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New Details About Guthrie Ransom Notes as DEADLINE Passes, and Notable Disappearance Timeline Change, with Ashleigh Banfield and More | Ep. 1247
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Megyn Kelly is joined by Ashleigh Banfield, host of Drop Dead Serious, to discuss new details about Savannah Guthrie’s emotional video appeal about her missing mother, its similarities to the movie "Silence of the Lambs," why the messaging from the family appears carefully coordinated with law enforcement, what Banfield’s source is now saying about who "may be" the "prime suspect" in the Nancy Guthrie case, the latest about a car being taken into evidence, disturbing attempts to exploit the Guthrie family with fake ransom demands, how the timeline surrounding Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance appears to have changed, the critical missing hour before police were called, conflicting statements about the cameras at the home, how these shifting details are fueling concern about the investigation, and more. Plus, Jim Fitzgerald, co-host of "Cold Red Podcast," Chad Ayers, former SWAT team leader, and Jonathan Gilliam, FBI special agent, to discuss new DNA evidence at Nancy Guthrie's home, wh...
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Ashley Banfield
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Megyn Kelly
Welcome to the Megyn Kelly show live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Eas.
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Megyn Kelly
Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to the Megyn Kelly Show. There's a lot going on this morning. I mean, we, my team and I have been really busting ass for you guys for the past 48 hours or 24 hours just to make sure that we have everything lined up for today because there was a lot at that presser, there was a lot at that presser about the missing Nancy Guthrie and it was not consistent with previous messaging from the sheriff's department. Obviously the sheriff has reason to obfuscate and what he obfuscates on is potentially telling. He quite clearly was referencing Ashley Banfield's reporting a couple of times in that presser yesterday without naming her. He definitely seemed to attack her. She's here and we will ask her directly whether she continues to stand by her exclusive reporting that police consider Nancy Guthrie's son in law, Savannah's brother in law, the man married to Savannah's sister, Annie Tomas, as someone who quote, may be the prime suspect in this case. She'll update us in two minutes when she's here. The 84 year old mother of the NBC News host Savannah Guthrie remains missing. She was last seen at her Arizona home on Saturday evening. Um, and we'll get into the change of the timeline as well. Plus we have the best law enforcement analyst in the world who will be here later in the hour with his take. But we've got to begin with one of the more bizarre developments in this entire case. We showed you earlier this week the Instagram message that Savannah and her siblings posted to their mother and to her suspected captors. They dropped it on Wednesday evening and we talked about how it was strange. This is not a judgment of how they handled themselves. This is an observation about the odd messaging and whether it means something, whether it was potentially directed by the kidnapper to be an acknowledgement of something. It was just so odd in the way it was presented and phrased. And that could have been completely just at law enforcement's direction for reasons we don't understand, or it could have been some sort of a signal that was asked for by a kidnapper, or it could have just been the family's choices while under duress. We don't know, but we're trying to figure out what we can. This part in particular is coming back to surface and we'll explain why and pay particularly close attention to the ending watch. On behalf of our family, we want to thank all of you for the prayers for our beloved mom, Nancy. We feel them and we continue to believe that she feels them too. Our mom is a kind, faithful, loyalty, fiercely loving woman of goodness and light. She is funny, spunky and clever. She has grandchildren that adore her and crowd around her and cover her with kisses. She loves fun and adventure. She is a devoted friend. She is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you'll see. Talk to her and you'll see. It's kind of an interesting phrase. And notice how Savannah's sister Annie seems to take a deep breath at that very moment. It sounds like a phrase we might have heard before. And online sleuths confirm indeed we probably have. They discovered that line is from the 1991 horror crime film Silence of the Lambs. Before we play the clip, let me tell you what the movie's about. Most of you know, but some of our audience is younger and may not. The main character, Clarice Starling, is played by Jodie Foster. Starling is investigating the kidnapping of Catherine Martin, the 25 year old daughter of the fictional Senator Ruth Martin. Catherine the daughter has been kidnapped by Buffalo Bill, a serial killer who skins his female victims. In the scene where the phrase talk to her and you'll see is used, it's the kidnapping victim's mother, Senator Ruth Martin, sending a message to her daughter's captor. Watch our top story for this morning.
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Ashley Banfield
Katherine Martin, the 25 year old daughter.
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Megyn Kelly
Of Senator Ruth Martin, listed first as.
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Ashley Banfield
A missing person, is now believed to have been kidnapped by the serial killer.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Known only as Buffalo Bill. Memphis police sources indicate that the missing girl's blouse has been Identified, sliced up.
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Ashley Banfield
The back in what has become a.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Kind of grim, all too familiar calling card.
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Ashley Banfield
Young Katherine Martin, as we've said, is.
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Jonathan Gilliam
The only daughter of US Senator Ruth Martin, the Republican junior senator from Tennessee.
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Ashley Banfield
And while her kidnapping is not at this point considered to be politically motivated, nevertheless it has stirred the government to its highest levels.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Reach for comment on the ski slopes.
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Megyn Kelly
Of Stowe, Vermont, the President himself said.
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Ashley Banfield
To be, and I quote, intensely concerned.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Just moments ago, Senator Martin takes this dramatic personal plea.
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Megyn Kelly
I'm speaking now to the person who's holding my daughter. Catherine is very gentle and kind. Talk to her and you'll see. Hmm, you heard that right at the end. Let's watch him back to back. She is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you'll see. I'm speaking now to the person who is holding my daughter. Catherine is very gentle and kind. Talk to her and you'll see. Both reference how kind the person is and end with talk to her and you'll see. Now, we're not the only ones who noticed this and it's getting a lot of attention on social media today. It is one of many, many, many developments that we need to go through. We're gonna try to unpack what this means and more with Drop Dead Serious podcast host and long term crime reporter, among other kinds of reporting, Ashley Banfield. Let's be honest, America can still be a dangerous place and you cannot afford to wait for help when you need it. Sure, you could use a firearm, but in today's America, defending yourself with deadly force can have legal consequences. According to FBI data, 99.9% of all altercations do not require lethal force. And that's exactly why so many are turning to Burna. Burna is amazing. It's proudly American, it's hand assembled in Fort Wayne, Indiana and its less lethal self defense launchers. They're trusted by hundreds of government agencies, law enforcement departments and private security companies. Over 600,000 burner pistols have been sold, mostly to private citizens who refuse to be victims. Burner launchers fire rock hard kinetic rounds and also powerful tear gas and pepper projectiles up to you capable of stopping a threat from up to 60ft away. No background checks, no waiting periods and Burna can ship straight to your door. Take responsibility, protect your future. Visit Burna.com right now or your local Sportsman's Warehouse by r n a.com or your local Sportsman's Warehouse. Visit now and be prepared to defend Ashley. Welcome back. If you it is an eerie similarity and the choice of words could be completely coincidental, or it might not be. It could be something the FBI suggested, you know, something much in the way if you ever watch that movie Contagion during the pandemic starring Matt Damon, it had what the CDC would do in the case of a pandemic so exact you knew that there was definitely a playbook from which the CDC had behaved and that they had shared that playbook with the filmmakers in this movie that was made long before the COVID pandemic. And it did make me wonder whether in preparing Silence of the Lambs, the filmmakers consulted with an FBI hostage negotiator, that kind of person who gave them the kind of messaging that they would typically give the. The family members of a kidnap victim. And it made its way into the script, and it may have made its way into Savannah's script too, in quite the similar manner.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Very astute. Because, in fact, Jonathan Demme, who created Silence of the Lambs, did confer with the FBI, did have multip investigators with the FBI and agents at the FBI actually consult on the movie. John Douglas, one of the most famous profilers, worked on Silence of the Lamb. So it's entirely possible that there is an age old playbook with all sorts of options and suggestions for agents to use when trying to make communications like this. And we were told by the FBI that they were working in concert with the Guthrie family, as they should be, to help guide them through this extraordinary process. They were very careful also to say that in the end, all scripting is up to the final decision of the family who's going to read it, which is obvious. But the guidance was clearly annotated yesterday when they said that they were there. We saw them go in with the ring light and the apple tripod, the iPhone tripod, to help set up the actual shoot for them as well. So it's maybe not that surprising that perhaps pieces of an FBI playbook were used, maybe unknowingly, to the agents today that had been used decades ago in the creation of Silence and Lambs.
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Megyn Kelly
It does make you wonder what else in the messaging that we've heard from the family. Because of course, last night, Cameron Guthrie, the. The brother of Savannah and Andy, issuing his own direct to camera statement, just him without the sisters. And in. In both of the video messages and in Savannah's Instagram post that was written, which preceded both of these video messages, there's just. There are odd phrases that really have us wondering whether they have had more communication with a potential kidnapper than they're letting on, which would Be totally appropriate. Obviously, they're not going to tell all of us everything that's happening. But her Instagram post sounded a little unlike Savannah. For. For one thing, Ashley, it was not capitalized, which. Okay, it's. It's a social media thing. You could make the case. A lot of people don't capitalize, but Savannah normally does. She does normally capitalize. We went back and checked her Instagram and her Twitter, and much like yours truly, and I imagine you too, most journalists would capitalize. We're not 20 and we're just sort of in the business, so it's like we pay attention to those things. But on this post, of all posts, like the most important post of her life to date, this is the one that came out the night before. The video of the three siblings she posted on Tuesday evening. This is all without caps, even at the beginning of the very first sentence. We believe in prayer. We believe in voices raised in unison, in love, in hope. We believe in goodness. We believe in humanity. Above all, we believe in him. Him is capitalized. Nothing else is. Thank you. Again, beginning of a sentence not capitalized. For lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy. The mentioning of her name, clearly that was suggested by law enforcement trying to get her to humanize her. Nancy. Nancy. She has a name. She. She has kids and goes on and on. And then it ends with a quote, a Bible quote. And then listen to how she cites the. Cites it.
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Jim Fitzgerald
She.
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Megyn Kelly
She writes in quotes. He that's capitalized will keep in perfect peace those whose hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord. Lord is capital. Quote. A verse of Isaiah for all time, for all of us. Bring her home. You know Savannah. I know Savannah, too. That doesn't sound like her. A. A verse of Isaiah for all time for all of us. I don't know whether this is all coded, Ashley, but the messages are being very carefully coordinated. Seems to me and may just be what law enforcement is telling them or could be responsive to some sort of a demand.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Well, you know, Savannah is actually pretty spiritual. I'm not sure that she would have written the message.
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Megyn Kelly
She was very spiritual. She wrote a whole book about. Yeah, yeah, but. But the phraseology out of the quote. A verse of Isaiah for all time for all of us.
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Jim Fitzgerald
You know what that also could be is for her mom, because mom is very faithful. Mom goes to church. And that might have been something. Again, if we are to believe that this ransom effort is even true, I have my serious doubts about it. And yesterday the FBI said something in the press conference that I picked up on very quickly, they were asked about the deadlines, the second deadline, and the FBI agent said in a normal kidnapping case, there would be contact by now. They have to take it seriously, and it's why it's prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And the guy that they pulled in in California is going to have the book thrown at him. I think it's 8 to 10 as a minimum there for prison because it is just.
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Megyn Kelly
FYI for those who didn't listen to AM update, there was a separate man who was arrested this morning or yesterday morning for. For demanding a ransom of Annie and Tomas via text message and also made a nine second phone call to some member of the Guthrie family who was just a fraudster. He had nothing to do with the other ransom notes, per law enforcement, nor with this case at all. We believe he was just trying to glom on to someone's tragedy and torture the family further. And he's now under arrest.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Keep this. Derek Kalea, collect call. I don't know. C A L L E lla allegedly now charged in this and very seriously, too. That's interstate commerce when you use the lines like that, using email, using phone lines to cross state lines and also, you know, interfering with law enforcement. There's all sorts of things that could throw the book at him for that. But I would, I would without question expect some prison time for this guy if he's guilty of these crimes. But, you know, to hear in the other notes, because there, it's a little complicated, right? There's a note to tmz, there an email, there's an email to tmz, there's emails to two television stat that are local in Arizona. And then there's this one that was communicated directly to the family and communicated directly to Savannah's sister Annie and her husband Tomaso. So that is fascinating to hear, though, that they are focusing on the emailed ransom notes. But they also indicated, not very clearly, but slightly clearly in the press conference that those three that went to the outlets seem to be from the same person. And they noted a couple of things.
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Megyn Kelly
They did, for the first time, say that they're identical. For the first time, the FBI confirmed in response to a question that they. It is the same note. Jim Fitzgerald, who's been on with us every day formerly of the FBI has said that's the one thing he really wanted to know was was it exactly the same, you know, or could there have been like some sort of a copycat or did they for some reason, I have my questions. FBI yesterday said all three.
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Jim Fitzgerald
I have my questions about the details in them as well, because the. There were details released yesterday about floodlights broken. Floodlights potentially.
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Megyn Kelly
Wait, stand by. I definitely want to get into that. I do. But let me just finish up on the messaging from the family, then I'll talk about your exclusive reporting. And then I definitely want to get into these notes because they're. They. They're very interesting. One other thing. On the messaging, we noticed that in the family, I think, is being very disciplined on exactly what it says and how it says it. We. We talked yesterday about how very clearly Savannah Guthrie knows how to speak at ease, directly to camera, unscripted. She chose not to do that. Quite clearly. They're being really careful about if somebody's got her not triggering him, saying what needs to be said to reach him in the best way possible to actually get a response. You know, they. They're desperate, you can see in the family's messaging for interaction with this person, if he exists and has their mom, you know. Yeah. They want proof of life, and they're. They're desperate to have a communication because very clearly, Harvey Levin made this clear yesterday on various appearances. The ransom note said Thursday night is your first deadline, and Harvey suggested Monday is your second deadline. And it certainly sounds like if they didn't meet the Thursday night deadline, the price was going up or the consequences. Monday was.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah, the price or the consequence.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah, some sort of negative consequence. And then. And then by Monday, they were suggesting, without saying it, that that's when, you know, they said that would be the end for her, that it was. That was the clear implication. But in any event, I just want to show you the messaging that both Savannah and now Cameron have offered in their back to back Instagram messages here. And this again, was Cameron alone last night?
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Ashley Banfield
This is Cameron Guthrie. I'm speaking for the Guthrie family. Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you. We haven't heard anything directly. We need you to reach out, and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward. But first, we have to know that.
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Jonathan Gilliam
You have our mom.
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Ashley Banfield
We went to talk to you, and we are waiting for contact.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay, so that's what we heard from Cameron himself last night. Now listen to the comparison. As a family, we are doing everything that we can. We are ready to talk.
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Ashley Banfield
Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you.
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Megyn Kelly
We want to hear from you, and we are ready to listen. Please reach out to us.
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Ashley Banfield
We haven't heard anything directly. We need you to reach out, and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward.
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Megyn Kelly
We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her.
