Savannah Guthrie may never know what happened to her loved one. In the US, she’s not alone

Savannah Guthrie may never know what happened to her loved one. In the US, she’s not alone Thousands go missing every year, including more than 5,000 Native American and Alaska Native women and girls S avannah Guthrie is moving back to New York to resume anchoring NBC’s Today show and acknowledging that her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, may not be found a month after she disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona , home in the middle of the night. “We still believe in a miracle,” Guthrie said in a video last week announcing a $1m reward for her mother’s return in an enduring mystery that has gripped the US for four weeks. “We also know that she may be lost. She may already be gone.” Soon after, the FBI said it was relocating its command focused on the missing grandmother from Tucson to Phoenix and her home was being released back to the Guthrie family. DNA samples recovered from the home have only produced hits of people who had reason to be there, and analysis of gloves found in the vicinity have not produced any leads. The increased reward, says former FBI profiler Bryanna Fox, is a strategic move in missing persons cases when the collection of physical evidence from a crime scene cannot be taken further, or the chain of evidence has been broken in terms of what could be plausibly introduced in court. “They’re hoping that where one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand dollars was not enough, one million could be enough to convince someone who is in this to come forward,” said Fox, now a criminologist at the University of South Florida. The theory behind that also relies on the idea that while a crime may initially have been committed by one person, more people become involved or aware of it later. “Somebody talks, somebody is acting unusual and someone notices,” she said. “In almost every crime, there’s more than one person that knows or has a good idea what happened.” In her message, Guthrie said: “If you’ve been waiting and you haven’t been sure, let this be your sig...