A new demand letter tied to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has claimed to identify two people responsible for her kidnapping.
Days after it emerged that a letter alleging she had passed away was sent five days after her disappearance, a new letter was emailed to TMZ by an anonymous person and claimed to have “a phone stashed in a secure location” that featured a video of “the main guy” with Nancy on what is described in the letter as “probably her last” day.
The phone also allegedly contains “pictures of both [kidnappers] involved, names and addresses and age”.
TMZ reported that the letter came from the same email address that had previously sent ransom notes to media outlets. The letter was forwarded to the FBI.
HELLO! has contacted the FBI and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department for comment.
© NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal viaRansom notes were sent to several media outlets and Nancy’s family in the days after her kidnapping, with TMZ receiving one that correctly described what Nancy, 84, was wearing the night she disappeared, and information about a damaged floodlight on the property.
Air Mail claimed in June that one of the blackmail letters sent to Nancy’s family, including Today Show star Savannah Guthrie, came from the same IP address as the previous one, and the writer claimed that Nancy had accidentally been killed and asked for $4 million to send her body back.
They were determined as potentially credible by authorities, and Savannah later shared in a sit-down interview with Hoda Kotb that the family believed the first two ransom notes were “real”.
© TODAYSavannah and her sister took to Instagram after the ransom notes were received, sharing a heartbreaking video in which they begged those responsible to “return our mother to us, so that we can celebrate with her… this is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Nancy was taken from her Tucson home in the early hours of February 1, 2026, after spending the evening with her daughter, Annie, and Annie’s husband, Tommaso Cioni.
© Getty ImagesHer disappearance was noted the following morning when she did not attend her weekly church service, and police were called shortly thereafter.
Investigations later revealed that at 1:47 a.m. Nancy’s doorbell camera was disconnected. Nancy’s pacemaker app disconnected from her phone at 2:28 a.m., indicating that she had been taken far enough away for the connection to sever.
© FBIChilling doorbell camera footage was later released by the FBI, revealing a masked man approached Nancy’s front door in a balaclava and dark clothing with a gun holstered in his pants.
No arrests have been made in relation to her disappearance, almost five months on from her kidnapping.
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