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It's the story the nation is watching unfold in real time.

Nancy Guthrie is 84 years old.

She lives alone in a beautiful home in Tucson,

Arizona. One daughter, Annie, lives just a few miles away. Her other daughter, Savannah, is the anchor of NBC's Today Show and a former court TV correspondent. Last Saturday night, Nancy had dinner with her daughter Annie and son-in-law

Tomaso. Around 9.45 p.m., the family says she returned to her home. Sometime during the night,

investigators believe everything changed. Surveillance cameras captured a masked figure on her front

porch, wearing gloves, carrying a a backpack and what appeared to be a gun by morning nancy was gone blood confirmed to be hers was found on the front steps ransom notes were later sent to media outlets sav Savannah and her siblings publicly responded still.

There has been no confirmed proof of life.

Tonight we examine a new note as the search for Nancy Guthrie intensifies.

I'm Vidipolitan.

Thank you for joining us tonight here on closing arguments.

Great to have you aboard. We continue our coverage of the story everyone is talking about.

Everyone is focused on. Everyone is texting me about each and every day.

And the question is, why was she abducted? Why was Nancy Guthrie taken?

Was it some sort of vendetta against her or a vendetta against her famous daughter, Savannah?

Is that possible that it was just to go in there and get her and to absolutely torture and terrorize the family?

That's possible, right? Was it a simple, simple home invasion that went terribly

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