Nancy Guthrie Kidnapper Likely Has 'Simple' Motive for Abducting 84-Year-Old Matriarch, Ex-FBI Agent Insists

The reason Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped is not so mysterious, according to one former FBI agent.

Addressing the fact that investigators have said they know the motive, Jennifer Coffindaffer declared in an X post on Sunday, April 13, that Nancy's abduction was about money.

"Kidnapping for Ransom. Nancy sadly died. The kidnappers didn't care and tortured the family with 2 notes knowing the FBI would not recommend paying a ransom without proof of life," she wrote. "Like most cases, this one is simple, but everyone wants to make it complex."

Coffindaffer claimed "even the Guthrie family knows" the 84-year-old was taken for ransom.

Today star Savannah Guthrie's elderly mother was reported missing on February 1, with her last sighing taking place the night before.

Authorities quickly determined based on evidence at the scene, including a trail of blood outside her Tucson, Ariz., home, that she was taken against her will and is the victim of a "targeted kidnapping."

A masked suspect was also notably captured on Nancy's front porch via her doorbell camera around the time she went missing.

Savannah, 54, revealed in a recent interview with Today alum Hoda Kotb that she "tends to believe" the two notes the family responded to via pleading video messages early on in the investigation were legitimate, but that others were likely fake.

"There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came," she said. "And I think most of them, it's my understanding, are not real. And I didn't see them," she said.

In the first video posted just four days after Nancy vanished, Savannah begged the purported kidnappers to "reach out," declaring they were "ready to talk."

The NBC anchor went on to say, "We need to know, without a doubt, that she is alive and that you have her. We want to hear from you and we are ready to listen."

Elsewhere in her interview with Hoda, the morning show co-host acknowledged whether her celebrity status could have led to her mom's kidnapping.

"I mean, we still don’t know. Honestly, we don’t know anything," she said. "So, I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, 'Oh, that girl, that lady has money, we can make a quick buck.' That would make sense, but we don’t know."

Prior to her sit-down with Hoda, Savannah admitted in an emotional Instagram video on February 24 that her mom may be dead but said the family is still praying for her "recovery."

She also announced the reward for information leading to the matriarch's return had been raised to $1 million.