Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of TV host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home in Tucson in late January, and police are still refusing to release the ransom notes that surfaced soon afterwards as the search stretches on.
According to investigator Lisa Ribacoff-Mooney, the concern is not simply public curiosity but the risk that publishing the messages could contaminate the case with fresh hoaxes and make genuine evidence harder to separate from noise.
