{"id":92209,"date":"2026-08-03T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-sheriff-in-the-nancy-guthrie-case-said-he-didnt-have-a-note-indicating-she-was-dead-but-he-did\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:00:14","slug":"the-sheriff-in-the-nancy-guthrie-case-said-he-didnt-have-a-note-indicating-she-was-dead-but-he-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-sheriff-in-the-nancy-guthrie-case-said-he-didnt-have-a-note-indicating-she-was-dead-but-he-did\/","title":{"rendered":"The sheriff in the Nancy Guthrie case said he didn&#8217;t have a note indicating she was dead. But he did."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>When investigators in the Arizona <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/timeline-nancy-guthrie-disappearance-as-search-intensifies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">disappearance of Nancy Guthrie<\/a><\/span>, the mother of &#8220;Today&#8221; show co-host Savannah Guthrie, released <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nancy-guthrie-ransom-notes-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">two ransom notes<\/a><\/span> Friday, one of the messages directly contradicted what Pima County Sheriff <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nancy-guthrie-hair-sample-inconclusive-search-6-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Chris Nanos<\/a><\/span> told CBS News in an interview one day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have nothing to indicate she&#8217;s dead,&#8221; Nanos said Thursday. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a body. I don&#8217;t have a burial site. I don&#8217;t have any note.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he did have a note. On Friday, Nanos <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PimaSheriff\/status\/2083266827707363582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> the two notes to the public for the first time. The messages had originally been sent to the local CBS station in Tucson in February, shortly after the 84-year-old&#8217;s abduction.<\/p>\n<p>Nanos said he released the ransom notes hoping someone would recognize the author&#8217;s potentially distinctive wording and help identify who sent them.<\/p>\n<p>The first, submitted a day after Guthrie was reported missing, opened with &#8220;Hello Savannah, we have your mother,&#8221; demanded a $4 million ransom be paid in bitcoin, and promised to return her to a &#8220;safe drop off location&#8221; in Tucson within 12 hours of the ransom&#8217;s deposit.<\/p>\n<p>The second note, sent just four days later, says, &#8220;We never intended to hurt her, that was not our intention. She perished shortly after she was taken. We believe it was heart related. She is buried in nature now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first note included details about Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s white Apple Watch and the floodlights on her back porch, leading the FBI to take them seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Both notes were sent via a tip line to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kold.com\/2026\/02\/03\/signs-forced-entry-found-arizona-home-today-show-host-savannah-guthries-mother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS affiliate KOLD-TV<\/a> using email addresses that appeared to be made up and used references to the Guthrie family.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fbi-nancy-guthrie-ransom-notes-legitimacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">previously reported<\/a><\/span> that investigators believed both notes were sent from the same IP address. That address was masked and investigators don&#8217;t know whose computer it was sent from.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Leising, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, told CBS News that releasing the notes to drive more tips from the public was a great thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, so late in the case and after a period of time where they have had no communication with the public, it just seems that the media strategy here is a little haphazard,&#8221; Leising said.<\/p>\n<p>Leising said the months-delayed release could be due to questions of authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure, and maybe even to this day, they&#8217;re not 100% sure if these notes are legitimate,&#8221; Leising said. &#8220;I mean, they&#8217;ve already arrested and charged people for sending hoax and fake notes in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jason Pack, another retired FBI supervisory special agent, noted that the second message dropped the ransom demand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The money is simply gone,&#8221; Pack told CBS News on Friday. &#8220;No demand. No offer to sell a location. Nothing. People motivated by money do not walk away from $4 million when the plan falls apart. They try to salvage something. This writer asked for nothing at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pack believes one person wrote both notes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Same channel, same habits, same distance from responsibility,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Whether that person took Nancy or watched the coverage and decided to insert himself is the open question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When CBS News asked Nanos about the messages, he said, &#8220;Those hostage notes: Are they valid, do we believe they&#8217;re valid? We think every one of them&#8217;s valid until we show otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post Saturday marking six months since her mother&#8217;s disappearance, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/savannah-guthrie-nancy-missing-mom-ransom-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Savannah Guthrie again urged<\/a><\/span> &#8220;someone to come forward,&#8221; including anyone who might recognize the writing in the ransom notes. She said, &#8220;There is a way to end this situation and do the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following a lengthy, and at times unflattering, account in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/how-savannah-guthrie-lost-mother-nancy-28907a65?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> over the weekend of how local investigators handled the Guthrie investigation, Nanos <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/38wFJpHrfQQ?si=bSWy1u4XIXD_UdRZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took to social media<\/a> to address the Guthrie family and concerned citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still here, we&#8217;re not going away,&#8221; Nanos said. &#8220;If you could just see the team working, you would see the energy, the concern. They&#8217;re fired up, and we&#8217;ll continue to work this case hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nanos said he has no doubt the case will be solved.<\/p>\n<p>As the search for Nancy Guthrie continues, the FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to her location or the arrest of anyone involved in her disappearance, and the Guthrie family has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nancy-guthrie-family-reward-1-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">offered a reward<\/a><\/span> of $1 million.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/pat-milton\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Pat  Milton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nancy-guthrie-case-sheriff-ransom-note\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When investigators in the Arizona disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of &#8220;Today&#8221; show co-host Savannah Guthrie, released two ransom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[169,8620,8621],"class_list":["post-92209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-arizona","tag-nancy-guthrie","tag-savannah-guthrie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The sheriff in the Nancy Guthrie case said he didn&#039;t have a note indicating she was dead. 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