FBI Releases NEW Photos of Masked and Armed Man at Nancy Guthrie's Home, with Former FBI Experts

What this episode is about

The FBI has released new images of a masked man armed and lurking outside Nancy Guthrie's home, raising concerns about her safety as he was seen shortly after entering her residence. The photos reveal him trying to disable a security camera while possibly holding vegetation linked to blood droplets found on her porch, intensifying the alarming nature of the incident.

Key takeaways

• In an age of smart homes, the FBI's reliance on residual data brings a silver lining to tech vulnerabilities.
• The chilling images of a masked intruder serve as a stark reminder: even the safest homes can harbor threats.
• A woman's blood on the porch & a man with a weapon—this case could rival horror movie plots.
• As virtual security evolves, the FBI's tech-savvy recovery highlights the double-edged sword of home surveillance.
• Armed and masked intruders may seem like fiction, but they remind us that the script of real life is often scarier.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Megyn Kelly (Guest) · 5 min speaking
• Moren (Guest) · 4 min speaking
• Jim Fitzgerald (Guest) · 4 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Nancy Guthrie, FBI, Crypto Megan, Kosh Patel
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Nancy Guthrie, FBI, Crypto Megan, Puma County Sheriff's Department
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Jim Fitzgerald
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Crypto Megan, Circle K
5. 12:00 – 13:18: Birch Gold Group

Notable quotes from "FBI Releases NEW Photos of Masked and Armed Man at Nancy Guthrie's Home, with Former FBI Experts"

• As we went to break, the FBI released four pictures of a man clearly outside of Nancy Guthri's front door in a ski mask in leather gloves wearing a backpack. And they are…

  about Nancy Guthrie · at 0:00

• And white photo. It's probably a bird's nest that was behind the nest camera. And if you recall, Megan, this looks like the same vegetation that we saw in the blood droplets on…

  about Crypto Megan · at 1:22

• Released by Cash Patel. New images in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Over the last 8 days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department have been working closely with our…

  about Puma County Sheriff's Department · at 3:00

• Speak of the devil. we called Jim when this news broke and asked him to join us and here he is, Jim Fitzgerald.

  about Jim Fitzgerald · at 8:50

• Of the dump they went to so that they can start searching because or even the trash at that Circle K where there was some activity initially when that night I think someone was…

  about Circle K · at 11:31

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Nancy Guthrie — Person · Victim / subject of investigation (referenced) · 3 mentions · first at 0:08
  The discussion centers on newly recovered FBI images allegedly showing an armed person at her front door and the implications for her disappearance.
• Crypto Megan — Person · Co-host / on-air participant (addressed directly) · 3 mentions · first at 1:26
  Participates in real-time analysis of the images (facial hair, what the suspect is holding) and frames the emotional impact and investigative implications.
• Jim Fitzgerald — Person · Referenced expert / guest commentator · 2 mentions · first at 8:31
  Brought on to react to the images and explain investigative photo-analysis steps (height estimation, clothing/shoes as identifiers).
• Kosh Patel — Person · Referenced spokesperson (attributed source of FBI statement) · 2 mentions · first at 2:59
  Named as the person who released the FBI statement announcing recovery of previously inaccessible images from backend/residual data.
  Here's the statement from the FBI just released by Cash Patel. New images in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Over the last 8 days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department have been working.
• Brian Anton — Person · Referenced source (video attribution) · 1 mention · first at 1:45
  Credited with a video showing blood droplets/vegetation on the porch, used to connect scene details with the newly released images.
  This is the Brian Anton video of the blood droplets.

Companies & orgs

• FBI — Company · Investigative agency · 3 mentions · first at 0:00
  Primary law enforcement agency involved in the investigation of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, providing critical evidence and updates.
  As we went to break, the FBI released four pictures of a man clearly outside of Nancy Guthri's front door in a ski mask in leather gloves wearing a backpack. And they are terrifying. All I.
• Puma County Sheriff's Department — Company · Investigative agency · 1 mention · first at 3:04
  Local law enforcement collaborating with the FBI in the investigation of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.

Places & events

• Circle K — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at 11:37
  Convenience store mentioned as a location of interest where law enforcement sought surveillance footage related to the case.

Sponsors

• Birch Gold Group — Company · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at 12:23
  Advertiser promoting gold investment as a strategy for financial security during economic uncertainty.
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Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 As we went to break, uh, the FBI released four pictures of a man clearly outside of Nancy Guthri's front door in a ski mask in leather gloves wearing a backpack. And they are terrifying. All I can think looking at these is, "Oh my god, this poor 84 yearear-old woman saw this man in her bedroom shortly after this." What they show for the listening audience is the man clearly at NY's house. He's wearing, as I said, a ski mask, the kind that covers everything on your face except for your eyes and your mouth. And he has like large He looks white. He's got very round, large eyes.

