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‘Someone knows something’: Nancy Guthrie search reaches six months 38%
8/1/2026, 5:30:35 PM
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We are back with the Fox News alert.
Savannah Guthrie begging for information
as tonight marks 6 months since the disappearance of her mother Nancy.
Saying in a brand new post on Instagram that somebody out there has to know something.
Now that message comes after Pima County released the alleged ransom notes with the first one asking for $4 million in Bitcoin while a follow-up note claimed that Nancy had died.
The Pima County Sheriff says releasing those notes may ultimately help the investigation.
>> Investigators felt like there's a number of pieces of information in these notes that someone might just might jar someone to say,
uh you know, I've heard that.
We hope that by releasing the actual note we'll get some response from the community.
Someone knows who this person is. Someone knows something.
We want that person to call us.
>> Showing us now the great Don Retuno, Fox News legal contributor and host of the Crime and Justice podcast on Fox Nation.
I could talk to you by myself for an hour.
I have colleagues so I will share the wealth.
Um listen, I'm frustrated because I think for quite some time we have felt like there's been more there and they haven't exactly been forthcoming with all of the details that they have.
Tell me where we are in the investigation and are you satisfied that they're doing all they should be doing right now?
>> So no, no one's satisfied because we don't have answers.
If you had answers you may feel more satisfied.
But what are we being told? We're being told, oh there's these letters. Well, there the letters we already knew about.
We're just now seeing the actual text of the letters. What we've been told we were told back in February about both of these letters.
We weren't told maybe how specific they were but we knew that they existed.
So the fact that we have Sheriff Nanos going on and that was our great Mike Ruiz from Fox Digital getting that video with Sheriff Nanos and he at least answered some questions but this idea that last week Sheriff Nanos said there's mountains of information,
mountains of information, mountains of DNA, mountains and then we find out well, this hair sample didn't produce any DNA.
Well, why does it take 6 months to find out that this hair sample doesn't produce any DNA in an investigation that's this important and getting this much coverage.
And then he says, well, we have 10,000 videos that we're still going through. Obviously, that's going to take law enforcement a long time.
So, I'm satisfied that they're working the case, but I'm not satisfied that they're actually getting anywhere.
>> What do you think happened?
>> I think that she was dead in the very few hours.
I'm not even so sure she was alive when they sent that February 2nd letter to be frank.
I mean, the fact that they put out the letter on February 2nd, then if you even believe the letters are authentic, right? But if you believe those clues, then if she was if the first letter comes February 2nd and
then they say we're going to give you 9 days or 7 days or 5 days or whatever it was and then 4 days later
>> Mhm. >> they send a letter saying she has perished and it was we didn't mean for it to happen.
So, the odds are the woman with her condition at her age being terrified and and just, you know, the fear she must have felt being pulled out of her home.
>> And there was a blood.
>> Yes.
>> And so, you know, the chances of her even if it were accidental injured on the way out.
>> Right, exactly. So, I I have always felt from the very beginning of this that she was gone very early on and whether or not these letters are legitimate, no one really knows and no one's really said one way or another. They have not said that they're not, but they've also not confirmed that they have any real information showing that they are other than the fact that the two letters that we're talking about today and the ones that we were talking about yesterday, those two letters seem to be coming from the same at least IP address.
>> Mhm.
>> Why put those out now after all this time?
I know that perhaps it would be to get more leads, but if you listen to the sheriff, as you mentioned, he said we have all this that we're still going through. So, what would be the purpose of putting something like that out to the public now?
>> Yeah, I don't really understand it
either. I mean, like I said, we knew that letters existed. They're trying to say that they're hoping that the context and the way that language is used and maybe some of the linguistics qualities here may make somebody come forward and say, I think I
know who's speaking this way. I don't see that, frankly. I mean, the letters themselves may use some different words.
Tommy, we talked about this a little bit earlier. Words like perished. I'm not so sure that's what a normal person talks about if someone died, especially in this kind of a contact context. So, I think part of it is grasping at straws.
Here we are 6 months later, and just to be able to keep this story in the news and now say, "Look, here's the actual letters. Here's what we actually received, and now we can all sit around and kind of, you know, dissect the contents of those letters, and maybe it makes somebody out there say, 'You know what? I'm not going to stop talking about this. I do know something, and maybe I'll come forward.'"
>> Savannah Guthrie in her Instagram post said that her family does remain very hopeful, and she actually had a very
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