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Local Sheriff vs. FBI Rumblings in Nancy Guthrie Case, and NEW Man Seen on Neighborhood Ring Camera

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Local Sheriff vs. FBI Rumblings in Nancy Guthrie Case, and NEW Man Seen on Neighborhood Ring Camera", an episode of Megyn Kelly published February 14, 2026 (1 h 57 min, about 22,430 words). It mentions 29 people, works and ideas, including Nancy Guthrie, Megan Kelly, Nancy's house, James Fitzgerald, FBI.

What this episode is about

The discussion centers on the ongoing investigation into the Nancy Guthrie case, highlighting tensions between local law enforcement and the FBI, as well as the emergence of new surveillance footage featuring a mysterious man in the neighborhood. The panel, composed of former FBI agents, aims to provide insights into the case's developments while acknowledging the public's interest and the potential for it to either escalate or become a cold case.

Key takeaways

  • In a case with so much darkness, conflicting reports shine a light on law enforcement's blurry lines.
  • Medicine on your doorstep? The pharmacy revolution is here—no more waiting for sickness to knock.
  • Guthrie case reveals a media circus: truth becomes collateral damage amid dueling narratives.
  • Perfect timing: a missing person and two suspects within minutes. Coincidence or a tangled web?
  • In crime-solving, no one is cleared until they're behind bars—suspects are just the tip of the iceberg.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Nancy Guthrie, Tom Winter, Megan Kelly, James Fitzgerald
  2. – 20:00: Lois Gibson, Keen Divine, Tucson
  3. – 30:00: Nancy Guthrie, Donald Eugene Dutton, Megan Kelly, Lois Gibson
  4. – 40:00: Tucson, Savannah Guthrie
  5. – 50:00: Harvey Levan, Nancy Guthrie, FBI, TMZ
  6. – 1:00:00: Savannah Guthrie, Chad Ayes, Will Gettis
  7. – 1:20:00: Nancy Guthrie, Nancy's house, Will Gettis
  8. – 1:30:00: Tucson
  9. – 1:40:00: Nancy Guthrie, Tucson, Chad Ayes
  10. – 1:50:00: Adrien Balon Hton, Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie, Harvey Levan
  11. – 1:56:36: Savannah Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie, Tom Winter, Olympics

Notable quotes from "Local Sheriff vs. FBI Rumblings in Nancy Guthrie Case, and NEW Man Seen on Neighborhood Ring Camera"

  • Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. I'm Megan Kelly. We are broadcasting live from a remote location today as we have been yesterday and for the next few days away with the fam for some RNR,.
    about Megan Kelly · at
  • Any event, I want to bring in our allstar panel. We've got James Fitzgerald and we've got Moren O'Connell. James is former supervisory special agent at the FBI and the host of the Cold Red podcast and Moren, former FBI special agent and.
    about Moren O'Connell · at
  • Backpacks in a back alley a few miles away from Nancy Guthri's case almost at the same time of the Nancy Guthrie home invasion. if the camera was right in the alley. Put it around 1:53 a.m.
    about Nancy Guthrie · at
  • On there? I tried to get to the bottom of this and basically I was directed to the Puma County Sheriff's Department. that they're the ones supposed to be running her on this.
    about Puma County Sheriff's Department · at
  • Like you know he's he's working on his dissertation. So I'm not sure what's happening there in Tucson. And then we have a third person. Now, another video has emerged and we're…
    about Tucson · at
  • Well, you're not going to hear Jim Fitzgerald on Megan Kelly's show say, Don't incorporate this sketch into the investigation. This is obviously a positive lead. And I by the way.
    about James Fitzgerald · at
  • Everybody everything to that lab for consistency. He says, You can trust this lab. The FBI's got a great lab, too. But this lab already has been processing for us, and we're…
    about FBI · at
  • It sounds like he has eliminated poor Carlos. Nanos will not confirm to Fox if there was forced entry at NY's house or whether the front or back door was used.
    about Nancy's house · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Nancy Guthrie — Person · Central subject (missing person/victim) · 11 mentions · first at
    The episode centers on her disappearance/abduction, evidence handling, suspect videos, ransom-note claims, and inter-agency conflict over the investigation.
  • Megan Kelly — Person · Host · 3 mentions · first at
    Host driving the episode’s ongoing coverage of the Nancy Guthrie case, moderating multiple expert panels and introducing new video/sketch developments.
  • James Fitzgerald — Person · Main guest / expert panelist · 2 mentions · first at
    Provides FBI investigative perspective on suspect prioritization, composite sketches, ransom-note opportunists, and inter-agency turf dynamics.
  • Moren O'Connell — Person · Main guest / expert panelist · 1 mention · first at
    Adds former FBI agent perspective on investigative process, inter-agency coordination, suspect video interpretation, and proof-of-life/medication discussion.
  • Savannah Guthrie — Person · Referenced public figure (family member) · 5 mentions · first at
    Referenced as Nancy Guthrie’s daughter and a factor in public attention; discussed in relation to media coverage, family communications, and Today Show dynamics.
    A kidnapping. Oh, I know exactly what to do or who to call. But you know the it's been confirmed that Savannah's first one of her first calls was to Senator Mark Kelly who is…
  • Lois Gibson — Person · Referenced expert (forensic sketch artist) · 4 mentions · first at
    Her composite sketch based on masked surveillance imagery becomes a major analytic artifact; her track record is used to argue the sketch should be taken seriously.
    Take Lois seriously when she puts this sketch together and says, I took a shot. And here's what she wrote on X. I guessed at the parts of the face covered with the ski mask on…
  • Tom Winter — Person · Referenced reporter · 4 mentions · first at
    Cited as NBC’s reporter claiming law enforcement 'moved on' from a backpack suspect video, creating a key point of conflicting information.
    Not clear. And while the FBI may be telling Harvey he's not cleared, no one's cleared, Tom Winter seems to have two just law enforcement sources saying he is. So, Jim, what do you think is happening here?
  • Harvey Levan — Person · Referenced media figure / intermediary · 4 mentions · first at
    Discussed as TMZ’s figure with FBI sources regarding alleged ransom notes; criticized as potentially sensationalizing and amplifying opportunists.
    Information is wrong. That no one has been cleared. That was the word. They've been cleared. And Harvey says no. My FBI source tells me no one has been cleared in relation to that video.
  • Chad Ayes — Person · Guest panelist (law enforcement perspective) · 2 mentions · first at
    Weighs in on leadership/ego issues, crime-scene handling, likelihood of victim survival, and the need for FBI resources.
    Strength, if her heart was even strong enough to maintain everything she went through. I agree with both guys. I don't think she made it out of the house alive that night.
  • Will Gettis — Person · Guest panelist (kidnapping/negotiation perspective) · 2 mentions · first at
    Provides private-sector kidnapping/negotiation framing: proof-of-life standards, information containment, and skepticism of ransom-note theatrics.
    But at the same time, when we're talking to the family, if someone has gone missing, it's always going to be a missing person until such time as a credible proof of life has…
  • Keen Divine — Person · Referenced online poster/handle · 2 mentions · first at
    Identified as the online account that originally posted the porch video later analyzed as a potential lead.
    On someone's porch, he said around 3:30 a.m., and then returned again at 5:00 a.m., prompting a concerned Ring user to post about it on the neighbor app. This home is roughly 6…
  • Donald Eugene Dutton — Person · Referenced criminal (example case) · 2 mentions · first at
    Used in an illustrative story about Lois Gibson’s sketch accuracy leading to identification and conviction after a violent attack on an officer.
    Didn't realize the guy that he stopped to just give a regular ticket was an escape convict whose name was Donald Eugene Dutton. So, Don Dutton, as soon as he gets stopped by…
  • Adrien Balon Hton — Person · Referenced person (likely mis-transcribed name) · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in a critique of Today Show social media timing; appears to refer to actress Adrienne Bailon-Houghton, but transcript spelling is inconsistent.
    Instagram, and they post this with a caption, Nothing beats a mom hug. Chanel shares that Adrien Balon Hton's mom comforted her Chanel in the days after Chanel's husband's passing, which was a tragic event that happened, I think, earlier.

