A second unverified ransom note in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie reportedly claimed the missing 84-year-old mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie was dead.
NBC News, ABC News, and CBS News reported Monday that the note surfaced after Nancy’s suspected abduction in Tucson, Arizona, on February 1. NBC and ABC cited unnamed people “familiar with” the case, while CBS cited “sources who reviewed the notes.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said the investigation “remains active and ongoing” and referred questions about ransom notes to the FBI.
Nancy was last seen the evening of Jan. 31 near her Catalina Foothills neighborhood. In February, the FBI released images of an armed person at her front door tampering with a camera before she vanished. The person has not been identified.
Savannah, who stepped away from Today in February and returned in April, previously said she and her siblings “are in agony.”
“It is unbearable,” she told Hoda Kotb in March.
Savannah also said she believed two notes received by the family were real, though she acknowledged many others may not be.
“There are a lot of different notes,” she said. “But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those were real.”
In a family video guided by the FBI, Savannah pleaded, “Please reach out to us.” A reward of more than $1.2 million remains available for information that helps bring Nancy home.