Ex-FBI Agent: It’s Either Nancy Guthrie Captors Are Not Good at What They Do, or These Letters Are Not Authentic

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O'LEARY: "Yeah, that’s certainly a concern because the FBI does work kidnap-for-ransom cases almost on a weekly basis, not generally in the United States, but in Mexico, central and south America, Haiti, across Africa and south Asia. But professional kidnap-for-ransom organizations immediately establish contact with law enforcement and with the family, and the negotiators will start at $5 million or whatever the asking price is, and get down to a reasonable level that the family is willing to pay. And at the end of the day, the exchange is made and it’s a business opportunity, and it’s quite lucrative for a lot of these organizations. This doesn’t appear to be that. So it’s either captors that are not good at what they do, or these letters are not authentic and the FBI is going down the wrong trail. But what we won’t know, because the media and the public is on the sidelines, the FBI and the family are not going to give up everything that they know. So the statement from the FBI that was put out last night, while it may seem desperate, might not be completely accurate because if the FBI is closing in on an individual location, they’re not going to want that individual to know it, because the assumption is that the captors are also getting information from the media."