the country. "My mother was Irish, as was her grandmother. They were from Galway," she told her co-hosts. The comment was a rare on-air reference to her mother, who has been missing for more than seven months. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her home in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson, Arizona, on February 1, 2026. The Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI are investigating the case, which authorities have described as a kidnapping for ransom. Surveillance footage from a Ring doorbell camera captured a masked, armed individual at her residence around the time of her disappearance. The investigation has included the receipt of two ransom notes. The first demanded a multimillion-dollar payment in Bitcoin.