Companies & orgs

  • FBI — Company · Law enforcement agency · 1 mention · first at
    Primary investigative body involved in the Nancy Guthrie case, providing resources and expertise.
  • Puma County Sheriff's Department — Company · Local law enforcement · 1 mention · first at
    Primary local agency handling the case, with reported tensions with the FBI.
  • TMZ — Company · Media outlet · 1 mention · first at
    Reporting on the case, including ransom notes and conflicting law enforcement information.
    You guys about. This is just breaking now. Okay, here we are again. I'm sorry to even raise it, but I have to. TMZ just says it just received a third email from the man who…
  • Florida lab — Company · Forensic lab · 2 mentions · first at
    Lab used by Pima County Sheriff's Department for DNA analysis.
    Sheriff Nanos said no. That early on he had sent things to a Florida lab he trusts and he just wants to send everybody everything to that lab for consistency. He says, You can…
  • Guinness World Records — Company · Reference · 3 mentions
    Mentioned in context of forensic artist Lois Gibson's record.
    About what you saw, try to remember what he looked and she can translate your memory into a picture. She actually holds the Guinness World Record for most successful forensic…

Products & tech

  • Ring — Product · Evidence source · 1 mention · first at
    Security cameras providing crucial footage in the case.
    Link their rim ring cameras and they see it talk about what they've seen on there. Now, look at this guy. He was all over this woman's porch in the middle of the night. Look at…
  • Cold Red — Product · Podcast · 1 mention · first at
    Podcast hosted by James Fitzgerald, mentioned in passing.
    O'Connell. James is former supervisory special agent at the FBI and the host of the Cold Red podcast and Moren, former FBI special agent and co-host of the Bestcase Worstcase Podcast. And they've been our guides throughout this whole thing.
  • Bestcase Worstcase Podcast — Product · Podcast · 1 mention · first at
    Podcast co-hosted by Moren O'Connell, mentioned in passing.
    The host of the Cold Red podcast and Moren, former FBI special agent and co-host of the Bestcase Worstcase Podcast. And they've been our guides throughout this whole thing.

Concepts & topics

  • Cold Case — Concept · Potential outcome · 1 mention · first at
    Possible future status of the Nancy Guthrie case if unresolved.
    Of reasons. And we will stay on until, it's obvious when it's time to move on. this is either going to become a cold case and just a missing person's case. We're going to have…
  • RNR — Concept · Personal reference · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned by host regarding personal time off.
    From a remote location today as we have been yesterday and for the next few days away with the fam for some RNR, though not that much RNR, but in any event, happy to be with…

Places & events

  • Nancy's house — Place · Crime scene · 1 mention · first at
    Primary location of the abduction, with forensic evidence collected.
  • Tucson — Place · Setting · 10 mentions · first at
    Location where the Nancy Guthrie case is unfolding, with multiple suspicious activities reported.
  • NY — Place · Reference location · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in context of the case, possibly a typo or shorthand.
    Someplace around there. And of course, we're told that the doorbell was disconnected at NY's house at 1:47 and that someone was spotted on camera at 2:12 a.m. So, the NBC News Nightly program, I think it was last night, Tom.
  • COVID-19 pandemic — Event · Contextual reference · 3 mentions
    Mentioned in passing regarding timelines and behaviors.
    Mother-in-law was put on hospice because they were she was it was during COVID and she was in assisted living and they said we're taking her off all of her meds for whatever…
  • Super Bowl — Event · Contextual reference · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as upcoming news topic.
    Epstein, my god. And the hearing with Pam Bondi was crazy this week. The whole Super Bowl fallout and all the craziness there, the Olympic stuff. Did that French judge steal our medal from our ice skaters, our ice dancers?
  • Olympics — Event · Contextual reference · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as upcoming news topic.
    Is, but a whole scandal's evolving now and whether the French did not deserve to win that gold into that. and the Olympics in general are sort of a nice getaway from the…

