A ransom note claiming that Nancy Guthrie had died was kept a secret by law enforcement for nearly five months over fears that releasing too much information would hinder the investigation into her disappearance.
The 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie vanished from her Arizona home on February 1. Within a week of her disappearance, two notes reportedly written by her abductors were sent to CNN and a local news station in Tucson, CNN reported.
