California man pleads guilty to faking Nancy Guthrie ransom note

A California man has pleaded guilty to sending a fake ransom note to the family of Nancy Guthrie, the eighty-four-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie. According to federal authorities, Derrick Callella called and texted the family demanding a bitcoin transaction. Guthrie has been missing from her Arizona home since late January, with authorities finding blood drops near her porch. Callella faces up to two years in prison or a two hundred fifty thousand dollar fine.

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