Amelia Lester

She's a very serious journalist.

interviewed Donald Trump in 2020.

She was about to go to the Winter Olympics for NBC when all of this happened.

Was she born in Australia?

She was born in Melbourne to American parents who were working here.

But they're serious journalists who people nonetheless feel very warm and close to because they invite them into their living rooms first thing in the morning.

And in this very polarised America, which I just described to you,

Savannah Guthrie is a figure who just about every American likes.

I mean, you can name the Americans that every American likes now on practically one hand.

Dolly Parton, Savannah Guthrie, I think that's about it.

I was going to say Bad Bunny, but I've heard there are people who don't like him.

But the thing about this is even separate from Savannah Guthrie's fame, this is a uniquely...

horrible story.

It is just the kind of true crime story that we thought that we had left way back in the 1980s.

People just are not getting kidnapped for ransom anymore.

So let me explain what happened.

Savannah Guthrie is one of three kids.

Their father died when they were quite young.

Her mother, Nancy Guthrie, she is 84.

Last Sunday, she was meant to be attending a streamed church service.