Nancy Guthrie's children plead for her safe return in emotional video

"Today" amusement co-host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings, Camron and Annie Guthrie, released an emotional video Wednesday nighttime pleading for the instrumentality of their mother, Nancy Guthrie, who authorities judge was abducted from her Tucson, Arizona, location implicit the weekend.

Saying that they were alert of reports of a ransom note, Savannah Guthrie said she and her household are "ready to talk."

"However, we unrecorded successful a satellite wherever voices and images are easy manipulated. We request to cognize without a uncertainty that she is live and that you person her," Savannah Guthrie said. "We privation to perceive from you, and we are acceptable to listen. Please, scope retired to us."

The Guthries besides spoke astir however important Nancy is to them and the information she is in. 

"Our ma is simply a kind, faithful, loyal, fiercely loving pistillate of goodness and light," Savannah Guthrie said. "She is funny, spunky and clever. She has grandchildren that adore her and assemblage astir her and screen her with kisses. She loves amusive and adventure. She is simply a devoted friend. She is afloat of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you'll see."

Annie added, "She is our beacon. She holds accelerated to joyousness successful each of life's circumstances. She chooses joyousness time aft day. Despite having already passed done large trials of symptom and grief. We are ever going to beryllium simply human, conscionable mean quality radical who request our mom."

"Our ma is our bosom and our home," Savannah Guthrie said. "She is 84 years old. Her health, her heart, is fragile. She lives successful changeless pain. She is without immoderate medicine. She needs it to survive. She needs it not to suffer."

The children besides addressed their parent directly, with Savannah Guthrie saying, "Mommy, if you are proceeding this, you are a beardown woman. You are God's precious daughter, Nancy. We judge and cognize that adjacent successful this valley, He is with you. Everyone is looking for you, mommy, everywhere. We volition not rest, your children volition not rest, until we are unneurotic again." 

"Mama, mama — if you're listening, we request you to travel home, we miss you," Annie Guthrie said. 

Camron Guthrie added, "We emotion you, mom. Stay strong."

Nancy Guthrie's household reported her disappearance to authorities Sunday aft not uncovering her astatine location erstwhile they were told she had missed religion that morning.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News that Nancy Guthrie had meal astatine Annie Guthrie's location connected Saturday. Annie Guthrie's husband, Tommaso Cioni, drove Nancy Guthrie location afterward, Nanos said. The details were archetypal reported by The New York Times.   

Nanos told CBS News connected Tuesday that a ransom enactment was sent to a section Arizona quality presumption pursuing Guthrie's disappearance, though helium would not corroborate its authenticity. He said the presumption received the enactment connected Monday and agreed not to study connected it, and that it contained circumstantial details astir the location and what Nancy Guthrie was wearing the nighttime she went missing.

Nanos did not specify which presumption the enactment was sent to, but CBS affiliate KOLD-TV reported Tuesday it had received an email that "appears to beryllium 1 of the alleged ransom notes," which it forwarded to the sheriff's office.

Investigators said earlier Wednesday they had not identified immoderate suspects oregon persons of involvement successful the case. Nanos said it wasn't wide however galore radical took Guthrie. "It could beryllium one, it could've been more, I don't know," helium said.    

A little spot of blood found wrong the location was being tested, a instrumentality enforcement root acquainted with the lawsuit told CBS News. What appeared to beryllium a tiny magnitude of dried humor was besides seen adjacent to a doormat extracurricular the beforehand doorway of Guthrie's location connected Tuesday. 

"Nothing has travel up that says, present helium is, here's your atrocious guy," Nanos told CBS News connected Wednesday. "We're moving towards, wherever is Nancy? Where is Ms. Guthrie? We privation to find her. That's what everybody wants. Once we bash that, past we tin interest astir the whodunit."  

Jonathan Vigliotti, Alex Sundby, Anna Schecter and Pat Milton contributed to this report.

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