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Nancy Guthrie’s case has taken another turn with a fresh ransom note.
After a previous request for $6 million in Bitcoin, a new note sent via email seeks a similar seven-figure dollar amount in another form of cryptocurrency, according to a TMZ report on Wednesday, February 18.
TMZ shared the latest update, revealing the sender “graphically describes the consequences if the ransom isn’t paid.”
As authorities work on authenticating various ransom notes sent to multiple news outlets, anyone sending fake demands regarding Guthrie’s disappearance could face a serious punishment, noted the report, warning, “They will go to federal prison for a long, long time.”
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The latest note including a different crypto account number was forwarded to the FBI. Meanwhile, TMZ sources claim that members of the bureau have reached out to authorities in Mexico amid theories that Guthrie was possibly taken across the border.
“I think this was an individual who had a target for whatever reason, and he has made it tough,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said during a Tuesday, February 17, interview with NBC News as Nancy’s daughter, Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie, continues to plead for her safe return. “But I’ve got some pretty tough investigators, too.”
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“We believe that we may have some DNA there that may be our suspect,” he also shared, noting that it will take some time to sort through findings at Nancy’s residence in Tucson, Arizona. Nanos said he feels that clue is more critical than the black glove located about one and a half miles away.
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Nancy was last seen on the evening of January 31, at her home. She was reported missing the following day.
The FBI recently shared details about the masked person caught on chilling surveillance video at Nancy’s house on the morning of her disappearance, describing the man as 5-foot-9-inches to 5-foot-10-inches tall. The man with an average build was also seen carrying a black, 25-liter backpack from Ozark Trail.
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“That backpack, we could positively now identify as a backpack that is sold at one place only. That’s Walmart,” Nanos said in the interview. “So we’re working with our Walmart managers all across the state to try to find out how many sales were there of that backpack in the last 20, 30 days, the last 60 days,” he continued. “And can we do something with that? Can we break it — maybe we’ll find a credit card or a bank card. Maybe we’ll find a video of the guy walking in.”
At this time, investigators are also reaching out to gun stores to try to match the unique holster spotted in the Nest doorbell camera footage. “We know he had a gun. We know he had a holster that had some pretty unique characteristics,” Nanos shared.
The Pima County sheriff said they’re following several leads in hopes of reuniting Nancy with her loved ones.
“We’re gonna pull all the stops and go at all angles,” Nanos previously told Us Weekly in a statement on February 2. “We really do hope it’s a search-and-rescue mission and we find her and she’s safe and sound.”
“This is an 84-year-old lady who is safe in her own home asleep, and she is taken,” Nanos added. “And that should never happen.”