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Speaker 1: Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie is candidly sharing her family's struggles following the

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Speaker 1: unsettling disappearance of her mother, Nancy. In her first interview

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Speaker 1: since her mother went missing on February one, the fifty

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Speaker 1: four year old Today's Show co anchor set down with

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Speaker 1: Hotacopti for a two part discussion, with the initial segment

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Speaker 1: airing on Thursday, March twenty six. During their conversation, Guthrie

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Speaker 1: recounted the moment she learned about her mother's disappearance. As

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Speaker 1: she and her siblings tried to piece together the events,

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Speaker 1: She expressed her fears that her own public profile might

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Speaker 1: have made her mother a target. She said, in part,

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Speaker 1: my brother and my siblings are incredible. My brother, who

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Speaker 1: has a military background and his brilliant intelligence officer and

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Speaker 1: a fighter pilot, immediately grasped the situation, saying, I believe

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Speaker 1: she's been kidnapped for ransom. Savannah breaking down as she

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Speaker 1: expressed disbelief and sorrow that her mother could have been

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Speaker 1: taken because of her fame, and he.

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Speaker 2: Said, I think she's been kidnapped for ransom. And I said, yeah, what,

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Speaker 2: well what? And then I mean, it sounds so like

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Speaker 2: how dumb could I be? But I just I didn't

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Speaker 2: want to believe. I just said, do you think because

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Speaker 2: of me? And I said, I'm sorry, sweet you now

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Speaker 2: maybe too much to bear to think that I brought

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Speaker 2: this to her bedside, that it's because of me, And

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Speaker 2: I say, I'm so sorry, mommy, I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 1: Savannah went on to reveal that when she and her

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Speaker 1: family arrived at their mother's home in the Tucson area,

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Speaker 1: they found the back doors wide open. She described the

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Speaker 1: chaos and disbelief that enveloped the family after her sister

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Speaker 1: called to inform her that her mother was missing. I

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Speaker 1: was in a state of panic, Savannah recounted. My sister

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Speaker 1: said she's gone, and we were both frantic. I told

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Speaker 1: her to call nine one one she had already done

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Speaker 1: that authorities were there. We initially thought she may have

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Speaker 1: suffered a medical emergency during the night, given that the

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Speaker 1: back doors were standing wide open. In the interview, Savannah

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Speaker 1: revealed that her mother had been enduring significant pain and

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Speaker 1: had limited mobility. My mom was in a lot of pain,

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Speaker 1: Savannah explained. Her back was severely problematic on good days

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Speaker 1: she could walk to the mailbox, but on most days

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Speaker 1: she could not. There was no way that she would

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Speaker 1: have wandered off. The back doors were propped open, there

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Speaker 1: was blood on the front step, and the ring camera

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Speaker 1: had been ripped away.

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Speaker 2: And really it just got home at the same time

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Speaker 2: that Mike came home, and we were just saying hi,

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Speaker 2: putting down our stuff, and the kids are running around,

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Speaker 2: and my sister called me and I said, is everything okay?

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Speaker 2: And she said no, She said Mom's missing. And I said,

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Speaker 2: what what are you talking about? She said, She's gone,

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Speaker 2: and she was in a panic. I was in a panic.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, call nine one one. She's like I did.

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Speaker 2: We've called them, they're here. And we thought that she

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Speaker 2: must have had like some kind of medical episode in

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Speaker 2: the night, and that somehow, you know, the paramedics had

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Speaker 2: come because the back doors were propped open, you know,

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Speaker 2: and that didn't make any sense. We thought maybe they

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Speaker 2: came and there was a stretcher and they took her

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Speaker 2: out the back, but her phone was there, and her

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Speaker 2: purse was there and all her things.

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Speaker 1: The Pima County Sheriff's Department suspects that Nancy was taken

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Speaker 1: from her home against her will. During the night of

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Speaker 1: February one. Savannah mentioned that her family is offering a

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Speaker 1: one million dollar reward for any information that could lead

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Speaker 1: to Nancy's recovery. Anyone who may have information is urged

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Speaker 1: to contact the FBI at one eight hundred call FBI

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Speaker 1: War Crime and Justice News. After this, the director of

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Speaker 1: a German immersion preschool in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has been

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Speaker 1: arrested and federally indicted for allegedly embezzling almost three million

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Speaker 1: dollars intuition payments, spending at least three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars on WWE wrestling event tickets, including VIP meet

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Speaker 1: and greet packages, where she and her three children interacted

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Speaker 1: with famous wrestlers. This according to the US Department of Justice.

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Speaker 1: Muriel Mizak, forty three, a Swiss citizen and director of

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Speaker 1: the Kinderhouse Brooklyn, was taken into custody on Wednesday. She

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Speaker 1: was arraigned before US Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo in Federal

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Speaker 1: Court in Brooklyn. She faces charges of wire fraud, money laundering,

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Speaker 1: and engaging in monetary transactions involving criminally derived property, offenses

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Speaker 1: that carry a potential maximum sentence of more than twenty

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Speaker 1: years in prison. Federal prosecutors alleged that Mizzak used at

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Speaker 1: least three hundred and fifty thousand of the stolen funds

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Speaker 1: on WWE related expenses, some of which she documented on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: According to a report from The New York Post, her

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Speaker 1: purchases included VIP and meet and greet packages where she

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Speaker 1: and her children spent time with prominent wrestling stars. Thorties

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Speaker 1: also claimed that the woman spent about six hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand on travel and entertainment, about one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand on food delivery, and hundreds of thousands on

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Speaker 1: luxury goods. A civil lawsuit filed by the school, it's

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Speaker 1: a picture of an extravagant lifestyle, alleging she frequently traveled

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Speaker 1: often every other weekend, staying at upscale resorts and enjoying

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Speaker 1: those premium experiences at the WWE. For now, she's behind bars.

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