Within a week of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance earlier this year, two notes purportedly written by the 84-year-old’s abductors were sent to local news outlets.
The first note demanded a ransom of millions of dollars for her return.
The second note said Guthrie was dead – though the culprit did not mean to kill her, according to law enforcement sources.
Some of the contents of that first note were reported publicly at the time, but the contents of the second note were only revealed in the last few days, nearly five months since Guthrie was taken from her home in Arizona’s Catalina Foothills on February 1.
Evidence at the crime scene, including her blood on the front steps, her health issues and her disappearance without her daily medications gave the family reason to worry that she had resisted and was injured. Now, the revelation that the second note said she died adds further context to the Guthrie family’s emotional video on February 7 in which NBC “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie directly addressed the note-writer.
