David Richards

But you know, Nancy, if he wants to make money off of this, it suggests that maybe he knows the kidnappers because he himself is a part of a criminal enterprise.

So I would think that if he makes his identity known and he's been sort of thick as thieves with whoever took Savannah Guthrie, that that would be more daunting to him or threatening to him than...

facing other kinds of charges for obstructing justice.

It's kind of hard to say, but I just think he's sort of one of them that has broken away from the pack.

And now he wants to kind of profit off the knowledge that he has.

I think that what is happening is this guy is both a scammer and real potentially.

And what I mean by that is he may tangentially be related to the kidnappers.

In other words, you know, the kidnappers bragging and they, one person breaks to another and then breaks to another.

And so he gets just enough information to send in the note.

And then he gets enough information to say that time is of the essence.

And then to say that she's dead.

You know, Nancy, whoever this guy is, he watches a lot of TV because the language in the ransom note feels like it's taken out of like a CSI script.

Like he writes, millions have been wasted.

I'm willing to deliver them on a silver platter.

I am disregarded as a scam.

but they are free and the case is frozen, but the egos remain hot when it comes to me.

It's like somebody who can't put his own thoughts together.

So he kind of takes bits and pieces of things that he's seen on TV and he kind of weaves them together into a ransom note.

Nancy, this guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

I mean, he really is not.