Finding Nancy: The Nancy Guthrie Investigation

Hidden Killers Podcast

An 84-year-old woman vanishes from her Tucson home. No witnesses. No ransom call that makes sense. And a family waiting in the kind of silence that breaks people. Nancy Guthrie—mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie—disappeared on January 24, 2025, setting off a national investigation that has exposed deep dysfunction between federal and local law enforcement, raised more questions than answers, and captivated a country watching in real time. This is Finding Nancy—the only podcast dedicated entirely to this case. Hosted by Tony Brueski, veteran true crime podcaster and Court TV legal analyst, this channel delivers what mainstream coverage can't: daily monologues breaking down every development as it happens, multi-part expert interview series with former FBI agents, behavioral analysts, and criminal defense attorneys, and unflinching analysis of the investigative failures, jurisdictional conflicts, and unanswered questions surrounding this case. We don't do speculation dressed up as insight. We don't recycle what you've already heard. Every episode is built on verified reporting, primary sources, and expert perspective—delivered with the kind of clarity and directness this case demands. You'll hear from voices like Robin Dreeke, former chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI Special Agent, breaking down what the evidence actually tells us—and what it doesn't. You'll get real-time analysis of Sheriff Chris Nanos's public statements, the FBI's involvement, and the contradictions piling up between them. This isn't entertainment. This is accountability journalism in podcast form. Whether you're following because of who Nancy's daughter is, or because an elderly woman deserves answers regardless of her family's fame, this is where you come to understand what's really happening—not what someone wants you to believe is happening. New episodes drop daily as the case develops. Subscribe now.

  1. 1d ago

    Why Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Stopped Asking For Money

    You've followed the Nancy Guthrie case from the first night, so you know what the July 31 release of the ransom notes actually changed: for the first time, the public can read the writer's own words. Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral analyst Robin Dreeke spend this episode inside them, guided by your questions. The details you've been waiting to discuss are all here. The 'Hello Savannah' opening. The $4 million Bitcoin demand and the promised safe drop-off. The white smart watch and the destroyed flood light, the two proof points that made the FBI take the letters seriously. The second note's total retreat from money, its heart-related explanation, the 'buried in nature' line, and the apology. Plus the timeline you memorized months ago: camera down at 1:47, a person detected at 2:12, the pacemaker offline at 2:28. Robin's behavioral read covers what the tone shift between letters suggests, what kind of writer wishes a family peace, and whether one person produced both notes. And the closing question — why federal agents went back into the brush behind her home — gets the serious treatment this audience deserves. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #RansomNote #Tucson #FBI #MissingPerson #PimaCounty

    Why Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Stopped Asking For Money
  2. 2d ago

    Why Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Never Touched the Money

    Sheriff Nanos sat down for his six-month message on the Nancy Guthrie case and called his office's relationship with the FBI great. In the same stretch, the ransom letters were finally released, and Nanos acknowledged thousands of hours of video still haven't been reviewed. Six months into the disappearance of a 74-year-old woman taken from her own Tucson home. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to say what most people watching that message were thinking, and to bring receipts nobody else has. Her receipts come off the blockchain. After the Pima County Sheriff's Office accidentally printed the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address on a media release, Coffindaffer traced every transaction on it. The demand was allegedly four million dollars. The wallet's entire history is one deposit: roughly three hundred dollars in Bitcoin, moved by the FBI on February 10, never touched again. No ransom was ever paid — which sits uneasily beside the family's public statement that they did their part. The wallet also carried messages, written directly onto the blockchain, including the exact words Savannah Guthrie said on camera about being willing to pay. An open channel to the alleged kidnapper existed for six months. It was never answered. Coffindaffer explains what that silence tends to mean, and why the answer changes depending on whether Nancy's captors were organized professionals or a hired man in over his head. That split is her other headline: she believes the two ransom notes came from two different authors. One wrote threats on a schedule. One wrote an apology that reads like it was drafted with a death penalty statute in mind. This channel exists to keep Nancy Guthrie's case from going quiet. This episode is the loudest it's been in months. LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Tucson #FBI #Bitcoin #RansomNote #MissingPerson #JenniferCoffindaffer