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Ashley Banfield
But first we have to know that.
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Jonathan Gilliam
You have our mom.
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Ashley Banfield
We want to talk to you, and we are waiting for contact.
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Megyn Kelly
This poor family is desperate for someone, if they actually have their mother, to. To be in touch. It's to. It's abject cruelty to make it possible for them to interact. It's torture.
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Jim Fitzgerald
This is yet another scammer or another alleged scammer. It is abject torture. It is why the penalties in the code are so steep for this. Not just because the interstate commerce, but because of the inter. You know, the. The interjection of the law enforcement's efforts, but also just the sheer torture that you put these.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah. It's so awful. And you and I both have our doubts about whether it's even real, so. It does. If I had to put money down, I'd say this is somebody intentionally torturing the family, trying to scam them, trying to get money from them in their most vulnerable, painful moment. And by the way, if that's true, then it means the real kidnapper, murderer, whoever hurt Nancy, however they did it. Yeah. Perpetrator is out there watching the whole thing, letting them suffer, too. Like, it's not enough that they did something to the mother. They're letting the torture go on day after day after day. When I saw those three people, Ashley, the other night on camera, all I could think was, these are torture victims. That's what's happened to them.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah. And so often. And we don't often see this. Right. Because this is a very high profile case. But in so many of the true crime cases that we covered, this is the reality. This is what people go through when their loved ones go missing. Do they get a high profile ransom note sent to tmz? No. But oftentimes they are left just as terrified and just as traumatized, especially if it's their children and you don't see as much of it on the media.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah. Okay, so let's get to your reporting because it was very clearly the gorilla in the room yesterday at that presser where it came up three different times. Four, actually, four total, with the sheriff saying, we have no suspects, no persons of interest. And then some broadsides, quite clearly, I thought at you. I think you agreed. I watched your show this morning without naming you, and some of the media are piling on. Oh, these influencers Looking for clicks are reporting, you know, irresponsibly. That's bullshit. You are not an influencer looking for clicks. I've known you 20 years. That's not who you are. So people are dismissing this at their own peril. It is everyone there. Even the sheriff said no one's been cleared. Everyone's a suspect. So it is not inappropriate to start where all law enforcement starts, which is with the family, and work out that's what you're doing. You would be doing that even if your law enforcement source had not said that the brother in law may be the prime suspect. It's not inappropriate to ask questions about the family. It's actually imperative. So here's what the sheriff said. Let's listen to sat 19, baby.
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Sheriff Chris Nanos
Nobody's eliminated. But we just really don't have enough to say, this is our suspect. This is our guy we know. Or our gal. We just don't know that. And it's really kind of reckless to report that someone is a suspect when they could very well be a victim. I bring to you, to the media. I plead with you to be careful of what it is we put out there because we don't have anybody here listed as a suspect. And you could actually be doing some. Some damage to the case. But you can do some damage to that individual, too.
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Jonathan Gilliam
This is.
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Sheriff Chris Nanos
Social media is kind of a. Kind of an ugly world sometimes.
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Megyn Kelly
Hmm. Okay. So, Ashley, are you standing by your exclusive? Reporting broken two days ago. Now that three things. Yeah.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Real early on.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay. Who's an impeccable source, told you that Tommaso Cioni, who was married to Annie Guthrie, Savannah's sister, may be the prime suspect in this case at this time. At this time. And that the car that was towed and impounded was Annie Guthrie's car.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah. The word that was used was towed and taken into evidence. I noticed that. That was actually confirmed yesterday. Car was towed and is being processed as per warrant. That was said by the sheriff.
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Megyn Kelly
Sort of. He. He didn't say it was Annie's and.
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Jim Fitzgerald
The car said it.
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Megyn Kelly
Ashley raised me a bunch of questions. The car. And he made it sound like it was at the crime scene, which is odd. I don't know that Annie Guthrie's car was at the mother's house at any point. You know, actually, here we have it. Sat 16. Let's. Let's listen to how he described it.
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Sheriff Chris Nanos
The car. The car that was at the home. It's just standard investigative practices. It's part of the search warrant scene. Court orders. We pull it out of there and do our scene processing with the vehicle.
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Megyn Kelly
Part of the search warrant.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Well, and at the home.
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Megyn Kelly
That would speak to it being at Nancy's.
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Jim Fitzgerald
It just said at the home. And they've been at two homes. Law enforcement has been at two homes. And my source said definitively car was towed and is in evidence. That's three days ago.
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Megyn Kelly
And that it was Annie's. That it was Annie's.
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Jim Fitzgerald
That's instead of Annie's car. Did not say the car. Said Annie's car. The sister's car was towed and it is in evidence. And he only would say the car.
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Megyn Kelly
He did not deny it.
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Jim Fitzgerald
He didn't deny it. He didn't deny a lot of stuff yesterday. He took potshots. And I get it, okay?
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Megyn Kelly
But let's get to the big. Let's get to the big headline about Tomas and what, your source. Cause I heard your show. Have you been checking in with your source on that piece of your reporting?
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Jim Fitzgerald
Multiple times per day. And yesterday I was told by the same source, still on target. And then he said, let me put it to you this way. If they're taking shots at you, you're standing on the target. That was his words.
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Megyn Kelly
So no. No wiggling, no backing down.
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Jim Fitzgerald
No backing down. No. No change.
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Megyn Kelly
And let me ask you this. Is he. Even though he's a. I'm just saying he. I don't know whether it's he or she. But is this person, you say, a top law enforcement source, but is this person in a position to know about what's actually happening in this case? Yes.
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Jim Fitzgerald
And then after the break, I was informed on day two that the Sheriff's department tightened up like a noose, angry about leaks. And so if my information wasn't accurate, why would anybody be worried about leaks?
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Megyn Kelly
Who would care? Ashley Ban. Right.
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Jim Fitzgerald
It must be just some influencer. So that also strengthened this information. I didn't need the strengthening, thank you. Given the level of this source of mind. And by the way, I got asked yesterday, Megan, by somebody in the mainstream media. Well, you're not working for a main network now, so have your standards dropped, I thought. Right. Well, I've been at it 38 years. I don't think I'd throw my entire four decades away for one story. You know, I get it. People have to have their own headlines, too. But I did find that pretty offensive. No, no, my standards.
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Megyn Kelly
I've noticed something else. Some people who consider themselves close to Savannah, I've observed, have been particularly dismissive of this report. And I don't know if that's out of loyalty to her, like she wouldn't like this or whether they've actually been in touch with her and she doesn't like this. Either way, with all due respect to Savannah and the family, it's fair reporting and you can't. You certainly could not go by what Savannah wants you to report in covering this case. Of course she'd be inclined to defend her family, even her in law family members. And that there's no question you wouldn't depend upon one of the victims of the crime to guide your investigation as a reporter of the crime. So I've just noticed there's a strain of people who I know consider themselves friends of hers who have been particularly disdainful and are trying to move the coverage elsewhere and that just can't happen.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Well, that would be. That would be a hit.
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Megyn Kelly
That's not how this game works.
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Jim Fitzgerald
Of what I do. Would I change the way I work because of who I'm covering? No, unfortunately. And it's been very difficult. We've had to cover. I remember one of the first stories that I covered in 1988 was someone I knew was nicked by the feds for cross border drug dealing. And I had to put it on the news. That was one of my very first stories as a cub reporter. And it was like, well, baptism by fire, here we go. And so out it went, exactly as the police had reported it to us at CJBN in Kenora, Ontario. But yeah, that would be a questionable move in journalistic scruples if I decided to couch the reporting because of who I'm reporting on. And it's hard. It is hard. But I will say this. Law enforcement doesn't tell us everything. That's the way it works. In fact, I think that's what the sheriff actually even said yesterday. I wrote his quote down.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah. Yeah.
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Jim Fitzgerald
He was asked, are you purposely withholding information because of the active investigation that might be leading you in a particular direction? And his answer was this. You know, this is no different than any criminal investigation that we conduct here. Went on to say law enforcement's conducted investigations since 1865 in Pima County. We are always mindful of what is in front of us and what we should release and can release. There's legal guidelines that guide us, but there's also strategy and there's strategy. I'll leave that for you to determine. So that is the way it works. We're not idiots. They don't have to tell us everything. But there is also a balance between the public interest and transparency and we are always working that balance in Coburger, they flat out lied to us. They flat out lied to us. There's no concern for the public. There's no. This is a targeted attack on these four kids. That was. There was an absolute concern to the public. For six weeks, Brian Coburger, a maniacal quadruple murderer, was out there and maybe eyeballing other friends of his at Washington State University. There's a lawsuit that was going on and we know that on the 19th of December in 2022, they identified his DNA as. He is the holder of the DNA from the knife sheath. December 19th. What did they do on December 20th? The next day they recorded a video. The police chief, James Fry of the Moscow PD recorded a video of himself in posted it on the Moscow police website, saying, we have no suspect. Let me read it for you. These are his words. No suspect, suspects identified and only vetted. Information that does not hinder the investigation will be released to the public. We encourage referencing official releases for accurate and updated progress. They were already chasing him across the country. At this point. This guy has full access to every state between Washington state and Pennsylvania with his dad as he's crossing the country. But that's what they chose to tell us. So what is the public's interest in knowing what reporters do and what the police do? We all have a job to do and there is a balance. But there are a lot of people in that neighborhood where Nancy Guthrie lives who are very, very afraid, who said there's never been crime here. It's a safe place. We're really worried.
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Megyn Kelly
Well, let me tell you something else. CNN had absolutely no problem, none whatsoever, in going with the flimsiest. I'm mentioning them because there was an anchor over there who was ripping on this. The flimsiest reporting and sourcing possible when it came to Russiagate, the same conclusion times 100 for MSNBC. So if it anything that would reflect negatively on President Trump, they don't need double sourcing. They don't need on the record sources at all. Same for the New York Times, for that matter. So now suddenly it's just because it's Ashley Banfield and she's in the, quote, influencer realm, that that's not an okay. That a top law enforcement official with whom you've had a relationship for years, whom you call impeccable, now suddenly it's suspect for. Yeah, for over a decade. So this is.
- [30:48]
Jim Fitzgerald
Do you know something?
- [30:49]
Megyn Kelly
Fair game. And I'm a little inside basic I resent what's being said about you.
- [30:52]
Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah, I do, too. But okay, I get I got big, big girl pants on. But I will also say this, that things have changed many times over in the years that I've been doing this. I've gone from broadcast news, local news, cable news, you know, and then I'm now doing podcasting. But the way it used to be was that if you don't have three sources, you can't take it to air. That has changed. Now it is the caliber of your source. Now it is really who that source is. The trustworthiness of that source, that is oftentimes completely acceptable to all mainstream outlets. Right. So I am a little surprised on this one that I'm getting the flack. But especially.
- [31:31]
Megyn Kelly
Especially with the sheriff's answers, it makes sense when you. I don't believe this person is your source, but I'm just going to do a hypothetical here. Let's say the source is Cash Patel. It's obviously not him because he hasn't been in law enforcement for 10 years. But anyway, let's just say it's Cash Patel. It's the Director of the FBI. Do you need two sources? I think you're good. I think you're good.
- [31:52]
Jim Fitzgerald
Right?
- [31:52]
Megyn Kelly
Let's say the source is actually this sheriff, Sheriff Nanos, who's saying one thing to the media, but saying something to you behind this. You don't need two sources that you're good. So, of course you're fine. You're right. It depends on the caliber of the source.
- [32:04]
Jim Fitzgerald
You know, there's something else, you know, that people should know as well. And I don't believe this to be the truth at all. But sometimes the media is used as well, and sourcing is dropped to get stuff out there that may agitate or make suspects nervous. That's also a tactic, that excuse. I don't believe that's the case here. But, you know, people should realize that under the law. I don't think a lot of people do know this. If you're brought in for questioning, the law enforcement is allowed to lie to you in order to elicit statements that may be either incongruent or congruent with maybe another suspect. That is part of strategy. And listen, I give them big grace for that. It's a hard job. And I have never castigated law enforcement for using that tactic. It is legal. You are allowed to do that in law enforcement. So lying to us and the public, that's allowed. But we also have a job to do when we are put under gag orders like happened in the Idaho case for 2 1/2 years. That's not transparency in American jurisprudence. Right. And so either which way do you want it? Do you want reporters to do their work, or do you want them to do their work and then, you know, take potshots at them when they do? Again, there is this.
- [33:13]
Megyn Kelly
Now, we're not looking for a pat on the head. Yeah. This is not a, this is not an industry you get into to be liked. To the contrary.
- [33:20]
Jim Fitzgerald
Hey, girl.
- [33:21]
Megyn Kelly
It goes a different way for most of us. I want to play you this soundbag because I thought this is very telling. The sheriff was asked again repeatedly about, do you have a suspect? You have a person of interest? No, no, no, no, no. We don't.
- [33:33]
Jim Fitzgerald
Have identified different. We don't have one.
- [33:36]
Megyn Kelly
No, it's. We have an identified. Then the one reporter put it on the line and said, let's talk about the son in law. I mean, it was explicitly like, what about the son in law? Listen to the Sheriff's answer here. SOT19C.
- [33:48]
Chad Ayers
Are you actively investigating the son in.
- [33:50]
Jonathan Gilliam
Law in this case?
- [33:51]
Chad Ayers
You said you haven't eliminated everybody.
- [33:54]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
Have you eliminated him or come close to it? We're actively looking at everybody we come across in this case. Everybody. It's so cliche, but everybody's still a suspect in our eyes. That's just how we look at things and think as. As cops. Does that mean we have a prime suspect?
- [34:09]
Megyn Kelly
No.
- [34:10]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
And, and the family has been very cooperative. Very. They've done everything we've asked of them. And, and we want that relationship to continue. And sometimes people can be mean out there and, and, and that can really harm us and harm our efforts.
- [34:31]
Megyn Kelly
We want that relationship to continue.
- [34:34]
Jim Fitzgerald
Ashley, there was another piece that I picked up on as well. Another, like, by the way, some really good questions from. From the reporters in that room. I have to say, as I was listening, I thought, well, they're on their ball today. One reporter asked, have you been in communication with anyone you believe to be the kidnapper? Long pause, then a sigh. You know, it comes back to what we talked about. No one is eliminated, but we really don't have enough to say, this is our suspect, this is our guy, this is our gal. But the long pause and the sigh, that was telling to me as well.
- [35:10]
Megyn Kelly
He was, he was getting together his answer, because it did seem to me as well, like he was thinking, well, we might have. We might have spoken to the person who did this, But I'm not gonna reveal that to You. Yeah, but you know, I give him.
