2026-07-01 22:22 EDT / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
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更新时间：2026年7月1日 / 美国东部时间晚上10:37 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
谁是与南希·格思里绑架案相关赎金便条的幕后主使？这个问题仍在困扰着亚利桑那州该案的调查人员。距离这位84岁的祖母、《今日秀》联合主持人萨凡纳·格思里的母亲在深夜被绑架已经过去了五个月。
这些便条可分为三类：调查人员认为可能属实的、在她失踪首周内发出的两封便条；有可能属实但未提供任何线索佐证的便条；以及当局所称的、来自潜在勒索者的骗钱索要。
“联邦调查局及其专案组伙伴在此次调查过程中已收到多封赎金便条，”一名FBI官员周三在给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的声明中表示。“其中一些被认定为毫无真实性的勒索企图。其他赎金要求可能具有潜在合法性，仍在按此方向进行调查。”
这名FBI官员表示，该机构正在协助当地执法部门，主要是负责此案的主导机构皮马县警长办公室。执法部门消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，FBI一直在处理赎金便条的数字取证工作。皮马县警长克里斯·纳诺斯已将所有有关赎金便条的问题转交FBI回应。
“此案仍将按绑架勒索案进行调查，”这名FBI官员周三说道。
2026年3月3日，亚利桑那州图森市KVOA电视台外展示着支持南希·格思里的横幅。格蕾丝·熙允/阿纳多卢通讯社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄
第一封便条于2月2日发出，也就是南希·格思里在图森的家中被报失踪的第二天，其中包含了格思里家中的细节，这让调查人员对其重视起来。其中一个细节描述了格思里戴白色表带的苹果手表被放在床边地板上的情况。另一个细节则提到后廊的一盏泛光灯不亮了。这封便条要求在几天内以比特币支付最初的400万美元，如果错过第一个最后期限，赎金则追加200万美元比特币。
这封赎金信息通过两条热线发送给了当地两家新闻电视台和TMZ。多位熟悉该便条的消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，便条中留下的联系邮箱是一个Gmail地址，收件人是萨凡纳·格思里。格思里家族与FBI合作拟定了回复，但未收到任何回信。
随后在2月6日，也就是首次沟通发出四天后，另一条信息通过热线传来。执法部门消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，FBI后来确定该信息与第一封便条来自同一个IP地址。这封便条暗示南希·格思里已经死亡。
萨凡纳·格思里和她的兄弟姐妹当时通过视频留言回应称：“我们收到了你的信息，我们明白……这对我们来说非常重要，我们会支付赎金。”但他们此后再也没有收到潜在绑匪的消息。
“我认为有很多不同的便条，”萨凡纳·格思里在3月的一次采访中对霍达·科特布说。“据我所知，其中大多数都不是真的……但我相信我们收到并做出回应的那两封，我倾向于认为它们是真的。”
TMZ创始人哈维·莱文谈转交FBI的信息
随着时间推移，TMZ持续收到线索并转交给FBI。其中一封便条引起了TMZ创始人哈维·莱文的注意，它要求用1比特币（约合6万美元）作为获取绑匪信息的交换条件。
“一个月前，我打电话给FBI说，‘听着，我就是有种感觉，这个人可能是真的’，”莱文上周在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时表示。
信息仍在不断传来，莱文称他总共向FBI转交了大约十几条信息。莱文表示，有一次FBI暗示他们认为发件人可能是女性。
莱文说他告诉FBI：“如果我们制作一部纪录片，把钱打进那个比特币地址，追踪资金流向，看看它最终去了哪里？显然我们不会在没有你们配合的情况下行动，但我们就是觉得这条线索是真的，我们这么做怎么样？”
“我打了六通电话，感觉他们在故意回避我们，”莱文说。但FBI最终联系了他，莱文表示，FBI要求他不要推进纪录片计划，因为他们认为已经快要确认发件人身份了。
莱文表示，他上周收到该发件人的最新信息时，对方写道南希·格思里的一段视频存在一部处于安全地点的手机中，并再次要求支付1比特币以换取相关信息。
目前没有迹象表明发送给TMZ的信息是真实的，也不清楚FBI距离确认发件人身份还有多远。在回应哥伦比亚广播公司新闻就莱文的言论置评的请求时，FBI发言人援引了周三发布的官方声明。
在当局认定的一起早期勒索企图案件中，联邦检察官指控一名加州男子通过短信向萨凡纳·格思里的家人发送伪造的赎金便条。根据起诉书，德里克·卡莱拉曾向他们发送短信：“你们收到比特币了吗？我们这边正等待交易完成。”卡莱尔已提出无罪抗辩。
卡莱拉的下一次听证会定于7月2日在图森的联邦法院举行。
格思里家族悬赏100万美元征集任何能找到南希·格思里下落的线索。FBI也悬赏10万美元，并鼓励任何知情人士拨打1-800-CALL-FBI（1-800-225-5324）。
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FBI investigating legitimacy of Nancy Guthrie ransom notes
2026-07-01 22:22 EDT / CBS News
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Updated on: July 1, 2026 / 10:37 PM EDT / CBS News
Who is behind the ransom notes tied to Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping? That question continues to plague investigators working the case in Arizona, five months after the 84-year-old grandmother and mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie was kidnapped in the middle of the night.
