FBI official pushes back on claims that Nancy Guthrie kidnapping ransom demands are fake: report

Apparent ransom demands and different notes sent successful the aftermath of the unsolved abduction of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie whitethorn inactive beryllium real, according to a caller report, contempt caller claims to the contrary.

As Fox News Digital reported previously, sources adjacent to the probe look divided regarding the notes' imaginable authenticity — oregon deficiency thereof.

Now, an unnamed authoritative is telling ransom request recipient TMZ that immoderate investigators presumption the demands arsenic perchance "more morganatic than not."

EMAILER IN NANCY GUTHRIE CASE CLAIMS TO POSSESS VIDEO OF 'MAIN GUY' WITH SAVANNAH GUTHRIE'S MOTHER

Savannah Guthrie returned to "Today" aft a two-month lack since her mother, Nancy, went missing connected Feb. 1. (Getty Images/Fox News Digital)

"It is much apt than not that the 2 ransom notes are real," TMZ's enforcement shaper Harvey Levin said Wednesday, citing an unnamed FBI authoritative with cognition of the case. "Further successful that conversation, this idiosyncratic said, 'They are much morganatic than not.' That's a quote."

FOX TRUE CRIME IS NOW ON FACEBOOK

He made the remarks successful a video successful effect to a caller study suggesting that the FBI deemed each of the ransom demands successful the Guthrie probe inauthentic.

Some investigators said they were assured that the ransom demands are each bogus, portion others are cautious astir reaching that decision portion Guthrie's whereabouts stay unknown, national instrumentality enforcement sources told Fox News and Fox News Digital past week.

NANCY GUTHRIE RANSOM NOTES DON'T MATCH SUSPECT'S BEHAVIOR, PROFILER SAYS: 'I DON'T BELIEVE THEY'RE REAL'

"They decidedly person not determined it is, for sure, fake," Levin said.

Law enforcement investigating Nancy Guthrie's disappearance hunt the vicinity adjacent girl Annie Guthrie’s location connected Feb. 10, 2026. (Sarah Lapidus/The Republic/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER

Authorities person not publically confirmed the legitimacy of the archetypal 2 notes that person been deemed perchance authentic — oregon a bid of abstracted emails believed to beryllium unrelated claiming to person cognition astir what happened to Guthrie.

"It is little apt that those letters are real, but they person not discounted that either," Levin added.

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE PLEADS FOR TIPS AS RANSOM NOTE CLAIMS MOM IS DEAD: 'SOMEBODY KNOWS SOMETHING'

Guthrie's daughter, "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, has said she believes astatine slightest 2 of the notes could beryllium real. She and her siblings responded to those connected videos posted to her Instagram backmost successful February.

Savannah Guthrie (C) and her siblings Annie (L) and Cameron made an affectional plea connected Instagram asking anyone with accusation astir their parent Nancy Guthrie's disappearance to travel guardant connected February 4, 2026. (Credit: Instagram/@SavannahGuthrie/Today)

Meanwhile, authorities and section authorities person some declined to sermon the latest developments regarding the ransom demands publicly.

When asked astir the caller reporting astatine a quality briefing Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel declined to comment.

SEND US A TIP HERE

"I'm not going to remark connected that," helium told reporters during a Justice Department quality briefing. "We are continuing to assistance that investigation. We've ever been successful an assistance role. It's a authorities substance being led by the authorities authorities."

Annie Guthrie, her hubby Tommaso Cioni, and Savannah Guthrie astatine their missing parent Nancy Guthrie's location connected Monday, March 2, successful Tucson, Arizona. (Fox News)

LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, whose bureau is starring the probe into Guthrie's suspected abduction, told Fox News Digital past week that it was the FBI astatine the forefront of the probe into whoever sent the ransom demands.

LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? FIND MORE ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB

"All ransom notes are being handled by the FBI," helium said. "We’ve been beauteous accordant with that. So I would person to defer you to them."

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

The household is asking anyone with accusation connected Guthrie's lawsuit to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. Tips tin beryllium provided anonymously to Tucson's Crime Stoppers affiliate, 88-Crime, astatine 1-520-882-7463.