The final ransom deadline has passed as the frantic search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, continues.
The 84-year-old’s purported captors demanded $6 million by Monday at 5 p.m. MT (7 p.m. ET) in a ransom note.
The legitimacy of the message has not yet been verified and sources tell Page Six the family still has not been given any proof of life.
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Ahead of the deadline, Savannah made a desperate plea on social media for help in the “nightmare” search.
“She was taken, and we don’t know where, and we need your help,” she said Monday. “If you see anything, if you hear anything, if there is anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department announced there was no new additional information on Monday.
They added, that activity at the Guthrie residences will “continue tonight and into tomorrow as part of the ongoing investigative process, including the expansion of the search and follow-up on new leads.”
Savannah and her siblings, brother Camron Guthrie and sister Annie Guthrie, did not send the requested bitcoin sum by the first deadline: Thursday at the same time.
As the initial deadline passed, Camron issued a social media plea to Nancy’s alleged kidnappers.
“We need you to reach out and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward,” he said. “But first we have to know that you have our mom. we want to talk to you and we are waiting for contact.”
In a press conference earlier that same day, FBI agent Heith Janke revealed there was a second deadline.
“While we advise and recommend, from a law enforcement perspective, any action taken on any ransom is ultimately decided by the family,” he noted.
Two days later, Camron and his sisters released another video — their second as a trio, with the first being released Feb. 4 — offering to pay the ransom.
“We received your message and we understand,” Savannah said in Saturday’s Instagram upload. “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,” the journalist continued over the weekend. “This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Nancy has not been seen since Jan. 31 when she was dropped off at her Tucson, Ariz., home following a family dinner with Annie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni.
