The news of the Bitcoin ransom broke shortly after this, with my thinking that there might be a few out there trying to scam the family as that scam emails starting popping up in my spam folder with one of the email accounts that I have. The scammer claimed to have access to my files and had been watching me with a webcam, which is not possible as that the computers I use have them all disabled. Sure enough, someone from California was caught demanding a ransom via Bitcoin, and in spite of covering all of his tracks he was caught. And I hope he's locked away for so long that when he gets out there is no one left alive who remembers what happened.
Of course, as I write this, Nancy Guthrie remains kidnapped, and there is no proof one way or the other that she is even alive. Ransom demands are still coming, the investigation is ongoing in addition to being intense, and although I have read up on all of the publicly available details that doesn't tell me how close the Pima County Sheriff's Department is to solving this case.
And since I don't know, I will speculate some on this.
There is something that's not right with this. By that I mean, whoever did this had to have some inside knowledge of the family and residence. This suggests that a family member, either by blood or by marriage, knows some things about this that the rest of us doesn't know. This also suggests that there is a motive behind this that is connected to some inner drama of that family.
I say this because the victim here, Nancy Guthrie, is difficult to keep alive relative to most of the rest of us. She is in need of some medications that must be taken on a daily basis for starters, and since to our knowledge, those medications weren't taken with her, this suggests that whoever did this really isn't interested in keeping her alive.
Also, this happened in the dead of night. Whoever did this is well familiar with her residence. He or she knew which security cameras to unplug, may have known that an understaffed sheriff's department would not be quick enough in responding to prevent this (and/or knew something about the company doing the monitoring, if applicable), and had to have had entry somehow.
Would Nancy Guthrie have let some stranger in who knocked on the door in the dead of night? Or was this a forced entry? I don't know how the intruder got in, but I can speculate that the intruder or intruders knew some things about that residence that were just not known to the general public.
Of course the kidnapper(s) could have scoped it out beforehand. Is it possible that it was someone who came over there to fix the air conditioner or clean the pool? That kind of person might have had the knowledge needed for this.
Like most of the rest of us, I would like to see Nancy Guthrie emerge from this alive and well. I am hoping that a family member or close associate is NOT involved, because that would be, in my opinion, one way for this situation to be much worse than it would be otherwise.
I could also be wrong about all or some of this, and if I am, then it won't be a blow to my ego.
