Speaker 1: Hey, that folks.
Speaker 2: It is Friday, February sixth, and we want to get
Speaker 2: to write to a number of significant updates in the
Speaker 2: country that is in the story that's captivating in the country,
Speaker 2: the search for Nancy Guthrie. Welcome to this episode of
Speaker 2: Amy and TJ.
Speaker 1: Robe.
Speaker 2: There is a list of updates we need to get to.
Speaker 2: And again, we have been doing several updates Robes on
Speaker 2: this story. And we're traveling right now. And we were
Speaker 2: out with a group last night, a big crowd of
Speaker 2: folks and was it not the first thing everything everybody
Speaker 2: said to us when we we came up to us.
Speaker 3: It was absolutely the talk of the party. We were there.
Speaker 4: We're here in San Francisco for the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 4: so yeah, lots of folks you'd think would be talking
Speaker 4: about sports and talking about the parties that they got
Speaker 4: invited to or how they're covering. No, the conversation from
Speaker 4: each group of people we talked to was all about
Speaker 4: missing Nancy Guthrie.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't just a quick question. I mean, if
Speaker 2: they had questions for us, they know we're covering it.
Speaker 2: But Robes extended conversations. We only mentioned this to say, Robes,
Speaker 2: these are conversations obviously that are going on everywhere.
Speaker 1: This is such a mystery.
Speaker 2: And now here we are almost a full week since
Speaker 2: someone has seen this woman in the mystery continues. The
Speaker 2: updates we want to get you can get to you
Speaker 2: are several. First of all, there has been a rest,
Speaker 2: but not in the case of her abduction, hoax ransom notes.
Speaker 2: We were worried about this. We'll get into that. Also
Speaker 2: still saying no suspects. Also, we got an update on
Speaker 2: that blood, the pictures you've been seeing of the blood
Speaker 2: on the front porch of her home. Update about that. Also,
Speaker 2: they passed along to us a deadline robes at least one,
Speaker 2: and one of these ransom notes has come and gone.
Speaker 2: There's an update about cash Ptel, the FBI director getting
Speaker 2: out there, And we got.
Speaker 1: An update on the timeline.
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure which one of these things stands out,
Speaker 2: but let's start with I guess the arrest robes. We
Speaker 2: were worried something like this might happen. There might be more,
Speaker 2: but they have arrested a California man for trying to
Speaker 2: in the middle of this tragedy, ropes, trying to extort
Speaker 2: cash from this family.
Speaker 4: Yes, and The interesting thing is this is not police separated.
Speaker 4: This isn't the ransom note that we heard about specifically
Speaker 4: given to the local affiliate and then to TMZ.
Speaker 3: This actually, police say came.
Speaker 4: After correct, the gu three siblings went and made that
Speaker 4: plea for the would be abductor to contact them so
Speaker 4: that they could start talking. So this impostor took that
Speaker 4: opportunity and found I believe the cell phone numbers of
Speaker 4: Savannah's sister and brother in law and found some of
Speaker 4: their personal information and reached out to them and demanded
Speaker 4: money through bitcoin.
Speaker 2: Is that's so good? This wasn't a ransom note. This
Speaker 2: was a ransom demand that came in via text. It
Speaker 2: seems like you said the word opportunity. Isn't it wild
Speaker 2: that someone we're looking at it as a tragedy. Somebody
Speaker 2: actually looked, Wow, there's an opportunity for me here.
Speaker 4: And I hope they throw the book at him. He
Speaker 4: has been charged criminally, thank goodness, and he should be Uh, Derek,
Speaker 4: I think it's kaya.
Speaker 1: Well was his age again?
Speaker 2: But he's twenty seven thirty fairly young, yes, young man,
Speaker 2: but yes, he has been charged. So that arrest has
Speaker 2: taken place. Another update we want to give you is that.
