The 1 Way Officials the FBI Could Finally Crack Nancy Guthrie Abduction Case, According to an Ex-Agent
Everyone’s got an opinion about the Nancy Guthrie case these days, and it honestly feels like all opinions are worth taking into account because the case is going nowhere. It’s been over two months since Savannah Guthrie’s mom was abducted, and though the police released surveillance video and photos, no suspect has been identified. Not just that, no motive has been disclosed.
Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer told Newsweek that, perhaps, the way to crack the case is to pay the ransom requested by the person who claims to have information about what happened to Guthrie. “Tickling the wire in this case would be putting half a bitcoin and seeing what happens to it,” she said.
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The last two ransom notes sent to TMZ asked for one bitcoin, which is worth about $72,000, in exchange for information related to Nancy Guthrie’s abduction. The notes even promised to deliver the kidnappers on a “silver platter.”
“Do they take it? Do they convert it to pesos? It’s internationally tracked. How does it come out into currency? Do they just leave it there?” she said of the notes, which suggested Nancy Guthrie had been taken to Mexico.
“Once it’s gone, it’s going to be gone. But I would want that last bread crumb. I think it would be worth it to me,” she added.
These latest notes were reportedly sent by the same person who demanded one bitcoin for information two months ago. In the first note, they stated that Nancy Guthrie was dead, but promised to deliver the kidnappers. In the second one, they claimed they had seen her with the kidnappers in Sonora, Mexico.
Both notes were sent after Savannah Guthrie made her return to the Today show.
Multiple ransom notes have been sent to the family in the past two months, though no ransom has been paid. However, Guthrie made it clear that she believed at least some were legitimate.
“There are a lot of different notes, I think that came. And I think most of them, it’s my understanding, are not real,” Guthrie told Hoda Kotb in an interview that aired on the Today show. “But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those were real.”
Still, no payment was made, likely because no proof of life was ever provided.
Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped at some point between late on January 31 and the early hours of February 1. The investigation into her disappearance has continued for two months, with police speaking to neighbors, investigating the likelihood that an empty house near where Guthrie lived could have been used as a base of operations, and looking into a possible internet outage the night of the disappearance.
Police also reportedly recovered DNA from the scene, which is still being processed.
Despite this, to this day, there’s no confirmation of what happened. The reward for information about Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is up to $1 million.
