A disturbing new development has emerged in the baffling disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC “Today” host Savannah Guthrie.

Nearly eight months after Nancy vanished from her Arizona home, authorities revealed Monday that investigators are examining a new possible ransom note connected to the case.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that its investigators and the FBI-led Guthrie Task Force were recently alerted to the communication and are now trying to determine whether it is legitimate, TheWrap first reported.

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The Pima County Sheriff’s Department addressed reports of a new ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie case Monday, sharing that they were “working to determine credibility” of the alleged missive.

“The PCSD/FBI Guthrie task force was recently made aware of a new possible ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie investigation,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told TheWrap on Monday. “Investigators are also aware of social media comments being made regarding this note and are looking further into this and working to determine credibility.”

The investigators’ statement came hours after true-crime YouTuber Jonathan Lee Riche, known as JLR Investigates online, took to X and claimed that a “friend of Nancy Guthrie contacted authorities after receiving a bitcoin demand.”

Riche followed up later on Monday, writing on X while livestreaming on the app, “We are speaking with Lauren now. Friend of Nancy Guthrie. Who got a extortion bitcoin demand claiming Nancy is alive in Mexico. FBI are involved.”

We should note that while Riche describes himself as an “investigative reporter” on his social media platforms, he is not credentialed with any professional outlet.

This comes after a string of earlier communications, some treated as potentially serious, others dismissed as fakes, that have defined one of the most high-profile unsolved abductions in recent years.

The Gateway Pundit has covered this case from the beginning. In June, we reported on the second note that claimed Nancy “perished shortly after she was taken” from an alleged heart-related issue and was “buried in nature now.”

That note, sent to a Tucson TV station days after the Feb. 1 disappearance, adopted a different tone from the first demand.

In July, the sheriff’s department publicly released the full texts of the two February notes in hopes someone would recognize the writer’s distinctive wording.

The first, addressed directly to Savannah Guthrie, demanded $4 million in Bitcoin by Feb. 5 (rising to $6 million by Feb. 9) and included details only someone at the scene would know, a white smartwatch on the bedroom floor and a destroyed backyard floodlight.

It warned: “Your mother is aware of this and her life is in your hands.” The follow-up note expressed regret and said nothing the family could have done would have changed the outcome.

A California man later pleaded guilty to sending fake ransom demands to the family, as we reported. The real perpetrators remain unidentified.

Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was last seen the night of Jan. 31 after family dropped her off following dinner.

Blood matching hers was found on the porch. Her phone, medications, and hearing aid were left behind.

Doorbell camera footage captured a masked man, described by the FBI as about 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10, average build, wearing gloves and carrying an Ozark Trail backpack and a holster, tampering with the camera in the early hours of Feb. 1. No arrest has been made.

Savannah Guthrie has made repeated emotional public pleas. The family offered a $1 million reward. The FBI has offered up to $100,000. Tips have poured in. Searches have been conducted, including near the Mexico border. Human remains found in the desert in August were not hers.

According to Fox News reporting on the earlier notes, one profiler questioned whether the communications even matched the suspect’s behavior on camera.

Other notes sent to TMZ offered video of Nancy with the “main guy” in exchange for one Bitcoin and claimed knowledge of identities and a phone in a “secure location.” Some of those were treated skeptically by investigators.

Eight months later, an 84-year-old grandmother with a pacemaker and daily heart medication is still missing. A masked, armed stranger was caught on camera at her door. Blood was on the porch. Distinctive notes with inside details arrived almost immediately. And the case remains unsolved.

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President Trump is scheduled to announce a new AI tool designed to help Americans interact with the federal government.

Vice President JD Vance, various administration officials, and tech CEOs will also be in attendance at the event at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.

America.gov currently shows a countdown clock until the site is unveiled at 10:00 am ET.

Per Fox:

A White House official described the new AI tool as “a new front door for the federal government that will provide a one-stop shop for Americans looking for information and resources from the federal government that are currently spread over a maze of various agency websites.”

“Next week is really about the golden age of America, and really getting to showcase how it’s not just a statement, it’s actually being built,” Gebbia told Fox News Digital.

“What we’re really excited about is that one of the things that we’ve been building is the golden age of the citizen experience.”

Gebbia, who added that the day will mark a “new chapter of usability for the country,” said the new AI tool is built to solve a simple problem faced by Americans who have for decades dealt with clunky, often inefficient and overly complex government systems: “How do you make it easy to just access government?”

“You can imagine all the things that people try to get done or want to get done in the federal government, [and] just having a brand-new way to access and actually get to the things that people are trying to get to in the federal government,” he said.

The day will include panel discussions with other senior administration officials and top industry leaders on artificial intelligence, energy dominance, health, space and agriculture.