Speaker 2: And this is maybe the most important one. Roabes and
Speaker 2: I kind of glanced over this one, is that there's
Speaker 2: another plea from the family forgot to mention the brother
Speaker 2: of Savannah Guthrie. Another video has come out. His was
Speaker 2: much shorter, but Robes, I think this one was pretty
Speaker 2: significant in what he was saying. He's essentially saying, we
Speaker 2: actually don't believe we have talked or heard from the
Speaker 2: actual kidnapper. Wrote his video said to me, more than anything,
Speaker 2: maybe they don't believe a ransom has anything to do
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they it's it's It was a short twenty seconds, yes,
Speaker 4: twenty one second. Savannah posted it onto her Instagram. It
Speaker 4: was her brother Cameron, and it was notable and that
Speaker 4: he It seems as though it was timed to coincide
Speaker 4: with that first deadline from one of the ransom notes.
Speaker 4: The police told us that there was a five pm
Speaker 4: local Thursday deadline, and that's exactly when Savannah posted this
Speaker 4: message from her brother onto her social media. So it
Speaker 4: was seven pm East Coast time, five pm Mountain time.
Speaker 3: And that's not coincidental. That was deliberate.
Speaker 4: They were like, this is basically, you know, they were
Speaker 4: honoring this deadline that was put into this ransom note, saying,
Speaker 4: please let us know what you want talk to us.
Speaker 2: His quote here again it was only twenty one seconds,
Speaker 2: no bagdrop, staying against I think it's a plain white
Speaker 2: wall in a corner, said we want to hear from you.
Speaker 2: We haven't heard anything directly. We want you to reach out.
Speaker 2: We need a way to communicate with you so we
Speaker 2: can move forward, but first we have to know that you.
Speaker 2: We have our mom, we want to talk to you,
Speaker 2: and we are waiting for contact robes. They can't entertain
Speaker 2: all of this shit because obviously now already someone has
Speaker 2: come out and they know it's trying to fool them.
Speaker 2: So now they're begging for confirmation, a proof of life,
Speaker 2: and in today's technology, that's harder to do.
Speaker 4: Yes, And I just you look at it, and typically
Speaker 4: you would think, not that there's a typical kidnapping situation,
Speaker 4: but I would just believe most of us, using common sense,
Speaker 4: would think that the pleading or the communication would be
Speaker 4: coming from.
Speaker 3: The other side.
Speaker 4: They would be making demands, they would be reaching out,
Speaker 4: they would be getting specific and so to have not
Speaker 4: heard from them after these ransom notes showed up. Doesn't
Speaker 4: give a lot of faith into that concept or into
Speaker 4: that theory that that may be what.
Speaker 1: Is going on.
Speaker 2: One of the FBI guys was up at the press
Speaker 2: conference yesterday and he said it best and Robes, it was.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was jarring to hear him say it.
Speaker 2: It's common sense. But if there is a demand for money,
Speaker 2: you want your money. You're not sitting around for a week,
Speaker 2: not engaging. You want your money. This is just not around.
Speaker 2: He said it in such a way that makes you go, Okay,
Speaker 2: of course, this isn't a ransom situation.
Speaker 4: Right, And look it's not like, oh, I just want
Speaker 4: to spend a few more moments with eighty four year
Speaker 4: old Nancy Guthrie, who needs medication, who needs constant care.
Speaker 4: That's not something that would be advantageous for a kidnapper
Speaker 4: to be experiencing. So he would want to or they
Speaker 4: would want to get rid of their hostage as soon
Speaker 4: as possible and get their money as soon as possible.
Speaker 1: You don't sit around.
Speaker 2: You don't kidnap somebody and just sit and let them
Speaker 2: sweat it out for a week. He said it in
Speaker 2: such a way, Robes, They're like, oh, okay, obviously this
Speaker 2: is because he doesn't sound like they believe. But after
Speaker 2: all this and all this talk of ransom notes, robes,
Speaker 2: they don't believe they've gotten a legitimate one yet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that means, quite frankly ropes, there's no ransom. So
Speaker 2: where is Nancy and why was she taken out of
Speaker 2: that home? It? Now they have to be you have
Speaker 2: to focus on what has to be a different theory
Speaker 2: than a ransom and a kidnapping.
Speaker 4: Correct, And that's why I think this timeline that they
Speaker 4: released was really, really, really interesting. It certainly piquked our interest,
Speaker 4: and we got this and we'll explain why. So police
Speaker 4: are now able to say that, yes, Nancy was dropped
Speaker 4: off by a family member around the exact time they
Speaker 4: had suggested.
