Nancy Guthrie's family is confronting a new and deeply unsettling twist in Arizona, after a report on Wednesday said one of the ransom notes sent following her February disappearance claimed she was already dead. The note is among several conflicting messages that have reached investigators and the family of NBC Today co-host Savannah Guthrie, who has publicly pleaded for answers about what happened to her 78-year-old mother.
After months of confusion and false leads in the search for Nancy, who vanished after being dropped at her Tucson-area home on 31 January. She was reported missing the next day when she failed to appear at a virtual worship service. Since then, the case has sprawled into a tangle of alleged ransom demands, anonymous emails and online claims, many of which authorities and the family now suspect are hoaxes exploiting a very public tragedy.
