Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Saturday, February fourteenth, and it was
Speaker 1: a night of activity in the Nancy Guthrie case. Some
Speaker 1: of that activity just wrapping up as we are recording
Speaker 1: this morning on what is now two full week since
Speaker 1: the last time anyone saw Nancy Guthrie with that. Welcome
Speaker 1: to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. It was
Speaker 1: we talked about a night of police activity, but it
Speaker 1: was also a day of updates. Not quite the break bro,
Speaker 1: but just some continued odd happenings, including TMZ getting another damn.
Speaker 2: Note, Yeah, another note from TMZ. Police activity at a
Speaker 2: home near Guthrie, at a home near Guthrie's home, and
Speaker 2: then now there's also word about DNA at the home.
Speaker 2: So a lot of clues are piling up, but we
Speaker 2: don't have the clue that everybody is waiting for that
Speaker 2: will lead us to where Nancy Guthrie is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get you updated here, folks. First again, overnight hours,
Speaker 1: we're talking one to two in the morning, their local
Speaker 1: time media at least started to notice activity, and in
Speaker 1: particularly it was happening in two different places. One was
Speaker 1: a home about two miles away, another was at a
Speaker 1: vehicle that police are looking into I guess roads. Let's
Speaker 1: start first with the home that's about two miles away.
Speaker 1: We don't know whose home this is. We don't know
Speaker 1: why police were there, but robes even the police have
Speaker 1: come out and said in an official statement from Pima
Speaker 1: County acknowledging that yes, there is activity related to the
Speaker 1: Guthrie case.
Speaker 2: Yes, they I believe, spent about four hours, according to
Speaker 2: local reporters, inside that home searching it. And according to
Speaker 2: the local Fox affiliate, they are reporting that sources have
Speaker 2: told their newsroom that three people have been detained. We
Speaker 2: don't have any official word, No authorities have come out
Speaker 2: and confirmed that, but that is certainly getting picked up
Speaker 2: and circulated all around the media now.
Speaker 1: And again there's a lot of we've talked about this,
Speaker 1: so the void, I guess, not being a lot of
Speaker 1: official information sometimes and folks are filling in the blanks.
Speaker 1: But this one is a little different, and we wanted
Speaker 1: to pass this along because it is coming from Yes,
Speaker 1: these are sources, and they're citing several sources, but this
Speaker 1: is coming from Fox News. Fox News Digital is reporting this.
Speaker 1: That is a legitimate agency that's worth taking note of.
Speaker 1: They can just put out some bs. So to hear
Speaker 1: that Robes after what the door dash guy was detained
Speaker 1: earlier this week. They said to us in that moment,
Speaker 1: you could probably expect more detainments.
Speaker 2: And that's a really good point of perspective. So it
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that anyone has been arrested, doesn't mean they
Speaker 2: found their guy.
Speaker 3: They have said, this is very I guess in this.
Speaker 2: Kind of a case, which is highly unusual, this is
Speaker 2: fairly to be expected that you have to go through
Speaker 2: this process of going after leads, following leads, and sometimes
Speaker 2: that means detaining people to question them, to dig a
Speaker 2: little deeper. It doesn't mean that they're necessarily involved in
Speaker 2: the case, but they have to follow all leads and
Speaker 2: where it takes.
Speaker 1: Them, and you will see folks plenty of places that yes,
Speaker 1: that will be the headline that three people were detained.
Speaker 1: Nowes we caution by saying, yes, if they're checking something out,
Speaker 1: you detain someone just meaning you almost just put them
Speaker 1: in a corner. Sometimes you put it in handcuffs, but
Speaker 1: you're under police detainment. The Robes, yeah, we don't have
Speaker 1: official word about these folks. They could have nothing to
Speaker 1: do with it, and they could have everything to do
Speaker 1: with it. We actually don't know either way at this point,
Speaker 1: but Fox News is reporting that this was two men
Speaker 1: and a woman, one of their moms actually involved in
Speaker 1: this particular case. But that is what sources are telling
Speaker 1: Fox News. The other thing robes, at least for the
Speaker 1: searches go before we get to the TMZ note a
Speaker 1: different location, a range rover was being checked out. Don't
Speaker 1: know what any of that means, but they did that
Speaker 1: thing again where they put up coverings and tarps and
Speaker 1: they didn't want people to see their work. And it
Speaker 1: seems that they have taken it was a range rover
Speaker 1: that they took away as a part of this investigation.
Speaker 1: Again what any of that means, But robes, tens of
Speaker 1: thousands now of leads have come in.
