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Chilling Ransom Note Details Emerge in Nancy Guthrie Abduction | Crime Alert 07.27.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney
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  Speaker 1: Silvanni Chilling. New details have emerged in the terrifying disappearance
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  Speaker 1: of Nancy Guthrie as investigators examine a ransom note sent
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  Speaker 1: to her family. Eighty four year old Nancy has been
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  Speaker 1: missing from her Tucson home since January thirty first, after
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  Speaker 1: being reported missing February first. Authorities believe a masked man
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  Speaker 1: abducted her after surveillance video captured him tampering with her
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  Speaker 1: doorbell camera. Speaking on the Crime Junkie podcast, crime journalist
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  Speaker 1: Brianna Whitney revealed the alarming contents of the first ransom
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  Speaker 1: note received by her daughter. NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Savannah, we have your mother Nancy. She is safe
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  Speaker 2: but scared. She will be held for ransom and once
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  Speaker 2: payment is received, she will be released unharmed. We will
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  Speaker 2: be holding her for a maximum of seven days.
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  Speaker 1: Whitney explained that the note demands millions of dollars in
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  Speaker 1: US currency and set two strict payment deadlines. Sources previously
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  Speaker 1: disclose the kidnapper initially demanded four million dollars in bitcoin
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  Speaker 1: due by Thursday, February fifth, warning that if unpaid, the
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  Speaker 1: demand would increase to six million dollars by Monday, February ninth.
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  Speaker 1: The note promised Nancy would be released to a safe
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  Speaker 1: drop off location in Tucson within twelve hours of payment.
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  Speaker 2: If the payment is not received by the last deadline
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  Speaker 2: on Monday the ninth, at five pm, she will be killed.
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  Speaker 2: Your mother is aware of this, and her life is
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  Speaker 2: in your hands. It is in the best interest of
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  Speaker 2: everyone to have this completed as soon as possible. You
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  Speaker 2: will not be able to contact me from here on out.
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  Speaker 2: There will be no negotiation. Do not play games. Law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement will not be able to help you.
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  Speaker 1: The note concluded with details about the crime scene, mentioning
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  Speaker 1: a white smart watch on the floor near Nancy's bed
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  Speaker 1: in a destroyed backyard floodlight. While the FBI works to
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  Speaker 1: verify the note's legitimacy, the lead agency, the County Sheriff's Department,
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  Speaker 1: states it has no additional information. This follows a June
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  Speaker 1: twenty second NBC news report regarding a second ransom note
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  Speaker 1: sent to the family in media claiming Nancy was dead,
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  Speaker 1: though it offered no apology or ransom request for her body.
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  Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie delivered a tearful appeal on the Today Show.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody knows something, and this is a news story today
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  Speaker 3: that is on your radar. But this is the life
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  Speaker 3: that my sister lives, that I live, that my brother lives,
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  Speaker 3: that our extended families live, that our children live every day,
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  Speaker 3: and we are in agony.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot be at peace. Savannah, who returned to co
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  Speaker 1: anchor Today on April sixth, the alongside Craig Melvin and
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  Speaker 1: Hoda Cobb, recently spoke on Today with Jenna Ann Chanelle,
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  Speaker 1: admitting she cries every morning while leaning on support of
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  Speaker 1: friends to hold both her sadness and joy together. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. In Saint Paul, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: a dispute over a parking fee ended in a horrific
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  Speaker 1: triple homicide inside an apartment complex leasing office on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Saint Paul police responded to frantic calls reporting gunshots and
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  Speaker 1: screams at the complex just after four pm. Officers arrived
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  Speaker 1: to find three workers shot to death, fifty six year
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  Speaker 1: old Dina Silcock's, forty three year old Adam Wilwerdig and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five year old Nancy Fuentes Zimbrono Silcox and Wilwardig
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  Speaker 1: were found on the office floor, while Fuentes Zambrono was
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  Speaker 1: found near a back window attempting to escape. Police arrested
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  Speaker 1: thirty year old segob Binessu the following day in Virginia, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: nearly two hundred miles away, driving Fuentes Zambrono's stolen vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Banessu faces three counts of second degree murder. According to
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  Speaker 1: a criminal complaint, Banessu's roommate contacted police after Beanessu confessed.
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  Speaker 1: The roommate explained that Beanessu, a trucker hoping to join
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  Speaker 1: the Navy, had sold his car and attempted to cancel
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  Speaker 1: a sixty five dollars month monthly garage parking contract he
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  Speaker 1: had recently renewed. Staffers informed him over the phone that
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  Speaker 1: the fee could not be canceled, prompting Beanessu to confront
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  Speaker 1: them in person. Surveillance video captures Beanessu firing six shots
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  Speaker 1: at Wilwardigg while covering his ears, then shooting Silcock six
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  Speaker 1: times while shouting a profane insult. Four additional shots and
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  Speaker 1: screaming were recorded off camera as he shot Fuintes Zambrano.
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  Speaker 1: Following his arrest, Beinessu admitted he became overwhelmed by stress
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  Speaker 1: over the contract and felt discriminated against as a black
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  Speaker 1: immigrant from Ethiopia held on ten million dollars bond. Banessu
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  Speaker 1: claimed life without his family no longer made sense. Victims
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  Speaker 1: are remembered fondly by loved ones and former tenants. In
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  Speaker 1: Saint Francis, Wisconsin, a young mother was gunned down during
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  Speaker 1: a custody exchange hours after seeking legal protection against her
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  Speaker 1: child's father. Authorities report thirty three year old Randall Lenyard
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  Speaker 1: shot Keana Pliska six times in a part arking lot
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  Speaker 1: on July sixteenth, in front of their six year old son.
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  Speaker 1: Following the shooting, Lanyard called his sister, admitting to the
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  Speaker 1: attack and threatening further violence against himself and his child.
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  Speaker 1: His sister immediately alerted nine one one. Police arrested Lanyard
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  Speaker 1: following a chase in Wauwatosa, and prosecutors charged to Monday
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  Speaker 1: with homicide and stalking. Court documents reveal a harrowing pattern
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  Speaker 1: of domestic abuse leading up to the tragedy. Plista filed
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  Speaker 1: her second restraining order against Lenyard hours before her murder,
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  Speaker 1: detailing how Lanyard kicked in her front door the previous day,
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  Speaker 1: breaking the hinges while their son dialed nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: Pliska also reported that Lanyard had been tracking her with
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  Speaker 1: an air tag and had previously physically assaulted her at
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  Speaker 1: another custody exchange, writing in her petition that she was
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  Speaker 1: terrified of what he would do next. The criminal complaint
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  Speaker 1: notes Lanyard previously threatened to engage in a shootout with
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  Speaker 1: police if officers attempted to arrest him. For more Crime
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