WarpedWing@WarpedWingLabs
Well, if you ask… ;)
No, I don’t think the ransom was a serious attempt to get money, only terrorize. Moving money out of the bitcoin account is too risky, too traceable. The suspect would happily let $6M sit in the wallet forever, untouchable. The FBI knew this and likely dissuaded the Guthries from paying it.
I think porch guy, the ransomer, and “the rat” informer are all the same guy, just different characters with a singular goal.
I believe we were meant to see the porch video, and that he assumed Nancy had a Nest account. I think he’s wearing a mask under the ski mask, and unworried about being recognized. The FBI isn’t pushing his image hard in the media now because they know this.
The radius from the ransom notes - the time to return Nancy - includes Mexico. Less than two hours after Harvey Levin reported that fact on air, the second ransom note was received, as if he was waiting for that “discovery” to be publicized.
Feb. 10 was huge, with the porch video released, a POI detained, and a test deposit sent to the bitcoin account. That evening, “the rat” sent a message, offering to turn in the suspects for pocket change. The next day, another rat note arrived, stating the suspects are in Mexico with Nancy.
Neither porch guy, the ransomer, or “the rat” have been caught, because they’re the same guy. I believe he’s trying to drive LE toward Mexico, and public sentiment against immigrants. His show on the porch and messages directly to the media (TMZ!) were meant to scare the public into thinking foreign agents are here to steal their mothers and grandmothers from their beds. This all happened at the height of the ICE protests, don’t forget.
The crime was too well thought out and executed to be some low-level cartel goon. They’d have been caught by now. I think the perp has experience, and it may be on the other side of the law, and the crime was designed to terrorize. For hire? Maybe; maybe not.
Real kidnapping is too crazy and risky for common criminals. And if Nancy had obvious enemies who would want to take the extraordinary step of killing her (think Michael McKee with the Tepes), the case would’ve been solved by now.
Sorry for the tome. Taking a long subway ride. lol