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The FBI is now jointly running the Nancy Guthrie investigation alongside the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Over a hundred investigators are on the case. A fifty-thousand-dollar reward has been announced. Ransom notes were sent to media outlets — not to Nancy's family — referencing specific items from the property, demanding millions in bitcoin, and carrying two deadlines. There has been no proof of life and no follow-up contact. One arrest has been made for an imposter demand.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down what happens when the Bureau takes joint control of a kidnapping at this scale. She walks through how investigators coordinate a hundred-person operation, what the decision to send ransom demands to the press reveals about the sender, why the FBI cited AI as making proof-of-life verification increasingly unreliable, and what the Bureau is actually prioritizing right now that the public cannot see.

FBI SAC Heith Janke said in a legitimate kidnapping there would be contact by now. Coffindaffer explains why the silence after ransom demands is the most important signal in this case — and what investigators expect when those deadlines expire.

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