Former FBI Agent Breaks Down Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes—And What They Mean For Investigation

The search for Nancy Guthrie has officially passed the six-month mark, and the 84-year-old still hasn’t been found and no suspects have publicly been named. One day after Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS that he had “nothing to indicate she’s dead,” including any note, his department released the text of two ransom notes that were sent on February 2 and 6. The first addressed “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie directly, and demanded 4 to 6 million dollars in bitcoin for her mother’s safe release. The note threatened that Nancy would be killed if the money was not received by a February 9 deadline. The second note, which addressed the Guthrie family, said that whoever took her failed to “fully grasp the seriousness of her physical condition,” she died shortly after she was abducted, and she “is buried in nature now.” Retired FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner joined “Forbes True Crime” to discuss the notes and where the case stands a full six months after Nancy Guthrie went missing.