Nolan Wells And Nancy Guthrie Just Got THIS News

This episode covers two cases we've been tracking closely — Nolan Wells and Nancy Guthrie — and both just took a turn. Nolan Wells, the eighteen-year-old left behind on Horn Island over the Fourth of July, has a new complication: one of the friends who left him is the son of a sitting Jackson County judge, and since that connection came out, the judge and the friend group have both gone quiet. We break down the voluntary phone surrender investigators asked for instead of a subpoena, and what that choice could mean for the case going forward. From there we move to Nancy Guthrie, still missing six months later, where a separate criminal case just wrapped up. A California man admitted to sending the Guthrie family fake bitcoin ransom demands while the search for her was active, and walked away with five years of probation — a sentence retired FBI special agent Jennifer Coffindaffer called a travesty. We also lay out the TMZ Twelve extortion notes investigators believe are mostly fake, and the two communications — a real ransom note and a strange apology letter — being treated as legitimate. Both cases raise the same uncomfortable question: how evenly is this actually being investigated. We go through the boat, the judge, the phones, the sentence, and the notes in this one. Full episode is up now — link below. Social Links & Legal Footer Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #NolanWells #NancyGuthrie #HiddenKillers #HornIsland #JacksonCountyJudge #RansomHoax #TMZTwelve #PorchGuy #TrueCrimePodcast #UnsolvedMystery