🚨 Blood Found At Savannah Guthrie's Missing Mother's Home

Our US entertainment correspondent Cooper Lawrence joins Jonesy & Amanda with the latest on Savannah Guthrie's missing mother, Nancy. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
You may have been following this story, a very dramatic story.
Savannah Guthrie, co host of one of America's biggest morning programs. Today,
She's been making headlines for devastating reasons this week, the
bizarre disappearance of her eighty four year old mother, who's
reported missing from her home in Arizona after she failed
to turn up for church. These circumstances are quite terrifying.

(00:24):
For more, we're joined by US broadcaster Cooper Lawrence's joining
US Life from New York. Cooper, Hello, Hi, I.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Usually like to talk to you about fun celebrities. This
is such a really intense, very serious story, and it
got very serious very quickly. So the timeline is what's
really interesting about this story. So she was taken to
dinner by her daughter, dropped off Saturday night around nine pm,
and then at two o'clock in the morning, her pacemaker

(00:50):
stopped sinking with her Apple watch, so that was the
first alarm that something was wrong. And then Sunday mornings,
she didn't show up for church, which she always went to.
It was very important, her faith was very important to her,
so that's what raised the alarm. So when they broke
into the house. When the cops finally broke into the
house and realized that she was gone, they found her
cell phone, her wallet, her car was there, her keys

(01:13):
were there, So that's where they got the idea that
she was taken rather than left on her own. And
because she left her phone but had her Apple Watch on,
that's why her pacemaker stopped sinking. So now they have
a real timeline. They know at two am is when
she left that house, and that's a very important time.
There is also the La Times is reporting they that

(01:35):
there was a break in, that there was a forced entry,
and they have found blood in the house.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
So there's no implication that she's not of sound mind
and wandered off. That's not going to be the storyline here.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
No. In fact, it's very interesting because the sheriff in
her county who spoke on this initially, he said, I
want to be clear, she did not wander off. She
is sharp as attack and that she the fact that
she left her phone and wallet and all that was
also very alarming for them. So they're saying, though she
is actually missing, and there they brought in the FBI.
They brought in a homicide team, they brought in dogs,

(02:10):
they tested DNA. I mean they're really treating this like
a real crime scene investigation, is it? What's her place like?
Is you got like a well? She hasn't fallen down
a will or anything that can happen. They got into
the backyard and fall into a well. Lessie, No, no,
Lessie never fell into the will? Was Timmy the film
last He got them out of the well? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
True, true, But I'm not joking. That could that could
be a thing that she could have fallen into.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
If she's got a big property, she could have fallen
into something. And that's why they didn't call the cops
until Sunday afternoon, because the family showed up. She has
a very big property and I don't think it's a well.
There is a pool, so they checked all of that.
The problem is where she lives is very remote and
the nearest neighbor is so far away that if she
was screaming, nobody would have ever heard her.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
To put her in a context for Australians, she's a
much loved megastar, isn't she.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, she's the television version of you. Basically you know
somebody that everybody knows and loves. They know about your life,
they know and you know a lot of the stories
that she does on the Today Show are about her family.
So she she just did a story recently about her
relationship with her mom and and who her mom is
in her life and how her dad died when she

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was young, and the mom was like the mom and
the dad and so we really we really got to
know her the same way people get to know you.
So and the Today Show is, you know, one of
the biggest television shows that we have. So she's she's big, big.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
We would be careful.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
What if, like someone kidnaps me who's close to you.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know, easy come, easy go, that's what I said.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'd probably hand me back. That'd hand me back pretty.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Quickly, too irritated. You wouldn't make it as reach in
the town. Well, that is a fascinating story, Cooper.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Thank you for joining us, Thank you for having me