Nancy is dead. They’re asking for her body so they can “celebrate with her.” Her mother was a Presbyterian church goer for 30 years. Nowadays, we Presbyterians refer to a funeral service as a “celebration of life.” The mother is with her Savior, and they are going to “celebrate” with her. That’s what Savannah’s statement means when she says they want to “celebrate with her.”
The sister is crying; the brother looks stricken; Savannah looks sad and defeated in the video tonight. They know their mother is dead. Now they just want to pay to get her body back or, as Savannah says in the video, “it’s the only way we will ever have peace.” “We beg you to return our mother to us.” “We understand,” she says. Maybe the kidnappers have said she is dead, that they didn’t mean to kill her, but now, they’re still looking for a payoff.
Savannah isn’t looking for any proof of life in this latest video; she just is asking for her mother’s body.
All this commentary about investigating is just to try now to locate the perpetrators and bring them to justice.