Full transcript with timestamps

Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. I'm Megan Kelly. We are broadcasting live from a remote location today as we have been uh yesterday and and for the next few days away with the fam for some RNR, though not that much RNR, but uh in any event, happy to be with all of you and continuing our coverage of this case. Um I mean, to be honest, I I'd plan on taking the day off, so I know there's some viewers who would like to hear us talk about some other news besides the Guthrie case. And um we wouldn't have been doing a show at all today had it not been for this case, which people have a lot of interest in for all sorts of reasons. And we will stay on until, you know, it's obvious when it's time to move on. I mean, this is either going to become a cold case and just a missing person's case. We're going to have to turn the page or they're going to find a resolution. But we're not at either of those points yet. Um and next week we'll

have plenty of other news as well. So in any event, uh I want to bring in our allstar panel. We've got James Fitzgerald and we've got Moren O'Connell. Uh James is former supervisory special agent at the FBI and the host of the Cold Red podcast and Moren, former FBI special agent and co-host of the Bestcase Worstcase Podcast. And they've been our guides uh throughout this whole thing. Don't miss a moment. Subscribe to this show on YouTube and follow me on Insta, Facebook, and X. One of the biggest problems in American healthcare right now is access. You usually cannot get medication until you're already sick.

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Okay, guys. Couple of big developments to start with. There is dueling information on whether since our show yesterday, the FBI has quote moved on from, and by FBI, I mean FBI and the uh Pima County Sheriff's Department from Pac-Man, who we analyzed at length yesterday, uh the man who had two backpacks in a back alley uh a few miles away from Nancy Guthri's case almost at the same time of the Nancy Guthrie um home invasion. if the camera was right in the alley. Put it around um 1:53 a.m. someplace around there. And of course, we're told that the doorbell was disconnected at NY's house at 1:47 and that someone was spotted on camera at 2:12 a.m. So, the NBC News Nightly program, I think it was last night, Tom Winter, who's been covering the case for them, reports that law enforcement has quote moved on. I think he said that the that that man is not a person of interest or a suspect. they've moved on.

And uh TMZ saying that's not true, saying that their sources say no. Uh your information is wrong. That uh no one has been cleared. That was the word. They've been cleared. And Harvey says no. My FBI source tells me no one has been cleared in relation to that video. So let's just start there. What's going on there? I mean, I tried to get to the bottom of this and basically I was directed to the Puma County Sheriff's Department. I mean, that they're the ones supposed to be running her on this. They're the only ones who can clear or not clear. And while the FBI may be telling Harvey he's not cleared, no one's cleared, Tom Winter seems to have two just law enforcement sources saying he is. So, Jim, what do you think is happening here?

No one is. No one is cleared in this investigation, Megan, at this point in time. You can talk at the inner circle of the family to guys like this who pop up, you know, days later, weeks later, a week and a half later on some kind of a video. So, you know, unless someone's actually in prison, locked up, no anzot, CCTV on him, they know where he is. No one is going to be cleared. And even if this guy is not the one or someone is in prison and he's he they know he didn't do the abduction of of of Nancy Guthrie, you know, does he know someone who did?

Was he involved in some sort of co-conspir? So I said yesterday, this guy has to be ruled out before Well, they can do other things at the same time, but he has to be ruled out before they say he's cleared. We're hearing conflicting stories. One people said or one set of people said yes, other people said no. My idea is you keep them, you know, you move them down the priority list. You put them in section, you know, C, D, or E of suspects, but you still keep an eye on them to keep everything, get DNA, get fingerprints if that's possible, and then compare it from there. But I would say if I was the investigator, and Moren can disagree with this she wants, but this guy is still in the suspect pool because there's too many factors that lined up when they shouldn't have lined up. Same time, same location, backpacks, all that stuff. So, he has to be kept in that suspect pool. I'm not sure if he's been

identified or not. That would be a good I don't I mean they could No one would have told Tom Win. I mean Tom Winter is a good reporter. Um no one would have said he was cleared if they hadn't identified him. I just don't can't believe that. Uh but here is Harvey who clearly does have some FBI sources. He this here he cites FBI. Normally he just cites law enforcement, but he his only role in this whole case has been the so-called ransom notes which we know the FBI is handling. Quite clearly he's got a source or sources within the FBI. And this is what he said on Hannity last night. Moren, here it is. S three.

Why is NBC dismissing this now that apparently they have determined that the man has been cleared in this case? Cuz it looks like a strange coincidence to me.

