The Nancy Guthrie case got a lot stranger recently. New details emerged about the ransom notes. The 84-year-old vanished from her Tucson home at the end of January. Her disappearance remains unsolved.
Banfield Weighs In
Ashleigh Banfield broke down the notes word-for-word on her podcast, Drop Dead Serious.The first note skipped the family entirely. It went straight to TMZ and local Tucson stations.
It opened with a blunt statement: “Hello Savannah. We have your mother, Nancy.” The kidnappers demanded $4 million by a specific date. Miss that deadline and the price jumps to $6 million. The final threat was direct: “or we kill her.”
The Second Note and Its Odd Language
A second note arrived days later. It didn’t ask for money. Former local reporter Briana Whitney, now with Crime Junkie, saw it firsthand, per Ashleigh.
The writers claimed they “never intended to hurt her in all of this.” They said the elderly woman“perished shortly after she was taken.” They blamed her fragile health.
The note included an apology and a strange line about her being “buried with nature.”…