A veteran criminal profiler says the alleged ransom demands tied to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie appear inauthentic, telling Fox News Digital the notes read as if they were written by two different personalities — a cold-blooded "psychopath" and someone far more "emotional.""Bottom line is, I don’t believe they’re real," criminal profiler John Kelly said in an interview."The first note is strictly about the dollars, about the bucks....Now when you get into the second note, you're talking about a kind of a different personality to me."There was no sensitivity shown during the abduction — a masked man with a gun and an early-morning home invasion that snatched Guthrie from her bed and left blood on her doorstep, Kelly said."Most of these guys are psycho, and going to do that, rouse an older woman out of her bed and haul her away like that bleeding all over the place...they're going to just want to get away from the problem as quick as possible," Kelly said.
"They're not going to be worried about leaving condolences."NANCY GUTHRIE CASE COULD HINGE ON MYSTERY TIPSTERAn armed individual appears to tamper with the doorbell camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb.1, 2026.
An undated photo shows Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" host Savannah Guthrie.(Provided by FBI; Courtesy of NBC)Excerpts from the first note include a demand for millions of dollars' worth of Bitcoin, gave a deadline for payment and were said to include crime scene details that were not widely known at the time it was sent to local media.
It did not include proof of life.Details about the second note — or at least versions of it sent to different media outlets — have been made public this week.It included claims that Guthrie had died inadvertently after her abduction, a federal law enforcement source close to the case told Fox News on Monday.And it said she was "buried with nature."SEND US A TIP HEREAerial drone s...