Retired FBI special agent Jennifer Coffindaffer said in an interview published on 6 October that she received four purported ransom emails concerning Nancy Guthrie's disappearance and believes they were sent by scammers.
Nancy, the 84-year-old mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was last seen at her Catalina Foothills home on 31 January. She was reported missing on 1 February after authorities determined she had been taken from her home. Coffindaffer told Newsweek that the emails arrived in April, more than two months after Nancy was last seen.