Another email has reportedly surfaced from someone offering to reveal the identity of Nancy Guthrie’s captor in exchange for Bitcoin.
The latest email, sent to TMZ, allegedly makes ominous statements that suggest the situation has changed over the past day. However, TMZ said it is cooperating with law enforcement by not disclosing specific details about the email.
“I am not being taken seriously,” the second email reportedly reads in part.
According to TMZ, the second email also warns that this will be their final attempt to help.
The email comes a day after the initial message was sent to TMZ . On Wednesday, the sender demanded 1 Bitcoin ($65,000) for the name of Guthrie’s kidnapper. The sender explains that they will need the money to “lay low” as they avoid being implicated like “Carlos,” the deliveryman who was questioned by the FBI and released.
Carlos, was released a few hours after he was detained at a traffic stop in Tucson. The man’s mother-in-law said her son was delivering food when he was detained, which happened around the time authorities broke down her door and searched her home.
“I hope they get the suspect, because I’m not it,” Carlos told reporters outside of his mother-in-law’s home in Rio Rico, some 65 miles from Guthrie’s home north of Tucson.
The man was detained hours after the FBI released footage and surveillance stills of someone outside of Guthrie’s home around the time she vanished on January 31. Alarms were raised the following morning, when Guthrie failed to arrive at a friend’s home to watch virtual church services.
Tucson television station KOLD fully identified Carlos, but CrimeOnline will not do so to provide some measure of safety for him since he was not charged with any crime and was released. His mother-in-law also said Carlos was not involved in the kidnapping.
“They had somebody give a tip that the lady was in my house,” the woman said. “I told them you can go in and search my house; there is nobody there. I have nothing to hide.”
She said Carlos was driving her daughter’s vehicle when police stopped him and took him into custody and said she told them Carlos doesn’t own any of the clothing or other items seen in surveillance footage.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told KOLD that a medical helicopter that left the Rio Rico area Tuesday night had nothing to do with the case.
As of Thursday, officials have not named any suspects, and no arrests have been made.
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