Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield.

This is Drop Dead Serious.

I have some really big news to share with you about the Nancy Guthrie case.

We're on day 65 and I know I already dropped an episode earlier because Savannah returned

to the Today Show this morning, but I've learned something from TMZ that I did not know

before, and it all comes amid sort of a whole tumble of information about new ransom-like letters

that have come into TMZ. So let's be really clear because it's getting

confusing about all of the different letters. But the headline here is that the original letters

that came to TMZ and local TV stations in Tucson, there were two letters. They threatened to kill

Nancy Guthrie.

We had not heard that until now.

We always knew that there was a consequence threatened if you don't pay by Thursday, then by Monday there's a second deadline, and the consequences that the money goes up, I think to $6 million.

But we never heard that the other consequence was that they threatened to kill Nancy Guthrie.

And then of course after those two letters, they went silent.

And we never heard anything afterwards.

And they didn't give a mode of communication to the FBI, to the police, to TMZ, to KVOA

in Tucson, to KGUN and incident. And incidentally, KGUN, also

called Kagan, they received a second letter from these same people. And it's known that

they're the same people because they had the same Bitcoin address. So the first letter went to KGUN-U-N, K-V-O-A, and TMZ.

And the second letter just went to K-G-U-N. Don't know why, but it did. But they had the same

Bitcoin address. So they're from the same alleged ransom seekers. And that's the one that

Savannah refers to in her interview with Hoda Kotby when she says we received,

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