In a new video, Camron Guthrie, brother of NBC "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, tells "whoever is out there holding our mother" that the family wants to talk, "but first, we have to know that you have our mom."
"We want to hear from you. We haven't heard anything directly. We need you to reach out," Camron Guthrie says in the video posted Thursday evening on Instagram.
He says in the video that he is speaking for the family of Nancy Guthrie, his 84-year-old mother, whom investigators believe was abducted from her Tucson home early Sunday. Camron Guthrie, a retired Air National Guard F-16 fighter pilot, has two sisters, Savannah and Annie.
"We need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward," he adds. "We want to talk to you and we are waiting for contact."
The video apparently was posted online about the time or after a 5 p.m. Thursday deadline set in an alleged ransom note that investigators are taking seriously, according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Heith Janke of Phoenix and Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.
A screenshot from a new video where Camron Guthrie directly addresses the person or people believed to have taken their mother, Nancy Guthrie, asking them to come forward and prove she is alive.
That note, which Janke and Nanos said includes facts associated with the case that are not widely known, was received by some media organizations.
A second deadline in that letter is on Monday, Feb. 9, Janke said.
Neither Nanos nor Janke provided details of what the ransom note said would happen if those deadlines are not met.
No instructions for communication were provided, nor has there been contact after that ransom note was received and shared with law enforcement, Janke said at a news conference earlier Thursday, before Camron Guthrie's video.
"If those that may have Nancy are watching this, the family is ready to talk," Janke said, looking directly into the cameras of the many media organizations from around the globe at the news conference.
"Give proof of life, because there has been no contact after that ransom note went to media," he said, repeating a request made by the three Guthrie siblings in an emotional video the day before, in which Savannah Guthrie pleaded for the safe return of their "kind, faithful, loyal, fiercely loving" mother.
Meanwhile, a California man has been arrested in connection with an "imposter ransom" letter sent to members of the family, which is separate from the note being taken seriously.
