A troubling new detail has emerged in the mysterious disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie, raising fresh doubts about whether the chilling ransom demand is legitimate—or even domestic.
According to law enforcement experts, the individuals who sent the ransom message may have accidentally exposed themselves as operating outside the United States. The red flag? Their insistence that the multi-million-dollar ransom be paid specifically in U.S. dollars, despite allegedly targeting an American family.
Former FBI agent Michael Harrigan explained that this detail immediately stood out to investigators reviewing the message. Speaking to the New York Post, Harrigan questioned why a domestic criminal would bother specifying the currency at all.
“Why would you use that if you’re a domestic person? That points to somebody who might be potentially outside the country, which also lends the potential for this being a scam,” former FBI agent Michael Harrigan told the New York Post.
