Two new ransom notes tied to the Nancy Guthrie case were once again sent to TMZ by someone claiming to know details about the suspects.
The latest emails contained shocking claims, including an alleged location where Nancy was reportedly seen and a claim that she is no longer alive.
TMZ’s founder, Harvey Levin, shared more details about these latest ransom notes and why he thinks that the suspect may have committed the “perfect crime.”
Nancy Guthrie Update: TMZ’s Harvey Levin Believes Ransom Notes Were Real
In the latest episode of “Drop Dead Serious,” Levin revealed one of the reasons why he believes the ransom notes related to the Nancy Guthrie case were real.
Aside from the sender reportedly insisting that he’s not hoaxing, Levin pointed to another remark in the letter that stood out to him.
“The other thing that just got me was, I believe it was the Tuesday after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped, he sent us this note saying, ‘I know where she is. I know who the kidnappers are. Time is of the essence.’ That was on a Tuesday,” Levin explained to Ashleigh Banfield. “On Wednesday, we got another note from the same person, but said time is no longer of the essence, meaning I think she is no longer alive.”
He continued, “Well, if somebody is carrying out a hoax, why would they take the immediacy away and say she’s no longer alive? That made it feel to me like there’s something legit because why would he take away the incentive to get the money fast?”
Levin also mentioned that the FBI “consciously looked at this” and has tried to find out who it is, but they are reportedly “not convinced enough to pay that money.”
Levin Thinks It’s the ‘Perfect Crime’
Levin added that the “FBI believes that those ransom notes are real,” and that they were from Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper. He also revealed that “they have done everything they can” to figure out who sent the notes, but “came up dry.”
The TMZ founder is now starting to believe that the suspects may have committed the “perfect crime.”
“The craziest thing about this is that this is 2026. And when you look at it, it’s like the perfect crime that I didn’t think that existed anymore,” Levin explained. “That you can kidnap somebody from a residential area where there are cameras that people have in their homes and yet you can’t find the car.”
He continued, “And that you’ve got these emails and you can’t trace the emails, and you got these Bitcoin addresses, and I can tell you that the FBI did something with that Bitcoin address from the kidnapper. They actually did something, came up dry there. And I just never thought of the perfect crime being something like this, where somehow you could evade everyone.”