Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnappers’ Sick Plot to ‘Torture’ Savannah Exposed After Chilling New Ransom Note
The way the Nancy Guthrie investigation has developed has left everyone trying to figure out what exactly happened. It’s been over two months with no real leads, no suspect identified, and no motive. And though police are fairly certain Savannah Guthrie’s mom was kidnapped from her house sometime between the night of January 31 and the morning of February 1, they still know very little about the details that happened.
And of course, there’s the fact that the family has gotten multiple ransom notes. However, no ransom was paid, which means either the notes were considered to be fake or no proof of life was provided.
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The latest ransom notes came after Savannah Guthrie returned to the Today show on April 6. According to Rob Shuter, “She was told this would happen the moment she went back on TV. And sadly, it did.”
“It’s exactly what she feared,” the source said. “People inserting themselves into the story for attention or money.”
A former FBI agent, Jennifer Coffindaffer, told Newsweek that “They sent these right when Savannah Guthrie went back to work. That was by no mistake, that was absolutely meant to further torment her and her family.”
“I think it speaks to the fact that there is at least someone out there that is still willing to torture this family by sending these continued communications with no proof of life,” she added.
The retired FBI agent believes the last two notes, one which claimed Nancy Guthrie was dead, and one which claimed they’d seen her with the kidnappers in Mexico, are fake. They were sent by the same person who claimed they could deliver the kidnappers before. But Coffindaffer’s reasoning is that the money requested is only 1 bitcoin, which right now is valued at around $70,000. That’s less than the money being offered by the family.
“The reason this makes sense to me, that they don’t have that knowledge, is because they’re not seeking the $1.2 million. Instead, they’re trying to subvert it with this … quickly paid, no hoops to jump through, just get the money. But I think that these people are scammers.”
Brian Martin, an Indiana detective who specializes in cold cases, recently told NewsNation’s Brian Entin that it’s likely that Nancy Guthrie suffered a medical episode during her kidnapping, and her captors ended up dumping her body.
“What really bothers me is if they underestimated Miss Guthrie’s health and thought, ‘Well, we’ll take her, this will be easy. We’ll hold on to her at an unknown location for a day or two. We’ll get some money out of this and we’ll leave her in a Walmart parking lot,’” Martin said.
“And what they had to do is … it sounds horrible…. They had to dispose of Miss Guthrie because she was no longer of value to them in that monetary gain that they’re hoping to get,” he added.
