Savannah Guthrie Reportedly Played a ‘Kidnapping Game’ When She Was A Child

Details about an abduction game Savannah Guthrie and her sister, Annie Guthrie played with their cousin when they were children are coming to light amid the search for their missing mother, Nancy Guthrie.

“It was called Mock Kidnapping,” Amy Brown said during a recent episode of The Bobby Bones Show. “It was something they did regularly. And her mom would play along. They would go from like Tucson to Phoenix and act like they were kidnapped.”

Bones jumped in to say, “I’m not judging…That just sounds like a crazy coincidence.”

The Today host described the game in her 2024 book, Mostly What God Does.

According to Entertainment Now, Guthrie wrote, “About once a year, in the summertime, cousin Teri orchestrated a kidnapping of my sister and me. It went down like this. The cousins would visit for a few days at our house in Tucson, and then on the morning they were to leave, Teri would wake us up early, shushing us in the pre-dawn darkness.”

“As we made our escape, we would all pile into her rickety station wagon and head north,” she continued. “The sky streaking with bright oranges and pink. As the sun rose over the colorless desert landscape somewhere between Phoenix and Tucson, Teri would make a pit stop and let Annie and me call home at a pay phone: ‘Mom, cousin Teri kidnapped us to take us to her house!’ My mother would feign shock, protest how terribly she would miss us, and assure us she’d drive up to retrieve us in a few days.”

The eerie revelation comes as the search for Nancy, who was taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in the early morning hours of February 1, continues. Investigators have not identified a suspect, but Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed that all of the Guthrie family members have been cleared.