After ransom notes demanded one bitcoin in exchange for information on the Nancy Guthrie case, a former FBI agent is sharing one tactic investigators could use.
Jennifer Coffindaffer told Newsweek that investigators could “tickle the wire,” a federal law enforcement tactic in which investigators take action to get a target to reveal incriminating details.
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