New Nancy Guthrie letter claims to know abductors' names, numbers

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on Jun 26, 2026

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A new letter sent to TMZ claims to know the identities of Nancy Guthrie’s abductors and ostensibly has footage of the lead suspect.

The 84-year-old matriarch — and mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie — was snatched from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the early morning hours of Feb. 1. Authorities quickly determined foul play was involved and multiple outlets, most notably TMZ, have since reported the receipt of ransom letters related to the case.

TMZ founder Harvey Levin announced in a nearly five-minute video Friday that the outlet had “received another email from the man who says he knows who Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers are and can lead the FBI to those kidnappers for 1 Bitcoin.” That currently amounts to roughly $60,000, according to Revolut.

“‘Only two are directly involved, and I doubt they would be the ones calling to snitch on themselves,'” read Levin, 75, who added the writer has previously indicated there are “multiple kidnappers.”

Levin, who is a lawyer, said the outlet has again forwarded the correspondence to the FBI and the writer claims to now “have video ... of Nancy Guthrie with the main kidnapper on what probably would be the last day of her life, that’s the way he puts it here.”

The writer — who said, “I am not the idiot who recently called in a tip about (Guthrie’s) burial site in Mexico” — claims to have “names, addresses, phone numbers of the kidnappers.”

That was in reference to a Mother’s Day tip sent to a volunteer organization in Mexico, which led them to check an unmarked grave near border town of Nogales.

“He says he has that video in a phone and the phone is turned off,” said Levin. “It is in a secure, secret location, but a location easy to find if you know where to look. ... He doesn’t say a safe deposit box, but he says easy to find if you know where to look.”

In exchange for the Bitcoin, the writer claims they’ll provide that intel, and the phone’s passcode, “on a silver platter.”

Levin explained that the writer is the same person who had reached out with “more than a dozen emails,” as they referred to the previous address for the Bitcoin, which TMZ had never made public.

Levin addressed the writer directly, telling them to get proof — such as a screen grab of the abductors’ information — that they’re “not a liar and somebody who is trying to inflict more pain on the Guthrie family.”

Earlier in the video, Levin said the writer was “questioning the FBI telling” TMZ that the writer “might be a female.”

The Guthrie family previously announced a $1 million reward, following the feds’ own $100,000 reward. An anonymous donor by that point had already put $100,000 toward tip line 88-CRIME’s existing $2,500 reward.

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