Damn, and yes the not knowing is worse than knowing.
Foul play suspected in the disappearance of ‘Today’ host Savannah Guthrie’s mom, TMZ received ransom note
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I would think they would secure camera footage of all the routes to and from her home. That vehicle he was driving had to pass at least one traffic. Bank or store cam.
Also this goes to show you can't always count on the ring dorbell cam. People should have a real system or multiple cams to cover what the ring doesn't.
The Catalina Foothills is an older and effluent area of Pima County in Arizona.
Just did a quick search. Median age is 55.3, household income is $115K, home value is $650K. And has an estimated population of 18K
Nancy lived there for 50 years.......
I say that to say, in the middle of the night, depending on the area, (main street, vs deep side streets) there may not have been any helpful cameras around.
I put it like this, say she doesn't have street lights on her street or near her house. Most people dont have the super advanced night vision and super sensitive mic. And maybe it wasn't a failry trafficked area......
How would you know what vehicle may have been used? You would have faint vehicle descriptions based on cameras in the area, but if no one got a plate number......?
law enforcement usually keeps various details from the public when dealing with situations like this-
its how a real kidnapper initially trying to make contact with family or law enforcement gets vetted out from pranksters /attention seekers
yeah
Yeah I'm a true crime fanatic and most of the time it is someone from the family or someone who the family knew. The kidnapper sent letters so where were those letters mailed from? This case is a trip!
Hardwired cameras cannot be jammed. Not everyone wants to go through the hassle keeping them charged and I'm sure a few houses in that affluent area had them. I'm guessing the angles that mattered didn't though.
Yea it seems like there's a whole lot more to this story..
There are electric powered wifi cameras......
Its easier to move/ branch electric from nearby existing outlets than to fish a networking wire through a house to a router.
I used to install cable and sold adt systems.
Now, maybe in that neighborhood they actually hardwired every aspect of the camera. However most home cameras have poor optical zoom and at night if the vehicle had its lights off /there was poor lighting on the street....... the camera is relatively useless.
That's one of the "perks" of flock cameras. They're designed to read license plates of moving vehicles at greater distances than residential outdoor cameras...... but again poor lighting and lights off render them almost useless.
Ka$h peezy is on the case!!
Trump had Patel drag his feet on the case because he hates Savannah and her mother (she was anti-Trump)
First paragraph, I think you meant...... it's easier to fish the wire to an outlet than running network cable through the home.
Optical zoom is not a standard. Cameras with optical zoom cost more money and is usually only sold or bought if there is something far away you want to focus on but can't install a camera close enough.
Optical zoom Cameras, actually all cameras will only record what it can see, or is seeing. There's no optical zoom on recordings. But there's digital zoom which quality of the zoom highly depends on the megapixels of the camera. Higher megapixels equals better digital zoom.
And yes lighting is very important for cameras.
Flock cameras do not rely on on the vehicle's lights to capture license plate data. Yhey are usually installed in an area wiyh adequate lighting and close enough to the traffic areas where they do not need car lights to be on.
FBI determines Nancy Guthrie ransom notes were fake: report
Three ransom notes received from Nancy Guthrie’s so-called abductors following her chilling disappearance have been determined to be fake communications, according to a new report.
Ain’t nobody listening to Kash Patels FBIFBI determines Nancy Guthrie ransom notes were fake: report
Three ransom notes received from Nancy Guthrie’s so-called abductors following her chilling disappearance have been determined to be fake communications, according to a new report.nypost.com
Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes Demanded Millions, Then Said She Had Perished
The 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, the television news anchor, has been missing for nearly six months.
A memorial near the driveway to Nancy Guthrie’s residence in February in Tucson, Ariz.Credit...Joe Raedle/Getty Images
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
July 31, 2026
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A ransom note addressed to Savannah Guthrie a day after her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, was kidnapped said that the elder Ms. Guthrie was “safe but scared,” but another note sent several days later said that she had died unexpectedly of a medical condition.
The notes, released on Friday by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona, suggested that whoever was responsible for her abduction may not have intended to kill her. And their release, nearly six months after Ms. Guthrie’s disappearance, was also a sign of how little apparent progress the investigation has made.
The sheriff’s department released the notes without saying whether they were authentic, but said that investigators hoped someone would recognize the writer’s “patterns of word choice, syntax and phraseology.”
“We believe these distinctive linguistic characteristics may be recognizable to someone who knows or has interacted with the notes’ writer,” the department said.
Savannah Guthrie, who hosts the “Today” show, has said that she believes that the two ransom notes were most likely authentic. Over the months, she has also indicated that she believes her mother may no longer be alive, but has been adamant that her family still needs to know what happened to her.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/style/nantucket-shop-no-influencers-paige-lorenze.html
The two ransom notes were sent to news outlets in the days after the kidnapping, which took place in the early hours of Feb. 1 at Nancy Guthrie’s home near Tucson. Investigators have released images and video from Ms. Guthrie’s doorbell camera that show a masked and armed man at her door, but they have not been able to identify the person.
The first note, on Feb. 2, demanded $4 million in Bitcoin from Savannah Guthrie for the release of her mother by Feb. 5. If that deadline passed, the note said, the ransom would rise to $6 million and would need to be paid by Feb. 9.
“If payment is not received by the last deadline on Monday the 9th at 5 p.m., she will be killed,” the note said. “Your mother is aware of this and her life is in your hands.”
The note included two details about the state of Ms. Guthrie’s home — a broken floodlight in the backyard and a white smart watch on the floor of her bedroom — that indicated it could be authentic.
Around that time, Savannah Guthrie said in a video online that her family was willing to pay but needed to know that the person being paid actually had her mother.
The second note was sent on Feb. 6, notably before the final deadline the first note had given, and was addressed to the Guthrie family. In it, the author said that “we did not fully grasp the seriousness” of Ms. Guthrie’s physical condition.
“We never intended to hurt her, that was not our intention,” it read. “She perished shortly after she was taken. We believe it was heart related. She is buried in nature now.”
“Nothing you could have done could have changed the outcome,” it continued. “We want your family to know this and hope you all can find peace. We are truly sorry.”
In addition to asking the public to consider the author’s writing style, investigators in Tucson asked people to consider whether any men they knew had changed their mood or appearance, had unexplained injuries or left the region around the time she was abducted.
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In the weeks after Ms. Guthrie was kidnapped, Savannah Guthrie and her two older siblings had issued several videos in which they pleaded for their mother’s release and said they would pay for her return but wanted proof that the ransom notes’ author actually had her.
In one video issued on Feb. 7, the day after the second note was sent, Ms. Guthrie said that she and her siblings had received the kidnapper’s message.
“We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” she said. “This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Later that month, Ms. Guthrie issued a $1 million reward for any information leading to finding her mother, in addition to the $100,000 that the F.B.I. had offered for tips.
Earlier this week, Savannah Guthrie had made another plea to whoever is responsible for her mother’s abduction, saying she was begging them “to do the right thing now.”
CBS Evening News on Instagram: "Two notes that appear to have been sent by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper to a local news outlet shortly after her disappearance were made public Friday by the Pima County Sheriff's Department."
626 likes, 8 comments - cbseveningnews on July 31, 2026: "Two notes that appear to have been sent by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper to a local news outlet shortly after her disappearance were made public Friday by the Pima County Sheriff's Department.".
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