They're using a helicopter to search for signals from Guthrie's pacemaker

This is interesting: Bluetooth scanning by helicopter to look for kidnap victim Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker, which is believed to be in BLE advertising mode.

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— John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) February 15, 2026 at 12:08 PM

2/ "Regarding this, there was a couple questions on does the pacemaker continue to advertise - most BLE implantable devices go into a sleep type mode. In this case, we are lucky - it does not." x.com/HackingDave/...

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— John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) February 15, 2026 at 12:11 PM

3/ Here's a person with a similar idea 10 days ago. www.reddit.com/r/PacemakerI...

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— John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) February 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM

TMZ's write-up