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Josh Ritter connected Nancy Guthrie case: FBI hold mislaid important evidence
Criminal defense lawyer Josh Ritter specifications nan captious four-day hold successful FBI engagement successful nan Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation, emphasizing really important video grounds of a fishy was irreversibly lost. He highlights nan paramount value of swift action successful criminal probes to unafraid each disposable evidence.
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New portions of nan first purported ransom statement received successful nan Nancy Guthrie investigation person been made nationalist aft a erstwhile Arizona newsman publication them connected a awesome existent crime podcast Wednesday.
Briana Whitney, who was moving for nan Phoenix-based AZ Family news outlet erstwhile nan lawsuit broke, joined Crime Junkie big Ashley Flowers to talk nan statement and a "wrench attack" theory that emerged successful May.
A Crime Junkie spokesperson said nan podcasters would not stock copies of nan text, which has not been independently verified. However, Whitney publication excerpts connected air:
NANCY GUTHRIE RANSOM NOTE CLAIMED THAT SHE HAD DIED, BEEN ‘BURIED WITH NATURE,’ SOURCE SAYS
Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson location successful nan early greeting hours of Feb. 1, pinch investigators treating nan lawsuit arsenic an evident abduction. (Fox Flight Team; Courtesy of NBC)
"Hello Savannah, We person your mother Nancy," she began, reference from what she said was nan first statement sent to section media. "She is safe but scared. She will beryllium held for ransom, and erstwhile costs is received, she will beryllium released unharmed. We will beryllium holding her for a maximum of 7 days."
As antecedently conveyed by authorities, nan sender gave 2 deadlines pinch accrued money demands nan longer it took.
"Once costs is received to nan Bitcoin reside below, she will beryllium released wrong 12 hours of deposit to a safe drop-off location backmost successful Tucson," Whitney read. "If nan costs is not received by nan past deadline connected Monday nan 9th astatine 5 p.m., she will beryllium killed. Your mother is alert of this, and her life is successful your hands."
NANCY GUTHRIE RANSOM NOTES DON'T MATCH SUSPECT'S BEHAVIOR, PROFILER SAYS: 'I DON'T BELIEVE THEY'RE REAL'
A root acquainted tells Fox News Digital that 2 photos of nan fishy successful nan Nancy Guthrie doorbell video were taken connected different days. (FBI)
The sender near nary room for further dialogue.
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"It is successful nan champion liking of everyone to person this completed arsenic soon arsenic possible," nan statement reportedly continued. "You will not beryllium capable to interaction maine from present connected out. There will beryllium nary negotiation. Do not play games. Law enforcement will not beryllium capable to thief you."
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This image released by nan FBI shows an equipped individual appearing to person tampered pinch nan camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway nan greeting of her disappearance successful Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, February 1, 2026. (L) An undated photograph of Nancy Guthrie provided by NBC successful consequence to nan disappearance of nan 84-year-old mother of Today Show big Savannah Guthrie. (Provided by FBI; Courtesy of NBC)
The statement besides included specifications that whitethorn person only been disposable to investigators and nan fishy astatine nan time, including nan location of Guthrie's Apple watch and specifications astir nan smashed floodlight successful her backyard.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE PLEADS FOR TIPS AS RANSOM NOTE CLAIMS MOM IS DEAD: 'SOMEBODY KNOWS SOMETHING'
She besides publication from a purported 2nd note, which claimed that nan kidnappers had underestimated Guthrie's wellness and that she had died soon aft being taken. That statement reportedly included an apology astatine nan end.
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Investigators guidelines successful nan entranceway to nan location of Nancy Guthrie successful Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
Guthrie was taken from her Tucson location successful nan early greeting hours of Feb. 1, according to nan Pima County Sheriff's Department and nan FBI.
The only known fishy remains publically unidentified — a masked intruder who appeared connected Nest doorbell camera video that nan FBI recovered pinch thief from Google.
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He is described arsenic opinionated betwixt 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches gangly pinch an mean build. He was wearing a achromatic Ozark Trail backpack.
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The sum of rewards successful nan case is complete $1.2 million.
Anyone pinch accusation is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. Tips tin besides beryllium submitted anonymously to Tucson's Crime Stoppers connection astatine 520-88-CRIME.
