{"id":426481,"date":"2026-02-15T04:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426481\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T04:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:32:11","slug":"a-kidnap-and-a-bitcoin-demand-why-guthrie-case-has-gripped-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426481\/","title":{"rendered":"A kidnap and a Bitcoin demand &#8211; why Guthrie case has gripped the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two weeks after Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s disappearance investigators revealed they had found several gloves, with the closest discovered about two miles from her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sheriff&#8217;s department also said media reports that a glove was found inside her home or on the property were inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To Williams&#8217; growing audience speculation over the case only heightens its intrigue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s disappearance, Williams&#8217; YouTube channel Dollyvision has gained more than 8,000 new subscribers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Interest in Nancy&#8217;s disappearance was &#8220;massive&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You expect kidnappings to involve cash in a bag dropped off somewhere remote, and then the police turn up and arrest everyone. This is different. This is like a &#8216;new age&#8217; of kidnapping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The days of ransom demands made up of letters cut from the pages of a magazine seem a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Secure servers, secret IP addresses and untraceable Bitcoin accounts have changed the face of one of the world&#8217;s oldest crimes, but a former FBI hostage negotiator, Chip Massey, said he believed Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s kidnappers would soon be caught.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referring to the video images of a masked man on her doorstep shortly before she disappeared, he said somebody somewhere would recognise the suspect based either on their behaviour or their body language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The attention this case has generated is unprecedented,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and while a mask can conceal a face it can&#8217;t conceal a person.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks after Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s disappearance investigators revealed they had found several gloves, with the closest discovered about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-426481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426481","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=426481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}