Some ransom notes sent in Nancy Guthrie case still being investigated as legitimate, FBI says

The FBI has discounted immoderate of the ransom notes that surfaced aft the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie arsenic thing much than extortion attempts, but the bureau said Wednesday it's inactive evaluating others that mightiness beryllium legitimate.

The FBI did not specify however galore ransom notes person been received, different than saying “several.”

“This lawsuit continues to beryllium investigated arsenic a kidnapping for ransom case,” the FBI said successful a statement.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department is besides investigating the case. The section declined to remark connected the notes Wednesday but said it's taking each extremity successful the probe seriously.

Tucson TV presumption KOLD has said it received 2 notes, 1 demanding millions successful Bitcoin successful speech for Guthrie’s instrumentality and different that said she had died. TMZ besides received a note.

Guthrie is the parent of longtime “Today” amusement big Savannah Guthrie. Authorities judge she was kidnapped, abducted oregon different taken against her volition connected Feb. 1. They recovered humor adjacent the beforehand doorstep of her location conscionable extracurricular Tucson, and the FBI aboriginal released surveillance videos showing a masked antheral connected the structure that night.

Volunteers and hunt teams scoured the adjacent godforsaken terrain filled with cactuses, bushes and boulders successful the weeks aft she vanished. A unpaid radical precocious conducted a hunt for her assemblage adjacent the Arizona-Mexico border.

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