‘He Paints a Very Bleak Picture’: TMZ Founder Reveals ‘Ominous’ New Email From Guthrie Tipster

TMZ founder Harvey Levin discussed an ominous new email his outlet received from a tipster claiming to know who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie during a Thursday evening appearance on CNN.

Levin told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer on Wednesday that “We got kind of a bizarre letter, an email from somebody who says they know who the kidnapper is and that they have tried reaching Savannah’s sister Annie and Savannah’s brother to no avail. And they said they want one bitcoin sent to a bitcoin address that we have confirmed is active. It’s a real Bitcoin address. And as they put it, time is more than relevant.”

Then on Thursday evening, Levin told Erin Burnett that he had received a second message from the same tipster.

“All right, so let me ask you about this email because you got another email, Harvey, from someone who says they know who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie and that they’ll reveal it for one Bitcoin, which we were talking about this last night, $67,000. You had gotten one yesterday. Okay, now you’ve got another one. And the writer tells you this is going to be their final communication attempt. So tell me what it says,” said Burnett, prompting Levin.

He replied:

Again, this is the same person who sent us something yesterday, and this one, well, it is more ominous and we can talk about that in a minute, but this person says you got to take me seriously. And he’s saying the reason he wants this Bitcoin Is because he is going to have to go underground because he says he fears retaliation. He knows who the kidnapper is, and he’s going to be kind of tarred and feathered — as as he puts it, a national rat. But he also mentions the delivery man. He said I also don’t want, you know, I could end up with, you know, being implicated the way this delivery man was and he was, you know, detained but released and he doesn’t want that either .So he said basically he needs this Bitcoin so he can just, you know, just disappear for a while and not work.

I got to tell you, Erin, we made it very clear yesterday that we forwarded yesterday’s to law enforcement. We forwarded this one to law enforcement and said that if this is a hoax, it’s a crime. It’s a federal crime. And this person came back and is really saying, “Look, this is the last time I’m going to send you anything. But I know who this kidnapper is and I can lead you to him.” So look, I don’t know. We’ve sent it on to the FBI. They’re looking at it. You know, but he says something in the middle of it that, you know, he paints a very bleak picture.

Burnett pressed him on that last comment later in the interview, asking him what it was the tipster said.

“Look,  I mean, the reason I don’t want to put this out there, and it’s not even so much that law enforcement asked us not to, but, you know, I don’t know that this is real or not. So I don’t wanna put something out there that may not be true at all. But this person is acting like things have-, the situation has changed. Let me just kind of leave it at that. I just don’t wanna go beyond that, other than to say that if this person is real, this is a dire situation,” replied Levin.

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