Body found in Arizona canal ruled out as sheriff faces recall effort

In the third part of her NBC interview that aired on Friday morning, Savannah Guthrie revealed she will return to the Today show on April 6.

She told Hoda Kotb, who has been filling in for her on the NBC morning show, that she believes returning is “part of my purpose right now.”

“I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not. But I can’t not come back because it’s my family,” Guthrie said. “I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try. I would like to try.”

The first two parts of the wide-ranging interview aired on Thursday. Savannah said she fears that her mother may have been targeted because of her fame as cohost of Today.

She said it’s “too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside. That it’s because of me … And I just want to say I’m so sorry, mommy, I’m so sorry.”

It has been 57 days since Nancy Guthrie disappeared, and investigators have had no significant breakthroughs. Scottsdale police confirmed Saturday that a woman’s body recovered from a canal had no connection to the case.

Now, the sheriff leading the case faces pressure to step down: the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted March 24 to require Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos to submit reports under oath, invoking a rare territorial-era law, after records revealed disciplinary issues at a previous job and discrepancies on his resume. The department’s union has passed a unanimous no-confidence vote calling for his resignation. Nanos is also facing a recall effort.

Last weekend, Guthrie’s family issued a new public appeal, asking Tucson residents to review home security footage, text messages and personal notes for anything that might help investigators.

“It’s possible a member of this community has information that they do not even realize is significant,” the family said in a statement to KVOA in Tucson. “We hope people search their memories, especially around the key timelines of January 31 and the early morning hours of February 1, as well as the late evening of January 11.” The Pima County sheriff and the FBI have not publicly named a suspect or a motive for the apparent abduction. Harry Trombitas, a former special agent for the FBI, told Yahoo that authorities are likely to “continue as long as there is an investigation to conduct.”

Nanos told NBC Nightly News earlier this month that investigators believe they know why Nancy Guthrie’s home was targeted — and didn’t rule out the possibility that her kidnapper could strike again.

The family of Nancy Guthrie, 84, is offering $1 million for information leading to her “recovery.”

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Pima County Sheriff’s Department tip line at 520-351-4900 or the FBI tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI.

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