Nancy Guthrie investigators see uptick in tips after ransom notes release: Sheriff

Authorities person seen an summation successful tips aft releasing the ransom notes that were sent to Nancy Guthrie's family.

Authorities person not confirmed the ransom notes are authentic, but their merchandise has generated a "slight" uptick successful tips, a spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff's Office said. The bureau released the afloat contented of the alleged notes connected July 31.

"Nancy Guthrie Task Force investigators person seen a flimsy summation successful tips since the 2 ransom notes were released past week," Pima County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Angelica Carrillo told Fox News Digital. "All tips person been followed up on."

NANCY GUTHRIE RANSOM DEMANDS RELEASED BY PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IN BID TO IDENTIFY SENDER

Nancy Guthrie, the parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, remains missing and the household is urging renewed attraction arsenic the hunt drags on. (Courtesy of NBC)

The alleged ransom notes were sent connected Feb. 2 and Feb. 6.

"Hello Savannah," 1 of the notes read. "We person your parent Nancy. She is harmless but scared. She volition beryllium held for ransom and erstwhile outgo is received she volition beryllium released unharmed."

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"She had a achromatic astute ticker connected the level of the ft of her furniture and the achromatic flood airy successful backyard was destroyed," it continued.

In a follow-up connection sent to the Guthrie family, the alleged ransom notes states that Nancy Guthrie has passed away.

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Savannah Guthrie poses alongside her parent Nancy Guthrie during a accumulation interruption whilst hosting NBC's "Today Show" unrecorded from Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)

"We did not afloat grasp the seriousness of her carnal condition. We ne'er intended to wounded her, that was not our intention. She perished soon aft she was taken. We judge it was bosom related," the purported ransom enactment states.

As antecedently noted, Fox News Digital has not independently verified the authenticity of the notes oregon their contents.

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The archetypal purported Nancy Guthrie ransom request was sent connected Feb. 2, a time aft her suspected abduction successful Tucson, according to authorities.

The 2nd connection was sent connected Feb. 6, and authorities accidental it shares the aforesaid "unique linguistic style" arsenic the archetypal ransom demand.

Fox News Digital learned of the ticker connected the greeting of Tuesday, Feb. 3, a time aft the enactment was sent, according to authorities. That timeline suggests the sender knew astir the ticker earlier the item became public.

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Jason Pack, a retired FBI negotiator, said the ticker item demonstrates familiarity with the location but not needfully cognition unsocial to Guthrie oregon impervious that she was alive.

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This representation released by the FBI amusement an equipped idiosyncratic who appears has a airy emitting from his rima astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, February 1, 2026. (Provided by FBI)

"He knew astir the ticker connected the level — astir cipher did," Pack said. "In my view, 2 things the connection does support: He writes similar a autochthonal English speaker. The idiom and the tiny connecting words are each successful the close places, and astatine this magnitude that is hard to fake."

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