{"id":406779,"date":"2026-02-04T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T04:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:30:09","slug":"nancy-guthrie-alleged-ransom-note-obtained-by-tmz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406779\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Guthrie Alleged Ransom Note Obtained by TMZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTMZ reports it has received<\/a> an alleged ransom note \u201cdemanding payment for the release of Nancy Guthrie<\/a>,\u201d the 84-year-old mother of \u201cToday\u201d anchor Savannah Guthrie<\/a>. The media outlet claims the ransom note was sent on Tuesday, Feb. 3 and \u201cdemands a specific substantial amount of Bitcoin \u2026 the amount is in the millions, and the note demands the cryptocurrency be sent to a specific Bitcoin address.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTMZ has verified the Bitcoin address is real,\u201d the outlet adds. \u201cThere is a deadline connected to the alleged ransom \u2026 and an element of \u2018or else\u2019\u2026 We forwarded the alleged ransom demand to the Pima County Sheriff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety reached out to the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Office, which pointed to a statement released on its X account <\/a>that reads: \u201cWe are aware of reports circulating about possible ransom note(s) regarding the investigation into Nancy Guthrie. We are taking all tips and leads very seriously. Anything that comes in, goes directly to our detectives who are coordinating with the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRepresentatives for Savannah Guthrie had no comment. Neither TMZ nor the Sheriff\u2019s Office has verified if the alleged ransom note is real or a hoax.<\/p>\n

Nancy Guthrie was last seen on the evening of Jan. 31 at her Arizona house in Catalina Foothills. She was classified by police as a \u201cmissing vulnerable adult\u201d because of her age. On Feb. 2, the Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced that Nancy\u2019s disappearance was being treated as a crime after finding \u201cvery concerning\u201d evidence in her house. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI believe she was abducted, yes,\u201d Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News. \u201cShe didn\u2019t walk from there. She didn\u2019t go willingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNanos has said Nancy had \u201cno signs of cognitive issues\u201d and is \u201cvery alert\u201d and of \u201cvery sound mind.\u201d During a Feb. 3 media briefing before TMZ reported on the ransom note, Nanos\u00a0told reporters that \u201cwe saw some things at the home that were concerning to us. We believe now, after we process that crime scene, that we do in fact have a crime scene. And we\u2019re asking for the community\u2019s help.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSavannah Guthrie has asked her followers on Instagram<\/a> to \u201craise your prayers\u201d amid the ongoing search for her mother.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe believe in prayer. We believe in voices raised in unison, in love, in hope. We believe in goodness. We believe in humanity. Above all, we believe in Him,\u201d Savannah wrote in a social media post. \u201cThank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant. Raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment. We need you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TMZ reports it has received an alleged ransom note \u201cdemanding payment for the release of Nancy Guthrie,\u201d the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,151507,112614,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-406779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-nancy-guthrie","tag-savannah-guthrie","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}