TMZ founder Harvey Levin revealed on Wednesday morning that his outlet received a third alleged letter in relation to Nancy Guthrie as police continue to search for the missing mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.
“An hour and a half ago, we got, kind of a bizarre letter, an email from somebody who says they know who the kidnapper is and that they have tried reaching Savannah’s sister Annie and Savannah’s brother, to no avail. And they said they want one Bitcoin sent to a Bitcoin address that we have confirmed is active. It’s a real Bitcoin address, and as they put it, time is more than relevant. So we have no idea whether this is real or not. But they are making a demand,” Levin said during an interview on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom.”
Levin added that the note included a name and email address.
Levin went on to argue that law enforcement is operating on the theory that Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnapper lives in the Tucson, Arizona, area.
“Law enforcement has told me they are operating under the theory that this person lives in the Tucson television area, and that’s why they’ve had so much contact with the local television stations there,” Levin said in reference to alleged ransom notes that have been sent to local networks.
“Reading that first note, I think it is intelligent person. I think it is a tech-savvy person because we were on the phone with the FBI a couple of hours after we got the letter and everybody was trying, including my IT team, trying to figure out something about who sent it, and we hit a dead end,” he added.
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Jason Pack, a former FBI agent, told “Fox & Friends First” that the release of pictures and videos of a masked person in the search for Nancy Guthrie should make police more visible in Arizona today.
“I think you’re going to see more of these leads and you’re going to see more law enforcement activity. You’re going to see people out knocking on the doors,” Pack said.
“Now that they have a photograph, they’re going to go back to these places they’ve already canvassed. They’re going to show the people the photograph. They’re going to show the backpack. They’re going to show the holster. They’re going to show all these articles of clothing and they’re going to try to hit the streets and get more leads,” Pack continued.
“Bring those back, put them on the timeline, and see where to go from there. I think we’ll have more activity today,” Pack added.
Theresa Payton, who used to be the White House’s Chief Information Officer, told “Fox & Friends First” on Wednesday that AI is probably a big part of the investigation into the surveillance video and pictures that the FBI released in the search for Nancy Guthrie.
“I’m assuming that some of the best trained investigators in our country are on this project using AI to enhance what would normally take them a longer time to do,” Payton said.
FBI Director Kash Patel said on “Hannity” on Tuesday night that the agency is looking at multiple persons of interest in the search for Nancy Guthrie.
“If you have multiple people of interest that you are interviewing and talking to, which they may have and they are just not telling the public, again, you want the abductors to let their guard down so you can find Nancy,” Payton added. “They can start using AI to match up the eyes, so we have the eyes, the eyebrows, you can use AI to ask questions about what are the probabilities that these faces actually could be a good match, what are the probabilities that this person is wearing layers of clothing and they are not this bulky, what are the probabilities that they are taller than they seem to be and what do they weigh.”
“So there is a lot of things AI can be doing to aid this investigation, including doing reverse image lookups of the backpack, of the clothing being worn, of the boots themselves, maybe those things have been spotted on other surveillance videos,” she also said. “So they can use it to sort through and look through matches through massive amounts of data.”