- [35:24]
Jim Fitzgerald
Grace as well, Megan, because honestly, I said this before, I'll say it again. It is not easy to do his job. It's not easy in the best of days. It's not easy to stand in front of the national media that is demanding answers, asking for press conferences, prepping. You live with questions and live is not easy. You don't get a mulligan and then try to, you know, do your tap dance to protect your investigation and still be as transparent as you can.
- [35:52]
Megyn Kelly
Frankly, the sheriff has been more forthcoming than most law enforcement have been in recent cases of note. Yeah, no one here is, is ripping on the sheriff. He's, he's doing the best he can and as hard he's trying to be as transparent as he can without blowing his investigation, which is the most important thing. If they do have a suspect behind the scenes, he's obviously not going to tell us that. And we understand that it makes sense until he's ready. But look, you and I are in a different business and the public has to understand that too. We are actually are in the business of figuring out what's real. And that's a different business than trying to actually solve the case and arrest.
- [36:25]
Jim Fitzgerald
You know, we listen to nuance. We listen to signs that aren't just words. We listen to everything. And there was something that happened yesterday and I cross referenced it with a report in New York Times last night. And that is he was asked who dropped the, who dropped Nancy off on Saturday night? Because the sheriff has said it three ways, he said. First he said, I think I might have it out of order. But these three things were said Annie dropped Nancy off. Benny said Annie and Tommaso dropped Nancy off. Then he said, Tommaso dropped Nancy off. So the reporter in the room actually said, what is it? Which one is it? You've said it three ways. And the answer was, I mean, it was just sort of alarming to me. I just thought, this is so weird. He said, let's go with just family. We're gonna go with, we're gonna go with family. But then he did tell the New.
- [37:09]
Megyn Kelly
York Times, we have it, it's stopped. Thirteen.
- [37:11]
Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah, listen to it. It's incredible. It's weird.
- [37:13]
Megyn Kelly
You know, there's also conflicting reports about who was the last person to actually see Nancy and drive her home.
- [37:19]
Ashley Banfield
We know she took an Uber to Annie's house.
- [37:21]
Megyn Kelly
But can you confirm whether it was.
- [37:22]
Chad Ayers
Annie or her son in law, Tommaso.
- [37:24]
Megyn Kelly
Who took her home that night?
- [37:25]
Chad Ayers
I think the, the Timeline that the.
- [37:27]
Jonathan Gilliam
Sheriff provided was a family member, but just family.
- [37:29]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
We're gonna go with family.
- [37:31]
Jim Fitzgerald
I don't know what that.
- [37:32]
Megyn Kelly
We're gonna go with family.
- [37:33]
Jim Fitzgerald
I don't know what that means.
- [37:34]
Megyn Kelly
But he did confirm he was on the record with the New York Times the day before, saying it was Tomas.
- [37:38]
Jim Fitzgerald
Absolutely. And they printed that last night that he told the New York Times it was Tommaso. Yeah. So I don't know why the like. Look, I have my theories, but why would you withhold that when you said it already three different ways? Why not just clear it up and not leave this obfuscation for people like you and me to talk about saying? Well, that. Are you trying to deflect from him in some way? Is it. Is it strategy? Is it kindness? Whatever it is, it's odd.
- [38:04]
Megyn Kelly
And just for the listening audience. Here it is, from the New York Times. The day before he said we're going to go with family. Mrs. Guthrie, son in law Tomaso Sioni dropped her off and ensured she made it inside safely. Before leaving, the sheriff added he was on the record to the New York Times, which was a shift from his earlier messaging. So clearly he wanted it out there that it was Tomas. And then by the time they got to yesterday's presser, he had shifted back to quote, family now just gonna go with family.
- [38:36]
Jim Fitzgerald
Weird. Like we're just gonna go with family. It's an odd way to put it.
- [38:40]
Megyn Kelly
Y. But what does it mean? Okay, now here's the other thing that's really bothering me about. I agree with you that the reporters, many of them did a good job, but there were some glaring questions that were not asked. The timeline was changed dramatically on Sunday morning. What this sheriff had been saying to us before was that at 11:00 clock or just after 11:00am on Sunday morning, the family was notified by a friend in the church who noticed Nancy didn't attend and they went over to her house and about an hour later they called 91 1. That's. That was the story that created a lot of consternation. We got to the. And. And though many people said, why did it take an hour? How do you like especially seeing blood outside of the house? Like Brian engine got on camera. Who would take an hour now then last night or yesterday at the presser, that totally shifted. He said they discovered. They got to the house and discovered she was missing at 11:57am so we've lost a whole hour now, the controversial hour. And called law enforcement five minutes later at 1203.
- [39:55]
Jim Fitzgerald
I think it was seven minutes later.
- [39:56]
Megyn Kelly
So sorry, my math, by the way, math is up. Okay?
- [39:59]
Jim Fitzgerald
Seven is lightning fast. Fast.
- [40:01]
Megyn Kelly
That's fast. Okay, so it's a dramatic difference. But here, let's just listen. Here's what he had said prior to yesterday. This was the story side. 18.
- [40:10]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
Sometime earlier that morning, they got a call from somebody at the church who said, hey, your. Your mom's not here. The family went to the house. I'm thinking they. They spent some time looking for her themselves before they called us. So I'm guessing maybe they got there around 11. So they did some searching and realized we need some help. And they called 911.
- [40:33]
Megyn Kelly
She was dropped off at 9:30 and.
- [40:35]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
She was found to be missing at about 11:00 clock Sunday morning. I know that when we got there, we got there, the family was already there and they were. They had already spent some time looking, as you would expect.
- [40:46]
Megyn Kelly
Probably.
- [40:47]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
We got an hour delay there from them. Not anything intentional, just that, you know, they went and looked and made some calls and then they decided we better call 91 1. And at 11:56am the family checks on Nancy and discovers her missing. And at 12:03pM 911 has called into the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
- [41:14]
Jim Fitzgerald
What?
- [41:16]
Megyn Kelly
Because just. Just to underscore it here, first it's they got a call from a friend at the church around 11:10. Then he says it was at about 11. Then he told you that middle clip is on your show. He says they found out about 11 and it was about an hour delay before they called 91 1. Now yesterday, he says they checked on Nancy and discovered her missing at 11:57, right? Is it?
- [41:44]
Jim Fitzgerald
I keep. 57.
- [41:45]
Megyn Kelly
That's right.
- [41:46]
Jim Fitzgerald
Number. That's right number.
- [41:47]
Megyn Kelly
Yeah. 57. So what do you mean? Because we've also. In the midst of all that had both the Daily Mail and Brian Enten yesterday told us as well, reporting that Nancy Guthrie wasn't going to church physically anymore and hadn't been since the COVID pandemic that she'd been joining the live stream the church offers and participating from her home. Moreover, the Daily Mail reports it wasn't a zoom situation where the congregants could see who was joining virtually. It was just a live stream being blasted out by the church, outgoing only, and therefore no one would be aware of whether Nancy was participating or not. So how do we go from. She talked to a friend who was concerned at the church, which you heard him say on camera there, and they took him an hour and then they called 91 1-TO- Now. It's. They checked on Nancy and discovered her missing, and within moments called 91 1.
- [42:45]
Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah. I think these are all things that lead to an even bigger mystery and a little confusion. I always give law enforcement grace when there's so much going on and there's an exigent circumstance. And now all these ransom notes, which have taken law enforcement's direction elsewhere. Let's be honest. This is awful. These ransom notes, especially the one in California. If this guy is guilty of this, it has taken their attention away. But there, it's. You know, fog of war is not easy. I can understand how they'd be. Communication breakdown. There's other agencies coming in, sharing of information, maybe telephone. You know, the game of telephone makes mistakes. But I do think that it adds to another element of confusion about this.
- [43:28]
Megyn Kelly
I think you're being too nice in this situation. With all due respect to the sheriff, you know as well as I do, the time she was discovered missing is very important, critical. It's not fog of war. It is not fog of war that, you know.
- [43:42]
Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah. It shouldn't be. Maybe the dissemination of it was, though, as. The only grace I give is that it is a. It is a complicated task that they're undergoing, and we don't make.
- [43:51]
Megyn Kelly
Nobody asked about it. Somebody in that room needed to say, you've adjusted the timeline dramatically, Sheriff. Why?
- [43:58]
Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah, no, there was lots that I wish they'd followed up on. The car being towed and being processed by warrant. I mean, where was that? Like, hold it.
- [44:05]
Megyn Kelly
You and I are gonna have to fly out there for the next one. Literally. I think you and I are gonna have to fly out there together for the next one. That's at least four questions. Two for you and two for me. Yeah, seriously, like, I. I was very frustrated because it was like, that's an obvious one. Ask that. And the one about the car was the other one. Like, he. He. He just sort of elided around it. It was like, yeah, car. Standard search warrant, court orders, crime scene, not which house. Wait, wait. Yeah, right.
- [44:29]
Jim Fitzgerald
No, I know.
- [44:30]
Megyn Kelly
Nancy's house. Is the crime scene. Was it towed from Nancy's house or was it towed from Annie's house? Sheriff? And whose car was it? What? And if it's Annie's, why are you towing Annie's car?
- [44:41]
Jim Fitzgerald
I only think that since many of the breaking pieces of information that I had were addressed bullet by bullet in that news conference.
- [44:51]
Megyn Kelly
Yes.
- [44:52]
Jim Fitzgerald
That when he said he did that right at the car being towed, I assume that was because I reported that Annie's car has been towed and is now in evidence. I assumed that's what he was saying because he said the car towed from the house, that's standard as per warrant. It's being processed. So he didn't say from Nancy's house, He didn't say from Annie's house only. I can only go on. He was bulleting my. My reports and trying to down. But, you know, did you hear what he said about the cameras? Something else I, I picked up on.
- [45:20]
Megyn Kelly
Let's talk about that.
- [45:21]
Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah, big time.
- [45:22]
Megyn Kelly
Before we talk about the cameras, let me just say quickly. We actually did reach out. We, we went and tried to pull the warrants to see if they were public. They're under seal, so we can't get them right now to see exactly what they got a warrant for. But let's talk about the cameras because that's another piece of your reporting that has come under fire. First tell us what your reporting is and then we'll talk about what he said.
- [45:39]
Jim Fitzgerald
So the exact words that were used is that the nest. And I was told nest cameras. That was the first time that they'd been named. They weren't ring cameras. They were nest cameras. Plural were smashed. That was the wording. Nest cameras were smashed. And when asked about that, the sheriff said, well, first he'd reported they were removed and in the timeline called them disconnected. But when asked about them being smashed, he said smashed. I don't know where you got the information about smashed, but we're not confirming that. And then he did confirm it is plural, that there were more than one. And that was something that I reported, that there wasn't just the one that Brian Enten saw the bracket left behind by the way. He went further about that and it was interesting. He said, regarding the disconnected camera, do you believe that camera was taken? And the sheriff said, we do not have it in our possession. We have not located it. So does that mean that the perpetrator smashed those cameras off the brackets and took them away? Maybe he just doesn't.
- [46:39]
Megyn Kelly
Clearly, here's. Here he is. Let me play for the audience. It's 14. It's a montage.
- [46:43]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
Sunday morning, early morning at 1:47am the doorbell. Doorbell camera disconnects. The doorbell camera. It. It was removed. We know that, but we're not confirming that any cameras were smashed or destroyed around the house. I don't know where that came from, but that's something we're not confirming.
- [47:06]
Megyn Kelly
When you say the doorbell camera was disconnected, do you believe that that camera was Taken.
- [47:12]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
We do not have it in our possession. We've not located it.
- [47:16]
Megyn Kelly
It's a. Yes.
- [47:18]
Jim Fitzgerald
Well, I mean, it's off the bracket. How do you get it off the bracket? Do you bring a screwdriver or do you smash it? Is this semantics? I don't know, but to me it was pretty telling that that's, that's more of my reporting that has borne out.
- [47:33]
Megyn Kelly
And then we were able to get to the bottom of yesterday. We. We got very confused as we looked at the timeline that they put up about how he was saying the doorbell cameras were disconnected, and then minutes later, there was a picture captured of a person.
- [47:47]
Jim Fitzgerald
No, not a picture.
- [47:48]
Megyn Kelly
They don't have the image because.
- [47:49]
Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah, it's.
- [47:50]
Megyn Kelly
It's the alert. No, no, I know, I know, but there was an alert. The point is not whether it was a picture or a written text. The point is that. That they got a communication from a camera. Yeah. After they said the doorbell cameras were disconnected, so. Which was confusing. And what they said was there were other cameras. That was basically the explanation. We reached out to the FBI, we reached out to the sheriff's office, we went back and watched the end of the presser where they did reference there being more than just the doorbell cameras. And the sheriff's office, too, clarified, basically, there were other cameras, and it was one of these other cameras that alerted them to the image of a person the sheriff later said could have been an animal too, alerted to activity.
- [48:30]
Jim Fitzgerald
And the secret is here, and it's a great message to everybody who's watching and listening. If you have a doorbell service of some kind, whether it's nest ring.com or, you know, any of the services you pay for a subscription to be able to get your history, or for many of them, it's. It's just a live alert. There's someone at your door right now. You can look and you might be able to talk to them, but once that's done, it's gone. You don't have an archive of it. So if you come home and you wonder who is skulking around your front door, unfortunately, if you don't have the service, the subscription, you can't go back and, and look at all the alerts and what they actually recorded. And that was what I think they.
- [49:11]
Megyn Kelly
Were trying to Snapchat.
- [49:12]
Jim Fitzgerald
Yeah, I mean, it's basically, yeah, you. You can alert in real time, and then if you're there and you catch it, you can look, but once it's gone, it's gone. And so I, I took that second One. And it was weird, right? Because it's like, you know, one camera, it disconnects at it's an earlier times, like quite a bit of time to 147. The second camera disconnects 228. It's almost 45 minutes. So here's what it could be because a lot of these cameras are powered by batteries, not because they're plugged in somewhere. It's not because they're plugged in. The first one maybe was smashed and then crimes were committed and Nancy's being abducted and the second one is smashed and then those cameras are taken. But it's jostling around somewhere and a battery is recording an alert of movement. Doesn't say what the movement is. Doesn't show you what the movement is. It just says movement, motion detected. That's what that might be.
- [50:04]
Megyn Kelly
Hmm, so you're thinking it could actually be the dismounted doorbell cameras that produced the alert? We don't know. He's not specifying just how many cameras were in there and what, if anything, they were connected to. But yeah, that was one of the mysteries of the presser yesterday. We did not understand how there was a doorbell camera disconnecting at 147 and software detecting a person on cam at 212. And now all they're saying is there. It was a different.
- [50:28]
Jim Fitzgerald
I have something to tell you real quickly. Brian Enten had drone video looking inside the garage. Nancy's garage showed Nancy's car in the garage. So it had clearly not been toted to evidence. At least one car.
- [50:41]
Megyn Kelly
Very interesting.
