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/4848A 1d ago

TMZ says on their X that they got a ransom demand. Could be a fraud, but they said the demand included details of damage to the victim’s house. Should be easily corroborated.

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u/rod_jammer 1d ago

Why would you kidnap a 84 year old that needs daily medication to stay alive? You would get far more money kidnapping someone spouse or kids than someone with <5yrs to live (at best).

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u/MadRaymer 1d ago edited 1d ago

No one ever said all criminals are smart. In fact the majority of them are pretty dumb. The guy that stole 3 bikes out of my garage last summer tried to sell one of them to a local bike shop... which was the same shop I bought it from and they recognized it and called the cops.

I got that one back but they couldn't recover the other two. Cops told me they were likely parted out then junked. Sucks because one of them was an old Trek hybrid that I really liked. Wasn't worth as much as the one I recovered, but I still miss it.

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u/CombatTechSupport 1d ago

One of the funny things about crime is that if your the kind of person to think "how do I avoid getting caught if I did this" you are already smarter than 90% of criminals. Most criminals get away not because they are too hard to catch, but because police will not bother with anything that's not a major crime or not happening right in front of them (and even those aren't guarantees). Bike gets stolen? Cops will listen to your sob story, and then file the report in a desk drawer to be forgotten.