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

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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.