TWO new bombshell ransom notes have claimed to know the location of Nancy Guthrie’s body as well as who is behind her kidnapping, TMZ has reported.
The pair of notes were sent to the outlet yesterday from the same mystery person who previously demanded one bitcoin in exchange for information on the 84-year-old woman’s disappearance.
Nancy Guthrie, mother of popular Today Show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, vanished without a trace on January 31.
At the time of her disappearance, police said the elderly mother of the beloved Today host has limited mobility and is reliant on daily medication, which if she does not take could be fatal.
On Monday, Harvey Levin – the founder of the gossip site – appeared on air to discuss the new notes.
“We got another letter today from this person, an email saying: ‘I know where her body is, and who the kidnapper is, give me half a bitcoin and I’ll tell you,” he said.
The shock notes come on the same day that Savannah Guthrie made her return to the Today Show for the first time since her mother went missing.
The first note the outlet received claimed: “She is dead”.
After talking about the first letter on TMZ Live by Levin, TMZ reported the mystery author had sent a second note, saying: “I saw her alive with them in the state of Sonora Mexico“.
The outlet said it had alerted the FBI.
According to the note, the person has claimed they will surrender the information for half a bitcoin with another half transferred to their wallet when there is a public arrest, TMZ said.
The sender had been “persistent” despite knowing they could be charged with a crime for the hoax, Levin reported.
The person behind the notes appeared to be frustrated that they had been “disregarded as a scam” by investigating authorities.
“It’s unbelievable that millions have been wasted and yet here I am willing to deliver them on a silver platter since the 11th of February for a bitcoin but I am disregarded as a scam … they are free and the case is frozen but the ego’s remain hot when it comes to me,” the first letter reportedly stated.
“Arrogance at its finest.”
While the note’s sender claimed to know valuable information, they also said they had no involvement in the “horrific crime”, insisting they had been out of the country for more than five years.
In the second letter on Monday, the person also said they’re not motivated by greed, despite their financially grandiose demand.
“I just want whats fair and to live peacefully with enough to start my life again quietly without having to join a witness protection program,” they claimed.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office is leading the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Nancy and has so far failed to identify any suspects in the case.
Nancy was last seen at around 9:45 pm on January 31 after she was dropped off at her home in Tucson, Arizona, according to authorities.
At the time, the sheriff said evidence recovered from Guthrie’s home was “concerning” to authorities, who began investigating the case as a “crime scene.”
A neighbour told the Daily Mail in February that the community feared the elderly woman had been “abducted.”
“We heard that the front door was left open,” neighbour Paul Arnaud told the outlet, adding that he heard Guthrie “vanished shortly after being dropped off from a church function by a friend”.
Nancy’s family, including her daughter, Savannah, have been cooperating with Pima County Sheriff officials.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to The U.S. Sun that Border Patrol agents are assisting with the search.
The FBI is also on standby, although the federal agency has not officially joined the search effort.
Guthrie is described as 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing about 150 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
It’s unknown what she was last wearing when she disappeared.
