As the search continues for Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of Today Show cohost Savannah Guthrie, the father of JonBenet Ramsey appeared on Fox News to give new insight into what the family is experiencing.

John Ramsey, now 82, faced intense media scrutiny after his 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet, was found murdered in the family’s basement on Christmas Day in 1996, with a ransom note left for the family before her body was found.

Now, as issues surrounding an alleged ransom for the missing Nancy Guthrie continue to raise new questions about her case, Ramsey, whose daughter’s murder remains a cold case 30 years later, has shared his own insight on what Savannah, 54, and the rest of her family have been enduring, based on his own experiences while JonBenet was briefly missing.

Ramsey appeared on the Friday, February 6, episode of Fox and Friends, where he spoke with Ainsley Earhardt, about his own experience in a similar situation.

During the interview, he opened up about whether the family should pay the ransom demanded in a note they received, which allegedly contained two different deadlines, and the biggest steps they needed to take to try to achieve a positive outcome.

“No, not unless they know that she’s alive,” he said when Earhardt asked if the ransom should be paid. “And that’s what we were prepared to require in JonBenet’s case. We had the money ready, but our plan, we were supposed to get a call and our plan was let me talk to my daughter, and if she’s alive, we’ll get the money to you and get her back.”

“I think the important thing for the family is to make sure the police are doing everything that can be done,” he added. “You know we have 18,000 police jurisdictions in this country and some of them are small, and some of them are big, but none of them are competent in everything and the key is that they insist the police accept help from whoever offers it. The FBI can bring in a huge amount of resources if they’re asked.”

He also reflected on the experience the family is likely going through, as he addressed initial concerns he had been responsible for his daughter’s disappearance and death, admitting that in those situations, families don’t even care about suspicion on them.

“We got a call, a kind of anonymous call that was, ‘Tell John to get the best attorney he can get his hands on, because they think he killed his daughter,’” he said. “That was before any evidence came in or before any forensic information. It didn’t matter to me, I’d lost my child.”

“And whatever, you know…you’re in shock..it didn’t matter, we didn’t care. We lost our child, that was the most horrible thing that could have happened to us,” he continued. “I wouldn’t even say we were on autopilot; we were just in a devastated, crushed mode.”

The segment was replayed later in the show, as Earhardt’s co-host, Brian Kilmeade, discussed the Guthrie case with a former FBI profiler, Mary Ellen O’Toole, as he sought more information on what the situation families went through was like.

“Mary Ellen, they have to look at the family, do you think they’re still looking at the family? But it’s hard when you’re the family member, knowing that they’re scrutinizing you,” Kilmeade said.

“It’s very difficult, you can’t even put into words what the families go through, but yes, in a crime like this, whether it’s the abduction of a child or an adult family member, you absolutely have to rule out people close to the victim. If you don’t, then you can never go back in time and do it.”

The hunt for Gutrie is ongoing, after she was initially reported missing on Sunday, February 1, after she failed to show up to a church service.

She was last seen after she was dropped off at her Tucson, Arizona, home by a family member during the evening hours of Saturday, January 31