- [50:41]
Jim Fitzgerald
I don't know if she had two, but at least one car was in that garage. It had not been towed. If she had two, maybe there's no way.
- [50:47]
Megyn Kelly
There's no 84 year old woman who has two cars who lives alone. I'd like. That's not a thing. It's Annie's car. I don't like, but we don't know for sure. I mean we know from your reporting, but like it would have been nice to hear somebody ask that of the sheriff as opposed to just crapping on your reporting. They should follow up on it and ask probative questions. Some did.
- [51:07]
Jim Fitzgerald
Not everybody wouldn't confirm if there was or wasn't forced entry. My source said door in the back wide open and he wouldn't confirm whether or not there was or wasn't. Wouldn't do that.
- [51:18]
Megyn Kelly
Ashley, thank you. Thank you so much for your courage and your in depth reporting. Check her out guys. On her podcast Drop Dead serious and we are Back now with our spectacular legal panel, including Jim Fitzgerald, Jonathan Gilliam and Chad Ayers. You're not going to want to miss this. Ever been in a bad relationship? You know, the kind that just wears you down. You settle in even though deep down you know this is not how it's supposed to be. Well, that's what daily aches and pains can feel like. You stop expecting to feel good. You start thinking, maybe this is just my life now. But it doesn't have to be. With relief factor, you can break up with pain just like Anthony did. He wrote, quote, I was dealing with debilitating pain and fatigue and I've been taking relief actor for about two months and now I'm back to running my business and fishing, gardening and doing the things that really matter to me. And listen, maybe it's your back pain, knee issues or stiffness that's slowing you down. Relief factor might help give you your mobility back. Relief factor is 100% drug free and it targets the inflammation that causes pain so you can move better, feel better and actually enjoy life again. Try the three week quick start for just 1995. Go to relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief. Break up with pain and get back to what matters.
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Megyn Kelly
We'Re gonna bring in our panel a second but I just want to go through one thing with you, okay? This is the timeline that they gave us yesterday, 9:48pm Nancy's garage door opened. We believe that's the family. We believe it was Tomas dropping her off. Though we could be wrong because the sheriff keeps Changing his story on that, he told the New York Times it was Tomas. Then he changed it at the presser to we're going to go with family. So dropped her off 9:48pm Saturday night, 9:50pm Her, Nancy's Garage door closed. So clearly she went in through her garage to her house. So in that two minute time frame, it opened, it closed and we believe she went inside. Then at 1:47am the police said yesterday her, her doorbell cams were disconnected. So that's when we believe the bad guy, whoever it was, destroyed and took. That's our understanding, these doorbell cams, Ashley's reporting on the front and the Back at 1:47am 2:12am Software detects a person on cam. No videos available. 2:28am The Pacemaker app shows a disconnection from the phone. So she's got a pacemaker in her body that communicates with the her phone and an app. And we are told that if it gets some 30ft away from the phone, if she gets some 30ft away from the phone, you'll get, it'll disconnect. Now so clearly she, she was being taken out of the house around that time, 2:28. So if you, if you go from 1:47am which is when the doorbell cam got disconnected, to 2:28am which is when her pacemaker, meaning she got far enough away from her phone that the app stopped communicating with the pacemaker, that is 41 minutes. 41 minutes. What was a kidnapper doing in Nancy Guthrie's home for 41 minutes? How does it take 41 minutes to kidnap an 84 year old woman? I realize they don't move slowly. It certainly appears as though she fought. Something happened to cause her to bleed on her front porch or patio area. As it appears she was being taken out of the home by 41 minutes. You got to take off some time to smash the cameras. But that happened, you know, 1:47, the doorbell got disconnected. I don't. Was that, how long could that possibly take? 10 minutes? 157 now. Now it's 31 minutes to get her and get out of the house. Why? That's too long. I don't know whether something else happened inside that house. Was there a struggle? Did someone take her life? Is that what happened? And then in a panic removed her. So with her would go the evidence. There is a question about what other evidence was inside the house. And I'm going to play you the sound bite and then I'll bring in my panel. Let's play the Play the sound. Talking about what went on inside that home. I think it's thought 8B in the house.
- [56:37]
Ashley Banfield
Were there any signs that someone tried.
- [56:39]
Megyn Kelly
To clean up or maybe destroy evidence?
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Sheriff Chris Nanos
I can't talk about the crime scene, so I'll give you another shot.
- [56:47]
Megyn Kelly
Another question.
- [56:48]
Jim Fitzgerald
Is there any missing bedding from. From the home?
- [56:51]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
Again, I can't speak to that. There are certain things in that home that we know only the intruder knows about and the things that occurred, and we don't want that information out.
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Megyn Kelly
So the sheriff has been meticulous both in an interview with Ashley earlier this week and at the presser yesterday about not revealing what evidence they have inside of the house. But whatever it was, it. Plus we believe in addition to the blood drops out front led them to call in the Homicide Unit. 41 minutes is a long time. We're going to bring in some guys that will give you insight on this you won't get anywhere else. Former FBI Supervisory Special agent Jim Fitzgerald, co host of the Cold, Cold Red podcast, former Navy SEAL and FBI Special agent Jonathan Gilliam, and former SWAT assistant team leader Chad Ayers. Gentlemen, welcome. 41 minutes. Think about it. I hadn't really thought of it in those terms up until they laid out the new timeline last night. That's a long time. And the sheriff is saying that there is additional DNA evidence that they're waiting on the results of. So clearly they did find something else inside that was DNA related. We just don't know what. Jonathan, let me start with you on that. It's a long time. 41. Yeah, sure.
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Ashley Banfield
You know what? This kind of points me towards Megan. First of all, we're putting so much attention. Everybody is looking at ransom, ransom, ransom, that it's easy to overlook the other possibilities. And the fact that you honed in on this is really good. The 41 minutes, because that could be the time period when somebody was looking for something. So they go into the house. There was no robbery, but were they looking for something else? Is there paperwork? Is there some. Something going on that we don't know about with Ms. Guthrie? And somebody was in there trying to find something in particular because I can't think of any other reason for them to be in there for that long. It's not like they're going to interrogate her before they kidnap her. So it would be a quick in and a quick out, typically. So it almost appears just from this timeline that somebody may have been in there. And then perhaps she woke up and there was a scuffle and it took a Dark turn that has happened before. I've, I've read case studies where that's occurred. And then they have to go down a different road. And in this case, it could be a fake ransom. So I'm not exactly. I'm not sure. But I think that this kind of alludes again to the fact that whoever was in that house had, had been there before. I, I just have this suspicious feeling and that they were doing something other than just setting up to abduct an 80 year old woman. So I think this is something that is causing me to pause for just a moment.
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Megyn Kelly
The reference to some unspecified DNA found inside of the house that's now being tested makes you wonder exactly what was it? You know, was it just they swiped the door handles and the windows and maybe Nancy's bed posts for touch DNA, or was it actual bodily fluids? Without putting too fine a point on it, it is the case that sometimes when you take someone's life, they, they'll relieve themselves, they'll lose whatever urine or feces are in their bodies, but not in, not in every situation. But that would certainly, if there was any evidence of that, I feel like they'd be treating this case differently, Chad. I feel like they'd be talking about it differently, but I don't know because his first move was to call in homicide detectives and there was additional DNA inside that house.
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Chad Ayers
Listen, I'm, I'm not one to hold back. And something that we haven't discussed, Megan, is is it possible that a sexual assault also took place? And again, I hate to even breach the topic, but is that a possibility? Listen, two counties over from where I am two or three years ago had the exact same situation. The only difference was this lady here was 89 years old, but it was a person on drugs, sexually assaulted her in the middle of the night, brutally murdered her. Now, she was still there, but is that a possibility? 100 that's still a possibility. The thing is that when he says, you know, we are still processing DNA and being so vague, it could make us go down a rabbit hole. There's all sorts of options that we have.
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Megyn Kelly
What do you make of it all, Jim?
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Jonathan Gilliam
This was a clearly successful abduction. If it is a kidnapping, it's poorly undertaken. You don't spend 41 minutes as a kidnapper in the place where you're taking your victim. You get in and you get out. And that's why I'm leaning, I'm leaning away somewhat. And a lot of the questions about this alleged, you know, ransom letter, I know they're finally come back to be identical. But again, a successful abduction for whatever reason, is it to hide evidence? 41 minutes. Was there an argument of some sort? And I'm not going to point to family, but is it someone known to this woman? And, and they, they started having, you know, interaction of some sort and the person snapped out and hit her. Oh my God. Now if it's a stranger, leave the body there, get the heck out. If it's someone known to the woman, what do I do now? They better take that body and put it somewhere else. Or if she's still alive, who knows what condition she's in. But I got to somehow remove her from the scene so that 41 minutes does open. Assuming that number is correct and it doesn't change on us again, Megan, you know that's going to be very critical there. So again, a successful abduction, but a poorly run kidnapping at this point. And I have other examples we can talk about of other kidnappings down the line here today, but it's just not being run very efficiently or effectively so far. If their ultimate goal was to get money out of this case. Unless there's a lot of things mitigating circumstance will be things that we're not learning from law enforcement. But successful abduction, not a good.
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Megyn Kelly
And yet it doesn't, it doesn't look like a full lunatic because they did think to get the ring cameras or the net. They were NEST cameras and apparently managed to do that without I don't getting caught. I realized that those were not subscription cameras. So maybe the images were on there but just were written over. That's what the sheriff said had happens with these cameras. When you don't have the subscription service, by the way, get the subscription service. You know, I don't think most of us fully understood, you know, that that was a thing. But you got to get the subscription service because it's useless to you in solving crime if it just rewrites every couple of hours. As the sheriff said, writes over itself.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Like a hundred dollars a year.
- [63:34]
Megyn Kelly
I do want to talk about, I want to talk about the ransom notes in a second. But I, I gotta be honest. I'm with you guys.
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Jim Fitzgerald
I'm.
- [63:40]
Megyn Kelly
I'm not totally intrigued by the ransom notes because I don't, I don't believe personally that they're from the real kidnapper. Though I could totally be wrong because the more I listen to Harvey Levin, the more I think he's starting to believe that they actually are from the, from the hostage taker. But we'll, we'll get to those in one second. I just want to stay on a couple of the items that we discussed with Ashley too. How about this, the change in the timeline on Sunday morning. Guys, I talked about this a bit with Chad yesterday, but I didn't, I didn't get to talk to you other guys about it. It was as we played from the sheriff. I don't know if you guys heard this, but the sheriff had been saying all week that it was an hour delay that the family had been called by a by a constituent at the church. I'm reading here Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said a congregant called Nancy's family at 11am on Sunday. This is the Daily Mail reporting a congregant called Nancy's family at 11am on Sunday after she failed to arrive at church. And then we played the sheriff on camera this week repeatedly saying that putting the time around 11:10 that the family got notified and got over to and or got over to Nancy's house, either notified at 11:10 or there at Nancy's house they live only a couple minutes down the road. And then suddenly yesterday it's completely changed to no, the family discovered her missing at 11:56am discovered her missing and then within seven minutes called 91 1. Now that to me seems like a rather large thing to have wrong. Like when the family discovered that she wasn't there, coupled with the new information that Nancy now this could turn out to be wrong too. A lot of things have but that apparently Nancy was not going physically to church. She wasn't going to church. The Daily Mail spoke with a woman who said, hold on, I'm finding my my quote here. Let's see. A fellow congregant in Nancy's church reading from the Daily Mail in Tucson, was initially reported to have alerted the her family that she failed to attend the morning service on Sunday. Curiously, however, a source has now told the Daily Mail that the elderly mother of the Today show host had not been at Saint Andrews Presbyterian Church for years. Ever since the COVID pandemic, she has been worshiping online. It is understood that St. Andrews did not have a large scale zoom call for online viewing as some religious organizations do. Instead, the church's 9am and 10:45am services on Sunday are livestreamed and it is impossible for other participants to know who else is watching. To know who else is watching. Now, the church responded by saying, all we can tell you is that Nancy has been a member here for many years. She is part of our Community and we love her, said Ed Coates, administrative assistant at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. Quote, we're praying for her and that's really all we have to say right now. I'm sure the media will know before we will, you know, how the story unfolds. But we are praying for her safety and praying for her family. So this was her church. The Daily Mail and also Brian Enten reporting that she had not been to this church physically for years. So how could a congregant have noticed she wasn't there and called the family to report it on Sunday morning?
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Ashley Banfield
You know, I would, whenever I hear these things. Megan, first of all, this timeline, I'm looking at it as you're talking, I'm going through it and it's a little odd. The timeline that we have versus the verbiage of the sheriff before is different. And there's some things like the camera detecting or being disconnected and then detecting movement. There's some things there that, that don't make sense. It could be easily explained, but they don't make sense. But I would like to know who the person is that reported this to the family.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay, who called the family?
- [67:24]
Ashley Banfield
Right?
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Megyn Kelly
Yes, same.
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Ashley Banfield
If she's not on, known to be there or to be on camera, who was it that suspected? Is it somebody that she usually talks to while she's on there? And they said, oh, you know, she, and they're just not telling us that that would, that would make sense. And, and, and perhaps it's that simple. But if somebody, if the church or somebody's reporting that there's no way to know if she's online yet somebody comes up with information that she's not there, then who was that person and how did they have that information? So there's these things and also the timeline of the family, this reminds me again of Idaho where, you know, they found all this crazy stuff and instead of calling police immediately, they call a bunch of friends over to decide what to do next. And so if the family went there and discovered that she wasn't there and it took that long for them to notify police, if the first timeline that the sheriffs went over is correct, that is also very suspicious to me why you would get there and take that long to call police when apparently it was odd enough for you to go over there and check in the first place.
- [68:36]
Megyn Kelly
See, I, I have been defending the hour long delay because I feel like I would be so reluctant to involve law enforcement without knowing for sure this is that level of situation. I'd be like she wandered. Let's check on our own first. Or she may have been picked up by a friend and gone over to a friend's house. Let's check out that. Now the blood on the front stoop makes it all less easy to understand. The hour that's that takes it. But that's assuming they saw it. Maybe they too came in through the garage, which doesn't take you right over the patio. I don't know. And we also don't know what the scene was inside the house. Was it chaotic? Was it obvious that some sort of struggle had happened in there? In which case the hour long delay would be weird to law enforcement too. Right. It's like you go to your mom's house and she's not there. That's one thing. You go there and you see like tables overturned and a blood trail leading up to the bedroom. You call within 30 seconds, you know all that's relevant. I find it very.
- [69:35]
Ashley Banfield
Can I say this one thing?
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Megyn Kelly
He's changed it so dramatically.
