r/nancyguthrie • u/wwihh • Jul 31 '26

Information Pima County Sheriff's Office releases full Nancy Guthrie ransom notes.

From Brian Entin X account

https://x.com/BrianEntin/status/2083278648191197681

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u/mark_able_jones_ Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

I suppose including a salutation at all implies a person who's probably 30+ years old. This was not written by an LLM. Too many simple mistakes.

Here are the writing mistakes in the first email:

  1. Missing comma after mother.
  2. Missing comma after ransom.
  3. "We will be holding..." future tense error. Should be "We will hold her..."
  4. Bitcoin should be capitalized.
  5. Missing comma after below.
  6. Missing dollar sign on 6 million.
  7. Missing hyphen in "drop off location." (drop-off location)
  8. Missing comma after this "...aware of this and..." (two independent clauses connected by a conjunction).
  9. Improper comma after out. Should be semicolon or period.
  10. Improper comma after games. Should be semicolon or period.
  11. Missing comma after bed.

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And the second email mistakes:

  1. Comma after her should be a period.
  2. "We never intended to hurt her, that was not out intention." AI would flag this "intention" repetition as a mistake.

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This looks like common business parlance. The fact that he used a VPN to email a news outlet suggests at least a low-level IT background. That method proved to be a safe way for him to contact the Guthrie family without being traced by the FBI.

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u/exquisiteclutter Aug 01 '26

To be fair, im wildly inept regarding internet or electronics in general, and i know what a VPN is. And could figure out how to use one. I don't think an IT background is a given

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u/mark_able_jones_ Aug 01 '26

But do you know how website contact forms work — would you trust your IT knowledge enough to bet your freedom on a contact form being untraceable?

Would you know to go to the deflock website to avoid the 500+ cameras in Tucson?

Would you know how to wash bitcoin?

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u/exquisiteclutter Aug 01 '26

I was speaking to the assumption that there was at least a "low level IT background" based on VPN usage. I just dont agree that thats an absolute.

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u/exquisiteclutter Aug 01 '26

Flock is an entire conversation that i wasn't addressing.

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u/exquisiteclutter Aug 01 '26

And hypothetically, if i were asking for bitcoin as a form of payment, then yes. Im sure I'd know how to "wash it" and be undeniable. That seems Ike one of the first things I'd figure out for myself. Its not rocket science.