# Nancy Guthrie: The Second Note Wasn't A Ransom Demand

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426)
Published: 2026-06-26T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8921011
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## Resource

Nancy Guthrie has been declared legally dead. No one has found her. For the people trying to hold someone responsible for what happened inside her Tucson home, that creates a problem most people assume is fatal to a case — and it isn't. This is a legal breakdown featuring attorney Eric Faddis and retired FBI agent Robin Dreeke. Tony Brueski lays out how a prosecutor actually builds a homicide case with no body, no named suspect, and a pile of circumstantial evidence. Blood confirmed to be hers on the porch. A pacemaker that went dark in the middle of the night. A masked figure caught reaching for the camera. A backpack you can only buy in one store. None of it, on its own, names anyone. Together, it might be enough. Then there's the note — the one mailed to a local newsroom that didn't ask for money and instead said something investigators took seriously enough to keep quiet for months. What that note appears to admit may be the closest thing this case has to a confession, and how a prosecutor uses it could decide everything. This is a clear-eyed look at the machinery that grinds behind a high-profile disappearance: the grand jury, the sealed warrants, the lab work that can't be rushed, and the legal theory that could let the state win without ever proving anyone meant for an 84-year-old woman to die. Tony also gets into why the silence the public reads as failure can be exactly what a careful prosecution looks like from the inside. The question isn't whether this case is hard. It's whether hard is the same as impossible. Listen to the full breakdown. END_LINKS: Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channe…

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