New Nancy Guthrie ‘ransom note’ claims to have fresh details on suspects in her kidnapping and video of her last day
A MYSTERY sender has claimed to possess a chilling video showing Nancy Guthrie with one of her kidnappers on what may have been her final day.
The person also claims to know the names, ages, and addresses of two people responsible for her disappearance, but is demanding Bitcoin to reveal the evidence.
The fresh message emerged nearly five months after the 84-year-old vanished from her Tucson, Arizona, home.
TMZ said it received the email from the same person who had previously claimed to know the identities of Guthrie’s kidnappers.
The outlet said it matched the sender through an alias and a Bitcoin address used in earlier messages.
However, neither the claims nor the alleged video have been independently verified.
The sender claimed a phone hidden in a secure location contains footage of Guthrie with the alleged “main guy.”
He described it as “a short video of the main guy with Nancy the day that was probably her last.”
The person also claimed the device holds photographs of two alleged kidnappers, along with their names, addresses and ages.
“What it contains is my definition of delivering them on a silver platter,” the sender wrote, according to TMZ.
He claimed the phone had been stashed somewhere that would be “easy to access if you know where it is.”
The sender demanded one Bitcoin in exchange for the password and supplied a new cryptocurrency address.
TMZ asked him to send a screenshot showing Guthrie in the alleged footage as proof that the video exists.
The outlet said it also forwarded the email to the FBI.
The latest claim follows days of renewed attention on earlier notes sent after Guthrie disappeared, including one that reportedly said she had died.
NBC News reported that a second note sent to media outlets claimed Guthrie was dead but did not demand money or directly apologize for her alleged abduction.
Three people familiar with the matter told the outlet that the message expressed regret over her reported death.
Other reports claimed the note said Guthrie “perished shortly after she was taken” and was “buried in nature now.”
The contents have not been publicly authenticated by the FBI, and authorities have not confirmed that Guthrie is dead. She remains missing.
NBC News previously reported that investigators had examined two early messages sent to media outlets and considered them potentially credible.
The first allegedly said Guthrie was safe and demanded cryptocurrency in return for her release.
The second did not request payment and reportedly differed “in almost every way” from the first.
Savannah Guthrie has said her family believes at least two of the many notes received following her mother’s disappearance were genuine.
“There are a lot of different notes, I think that came. And I think most of them, it’s my understanding, are not real,” she told Hoda Kotb in March.
“But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those were real.”
The Today host broke down on air Tuesday as she pleaded for anyone with information to come forward.
“I just want to take the opportunity to ask people, to really to beg people to come forward,” Savannah said.
“Somebody knows something.”
She said the disappearance was not merely a news story for her family, but an ordeal they continued to endure every day.
“This is a news story today that is on your radar but this is the life that my sister lives, that I live, my brother lives, our extended families live, our children live every day,” she said.
“We are in agony.”
Savannah said her family could not find peace while they remained without answers about what happened to Nancy.
“We cannot be at peace no matter how much I try to come out here every day and smile and find that joy, and I will, I promise I will, this is the moment to tell you that we need your help,” she said.
“We’re begging for your help.”
“Please do the right thing for us, for our family, for our children. We love our mom. We’ll never stop looking for her, never.”
Savannah and her siblings had previously addressed the apparent abductors directly in a video offering to pay for their mother’s return.
“We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” she said.
“This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Guthrie was last seen on the evening of January 31 after a relative dropped her home following dinner.
