Second alleged Guthrie ransom deadline missed, sparking new theories from Bongino, former FBI agent and doctor

TUCSON, Ariz. — A erstwhile FBI cause and a aesculapian doc explored with Fox News Digital alternate theories different than kidnapping for ransom successful the Nancy Guthrie lawsuit aft erstwhile FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino joined Sean Hannity connected Fox News' "Hannity" Monday to sermon Guthrie's disappearance.

A 2nd alleged ransom deadline passed Monday nighttime aft reported kidnappers asked the Guthrie household done the media for $6 cardinal successful Bitcoin, starring some, including Bongino, to question whether the kidnapping mentation is correct.

Bongino said it's surely possible, but offered alternate ideas.

"The 2nd anticipation would beryllium this was conscionable a transgression that went awry. Someone is astatine the house. Maybe it was a burglary," helium said. "Something went bad, and that you've got immoderate atrocious actors committing different crime, unrelated successful different words, requesting a ransom for thing you didn't bash conscionable to instrumentality vantage of a concern similar this."

Dan Bongino, a blimpish commentator, is photographed successful Stuart, Florida, connected Thursday, March 18, 2021.  (Calla Kessler for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Bongino emphasized that helium was not ranking his theories by plausibility erstwhile numbering them.

"The 3rd possibility, again ... and this is wherever I deliberation you person to benignant of deliberation extracurricular of the box, particularly fixed immoderate of the messaging that we've seen lately, is the anticipation that determination whitethorn person been immoderate benignant of possibly a aesculapian exigency oregon something, and possibly this was not a kidnapping," helium said. "And I accidental that lone due to the fact that — and again, I'm not weighting these possibilities, we're conscionable — erstwhile you can't find idiosyncratic astatine a transgression country similar this close away, wrong the archetypal mates of days, you either person truly bully surgical benignant operators, oregon the communicative you've been told, oregon you whitethorn person believed whitethorn not beryllium the story."

Former Denver FBI cause Jonny Grusing agrees that determination could beryllium different mentation for Guthrie's disappearance, which is present successful its ninth time of probe without immoderate suspects being named.

FBI agents canvass homes adjacent Nancy Guthrie's location successful Tucson connected Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. Guthrie was past seen connected Saturday nighttime arsenic an probe into her disappearance continues. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

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"I've listened to different commentary and I astir apt broadside with them, of the different commentators, erstwhile FBI, that we don't cognize for definite these demands are existent for ransom," helium said.

"It could beryllium a assortment of reasons here, and we had aggregate location invasions that I worked wherever the radical going into the location were seeking wealth oregon jewelry oregon drugs oregon whatever, and it could beryllium upscale neighborhoods oregon distant neighborhoods, and somebody's successful there, and past they person to woody with that somebody," helium said. "And I had a unfortunate die, I had different ones fight, I had the perpetrators leave. Lots of atrocious things tin hap if you participate a location and someone's there, and you don't fishy they're going to beryllium there."

"So that could person happened, it's there," helium said. "She was a unfortunate of condition and being successful a precise bully neighborhood."

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"Another is that they were seeking idiosyncratic else," helium said. "I've had that hap arsenic good to wherever they deliberation they person an code of someone, and it's the incorrect house, which is an atrocious concern due to the fact that radical person travel to this location to bash violence, and it is the incorrect idiosyncratic and the unit happens anyway."

An undated photograph of Nancy Guthrie and Savannah Guthrie was provided by NBC successful effect to the disappearance of the 84-year-old parent of the "Today" amusement host. (Courtesy of NBC)

Grusing noted that the kidnapping for ransom mentation poses challenges of its own, namely with an evident deficiency of urgency connected behalf of the alleged kidnappers, who sent their alleged demands to the media and not straight to the Guthrie family. He said successful his experience, atrocious actors instantly interaction the household of the unfortunate and request money, and determination is often a swift and ongoing dialog if the household can't wage the sum demanded.

He besides noted different oddity successful the case. Nancy's alleged abduction appeared to beryllium precise tactical and precise good organized, helium said, but that the alleged ransom attempts look to beryllium wholly disorganized, arsenic if they were not pre-planned.

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Dr. Nicole Saphier is simply a Fox News contributor and radiologist. She backed Bongino's mentation that a aesculapian exigency could person led to the disappearance, though she thinks the chances of that are slim.

According to the Guthrie family, Nancy does not person immoderate known cognitive issues, but that doesn't mean a accelerated onset information is retired of the question.

A motion of solidarity from neighbors astatine Nancy Guthrie's location connected Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, successful Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Caitlin O'Hara)

"You know, possibly she doesn't person didn't person a known cognitive issue, but possibly possibly she, you know, had thing arsenic benign arsenic an infection. This could nonstop the aged into states of disease, to beryllium honest. So is it imaginable that she wandered off, sure," said Saphier. 

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Saphier posited different theory, saying possibly possibly the abduction wasn't portion of the plan, but became indispensable if Nancy had a aesculapian occurrence during a break-in.

"The happening that I had a interest astir was, if determination was an abduction, successful the archetypal daze of them coming into the house, was that excessively overmuch for her heart? And she really had immoderate benignant of cardiac occurrence [or] bosom onslaught oregon changeable close past and there, and she really died there. And that's wherefore they spent truthful overmuch clip successful the house, due to the fact that that wasn't portion of the program present that they needed to fig retired what to do."