0:45 You cannot tell. In the one picture, it looks like he might have facial hair, but I can't be sure.

0:52 He does. Yeah. On the last in the last photo, Megan. Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah, you're right. The last photo shows some facial hair there,

1:02 and you can see him, for the listening audience, it appears ripping out the the nest camera. It looks like he's looking right into the camera that is obviously on her front door. There's one picture there, Moren, that's confusing because it looks almost like vegetation he's holding.

1:20 Yeah, it's probably a bird's nest. Black and white photo. It's probably a bird's nest that that um was behind the nest camera. And if you if you recall, Megan, this looks like the same vegetation that we saw in the blood droplets on the porch. So, apparently the blood that uh ended up on the front porch ended up on top of this or around this vegetation. Do you remember seeing that vegetation? If you play that that um video again, that's exactly what we're going to see. But the the clothing in here, we're looking at some of the blood here.

1:54 This is the Brian Anton video of the blood droplets. See that v vegetation right there? That's from a a a bird. I'll bet a bird made a bird's nest there.

2:04 And we can see him in one of the shots ripping it. It looks I mean it's clear as day, frankly. Ripping it out from where the nest cam is. And it looks like almost like in another picture like he's punching punching it. Uh, Morin, can you see? So, with with his right hand, so I I think we know he's right-handed,

2:24 he's punching the Nest Cam, or so it would look, and he in the left hand, they're both gloved in black gloves. He's holding something, but I can't

2:34 I can't make out what it is. It looks like a It's got a white handle to it. Looks almost like I'm trying to see whether it looks like a

2:41 It looks almost like the actual nest nest camera. And my guess is um yeah, he's punching with his right arm, but when he's grabbing the vegetation, that's with his left arm.

2:54 That's true. So, he could be a left. And here's Okay, go ahead. Here's the statement from the FBI just released by Cash Patel. New images in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Over the last 8 days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthri's home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors, including the removal of recording devices. The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems. working with our partners. As of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual. He says he's armed, appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthri's front door the morning of her disappearance.

3:44 Anyone with information, please contact 1800 Call FBI. 1800 call FBI. And now the sheriff has released an identical statement. So he says it was recovered from residual data located in backend systems. What does that mean to you, Moren?

3:59 That means that um um stuff that for example, when you uh get that alert on your phone that says um we've detected someone in your at your home or something, even if you don't have a subscription, they the company should have a thumbnail of that of of those images and they should be able to get them. It was really surprising when I heard that they didn't have the um any images because I have a guy on my team that is a world-class expert. I mean, scary. He's so good. And he told me that he's shocked that they weren't able to do that. So my guess is the FBI was able to do this because this is this is rather um um sophisticated, but so they have to store that type of a um um of a image when they put it out as a thumbnail. So if nothing else, it's on their system, not on NY's, if that makes any sense.

4:58 And I think so. In other words, they were captured in the moments before he tore down the the ring camera and or the Nest camera and the Nest camera might have transmitted something back to the system

5:09 or or or they hold it on their system. But I think why they're saying armed is if you look at this first image, which I didn't know what he was holding at first, but I'm looking at it now. That's a holstered weapon in in what we would call a concealed um a concealed carry holster. It's supposed to be on the inside of your pants, but it looks like he's got it somehow on the

5:31 Maybe it's maybe I don't know what how he has it attached to the front of his pants, but I I think that's what that is. That is a that is a weapon. Yep.

5:42 Is that a gun? It is a gun. And if um you know when I when I come on again, I can or I can run and grab a concealed I have one that looks almost exactly like that. And it's made of this like rubbery kind of material so that if you put it inside your um your your pants, inside your waistband, it sticks a little bit to your skin and a little bit to your clothing. And uh that's exactly what that looks like to me. That's what that is. That's he's he's got a holstered weapon right there.

6:13 I mean, this I this is so terrifying to me. I You're you're lifelong law enforcement. I don't know how this grabs you, but this is so terrifying to me to think of this large man

6:23 with this with this face mask and a gun and a backpack like and the gloves showing. This is every woman's worst nightmare to wake up to this, never mind at 84 years old.

