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Someone Allegedly Took Nancy Guthrie And Demanded Bitcoin They Never Collected

19 min · 12. Mai 2026
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Ransom notes demanding cryptocurrency. Two deadlines that passed. No Bitcoin allegedly ever withdrawn. Three months after Nancy Guthrie, eighty-four years old, was reportedly taken from her bedroom in the Catalina Foothills, the alleged ransom demands look less like a real negotiation and more like an alleged diversion — and the investigation that was allegedly supposed to find her may have been chasing noise while the trail went cold. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke take on the questions that probe every alleged crack in this investigation. Who is the person on the porch — and do the alleged amateur mistakes with the gloves and the foliage suggest someone who was allegedly improvising or someone who allegedly planned poorly? Why were ransom demands allegedly made if nobody ever tried to collect? Is this allegedly about Savannah Guthrie, about Nancy specifically, or about something else entirely? Robin applies behavioral analysis to the question that refuses to resolve: one perpetrator or more? The alleged evidence — a reportedly propped-open back door, a doorbell camera allegedly disconnected at 1:47 a.m., blood confirmed as Nancy's — tells a story Robin dissects for what it allegedly reveals and what it allegedly hides. The anger about Pima County's alleged handling of the FBI relationship, the alleged refusal to release basic evidence, and the family being reportedly cleared early drives this conversation into the territory that matters most. Nancy's community is demanding answers. The alleged silence from investigators is becoming its own evidence. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #Tucson #PimaCounty #FBI #MissingPerson #TonyBrueski

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Episode Why Hasn't The FBI Identified The Masked Man On Nancy Guthrie's Doorbell Camera? Cover

Why Hasn't The FBI Identified The Masked Man On Nancy Guthrie's Doorbell Camera?

The FBI released the footage on February 10. A man in a ski mask, gloves, a jacket, and a holstered handgun walking up to Nancy Guthrie's front door. He was carrying a 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack — a backpack the FBI says is sold exclusively at Walmart. He saw the camera. He reached down, pulled weeds out of Nancy's own yard, and covered the lens. As of the bureau's last public statement, the man on that tape has not been publicly identified. That footage is the center of this case. And the timestamps around it are the only facts nobody can dispute. Nancy's doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47 a.m. Twenty-five minutes later, the software picked up a person at the door. At 2:28 a.m., the pacemaker keeping her heart on schedule lost its signal — with her phone still inside the house she never walked back into. Forty-one minutes from camera disconnect to silence. Blood confirmed as Nancy's on the front porch. Phone, wallet, daily medication all left behind. Discarded gloves found two miles away. The response was fast and massive. Drones up. Dogs out. More than a hundred investigators eventually working the case. The family found her gone, called for help within minutes. The reward climbed from $50,000 to $100,000 to $1 million. Nancy's family has been cleared by law enforcement. And after all of it — nothing. No arrest. No named suspect. Nancy Guthrie is still missing. Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years at the FBI. She walks through those forty-one minutes the way she was trained to — reading the timestamps in sequence, examining what the evidence tells an investigator about the operation's sophistication and the case's solvability. She explains why an 84-year-old woman dependent on daily medication turns every hour into a countdown. She examines where the holes are — the inter-agency friction, the canvass contamination questions, the sheriff's credibility problems — and asks the question this family deserves answered: how does a case open this clean and still freeze solid? Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #FBI #DoorbellCamera #MissingPerson #JenniferCoffindaffer #PimaCountySheriff #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForNancy

8. Juni 202643 min
Episode Where Does The Nancy Guthrie Investigation Actually Stand? Cover

Where Does The Nancy Guthrie Investigation Actually Stand?

For everyone who has followed the Nancy Guthrie case since it broke, this episode is the full picture in one piece. The whole timeline. Beginning to now. Every event. Every development. Every disputed fact. Every chapter of an investigation that, four months in, has more evidence than most missing-persons cases ever produce — and still, no publicly identified suspect, and no Nancy. The 41-minute window between the doorbell camera disconnect and the pacemaker app's last ping. The blood on her own front porch. The doorbell footage of the masked man and the clump of weeds covering the lens. The discarded gloves and the contamination issue around the canvass. The Arizona Republic's reporting on Sheriff Chris Nanos's resume and the recall campaign that followed. The unanimous Board of Supervisors vote compelling testimony under oath. FBI Director Kash Patel's on-record comments about the early days of the case, and Nanos's public dispute of the characterization. The Hostage Rescue Team deployment. The command post moving to Phoenix in late February. The $1 million reward sitting on a table with no claim. The People magazine confirmation that the sheriff is no longer communicating directly with the Guthrie family. The 100-day mark passing in near-silence. This is everything that has been reported, confirmed, or publicly stated about the Nancy Guthrie case from January 31 to the moment you and I are talking about it. Laid out in order, without conclusions forced on the audience. Every event. Every disputed fact. Every open question. So when the next development drops — and it will — you have the full picture to weigh it against. SOCIAL LINKS: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS: #NancyGuthrie #FindNancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #PimaCounty #Tucson #ChrisNanos #FBI #FindingNancy

3. Juni 202620 min
Episode Could Nancy Guthrie Still Be Alive After All This Time? Cover

Could Nancy Guthrie Still Be Alive After All This Time?