- [69:37]
Ashley Banfield
One thing real quick is that what I have to guard against is an FBI agent and the other gentleman can, can speak to this or as an investigator, I should just say investigator. I do not get into the trap of offending people because I assume somebody may have done something. And you know, in the Gonzalez family when the Idaho murders went down I was, I wasn't that I was suspicious but I made the comment that the father Gonzalez father was, his behavior was very odd to me. So I just pointed that out and the vitriol that I got because I pointed that out was overwhelming. But see that is what an investigator cannot do. If the family members, other family members are saying no, no, it's not this person or it's not this family member, you have to ignore that that because the potential there is that you are going to look past somebody who was involved. And if you look at anything, go, go and binge watch 48 Hours Mysteries which has been on for 30, 40 years. And you will see that the vast majority of these things are done by family members. And in a lot of cases the other family members protest about looking at their, their siblings or spouses and things like that.
- [70:47]
Chad Ayers
And keep in mind we got Savannah living, staying with her sister right now as well. Is it in that Megan, what we.
- [70:53]
Megyn Kelly
Clearly Savannah believes in her sister and her brother in law. I mean I think that's obvious. She wouldn't be staying at that house otherwise. And look, we don't know them at all. They may be completely lovely people. And you know this Is like, crazy to be even looked at. But the reality is, if a loved one dies or is missing under very mysterious circumstances where very clearly a crime has been committed, you're gonna. You're gonna be looked at. That's just the reality of it. That's just like. There's nothing wrong with that. That. That is Crime Solving 101. And more than likely, they understand that. And if they have nothing to hide, I mean, they'd be like, we'd. We'd be. Which is like, go ahead and look at me. Here's my phone. Here's my car. Here's. Ask me anything. Like, I. I appreciate. Look at me. Get me off of your radar as soon and as. As quickly as possible so you can move on to, you know, whoever really did it. And that. That leads me to the car. We discussed it a bit with Ashley, but that car, I did not like that sheriff's answer. It was very ambiguous. He was, like, ticking off the things that Ashley had reported without naming her, and he's like, as for the car, that's standard procedure. I'll play it again for you guys. It's sat 16. Listen to this. No one had asked him a question. He was clearly going through Ashley Banfield's exclusive reporting and trying to, like, dispute her reporting, but he didn't really. He just kind of said, we're not commenting on that, or I don't know where anybody got that. The one thing he really did kind of confirm without confirming was her report that they have seized Annie Guthrie's car and that it's been impounded. And here is his comment on that. In Sat 16, the car.
- [72:33]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
The car that was at the home, it's just stuck. Standard investigative practices. It's part of the search warrant scene. Court orders.
- [72:42]
Ashley Banfield
We.
- [72:42]
Sheriff Chris Nanos
We pull it out of there and do our scene processing with the vehicle.
- [72:49]
Megyn Kelly
Guys, I don't even know what that means, because if it was Annie Guthrie's car, it was, I believe, at Annie Guthrie's house, like, there. I haven't heard any reporting that her car stayed at her mother's home for days until it was allegedly impounded. And I don't know that that would be part of. If it was at Annie's house, that would not necessarily be part of the crime scene in a standard search warrant. So how does that grab you?
- [73:17]
Jonathan Gilliam
I'll start here. Megan. Just. We talked about this the other day. I mean, I think they would be remiss as investigators to not search that car, impound it, put it in the evidence lot, and bring in a team to go through it. If they had found anything of viable evidence there. Forensic evidence, hairs, fibers, DNA, of course, anything related to that, that's off to the lab right now. They're trying to get their comparisons. Obviously no arrest made. The messaging is complicated and confusing. I sometimes wonder if they're playing 4D chess or back at checkers. When we're listening to some of this stuff being said, we're not going to even comment on the sheriff and his, his delivery style. I think he's drawing his best. I agree with that part. I'm giving him some room too, like Ashley said. But the car part, I think I, I'm not going to get too overly concerned about that. I think that is something they had to do. And there's probably other cars they're also looking at. They should be interviewing a lot of other people too.
- [74:10]
Megyn Kelly
Why did they have to do it?
- [74:11]
Jonathan Gilliam
Why?
- [74:12]
Megyn Kelly
Explain. Explain why they.
- [74:13]
Jonathan Gilliam
Because they're within that inner concentric circle of family members. And that may have been the car that the mother was last driving in, dropped off by someone, one or two people, the night before. So that's the last car she was in. Let's see what we can find in there. If it's in the front seat, airs and fibers from mom backseat, no big deal. Trunk or rear suv, then it means something else. So they did it. Apparently a consensual search, maybe a search warrant, whatever it was. And, and so far they're awaiting results or the results were negative and they're moving on in a different direction.
- [74:44]
Megyn Kelly
I mean, the one thing I think we can say, because I'm just thinking about, you know, we think that the time of kidnapping or, you know, disappearance was around 2:00am you know, right around there. I mean, the pacemaker stopped communicating at 2:28am I think it's fair to say if she was taken or God forbid, killed prior to that point, we would know thanks to the pacemaker because the pacemaker does communicate with the Apple watch and the Apple phone. And as I understand it now, it's kind of constantly downloading information on. On there. And if you have like an event, it'll show you. But the. It's constantly collecting information, the iPhone, on. On from your pacemaker. So which.
- [75:30]
Ashley Banfield
They haven't reported anything.
- [75:31]
Megyn Kelly
Heart stopped.
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Ashley Banfield
They haven't reported an event.
- [75:33]
Megyn Kelly
Right, but so, but I'm saying like if, yeah. So if her heart had stopped beating, right. You know, prior to, you know, at any point from 9:45 when she was last seen forward, we'd know that we'd know if she were no longer alive prior to the moment that her actual. Our pacemaker stopped communicating with the phone. So I think we really can, in this case, unlike a lot of cases, really put the time of whatever happened to her removal from the home at 2:20, you know, not, not before 2:28am.
- [76:03]
Chad Ayers
And would we assume that the sheriff would come out or the FBI would come out and say, we believe she is still alive? If they have that cell phone data from the pacemaker and we see that, hey, actually her heart has stopped at X amount of time, would he still be staying standing in front of that podium saying, we believe Nancy Guthrie is still alive?
- [76:22]
Megyn Kelly
No way. No way. And like going so depth into the ransom notes. Go ahead, Jonathan.
- [76:26]
Ashley Banfield
Well, you know, who else would know this is they have emergency contacts. When you have a pacemaker, you also have emergency contact and the information goes to your doctor. And if that, if there is an incident that is reported to the doctor, but it's also reported to the person who is your emergency contact. And they, they do these things for a reason because that's why you have a pacemaker. So if it went offline, who was her emergency contact? And did the signal go to the doctor? And why did nobody call 91 1?
- [76:56]
Megyn Kelly
And well, because, I mean, it could, that could just be you forgot your phone. I don't think they would alert the doctor in the middle of night that like you got too far away from your phone and. But I mean, but that's not the same thing as having an event. Well, that's like a cardiac arrest.
- [77:09]
Ashley Banfield
That's the other thing. If she's being abducted and her heart rate spikes in the middle of the night and it doesn't usually spike like that or it stops, that is going to notify your emergency contact and the doctor's office. It'll be a record of that there.
- [77:23]
Megyn Kelly
That should be on there. I agree. So I just like, to me, it makes who dropped her off, even though there's been weird messaging around that at 9:48 a little less relevant because I don't think this is a case where whoever dropped her off, you know, took her then or did something to her then, because I do think the pacemaker would have recorded something between 9:48 and 2:28 that night. We would have seen an event or something. She was clearly still in the house between 9:48 and 2:28. At least her, her body in some form was still in the house during that time. She was, she had not been taken yet.
- [78:05]
Ashley Banfield
They did Make a point, say that the son in law had made sure that she was safely inside the house. I don't know what that means. And is that an excuse for his DNA to be around that area? I don't know.
- [78:18]
Megyn Kelly
Well, they did make a point of that. That's interesting.
- [78:20]
Jonathan Gilliam
His DNA should be there anyway. That would not necessarily prove anything. Blood or of course other body fluids would tell us a lot of his or whoever else it is. But these people, if I just add in here, they really have to start re interviewing. They probably interviewed them at least twice so far, separate. Start offering polygraph examinations to them. You know, polygraphs aren't perfect, but if done right, but the right calligraphist and you know, the pre interview, the first interview, post interview, you can get a lot of information from people. So this concentric circle, we're talking.
- [78:51]
Megyn Kelly
Jim, can I ask you a question on that?
- [78:52]
Jonathan Gilliam
It should be done.
- [78:53]
Megyn Kelly
Can I ask you a follow up on that? Isn't that dangerous? You know, you heard the sheriff say the family's been very cooperative so far and we want to keep it that way. You say, then, yo, would you sit for a polygraph? I'm thinking I'm going to lawyer up at this point because I know exactly where you're going, maybe even if I'm innocent, because you never know. You don't want to get in trouble.
- [79:15]
Jonathan Gilliam
Well, and that's the law enforcement has to put the cards on the table and say, look, we have to rule everyone out. They may be telling them incompetence, this case is going nowhere. We don't have suspects outside. We don't have phone cameras, facial recognition or, you know, red light cameras, all that stuff. A phone pinging off towers. So we just want to go this one more time and then we're basically done with you. And you know, I'm from old school. If you say you want a lawyer and you say you want someone to represent you or you're refusing to be interviewed or a polygraph, I then want to ask some more questions about you. But I certainly want phone records too from everyone and ask them about. All right, well, your phone call to this person, to that person, and even the person at the church, whoever this person was allegedly called, let's get them interviewed in depth, in detail, maybe a polygraph to them and, and let's start throwing these things out there. And there should be another team, of course working, you know, the alleged ransom note and email, whatever it is, and, and looking at all those factors too, from far away, but that concentric Circle team has to be in there saying, we're doing this for your sake. Everyone, please. And if someone turns down in that family, you know that, that request, the other family members could go, wait a minute. Why don't you want to talk to the investigators? And, and who knows where that would go from there, but it may lead to a break somehow in the family and someone come forth. I'm not pointing at the family at this point, but do they know someone indirectly, even tangentially, that somehow thought they were doing the right thing and. And abducted the woman? Whether it's a kidnapping or not, we just don't really know that yet. For profit, that is.
- [80:45]
Megyn Kelly
Go ahead, Chad.
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Chad Ayers
So I know yesterday, you know, all of us were kind of this timeline and the disconnect that we know that the ring doorbell. I know, Jonathan, you and I were talking about this.
- [80:54]
Ashley Banfield
The.
- [80:55]
Chad Ayers
The ring doorbell was destroyed. And then we get that the. Then the disconnect. So I did a little research. And these cameras do oftentimes, Megan, operate independent of each other. All right, so just because you messed up the ring door.
- [81:11]
Megyn Kelly
It was nest, by the way. I don't know if that matters.
- [81:13]
Ashley Banfield
Okay.
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Megyn Kelly
It was nest.
- [81:14]
Jonathan Gilliam
Well, and.
- [81:15]
Chad Ayers
And what I read is that you can disable, break whatever they want to call the ring doorbell, let's just say on the front door. And this is kind of the theory now, I'm, I'm kind of. Because obviously Ashley talked about the back door there. It appeared that there was some type of entry made to the back door. So is it possible when we look at these two disconnects, was they disabled the. You know, someone knew how to approach this door to not be viewed or whatever. Or it did view them and they just didn't capture the image. They destroy that NEST camera. All right, at that point, we know that is, that. Is that is going to be the exit or we believe that's the exit. Then at that point, they can pull a vehicle to the front door. But the entry, whether they're working with one or two entry is made into the back. Now, again, this doesn't help with the 40 some odd minutes or however they were in inside the house. All right, but when they go into the back door to make entry, that is that. That is that, you know, the other picture that we are gaining from. So that's. That's one thing that.
- [82:16]
Megyn Kelly
Where we had a disconnection at 1:47am and we had 2:12am software detects person on cam, no video.
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Ashley Banfield
They could also be hardwired, but they can. But they also have batteries. Most people use them for the batteries. Batteries last a long time on these, these NEST cameras. So it could be that the camera itself was taken offline and moved, but somehow was able to report movement because it was being moved. The camera itself was being moved. So that's a possibility as well also.
- [82:49]
Megyn Kelly
You know, or there could be another camera, there could be a third like that. We went back, we did ask and specifically tried to get clarity on the camera issue. And we spoke with, with law enforcement and they said there, there was more than one camera in the house. That's what they wanted us to know. Like there was. That's how they explained the fact that the NEST camera, possibly plural, were gone. And yet they still had this Data that at 2:12am software detects a person on camp.
- [83:17]
Ashley Banfield
They said what we're doing right now, by the way, Megan, is exactly what happens when you're investigating something and you have all these different aspects of known. Known behaviors or known things that have occurred at a scene and then. But you don't know the total picture. So where you have to guard this is where conspiracy theories come up is you have to take what you know and put in. In categorize that or catalog it and then not go down the road too far. Are of theories of each one of those things. Because we're making educated decisions based on what we know. However, what we know about this may have nothing to do with what actually happened. And that what we're doing right here is really how this works in a lot of ways is we take what information we have and we try to piece it together or find evidence of the gaps that exist so we can connect those things. And that's where, where we're at versus law enforcement. A lot of these things don't make any sense. And I think a lot of this has to do with the sheriff's verbiage.
- [84:26]
Megyn Kelly
I'm still stuck on 41 minutes. Why is it to take 41 minutes to get an 84 year old out of the house? And I also am focused on that. There's other DNA that we're having tested right now. You guys know as well as I do they probably lit that house up in Luminol to see whether anybody had done cleanup, to see whether there had been more blood that had been cleaned up in particular on the inside of the house versus the outside. And they know the answer to that right now. Like how much blood was spilled and what other bodily fluids may have been spilled. And is that what they were doing? Were they Cleaning up. Were they covering their tracks before they left or did something more nefarious happen during that time? The blood drops out front, you know, we've had some, some people who are familiar with crime scenes suggest the, the way the drops hit suggests that they came straight down vertically as if from a, like a bloody nose, that kind of thing. I'm not sure we know that. I think that's just armchair analysis. We haven't heard like a true blood expert opine to that effect. So we just, we just don't know. Stand by that because we do have to investigate the notes and Harvey Levin really revealed a lot last night about what's in them and they are very clearly being taken very seriously by the Guthrie children. I mean, and they've seen them. So I think those three absolutely believe that this might be the hostage taker and that they might need to negotiate with this person to save their mother's life. And Harvey Levin really revealed quite a bit about what's in there and why they might believe that. That's next. We'll take a quick break first. Be right back with more feeling. Sluggish, bloated, not quite like yourself. Life constantly bombards us with silent threats, processed foods, artificial light, non stop stress, all of which can disrupt gut health, drain energy and weaken immune health. When that happens, it's not that your body is broken, it's that it might be missing the right inputs. That's why I want to tell you about Amra Colostrum. It's packed with more than 400 bioactive nutrients that they say can work at a foundational level to fortify gut health, support immune health, fuel recovery and promote whole body vitality. Strong gut integrity can support metabolism, skin and hair health, even performance and recovery. Which is why Colostrum has long been valued by some elite athletes as well. If you are looking to take back control of your health from the inside out, consider armra and they have a special deal for you now. Go to Armra.com Megan or enter Megan to get 35% off your first subscription order. That's a R M R-A.com M E G Y N We're back now with our panel and more on the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. And we're going to get into the ransom note now. The ransom note. The authorities confirmed yesterday that it was the same note sent to all three media outlets, TMZ and two Tucson local television stations. That was a question Jim had been asking from the beginning, we're told by the FBI. Same note, three different recipients and now Harvey Levin is offering new details of what was in the letter. Here's a little of what he told Aaron Burnett last night.