6:35 Absolutely. The other thing um I want to say is when I've worked a lot of kidnappings on the evidence response team, mainly of children, unfortunately. But the one question you want to ask yourself is, does the perpetrator have a proclivity or a predisposition to violence? And in this case, here's a man with a gun on the front porch and 41 minutes later, we've got blood on the front porch. So the answer, yes. And that is not good for anyone. The the other thing I I don't know. I mean, everybody listening to this who can't see the images is of course wondering is it is it the brother-in-law? Because that's the only one we've heard mentioned. Don't mean to condemn this this man because we have nothing other than Ashley Banfield's reporting from a senior law enforcement officer that she trusts implicitly that she says is impeccably sourced. um that he right now may be the prime suspect as of last uh Tuesday. Right now may be the

7:41 the prime suspect. Okay. So that's been one week ago. I will tell you I don't know other than it does indeed appear that he has dark facial hair because in that one circle around the the mouth you can see hair above the top lip and you can see black hair under the bottom lip. But here's what I do want to say Moren. You and I might not be able to determine who that is from looking at it, but if you're married to him, you would

8:06 absolutely. You look at the shoes, there's so much information here. First of all, he's wearing rather distinctive clothing. He's not wearing all black. All black would be a lot more difficult to um decipher what he's wearing. He looks like his feet may be a little bit shorter, but the bureau can determine or law enforcement can determine exactly how tall this person is based on this because they're going to there's I'm sure you can do it easier with AI, but Jim Fitzgerald can tell you too that they they can, you know, they're going to count those bricks and the distance he is and where he's standing on the mat. They're going to reenact that. And um I'm I'm sure Jim's been involved in a lot of cases where they've determined how tall he is, but that clothing is very distinctive.

8:50 Speak of the devil. Uh we called Jim when this news broke and asked him to join us and here he is, Jim Fitzgerald. Jim, these pictures are shocking. Your reaction to this breaking news?

8:58 Yeah, I'm literally looking at it for the first time and in the last few minutes and uh this is amazing and and my good friend Moren uh knows her stuff as well as anyone. She she's absolutely right. They're going to have all kinds of photo experts at breaking this down. And we only have a black and white image here. I'm not sure. Possibly there's color somewhere else. At least what I'm looking at. But this guy came uh he came ready for bear. He's got his uh his abduction kit with him uh in some kind of a backpack. I can't exactly see what it is, but looks like he has something on his back. Of course, wearing gloves, wearing face mask, which tells us something. Now, we thought all along that the person who did this may have known there was no subscription service.

9:39 Um, and uh, and that's why they didn't have to worry about it. This guy didn't want to take that chance and and wore the full mask here that would cover almost all of his face. But, as Moren was saying, as I just signed on here, you can see some features through there. And that's that's that's a big clue. Shoes, pants, sons. Uh uh Megan, you mentioned his wife, you know, his his buddies, his his siblings, someone, especially with this award out there. This changes the entire paradigm of this investigation. It does nothing. I we still don't know if this guy's the kidnapper looking for money, meaning the for-profit part of this. Uh we don't know if that's the person sending these things, but this person at least is the abductor. And that's where we have to start right now.

10:23 That's huge, huge, huge, huge. Such a huge investigative break. Yes. That they were able to recover these images. All I can think, Moren, is this is how Tyler Robinson was apprehended. They they got an image of him from the stairwell going up to the roof of Charlie Kirk's murder. And he wasn't identifiable. He too tried to disguise himself except to people who knew him. So, if this guy's married or has buddies or colleagues, if he works, you know, it's going to be a lot like if this were my husband, I would know. If if this were, you know, my executive producer, I would know. I'd know the build. I'd know the general facial look.

11:03 Like, there he's not as masked as he thinks. And that initial stance in that first photo is very distinctive um to me. Uh what I would be doing is hopefully uh the law enforcement initially on scene and hopefully the FBI ERT team did a bunch of dumpster diving or checked a bunch of trash or at least uh made notations as to when and where the trash pickups were and what quadrant of the um of the uh dump they went to so that they can start searching because or even the trash at that Circle K where there there was some activity initially um when uh that night I think someone was saying that there was some activity at that Circle K location. Yes. I would also check that

11:50 and they went the cops went there and asked for surveillance video from the Circle K. The Circle K employees confirm that to the media.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "FBI Releases NEW Photos of Masked and Armed Man at Nancy Guthrie's Home, with Former FBI Experts"?

Megyn Kelly (Guest), Moren (Guest), Jim Fitzgerald (Guest).

What is "FBI Releases NEW Photos of Masked and Armed Man at Nancy Guthrie's Home, with Former FBI Experts" about?

The FBI has released new images of a masked man armed and lurking outside Nancy Guthrie's home, raising concerns about her safety as he was seen shortly after entering her residence. The photos reveal him trying to disable a security camera while possibly holding vegetation linked to blood droplets found on her porch, intensifying the alarming nature of the incident.

What is mentioned in this Megyn Kelly episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Nancy Guthrie, FBI, Crypto Megan, Jim Fitzgerald, Puma County Sheriff's Department, Kosh Patel. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "FBI Releases NEW Photos of Masked and Armed Man at Nancy Guthrie's Home, with Former FBI Experts"?

The episode runs 13 min; the transcript is about 2,427 words in 30 timestamped sections.

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