Savannah Guthrie strongly suspects, as do we all, that her poor kidnapped mom, Nancy Guthrie, is no longer alive. Perhaps the retarded animals who kidnapped her didn’t intend to carry her off — maybe it was just a home invasion thievery thing gone wrong — but they struck and gashed her (blood drops outside the front door) and they’re clearly blundering morons, and the poor woman (who would probably be alive if she hadn’t fought them) is almost certainly dead and (awful to contemplate this) perhaps even buried.
And yet to go by the TODAY show interview that Guthrie just did with co-host Hoda Kotg, this seven-week-old episode and its tragic outcome is still fresh and gleaming on the plate. I’m sorry but when godawful terrible things happen, we all have to process them and somehow move on. Can anyone imagine Jackie Kennedy weeping her way through a televized interview seven weeks after her husband’s murder in Dallas? Of course not. Emotional dignity and brave composure were required back then.
Guthrie and Hodt, of course, are giving an emotional performance with a purpose. On the one-in-1000 chance that Nancy might still be alive, they’re trying to once again appeal to some sense of submerged humanity within the kidnappers to please tell authorities where Nancy is, even if it’s only the whereabouts of her body. Closure if nothing else.
On or about 2.1.26, Savannah was told by her brother Camron that their mom had most likely been kidnapped. Savannah’s agonized reaction, she tells Hodt, was that she might somehow be at fault.
Guthrie to Kotb: “I don’t know how dumb could I be, but I didn’t want to believe…do you think it was because of me?”
Yes, the invasion almost certainly happened because of Savannah’s fame and wealth (the bad guys saw a payday), but mainly, many believe, because of that special, well-publicized TODAY show segment titled “Savannah Guthrie Returns to Her Hometown of Tucson, Arizona”, which aired four months ago. That — sadly, tragically — was the calling card.