American television presenter Savannah Guthrie is returning to NBC’s Today show on Monday for the first time since her mother disappeared more than two months ago.
Nancy Guthrie He was last seen at his Arizona home on January 31 and was reported missing the next day.
Authorities say his blood was found on the front porch. The alleged ransom notes were sent to news outlets, but the payment deadline has passed.
Authorities believe she was kidnapped. During the investigation, the FBI released surveillance video showing a masked man on the porch that night.
TODAY co-anchor Ms Guthrie admitted she is a changed person since her mother disappeared and it is difficult to move forward without knowing what happened to her.
Despite a search that involved thousands of federal and local officials and volunteers, there has been no trace of the 84-year-old mother of three since she disappeared.
In a video message released by her New York church on Easter Sunday, Ms. Guthrie said she felt “a moment of deep despair toward God, a feeling of complete abandonment.”
But he said the resurrection is not fully celebrated “if we do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain and, yes, death”.
He said, “Perhaps this is too deep a message to share on Easter morning, but I have long believed that we miss out on celebrating the Resurrection if we do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain and, yes, death.”
“It is the darkness that makes this morning light so brilliant, so dazzlingly beautiful.”
In his closing message he said: “I see a bright vision of the day when heaven and earth will cease to be as one, on earth as it is in heaven.
“When we celebrate today, that’s what we celebrate, and I celebrate too. I still believe. And so I say with conviction, ‘Happy Easter.'”
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Announcing her return to NBC’s flagship morning show, Ms. Guthrie said she was unsure whether she would feel like she still belonged there.
“It’s hard to imagine doing this because it’s this place of joy and lightness,” she said in her first interview since her mother’s disappearance on Today a week ago.
“I can’t come back and try to be something I’m not. But I can’t come back because this is my family.”
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Ms Guthrie, one of US morning television’s most recognizable faces, has been co-anchor on Today since 2012.
There was a lot of speculation about whether she would return to the show or not.
“I want to smile, and it’ll be real when I do,” she told broadcaster Hoda Kotb, who returned to Today to fill in for Guthrie while she focused on the search.
“It’s a joy to be there, and I’ll say that when it’s not.”
Nancy Guthrie made occasional appearances on Today over the years, once taking part in a cooking demonstration and surprising her daughter on the set.
When Savannah Guthrie returned to her hometown of Tucson for a segment recorded for the show last year, the pair partied at one of her favorite restaurants and chatted about their love for Arizona.
The Guthrie family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the return of their mother.
Both the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said late last week that they had no updates.
Initially, some media outlets reported receiving ransom messages related to the case.
Ms. Guthrie said she and her siblings responded to two they believed to be genuine and offered to pay.
Ms Guthrie said her mother may have been moved because of her celebrity status, but this possibility was “too much to bear”.
