A California man has pleaded guilty to charges linked to a fraudulent ransom demand sent to the family of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, who remains missing from her Tucson home.
Derrick Callella, 42, entered the plea in a federal court in Arizona on Thursday, marking a grim development in a case that has gripped the nation since February. Callella, a resident of Hawthorne, admitted to two felony counts of harassment using a telecommunications device.