Nancy Guthrie ransom note, believed to be from abductor, said she died, sources say

Authorities believe two ransom notes addressed to Nancy Guthrie's family days after her disappearance — including a note that said she had died — were likely sent by the person or group of people who abducted her, according to investigators familiar with the case. Investigators believe that the same person or people sent both notes and that both were likely sent from the same computer IP address. The first note demanded millions in bitcoin for Nancy Guthrie's release. In the second note, sent a few days later, the apparent abductors revealed that Nancy Guthrie had died. The note indicated that they did not mean for her to die, according to sources who reviewed the notes. Her daughter, "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie , said in an interview with NBC in March that the family believes the two notes are authentic. "There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came, and I think most of them — it's my understanding — are not real, and I didn't see them," she said. "But I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real." The first note, sent on Feb. 2, one day after Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona, was sent to three media outlets — two local news stations and TMZ — via their online tiplines. …