“This is really an incredible collection of people that are working in service to the nation and really showcasing what the future of America is, where we’re headed,” said Gebbia.

The President is scheduled to deliver remarks at 10 am ET.

Watch live below:

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A Democrat nominee for the Georgia State Senate is heading to prison after a judge found him guilty of cruelty to children and battery for striking a 5-year-old girl at a daycare.

Justin Grant Gillespie, 41, of Hull, was sentenced last week to seven years, with two years to serve in state prison. The rest will be served on probation. He remains in the Madison County Jail.

According to the Athens Banner-Herald, Gillespie was convicted in a bench trial before Madison County Superior Court Judge Chris NeSmith. The charges stemmed from a Feb. 1, 2021, incident at Happy Kids Learning Center in Hull, where Gillespie worked.

Authorities said he hit the child in the lower back with a spatula, leaving a red, raised welt. The girl told investigators Gillespie was mad at her for not taking a nap. Gillespie admitted swinging the spatula but claimed he was on the phone and did not realize the child was standing nearby.

The parents discovered the wound and reported it to the Madison County Sheriff’s Office. Charges were filed in March 2021. The case dragged on for more than five years.

Gillespie showed up for a jury trial, fired his lawyer that day, hired another attorney, and chose a bench trial instead. During testimony from the victim’s family, Gillespie was seen rolling his eyes. The judge factored that conduct into the sentence, according to Northern Circuit District Attorney Parks White, as reported by 92.1 WLHR.

BREAKING: Justin Gillespie, a Democratic candidate for the GA State Senate and co-host of a drag queen organization, was CONVICTED of cruelty to children and battery.

He was sentenced to 7 years in prison, with two years in state prison.

Who could have guessed… pic.twitter.com/JFR31QMN2A

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 28, 2026

This is the same Justin Gillespie Democrats put on the ballot, unopposed, in the May primary for State Senate District 47. He was supposed to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Frank Ginn in November. The district covers parts of Madison, Clarke, Barrow, and Jackson counties.

His name is expected to stay on already-printed ballots. Georgia Secretary of State officials have said the felony conviction likely disqualifies him and that votes for him may not be counted. Ginn said he has never seen anything like this in his years in office.

Gillespie’s campaign platform talked about “inclusivity,” “dignity,” and helping families. His personal Instagram is athens_jho. He has co-hosted and DJ’d for the Athens Showgirl Cabaret, a local drag troupe that stages “Drag for All” events marketed as open to children with a parent or guardian.

A man who worked in a daycare, hit a kindergartner with a kitchen utensil, rolled his eyes at the child’s family in court, and spent his evenings as a drag-show co-host is now the official Democrat candidate in a Georgia Senate race.

This is who they chose. This is who they put on the ballot. And this is the culture they keep defending.

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Attorney Ralph Lorigo delivered striking testimony Monday during Sen. Ron Johnson’s roundtable examining COVID-era hospital protocols, telling the Wisconsin Republican that he represented 212 families across 40 states who went to court seeking alternative treatment for critically ill COVID patients.

Johnson convened the September 28 roundtable, titled “COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People,” to hear testimony from patients, family members, doctors, nurses and others about their experiences inside hospitals during the pandemic. According to Sen. Johnson’s office, the event was the first in Johnson’s series of COVID-related hearings and roundtables devoted entirely to hospital protocols.

Lorigo told the panel that of the 212 families he represented, there were 72 cases in which he prevailed and ivermectin was ultimately administered.

According to Lorigo, only three of those 72 patients died.

“In all, I represented 212 families across 40 states,” Lorigo said. “I won 72 where ivermectin was actually given. Only 3 people died.”

That means 69 of the 72 patients Lorigo identified survived, a survival rate of approximately 95.8 percent among that group.

Lorigo then described what he said happened in the remaining cases.

“Tragically, of the 140 cases where I couldn’t get into court quick enough or I lost, every single person died,” Lorigo testified.

Johnson immediately returned to the numbers, asking Lorigo to confirm that all 140 patients in the group that did not receive the treatment had died.

“They all died. Every single one,” Lorigo responded.

Johnson explicitly cautioned that Lorigo’s experience was not a randomized controlled trial, while arguing that the numbers nevertheless deserved scrutiny.

“It’s not a randomized controlled trial,” Johnson said, “but that’s some pretty powerful evidence that I wish our federal regulators would have taken a look at.”

Lorigo told the panel he worked seven days a week, ten hours a day, for a year. He called it the best experience of his life because he believes he helped save lives.

The three patients who died after he won court orders had already been on ventilators for more than 30, 40, and 50 days. Dr. Pierre Kory warned him those three were likely beyond saving. The families still wanted the fight.

