Savannah Guthrie has been urged by a former FBI agent to consider paying a bitcoin ransom linked to the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, who vanished from her Tucson home at the end of January and has now been missing for more than two months. Ex-federal investigator Jennifer Coffindaffer told Newsweek, in an interview published on Friday, 10 April, that she would 'tickle the wire', transferring part of the demanded cryptocurrency to see whether it could help track whoever is behind the messages.
Nancy Guthrie, 78, is believed by US authorities to have been abducted from outside her Arizona home on Saturday, 31 January. Police concluded early on that she was taken against her will, pointing to a trail of blood and a masked figure captured on her doorbell camera as evidence of what investigators described as a 'targeted kidnapping.'