Speaker 3: This work is meticulous, My goodness.
Speaker 2: Yes, the FBI says they have received thirteen thousand tips,
Speaker 2: and the local Pima County Sheriff's Department says they've received
Speaker 2: eighteen thousand tips. Hard to get your head around what
Speaker 2: that involves in terms of police work and the man
Speaker 2: hours and how you cannot just disregard any one lead.
Speaker 2: You have to follow every single one of them and
Speaker 2: see where it takes you, and now, yes, fourteen days
Speaker 2: into this investigation, it does seem like there is finally
Speaker 2: some activity. Who knows if it'll lead to something, but
Speaker 2: this is the most activity I would say we have
Speaker 2: seen since the search began. The Pima County Sheriff's Department
Speaker 2: did put out a statement. It didn't say much, but
Speaker 2: they just acknowledge, yes, law enforcement activity is underway at
Speaker 2: a residence they gave the address related to the Guthrie case.
Speaker 2: Because this is a joint investigation at the request of
Speaker 2: the FBI, no additional information is currently available.
Speaker 1: So that is the latest official word as of this recording,
Speaker 1: which is very early morning here on Saturday on the
Speaker 1: East Coast at least, but yea, as we're recording this,
Speaker 1: it's still early morning hours there in Tucson. Will wait
Speaker 1: to see if more information comes of that. But so
Speaker 1: much information robes and we don't know if it is
Speaker 1: legit or not. Is coming from TMZ that has now
Speaker 1: gotten at least five notes, two from someone claiming to
Speaker 1: be the kidnapper trying to negotiate a ransom, and now
Speaker 1: three robes we have a new one, three from someone
Speaker 1: claiming to know who the kidnapper is but they want
Speaker 1: money first. But now Robes they have changed how much
Speaker 1: money they want and how they want to be paid.
Speaker 2: That means we know that at least this person is
Speaker 2: following the news, and that's about as far as we
Speaker 2: can take it. So there is yes, a new demand
Speaker 2: for money. Remember this person who sent this initial email
Speaker 2: said they wanted one bitcoin, which is roughly sixty six
Speaker 2: sixty seven dollars. It was a little bit of a
Speaker 2: head scratcher because of the FBI reward, and once it
Speaker 2: was doubled to one hundred thousand, well that might have
Speaker 2: prompted the new email, where now he says he wants
Speaker 2: the one hundred thousand dollar reward. He says he wants
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars now and fifty thousand dollars after, and
Speaker 2: he promises, I won't withdraw the fifty thousand until you
Speaker 2: make that arrest.
Speaker 3: That I am promising you. I can lead you straight.
Speaker 2: To what what he's negotiating with the reward money, with
Speaker 2: team information.
Speaker 1: With Harvey Levin, What is going on now? If this
Speaker 1: person the only thing that lends Roe there seemed to
Speaker 1: be trying to follow this through. But why are they
Speaker 1: doing this. Why are you playing this game and keeping
Speaker 1: the family in pain? Unless maybe this person is not
Speaker 1: only up and up either or is this person just
Speaker 1: a complete clown trying to get some money.
Speaker 2: It's either one of those too, because yes, he if
Speaker 2: this this person is legit, let's just operate from that theory.
Speaker 2: Then he or she is obviously stating that there are
Speaker 2: reasons for them to be concerned to come forward with
Speaker 2: this information, and so they need to, as they put earlier,
Speaker 2: lay low to avoid any actual physical harm. Is what
Speaker 2: it sounded like. They were concerned for their safety. But
Speaker 2: this is strange. Why not negotiate directly with the FBI.
Speaker 2: Maybe they don't trust police. Maybe they're afraid that the
Speaker 2: police would just arrest them and not give them the money,
Speaker 2: and so they think if they involve TMZ, they've got
Speaker 2: a public eye on what's going on, and there'll be
Speaker 2: some sort of oversight in the process of them giving
Speaker 2: this information. That's the only thing I can think of
Speaker 2: other than it being a complete and total charlatan who's
Speaker 2: just making a money grab or an attention grab.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're not doing this out of the goodness of
Speaker 1: their heart. That's fair right to say, this is not
Speaker 1: just I want to do the right thing.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not going to suggest, but there
Speaker 1: seems to be a way to anonymously rat this person
Speaker 1: out without you having to get involved at all. If
Speaker 1: you want the money, fine, But are they that fearful
Speaker 1: of whoever this other person is and that that other
Speaker 1: person knows them and will know that it was you
Speaker 1: that rated me out? Is that because to say, oh
Speaker 1: the note, at least according to Harvey Levin, this person said,
Speaker 1: I won't, you know, take the money until an arrest
Speaker 1: is made, as if they're waiting to know this person
Speaker 1: is off the streets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that is what it would appear to imply.