    Why Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Never Touched the Money
  3. 4d ago

    What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper REALLY Proved With That Note

    Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper had every opportunity to send real proof she was alive — her voice, a photo, anything with her in it — and instead described a smartwatch on the floor and a broken floodlight. Pima County released both ransom notes in full, and this episode is a complete breakdown of what's actually in them and what the investigation has gotten wrong since. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, goes through the first note line by line: the four-million-dollar bitcoin demand, the deadline set for Savannah Guthrie, the proof-of-presence details, a revealing slip from "we" to "me," and a line about Nancy's mother written to put the outcome squarely on the family. Then the second note: it states Nancy died shortly after she was taken. If the notes are accurate and in order, the ransom demand went out for someone who was already gone. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the investigation from the outside. Sheriff Chris Nanos told cameras Derrick Callella — the only person charged in connection with this case — received ten years. He hasn't been sentenced. The real plea agreement is five years of probation on two counts of harassment by telecommunications device. Coffindaffer explains what it means that the man running this investigation can't accurately describe his own case's only conviction, and why the FBI director and Pima County's sheriff still haven't spoken directly, reward money on the table and no named suspect. Savannah Guthrie's latest statement. A nearby attack with an eerily similar suspect description. And a ransom note that never once proves what it claims. Every detail, laid out in order. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #JenniferCoffindaffer #RansomNote #PimaCounty #SheriffNanos #TrueCrime #Kidnapping

    What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper REALLY Proved With That Note
  4. 6d ago

    What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Did AFTER Savannah Said She'd Pay

    Eight sentences. No location. No demands. The second note told the family Nancy died shortly after she was taken, said it was heart related, and ended with an apology. The writer walked away from six million dollars and a family that had already publicly said they would pay. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the second note line by line — the phrase buried in nature, the claim about her condition from someone who was inside her house, and the question that sits underneath all of it: is this a man feeling guilt, or a man who never had anything to sell? Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers. END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #RansomNote #Kidnapping #PimaCounty #ForensicPsychology #TrueCrime #DeathNote

    What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Did AFTER Savannah Said She'd Pay
  5. Aug 5

    What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Knew That Nobody Else Did

    The entire first ransom note uses we. We have your mother. We will be holding her. Then one sentence: You will not be able to contact me from here on out. One me sitting in the middle of a wall of we. The sheriff's department has said it has not ruled out that one person did this alone. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott breaks the first note down line by line with Tony Brueski — the demand structure, the proof-of-presence, the moment the writer puts the outcome on Savannah and makes sure Nancy knows it, and the question of whether we was ever real. Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers. END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #ShavaunScott #RansomNote #Kidnapping #PimaCounty #ForensicPsychology #TrueCrime #CriminalProfile

    What Nancy Guthrie's Kidnapper Knew That Nobody Else Did
  6. Aug 4

    The Sheriff Told the Public WHAT About Nancy’s Only Arrest?!

    Sheriff Nanos went on camera and stated what happened to the only man convicted in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance — and he got it wrong. The actual plea deal for Derrick Callella is probation on harassment charges. He hasn't been sentenced yet. Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI, breaks down what it means when the lead investigator can't describe the outcome of his own case. This conversation covers the FBI-sheriff communication breakdown, Savannah Guthrie's latest plea and the shift in her language from hope to something closer to demand, and a disturbing home invasion thirty miles from Nancy's house where the suspect matches the porch figure's height. Six months into this case, the reward sits at over a million dollars. No one has been named. No one has been arrested. And the man in charge just got his own scoreboard wrong. LinksJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #PimaCounty #SheriffNanos #Tucson #FBI #JenniferCoffindaffer #MissingPerson

