Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, February third, and we are hopping on
Speaker 2: this evening with a breaking update on the search for
Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie's mom. The case has taken a bizarre turn
Speaker 2: and there may be a ransom note with that.
Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Roabes.
Speaker 2: This this is odd, okay, so let's go with what
Speaker 2: we got. Everybody knows the lady's missing. They gave us
Speaker 2: updates knowing where she is, she was abducted. It's not
Speaker 2: the authorities telling us there's a ransom note.
Speaker 1: It's a celebrity news out there.
Speaker 3: It's TMZ. This is such a strange twist. Literally within
Speaker 3: an hour, I believe, of this latest press conference and
Speaker 3: we addressed someone asking and someone then following up asking
Speaker 3: the share about whether or not there was a ransom note,
Speaker 3: and the sheriff notably moved past it, didn't say no,
Speaker 3: and just said.
Speaker 4: We're looking at all investigative leads.
Speaker 3: So he basically skirted the question, ducked the question, and
Speaker 3: then whila. About an hour or so later, we hear
Speaker 3: from TMZ. Harvey Levin gets online and says, we believe
Speaker 3: we have a ransom note.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and to establish robes.
Speaker 2: There was not a lot of new information in the
Speaker 2: press conference today, but there were things that were glaring.
Speaker 2: Only a couple things, and this was one of them.
Speaker 2: He was asked twice directly about ransom note opportunity to
Speaker 2: say no, It was a odd way to ask it.
Speaker 2: Have you received a ransom demand? We're looking into all
Speaker 2: investigative leads and tips. That was an odd way. So yes, robes.
Speaker 2: What's the suggestion here? I think Harvey Levin said they
Speaker 2: got it this morning. Yes, but we'll tell you what
Speaker 2: he says. The thing says, now, you were just listening
Speaker 2: to the video he has there, but they also have
Speaker 2: a write up. But in the I don't know, and
Speaker 2: we could also give an impression what your impression was
Speaker 2: of they were they being careful or delicate in the video?
Speaker 3: They were trying to be careful to not give away
Speaker 3: all the contents of the ransom note, because they said
Speaker 3: that this note that they received this morning had specific
Speaker 3: details that one would think only the person who actually
Speaker 3: abducted Nancy Guthrie would know.
Speaker 4: He said there were specifics.
Speaker 3: About what was left behind, about how he took or
Speaker 3: this person took Nancy Guthrie anyway that they felt like
Speaker 3: needed to be shared with police.
Speaker 4: So they said they were contacting.
Speaker 3: Police and they finally were able to get this note
Speaker 3: to them to look at to investigate. But the way
Speaker 3: they were talking, they felt fairly confident that this could
Speaker 3: actually be the person who has Savannah Guthrie's mind.
Speaker 2: And I get what you're saying, speaking confidently, but they're
Speaker 2: also speaking as two people who are not decades in
Speaker 2: law enforcement.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what this thing might look like.
Speaker 2: I was thrown in the video at least robes that
Speaker 2: they were talking about it releasing it before it sounds
Speaker 2: like they had gotten it into the hands of the
Speaker 2: right people. They said they were having a hard time
Speaker 2: getting in contact exactly somebody.
Speaker 3: They said that they were getting the run around. They
Speaker 3: weren't able to get the person they needed to get
Speaker 3: to to give this note to.
Speaker 4: So perhaps I don't know if.
Speaker 3: They were online talking while this was happening shortly after.
Speaker 3: We don't know if police had that ransom, that alleged
Speaker 3: ransom note in their hands before this video got out,
Speaker 3: But certainly they were looking to bring news to the
Speaker 3: people who count on them, and they do break news
Speaker 3: off and now they also went on to say that
Speaker 3: this note demanded a specific, substantial amount of bitcoin, and
Speaker 3: they said the amount is in the millions. That's as
Speaker 3: specific as they got. And then they said that the
Speaker 3: note demands that the cryptocurrent be sent to a specific
Speaker 3: Bitcoin address, and that TMZ has verified that the bitcoin
Speaker 3: address is real. Can you be tracked through your bitcoin address?