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Ashley Banfield
SOP 5, the Monday deadline is far more consequential. I will say this, that they do mention an Apple Watch, as the FBI said, and they do mention the floodlight, the damaged floodlight. There is something else, and it is the placement of the Apple Watch, which has not come out. And if that placement is accurate, I'm sure that is something that puts this letter on the FBI's radar. They went to great lengths in sending this email to us, in making sure that it stays anonymous. I don't know that the FBI is at all close to figuring out where it came from. They began the letter. I don't think I'm giving anything away here. They began the letter by saying that Nancy is okay, but scared. So they say she is okay. And also that she's aware of the.
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Megyn Kelly
Letter and the demands, that Nancy Guthrie herself is aware of it.
- [88:35]
Ashley Banfield
Yes.
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Megyn Kelly
So that's very interesting, the part about the watch guys, because one of the questions at the presser yesterday was, okay, you know, you're saying in this note, they referenced the Apple Watch and something about the floodlights on her home. Well, you can see the floodlights on her home from outside. Like, there are pictures right now on Fox News Digital showing them. You know, it's not like a big news thing. And the reports about her Apple Watch hit, I think, on Monday, like, right after this story first became national news. So. And the ransom notes, as far as we know, did not go to the. To the media outlets until, we believe, Tuesday. So the question was asked to the FBI, like, you know, why do we believe these are real as opposed to somebody who just heard information in the news and then try to capitalize on this family's pain? And the FBI director seemed like. He didn't say, oh, no, there's other stuff in the note. He was like, yeah, that's one of the things we're considering. But now you have Harvey Levin saying, no, no, no, there was something specifically about the placement of the Apple Watch, which he suggested only the kidnapper could know if the placement of the watch as described in this note were correct. You know, if the person, maybe they said she had it right on her bedside table next to a picture of the one grandchild and a notepad. You know, maybe it was something that truly only the kidnapper could know. So that's one of the reasons why he's taking it very specifically or very, very seriously. There's one other thing. There's two other things I want to play, but let's just start there. Does that. What do you make of Harvey's take on the specifics of the note?
- [90:14]
Ashley Banfield
I'd like to know if those, if that note is. How similar is it to the one that the guy got arrested for.
- [90:20]
Jonathan Gilliam
The.
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Ashley Banfield
So that first and foremost is kind of sparking my interest because I, I need to totally rule that guy out for everything else, which law enforcement may have done that already, but the specific.
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Megyn Kelly
They're saying they're not related.
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Ashley Banfield
Okay. I mean, look, I think the FBI is doing what they should be doing first and foremost, which is taking it seriously. It doesn't mean it's real real. It means they're taking it seriously because they don't know if it's not real. And so, you know, how, how much do people vary in where they put their watches or did they put the watch in a certain place and then mention that? You know, I don't know that. And so I think speculating on, on the reality or the realism of these, of these notes, even though they sound very compelling, it may just be. It may not be anything or it may be again, Megan, 41 minutes in a home before you abduct somebody. It just may be the fact that people who were in there know her and know that house and they're using this as a ruse and they can say these specific things because they were in there for that long, whether they meant to hurt her or not or wake her up or not.
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Megyn Kelly
Hmm. Wait, are you suggesting, like if they, they, if they took her life and now they're just play acting that there's a kidnapping underway?
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Ashley Banfield
It very well could be. I mean, that. That would not be the first time that that has happened and it would not be the first time that people have gone into. What if it was a sexual assault, as we were talking about earlier? I doubt that that individual that would go into the house and do a sexual assault of that nature for. Of an elderly woman is going to go down the road of this ruse. So those wouldn't be. Be probably connected. But a family member we have seen in the past where they have tried to send the police down another road, either blaming somebody or some type of ruse. So I could see that occurring, especially if the death was not intentional.
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Megyn Kelly
Let me get to two other soundbites from Harvey describing what's in the note. Here's sat 6A to Hannity.
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Ashley Banfield
I don't know, but the way it's written, they say this Is it. It's the only communication, and the police going to be able to help you. They're that bold, saying that. There is a phrase in this email that absolutely makes me believe this person who wrote this, and if they're telling the truth, that Nancy is within a radius of the Tucson area. Not in Tucson right now, but in a radius, it could be New Mexico. I don't know how far, but I think. Think at least what the authorities have is they've got a radius, and that's something.
- [93:01]
Megyn Kelly
There's a little bit more on her allegedly being in the Tucson area where he spoke with Aaron Burnett, Sat 6.
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Ashley Banfield
My sense is this is whoever sent this letter is based in the Tucson area. And I say that because of a reference made in the letter, a sentence in the letter. It feels to me reading it that this is Tucson based. And I think that's a fair analysis based on, you know, my discussions today in the office and just reading this letter. So this doesn't feel like this is somebody out of state or out of the country who hatched this plan.
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Chad Ayers
It feels more localized.
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Megyn Kelly
Um, and then today on his show, he expanded even further, saying why he believes she might be held in the Tucson area. If this note's real, quote, there is a demand of millions in Bitcoin for Nancy's safe return, and there is a time frame for how long it would take Nancy to be returned to Tucson after getting the money. Now, I disagree with Harvey. That does not mean that this person is not overseas. He could be overseas, and this whole thing is a fraud. He's trying to take advantage of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance. He could absolutely be sitting someplace in India doing this whole thing. Harvey's suggesting. If it's real, then the person's got her near Tucson because obviously he's suggesting, Chad, that they could have her back very quickly once they get their millions.
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Chad Ayers
Yeah, and I think what it. What it really boils down to, I mean, if we're just using common sense here, it's not like they took her to an airport or even. Or even an FBO and got her on a private plane.
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Ashley Banfield
Right?
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Chad Ayers
You got to have an id. Unless you've got some, you know, janky airfield behind your house in the middle of the desert. They were on some prop plane, probably very highly unlikely, so we can probably eliminate that aspect. So where is she? Does this mean she's right in that immediate area? I don't know. It's hard for me to believe that you would risk getting in a car and driving states away With. With her in the vehicle, risking getting pulled over, risking getting in an accident, anything like that. I. I call.
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Megyn Kelly
That's a good point. I mean, how seriously should we take these notes, Jim?
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Jonathan Gilliam
All right, let's, like, break it down in the cases that I worked over the years with some similarity to this one, or certainly I'm. I'm familiar with It's. We'll just focus on the note now. It's either a hoax or it's real, and I'm sure investigators are looking at both possibilities there. If it's a hoax, it could be for three separate reasons. Just an opportunist saying, hey, I'm going to make some quick money off this, like you just described. They're in India, Eastern Europe somewhere. They have nothing to do with the case. If it's. It could be harassment. Just someone. Could be some college kids having fun with this. Hey, I know how to, you know, put these emails together. You know, I watched, you know, Criminal Minds back in the day, and they put something together. Or. And this brings us back now to what. Is the reason for the abduction for profit or is it for a revenge taking of this woman and possibly doing bad things to her? And they put this out, as I described yesterday, a pomic post offense, manipulation of investigation, communication, lots of syllables. I coined that term because I was seeing these things happening in other cases I worked over the years, certainly back in the late 90s and early 2000s. And these are. It's a whole sort of separate set of letters that people are putting together. So if someone sophisticated enough who took Mrs. Guthrie, then put her somewhere not still alive and not alive, and said, hey, I'm going to become a suspect. I better put this. This fake email out to two news stations and tmz. Y. Tmz. I'm not sure, but that's probably what the person watches. And that's a clue, too, about who this person is. So. But. So the investigators have to handle this as being real. I've never said they should, but they also have to consider other options here. And I'll tell you what, the family. It's easy for me being objective, sitting on this side of the investigation or actually out of it, but knowing enough about it, they should be demanding as best they can for a proof of life somehow, some way. And if you're a good kidnapper, you're going to provide that. Because you didn't do this for fun. You didn't do this just for kicks like they did 100 years ago, that they're two college kids kidnapped a young boy in Chicago. But you, you did this to make money. So this is a whole failure. If she winds up dead and you wind up getting no money, that you're still going to be held liable for it. So they better be some kind of proof of life that they offer, and then the parents, I should say the family will know she's alive or not. But these are all the options and the different sort of silos that the investigators have to look at of what this letter actually means, this email and how and it's authenticity.
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Megyn Kelly
So do you guys believe if we don't. If the family doesn't get proof of life between now and Monday, which is the second deadline in there, which is the more serious deadline, according to Harvey? I can only guess he's suggesting they're saying that's it for Nancy on Monday, but something much more serious, he said, is going to happen on Monday if they don't get the money, if they don't offer proof of life, which is what Savannah and her siblings asked for that, which is what Cameron, her brother, asked for for last night. You know, they want to be in communication very, very badly, and they want proof of life and this. And you know what? I bet Savannah, if she got proof of life, I bet she'd pay the money. I bet she would pay the millions of dollars. I mean, who wouldn't if you had it? So if they don't get it and Monday passes, do you feel like we can safely say this was a hoax?
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Ashley Banfield
Well, we can say it was a ruse or a hoax. And so what's the difference there? Somebody is like the guy in California is just trying to extort money from somebody, basically. Whereas if the people who did it use this as a ruse to get the attention away from them and then they just drop off the radar, I think it's very, very telling because a true per. Listen, there's two phases of this crime that happened. One is actually three. Entry to the house, and whatever reason they were there for 41 minutes, removal of the victim or kidnapping or removal if it was a body. And then this potential ransom issue, and the ransom part of this is really the most technical aspect of this. So somebody to do all three of these things for the first time ever is. Is quite a big deal. Now they're doing these in Mexico. The cartels are using Bitcoin now as ways to collect ransom. But there's no evidence that that's occurred over the border, which is not really far from where she lives. Her type of person of person, the Persona that she, or the person that she is rich and going. Had she traveled to Mexico and being kidnapped there, that would make sense. So I just look at this as is. We're going down a rabbit hole here that has two different types of phases of this crime. And the second one, which is this, this ransom issue, it's very hard, it's very hard to figure out. And I'll say I, I think because in the, if she is there, if the ransom is real, they said 5pm they didn't say Greenwich Mountain time. Right. Which I think a professional would probably say that they said local time. So that kind of tells me that the potential is that they.
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Megyn Kelly
I don't know if they said that. I don't know if they said local time. Can I just ask you, can you guys stick around for just another couple minutes? I know you're very busy, but I feel like we need to finish this discussion. I won't keep you long. Can you stay past the top of the hour for a bit?
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Jonathan Gilliam
Yes.
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Jonathan Gilliam
What is in the letter? Cause there's been a lot of disparate reporting. What is in the letter that can serve as a proof of the fact that they were in that house? You know, is there the stuff about the floodlight, the watch, you know, remember there's images of her wearing the watch online and that's one of the things I would be doing. L.J. by the way, those images of her online, I've seen at least one of her with Savannah. I would get my tech guys and hammer that website. Who's been hitting that website? Can you identify any out of country IPs that have been hitting that website? Somebody hitting it continuously recently, stuff like that, to try to contextualize this letter to see if it's legit? Because without something that really tells you she was in that house, there's no way you can pay this ransom because there's no way to confirm you're going to get her back.
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Megyn Kelly
That's Paul Morrow, former NYPD inspector on Fox News earlier, back now with our panel. So, and that's a really good point, you guys. I mean, truly, like if you're in the Guthrie's position right now, desperate to have her back, you probably would pay anything if the kidnapper would just make clear he actually has her. You can't, you can't send Bitcoin or anything else right now. How could you possibly do that without proof of life? I mean, even in your most desperate, you know, that would Be absolutely foolhardy. Right. Like there's no, there's no way the FBI is going to advise them, Jim, to do that.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Yeah. And there's no way a real experienced kidnapper would not be willing to give proof of life. It's done in many cases in the past in which I am familiar. And there's just no reason for it. I think a more logical thing right now for the family to consider. And again, we don't know all the facts. And this, you know where this watch was placed? It was in a dog bowl hanging from a chandelier and a toilet. That could be something significant. Oh, yeah, I left the watch in the house. That's not as much to me important proving what this is. And all that really means is the person was inside the house and saw the watch. It doesn't mean this is a four ransom kidnapping. Even if that is the case, what I would consider the family doing right now is, is putting out a million dollar reward. And they will consider turning that over to the cryptocurrency, to the, to the address they were given if in fact they get proof of life. And let's see what that generates. $50,000 is nice the FBI put that up. But I just see a million or even more as a reward for the, for the location of Mrs. Guthrie. And then if we get proof of life, we can transfer that to a cryptocurrency account somewhere and let's see what that generates. These people want the money. They didn't do this for fun or an exercise. If not emphasis is on if. If it's an actual kidnapping for profit, if it's anything else, that changes the entire paradigm. And there's other factors in there that we've already discussed.
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Chad Ayers
Well, Jim, let me, Jim, let me run something by you. Think about this.
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Ashley Banfield
Would if.
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Chad Ayers
Because we started off the show again and we heard Ashley talking about the son in law, if the son in law is involved, is this letter and if it's from him, is that just a. A BS letter? Because you would think if, if, if the son in law went in there to, you know, take her life in hopes of getting, you know, insurance money, getting grandma's or mother in law's house, would you go to the extent of writing this full letter?