Speaker 2: Now you you saw something else. I only saw a
Speaker 2: family member. But you're do have they said officially who
Speaker 2: dropped her off?
Speaker 3: Look, I don't know that because there have been so
Speaker 3: many reports.
Speaker 4: I just know some reports are suggesting which family member
Speaker 4: dropped her, but a.
Speaker 2: Not more than one. So she went one on one.
Speaker 2: Only one person saw her last? Is that effect?
Speaker 3: It sounds like that is correct. Yes, we do know
Speaker 3: for sure. That she was at Annie and Tomaso. Is
Speaker 3: that you say his name, Tomaso Tomaso.
Speaker 4: At their home having dinner and playing card games. Because
Speaker 4: they actually even spoke to the uber driver who took
Speaker 4: her there, and he was very cooperative with police, they said,
Speaker 4: just explaining that she said she was going to her
Speaker 4: families for dinner and card games, so they know that's true.
Speaker 4: At nine forty eight, the garage door opens. At nine
Speaker 4: point fifty, the garage door closes.
Speaker 2: That is so interesting to me because that says Nancy
Speaker 2: Guthrie's home and safe for the night.
Speaker 4: Yes, And that is what Tamaso told police that they
Speaker 4: reported this, that he said, I made sure she got
Speaker 4: in and she was safe. That is the last we
Speaker 4: saw her. So there you go, right, And then here's
Speaker 4: where it gets really interesting. At one forty seven am,
Speaker 4: the door bell camera is disconnected. At two twelve am,
Speaker 4: there is motion detected by a camera. It could have
Speaker 4: been animal, it could have been our human, it could
Speaker 4: have been but it was some movement.
Speaker 3: And the problem is apparently Nancy.
Speaker 4: Guthrie didn't subscribe, so there was no way of reviewing
Speaker 4: that video. It just went out into the ether. It
Speaker 4: was not recorded, and then at two twenty eight am,
Speaker 4: that is when her pacemaker disconnected from the app. So
Speaker 4: the one seven am doorbell can being disconnected and the
Speaker 4: two twelve motion detection by something, those two things seem
Speaker 4: like they are connected.
Speaker 2: And he was the one that brought up, not us.
Speaker 2: The share made the point to say, oh, no, it
Speaker 2: could have been an animal. That's a hell of a
Speaker 2: coincidence that when all these other weird things are going
Speaker 2: on the pace. What within forty five minutes, the doorbells disconnected,
Speaker 2: there's motion at the front porch, and the pacemaker's disconnected
Speaker 2: in forty five minutes. Tough to say those oddities, aren't you.
Speaker 4: You've got to believe, just from a common sense standpoint,
Speaker 4: that those are all related. And that is when she
Speaker 4: was taken. And the interesting thing is, because obviously we've
Speaker 4: gone through all of these possible theories about what could
Speaker 4: have happened to Nancy Guthrie, but to know that her
Speaker 4: pacemaker was still connected until two twenty eight that would
Speaker 4: suggest she was alive at two twenty eight am, and
Speaker 4: that's the last bit of information we have about her condition.
Speaker 2: This makes no sense that an eighty four year old
Speaker 2: woman is safe at home at ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 2: Why is she disturbed again? Why did somebody go back
Speaker 2: to that house? What in God's name has happened to
Speaker 2: this one?
Speaker 3: Yes? And how? And why is their blood on her front?
Speaker 1: Corse?
Speaker 3: Blood drops it?
Speaker 4: Finally look, we saw them and finally police confirmed it
Speaker 4: is Nancy Guthrie's blood. So we don't know what they
Speaker 4: found inside the home. We don't know if there was
Speaker 4: blood inside the home, if there was a significant amount
Speaker 4: of blood inside the home. We only know that they
Speaker 4: said they believe she was harmed when she was taken,
Speaker 4: and they said that what they saw at that scene
Speaker 4: was gravely concerning the scene, meaning the home en roads.