Yeah. I mean, look, I'm not going to embrace or dispute what NBC said. I can only tell you uh about an hour ago I called uh one of my sources at the FBI who was involved in this case who said um that nobody has been cleared in connection with the video. That doesn't mean they're implicated either, but they said they're looking at everything including this. So I'm getting different information from the FBI.

Okay. So what do you make of it? I think that in the bureau we're doing different things and um you know Fitz has talked at length about uh the number of different investigations in all these different silos that are happening simultaneously including the sheriff's department. Our team is just not going to give up especially like the um cast team, the um cellular analysis team and others. We are just not going to give up until we check every single solitary box that we check. And for two different agencies to have two different ways of going about things is totally natural.

Um, you're always going to have hiccups. You're always going to have issues among personnel. But that's where leadership comes in. If you're a good leader, you you know, like more than one time I had a supervisor say, "Hey, I need you to go over here and build a damn bridge. And I don't care what you have to do to build it. Build it because we have whatever the situation is at hand." And here the situation obviously is an 84 year old woman. So we have different ways of going about it. We're not going to tell them how to handle their business.

They're not they they're not going to be telling us how to handle ours and then at the end of the day we just share every or in a in a you know really good situation. We're going to share all the information and we're going to do it in the command post and we're going to say this is what we found. This is

with respect to this guy though. I think we're we're we're it's fair to say he's he's not a great lead. No one's considering him their hottest lead right now. Otherwise, the messaging overall would be different. And so that's disturbing because now we have at least two men who one we know committed a crime. One we think looks pretty sketchy with the double backpack in the alley in the middle of the night trying to get through some gate. Doesn't exactly look like um you know he's he's working on his dissertation. So I'm not sure what's happening there in Tucson. And then we have a third person. Now, another video has emerged and we're going to show that today of yet another guy. This guy is um on a porch. This again comes from one of the um Ring camera forums in and around Tucson. Like people talk and they they link their rim ring cameras and they see it talk about what they've seen on there. Now, look at this guy. He was all

over this woman's porch in the middle of the night. Look at him, you guys. He's got the dark mustache. He's got the dark sole patch into a beard underneath his chin. He's got pretty distinguished eyebrows. Now, unfortunately, he is also kind of skinny in my view. That that's a distinction from the man who was on Nancy Guthri's porch. You can tell he sort of knows about the ring camera here himself. Um, but look at that. before he manages to cover it up or do whatever he did to it. Boy, oh boy, you have a pretty good head shot of him. So, Jim, I he does there is a striking similarity between this guy and his face at least and what we think is behind that masked man on NY's porch.

Um, and once again, as I've said about the last guy we showed and the guy we the same guy we talked about yesterday, by the way, Moren and I came up with the name Tupac for him.

Tupac. This latest guy. No, no, the guy from yesterday. Oh, Pac-Man. Oh, Tupac Tupac. Yeah. Anyway, but this guy, yeah, there are some similarities certainly through the eyeholes. They've got to follow up with this. I would want to know how far away from NY's house, the exact night, the same or and the time of day. Uh, and perhaps if any other Ring cameras picked this guy up along the way. He's certainly acting suspicious like he doesn't belong there. Um,

yeah, side by side. Of course not. I mean, unless it's an ex-girlfriend or something. We just don't know that. But I'm sure the ex-girlfriend wouldn't be putting this thing out unless she wanted to, you know, upset her ex-boyfriend. So, he has to be looked into. Facial recognition. Local sheriff deputies are going to know this guy. Most likely someone will recognize him and say, "Hey, who is he?" If he's just a normal, you know, uh, you know, street guy doing his thing, that's one that's one thing. But if he's a obviously if he's there for some other reason, that has to be determined. And if he never shows up and turns himself in, that's a clue, too.

So, we have to get these guys identified is the bottom line and maybe just move on from there, but without knowing who they are, their names or or where exactly they were, you know, at 147 or so uh that sun Sunday morning, um they got to keep them in the suspect pool.

