Savannah Guthrie is waiting out the search for her missing mother in a $1.2million mansion tucked away in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.
The embattled NBC host flew in to her Arizona hometown last week after her mother Nancy, 84, vanished from her own $1million rural home.
Savannah, 54, initially stayed with sister Annie, 56, at the sprawling ranch-style property she shares with Italian husband Tommaso Cioni, 50. But the sisters – along with their brother Camron, 61 – did a midnight flit after the constant presence of news cameras became unbearable.
Now, the Daily Mail can reveal the siblings have holed up at an altogether more private residence in an exclusive Tucson neighborhood.
The stunning hideaway boasts five bedrooms and its own private pool and spa, as well as lush grounds dotted with prickly pears and Saguaro cacti.
Other amenities include, crucially, a gated guardhouse that prevents anyone but residents from entering – a far cry from Annie’s home which currently has news cameras outside running 24-hour rolling feeds with a clear view of the front door.
The hideaway has meant that distraught Savannah has been able to maintain a low profile besides two appearances on videos posted to her social media, both of which she used to address the authors of a series of ransom notes.
The first – which was shot in Annie’s $675,000 house on Wednesday afternoon – showed a tearful Savannah flanked by her siblings begging Nancy’s captors for proof-of-life and telling Nancy to stay strong during captivity.
Savannah Guthrie and her brother Camron flew into Tucson, Arizona, last week to join their sister Annie in the search for their 84-year-old kidnapped mother Nancy
The second video, a desperate plea to their mother’s kidnappers, was filmed inside the new place – where Savannah is heard agreeing to a staggering $6million ransom payment
But follow-up videos, featuring a direct plea from decorated military veteran Camron and another in which Savannah pledged to make a reported $6million ransom payment, were shot in the new more private residence.
Making the move even more desirable was the fact that Annie’s home has been subject to repeat police searches, most dramatically on Saturday evening when cops were seen combing through the home under cover of darkness and taking photographs inside.
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Annie, Camron and Tommaso did briefly pop back to the house on Wednesday night to collect some belongings but none of the family has been seen since, apart from in the trio of ransom videos.
The search for octogenarian Nancy is now in its second week, with police activity ratcheting up after the FBI got involved.
Multiple searches – including on Sunday – have been conducted at both Nancy and Annie’s homes, with the grandmother’s blue SUV seen being hauled away on Friday.
Police and FBI teams have also been seen searching the roof of the property and removing a camera, while the home’s septic tank has also been scoured.
Frail Nancy was last seen on Saturday January 31 when she joined Annie and son-in-law Tommaso for dinner at their home followed by a game of mahjong.
Afterwards, she was driven home by Tommaso – arriving back at approximately 9.48pm when her garage door opened.
Nancy Guthrie was abducted from the $1million home (pictured) she has lived in for more than 50 years
Annie and her husband Tommaso Cioni’s $675,000 home where her siblings stayed when they first arrived in Arizona
Annie and her husband Tommaso Cioni briefly returned to the house on Wednesday night to collect belongings, but none of the family has been seen there since (PICTURED: The couple driving to their home on Tuesday afternoon)
At 1.47am on Sunday February 1, the home’s doorbell camera was disconnected, while movement was detected on another camera at 2.12am.
20 minutes later, Nancy’s pacemaker disconnected from an app on her phone – suggesting she had moved out of range.
The alarm wasn’t raised until the following day when Nancy failed to join a group of friends who had been due to watch an online service at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church together that morning.
At 11.56am, Nancy’s family arrived at her sprawling pueblo-style home with the first 911 call coming at 12.03pm.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department then launched a search for the missing grandmother using drones and rescue dogs but, as of writing, investigators still do not know where she is.
Police have also faced criticism for the slow dispatch of search planes, with the Daily Mail the first to report on Friday that the planes’ takeoff was delayed by two hours due to a paucity of pilots.
According to police sources, that was due to under-fire Pima County Sheriff Chris Nunos who created a pilot shortage by having several transferred out of the unit for disciplinary infractions and not replacing them.
Sheriff Nunos has also faced criticism for closing and repeatedly reopening the scene at Nancy’s home and for attending a college basketball match on Saturday with the search at its height – again first reported by the Daily Mail.
Since Nancy vanished, what had been a missing persons case has turned into kidnapping drama with a series of ransom notes delivered to the family via local news stations and TMZ.
One deadline passed at 5pm on Thursday and a second is due to expire at 5pm local time on Monday.
