Nancy Guthrie UPDATE: Detective Believes Kidnapping Could Have Resulted in ‘Medical Event’

Nancy Guthrie has been missing since February 1. She is believed to have been abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona, and held for ransom. She is 84. There has been no major breakthrough in her case, but details have emerged about the crime scene and Guthrie’s health, including that she had a pacemaker and took daily medication for high blood pressure. These details are important, and Detective Brian Martin believes that Guthrie’s abductors did not understand just how complicated and serious her health conditions are. 

Detective Shares Insight Into Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapper’s Plan

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Martin has given insight into the case and his theory on what the kidnappers originally intended, and how the abduction did not go according to plan. “What really bothers me is we’re dealing with an elderly female, who’s not living, by all accounts, she’s not living an at-risk lifestyle,” Martin said in an interview with NewsNation’s Brian Entin on April 7.  “It would appear to me that this is potentially driven by something monetary. They were hoping to get some kind of monetary reward or gain from doing this. That bothers me.”

Martin went on to detail how he feels the kidnappers “underestimated Ms. Guthrie’s health” and that they likely did not plan on keeping her for so long. If things had gone to plan, they would have had her for “a day or two” and then received their ransom money. It was meant to be “easy.” However, Martin believes that Guthrie may have had “some sort of medical event before any of that could take place.” 

He continued, “They underestimated her health, or lack thereof, but … when you have people who aren’t living at an at-risk lifestyle, they’re not putting themselves out there in harm’s way. You know, we don’t know of major gambling or drug debts or anything of this nature or bad affiliations. It really makes you wonder what our perpetrator or perpetrators endgame was and logical.” He said that “it comes back to money” and expressed concern that the kidnapping would have been “incredibly stressful” for Guthrie and could have resulted in a “medical event.”

New Notes in Nancy Guthrie Case 

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The latest major update in Guthrie’s case was when TMZ received new notes on Monday, April 6, the same day that her daughter, Savannah Guthrie, returned to work on the “Today” show. The notes were from someone claiming to have information about Nancy’s whereabouts and the person who took her. In exchange for this information, the person was demanding 1 Bitcoin. 

TMZ reports that the notes were from “the same person offering information on the kidnapper. But for the first time they’re revealing an exact location and claiming they saw her in Mexico.” The information in these notes is still being verified, and it’s unclear whether they are legitimate. “There are still issues of authenticity, and any proof of Nancy being alive or otherwise doesn’t seem to exist in the notes,” former NYPD detective David Sarni told Parade.

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