{"id":3137,"date":"2026-07-02T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:34:55","slug":"some-ransom-notes-sent-in-nancy-guthrie-case-still-being-investigated-as-legitimate-fbi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3137","title":{"rendered":"Some ransom notes sent in Nancy Guthrie case still being investigated as legitimate, FBI says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The FBI has discounted some of the ransom notes that surfaced after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as nothing more than extortion attempts, but the agency said Wednesday it\u2019s still evaluating others that might be legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI did not specify how many ransom notes have been received, other than saying \u201cseveral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case continues to be investigated as a kidnapping for ransom case,\u201d the FBI said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department is also investigating the case. The department declined to comment on the notes Wednesday but said it\u2019s taking every tip in the investigation seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3133\">New Jersey is set to charge companies with workers on Medicaid. Other states may follow<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Tucson TV station KOLD has said it received two notes, one demanding millions in Bitcoin in exchange for Guthrie\u2019s return and another that said she had died. TMZ also received a note.<\/p>\n<p>Guthrie is the mother of longtime \u201cToday\u201d show host Savannah Guthrie. Authorities believe she was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will on Feb. 1. They found blood near the front doorstep of her home just outside Tucson, and the FBI later released surveillance videos showing a masked man on the porch that night.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers and search teams scoured the nearby desert terrain filled with cactuses, bushes and boulders in the weeks after she vanished. A volunteer group recently conducted a search for her body near the Arizona-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3131\">Moniak and Goodman power Rockies past Marlins 6-3 to stop 8-game skid against Miami<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3135\">Iran warns oil tankers to use approved routes in Strait of Hormuz or face a \u2018forceful response\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI has discounted some of the ransom notes that surfaced after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as nothing more than extortion attempts, but the agency said Wednesday it\u2019s still evaluating others that might be legitimate. The FBI did not specify how many ransom notes have been received, other than saying \u201cseveral.\u201d \u201cThis case continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[485,4401,4402],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-fbi","tag-nancy-guthrie","tag-savannah-guthrie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some ransom notes sent in Nancy Guthrie case still being investigated as legitimate, FBI says - Denver Moving Chronicle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=3137\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some ransom notes sent in Nancy Guthrie case still being investigated as legitimate, FBI says - Denver Moving Chronicle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The FBI has discounted some of the ransom notes that surfaced after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as nothing more than extortion attempts, but the agency said Wednesday it\u2019s still evaluating others that might be legitimate. 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