Nancy Guthrie ransom: Harvey Levin pushes back on reports that note contained apology over her death

The recipient of a batch of suspected ransom demands successful the Nancy Guthrie lawsuit is pushing backmost against caller reports claiming the imaginable abductors were apologetic implicit the 84-year-old's purported death.

"I wanna speech astir Nancy Guthrie and immoderate communications I had with the FBI that I haven't talked astir until now," Harvey Levin said successful a video posted to TMZ's YouTube Monday afternoon. "But I privation to commencement with these reports that this ransom missive that we received benignant of apologizes to Savannah Guthrie and her household for the kidnapping and that Nancy was nary longer alive. That was not successful the ransom enactment that we received."

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, whose section is the pb bureau connected the case, told Fox News Digital Monday that the FBI has been handling the probe into galore ransom demands, immoderate bogus and immoderate with imaginable to beryllium real, since the beginning.

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Nancy Guthrie's missing idiosyncratic billboard is displayed successful Phoenix, Arizona, connected Feb. 6, 2026. Guthrie has been missing since aboriginal February 2026. (KSAZ)

He deferred remark to the bureau connected the caller reports, and the FBI did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

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"It is not successful that ransom enactment astatine all," Levin said of the notes sent to TMZ. "It does accidental that she's frightened but OK. But the ransom enactment makes nary notation to Nancy Guthrie either dying oregon the kidnappers apologizing."

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Two photos of the fishy captured connected Nancy Guthrie's structure were taken connected antithetic days, a root acquainted with the substance told Fox News Digital. (FBI)

TMZ wasn't the lone outlet to person imaginable ransom demands, however. Local media besides received akin messages done their online extremity boxes, astatine slightest astatine first.

ABC News reported Monday that section media received a follow-up request claiming that Guthrie had died and been buried.

A national instrumentality enforcement root confirmed to Fox News Digital Monday that the FBI deposited tiny sums of crypto into a Bitcoin wallet to trial the purported ransom demand's validity. It was not instantly wide whether the 2nd enactment sender was credible — oregon whether immoderate of the ransom demands were real.

Savannah Guthrie hugs a unit subordinate during a sojourn to the Today amusement astatine Rockefeller Plaza successful New York connected March 5, 2026. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

They would, however, acceptable the "wrench attack" signifier that immoderate investigators person floated successful transportation with the case, successful which a "mastermind" machine hacker, astir apt overseas, could person hired section thugs to kidnap Guthrie successful an effort to extort her daughter, "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie.

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Sunday marked 20 weeks since Guthrie's suspected abduction from her location successful the Catalina Foothills northbound of Tucson. Her whereabouts stay chartless arsenic of Monday.

A bid of aboriginal emails, however, sent by idiosyncratic claiming to person cognition of the case, referenced Guthrie's death, Levin added.

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"That is from the idiosyncratic who sent america aggregate emails saying that helium knows oregon knew wherever Nancy Guthrie was and wherever the kidnappers were, and helium wanted wealth successful instrumentality for information," Levin said. "We passed that on to the FBI arsenic we did the ransom note, but this idiosyncratic kept sending america email. And aboriginal on, helium said, clip is of the essence. And past a fewer days aft the kidnapping, helium said, clip is nary longer of the essence, meaning she wasn't alive."

That idiosyncratic had asked for $100,000 for the accusation — acold little than the $4 cardinal ransom demand, helium added.

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Savannah Guthrie poses with her parent Nancy Guthrie during a accumulation interruption portion hosting NBC's "Today Show" unrecorded from Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)

"This idiosyncratic besides said that helium was acrophobic that helium mightiness beryllium implicated," Levin explained. "He had a burglary connected his grounds from I deliberation helium said 11 years before, and seemingly helium knew these kidnappers good capable that helium was acrophobic helium mightiness implicated."

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He purportedly said helium wanted the wealth truthful helium could spell "underground" and debar retribution.

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That idiosyncratic ne'er got immoderate money, helium said. And erstwhile helium offered to person TMZ enactment up the wealth conscionable to spot if it led to immoderate benignant of resolution, helium said his sources astatine the FBI stopped responding.

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Anyone with accusation connected Guthrie's lawsuit is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. There is simply a combined reward of much than $1.2 cardinal for accusation that cracks the case.

Tips tin beryllium provided anonymously to Tucson's Crime Stoppers affiliate, 88-Crime, astatine 1-520-882-7463.