Speaker 2: We look those images now, that blood in the front
Speaker 2: has been everywhere. We're not talking about a couple of
Speaker 2: specs that you have to look closely for. This is
Speaker 2: someone who had a significant injury, yes, and was bleeding
Speaker 2: and they said that as her blood.
Speaker 1: But folks, yesterday we did get again.
Speaker 2: Like I mentioned several other updates, they have also upped
Speaker 2: the reward for Nancy Guthrie for information leading to finding her.
Speaker 2: And also not really sure what to make of it,
Speaker 2: but cash Ptel is now in the middle of this investigation.
Speaker 2: We think we'll explain the confusion about the FBI director's
Speaker 2: involvement in this case to hear we continue here on
Speaker 2: this Friday morning, February sixth update on the search for
Speaker 2: Nancy Guthrie Robes. Is the FBI director going to not
Speaker 2: to help in this case? But I thought the President
Speaker 2: said he's throwing all resources, including his FBI director, at
Speaker 2: the problem, and now so is he going on not?
Speaker 3: Apparently he is going to Tucson.
Speaker 1: To help out in the investigation.
Speaker 3: Oh but wait, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 4: So this is according to the FBI director who is
Speaker 4: there leading the investigation in Tucson. The local guy Jankie
Speaker 4: I believe is his name. His name is what Heath.
Speaker 4: His name is what jank j A n k E
Speaker 4: Janki jonkye Yankee. Let's just go sounds better, sounds terrible.
Speaker 4: I am so sorry if I just massacred his name.
Speaker 4: But Heath, we can call him Heath. He said that
Speaker 4: the trip that Cash Bettel is taking to Tucson is
Speaker 4: unrelated to the Guthrie investigation.
Speaker 3: I will quote him.
Speaker 4: He does have a trip schedule to Tucson that was
Speaker 4: pre scheduled before this, but he is receiving consistent and
Speaker 4: constant updates from our team here.
Speaker 3: Look, you and I believe we both saw.
Speaker 4: There has been criticism once it was announced that cash
Speaker 4: Bettel was coming into Tucson to help with the investigation.
Speaker 4: We saw some folks online, some law enforcement folks on
Speaker 4: television admonishing him for it, saying he is a distraction.
Speaker 3: He is doing this for his own look at me,
Speaker 3: Look at me.
Speaker 4: He inserts himself into high profile cases and actually takes
Speaker 4: away from the important police work that we're doing because
Speaker 4: he serves ultimately as a distraction. And so people were
Speaker 4: up there kind of lambasting him for going and putting
Speaker 4: himself in the middle of it. So look, read what
Speaker 4: you'd like into what Now the FBI is saying, Oh, no,
Speaker 4: he's not inserting himself, he's not coming here for Guthrie.
Speaker 4: He had something else. He had a prior commitment that
Speaker 4: just so happened to be in Tucson, that just so
Speaker 4: happened to be when the biggest story in this country is.
Speaker 3: Going on and he just got criticized.
Speaker 2: It's possible, Okay, it's possible he had a trip. I'm
Speaker 2: saying I don't know. However, they did tell us he
Speaker 2: was going specifically to help out on this. That's not okay,
Speaker 2: that is what we're talking about. But we're at a story,
Speaker 2: this big, a case, this big, Robes, this is where
Speaker 2: we are and this is not our fault.
Speaker 1: This is his.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what he says in front of a
Speaker 2: microphone or he tweets. We have to go get a
Speaker 2: second and third and fourth source from the FBI director.
Speaker 2: He's done this repeatedly. Robes put out information significant to
Speaker 2: a case we're all watching, and he has one rong.
Speaker 1: We can't trust him on this case. Robes.
Speaker 4: If he puts out on X or gets up in
Speaker 4: front of in front of a microphone and says they've
Speaker 4: made an arrest and they've got their guy, we're not
Speaker 4: going to be able to report that.
Speaker 1: Pause.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to actually get a second source.
Speaker 4: Let's look into this because it's been twice now in it.
Speaker 3: He's even the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Speaker 4: Wrong.