Speaker 2: I would assume. Look, I don't know how that works,
Speaker 2: but this makes no sense. This makes less sense. The
Speaker 2: idea of a ransom starts to make sense. Why you
Speaker 2: would send that note to TMZ, Why you would want bitcoin,
Speaker 2: why you would send an address?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: The Harvey Levin did mention in the video at least
Speaker 2: as well, that this had an element of do this
Speaker 2: or else to it, So that's ominous as well. Now
Speaker 2: the sheriff didn't tell us much. Do you have the
Speaker 2: statement up? They did put out a statement in response
Speaker 2: to this. They weren't that specific, I guess roads, but
Speaker 2: at least addressing all this news that's circulating.
Speaker 3: Yes, So after TMZ puts out this video, then we
Speaker 3: hear from the Pima County Sheriff's department, and again, this
Speaker 3: is just you know, not that long after this big
Speaker 3: press conference we just all watched.
Speaker 4: They wrote, we are.
Speaker 3: Aware of reports circulating about possible ransom note with an
Speaker 3: s in PARENTHESI regarding the investigation into Nancy Guthrie. We
Speaker 3: are taking all tips and leads very seriously. Anything that
Speaker 3: comes in goes directly to our detectives who are coordinating
Speaker 3: with the FBI. We encourage anyone who may have any
Speaker 3: information or tips to share them via this QR code.
Speaker 4: So that's it. They just are saying, Yep.
Speaker 3: We know that there are reports of a possible ransom
Speaker 3: note and we're looking into it.
Speaker 4: That's basically what I got out of that.
Speaker 2: And you know what, that's still more than he said
Speaker 2: in the press conference. Yes today, but Harvey Levin as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not verified rope, so we don't know.
Speaker 2: This could be some Yahoo out there who decided to
Speaker 2: send something in and be funny, is this a real thing?
Speaker 2: If you are a real kidnapper, You're going to send
Speaker 2: your ransom note to Harvey Levin.
Speaker 1: I don't know. None of this makes sense. This just
Speaker 1: adds to.
Speaker 4: It's so bizarre.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the or else part of the note that
Speaker 3: you were talking about apparently they put in this note
Speaker 3: a deadline connected to receiving this alleged this ransom, this
Speaker 3: millions in cryptocurrency, and so there was an actual date,
Speaker 3: a deadline or else.
Speaker 2: And we told you all here that two things jumped
Speaker 2: out at the press conference, and it was to I'm
Speaker 2: piggybacking here off what you said, Robes. One of them
Speaker 2: was in fact when he refused to answer the ransom
Speaker 2: question twice, and the other Robes was timing right talking
Speaker 2: here about there was a deadline or something attached. And
Speaker 2: the sheriff today thought it was odd that this urgent
Speaker 2: search is going on, and he is now spacing out
Speaker 2: press conferences and said see you in two days.
Speaker 3: See you on Thursday morning, at forty eight hours from now.
Speaker 3: Even though people are actually on the edges of their
Speaker 3: seats waiting to hear, people are praying, they are hoping
Speaker 3: for the best. I mean, this has captured and captivated
Speaker 3: the nation, and he's gonna see you in forty eight
Speaker 3: hours when.
Speaker 2: You're talking about an urgent search and a woman that
Speaker 2: could die if she doesn't get medicine in twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Now we're three plus days in and you're saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: see you in a couple of days. That doesn't read
Speaker 2: babe with the urgency he's talking about.
Speaker 4: They must know something they do and that's okay.
Speaker 2: That is we get that, We get that. But right now, Robes,
Speaker 2: what a story this has become? The idea of ransom
Speaker 2: makes sense? Sending it to TMZ?
Speaker 4: Doesn't you make a very point? Why send it to TMZ?
Speaker 1: And we have to what do you do? Right? Or
Speaker 1: something like this?
Speaker 2: It seems what I said, Robes, if it's an authentic note,
Speaker 2: this might have been the wrong thing to do. If
Speaker 2: it's a total hoax, it's the wrong thing. Like, what
Speaker 2: is the right thing to do? Should you do?
