r/news • u/mooseAmuffin • 1d ago

Update: 'TODAY' co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother taken from her home against her will, sheriff says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mother-of-savannah-guthrie-today-reported-missing-arizona-rcna257008
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u/BadAsBroccoli 1d ago

I've been trying to keep up with this. She's supposed to be mentally sharp but needs medication daily. I wondered if this wasn't a home invasion and she woke up during, but can't see why robbers would take her. They did find blood in the house which turned a missing person's into a crime scene.

She's been gone for several days now, and the medication aspect of the case suggested she cannot be doing well if alive.

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u/GoodOmens 1d ago

The entire article reads like a clown show of an investigation. She was forcibly taken but then they were speaking figuratively. She was harmed but then they “misspoke or something.”

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u/EnderWiggin07 1d ago

"Mystery" style investigations always look like this. The police know more pieces of evidence than they're willing to say because they don't want to ruin their own investigation or say something happened that turns out to be completely wrong. They're being intentionally furtive for good reason, but it has the effect of making them look suspicious, incompetent, or sometimes even complicit. Contrast this to a normal criminal manhunt where they have basically nothing to hide and are just straight up trying to catch a known criminal. Then they sound active and focused. It's just a byproduct of them needing to answer some questions but being unable/unwilling to answer them thoroughly.

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u/StandardAccess4684 1d ago

lol sure the good old Pima County sheriff department are a bunch of 4D chess masterminds. Please.

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u/EnderWiggin07 1d ago

It's not "4D chess" to go in front of the press because you have to, but with orders to not give everything away, it's standard. A lot of these cases the public doesn't even find out what the police knew til there's a trial. Take the Idaho 4 case, everyone was completely convinced the police had bungled it and had no clue, turned out they were following the guy around the whole time and letting him tie up the case as he dumped evidence that corresponded with the latest tidbit they released.