Finding Nancy: The Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Oct 5, 2026 · 33 min · 19 segments
Someone sent former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer a ransom demand for Nancy Guthrie — and they knew things they shouldn’t have known. The email arrived at a private personnel address and…
Jennifer CoffindafferGuestTony BruschiHostRobin DreekeHostYou know, you were talking earlier about concern about them going after and, and people outside of law enforcement with no background, no connection to, to that, uh, and, and putting these, these demands out there for money.
Eh, the Bitcoin amounts have, have been very high from what we've, you know, we've seen in the past, millions of dollars.
You know, it's not something that the average folks would be like, "Well, let's throw a million dollars that way and see what happens.
I'm think I'm doing good." Y- the, the dollar amount would need to be significantly lower.
I'm wondering, I mean, have we ever seen anything like this where extortionists are going after the general public, uh, asking for Bitcoin or money to either reveal information about who they took or release them, uh, trying to tug on the heartstrings of, of a general public that's being, um, you know, affected by a national case or something of, of this, this magnitude? I mean, immediately you would think if somebody's like, "I just need $500," like that's BS, but it's also $500.
It's a lot easier for someone who may not, you know, be the brightest in understanding what they're looking at, but have a good heart to be like, "Oh, here's $500." Um, have we ever seen anything like this that you can think of?
Bitcoin, and, uh, pointing this out with all the study I did on the wrench and wrench by proxy attacks-
This is, this is the new way, uh, that people that are taking people for ransom, this is what's being done.
It's no longer leave, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40, $50,000 in a brown paper bag behind the Supra.
It i- it is all about Bitcoin, and that's because it is very difficult to trace.
They even sent, which I thought was interesting right when I first saw it, the, you know, the QR code.
You know, you were talking earlier about concern about them going after and, and people outside of law enforcement with no background, no connection to, to that, uh, and, and putting these, these demands out there for money.
Eh, the Bitcoin amounts have, have been very high from what we've, you know, we've seen in the past, millions of dollars.
You know, it's not something that the average folks would be like, "Well, let's throw a million dollars that way and see what happens.
I'm think I'm doing good." Y- the, the dollar amount would need to be significantly lower.
I'm wondering, I mean, have we ever seen anything like this where extortionists are going after the general public, uh, asking for Bitcoin or money to either reveal information about who they took or release them, uh, trying to tug on the heartstrings of, of a general public that's being, um, you know, affected by a national case or something of, of this, this magnitude? I mean, immediately you would think if somebody's like, "I just need $500," like that's BS, but it's also $500.
It's a lot easier for someone who may not, you know, be the brightest in understanding what they're looking at, but have a good heart to be like, "Oh, here's $500." Um, have we ever seen anything like this that you can think of?
Bitcoin, and, uh, pointing this out with all the study I did on the wrench and wrench by proxy attacks-
This is, this is the new way, uh, that people that are taking people for ransom, this is what's being done.
It's no longer leave, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40, $50,000 in a brown paper bag behind the Supra.
It i- it is all about Bitcoin, and that's because it is very difficult to trace.
They even sent, which I thought was interesting right when I first saw it, the, you know, the QR code.
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