    The Sheriff Told the Public WHAT About Nancy’s Only Arrest?!
  7. Aug 2

    Savannah Guthrie Believes THIS About Her Mother's Fate

    For six months, Savannah Guthrie has spoken to the camera the same way every time: proof of life, an open line, a family ready to negotiate. On July 27th, for the first time, she didn't. The new message dropped every demand she'd made since January and replaced it with something that sounded less like a negotiation and more like a woman who has made peace with an answer nobody has confirmed publicly. It came the same week three separate FBI sources gave three different answers about whether the case's ransom notes are even real — one report calling all of them fake, another saying some may be legitimate, a third ranking the original two as credible. This episode is for everyone who has followed every tip, every press conference, every twist in this case since January. It covers exactly what changed in Savannah's language, lays the FBI's contradicting statements next to it, and walks through Jennifer Coffindaffer's ten-point challenge to investigators — including why the enhanced photo of porch guy has never been released and why Nancy's face is on the billboards instead of a suspect's. Six months. 150 agents. Over 13,000 tips. A $1.2 million reward. And a daughter whose words just told us something the case file hasn't. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Tucson #FBI #PimaCounty #RansomNotes #JenniferCoffindaffer #Missing

    Savannah Guthrie Believes THIS About Her Mother's Fate
  8. Jul 30

    Why Savannah Guthrie Offered Forgiveness To Nancy's Kidnapper

    Anger didn't work. Reward money didn't work. The biggest law enforcement mobilization in the country didn't work. So on July 27th, Savannah Guthrie tried the one thing she had left. She recorded a video, addressed it directly to whoever took her mother, and offered something that nobody in this family has offered before. Not a deal. Not a demand. Something harder than both. The video arrived the same week the first ransom note was read publicly for the first time — on Crime Junkie, with details about the inside of Nancy's house that reportedly hadn't been released. It arrived days after the FBI director accused the Pima County Sheriff of costing the investigation critical evidence, and the sheriff's office responded by redirecting all ransom questions to the FBI. This episode walks through every word of Savannah's plea, what it tells you about what this family believes happened to Nancy, and the institutional failure that left a daughter with no option except a camera and a prayer that someone's conscience still works. END LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS:#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Tucson #FBI #PimaCounty #Missing #CrimeJunkie #Kidnapping

    Why Savannah Guthrie Offered Forgiveness To Nancy's Kidnapper
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An 84-year-old woman vanishes from her Tucson home. No witnesses. No ransom call that makes sense. And a family waiting in the kind of silence that breaks people. Nancy Guthrie—mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie—disappeared on January 24, 2025, setting off a national investigation that has exposed deep dysfunction between federal and local law enforcement, raised more questions than answers, and captivated a country watching in real time. This is Finding Nancy—the only podcast dedicated entirely to this case. Hosted by Tony Brueski, veteran true crime podcaster and Court TV legal analyst, this channel delivers what mainstream coverage can't: daily monologues breaking down every development as it happens, multi-part expert interview series with former FBI agents, behavioral analysts, and criminal defense attorneys, and unflinching analysis of the investigative failures, jurisdictional conflicts, and unanswered questions surrounding this case. We don't do speculation dressed up as insight. We don't recycle what you've already heard. Every episode is built on verified reporting, primary sources, and expert perspective—delivered with the kind of clarity and directness this case demands. You'll hear from voices like Robin Dreeke, former chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI Special Agent, breaking down what the evidence actually tells us—and what it doesn't. You'll get real-time analysis of Sheriff Chris Nanos's public statements, the FBI's involvement, and the contradictions piling up between them. This isn't entertainment. This is accountability journalism in podcast form. Whether you're following because of who Nancy's daughter is, or because an elderly woman deserves answers regardless of her family's fame, this is where you come to understand what's really happening—not what someone wants you to believe is happening. New episodes drop daily as the case develops. Subscribe now.

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