Speaker 1: You dare?
Speaker 2: And I hate to question the news organizations, hate to
Speaker 2: question Harvey, but it felt like, man, we should wait
Speaker 2: till you all get back to us and let us
Speaker 2: know if this is okay to right, you have the
Speaker 2: choice to report, but Road, there's a woman's life on
Speaker 2: the line right now.
Speaker 3: Right you and I had just talked about what would
Speaker 3: a news organization do, I mean, what would we do?
Speaker 3: And the question is, yeah, you have the choice. Obviously
Speaker 3: you give it to police. Period, do you ask them?
Speaker 3: Do you mind if we let our viewers know or
Speaker 3: our listeners know that we got this note and let
Speaker 3: them tell you. They're probably gonna tell you. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: would mind, don't tell anyone, and then you would respect
Speaker 3: the investigation because that comes first. Finding Nancy Guthrie is
Speaker 3: the most important part of this entire thing. It's not
Speaker 3: about getting clicks and downloads. And I know that that's
Speaker 3: obviously tempting, and I understand, I get the business behind
Speaker 3: what it is that we do.
Speaker 4: But when you have someone's life on the line, if
Speaker 4: you think.
Speaker 3: Maybe even for a second, that you could be jeopardizing
Speaker 3: the investigation or putting her safety at risk in any way.
Speaker 4: But I also would just have to say, we.
Speaker 3: Were asking why would you send a ransom note to TMZ?
Speaker 3: Probably for this exact reason. You want the attention. You
Speaker 3: know TMZ is going to put it up or at
Speaker 3: least discuss it or acknowledge it online. And now you're
Speaker 3: getting attention. Now, how is.
Speaker 1: That good strategy? If it's money you want that.
Speaker 3: I can't answer, So maybe, I mean, who knows, But
Speaker 3: if it is just attention, then that would be more
Speaker 3: likely than not that it would be a hoax or
Speaker 3: someone who's pretending to be It's really, like you said,
Speaker 3: then broadcasting it, do you get copycats?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: Do you are you incentivizing people to, you know, just
Speaker 3: insert themselves and muddy the waters in something where police
Speaker 3: need to be focused on real tips, you know, And
Speaker 3: so you don't want to encourage people to do anything
Speaker 3: to confuse the investigation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's just that's a tough one.
Speaker 2: And just hate to be critical in any way, or
Speaker 2: it's the tough slightest way they made the call. It's
Speaker 2: hard to see how putting that out helps. It's hard
Speaker 2: to see how it is. Maybe the police don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe they think it helped. But Harvey
Speaker 2: sure made it sound like they did not get an okay,
Speaker 2: which they technically they actually do not.
Speaker 4: Legally they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't have to wish their tip.
Speaker 2: But this, with all these twists and turns rogues, you
Speaker 2: are the one that's more so pointing out to me
Speaker 2: here lately about another twist in this story that maybe
Speaker 2: we should have seen coming. It's not necessarily directly related
Speaker 2: to the investigation. It's now related to how the country
Speaker 2: is online having a conversation about this story. And I
Speaker 2: use the word conversation loosely, folks, we have to do better.
Speaker 2: Stay here, We'll let you know what fight is erupting
Speaker 2: online over the missing eighty four year old mother.
Speaker 1: Of Savannah Guthrie.
Speaker 2: All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ here
Speaker 2: coming on this evening. A breaking update. Really if we're
Speaker 2: just twists and turns in the story of Savannah Scuffhery's
Speaker 2: missing mother. But Robes, the conversation that's been going on online,
Speaker 2: the conversation that's been going on, Maybe we shouldn't be surprised,
Speaker 2: Maybe we shouldn't elevate it. I really don't know, but
Speaker 2: it seems like Robes, it's irrupting.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, because there Well, you've pointed out some political aspects,
Speaker 3: how people have politicized it.
Speaker 4: And I was.