The notes fall into three categories: the two notes sent within the first week of her disappearance that investigators believe are likely legitimate, those that could be legitimate but that don’t have any clues suggesting they are, and those that authorities say are money grabs from would-be extortionists.
“The FBI and its task force partners have received several ransom notes over the course of this investigation,” an FBI official said Wednesday in a statement to CBS News. “Some have been deemed to be extortion attempts without legitimacy. Other ransom demands may potentially be legitimate and are still being investigated as such.”
The FBI official said the agency is assisting local authorities, namely the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, which is the lead agency on the case. Law enforcement sources have told CBS News that the FBI has been handling the digital forensic work on the ransom notes. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has directed all questions about ransom notes to the FBI.
“This case continues to be investigated as a kidnapping for ransom case,” the FBI official said Wednesday.
A banner in support of Nancy Guthrie is displayed at KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, on March 3, 2026. Grace Hie Yoon/Anadolu via Getty Images
The first note, sent on Feb. 2, one day after Nancy Guthrie was reported missing from her home in Tucson, included details about Guthrie’s home that led investigators to take it seriously. One of the details described the placement of Guthrie’s Apple Watch with a white wrist band that was left on the floor next to her bed. Another detail noted that a floodlight on the back porch was out. The note demanded an initial $4 million in bitcoin within a few days’ time, and then upped the ante by $2 million more in bitcoin if the first deadline was missed.
The ransom message was sent via tip lines to two local news stations and TMZ. A Gmail address was entered as the contact email and addressed to Savannah Guthrie, multiple sources familiar with the note have told CBS News. The family worked with the FBI to craft a response, but there was no email back.
Then on Feb. 6, four days after the first communication came in, another one came through the tip lines. The FBI later determined it came from the same IP address as the first note, law enforcement sources told CBS News. This note indicated that Nancy Guthrie had died.
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings responded with a video message at the time, saying: “We received your message and we understand… This is very valuable to us and we will pay.” But they never heard from the potential kidnappers again.
“There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came,” Savannah Guthrie told Hoda Kotb in an interview in March. “And I think most of them, it’s my understanding, are not real. … But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.”
TMZ’s Harvey Levin on messages passed on to FBI
As the days went on, TMZ continued to receive tips that the outlet passed on to the FBI. One note caught the eye of TMZ founder Harvey Levin. It demanded 1 bitcoin, or about $60,000, for information about the kidnappers.
“A month ago, I called the FBI and I said, ‘Look, I just have this sense this guy might be real,’” Levin told CBS News in an interview last week.
The messages continued to come in, and Levin said he shared them all with the FBI, about a dozen messages in total. At one point, Levin said, the FBI indicated they believed the sender might be female.
Levin said he told the FBI, “What if we do a documentary, and we put that money in the bitcoin address and follow the path and where it goes? And we’d obviously not do anything without you, but just because we have this sense it’s real, what if we do this?”
“I had made six calls and I felt they were ghosting us,” Levin said. But the FBI eventually got back to him, Levin said, asking that he not follow through on the documentary idea because they felt they were close to identifying the sender.
In the most recent message Levin received from the individual last week, Levin said the sender wrote that a video of Nancy Guthrie was on a cellphone in a secure place, and the sender again demanded 1 bitcoin in exchange for information.
There is no indication the messages sent to TMZ are legitimate, and it is unclear how close the FBI is to identifying the sender. In response to CBS News’ request for comment on Levin’s statements, an FBI spokesperson referred to the official statement released Wednesday.
In an early instance of what authorities believe to have been an extortion attempt, federal prosecutors charged a California man with sending a fake ransom note via text message to Savannah Guthrie’s family. Derrick Callella allegedly texted them, “Did you get the bitcoin were [sic] waiting on our end for the transaction,” according to the charging documents. Callella has pleaded not guilty.
Callella’s next hearing is scheduled for July 2 at the federal courthouse in Tucson.
The Guthrie family is offering a $1 million reward for any information that leads to the whereabouts of Nancy Guthrie. The FBI is also offering a $100,000 reward and encouraging anyone with information to call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).
Pat Milton contributed to this report.