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Tipster is persistent they have details on Nancy Guthrie, Harvey Levin says · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Before we go today, TMZ receiving yet another email from
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  Speaker 1: the person claiming to know the identity of Nancy Guthrie's kidnappers.
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  Speaker 1: This time, the tipsters say they have video, specifically of
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  Speaker 1: Nancy herself with one of her alleged kidnappers, from what
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  Speaker 1: they describe as likely her last day. The email claims
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  Speaker 1: the evidence exists on a phone in a secure location
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  Speaker 1: and demands one bitcoin in return for all the necessary information.
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  Speaker 1: We're joined now by TMZ executive producer Harvey Levin. Harvey's
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  Speaker 1: right across the not very far from here in LA.
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  Speaker 1: We want to have him in studio, but we have
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  Speaker 1: to patch it over to TMZ headquarters. But he has
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  Speaker 1: this story. Tell me what's going on, Harvey. They're saying
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  Speaker 1: they have video.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying they have video, and for one bitcoin, they
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  Speaker 2: will lead authorities to the safe place where they can
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  Speaker 2: find this phone. They will give them the password, and
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  Speaker 2: that they will get both the videos and the name
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  Speaker 2: and address of the two kidnappers. This is what the
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  Speaker 2: person says. Well, we have received a dozen emails from
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  Speaker 2: this person. It is the same person each time, and
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  Speaker 2: they are persisting that they know the kidnappers, that they
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  Speaker 2: were with Nancy at one point when she was alive,
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  Speaker 2: told us when she had died, said they knew the location.
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  Speaker 2: And we've been in constant touch with the FBI over
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  Speaker 2: this person, and we know they are trying to find
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  Speaker 2: out who it is, so it's not like they're dismissing
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  Speaker 2: this person out of hand. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: they're not paying the bitcoin, so they must be a broadster.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, that's the obvious question, Harvey, is how
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  Speaker 1: much do we trust? How much do you trust? How
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  Speaker 1: much does the FBI trust this information? You've shared this
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  Speaker 1: with the FBI, you obviously have an email handle, you
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  Speaker 1: have ways to try this person down. But what you're
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  Speaker 1: saying is, from what you understand right now, the FBI
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  Speaker 1: does not find this tipster legit.
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  Speaker 2: No, I can't say that, because, first of all, the
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  Speaker 2: FBI has been working with my team from the beginning
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  Speaker 2: when we got the first ransom note, and they've also
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  Speaker 2: worked with our itt team to find this person. We
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  Speaker 2: don't have a way of corresponding with them via email
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  Speaker 2: because it doesn't work, and the fbis tried to track
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  Speaker 2: it down. They haven't, but they told me this week
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  Speaker 2: that they feel they're getting closer to it, and that
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  Speaker 2: they are trying to find this person, so they're not
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  Speaker 2: dismissing this person out of hand and as a matter.
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  Speaker 1: Of hard we acee like in twenty twenty six, you
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  Speaker 1: can track anyone down, especially if they give you an
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  Speaker 1: email address. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting it, just I thought that's where we were.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you they had five FBI agents at
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  Speaker 2: one point on the phone with ourt team, and they
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  Speaker 2: spent hours with them, and they were trying to track
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  Speaker 2: down both the kidnapper and the person who's been sending
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  Speaker 2: us these emails, and they could not do it.
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  Speaker 3: Hm.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I want to clarify what this person is telling
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  Speaker 1: you as well. They're saying multiple kidnappers, right, two kidnappers.
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  Speaker 1: This guy says he has it on video, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got this video on a phone that he's put away
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  Speaker 1: in some lock box essentially, and the video also includes
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie.
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  Speaker 2: He says that there is video of Nancy Guthrie and
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  Speaker 2: the main kidnapper. That's what he says in this note. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I did a social media post after I got this
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  Speaker 2: email today and I said, look, you could well be
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  Speaker 2: a fraudster. And that presumably is why you haven't gotten money.
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  Speaker 2: Send us a screen graph of Nancy Guthrie something from
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  Speaker 2: this video to show that you're legit. He responded a
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  Speaker 2: couple of hours he had seen this social media post
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  Speaker 2: and he said, I'm not going to do it because
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  Speaker 2: the metadata is going to lead authorities to me. And
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  Speaker 2: he says he's afraid because he seems to. At least
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  Speaker 2: he says he knows these kidnappers, and they know him
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  Speaker 2: and suspect that he's this guy, and they he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to trigger anything until they're in custody. That's what
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  Speaker 2: he said. I can't tell you is he a fraudster,
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  Speaker 2: is a legit? Nor can I tell you how the
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  Speaker 2: FBI feels, except they seem conflicted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, one more question to Harvey. So what is
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  Speaker 1: he suggesting is his relationship to the kidnappers. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's an odd detail you just shared that he thinks
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  Speaker 1: they suspect he's the guy.
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  Speaker 3: Who's I mean, how's he still alive? How's he not?
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  Speaker 3: How's he not arrested? And how the criminals not dealt
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  Speaker 3: with him if they already suspect who he is?
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  Speaker 2: I listen, I personally, I think these kidnappers freaked out
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  Speaker 2: when Nancy got three died that they wanted money, and
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  Speaker 2: when she died early on days after they kidnapped her,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, they're going to be on the
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  Speaker 2: hook for murder. It's felony murder. And that's why they
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  Speaker 2: sent that second note, because the second note, they didn't
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  Speaker 2: say we want money and will lead you to her body.
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  Speaker 2: They just said she died and we didn't do it,
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  Speaker 2: and so I think they freaked out. That's where they
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  Speaker 2: went radio silent. They never demanded any more money. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that these guys are the killers that
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  Speaker 2: you might think, because I think they were basically doing
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  Speaker 2: this for profit and never thought through that this eighty
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  Speaker 2: four year old woman could die on their watch.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's a fascinating update. Harve Levi and at TMZ,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much. I do think that that's the
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  Speaker 1: big question is your guy is he legit?
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we need to figure out. Thank you, Harvey.
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