Speaker 2: But again we're reading between the lines and we don't
Speaker 2: have all the information. Harvey Levin made it clear, and
Speaker 2: this is understandable. They turned over these emails to the police,
Speaker 2: and so they have been asked not to disclose some
Speaker 2: of the details. He only described, at least in one
Speaker 2: of the emails those details as being chilling, But we
Speaker 2: don't know exactly what he put in these emails.
Speaker 3: Did it seem to you that Harvey was taking these
Speaker 3: emails very seriously?
Speaker 1: It did to me, I mean they have to. He
Speaker 1: has to. I mean he's seen the language more so
Speaker 1: than we have. But any the stuff he's passed along
Speaker 1: talking about her condition, that things have changed, that tones
Speaker 1: have changed. You just use the word chilling. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: are you dealing with the real deal. No one has
Speaker 1: confirmed whether any note sent in is from someone that
Speaker 1: they credibly believe is involved in this case, and that
Speaker 1: is just a mix of a mess, whereas the other
Speaker 1: at least highlight here is that this latest writer who
Speaker 1: claims to know who the kidnapper is suggests there's more
Speaker 1: than one, and this is there are accomplices here.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, this was a disturbing part of the email
Speaker 2: that Harvey leven shared said that he will give information
Speaker 2: for the manhunt of the main individual that can give
Speaker 2: you all the answers and be prepared to go international.
Speaker 1: It's several folks in the non in the US. What
Speaker 1: is what the suggestion is.
Speaker 2: The story just keeps getting more and more bizarre if
Speaker 2: any of this is even.
Speaker 1: True, If this could be someone clowning trying to take advantage,
Speaker 1: this is a bizarre way to go about it. The
Speaker 1: other major thing robes again a confirmation just one step,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't give us the next one. They say
Speaker 1: there was somebody else in the house, and they know
Speaker 1: that now because of DNA being found in the house,
Speaker 1: don't have any idea who they hell it belongs to.
Speaker 2: So the DNA didn't lead to anyone already in the system,
Speaker 2: according to police, they say, it didn't lead anyone to
Speaker 2: the suspect. But what it did do, and this has
Speaker 2: got to be significant for the Guthrie family. It confirmed
Speaker 2: that it was from someone other than obviously Nancy Guthrie,
Speaker 2: but also confirmed that it was from someone other than
Speaker 2: anyone close to her.
Speaker 3: And so much suspicion.
Speaker 2: Has been loosely and sometimes directly pointed towards members of
Speaker 2: Guthrie's family. We certainly saw that early on in the investigation,
Speaker 2: rumors people saying sources close to the investigation were pointing
Speaker 2: the finger at some of Savannah's family members. This DNA
Speaker 2: would seem to point in the other direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have the same thing. We don't know what
Speaker 1: was the DNA, Where was it found? Was it blood?
Speaker 1: Was its salava? Was saliva? Was it something else from
Speaker 1: who know where? Was in the kitchen, in the bathroom,
Speaker 1: in the living room, where there could have been a guest,
Speaker 1: and we just don't know who. We have no idea.
Speaker 1: It seems like at times they don't either, which is
Speaker 1: perplexing in this case. But remember, folks, this was a
Speaker 1: week of big breaks in the case, and they continue
Speaker 1: to push who the suspect could be, at least giving
Speaker 1: us some of the details as far as height and build.
Speaker 1: Will remind you of that in just a moment. Also
Speaker 1: a little bit of additional info from police telling us
Speaker 1: you're not going to get any additional info. We'll explain.
Speaker 1: Say here I continue here on Amy and TJ on
Speaker 1: this Saturday, February fourteenth, just getting up to some element
Speaker 1: in the Nancy Guthrie case. Butes the developments we've gotten.
Speaker 1: We just got one short tweet from the PMA County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department. We see activity going on. We just talked
Speaker 1: about that range Rover that was taken into custody and
Speaker 1: this home that's a couple of miles away from Nancy
Speaker 1: Guthrie's home that they raided, and Fox News reporting three
Speaker 1: people detained with ROMs. That's the information we have. Don't
Speaker 1: expect anymore. I am still surprised at how little they
Speaker 1: are updating the media.
