{"id":319198,"date":"2026-02-04T04:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/319198\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T04:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:34:12","slug":"us-tv-host-savannah-guthries-mother-was-likely-abducted-arizona-sheriff-says-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/319198\/","title":{"rendered":"US TV host Savannah Guthrie\u2019s mother was likely abducted, Arizona sheriff says \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigators believe \u200bthe 84-year-old mother of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/us\/\">US<\/a> journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie was abducted, a local \u200dsheriff in Arizona said on Monday, after she vanished from her home near Tucson and \u200dwas reported missing over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe believe 100 per cent right now she could not have walked away from that home,\u201d Pima County sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News. \u201cI \u200cbelieve she was abducted, yes. She didn\u2019t walk from there. She didn\u2019t go willingly. \u2060We don\u2019t believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her \u200chome \u200bon \u200dSaturday night, when she was visited by her children, and was reported missing on Sunday afternoon. She has limited mobility and could not have left her home unaided, \u2060Nanos told a press conference earlier on Monday, when he said her \u2060disappearance was being treated as \u2060a crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nanos later expanded on his remarks in an interview with CBS to say he believes she was abducted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Guthrie\u2019s \u200dfamily was especially worried because she needs to take daily medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cShe\u2019s 84, she needs her meds, her family needs her too,\u201d Nanos told reporters, imploring the public to send in tips. \u201cThis is not dementia-related, she is as sharp as a tack. The family wants everybody to know this isn\u2019t somebody \u200cwho just wandered off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Savannah \u200cGuthrie did not appear in her usual seat on NBC\u2019s Today show on Monday morning, which broadcasts from New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cRight \u200cnow, our focus remains on the safe return of our dear mom,\u201d the \u2060presenter said in a statement read out by her colleagues. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators believe \u200bthe 84-year-old mother of US journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie was abducted, a local \u200dsheriff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,23220,5,7,8,384,107,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-319198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-nbcuniversal","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116010500990495102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}