Savannah Guthrie and her sister left a heartbreaking note to their missing mother while visiting a memorial outside 84-year-old Nancy’s Tucson home on Monday.
“Momma, We miss you so much! Our hearts are broken. We are standing on ash, scorched earth!” part of the handwritten card read, according to NBC News.
“But, mom, though we are surrounded by so much darkness and uncertainty, our love burns bright,” it continued.
The “TODAY” show star and her sister Annie and brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni were heard sobbing as they approached the memorial arm-in-arm and carrying flowers on Monday.
The touching tribute came a month after Nancy vanished from her Arizona home on Feb. 1.
She hasn’t been seen since Cioni dropped her off after an evening of games and dinner with family that night, with authorities suspecting she was snatched from her home by a masked kidnapper as she slept.
Terrifying footage from Nancy’s home security camera appeared to capture the perp – a masked and gun-toting individual who snuck up in the dark hours of early morning – but so far no suspects have been identified or arrested.
Several people were briefly detained – but each was cut loose within hours, and all insist they had absolutely nothing to do with the kidnapping.
And a series of supposed ransom notes – which claimed to be sent from kidnappers, and demanded millions of dollars in for Nancy’s return – each came to nothing after deadlines expired, while none provided any proof that the grandmother was in the authors’ custody.
Police have cleared Nancy’s family — including Cioni, who internet sleuths targeted because he was the last person to see Nancy alive.
But police insist the investigation is pressing ahead and making progress, even while Nancy remains missing without a trace found for over four weeks.
“I think the investigators are definitely closer,” said Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, whose department has been leading the search alongside the FBI.
“I’ve said this from the beginning: I have full faith, full confidence, they’re going to solve this,” he told NBC News, explaining his team had come across “thousands” of leads during their investigation.
