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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.

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Speaker 1: The hunt for eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie has

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Speaker 1: taken a cinematic and sinister turn, as a mysterious informant

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Speaker 1: claims he is ready to sell out the kidnapper for

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Speaker 1: the right price. On February thirteenth, a third cryptic email

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Speaker 1: landed in the TMZ inbox, with the sender demanding a

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars Bitcoin payoff to reveal the identity

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Speaker 1: and location of the man who snatched the mother of

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Speaker 1: Today anchor Savannah Guthrie from her Catalina Foothills sanctuary. In

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Speaker 1: a brazen escalation, the tipster accused federal authorities of trying

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Speaker 1: to quote unquote discredit him by doubling the official FBI

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Speaker 1: reward to one hundred thousand dollars just twenty four hours earlier,

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Speaker 1: Claiming he only trusts the media as an intermediary, the

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Speaker 1: sender proposed a high stakes escrow fifty thousand dollars in

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Speaker 1: Bitcoin upfront for the quote unquote main individual's name, with

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Speaker 1: the remaining fifty thousand dollars due upon arrest. Chillingly, the

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Speaker 1: mention of a quote unquote main individual strongly suggests that

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Speaker 1: the masked predator caught on doorbell cameras did not act alone,

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Speaker 1: hinting at a wider kidnapping ring. Nancy vanished on January

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Speaker 1: thirty first, after being dropped off by her son in law.

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Speaker 1: Since then, the case has been a whirlwind of high

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Speaker 1: tech leads and heartbreak. The FBI is currently hunting a

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Speaker 1: male suspect five foot nine to five ten seen carrying

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Speaker 1: a black Ozark Trail backpack. While over thirteen thousand tips

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Speaker 1: have flooded the bureau, the waters remain muddied by opportunists

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Speaker 1: just as this new demand surface. Derek Khalilla was hauled

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Speaker 1: into an Arizona federal court on February thirteenth, facing charges

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Speaker 1: for sending a fake ransom note in an earlier attempt

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Speaker 1: to exploit the family's grief. With initial ransom demands of

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Speaker 1: six million dollars having already expired and Nancy's vital heart

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Speaker 1: medications long since depleted, the clock has reached a breaking point.

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Speaker 1: Whether this tipster is a legitimate key to her rescue

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Speaker 1: or another digital scavenger. The pressure on the Pima County

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Speaker 1: and federal investigators has never been more explosive. Amid the ordeal.

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Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie shared a heartbreaking Instagram montage of old home

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Speaker 1: videos on Thursday, showing a young Nancy with her kids,

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Speaker 1: captioning it quote, we will never give up on her.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your prayers and hope end quote. The

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Speaker 1: FBI again has increased its reward to one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars for information leading to to the location of eighty

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Speaker 1: four year old Nancy Guthrie and or the arrest and

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Speaker 1: conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance. The FBI Phoenix

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Speaker 1: Field Office continues to lead aspects of the investigation alongside

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Speaker 1: local authorities. Tips can be submitted to one eight hundred

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Speaker 1: call FBI or tips dot FBI dot gov. For the

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice news, follow the Crime Alert hourly

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Speaker 1: update on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Goold.