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Jonathan Gilliam
Well, it's an email. It wouldn't take a whole lot to do it. And apparently it's a real crypto address. I don't know enough about that or how easy it is to research cryptocurrency accounts. But yeah, this happened a lot with other cases I've worked, I had a heart surgeon who was accused of killing his wife, but the police in Pennsylvania couldn't prove it. Next thing I know, these anonymous letter show up to his lawyers. It's different. Not a kidnapping, looking for money, but these people put these, these letters together. The nurse in northern New Jersey who killed her husband, chopped him up, put him in the Chesapeake, she put a bunch of letters around North Jersey saying, oh no, the mob did it, others did it. She got convicted in court. I testified in that case. People do these kind of letters to cover their track. They think they're original and clever, but they're really not. There's actually a formula to how these things are written. And just because the person knows where a watch may have been placed, if you're a real kidnapper, you're going to have some real specific information. You're going to have maybe a lock of hair. The case in 1993, the Tuxedo CEO in New York City. These guys lowered down, they put them in a hole in the ground by train tracks. They lowered down a tape recorder, had them talk into it, and then they would put that over an untraceable cell phone. Even back then, there's a woman in Norway who went missing. I actually know one of the people working on it. It and 20, about four years ago, I think, and, and, and there's a note left on the table. She was missing. No one ever saw her again. But the note was for a ransom amount. So there are other cases that phone calls are made in the Exxon executives case and they. Because they seriously wanted the money. That was the reason for doing this. It doesn't seem these kidnappers are real serious. Now, from what we know, and I want to emphasize from what we know, and the family has every right to ask these questions. It's not easy when it's your own mother or child, of course, but from an objective viewpoint, demand that proof of life, put a reward out at the same time, and you'll transfer to a cyber account once you get that proof of life. That would be my suggestion.
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Megyn Kelly
I mean, how difficult? Obviously it's very, I think the answer is obviously very, very. How difficult is it really for the FBI to trace the provenance of an email that went to three different news organizations? And also there's another electronic trail there, somewhat in setting up the bitcoin account, I guess, although I do think they're very. We did look into that a little when we did our fraud week, and it's like, good luck Good luck tracking the bitcoin, unfortunately. But this seems like it should be within the FBI's capabilities. Like. Jonathan, do you have any thoughts on, like.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Sure.
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Megyn Kelly
That. How hard can it be?
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Ashley Banfield
Well, it all depends on the.
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Jonathan Gilliam
The.
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Ashley Banfield
The person that was sending the email. If they have a system set up like Nigerians do. A lot of the times when they do these bank fraud cases where they are broadcasting the. The actual email from a different location, they have a program that. That pushes it into a different location. That's where it becomes a little difficult for the bureau. But the. But the FBI and their investigators that are specialized in this, they are really good at being able to reverse engineer any type of tactic that somebody using an email would have done. But again, Megan, we look at the Nigerians and these bank frauds, These are people that do tens of thousands of these almost on a daily basis. So somebody who has never done, you know, a ransom email before, but maybe they know a little bit about bitcoin, they're more likely to get caught. Hence the guy in California.
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Megyn Kelly
Yes.
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Ashley Banfield
Right. So that makes. I want to point this out real quick. Like, this is kind of a bottom line for me right now about where we are in this investigation and some things that they could be looking at, and they may very well be. But what were the movements around that house before this? I'm talking about days before this.
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Jonathan Gilliam
This.
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Ashley Banfield
We look at Brian Kohlberger. He, you know, he was around there. They. I think they said over a dozen times around that house. And then the night that he went to the house, he shut his cell phone off on the way there and turned it back on when he was on his way back home. Those are very telling pieces of evidence. And I would be looking at the family members like that. I'd be looking at their cars, because nowadays you can. The computers in the cars tell you what it was turned on when it was turned off, put in park, so on, so forth. They can pull that information. And then lastly, that pacemaker could still. It could still be broadcasting. And because it went offline, it's still a bluetooth product. So 10 to 100ft is the typical distance that a Bluetooth can be picked up. And we do have technology in the bureau. It has been declassified, classified, But I still don't like to talk about it too much. But they are very effective at picking up cell information. So effective that they can tell you where a person is in a building if they need to. So I think if. If she is somewhere in the vicinity of that home or somewhere where they kind of get an idea perhaps where an email went back to, they could go with this specific equipment and potentially, if they got close enough, still find the broadcast from that pacemaker. But they'd have to be very close.
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Megyn Kelly
Can you imagine, Jonathan, they're walking around the Tucson area with her phone, you know, waiting for it, like with the Bluetooth on, waiting for it to connect to something. You know, just walking in front of as many houses as they possibly can in, in areas that, you know, look sketchy or like a place you might hide somebody. And if it actually were to connect, that would be absolutely stunning and miraculous. And we, we pray, we're all praying every day that this is how this ends, that they find her, that this isn't a ruse, that kidnappers really do have her, and that for some purchase price or other pressure point, the Guthrie's can get her back. I mean, bitcoin also, they're praying every.
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Ashley Banfield
Morning and every day if there's a way to have a holding account where they could put money into it and say, we're not going to give you this money until we get proof of life, or if it was the big amount, we're not going to let you make the final transaction until we get her body. But we don't have any. We can't touch it, bring it back, but you can't grab it until we get this. I don't know if that exists in bitcoin, but if it does, that would be something that I would, I would be looking into.
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Megyn Kelly
But again, more like an escrow.
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Ashley Banfield
Sure. Yes.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah. Well, I mean, the, the, the, the bitcoin piece of it, I don't, I feel like that's. It is kind of sophisticated. I feel like, you know, if this were a family member, obviously Savannah's worldly and all that, but like, I don't think her siblings are as worldly. The brother's a fighter jet pilot and doesn't seem to have. I don't. He was late to even get out to Tucson. The, the sister Annie and her husband, they seem like working class people. You know, she's. She's a poet, husband's part time middle school teacher and plays drums in a band. I just unlike the Nigerians, I, I don't think that they would necessarily have the sophistication to like craft this, the email thing and like hold tough and like do the crypto account that's untraceable and get the email that's untraceable. That guy out in California got, got caught because he Was, you know, a nimrod. He used some service that will change your phone number and make it look like you're not calling from your phone. And then they. They traced the fake phone number back to some account that had his email attached to it. They're like, oh, hello. We know exactly who it is. So he was a dope. He was a stupid criminal. But the people setting up this whole bitcoin thing don't seem like unsophisticated people. They seem to me more like people have probably done this before.
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Ashley Banfield
So that could be.
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Megyn Kelly
When we did our fraud week, we.
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Ashley Banfield
That could be Nigerian.
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Megyn Kelly
We learned that these people, like, they operate like serious frauds. Like the guy who tried to defraud me and my husband and my husband's mom. They had a cast of characters playing actors, like, different parts. They had different phone numbers set up to like, you can call here. This is the courthouse. You can verify they're there. This is another number. We spoke to several different people who were involved. There was an actress who had changed her voice to sound like my sister in law. It was like crazy how elaborate it was. So this. First of all, they have absolutely no feelings and would in a second try to hurt Savannah and her siblings at their lowest and worst moment without even thinking they would not give a. And second of all, they really are sophisticated. And if they think there's a deep pocket and they could get a couple million bucks quickly, they'd absolutely do it, which makes way more sense to me.
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Ashley Banfield
That's exactly right. That's. The people who could jump in on this and use that is. Are these professional people. That's where the difficulty in validating this. You pay 25 million, it may be going to some Nigerian group that does bank and bitcoin fraud. Fraud, you know, that could be the case.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay, so wait, so let's just follow that down the line for a second. Okay. Let's say we're blaming the Nigerians, but let's face it, they deserve it. Let's say it's Nigerians. Okay, Just for short form, that leaves us with. Okay, so the whole ransom thing is a fraud. That's just a. That's a regular, basic, garden variety fraud.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Opportunist people.
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Megyn Kelly
Many people have been opportunist. Right, thank you. That leaves us with the question of what happened to Nancy. Right. Okay. So now under this scenario, she wasn't taken by anybody looking for ransom because there's been no other demand other than this fake guy in California that we know of. Jim would want us to Say that, that we know of. It's possible they've got something they're not letting out of the bag. Maybe something that somebody showed an AI version of Nancy or a version of Nancy that led the family to say, images can be easily manipulated. So can voices. Please give us actual proof of life that could have happened behind the scenes and none of us knows about it.
- [116:41]
Ashley Banfield
Makes that 41 minutes seem a lot more interesting, doesn't it?
- [116:45]
Megyn Kelly
But. But the family continues to say both Cameron and Savannah and Annie the day before. We need proof of life and we need to hear from you. We need to hear from you. We need a way of contacting you. So it certainly doesn't sound like there's any person either behind the scenes unknown to us or the person behind the bitcoin demand that's actually willing to engage with the family to talk to them to make clear their needs or to provide the proof of life. So if there's no proof of life coupled with the ransom demand, I don't think we have a real kidnapper making it. I just like Jim points out, the person, if they're doing that, is doing it to get, to get paid. So if what you need to get paid you actually have, Nancy is a picture of Nancy, you're going to find a way to give it. You found a way to set up the bitcoin, you found a way to set up the email that's undetectable. How hard can it be to set up an undetectable, like a Polaroid picture of Nancy and send it. So that leaves us with a question of what happened to her. Like somebody didn't just kidnap her for fun. Like let's just kidnap Nancy and like never give her back. Like that'll be a good time. You know, it's not like a baby where like they get kidnapped and they can get sold. You know, there's a black market for babies or, you know, for young children get sold into sex trafficking. It's horrid but that those are things that happen. There's no like market for 84 year old elderly women with heart problems where they're. I don't mean this in the cruelest sense that it sounds, but like where they can't, can't do any good for anybody. You know, they can't be used in a way that's sellable.
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Jonathan Gilliam
No value.
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah.
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Ashley Banfield
So what is her monetary?
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Jonathan Gilliam
Monetary.
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Megyn Kelly
Of course, yeah.
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Ashley Banfield
So what is her value and who does that value belong to? So that, that is the question that you now have to ask if it's not a ransom, then who has a motive either value in, in the way of something, they'll inherit it or because they have an emotional need to get rid of her through anger or.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay, so, so, but just, just before we even get to that, Jonathan, what we're saying is if there's no kidnapper, then this is a murder. That's what we're saying. There's no, no one's just going to kidnap her, keep her alive for no reason. Think of it. Yes. No one here can think of an alternate purpose. Hence the removal for an 84 year old.
- [119:12]
Ashley Banfield
Hence a removal, not a kidney napping, which would also if she was deceased inside the house and her heart is no longer beating, you may only have droplets of blood, not somebody bleeding. And so that's a big difference as well. There would be blood potentially where the injury occurred or maybe she just died, you know, because of her heart issue. But there could be some blood, but she, you would not see blood a long ways. Once a heart stops, the heart is the, the pumping stops.
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Megyn Kelly
But wouldn't that be on the pacemaker? The pacemaker was communicating with the phone until 2:28am so the phone which they have, they don't have Nancy, but they have the phone and the app's data up till 2:28am that morning. Wouldn't they see her heart is no longer beating? So I feel like that's, that's the argument against Nancy was murdered in the home. That's like, that's why I understand 228.
- [120:15]
Ashley Banfield
That's why understanding what if there tells.
- [120:17]
Megyn Kelly
Us she was alive, if there was.
- [120:18]
Ashley Banfield
An issue that that pacemaker was reporting increased heart rate, you know something that was an incident that was occurring before it went offline. That is an important part of this because then you would see that, that she was actually assaulted or she was awakened. And if that's closer to the beginning of that 41 minutes or at the end of the 41 minutes, that may be telling one way or the other of how they reacted at that point, if that makes sense.
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Megyn Kelly
Okay, but, yes, but I, but, but back to my point, don't you agree if they had killed Nancy in the home, we would know it thanks to that pacemaker which was communicating with the, with the phone up to 2:28am Go ahead, Jack.
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Chad Ayers
That's omega. I'm just looking it up. And it says for data transmission to a smartphone app, pacemakers generally need to be within recommended distance between 1 meter.
- [121:15]
Megyn Kelly
To ensure, I mean what our information was. It's like 30ft that they'll stop. Like if you get out about 30ft away from your phone, your pacemaker will.
- [121:24]
Chad Ayers
Which isn't very far.
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Megyn Kelly
But. No but, but, but my point is like. Well, what's your point? I mean, do you think. I, I feel like if Nancy had been killed in that house prior to 2:28am we'd know thanks to the pacemaker.
- [121:37]
Chad Ayers
That's what, that's what I'm getting at. And I agree with that. If, if she was murdered in that house and her cell phone is there, that data should, if we see a heart stoppage during that 40 minute time frame, I feel like it would be.
- [121:50]
Megyn Kelly
On the phone.
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Jonathan Gilliam
And the crime scene would reflect it too.
- [121:55]
Megyn Kelly
Sure. Yep. And we don't know whether it does. You know, the, the sheriff is being pretty good about not saying anything about the crime scene, though we know there's additional DNA and he did call homicide detectives first thing. But I, and maybe I'm wrong about, maybe I'm not thinking about something with that pacemaker, but I just feel like if they're saying the pacemaker disconnected from the phone at 2:28am Then that means they were still communicating, which means that the app on the phone would show her heart stopped. That's the whole point of having the app is so you can see what's going on with your heart. And your doctor could potentially say that's be the first thing they would check. Did, was she killed? Did the heart beat all the way up to 228 when the communications stopped? And I'm sure it did. Otherwise, why are we doing all this? Otherwise why didn't they say we know she's dead, you know, like that. The sheriff's not in the business of wasting the nation's time. So it must have, she must have been Alive as of 2:28am her heart must have still been beating. And they, and when it stopped commuting communicating, which means she was taken out of that house alive. And so now that's the next question. If you're not kidnapping her for money, but you are kidnapping her, what the hell? Like what, what then? What next in this case? What would be the point of doing that? To move her to another location to, to, to murder?
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Chad Ayers
Well, one thing that comes to mind to me would be if this person is acting alone, it's very hard to move dead weight. I don't care how strong you are. So was that something where they put a gun to her and said get in the car and then they took her away from the residence to kill her, or were they operating in two people to remove her? So that's one angle to look at as well.
- [123:39]
Megyn Kelly
What were you going to say, Jim?
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Jonathan Gilliam
Well, if this is a stranger and it was some kind of a burglary or some other reason to go in there, we know we haven't discussed this week yet at all the concept. I'm not going there, but I'll mention it. Murder for hire. It doesn't always have to be someone directly goes and strangles, punches, someone like that. But if someone goes there and it's a stranger with no other reason but maybe a burglary, something like that, there's no reason to take the body with them. Exponentially, you increase the odds of getting caught, arrested, all those things. Down the line, you have the hassle of disposing of a body. If it's someone known to the person, there may be more of a reason. Especially if you're scared, maybe you haven't done this before to get that body out of there. This body could be just 100 yards away in a shallow grave. And I'm assuming they've done everything they could around the house. I'm hoping the trunk of her car has been open. There's cases I've been familiar with over the years. They search for days, and the missing kid is inside the trunk of an old car. I'm sure that's all been examined, but it could be. It could be much closer to home than we even know. Animal activity will reflect some of that. I don't want to get too graphic here. I still want to think she's alive, but it's. There's a whole different set of personality issues that come into play. Whether they know the woman, whether they don't know the woman, whether someone else had them go there to do something to her. Perhaps it went wrong. And then what is the reason that someone would hire someone to go there to do something bad to this woman? It just boggles the mind. And I think was. Jonathan talked about puzzle pieces that even law enforcement are dealing with. We have even fewer puzzle pieces out here because we don't have all the facts about this. So I think it's our best. When I've had investigators come into me at Quantico to do a, you know, put together a profile or behavioral assessment of a crime, I'd say here are the different options that you have to look into. Here are the scenarios that have to play out. And I think. I think we've done a pretty good job today, Megan, of laying out the different options in that regard and police know more than we do and, and, and hopefully they're following through every single lead that we talked about and things we don't even about. In terms of this investigation, I will.
