Nancy Guthrie Update: FBI Drops Bombshell News About ‘Suspect’
What To Know
- The FBI has determined that at least three ransom notes related to Nancy Guthrie’s abduction are fake.
- Investigators tested the authenticity of the ransom notes by depositing cryptocurrency into a provided wallet.
- Despite ongoing efforts, including DNA testing and reviewing surveillance footage, no suspects have been publicly identified.
As the Nancy Guthrie investigation enters its fifth month, a new report claims the ransom notes sent by the alleged abductors were fake.
According to Reuters, an anonymous FBI official claimed that at least three letters related to the kidnapping are not authentic. The source said the FBI assessed the authenticity of two ransom notes reported to have been sent in early February, and a third note recently sent to TMZ that claimed to know the identities of Nancy’s kidnappers.
Nancy, the 84-year-old mother of Today‘s Savannah Guthrie, went missing on February 1, when police believe she was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Investigators have released doorbell camera footage of a masked suspect and sent DNA for testing at the FBI lab in Quantico, but no suspects have been named publicly.
The first ransom note was sent to TMZ and other media outlets in early February, demanding around $4 million in Bitcoin in exchange for Nancy’s return. A second letter, sent to a local Arizona TV station a few days later, implied that Nancy had died, noting that she was “buried with nature.”
“None of the ransom notes are believed to be genuine,” the FBI source told Reuters.
The official said that the FBI tested the legitimacy of the first ransom letter by depositing a small amount of cryptocurrency into the provided wallet address. The deposit was never touched, and this, in addition to other unspecified methods, led the FBI to rule the ransom note as a fake sent by someone not connected to Nancy’s disappearance.
The letter sent to TMZ last week, which claimed to have information about Nancy’s abductors on a phone, was also determined to be fake, though the source did not specify how that decision was made.
Back in March, Savannah revealed in her sit-down interview with Hoda Kotb that she believed two of the notes were real. “There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came, and I think most of them — it’s my understanding — are not real, and I didn’t see them,” she stated. “But I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.”
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Look more into son-in-law and daughter
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They keep putting he and Annie r suspects but that’s it they must be really stupid or nanos is helping them so it’s a cold case
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I don't want to offend anyone, but my belief is that someone close to Nancy, knows exactly what has happened and where she is.
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I also believe it was someone close to Nancy Guthrie, and her family. I wonder if they’ve been looking in the wrong direction I wonder if it could be someone who may be involved in working the case someone who may be feeling remorse. I truly continue to hope that she has found one way or the other my heart and prayers go out to the Guthrie family., and to the agencies that are trying to find her that they may find the light that leads up to where she is.
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Idiot was too quick to dismiss family, it’s hard to separate family DNA and suspect. So it’s easier to dismiss the family so they don’t have to work so hard. This is way too complicated than it needs to be. Everyone should be a suspect period. There are richer people in Tucson than Nancy and her daughter. If they were they’d look for a better target and quicker payout, they would have hit a better target with real money. I think this whole bitcoin thing is just a decoy. Like all these fake ransom letters. It’s all a game. At the cost of the life of poor Nancy. But somebody here benefited. And it wasn’t about money. I can’t help to think that she was a burden.
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You may have just hit the bullseye..
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Money speaks to ppl louder than words these days.. if it is truly believed she has passed offer a bigger reward for returning her body so she can be laid to rest at the very least..Also if she was that physically debilitated or ill n someone in her family like her children made lots of money she shouldve never had to live all alone.. That was setting her up for dangerous occurrences n im sure the family couldve not been so selfish n given her a live in aid and security… at the very least..
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I wondered that too they could have taken her in I could never leave my sick mother to fenn for herself she could hardly walk! And she should,by have been alone
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Agree. It’s far too calculated and suspect not to be. Sad.
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