What We Know About the Disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s Mother

Nancy Guthrie, 84, the “Today” show host’s mother, vanished from her home on Feb. 1.

The authorities in Arizona are searching for Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of the “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie who has been missing since Feb. 1 and whose disappearance is being investigated as a kidnapping.

Ms. Guthrie was last seen at her home near Tucson. Earlier, she had dinner at the home of her older daughter and her son-in-law, who dropped her off at her house around 9:50 p.m., said Chris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff.

Sheriff Nanos confirmed that blood found on Ms. Guthrie’s front porch was hers and that the doorbell camera at her home had been disconnected and removed. The authorities do not know where the device is.

Here’s what we know.

The Guthries said they will pay.

On Saturday, Savannah Guthrie said in a video posted to social media that she and her siblings were willing to pay for their mother’s return.

“We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” Ms. Guthrie said as she sat between her older siblings, Annie and Camron. “This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”

The new video comes days after Ms. Guthrie said in an emotional video that she and her siblings were prepared to listen to ransom demands but would first need proof that their mother was alive.

“We are ready to talk,” Ms. Guthrie said in a video posted on Wednesday. “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.”

On Thursday, Camron Guthrie reiterated the family’s plea in a video on social media. “Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you,” he said.

Officials are investigating a new message.

The authorities said on Friday that they were reviewing a new message sent to the Tucson television station KOLD. The station forwarded the message to law enforcement and did not reveal its contents publicly.

Local officials and the F.B.I. released statements acknowledging the message but gave no further details. It was not clear whether the message was related to a purported ransom note sent to news outlets in the days following her disappearance.

The F.B.I. said agents were still working to analyze the ransom note, which demanded payment by Thursday evening.

Sheriff Nanos said Thursday that it was too early to rule out anyone — including relatives — as a possible culprit.

“Everybody’s still a suspect in our eyes,” he said.

President Trump struck an optimistic tone about progress in the case on Friday, telling reporters that the authorities “have some clues I think that are very strong.”

He added, “I think we could have some answers coming up very soon.”

On Sunday, Sheriff Nanos said that “investigators have not identified any suspects, persons of interest or vehicles” connected to the case. He added that if there were to be a “significant development” that a press conference would be scheduled.

Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera was disconnected.

When Ms. Guthrie did not show up at her regular Sunday church service, a friend notified her family, Sheriff Nanos said.

Family members went to her home in Catalina Foothills, an unincorporated community near the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson, at 11:56 a.m. When they did not find her there, they called 911.

The authorities responded around 12:15 p.m. and brought in a search and rescue team, volunteers, dogs, drones and a helicopter.

Sheriff Nanos described Ms. Guthrie’s home as “a crime scene,” adding that “we saw some things at the home that were concerning to us,” without offering more details.

He added that Ms. Guthrie has limited mobility and requires medication every 24 hours, and could die without it.

On Thursday, the authorities said that the tampering with Ms. Guthrie’s doorbell camera, which was disconnected at 1:47 a.m. the night she disappeared, had deprived investigators of crucial evidence.

Ms. Guthrie’s pacemaker app showed that it had been disconnected from her phone at 2:28 a.m., indicating she was no longer near the phone, which was left inside her house.

Ms. Guthrie, whose youngest daughter had included her in several “Today” show segments, was described as 5 feet 5 inches tall with brown hair and blue eyes, and vulnerable.

The authorities described her as mentally sharp and said it was not a dementia-related case.

Savannah Guthrie withdrew from NBC’s Olympics coverage.

Savannah Guthrie, 54, is best known as one of the anchors of the NBC morning show “Today,” a job she has held since 2012.

She joined NBC News in 2007, after working in local news and as a lawyer. She worked for the network as a White House correspondent, filled in on “Meet the Press” and anchored the “NBC Nightly News.”

She was born in Australia and moved with her family to Tucson, where she grew up and attended college. She lives in New York with her husband, the communications consultant Michael Feldman, and their two children.

NBC Sports said that she would not travel to Italy, where she had been expected to play a key role in the coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics. Mary Carillo took Ms. Guthrie’s place alongside Terry Gannon as a host of the network’s coverage of the opening ceremony on Friday.

Neil Vigdor, Reis Thebault, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, John Yoon, Jonathan Wolfe and Hannah Ziegler contributed reporting.

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