'We were alarmed': TV anchor reveals details of 2nd note in abduction of Nancy Guthrie

A Tucson, Arizona, TV reporter revealed new details Friday about a second message tied to the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie.

Appearing on CNN, KOLD reporter Mary Coleman said her station received a new message around 11:45 a.m. through the same tip line used for the original communication. “We were, needless to say, pretty alarmed by seeing this,” Coleman told Erin Burnett on her show, “OutFront.”

Coleman said the message was immediately forwarded to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and that authorities told the station the email did not originate from the same IP address as the first message. It did, however, appear to use “the same type of secure server to hide their IP address.”

“I would say they’re making an effort to prove that they are the same persons or people involved with these same two notes,” Coleman said, adding that some details are “very sensitive” and could not be shared publicly.

“That’s all we know about the sender at this point, which unfortunately isn’t much,” she said. The TV reporter described the second message as “a little bit shorter” than the first and said it appeared to be carefully written and similar in form to the first message.

“It was well thought out, clear thoughts put together well,” she said. However, unlike the initial message, which included ransom demands and multiple deadlines, Coleman said the new note didn't appear to be a ransom note, more related to a proof-of-life demand from the Guthrie family.

“There were deadlines in the first letter,” she said. “This second one, there are no deadlines."

TMZ’s Harvey Levin told Burnett moments later that the first note stood out because it included specific details about the number of hours it would take to return the 84-year-old Guthrie to Tucson.

“So we looked at the speed limit and the number of hours, and we used Tucson as the center and drew a radius around the outer limits,” Levin explained to Friday. “And what we found was, you know, a lot of the western United States, but at least it provides kind of a geographic clue that's contained, as opposed to saying somewhere in the United States.”