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    "the disappearance of Guthrie",
    "‘Today’ show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother is reported missing in Arizona",
    "Here is a timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s chilling disappearance",
    "demanded millions in bitcoin",
    "Savannah Guthrie responds to an alleged ransom note for her missing mother in an emotional video",
    "Guthrie family offers $1 million reward in unusual abduction case",
    "Instagram video",
    "View this post on Instagram",
    "Savannah Guthrie says she will draw strength from her faith to help in her return to ‘Today’",
    "What we know and don’t know about the Nancy Guthrie case",
    "In new interview, Savannah Guthrie describes her faith’s ‘unfathomable love and comfort’ amid ‘terrible grief’",
    "Savannah Guthrie asked on Easter: Does Jesus really understand our deepest despair?",
    "Savannah Guthrie opens up about her family’s agony in lengthy interview"
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  "textContent": "A ransom note sent to media outlets in February concerning the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie indicated the 84-year-old had died, CNN reported, citing law enforcement sources.\n\nShortly following the disappearance of Guthrie — mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie — in early February, the family received two alleged ransom notes.\n\n‘Today’ show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother is reported missing in Arizona\n\nHere is a timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s chilling disappearance\n\nThe first note demanded millions in bitcoin for Nancy Guthrie’s release. In the second note, sent a few days later, the abductors revealed she had died. According to sources that reviewed the notes, the writing indicated the abductors did not intend for her to die and made no further requests for money.\n\nSavannah Guthrie responds to an alleged ransom note for her missing mother in an emotional video\n\nGuthrie family offers $1 million reward in unusual abduction case\n\nIn a March interview with NBC, Savannah Guthrie said the family believes the two notes are authentic.\n\n“There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came, and I think most of them — it’s my understanding — are not real, and I didn’t see them,\" she said at the time. “But I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.”\n\nFollowing the release of the second note earlier this year, Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings addressed their mother’s kidnappers in an Instagram video.\n\n>        View this post on Instagram            \n\n“We received your message and we understand. We beg you now to return our mother to us so we can celebrate with her,” Savannah Guthrie said in the video. “This is very valuable to us and we will pay.”\n\nSavannah Guthrie says she will draw strength from her faith to help in her return to ‘Today’\n\nWhile the terms of the first note have previously been reported, the contents of the second note were not made public until now.\n\nIt remains unknown who sent the two notes, and authorities have yet to identify a masked man seen on Nancy Guthrie’s home security camera footage released after her abduction. Despite the release of the new information to the public, there has been no major break in the case.\n\nWhat we know and don’t know about the Nancy Guthrie case\n\nIn new interview, Savannah Guthrie describes her faith’s ‘unfathomable love and comfort’ amid ‘terrible grief’\n\nFollowing the report on the notes’ contents on the “Today” show, Savannah Guthrie made another plea for information while on the air.\n\n“This is unprecedented, to say the least, to be sitting here,” she said Tuesday. “But I don’t have any comment on this story and I’m not involved in our coverage.”\n\n“I want to take the opportunity to ask people — to really beg people — to come forward. Somebody knows something,” she continued. “We are in agony and we cannot be at peace. ... We need your help. We are begging for your help.”\n\n>        View this post on Instagram            \n\n“Please do the right thing for us, for our family, for our children,” she added.\n\nSavannah Guthrie asked on Easter: Does Jesus really understand our deepest despair?\n\nSavannah Guthrie opens up about her family’s agony in lengthy interview\n\nThe Guthrie family is offering a $1 million reward for information, in addition to the FBI reward of up to $100,000.\n\nThe FBI and Pima County sheriff’s detectives continue to investigate Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping and search for her and her abductors.",
  "title": "Savannah Guthrie renews plea for information on ‘Today’ show"
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