The FBI has confirmed that some ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation in Arizona may still be genuine, even after earlier claims that all the messages were hoaxes.
In a fresh statement from its Phoenix office on Wednesday, 1 July, the bureau said several ransom notes linked to the disappearance of Guthrie, 84, were received after she vanished from her Tucson home in late January. While some have been written off as 'extortion attempts without legitimacy', other ransom demands 'may potentially be legitimate and are still being investigated as such.'