Speaker 2: That's tough, and look I am not we're not the
Speaker 2: but we had camera with the guy's name yesterday we
Speaker 2: were watching, so he's been It was in the FBI
Speaker 2: thirty forty years, all the high profile bit cases. He said,
Speaker 2: I have never seen my FBI director on scene. He said, no,
Speaker 2: I never saw him outside of his office. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it wasn't a criticism. He was saying, he lets agents
Speaker 2: do our work and he's not hovering. He's not out
Speaker 2: there all the time. Look, Cash Bezel can have a
Speaker 2: different way of going about it, and some people might
Speaker 2: appreciate it. It hasn't been beneficial at least from a public standpoint.
Speaker 4: Yes, and so that maybe could be the reason why
Speaker 4: now he's not going to Tucson to.
Speaker 3: Be a part of the Guthrie investigation.
Speaker 1: I guess this was expected as well.
Speaker 2: The other update, they upped the reward possibly here robes
Speaker 2: for finding her. It was a lot of people have
Speaker 2: heard it earlier, big as the story was, and given
Speaker 2: who Nancy Guthrie's daughter is, folks like twenty five hundred
Speaker 2: dollars that's not enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Upstown people.
Speaker 4: People may made a lot of comments and directed them
Speaker 4: at Savannah as if Savannah had anything to do with
Speaker 4: the reward money. People please, I mean people who are
Speaker 4: coming after her. It's she had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 4: That is crime stoppers, that is the police, that is
Speaker 4: the local resources. They don't encourage families, especially families with means,
Speaker 4: to create huge rewards because now you just incentivize people
Speaker 4: to commit crimes against your family if you have a
Speaker 4: certain amount of wealth.
Speaker 3: So that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: But yes, the reward is now at fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 4: and that is significant. Look, we can see already that
Speaker 4: people are trying to cash in in criminal, horrific ways
Speaker 4: to try and make some money on someone else's tragedy.
Speaker 4: But this would actually be something that hopefully could incentivize
Speaker 4: somebody who might have information that could lead to finding
Speaker 4: or figuring out what happened to Nancy Guthrie.
Speaker 2: If money works, fine, but it's weird to think you
Speaker 2: need to be incentivized by money to try to help
Speaker 2: out in finding an eighty four year old woman in
Speaker 2: poor health. So I know the money hell, and you
Speaker 2: know on the ransom thing, the FBI guy said, didn't
Speaker 2: publicly ransom. That's the family's call, yes, he said, he said, yep,
Speaker 2: we don't have anything to do with that. If they
Speaker 2: want to handle they want to put up he said,
Speaker 2: he said it, that is on them. They don't have
Speaker 2: to listen to authorities. We can advise, but we have
Speaker 2: no say over what they do there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and look, if it were your family member, you
Speaker 4: would try anything. You would pull out all the stops,
Speaker 4: you'll say, you would even say to yourself. And Savannah
Speaker 4: gets this. She's covered enough of these stories, not quite
Speaker 4: like this, but certainly she knows that it probably is
Speaker 4: not that great of a chance that this is actually
Speaker 4: a kidnapping situation where she's talking to a kidnapper.
Speaker 3: But you know what she might be.
Speaker 4: And so if it's your loved one, you would you
Speaker 4: would exhaust all options, even if the chances of it
Speaker 4: bearing fruit were minimal, you would still do it.
Speaker 3: So I understand why they're doing this, all.
Speaker 2: Right, folks, no press availability schedule for today, I have
Speaker 2: that right, Robes. They don't have a press car schedule
Speaker 2: for today.
Speaker 4: He actually said after this past one that they are
Speaker 4: not going to hold another one unless there is a
Speaker 4: significant development. He said, there's no point in us or
Speaker 4: me getting up here and just going over the same information.
Speaker 3: And that does make sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I have some thoughts on how these press
Speaker 2: conferences are going, but it's everybody's under can you can
Speaker 2: imagine the stress they're under the whole Everybody is watching
Speaker 2: these authorities, how they do every single thing. The scrutiny's
Speaker 2: going to be there, but you know everybody's doing their
Speaker 2: best and want to bring this woman home. We want
Speaker 2: to give you that update. I say that update. There
Speaker 2: were several significant updates about this story. As always, top
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Speaker 2: now we appreciate you listening. As always, I am TJ.
Speaker 2: Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Robock. We will
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