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Savannah Guthrie divulged new clues about the condition of her mom Nancy’s home the morning after she mysteriously vanished — including how doors were “propped open” and personal belongings were left strewn around the house.
“The doors were propped open, there was blood on the front doorstep and the Ring camera had been yanked off,” Guthrie told her “TODAY” show colleague Hoda Kotb in a new interview that aired Thursday.
“So we were saying, ‘This is not OK.’ We thought she must have had some kind of medical episode in the night, and that somehow the paramedics had come, because the back doors were propped.”
But they quickly realized something had gone terribly wrong.
“We thought maybe they came and there was a stretcher and they took her out the back,” Savannah said.
“But her phone was there, her purse was there and all her things. It just didn’t make sense.”
Investigators previously disclosed some of the details about what was found at Nancy’s home — including her cell phone being discovered — but have been largely tight-lipped about the state of the house.
Savannah was not in Arizona on the morning of her mother’s Feb. 1 disappearance, but her sister Annie was in Tucson and rushed to the home after friends called to say Nancy hadn’t appeared to watch a Church service with them.
That’s when the house was found in disarray, leading the family to phone police.
As they called around to check local hospitals for medical emergencies — and realized that was not what happened — Savannah got on a plane and rushed to Arizona to aid in the search.
“It’s just absolutely terrifying,” Savannah said of the situation — which became worse once horrifying footage from Nancy’s home security system revealed a masked and armed intruder trying to break in.
“It’s just totally terrifying, and I can’t imagine that that is who she saw standing over her bed,” Savannah said, breaking down in tears.
“I can’t. It’s too much.”
No known signs of Nancy have been found in the nearly two months since she vanished, and no suspects have been identified.
Several people were detained and questioned, but each was released within hours.
And a series of ransom notes demanding cash for Nancy’s release or knowledge about her vanishing were received — but nothing ever came of them.
Savannah confessed she feels she does “need to know” what really happened to her mother, but she also believes she already received a message from God revealing the truth.
“I heard a voice. And it said, ‘You do know where she is. She’s with me. She’s with me.'” Savannah said.
“So whether she’s on this side still or whether she is in heaven, I know where she is. I know who she’s with. But we need to know.”
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