Savannah Guthrie Pleads for Her Mother’s Return: ‘Do the Right Thing’

(UPI) — Savannah Guthrie urged the person who allegedly kidnapped her mother to “do the right thing” as the search for Nancy Guthrie continues into its third week.

In a brief video posted to Instagram on Sunday, the Today show host said she wanted to go on record as saying that she and her family “still have hope” that their mother is still alive and that she wanted to tell whoever is holding the 84-year-old woman that there is still time to return her.

“I wanted to tell anyone who has her or knows where she is that it’s never too late,” she said. “And you are not lost or alone and it is never too late to do the right thing. And we are here. We believe. And we believe in the essential goodness of every human being. And it is never too late.”

Nancy Guthrie was last seen on the night of January 31 and was reported missing the next day after she failed to arrive at a friend’s house to watch an online broadcast of a church service.

Authorities have released images of a person captured tampering with the doorbell at Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Arizona. They offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the woman’s recovery.

Late last week, authorities said DNA that did not belong to Nancy Guthrie or any of her relatives had been found at her home and investigators were working to identify who it belonged to.