Scott Eicher

And that's the manufacturer, apparently, of this weapon or what experts are saying.

I can't identify it for sure, but that's what I've read from what's being reported on the type of weapon suspected of.

You know, I think I don't give a lot of credibility to these ransom demands.

They take up a lot of energy on law enforcement, but you have to follow up on them.

So, you know, in my opinion, it's another opportunist, another crime of opportunity.

Yet law enforcement has to follow up on this because.

You know, it's a lead.

And if, God forbid, this person does know something about who's holding Nancy or where she is and you neglect it, you know, you can't go back.

So as the leads come in, you prioritize them in the command center.

You have a team that does that.

And then you follow those leads where they where they take you.

It's absolutely worth the effort here, Nancy, even if for the simple purpose of eliminating this is authentic.

You saw with Derek Colella, the Los Angeles person who was the hoaxster, the FBI made an extensive post today.

They're going to throw the book at him and make an example out of him.

So if this is indeed a hoaxster,

We need to eliminate him and we need to make another example out of him to really dissuade people from doing this in the future as this unfolds.

I think the DOJ in their statement today about Colella, they're not going to buy his information that he just wanted to see if they'd answer his text or whatever.

They're going to make sure whatever charges they can bring against Derek Colella for hoaxing that ransom demand to the Guthrie family, they will bring those charges heavily against him.

And it's important here with a case like this that has this amount of media attention that we really do everything in our power to dissuade that misinformation coming in.

Yeah, this has been a bit of a dumpster fire from a PR perspective.