Finding Nancy: The Nancy Guthrie Investigation
Aug 10, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
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…
Jennifer CoffindafferGuestTony BruschiHostSo the, uh, the Pima County Sheriff's Office sent out its own media release with the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address at the bottom.
They pulled it back, but it was already screenshotted out there on the internets.
Um, that address is the only reason the public knows, uh, what the money actually did.
How does the office that's running this case leak that? I mean, there's no- nobody's checking work here anymore, are they? Nobody's...
There's no proofers, there's no editors, there's no, "Hey, let's just get a second set of eyes on this before we post it." It just seems to be like, click, done, oops.
Here's a couple thoughts here." Um, you know, it's, it's really unfortunate.
I, in a sense that that happened, I mean, for all of us that followed this case, it was, for me at least, a huge epiphany.
I was able to really understand, uh, the transactions, the note, the links, uh, which were really important.
And so it, it really shed a lot of light on the case, on the case for sure.
I- it's almost like it has the importance of the local school district tweeting out the lunch menu of that week.
Just like when we put something out, when, when, when you tweet something out, I mean, you proof it a little bit.
You make, like, "Okay, does this make sense? Does this..." You know, it's not just, [clicks tongue] "Oh, shoot, I shouldn't have put that out there," but they did, and it is out there now, so it is what it is.
So the, uh, the Pima County Sheriff's Office sent out its own media release with the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address at the bottom.
They pulled it back, but it was already screenshotted out there on the internets.
Um, that address is the only reason the public knows, uh, what the money actually did.
How does the office that's running this case leak that? I mean, there's no- nobody's checking work here anymore, are they? Nobody's...
There's no proofers, there's no editors, there's no, "Hey, let's just get a second set of eyes on this before we post it." It just seems to be like, click, done, oops.
Here's a couple thoughts here." Um, you know, it's, it's really unfortunate.
I, in a sense that that happened, I mean, for all of us that followed this case, it was, for me at least, a huge epiphany.
I was able to really understand, uh, the transactions, the note, the links, uh, which were really important.
And so it, it really shed a lot of light on the case, on the case for sure.
I- it's almost like it has the importance of the local school district tweeting out the lunch menu of that week.
Just like when we put something out, when, when, when you tweet something out, I mean, you proof it a little bit.
You make, like, "Okay, does this make sense? Does this..." You know, it's not just, [clicks tongue] "Oh, shoot, I shouldn't have put that out there," but they did, and it is out there now, so it is what it is.
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