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Chad Ayers
Say at the local level, as you know, coming from the local sheriff's office and investigating home invasions, whenever I hear home invasions personally, I don't see home invasions in the middle of the night on 84 year old women. When I see home invasions at the local level that we work, you're involved in gambling, dope, prostitution, something like that for just a random home invasion. Look, it's 2026 and again yes, we know that the doorbells were disabled or things like that. A normal, you know, just criminal. This is just called a crackhead that's just trying to break in and try to steal some money. Usually they don't have the wherewithal to do what at least some of the things that, that are in this timeline I don't believe.
- [126:39]
Megyn Kelly
Well, and as far as we know, nothing was stolen.
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Ashley Banfield
Yeah, and, and so it's incredible what Chad was just pointing out there and also when James was pointing his things out earlier is that in all of these different aspects of criminality there are typical behaviors and statistics that go along with that. A crackhead going in and sexually assaulting somebody is most likely not going to try to bring the person out and they're certainly not going to try to extort them to this level. Somebody who is going to try to extort for ransom money and that is their objective. They are probably not going to be this vague and they're probably not going to linger in the house for 41 minutes. And so you have to look at each one of these potential avenues and look at what is the typical behavior because it's all been done before. What does the statistics say that they will probably do when this crime occurs occurs. And then we need to start looking. The investigators will look at all of those things. And so as we go through these, these scenarios, it's, this is how this whole system works. But when you don't have all the pieces of the puzzle, it becomes very chaotic. And especially for press when they're doing this, dealing with a sheriff who may be great at his job, but even Moses in the Bible asked God if his brother Aaron could go and speak for him because he wasn't to able eloquent. This sheriff would be very good to hand off the, the speaking part of this to someone else because he's very confusing for the public.
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Megyn Kelly
It is confusing I do want to mention the van. The New York Post reporting that Nancy Guthrie's neighbor, Brett McIntyre told the Post on Thursday that he reported seeing an unmarked van to the police, who asked him basic questions about what he observed in the days leading up to the disappearance of her, of Nancy Guthrie. Quote, it was somewhere on that street. I think he means Nancy's. It was a white van, full sized, with no printing on the sides. It was parked on the street. The McIntyre's couldn't recall the exact day they spotted the van, but Brett said he did report it to the police. Now, when they say unmarked van, I think they just mean there was nothing on the sides. I don't think he means there wasn't a license plate. Maybe we're too tough on unmarked or on white vans. I have to say, as a woman, I don't go anywhere near them. You know, if I pull into a parking lot and there's a white van there, there's zero chance I'm parking my car next. And it's like I grew up in the 70s. That's exactly who's gonna grab you, you know, like, you know this.
- [129:17]
Ashley Banfield
We were the same way, the rider.
- [129:18]
Megyn Kelly
So I don't mean to impugn the white van. Yeah, right. I don't know, it's like this is, this is shoe leather reporting and potentially police work.
- [129:27]
Jonathan Gilliam
Go ahead, D.C. sniper. White van, that's all that they were looking for. And of course it was not a white man, a blue Caprice or something, you know, you know, something I just want to throw out here. I've interviewed serial offenders in prison long after they've been sentenced and convicted. And you'd want to know about how they chose certain victims and how they, their ingress, their egress. And there's been at least a few of these guys that told me sometimes even just taking a confession across the table, you know, why did it take you so long to do whatever you're doing? And it could be something as simple as a, oh, I saw a police car go down the street. Now it would be interesting to get the patrol logs of the officers on duty that night. Did by chance anyone go down this, an officer go down the street? And that scared the bejesus out of the people in there. And that's why they spent the extra 40 some minutes, you know, in the house laying low. And I'm not saying was actually a police car. It could have been some other factor, some other car even that went down the street and that scared them and said, we better lay Low for hours. Of course the lights are out and whatever, white van, some other kind of a vehicle, no doubt a vehicle took her away from the scene and they said let's lay low and make sure they're clear. So I know we kind of, kind of move past the missing 40 plus minutes, but there could be a very logical reason when they finally identify these people. And they would say, well that's why we did it, that's why we hung around longer.
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Ashley Banfield
There has to be video, I want to ask you, of the car going in and going out at that point in time of the night. There has to be video footage just of a clip of a car so you could even identify the shape of the car. But she, you know, she's 5 5. She wasn't slender built. So to carry somebody, you're not going to carry her down the block. You know, they drove there. So that vehicle had to have come there and left and, and I just. At 2 in the morning, almost 3 in the morning, that vehicle is going to be on a camera somewhere.
- [131:14]
Megyn Kelly
Yeah, yeah. I mean you'd like to think, but one of the problems with this neighborhood is each lot is about an acre, two acres and they're spread out and they're remote, like they're set back. And so it's not like a normal neighborhood, you know, where like you have neighbors. I can see my neighbors, you know, like my neighbors can see me. I think it is possible in this particular neighborhood to sort of maybe get in and get out without anybody's nest camera or ring camera detecting you because they're. All the houses are set back.
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Ashley Banfield
It could be a bank down the road though, or grocery store. I mean just any cars in the vicinity of that area? You know, I'm in Arizona and it is a dead, it's a desert at night. There's, there's hardly anybody moving at night. And so especially in that type of location, if there's any store that has any video at all within I would even say 10 miles, I would try to try to pull some camera at that time to see any cars that, that might have been heading to or from at those particular times, I would suggest that if they haven't done it, they should do it. And Megan, you know, I was, I didn't work this when it happened, but I was later inherited. The case of the 2008 bombing, pipe bombing of the recruiting state, the military recruiting depot in Times Square. A guy rode up on a bicycle at 3:00 in the morning, put a pipe bomb on, rode all the way back over to, like, 32nd Street. And we've never identified that guy. And that's the most filmed place in the world.
- [132:40]
Megyn Kelly
Wow.
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Ashley Banfield
But we know a guy on a bicycle rode up at that time. And that, I think, would help in this. In this scenario.
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Megyn Kelly
I would be remiss if I didn't run the latest, like, Silence of the Lambs thing by you guys. Did you hear that? It's. It is interesting that it turns out Savannah used the exact same messaging in her video with her siblings that we saw in Silence of the Lambs. We talked about it in the top of our first hour. I'm just gonna play the juxtaposition for you guys here in Sat0c. She is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you'll see. I'm speaking now to the person who's holding my daughter. Katherine is very gentle and kind.
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Ashley Banfield
Kind.
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Megyn Kelly
Talk to her and you'll see. Jim, you're the linguist. Is that a coincidence?
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Jonathan Gilliam
Life imitates art, huh? Ironically, in a way, in the. In a fake kidnapping case, the John Benet Ramsey case, because she was never left the house, Found dead in the basement six hours later. In that ransom note, there were three separate movie references. One from Dirty Harry, one from the movie speed, and a strong reference to the movie from the Usual Suspects with the whole foreign faction thing. So now this is different. That's the criminal. You know, whoever wrote that letter, that's for another episode, but, you know, they borrowed from. From that. So here are the family members of. Of the kidnapped or missing victim, Mrs. Guthrie, using words from a movie. Is that subconscious? Is that conscious? There's no doubt the FBI and the BAU went over their. Their. Their script, and it would have been their words, but they. They certainly wanted to, you know, maybe suppress some items and emphasize others. And somehow I would like to think someone would have recognized those lines from the movie. And again, I don't want to give too much sophistication to whoever the ransom note writer is or the team behind that. If it is a for profit kidnapping, I'm not sure that would even make any difference to them. I give credit. I didn't pick up on that line. I give credit to whoever did do their research.
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Megyn Kelly
Somebody on the Internet.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Yeah, good. Good for the Internet. But I don't. Maybe someday, Samantha, when all this is over and done with, with a happy ending.
- [135:05]
Megyn Kelly
Savannah.
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Jonathan Gilliam
I'm sorry, Savannah. She could tell us who, in fact, you know, came up with those lines.
- [135:09]
Megyn Kelly
So.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Coincidence. Maybe again, life imitating art. Subconscious out There. It's. It's. It's not untrue, what she's saying. I'm sure her mother is a very nice person. Savannah's mother. And, hey, talk to her again. It comes down to Megan, what we said a few days ago, humanize Mrs. Guthrie, give her core name. Core mom, mommy. And that's part of what they said there, I guess it worked with Buffalo Bill. I believe the senator's daughter was rescued eventually. And. And so as bizarre as the extrapolation is here, let's hope it works out the same way.
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Megyn Kelly
It's not so odd a phrase that it couldn't have just come. Come up again. You know, talk to her. You'll see that it's not such. Such an odd phrase. It couldn't have just been uttered spontaneously. Although nothing was spontaneous in the video. I'm sure it was all scripted. Can I ask you guys about the Cameron video last night? Because I do think it's interesting now it's just him now. The sisters are not there. Now, just the brother who said almost nothing in the first video has the whole show to himself. They shot the video, like, basically almost neck up, a little lower than neck up, but not like a. More of a body shot. And that's interesting because it cut off his script, which he was very clearly reading. In the first video with the three siblings, you could see their script. They weren't trying to hide that they were reading a script, but in this one, they shot it such that you couldn't see the script, but you could very clearly tell he was reading, but he seemed to not necessarily want you to know he was reading, like. Like he was. Here. I will play it.
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Ashley Banfield
This is Cameron Guthrie. I'm speaking for the Guthrie family. Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you. We haven't heard anything directly. We need you to reach out, and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward. But first, we have to know that.
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Jonathan Gilliam
You have our mom.
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Ashley Banfield
We went to talk to you, and we are waiting for contact.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Yeah.
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Megyn Kelly
Any thoughts on why he played such a bit role in the first video but was the sole player in the. The. In the second one?
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Ashley Banfield
My take on this is. And I may be totally wrong, but he, you know, he's a military man, and he's a fighter pilot, I think, is what you were saying earlier. I mean, that's an aggressive personality. I don't think he was happy with that first video. I think he. It was a. It was kind of a long video, and they look like they were being held captive reading it. And I think that he or somebody, a group of the family members, wanted to do a different one. That's what that. That appears to me. And the flowery language and the things in the first one. I don't know what the relationship is between these siblings. I don't. You know, it's hard to tell. But, you know, that appears to me as though that was done with a cell phone as opposed to a camera with a script in front of you. And a little bit more of. He wanted to do that. That's what it appears to me.
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Jonathan Gilliam
And Megan, I brought up the other day, the first video. I'm not questioning the brother at all, but interestingly, he wore a baseball type cap that I couldn't make out what it said. He wore it again last night, the same cap, whenever this was released and done. And here I did get it blown up. And a friend of mine helped me. Saguaro national park, which is a national park near Tucson, not too far from where they live. Could just be the hat he wears every day. Or does it have some kind of meaning? It's actually a physical geographical location not far from there. He and he wore it both times in both videos. I'm not putting a whole lot of stock into it. He could easily say, hey, I go. I go everywhere with that hat. All right, that's it. But for some reason, a geographic location was represented on his hat. The two different family and pleading to the kidnappers, whoever they may be, videos, for what it's worth.
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Sheriff Chris Nanos
And that.
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Chad Ayers
And now he's actually. If. If we think about it, we heard really Savannah and her sister talk. But think thinking about it, he's now the patriarch of that family.
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Ashley Banfield
Right?
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Chad Ayers
Dad's not around. All right, Mom.
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Jonathan Gilliam
And.
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Chad Ayers
And he's the only son. He's the patriarch. And maybe they're saying, hey, listen, you're.
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Megyn Kelly
You're the.
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Chad Ayers
You're the strong patriarch of this family. You didn't say anything we want. You know, let's put a video out from you.
- [139:19]
Ashley Banfield
I felt like he looked aggravated.
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Megyn Kelly
I think he is the oldest.
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Ashley Banfield
I think he looked aggravated in that first video myself.
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Megyn Kelly
Well, I think I. My. We were just wondering behind the scenes on the first video, maybe they didn't have the man speak too much because, you know, men can be more aggressive. They're more threatening. Maybe it's better to have the softer women, the tearful, soft women, say, please, please, please, please. Our mom, she's a grandma. We love her. Maybe that works better. And then not having gotten a result, they tried a different tactic. You know, like sort of man to man. I'm here. I am the patriarch, and I'm subjugating myself to you. I'm begging you to be in communication. Like, we're all here on bended knee. Maybe they intentionally lined it up that way so they had like a third, a third in reserve, you know, who could come forward and do his own video. And I don't know what they do over the next few days. I'm sure they're getting increasingly desperate if they have reason to believe that that Monday scary deadline is real. I mean, I can only pray that this is all that. He was told to wear the hat, that Savannah was told to use no caps in her Instagram post, that Savannah's language and the way she and her sister were talking were somehow codes for some other kidnapper ransom note that we have no idea about from somebody who has actual proof of life or something that could be coming. Like, that's. I just feel like short of that. But I. I feel. I don't feel hopeful, you guys. I don't. I mean, does anyone feel hopeful at this point?
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Ashley Banfield
It's pretty shocking how a lot of these cases end up being just simply a bad family member or a bad encounter with somebody. We still. We haven't even talked anymore about the person that called in saying that they were worried about the church issue. I mean, it's astounding how many of these cases end up being where we go down all these roads and it just ends up being somebody who's a real dirtbag that did something in some cockamamie scheme that they thought they could get away with, and they. They just didn't plan their, you know, through it. And so they end up killing the person. And if that's the case, I think.
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Megyn Kelly
99.99.
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Ashley Banfield
Yeah.
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Megyn Kelly
Right. When you say what an accurate stat off the top, it's like the vast majority are exactly that. This one's just so bizarre in so many ways, you know, or hoping for a better outcome than some nutcase got in there and hurt her or took her life. And now we've been led falsely down this kidnapping lane. You guys, you've been, like, doing yeoman's work on this. We're so grateful to all three of you, and I'm sure more to come. So thank you.
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Ashley Banfield
Thank you, Megan.
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Jonathan Gilliam
Thank you, Megan.
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Megyn Kelly
We're going to be following any and all developments in this case. If there is anything significant, we will come live to you over the weekend and at a minimum. We'll be bringing you the very latest on Monday. Thanks to all of you for listening. Have a great weekend. Hug your loved ones. Thanks for listening to the Megyn Kelly Show. No bs, no agenda and no fear.