Overview
- The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI Guthrie Task Force said they were recently made aware of a possible ransom note and are working to determine its credibility, officials announced on Monday, Sept. 28.
- Authorities previously released two communications sent days after Guthrie vanished in February: a Feb. 2 bitcoin demand claiming she would be returned for payment and a Feb. 6 note saying she had died; investigators have said some past messages were extortion while others remain under review.
- FBI and local detectives have collected forensic evidence including porch surveillance that shows a masked man tampering with a door camera, blood on the front porch that matched Guthrie, and large volumes of DNA and video material being sorted.
- Recent social posts and a true‑crime creator’s claims that a friend received a bitcoin demand and an attached video have not been verified by investigators and the task force cautioned that some digital material may be manipulated.
- No arrests have been announced, the Guthrie family has been publicly cleared as suspects and remains cooperative, and active rewards total more than $1 million as authorities urge the public to report tips and avoid sending money or scanning payment QR codes.