That fear, and the family's suffering, took center stage in Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special, which aired March 27 on NBC. During the two-hour program, Savannah Guthrie sat down with her Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb, her first major television interview since her mother went missing.Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in the early hours of February 1, 2026. Authorities believe she was abducted from her home by force and remains missing. No arrests have been made, no suspects have been identified, and Nancy hasn't been located. The possible motive that police fear and that Savannah herself has voiced publicly is that she may have been targeted specifically because of her daughter's fame.In the Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special, she recalled waking in the middle of the night, imagining her mother's fear, and pleaded with anyone with any information to come forward. The special brought together everything that investigators and the Guthrie family have learned after close to two months of looking.Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special - The night Nancy disappearedSavannah Speaks: A Dateline Special (Image via X/ @DatelineNBC)The night of January 31 seemed like any other, as per Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special. Nancy was visiting her daughter Annie’s house in Tucson before she was dropped off at home at about 9:45 PM. Nothing seemed out of place until a matter of hours.Between 1 and 2 a.m. on February 1, 2026, surveillance activity at her home spiked. Her doorbell camera was compromised at about 1:47 AM, and a motion alert was triggered at 2:00 AM. Her pacemaker, which connected to an application on her iPhone, lost connection at 2:28 AM. Her phone, wallet, car, and medications were all left behind. When she didn't show up for her weekly virtual church service with friends, her family arrived, and the back door was found open.Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special - What does the evidence show?All of the physical evidence recovered from the scene suggests that forcible removal occurred, according to Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special. DNA testing revealed that the blood found on Nancy's front porch and immediately to the front door was her own. Investigators also determined that the doorbell camera had been physically removed from the house, a task that would have required someone to go right up to the porch with tools.FBI Director Kash Patel later disclosed that even though the camera was removed, technicians were still able to recover footage from remaining backend data on the device. That footage revealed a male in possession of a gun, dressed in dark clothing, with a mask over his face and carrying a black Ozark Trail 25-liter backpack sold exclusively at Walmart. Local investigators rapidly narrowed in on the backpack as a primary suspect, scouring security camera footage from local Walmart stores and tracking purchase history over the last handful of months.Further evidence from analysis of shots from the tape also described the suspect's alleged eye color, weight, the color of the person's hair, a potential mustache, and the fact that the person's holstered gun appeared to be carried in a strange, non-practiced way.According to Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special, security experts indicated that this last detail was strong evidence that the suspect was not an expert or highly trained in the use of firearms.The ransom notes and bitcoin demandsThree days after Nancy went missing, several Arizona news stations and TMZ received what appeared to be ransom notes. The first note was a demand for a million dollars in Bitcoin. A second note was received with a deadline of 5 PM, February 9. The final note, sent directly to TMZ, was a demand for one Bitcoin, which cost approximately $70,000 at the time.The majority of these notes have now been confirmed as hoaxes. In fact, a Southern California man was arrested for sending a ransom call via text message, allegedly trying to make money off of the situation. Although one of the notes led to an arrest in an unrelated case, no text messages or any other ransom notes have been confirmed to be from the abductor themselves. On February 10, one small transaction of around 152 in Bitcoin currency was made to an account listed on one of the ransom calls, but investigators have not confirmed if it is related.Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special - The celebrity connectionIn Savannah Speaks: A Dateline Special, Savannah said that her brother Camron suspected almost right away that the kidnapping was because of her profile. Savannah said she quietly shared the same fear but struggled to accept it.She admitted that it was almost mind-boggling to think that an old lady was taken because of her daughter's television career. Nevertheless, investigators have not discounted that. The multi-agency investigation, conducted jointly by the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff's Office, has been investigating both random crime and targeted motives.The family has also offered a reward of 1 million dollars for information that could lead to Nancy being returned safely, along with the FBI reward of $100,000.