Nancy Guthrie ransom notes don't match suspect's behavior, profiler says: 'I don't believe they're real'

A seasoned transgression profiler says the alleged ransom demands tied to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie look inauthentic, telling Fox News Digital the notes work arsenic if they were written by 2 antithetic personalities — a cold-blooded "psychopath" and idiosyncratic acold much "emotional."

"Bottom enactment is, I don’t judge they’re real," transgression profiler John Kelly said successful an interview. "The archetypal enactment is strictly astir the dollars, astir the bucks....Now erstwhile you get into the 2nd note, you're talking astir a benignant of a antithetic property to me."

There was nary sensitivity shown during the abduction — a masked antheral with a weapon and an early-morning location penetration that snatched Guthrie from her furniture and near humor connected her doorstep, Kelly said.

"Most of these guys are psycho, and going to bash that, rouse an older pistillate retired of her furniture and haul her distant similar that bleeding each implicit the place...they're going to conscionable privation to get distant from the occupation arsenic speedy arsenic possible," Kelly said. "They're not going to beryllium disquieted astir leaving condolences."

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An equipped idiosyncratic appears to tamper with the doorbell camera astatine Nancy Guthrie's beforehand doorway the greeting of her disappearance successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Feb. 1, 2026. An undated photograph shows Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of "Today" big Savannah Guthrie. (Provided by FBI; Courtesy of NBC)

Excerpts from the archetypal enactment see a request for millions of dollars' worthy of Bitcoin, gave a deadline for outgo and were said to see transgression country details that were not wide known astatine the clip it was sent to section media. It did not see impervious of life.

Details astir the 2nd enactment — oregon astatine slightest versions of it sent to antithetic media outlets — person been made nationalist this week.

It included claims that Guthrie had died inadvertently aft her abduction, a national instrumentality enforcement root adjacent to the lawsuit told Fox News connected Monday. And it said she was "buried with nature."

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Aerial drone shots amusement the location of Nancy Guthrie successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Feb. 3, 2026. Nancy Guthrie, parent of 'Today' amusement big Savannah Guthrie, is suspected of being abducted from her home. (Fox Flight Team/Fox News)

"She's not with america anymore, was not 'intentional,'" Kelly said. "Now I spot an affectional word: 'intentional.'"

And that doesn't acceptable the illustration that Kelly sees, helium said.

"This is simply a idiosyncratic to maine that wouldn't cognize a feeling if they tripped implicit one," he told Fox News Digital.

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A divided representation showing a masked intruder astatine Nancy Guthrie's location and the humor recovered astatine her doorstep the greeting aft she is believed to person been abducted from her location successful the Catalina Foothills of Tucson, Arizona. (FBI, Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

In taking Guthrie, the abductor oregon abductors "objectified her," Kelly said.

"That's precise antithetic than what I'm seeing successful the fewer words that I was capable to see...in the ransom enactment saying that it wasn't intentional and she's buried with quality now," Kelly explained. "Like that should springiness america immoderate comfortableness aft that full horrific proceedings of removing Nancy and freaking torturing her emotionally close retired of that house."

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Savannah Guthrie sat down with chap "Today" amusement big Hoda Kotb to sermon her mother's disappearance. (NBC/Today)

Authorities haven’t publically confirmed oregon ruled retired the authenticity of the demands.

Early on, they look to person taken them seriously, with Heith Janke, the peculiar cause successful complaint of the FBI’s Phoenix tract office, sitting down with Guthrie’s big children to grounds a video effect to the archetypal note.

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Pima County deputies analyse a flyer taped to the mailbox extracurricular Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson, Ariz., connected Feb. 23, 2026. Guthrie, the 84-year-old parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to person been abducted from her location successful the aboriginal hours of Feb. 1. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

The 84-year-old Guthrie’s daughter, "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, has besides said publically that she believes astatine slightest 2 of the notes were real.

"There are a batch of antithetic notes, I think, that came, and I deliberation astir of them — it’s my knowing — are not real, and I didn’t spot them," she told workfellow Hoda Kotb successful a March interview. "…But I judge the 2 notes that we received, that we responded to, I thin to judge those are real."

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FBI agents and instrumentality enforcement officers behaviour a door-to-door hunt successful Nancy Guthrie's vicinity successful Tucson, Ariz., connected March 5, 2026. Guthrie has been missing since aboriginal February 2026. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)

Kelly, a seasoned profiler and psychoanalyst who has interviewed a fig of serial killers, said helium believes the kidnapper is simply a "very cruel person" without remorse oregon guilt and apt a "psychopath."

"I was watching his eyes connected the video that we could get to see, I mean, I wasn't seeing mean blinking taking place. I wasn't seeing anxiety," Kelly said. "Psychopaths are similar that — they tin beryllium arsenic chill arsenic cucumbers. They don't consciousness a full batch of fear...They conscionable spell astir their business."

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Anyone with accusation connected Guthrie's lawsuit is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. There is simply a combined reward of much than $1.2 cardinal for accusation that cracks the case.

Tips tin beryllium provided anonymously to Tucson's Crime Stoppers affiliate, 88-Crime, astatine 1-520-882-7463.