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The search for Nancy Guthrie has brought back 'everything' for fellow Tucson resident Tammy Tacho, whose younger brother vanished from a nearby area more than three decades ago. Tacho spoke with NBC Tucson affiliate KVOA about how the disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of TODAY's Savannah Guthrie has brought renewed attention to the many anguished families like hers who have lived with the heartbreak of a loved one going missing.
Guthrie has now been missing for 52 days after authorities say she was abducted from her home outside Tucson, Arizona, and reported missing by her family on Feb. 1. Tacho was 17 years old in 1991 when her brother, Jimmy Hendrickson, vanished from a neighborhood in Tucson when he was just 12 years old. Police said he spent the night with a family friend’s cousin and then he went missing, according to KVOA. Thirty-five years later, the search for him still continues at a time when the Tucson community has also come together to support Savannah's family and pray for Nancy Guthrie's return. Yellow ribbons around Tucson have become a symbol of hope and support for the family. 'This brings back everything,' Tacho told KVOA. 'Every day you hope and pray that he’s going to come running to the door.' At the same time that investigators scoured the Tucson area in February looking for Nancy Guthrie, a group of retired law enforcement officers known as Team Adam was searching for any signs of Hendrickson. The group is part of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. In February, Savannah and her family announced they were donating $500,000 to the organization while also announcing they were offering a reward of $1 million for the return of their mother. 'We are hoping that the attention that has been given to our mom and our family will extend to all the families like ours who are in need and need prayers and need support,' the Guthrie family wrote in a statement on Feb. 24. Donations like the one from the Guthrie family go toward promoting missing child cases to keep them in the public eye. 'What a wonderful and generous gift from the Guthrie family to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,' John E. Bischoff III, the vice president for the missing children division at NCMEC, told KVOA. 'In their time of pain, in their time of uncertainty, to recognize, to understand that there are so many families out there looking for this type of media coverage, looking for this type of attention.' Tacho has never met the Guthrie family but told KVOA she feels a deep connection to them after their shared loss of a missing family member. 'What I tell missing families, just don’t give up hope,' she said. 'With hope it’s everything.' For people looking to help families searching for missing loved ones, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children accepts donations and is also actively looking for volunteers. They also have virtual and live fundraising events and opportunities across the country, which are detailed on their website.
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