Religious Ransom? Ex-FBI Agent Suggests Nancy Guthrie Kidnapper Could Be 'Someone Who Sees Themselves as Holy'

Whoever sent the alleged ransom notes related to Nancy Guthrie's disappearance may have referenced Bible writings, according to a former FBI agent's theory.

While it remains unconfirmed whether the notes were real, retired special agent Jennifer Coffindaffer speculated that the messages could be "religious" in nature based on the responses from Nancy's daughter Savannah Guthrie.

"Savannah's outreach to the ransom note writer(s) has been religious," she wrote in an X post on Monday, April 13. "Initially, I thought it was because Savannah was religious. But what if the decision was made to use religion because scripture was in the note?"

Jennifer continued, "What if the notes were from someone quoting scripture or referencing scripture? Someone who sees themselves as holy?" "That makes so much more sense," she added, before concluding, "To connect, you must connect with the place the ransom note writer is coming from, not the lens of the respondent."

Since the 84-year-old's alleged kidnapping from her Tucson, Ariz., home on February 1, purported ransom notes have been sent to multiple news outlets, including TMZ.

Jennifer's theory comes after Savannah, 54, revealed in her Today interview last month that she suspects the two notes the family responded to via pleading video messages early on were legitimate, but that others were fake.

"There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came," the NBC morning show anchor told Hoda Kotb. "And I think most of them, it's my understanding, are not real."

"I didn't see them," she admitted. "But a person that would send a fake ransom note really has to look deeply at themselves. To a family in pain. But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real."

Most recently, TMZ received two more ransom notes via email on the same day Savannah returned to Today on April 6.

The sender is reportedly the same person who sent previous letters in the early days of the search demanding Bitcoin in exchange for information.

The first email reportedly said, "I know where her body is, and who the kidnapper is. Give me half a bitcoin and I’ll tell you.” It also alleged that Nancy was "dead."

The sender also slammed authorities for assuming they're lying.

“It’s unbelievable that millions have been wasted and yet here I am willing to deliver them on a silver platter since the 11th of February for a Bitcoin but I am disregarded as a scam," the first letter read. "They are free and the case is frozen but the ego’s remain hot when it comes to me."

They claimed to have nothing to do with the "horrific crime," alleging they have been out of the United States for more than five years.

A second note that arrived later from the same sender read: "I saw her alive with them in the state of Sonora, Mexico."

The writer added, "I just want what's fair and to live peacefully with enough to start my life again quietly with out having to join a witness protection program."

A masked suspect was notably captured on Nancy's front porch, seemingly tampering with her doorbell security camera, around the time she went missing.

The Guthrie family is offering a $1 million reward for information that leads to Nancy's "recovery."