Savannah Guthrie's plea to abductor prompts chilling question, expert says
Savannah Guthrie posted a second Instagram video after her 84-year-old mother Nancy was taken from her Tucson home. Joined by sister Annie and brother Camron, Savannah told the abductor, “We received your message, and we understand.” The siblings added, “We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her.
This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.” CIA member and FBI special agent Tracy Walder called the wording “very contrived” and “also scripted,” pointing to what she described as coded phrases like “This is very valuable to us” and “So that we can celebrate her.” She asked, “Is this a ransom for a dead body?
Are we paying to get a body or human back?” Walder contrasted the new clip with an earlier one that “humanized their mom in present tense,” saying the latest is more “muted” and “somber,” does not “humanize their mom at all,” and comes across as methodical and matter-of-fact.