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Why Did Nancy Guthrie’s Caller Skip $1 Million in Rewards to Phone a Volunteer Group?
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- Jun 20, 2026
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Summary
The combined FBI and family reward for information leading to the resolution of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance exceeds one million dollars. An anonymous man who claims to know where she is buried chose not to collect it. He called Buscando Corazones Nogales — a volunteer search collective operating in Sonora, Mexico — and directed them to coordinates in the Mariposa arroyos near the Arizona border, approximately seventy miles from Guthrie’s Tucson residence. He described her clothing. He described the terrain. He said dig. Volunteers searched twice based on his directions. Both searches produced no evidence connected to Guthrie. After the first failure, the caller contacted the group again with revised coordinates. A third search was subsequently scheduled. At no point did the caller contact the FBI, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, or any U.S. law enforcement agency. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed it had not been contacted by Mexican authorities regarding the searches. Robin Dreeke, retired chief of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, examines the behavioral significance of how this tip was routed. The ransom notes that surfaced earlier in the investigation were sent to media outlets rather than law enforcement. This tip was sent to a volunteer group rather than the agencies offering the reward. Dreeke identifies the behavioral thread connecting both decisions and explains what the caller’s willingness to provide revised coordinates after an initial failure reveals about the nature of the information — and the person behind it. 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.c…