2026年8月3日 / 美国东部时间下午1:12 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：乔纳森·维利亚奥托 特派记者
乔纳森·维利亚奥托是驻洛杉矶的CBS新闻特派记者。他的报道足迹遍布六大洲的三十多个国家和地区。
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当调查亚利桑那州南希·格思里失踪案的人员于周五公布两封勒索信时，其中一封内容直接与皮马县警长克里斯·纳诺斯前一天接受CBS新闻采访时的说法相矛盾。
“我没有任何证据表明她已经死亡，”纳诺斯周四说道，“我没有找到尸体，没有找到埋葬地点，也没有收到任何字条。”
但他其实收到了字条。周五，纳诺斯首次向公众公开了这两封勒索信。这些信件最初于今年2月被寄往图森当地的CBS电视台，当时这位84岁老人被绑架后不久。
纳诺斯表示，他公布勒索信是希望有人能认出作者独特的措辞，从而协助警方确定寄信人身份。
第一封信是在南希·格思里被报失踪的次日寄出的，开头写道：“你好，萨凡纳，我们抓到了你母亲”，要求以比特币支付400万美元赎金，并承诺在赎金到账后12小时内将她送回图森的“安全交付地点”。信中还提到了南希·格思里的白色苹果手表以及她家后门廊上的泛光灯，这些细节让联邦调查局（FBI）开始重视此案。
第二封信寄出仅四天后，内容写道：“我们从未想过要伤害她，那并非我们的本意。她被带走后不久就去世了，我们认为是心脏方面的原因。她现在被埋葬在野外。”
两封信均通过匿名举报热线发送至CBS下属电视台KOLD-TV，使用的邮箱地址看似是伪造的，且均提及了格思里家族。
CBS新闻此前曾报道，调查人员认为两封信来自同一个IP地址。该地址经过伪装，调查人员无法确定发送信件的电脑归属。
退休FBI高级特别探员兰斯·莱辛格对CBS新闻表示，公布勒索信以征集公众线索是一项很好的举措。
“不过，在案件调查到这个阶段，且此前有一段时间未与公众沟通的情况下，这次媒体宣传策略似乎有些草率，”莱辛格说道。
莱辛格表示，推迟数月公布信件可能是因为其真实性存疑。
“我敢肯定，哪怕到了今天，他们也不能百分百确定这些信件是真实的，”他说道，“我的意思是，他们已经逮捕并起诉了一些寄送恶作剧假信件的人。”
另一位退休FBI高级特别探员杰森·帕克指出，第二封信中不再提及赎金要求。
“赎金的事彻底没了下文，”帕克周五对CBS新闻说道，“没有赎金要求，也没有提供交付地点的承诺，什么都没有。那些出于金钱动机的人，在计划落空后不会轻易放弃400万美元，他们会尝试挽回一些损失。而这封信的作者什么都没要。”
帕克认为两封信出自同一人之手。
“使用同一渠道，作案习惯一致，也都在规避责任，”他说道，“问题在于，这个人是亲手绑架了南希，还是只是通过新闻报道了解案情后想插一脚。”
当CBS新闻就这些信件向纳诺斯求证时，他表示：“这些人质勒索信：它们是否真实？我们是否相信它们真实？在证明它们是伪造的之前，我们认为每一封都是真实的。”
在母亲失踪满六个月的周六，萨凡纳·格思里在Instagram发帖再次呼吁“有人站出来”，包括任何可能认出勒索信笔迹的人。她说道：“现在有办法结束这一切，做出正确的选择。”
此前《华尔街日报》于周末刊发了一篇篇幅较长、部分内容对当地调查人员并不友好的报道，详述了格思里案的调查过程，纳德斯随后通过社交媒体https://youtu.be/38wFJpHrfQQ?si=bSWy1u4XIXD_UdRZ 向格思里家族和关注此事的民众发表讲话。
“我们还在坚持，不会放弃，”纳诺斯说道，“只要你看看我们的团队在做什么，就能感受到他们的干劲和关切。他们斗志昂扬，我们会继续全力侦破此案。”
纳诺斯表示，他坚信此案终将告破。
目前对南希·格思里的搜寻仍在继续，FBI悬赏最高10万美元，征集能提供其下落或逮捕涉案人员的线索，格思里家族也悬赏100万美元。
帕特·米尔顿对本文亦有贡献。
The sheriff in the Nancy Guthrie case said he didn’t have a note indicating she was dead. But he did.
