Savannah Guthrie Reveals Whether She Believes Ransom Notes For Her Mom Are Real

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The case of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie dominated headlines last month.

But now the case has been stalled for several weeks, and authorities have no real leads.

During the beginning of her disappearance, several ransom notes were delivered to the Guthrie family demanding that they pay a large sum of money in exchange for their mother.

Now, in an exclusive interview, Savannah Guthrie has revealed whether she believes the ransom notes are legitimate.

USA Today provided Guthrie’s full thoughts on the notes:

Savannah Guthrie says she believes at least some of the ransom notes sent to her family following the disappearance of her mom, Nancy Guthrie, are real.

“There are a lot of different notes, I think that came. And I think most of them, it’s my understanding, are not real,” Guthrie told friend Hoda Kotb in a new “Today” interview segment released Thursday, March 26. “But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those were real.”

Law enforcement have determined that at least one of the ransom notes sent to the Guthrie family following the possible abduction of their mother is fake. A California man, Derrick Callella, was arrested and charged with sending a demand for ransom in February.

Guthrie condemned the fake demands.

“A person that would send a fake ransom note” to a family in pain, she said, “really has to look deeply at themselves.”

Guthrie said when the doorbell camera video surfaced of a suspect in her mom’s apparent abduction, it was “just absolutely terrifying,” adding: “I can’t imagine that is who she saw standing over her bed. I can’t, it’s too much.”

Guthrie said she was “grateful” to investigators and the tech company that was able to retrieve the footage, especially given it may have stymied “unbearable” conspiracy theories that suggested someone in her family could be involved.

Watch the interview here:

The New York Post reported that authorities are still optimistic about finding Guthrie’s kidnapper:

As the search for Nancy Guthrie hit its 50th day Sunday, leaving the local sheriff desperate and humiliated, a legendary cold-case detective insisted to The Post that the case is still ripe with potential leads.

“Nancy’s case is still very fresh,” said Brian Martin, the crack detective from Fort Payne, Ind., who helped catch the killer of 8-year-old April Tinsley almost 30 years after her murder.

Martin said he is optimistic that law enforcement will track down the abductor of the 84-year-old mom of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, after Nancy vanished with nary a trace from her home near Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 1.

The detective said his money is still on the DNA.

“I’m sure they have an item of evidence which was probably at the scene and was foreign, meaning this is something that would not have been in her house, and this was something that was probably left by the suspect,” he said.

Martin added that the case is a long, long way from going cold.

“Often agencies will not consider a case cold until it has sat inactive with no leads or evidence developments after three years. I would not consider the Nancy Guthrie [case to be cold] now,” he said.



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