Overview
- Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer suggested using a 'tickling the wire' test by sending part of the requested bitcoin to see how the funds move.
- The recommendation follows new, contradictory emails to TMZ that demanded one bitcoin and alternately claimed Nancy was dead or seen alive in Sonora, Mexico.
- Investigators have not verified the messages and have warned they may be scams that try to profit from the case without giving proof of life.
- Authorities continue to treat the disappearance as a kidnapping based on doorbell footage of a masked person at Nancy Guthrie’s home near Tucson, and no suspect has been identified.
- Coffindaffer argued the emails may have been sent to media to embarrass Savannah Guthrie rather than to secure payment, and she noted credible abductors usually engage through official reward channels.