Speaker 3: It is remarkable. Part of me thinks, well, it's a
Speaker 3: good thing.
Speaker 2: That means they have so much information, they have so
Speaker 2: many tips, they're having to focus solely on the investigation,
Speaker 2: and they don't want to or even need to give
Speaker 2: the media any additional information to further their investigation. So
Speaker 2: that could be a good thing in the sense that
Speaker 2: they have enough to go on, enough to work through
Speaker 2: that they don't need the media's help, which hopefully would
Speaker 2: indicate they're getting closer to finding Nancy Guthrie and who
Speaker 2: ever took her. That would be the only positive note
Speaker 2: of it. But it is perplexing and frustrating to people
Speaker 2: who want to at least be up to date on
Speaker 2: where things stand.
Speaker 1: I thought, and we talked about this earlier, that they
Speaker 1: came out the gate, we have to find this lady
Speaker 1: in twenty four hours, and then they settled into an investigation,
Speaker 1: which through me, which made me think that they're being
Speaker 1: quiet because they are actually legitimately negotiating behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Now that doesn't seem to be no.
Speaker 2: No, I wonder, Look, we'll get all of what was
Speaker 2: actually happening. I'm sure once there is a conclusion to
Speaker 2: all of this, but for now, part of what has
Speaker 2: captivated and captured the attention of this case around the
Speaker 2: world is that there are just so many huge, glaring
Speaker 2: holes in question marks.
Speaker 3: Nothing makes sense. A motive doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: There's not a financial one, seemingly, it doesn't seem like
Speaker 2: there's a vindictive one. It doesn't seem there is even
Speaker 2: an emotional one. It literally makes zero sense.
Speaker 1: All we know is a man in a mask who's
Speaker 1: five nine to five to ten with an average bill,
Speaker 1: who had a backpack on that sold exclusively at Walmart,
Speaker 1: showed up on her doorstep. And an eighty four year
Speaker 1: old woman who is the mother of a Today Show
Speaker 1: host has vanished off the pl face of the earth. Vanished.
Speaker 1: She one man shows up, She has vanished robes. We
Speaker 1: cover a lot of cases, We watch a lot of
Speaker 1: true crime. We know how these things go to disappear
Speaker 1: like this. It's difficult to do in this day and age,
Speaker 1: in robes, to do it when the entire world is
Speaker 1: looking for you. How is this happen?
Speaker 2: Yes, And to do it to someone who is not mobile,
Speaker 2: to do it to someone who is sickly, to do
Speaker 2: it to someone who is eighty four years old. Never
Speaker 2: heard of that in my life. When you think about
Speaker 2: abductions and kidnappings, sadly, you think about young children, you
Speaker 2: think about young girls, you think about all sorts of things.
Speaker 2: And yes, we do watch a lot of true crime,
Speaker 2: and yes we have covered a significant amount of crime
Speaker 2: in our three decades, and we watch a lot of
Speaker 2: horror movies. I have never seen or heard anything like
Speaker 2: this before in my life.
Speaker 1: And that is what continues to play out here. We are, folks,
Speaker 1: two weeks after the last time that Nancy Guthrie was seeing,
Speaker 1: the search for her goes on. Will continue to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on this. But a reminder, Yes, the new
Speaker 1: images they put out Suspect five nine to five ten
Speaker 1: with an average bill the reward is now up to
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars. But they are not or we
Speaker 1: are not expecting any any press briefings. They say ropes
Speaker 1: until there's a significant development. I guess that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: We know if they say something or plan something is
Speaker 1: going to be a big deal. But right now to
Speaker 1: think in a case this big that they are being
Speaker 1: very quiet right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, that they have been. You can hear a pin
Speaker 2: drop quiet, but I will say, with this latest headline
Speaker 2: now circulating about these three people detained, you gotta think
Speaker 2: that there's going to be some clarification or some sort
Speaker 2: of notification about what has happened overnight so that we
Speaker 2: can know at least there if the leads that they
Speaker 2: are following are potentially bearing fruit.
Speaker 1: You make a good point. We need to caution here
Speaker 1: that there is a possibility that this is the break right.
Speaker 3: We're so used to this.
Speaker 1: Oh hey eight, because detained and release, detained and release
Speaker 1: there it is, and so we have we have not
Speaker 1: gotten word about these folks who have been detained and
Speaker 1: where we go from here. We'll keep an eye on it, folks.
Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate you spending time with us on TJ.
Speaker 1: Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Roboch. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you soon.