Savannah Guthrie and her family shouldn’t pay any ransom for their missing mother until the supposed kidnappers provide proof that she’s still alive, a top former FBI special agent said.
“Proof of life is everything. They need to have a dialogue, and the family’s looking for a dialogue with these kidnappers,” Michael Harrigan, who oversaw the FBI National Academy, told The Post.
“But if there’s no two-way here, no good comes of sending the money,” he added.
Savannah and her siblings released a video Saturday evening telling the senders of a supposed $6 million ransom note that they were ready to pay.
It’s not clear if the Guthrie family has had additional communication since the first ransom note was sent to several news outlets last week.
The initial ransom demand provided no proof that Nancy was still alive or even in their hands, even as a second deadline of 5 p.m. MT Monday to pay the sum in bitcoin approaches.
Cops have not yet to determined whether the note is believed to be real or a fraud.