MAJOR UPDATE: Ransom Note Revealed Nancy Guthrie Died After Abduction
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🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Several news outlets are reporting that law enforcement sources say a second ransom note sent to a Tucson television station claimed that 84 Nancy Guthrie was dead. In the note, the kidnappers reportedly said they did not mean to kill her, but that she died soon after being abducted. According to authorities, the FBI and police believe the notes were authentic and from Guthrie’s kidnappers. TMZ is also revealing the contents of the notes they received, where the author clearly states, “time is no longer of the essence.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Tuesday, June 23rd, and Nancy Guthrie died shortly after she was kidnapped. |
| 0:15.3 | That is according to information from the ransom notes, information that has not been released to the public |
| 0:23.7 | until now and with that welcome to this episode of amy and tj let me give the caveat this is all |
| 0:29.4 | recording robed to several media outlets coming from several media sources excuse me several |
| 0:34.8 | law enforcement sources and rob some of these outlets also |
| 0:37.9 | have seen the notes themselves. So this information we're getting now, Robs, is pretty jarred. |
| 0:44.3 | It's jarring and it's legitimate and it makes sense because if you go back and you start |
| 0:50.7 | remembering how this all unfolded, there was a real urgency. I mean, an |
| 0:56.1 | immediate sense of urgency. We knew that Nancy Guthrie had medicine that she needed, |
| 1:01.8 | life-saving medicine. She had medicine she needed to alleviate pain. And there was a real concern. |
| 1:07.4 | Remember, Pima County Sheriff saying, we've got to find her in the next 24 hours. It's |
| 1:12.6 | crucial. And then all of a sudden it didn't feel as immediate in the days that followed. It was still |
| 1:17.5 | intense. It was still urgent. But there was a sense, just hearing from the Guthrie family, |
| 1:23.3 | that there might have been some sort of a shift. And now this makes sense. |
| 1:27.2 | This does help us piece together, robes, a lot of what we in the public were not aware of, |
| 1:32.7 | but they certainly knew what was going on behind the scenes. |
| 1:35.3 | Now, we want to get you caught up here because there have been some competing headlines |
| 1:39.8 | and some conflicting headlines and even some confusion about all these ransom notes that we'll get |
| 1:44.6 | into. But the bottom line is we are getting information and details from these notes that we are |
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