Police believe that a note informing Nancy Guthrie's family that she had died following a kidnapping is real.
CBS News reported that police believe that two notes that were sent to the family in the days following the Feb. 1 kidnapping were from the kidnapper or kidnappers. The first one was received on Feb. 2, one day after Guthrie was taken from her Tuscon, Arizona home. That note made ransom demands and described Guthrie's residence. The note also asked that the ransom be paid in Bitcoin.