We still believe in a miracle, Guthrie said in a video last week announcing a $1m reward for her mother's return in an enduring mystery that has gripped the US for four weeks. We also know that she may be lost. She may already be gone.
At 8:16 a.m. on August 10, 2019, an anonymous 4Chan user posted, "don't ask me how I know, but Epstein died an hour ago from hanging, cardiac arrest. Screencap this." It was the first public indication that Epstein, awaiting trial for sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, died while in the custody of the Department of Justice.
The 21-year-old man who was shot and killed after having entered Donald Trump's Florida resort on Sunday while carrying a shotgun came from a North Carolina family of the president's supporters and had reportedly become increasingly fixated on the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files. The focus of the FBI's investigation into the intrusion attributed to Austin Tucker Martin is tightening on the his movements and motives.
An accused pervert charged with grooming young girls in California has been linked to an extremist cult that wants to destroy civilization. Bryant Gonzalez from Downey, LA County, has been allegedly tied to "764," an online network of creeps trying to tear apart society through the corruption and exploitation of minors. The network's goals include social unrest and the downfall of the current world order, including the United States, according to the FBI.
In a turn that feels more like a crime thriller than a routine court date, a Staten Island restaurant worker pleaded guilty on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, to obstructing justice after federal prosecutors said he helped try to bribe a juror in the Brooklyn federal trial of heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic. The plea, entered in Brooklyn federal court, followed an FBI probe that intercepted a series of meetings and phone calls tied to an alleged payoff plan. The revelation has frozen Gogic's trial in place and tossed a new legal wrench into an already sprawling drug trafficking case.
It's not just the letters that we received from the person demanding money in return for information, it's also the ransom note we got. I will tell you, the FBI is very interested in both the ransom letter and these demand letters in particular today. I mean, there was a lot of communication between us and the FBI. So they are really interested in this, replied Levin, who continued:
The Pima County Sheriff's Department said on X its deputies "detained a subject during a traffic stop south of Tuscon" earlier Tuesday. This person was being questioned in connection to the Guthrie investigation, per the post. CNN, NBC, ABC and others reported earlier that a man was detained for questioning in relation to the case. The FBI directed Axios' request for information to the sheriff's department, which did not immediately respond on Tuesday evening.
It was the type of Saturday evening that Nancy Guthrie treasured: dinner and game night at the home of her eldest daughter and son-in-law. They lived near each other in the unincorporated desert communities north of Tucson, Arizona, and Guthrie arrived by Uber just after 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 31. The family spent about four hours together before Guthrie was driven home by her son-in-law, who watched to ensure she made it safely inside, police said later.
Before artificial intelligence tools proliferated - making it possible to realistically impersonate someone, in photos, sound and video - "proof of life" could simply mean sending a grainy image of a person who's been abducted.
FBI agents investigating David Copperfield in 2007 said that a clear connection existed between the famous illusionist and Jeffrey Epstein, according to documents released by the Department of Justice last week in the latest tranche of the Epstein files. A 2007 FBI memo by agents in Seattle said further investigation of this connection was needed to to determine if they [Copperfield and Epstein] both shared a predilection for minors and if they engaged in referring possible victims to each other.
