This is so hard to watch. Savannah Guthrie on returning to Tuscon after her mom went missing and breaking down crying and apologizing to her family if whoever kidnapped their mom did it b/c Savannah's famous...
"Just disbelief and hugging each other, and I think we were on the phone with the sheriff and trying to, you know, really make clear as -- I mean, from the very early moments, you know, Annie and Tommy were staying, this isn't -- this isn't that that you are used to where someone wanders off. She can't wander off. My mom, her -- her -- she was in tremendous pain. Her back was very bad. You know, she was trying to -- on a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail, but most days not, so there wasn't a wander off. And the doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep, and the Ring camera had been yanked off, and so we were saying, this is -- this is not okay. This isn't -- something is very wrong here."
"I think my brother -- I mean, my siblings are so amazing. My brother, you know, he spent his career in the military, and worked in intelligence, and was a fighter pilot, and is brilliant, and he saw very clearly right away what this was. And even on the phone when I called him, he knew. And he said, 'I think she's been kidnapped for ransom.' And I said, 'What? Well, why -- what? I mean, it sounds so -- like, how dumb could I be, but I just -- I didn't want to believe -- I just said do you think because of me? And he said, 'I'm sorry, sweetie, but, yeah, maybe.' But I knew that. I hoped not. I mean, we still don't know. Honestly, we don't know anything. We don't know anything. So, I don't know that it's because she's my mom and somebody thought, oh, that girl, that lady has money, we could get -- make a quick buck, I mean, that would make sense, but we don't know, but, yeah, that's probably, which is too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside -- that it's because of me. And I just have to say, I'm so sorry, mommy. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry to my sister, and my brother, and my kids, and my nephew, and Tommy, and my brother-in-law. Just, like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."
Still can't really process that border patrol made the decision to leave a nearly-blind refugee outside a donut shop five miles from his house. And that he then (as could have easily been imagined) died. And that there likely won't be any accountability for this.
If you’re his mom, his brother, his girlfriend, his dad, and you saw that surveillance, you know it’s him. His features are distinctive. The distinct facial features, the teeth, the way he never swings his left arm when he walks like he's injured, the way his left hand doesn't seem to have full function, like he's been in a recent accident. You know he’s the monster among us.
Imagine knowing it’s your own family member and staying quiet.
When he’s caught, he’ll face the full weight of the legal system. In prison, he’ll be removed from society and protected. But the people who knew and didn’t say anything will be the ones walking free, carrying the hatred and judgment of society for the rest of their lives.
If you recognize him, it’s time to come forward. And his mom, she recognizes him. #NancyGuthrie
In her video, Savannah — who is a Christian and has written books about her faith — and who is clearly and understandably broken and exhausted, is trying to appeal to whatever small amount of empathy and humanity the abductor(s) have left.
But so many people like Zack are seeing a conspiracy instead of a daughter who is exhausted after two weeks and trying whatever she can to get her mom back.
Savannah is such a lovely woman — so kind and generous.
She is someone who does her best to do the right thing, no matter which part of her life it’s in.
I don’t want to suggest that anyone deserves to have this happen to their mom, or that Savannah deserves special treatment because she’s so lovely, but it just makes it all the more heartbreaking when things like this happen to such wonderful, decent people.
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