“The families wanted to prove to this country that they shouldn’t be suppressed. They should have the right,” Lorigo said.

Then came the Texas case that still burns.

Lorigo said he won in court. The hospital still refused until the patient died.

That patient, according to Houston physician Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, was Tarrant County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Jones. Bowden posted after the hearing: “My patient Jason Jones was one of the unfortunate ones, thanks to Texas Huguley Hospital.”

Jones, a 48-year-old father of six with nearly three decades in law enforcement, entered Texas Health Huguley Hospital in late September 2021. He was intubated and placed in a medically induced coma in early October. His wife, Erin, obtained a prescription from Bowden and sued to force the hospital to allow treatment.

A trial judge sided with the family. The Texas Second Court of Appeals reversed the order on November 18, 2021. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the appeals court said judges could not substitute their judgment for the hospital’s.

The Dallas Morning News later reported Jones made it home by June 2022 but never fully recovered. He died April 11, 2023, at age 50. His family was later honored in Washington during Police Week.

Bowden has said hospital staff called Fort Worth police when her nurse arrived to administer the drug, and that after the hospital won on appeal, Jones’ feeding tube was wrapped to keep anyone from slipping ivermectin through it. The Texas Medical Board later reprimanded Bowden over the episode. The patient never received the medicine inside that hospital.

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Buffalo attorney Ralph Lorigo walked into Sen. Ron Johnson’s Capitol Hill roundtable Monday with numbers the corporate press will spend the next week trying to bury.

He represented 212 families in 40 states after hospitals refused to let dying COVID patients try ivermectin…

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 29, 2026

This is the same drug the FDA spent years mocking. The Gateway Pundit reported in 2024 that the FDA agreed to strip its anti-ivermectin social-media campaign after doctors sued, including Bowden.

In July, Johnson waved a stack of studies at Anthony Fauci and reminded him that the same day Fauci told CNN there was “no evidence” ivermectin worked, dozens of controlled studies were already on the record. Fauci took the Fifth.

Lorigo named the physicians he says actually did the work while hospitals locked the pharmacy: Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Alan Bain, Dr. Mary Bowden. Kory, he said, took his calls morning, noon, and night and wrote affidavits that moved judges.

“This is no longer about COVID or ivermectin,” Lorigo told Johnson. “This is about medical freedom and the right to try. This is about governmental suppression and how big giants like Big Pharma control our destiny.”

There are now 106 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies showing a 62% lower risk of early treatment in COVID-19 patients.

The chart, titled “Ivermectin for COVID-19 – 106 studies with more than 200,000 patients,” claimed that pooled data from randomized controlled trials and observational studies showed significant reductions in mortality, hospitalization, ICU admission, viral clearance, and other serious COVID-19 outcomes among patients treated with ivermectin.

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An American hero in leftist-run San Francisco showed a criminal intruder what happens when you mess with a Vietnam War veteran.

Shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday, the veteran was asleep on the third floor of his house when strange noises woke him from the floors below. He grabbed his handgun and went downstairs to investigate.

What he found was not a random smash-and-grab.

According to CBS News Bay Area, the masked suspect had already cased the block. Neighbor surveillance video showed the man walking back and forth on 22nd Avenue about 40 minutes before the break-in.

Then he drilled a hole through the wooden first-floor door, unlocked it, and forced his way inside.

The dangerous intruder didn’t come alone. He was accompanied by a 60-pound husky.

“He had a large dog, maybe a 60-pound husky, with him,” the veteran told CBS News.

The burglar grabbed him. The 73-year-old was knocked to his hands and knees. Then the veteran fired one shot.

“I encountered [the burglar] face to face. He kind of grabbed me, and I fell to my hands and knees, and I shot him because physically I felt really threatened. He had already made a deep intrusion into my home,” he said.

He believes the round struck the suspect in the buttocks.

The intruder ran, leaving a trail of blood-stained shoe prints toward Golden Gate Park, and leaving the dog behind. The veteran suffered only minor scrapes to his hands and knees. No charges have been announced against the homeowner.

A short time later, San Francisco police detained an injured man about three miles away near Geary Boulevard and 47th Avenue in the Outer Richmond. Paramedics took him to San Francisco General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police said they will take him into custody if they confirm he is the burglary suspect. He could face burglary and other charges.

The abandoned husky was later taken by Animal Control.

The veteran’s next-door neighbor, who identified himself only as Michael, told CBS the outcome did not surprise him.

“Our neighbor is really something special. I’m glad that he was able to do this. But it doesn’t surprise me,” Michael said. “He’s definitely got a heroic side to him. He’s a real, true vet.”

The veteran is still shaken.

“I had a little help from a friend, just a little friend,” he said of the handgun. “But I’m just kind of really shook up still.”

WATCH:

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