Nancy Guthrie is somebody's mother. She's the mom of TODAY show host Savannah Guthrie, and she's an 84-year-old grandmother who was taken from her own home in Tucson in the middle of the night — and the hardest question for everyone who's been following her story is the one nobody can answer yet: is she still out there? Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer sits down with Tony Brueski to talk honestly about where this case stands and what it's been like to watch it from the inside. We talk about the night she vanished — the camera going dark, the masked figure at her door, the pacemaker that lost its signal while her phone sat inside the house. We talk about the medication she needs and the clock that's been running since the first hour. And we talk about a family that has shown up, cooperated, and pleaded for her safe return while the answers stay just out of reach. This one is for the people who've lit a candle for Nancy. Who refresh the news hoping for something good. Who can't stop thinking about a woman who could be anyone's grandmother. Coffindaffer is straight with you about what the silence might mean and what still gives her hope. If you've carried this story with you, come sit with us. Nancy Guthrie deserves to be talked about like the person she is — and her family deserves to know she hasn't been forgotten. Footer Links: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] Disclaimer: This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags: #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #Tucson #BringNancyHome #FBI #TrueCrimeCommunity #JusticeForNancy #PrayForNancy

1. Juni 202622 min
Episode Why Did A Crypto Security Firm Put Nancy Guthrie On Its Wrench Attack List? Cover

Why Did A Crypto Security Firm Put Nancy Guthrie On Its Wrench Attack List?

CertiK is one of the leading blockchain security firms in the world. They maintain an official list of wrench attacks — organized crypto-extortion operations where recruited operatives physically force their way into homes to coerce families into surrendering digital assets. Nancy Guthrie's name is on that list. On January 31st — the same day Nancy vanished from her Tucson-area home — two California teenagers drove 600 miles to Scottsdale dressed as FedEx drivers, forced entry into a residence, and demanded $66 million in cryptocurrency. Anonymous handlers on Signal directed the entire thing. The proximity in time and geography put the wrench attack theory on the map for anyone following Nancy's case. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer takes the theory apart piece by piece. She defines what a wrench attack actually is — the recruitment pipelines, the encrypted handler communications, the payment channels layered to keep the architects invisible, the operational security that makes these networks nearly impossible to crack. She's worked these kinds of cases across 28 years at the Bureau. Then she tests the theory against what's publicly known about Nancy's disappearance. The cryptocurrency trail that should exist if this was crypto-motivated — and doesn't. The person on Nancy's porch who appeared to discover the doorbell camera in real time, which contradicts the briefing patterns in documented wrench attacks. The gear that doesn't match what confirmed operatives typically carry. And the foundation of CertiK's classification itself — which may rest on ransom demands that investigators have already separated from the actual crime. The Scottsdale case happened the same night. But Coffindaffer identifies specific operational differences between that case and what the evidence shows in Tucson. The theory gets the examination it deserves — careful, honest, and willing to name both what fits and what doesn't. Nancy was 84. She's still missing. Her family is still offering $1 million. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #NancyGuthrie #WrenchAttack #CryptoCrime #CertiK #Scottsdale #FBI #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TucsonArizona

31. Mai 202645 min
Episode What Two Piles Of Evidence Could Finally Break The Nancy Guthrie Case? Cover

What Two Piles Of Evidence Could Finally Break The Nancy Guthrie Case?

Investigators are sitting on two massive evidence pools in the Nancy Guthrie case. Unknown DNA from an unidentified contributor recovered from inside her home. And thousands of hours of surveillance footage from cameras across Tucson. Either one could crack this. The question is which one gets there first — and whether the investigation can get out of its own way long enough to use them. The failures are documented. Crime scene released too early. A thermal imaging plane grounded because its pilot was reassigned over a personal grudge. The lead sergeant reportedly had no homicide experience. Experienced detectives sidelined. Doorbell footage declared unrecoverable by the sheriff's department — produced by the FBI roughly ten days later. Sheriff Nanos told the public Nancy had been abducted, walked it back the next day, and told reporters he wasn't used to being held accountable for what he says. Nancy Guthrie was 84 when she was allegedly taken from her home in the middle of the night. Blood confirmed as hers on the porch. A masked, armed figure on the recovered doorbell footage. Her pacemaker disconnected in the early morning hours. Phone, wallet, daily medication all left behind. No arrest. No named suspect. Over three months and counting. Jennifer Coffindaffer spent 28 years at the FBI and breaks down both evidence paths. The DNA — whether it's been uploaded to CODIS, what happens if the contributor isn't in the system, why forensic genealogy is the backup, and why routing this sample through multiple labs instead of Quantico may be costing time. The digital evidence — how vehicle timeline reconstruction works, how cellphone tower data gets mapped, how the white truck and red sedan reported near the property get tracked through thousands of hours of footage. She gives an honest read on whether Nanos's repeated "getting closer" language reflects real progress or the kind of thing investigators say when they don't have anything concrete. For a family that's been cleared, offered $1 million, and lost their matriarch — that distinction is everything. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #DNAEvidence #CODIS #FBI #ChrisNanos #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TucsonArizona

30. Mai 202639 min