Speaker 3: Actually texting back and forth with my mom, you know
Speaker 3: about this story, because it's just something that hits home
Speaker 3: for a lot of folks, and my mom was saying
Speaker 3: she made the mistake of reading comments and she said
Speaker 3: it's awful. People are talking about how rich Savannah is
Speaker 3: and questioning why she didn't provide better security for her
Speaker 3: mom given.
Speaker 4: All the money that she has.
Speaker 3: People talking about savannah political affiliations that she's liberal, that
Speaker 3: her husband is a known liberal, and that she deserved
Speaker 3: what happened, like just because of they said. If I
Speaker 3: think I heard someone say, I hope whoever took your
Speaker 3: mom is an illegal alien, because that's what you deserve
Speaker 3: for protecting them on the air with your media, your
Speaker 3: liberal media bias.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is what people are saying and doing.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go and sometimes I don't know
Speaker 2: how to give a good measure. I don't want to
Speaker 2: overstate how fiery and heated it is gotten, don't I
Speaker 2: don't think it's been a couple of randaus here and
Speaker 2: there rooms. This is everything we do now turns into
Speaker 2: this political discussion of what what you deserve based on
Speaker 2: your political affiliation, what should happen? Like my humanity is
Speaker 2: gone now because you're of that party.
Speaker 1: This is all And I mean, this story is awful.
Speaker 2: You started peeling realing off some of that stuff, and
Speaker 2: I started reading some stuff, and you're stunned that anybody
Speaker 2: would put their name to some of it. Look, an
Speaker 2: eighty four year old woman is missing, her health is
Speaker 2: not well. Can we all we can't come together on that.
Speaker 2: It's because of whose mama it.
Speaker 4: Is it's so sad to me.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I just want to say, Savannah
Speaker 3: Guthrie is one of the kindest, sweetest, most incredible women
Speaker 3: who I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
Speaker 3: And just to know that she's suffering right now, that
Speaker 3: she doesn't know what's happening to her mom, that she's
Speaker 3: devastated and scared, and the fact that people would take
Speaker 3: that moment to bring either politics into it or say
Speaker 3: she could have done something to prevent this.
Speaker 4: It's just evil. That is cruel. That is evil.
Speaker 3: It doesn't deserve its place in the universe, let alone
Speaker 3: to see that all put online.
Speaker 4: I hope she never sees it. I hope she never
Speaker 4: hears about it.
Speaker 3: I hope she never reads any of it, because that
Speaker 3: stuff is brutal and it hurts, and it's just it's evil.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's another word for it other than
Speaker 4: that I.
Speaker 1: Don't get it.
Speaker 2: And I want to find a way to say that
Speaker 2: the people that are saying this nasty stuff are just
Speaker 2: lost or confused or having a bad day or not
Speaker 2: in a good place on their own.
Speaker 1: I hate that I can't.
Speaker 2: Imagine this in a in the way that's as broad
Speaker 2: as I'm seeing it, not just one offs.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of it has to do with immigration
Speaker 3: and the fact that she lived where she lived on
Speaker 3: the border of Mexico. People are making all sorts of
Speaker 3: horrific comments and tying it back to this massive immigration
Speaker 3: debate we're having, which is just no one has any
Speaker 3: idea what has actually happened to Nancy Guthrie. And it's
Speaker 3: just it blows my mind that people would take an
Speaker 3: actual tragedy that is unfolding and use it to their
Speaker 3: political gain. It's I know, it's the way the world works,
Speaker 3: but it's sad to see.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't know when there might be another update.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen another something planned for this evening.
Speaker 3: You have not, no and Jack will As far as
Speaker 3: we know, the only thing planned is for Thursday.
Speaker 1: That's what he said.
Speaker 2: So, folks, this was a significant update in a story
Speaker 2: that has really captivated the country for a number of reasons.
Speaker 2: It's a mystery all its own, but now you attach
Speaker 2: one of the most famous journalists in the country and
Speaker 2: this is just gone bananas.
Speaker 1: Eighty four years old.
Speaker 2: We can all hope she comes home safely, but folks,
Speaker 2: we will hop on if there are any other significant updates.
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