Nancy Guthrie Search, Day 67: New ransom notes received by TMZ reportedly demand half a Bitcoin in exchange for information about the suspects and Nancy’s whereabouts.

The latest development comes as the Guthrie family’s $1 million reward remains in place, alongside an additional $100,000 from the FBI and another $100,000 offered by a local crime hotline.

In the latest episode of “Drop Dead Serious,” host Ashleigh Banfield raised the question of why the ransom sender opted for half a Bitcoin instead of the much larger reward money.

“We still can’t figure out why he wouldn’t go for the $1.2 million instead of the, you know, half a bitcoin is $35,000,” Banfield pointed out. “Maybe if you get the full bitcoin upon the arrest, it’s only like $70,000 compared to $1.2 million in ransom money. So, this isn’t making a whole lot of sense.”

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Nancy Guthrie Update: Harvey Levin Reveals Details of Ransom Sender

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Banfield sat down with TMZ founder Harvey Levin, who revealed some shocking details about the Nancy Guthrie ransom note sender.

“He’s been kind of bent out of shape from almost the beginning, saying, ‘Everybody thinks I’m crazy. They don’t take me seriously,’” Levin added. “He’s gone on and on about this.”

Levin claimed that the sender has a criminal record, which is reportedly one of the reasons why he doesn’t want to go directly to the FBI.

“At one point, he said he had a criminal record. I forgot what he said, the crime was, but it was some kind of burglary or something like that,” Levin recalled. “And that he was worried that they might try to implicate him, and he would have to go underground, take care of his family, he said. And that’s why he needed the money.”

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Levin Explains Why Ransom Note Sender Wants Bitcoin Instead

Levin also explained why the sender of the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes allegedly chose Bitcoin instead of claiming the reward money. According to the TMZ founder, the anonymous writer addressed the matter when the reward was still at $100,000.

“I don’t know if he addressed it after they made it $1 million, but when it was a $100,000, he said, ‘I don’t trust the FBI,’” Levin cited the sender. “That’s why he started contacting us. He said, ‘I don’t trust the FBI.’ So, you know, he said, ‘We’re going to you guys.’”

Levin and his team then took to social media to spread the word about the ransom notes, which the sender reportedly saw. They also reportedly offered to help pass the information along to the FBI, but to no avail.

“We said, ‘Look, if you don’t trust the FBI, give us the information and we’ll convey it to the FBI,’” Levin revealed. “‘Now you’ve got a record through us that you’ve given us information, so they’re not going to screw you out of the money, if you really believe they would do that, because we have the record that you gave it to us and we gave it to the FBI.’ But he didn’t do it.”