We don't know, but somebody knows. Here's the information. The original poster of the video uh goes by Keen Divine online. And this was originally posted at uh it was dated January 23rd, you know, last month from the neighbors like Ring camera app, not far from Nancy. Um then our friend Nerdy Addict on X, he reposted it, which is where I saw it this morning. The man showed up on someone's porch, he said around 3:30 a.m., and then returned again at 5:00 a.m., prompting a concerned Ring user to post about it on the neighbor app. This home is roughly 6 milesi south of Nancy Guthri's house. Look at that. I mean, short of it like being vertical, this guy gave us like his own little mug shot. I mean, somebody should be looking into him for what, if anything, may have gone missing on that porch at a minimum.

Um the link that the neighbor who posted it on the neighborsring.com uh that that post says um this guy appeared in the front yard around 3:30 a.m. then returned around 5:00 a.m. My dogs went crazy barking and thankfully spooked him away. I didn't answer the door. Anyone else one else see him in the area of 6th between Campbell and Tucson Boulevard. Uh he's got on a light color and now moving on just what we see in the video for the listening audience. He has dark hair, dark facial hair, a mustache, the sole patch underneath his bottom lip. Um, he approaches the doorway, appears to be carrying a light colored sweatshirt or jacket. He he sort of oddly hunches over, we think, probably trying to avoid detection on the camera, which failed with his rear end to the camera, but I mean, he's caught like his whole face is on there.

Um, he he shuffles to the side, appears to try to block the camera unsuccessfully. Uh, you see his entire face. He does have more rounded eyes and um it looks a little bit like he has something on his neck, like a tattoo. It's hard to see. And he looks Hispanic to me. You can't really tell in this black and white video for sure. Um but I don't know. To me, still he seems too skinny. The guy who was at NY's for sure um to me looks slightly huskier than this guy and huskier than Tupac. Uh and now let's see. Uh, yes, this is somebody on the Nerdy Addict thread. Chupa Jones points out, notice how he uses the same hand to block the camera, then almost seemingly instinctively does the same little crouch down to the left motion as the abductor or or as the mass guy as Tupac.

He's saying as the as Tupac does in the video, it's like he's reaching for something that isn't there. A lot of speculation about whether this is the same guy. Let me just I mean any thoughts on all of that? Because this is somebody who was in the area. He came back an hour and a half later. I mean, this is very suspicious. And by the way, we think NY's abductor may have come back. You know, the he he came he approached that door more than once. We at least think that because he didn't have the backpack on in that one shot.

Moren, right? Um he I I think you're right about this guy. He's got those large eyes and he's got those eyebrows that are perfectly arched at the bottom and he's got the right facial hair around his mouth. I wish I could see the mouth a little bit better.

Yeah, because the perpetrator at NY's house has thick lips that that were perfectly calm the whole time. I mean, there are people that can't pick up a plate or turn a doororknob without making some sort of, you know, tightening up their face in some way, shape, or form, but this that person on NY's porch just was calm as a cucumber the whole time. I do see a similarity, as you pointed out, about how calm this person is. This new video, the way he just saunters around um and he's hunched over. He seems to be a bit taller and I would agree a bit thinner, but we don't know that right now. Maybe we can get that team out on the uh front porch to measure all that, but I don't see this person standing up straight. Did the Does it say or did it mention at all if um this person in this newest video was seen at other houses in the area or just that one particular

did not say that. Um and I mean one notable distinction is he did not wear a ski mask. So, if that was a crime, unlike Tupac or Pac-Man, who was just sort of who looked like he had just committed a crime, this is just my own supposition, or might be about to. So, and was in an area where the crime didn't appear to be happening. It seemed to be more like where he was stashing something. Could be totally reasonable explanation for his behavior. Should note that for the record. Um, this guy was in the midst of something that looked sketchy like on the porch and he was not wearing the face mask unlike NY's abductor who did have the space ma the face mask. But th this is where I want to bring in the latest sketch from this world famous sketch artist you guys because I'm holding your head and I'll put it back on the board too when we get to it. The picture of Porchman. Okay, the new Porchman. Unmasked Porch Man.

Um, there's a very famous forensic artist named Lois Gibson and she's now in her 70s. She's retired Houston PD forensic artist and she is the forensic artist. So, you are the victim of a crime. You go in, you speak with Lois about what you saw, try to remember what he looked like, and she can translate your memory into a picture. She actually holds the Guinness World Record for most successful forensic artist. On her website, she credits her neardeath experience as the victim of a serial rapist/killer as the reason she's so passionate about catching criminals. She's got a very interesting personal story and her website states that her sketches have helped identify more than 751 criminals.

