Chilling ransom note about TV reporter’s mum Nancy Guthrie claim she died

A ransom note in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of US Today host Savannah Guthrie, says the 84-year-old is dead, CNN and other news organizations reported.

Some media outlets had previously reported receiving ransom notes in the case in the days after Guthrie disappeared from his home just outside Tucson, Arizona, in early February.

CNN reported Monday that one of the notes revealed that Nancy Guthrie was dead and that her kidnappers did not intend to kill her, but that she died shortly after her disappearance.

CNN said it knew the contents of one such memo, and a Tucson TV station had obtained two memos.

CNN and the network agreed to delay publicly sharing the contents of the notes so that any future communications with the kidnapper or kidnappers could be verified.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department declined to comment on the contents of the memo.

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment, and the Guthrie family has not posted on social media or made any public comments about the notes.

Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will after blood was found on the doorstep of her home in the hills outside Tucson.

The FBI later released surveillance video showing a masked man on the porch that night.

Volunteers and search parties scoured nearby desert terrain filled with cacti, shrubs and rocks in the weeks after her disappearance.

A volunteer group recently searched for his body near the Arizona-Mexico border but did not report finding it.