LATEST UPDATE: A SECOND RANSOM NOTE CHANGED EVERYTHING..! – Sources say a second message sent after Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance claimed the 84-year-old had d-i:ed and even offered the possibility of returning her b0dy for a price.
An email offered the possibility that Nancy Guthrie’s body could be delivered for a price, according to a report confirmed by NBC News.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — A ransom note emailed to media outlets six days after Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance indicated that she had died, according to a report by the news website AirMail that NBC News confirmed.
After the second email was sent, on Feb. 6, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings posted a video a day later. Guthrie’s tone appeared to indicate the family had been told their mother had died.
“We received your message and we understand,” Savannah Guthrie said, alongside her brother, Camron, and sister, Annie. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we can have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
The 84-year-old mother of “TODAY” show co-host Savannah Guthrie was last seen alive when she was dropped off at her Catalina Foothills home the night of Jan. 31.
No one has been arrested in her disappearance.
According to reporting, the second note indicated that Nancy Guthrie had died, did not apologize for taking Guthrie and did not request any money.
The first of the two publicly released emails sent by the apparent abductors had demanded a $4 million ransom in Bitcoin.
According to AirMail reporter Howard Blum, citing “sources close to the case,” the second email “opened with a sputtering and labored ‘apology’ for Guthrie’s inadvertent death.”
The email offered the possibility that Nancy Guthrie’s body could be delivered for a price, according to Blum’s reporting.
Blum’s sources said the second email was credible because it came from the same IP address as the first note and contained details such as what Nancy Guthrie was wearing the night she was taken.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office directed questions about the ransom notes to the FBI. The FBI has not responded to a request for comment.
Savannah Guthrie said in a March interview on “TODAY” that the two notes that the family responded to in social media videos were credible.
“I tend to believe those are real,” she said.
Two weeks ago, volunteers engaged in a fruitless search for Nancy Guthrie’s remains in northern Mexico, near the Arizona border, after an anonymous tip.
In February, a California man was charged with writing a fake ransom note to the Guthrie family.
AirMail’s Blum reported that a law enforcement task force is now poring over all emails for clues about the abductor’s profile:
“The working theory advanced by the language in the ransom notes is that the abductor was most likely an opportunist: a ruthless, educated local who saw their chance at an unscrupulous windfall and grabbed it. Only to have their scheme disintegrate when, as a result of either violence or illness, Guthrie died.”
Anyone with information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is encouraged to call 1-800-Call-FBI.
