A former FBI agent has identified what she describes as striking similarities between the unsolved abduction of Nancy Guthrie and the 2012 kidnapping of Vi Ripken, mother of baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., raising fresh questions about whether investigators might draw useful insight from the older, similarly unresolved case.

Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer outlined the parallels in a recent post on X, pointing to several specific details she said mirror one another across the two cases. "Cal [Ripken's] mother was kidnapped similarly to Nancy," Coffindaffer wrote. "Gagged. Blindfolded. Photo taken of the abductor, without a mask. She saw her abductor and she helped to make a composite sketch of him. Abductor didn't know she was the mother of the famous [Ripken]. Her abductor took pity on her when she begged for him not to tape her eyes. Her abductor empathize[d] with her and ultimately released her. Her abductor had empathy. Her abductor was not caught!"

A case that remains unsolved more than a decade later

Vi Ripken was abducted at gunpoint in July 2012, according to the Baltimore Sun. She was blindfolded and bound in the backseat of a Lincoln Town Car before being driven around the Baltimore area for approximately 24 hours. The following day, a neighbor discovered her tied up inside her own car near her home, though her kidnapper was nowhere to be found by the time she was........

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