August 3, 2026 / 1:12 PM EDT / CBS News
By Jonathan Vigliotti Correspondent
Jonathan Vigliotti is a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles. Vigliotti’s reporting has taken him to more than three dozen countries and territories across six continents.
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When investigators in the Arizona disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, released two ransom notes Friday, one of the messages directly contradicted what Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News in an interview one day earlier.
“I have nothing to indicate she’s dead,” Nanos said Thursday. “I don’t have a body. I don’t have a burial site. I don’t have any note.”
But he did have a note. On Friday, Nanos released the two notes to the public for the first time. The messages had originally been sent to the local CBS station in Tucson in February, shortly after the 84-year-old’s abduction.
Nanos said he released the ransom notes hoping someone would recognize the author’s potentially distinctive wording and help identify who sent them.
The first, submitted a day after Guthrie was reported missing, opened with “Hello Savannah, we have your mother,” demanded a $4 million ransom be paid in bitcoin, and promised to return her to a “safe drop off location” in Tucson within 12 hours of the ransom’s deposit.
The second note, sent just four days later, says, “We never intended to hurt her, that was not our intention. She perished shortly after she was taken. We believe it was heart related. She is buried in nature now.”
The first note included details about Nancy Guthrie’s white Apple Watch and the floodlights on her back porch, leading the FBI to take them seriously.
Both notes were sent via a tip line to CBS affiliate KOLD-TV using email addresses that appeared to be made up and used references to the Guthrie family.
CBS News has previously reported that investigators believed both notes were sent from the same IP address. That address was masked and investigators don’t know whose computer it was sent from.
Lance Leising, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, told CBS News that releasing the notes to drive more tips from the public was a great thing to do.
“However, so late in the case and after a period of time where they have had no communication with the public, it just seems that the media strategy here is a little haphazard,” Leising said.
Leising said the months-delayed release could be due to questions of authenticity.
“I’m sure, and maybe even to this day, they’re not 100% sure if these notes are legitimate,” Leising said. “I mean, they’ve already arrested and charged people for sending hoax and fake notes in.”
Jason Pack, another retired FBI supervisory special agent, noted that the second message dropped the ransom demand.
“The money is simply gone,” Pack told CBS News on Friday. “No demand. No offer to sell a location. Nothing. People motivated by money do not walk away from $4 million when the plan falls apart. They try to salvage something. This writer asked for nothing at all.”
Pack believes one person wrote both notes.
“Same channel, same habits, same distance from responsibility,” he said. “Whether that person took Nancy or watched the coverage and decided to insert himself is the open question.”
When CBS News asked Nanos about the messages, he said, “Those hostage notes: Are they valid, do we believe they’re valid? We think every one of them’s valid until we show otherwise.”
In an Instagram post Saturday marking six months since her mother’s disappearance, Savannah Guthrie again urged “someone to come forward,” including anyone who might recognize the writing in the ransom notes. She said, “There is a way to end this situation and do the right thing.”
Following a lengthy, and at times unflattering, account in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend of how local investigators handled the Guthrie investigation, Nanos took to social mediahttps://youtu.be/38wFJpHrfQQ?si=bSWy1u4XIXD_UdRZ to address the Guthrie family and concerned citizens.
“We’re still here, we’re not going away,” Nanos said. “If you could just see the team working, you would see the energy, the concern. They’re fired up, and we’ll continue to work this case hard.”
Nanos said he has no doubt the case will be solved.
As the search for Nancy Guthrie continues, the FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to her location or the arrest of anyone involved in her disappearance, and the Guthrie family has offered a reward of $1 million.
Pat Milton contributed to this report.