Guthrie said her mother’s return is “very valuable to us” and added, “we will pay.”
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In a new Instagram post, Savannah Guthrie and her family made a fresh plea for the return of their mother, Nancy Guthrie. “We received your message and we understand,” Guthrie says in the post. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us and we will pay.”
Guthrie did not say what that message was or what celebration they were looking for other than perhaps the return of her mother to them. This is the second video they have released.
Local new outlet KOLD-TV as well as TMZ have said that they received ransom notices. Those have not been shared publicly but the contain deadlines and demands for Bitcoin. The second deadline is Monday.
In her first video message, Guthrie said “We, too, have heard the reports about a ransom letter in the media. As a family, we are doing everything that we can. We are ready to talk. We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you, and we are ready to listen. Please. Reach out to us.”
After that message, another ransom note was received by KOLD-TV which gave what authorities called “sensitive information” about the Guthrie home and what she was wearing at the time of the kidnapping.
It has been a week since she was abducted from her Tuscon, Ariz. home and an investigation has been underway. Her medication and pacemaker monitoring equipment was left behind, along with her cell phone and wallet.
Police have not identified a suspect and the FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information. The federal government has provided additional resources to aid in the search and President Trump has taken a personal interest in getting Guthrie back home safe.
The Pima County Sheriff’s office did not comment on the video, the New York Post reported, but there are concerns that there’s been no proof-of-life given by kidnappers, making it hard for family or officers to know how to proceed.
Neighbors have said that they saw a mysterious white van in the days leading up to the abduction and experts have said Guthrie may have known her attacker. The doorbell camera at her home was removed and blood spatters at the scene matched with Guthrie.
Earlier today, surveillance footage from a gas station near Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Arizona, was released as investigators continue to pursue information related to a potential suspect.
The footage, obtained by Fox News, shows investigators visiting the gas station as part of their inquiry. In the video, investigators are seen entering the store and asking employees for access to security camera footage from the location. A gas station employee said that he was not aware of what investigators reviewed, but said they indicated they were looking for “a guy that got away.”