It began with concern in a church pew, not a police station. When Nancy Guthrie didn’t appear for Sunday service, a friend from her congregation reached out to Savannah and her sister, Annie, hundreds of miles away. That call set off a frantic chain of events: the sisters rushing to their mother’s home in the Catalina Foothills, searching room by room, calling her name into a silence that felt instantly wrong. Nothing made sense. Her things were there, but she was not.
Only when their own search turned to dread did they dial 911, handing their worst fears to investigators who now say Nancy did not leave on her own. As helicopters circled and search teams combed the desert, Savannah turned to the only thing she felt she had left: faith. Her public plea for prayers was not performance, but survival—a daughter clinging to hope that her mother will be found and brought safely home.