Saturday, June 13, 2026

Guthrie Kidnapping: So Far, Ransom Notes Haven’t Gone to Tucson NBC Outlet Where Savannah Guthrie Spent 5 Years

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No one knows much about what’s happening with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie.

The 84 year mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie has been missing since Sunday morning in Tucson, Arizona.

One element of the kidnapping has been the existence of purported random notes.

So far, local stations KGUN and KOLD, as well as TMZ, have received notes. The first two stations are respectively outlets with ABC and CBS.

But strangely enough, there’s been no report of a ransom note from NBC affiliate KVOA in Tucson.

That’s the station where Savannah Guthrie spent five years from 1995 to 2000 as a correspondent. That run launched her career to Washington, then New York, and ultimately the Today show.

Is there a reason the kidnapper(s) are snubbing Savannah’s only local past employer?

Like everything else with this case, it doesn’t make sense.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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