So, this woman's pretty badass. Now, she talked uh with the Guinness Book of World Records records when she was honored about how she helps crime victims remember faces because she said so many of them will come in and say, "I didn't see the face. I don't I don't know." And just listen to Lois here. I've had witnesses that were screaming, "I never saw the face." They screamed they never saw the face. Well, here's two tricks. Number one is you ask them, "What kind of hair did they have?" And everybody remembers hair. I mean, human beings are obsessed with hair. That's why high school is so hard. And then the other trick you use if they are sure they say, "No, I never saw the face."

Is you talk about something else, you become very nice to them and you ponder the character of the person that attacked them and then you say, "What kind of expression did he have?" If they answer that, they saw the face. It's very clever, right?

I like her approach. Yes. Her whole her whole demeanor is good. So, she took a shot at coming up with a sketch based on NY's abductor based on the mask. Like, she took a look at his masked face. And here it is.

For listening audience, it looks like a Hispanic man. He looks, forgive me, kind of handsome. Um, a good head of hair. the black mustache sort of right down into a goatee that doesn't have hair all out throughout the chin. Just a just a line of it going down the sides of his little mouth and down into like a devil a devil beard with the sole patch connected with a little devil beard, but not a pointed beard. Um, he has a nice nose. He's got a little age on his face. I'd say this man here is late 30s. And he's got the eyes that you see in in the actual photo from NY's ring cam nest cam in that the sides of the eyes, the outside end of the eyes go maybe ever so slightly upward. You know, they're they they tilt almost just a little bit upward at the at the outside. There's no hood on those eyelids. This guy does not need the uh the plastic surgery that gets rid of the upper eyelid. Um and he we were told

yesterday by law enforcement FBI that's what they were doing on NY's porch with that tent as Jim and Moren said um they were figuring out how tall the perp was and they said 5'9 to 510. So this guy doesn't look particularly large in stature and the way she's showing him in her sketch that she came up with. And just before I get it to you guys to weigh in on, I'm going to give you one more thing on Lois Gibson. She's solved all these cases or helped solve and one of the best was this case of a nonfatal shooting of a cop named officer Paul Diesson.

Um she tells the story, we actually pulled it. This is again in her interview with the Guinness Book. Who knew the Guinness Book of World Records was doing on camera interviews, by the way. Um she tells the story about how she helped catch officer Paul Diesson's shooter. Watch this. So, I had an officer that was shot in the head and shot in the back and run over and drugged under a car. Officer Paul Diesson was patrolling one night and he didn't realize the guy that he stopped to just give a regular ticket was an escape convict whose name was Donald Eugene Dutton. So, Don Dutton, as soon as he gets stopped by Paul Diesson, he jumps out of his car and he shoots Paul in the head and in the back. And Paul twirls around and falls down unconscious on the ground. So, Don Dutton got back in the car and on purpose ran over Paul, officer Diesson, and it drugg him down the street about 60 feet. So, Paul is so

tough. He gets up and walks back to his radio and calls in his own assist and was semianc. And he told me, "I didn't remember his face. I didn't see his face. I only saw the flash of the gun." So, I talked about other things and said, "Paul, you're going to live. You're going to be okay." And I said, what kind of expression did he have? And he I'll never forget he said he looked like a shark, like he didn't care about anything at all. And inside my mind are going yeehaw cuz that means he remembered the face. Anyway, Officer Diesson swears he doesn't remember doing the sketch with me because I talked to him years later and I've got it hanging on my wall. They released the sketch.

Three days later, Don Dutton was caught trying to shoplift a chainsaw from a Sears. When he was arrested for the shoplifting incident, two of the guys at the jail thought he looked like my sketch. So, they held an in hospital room video lineup for Paul Diesson and he picked him out and then they went to the parking lot of the shoplifting scene and they found a car with pieces of Paul's skin and uniform hanging from the undercarriage. So, he for sure did it. and I went to trial and he got life in prison and Paul reached over across the bench and kissed me on the cheek.

Incredible story. And for the listening audience, her sketch of the perp there, Don, is identical, guys. Look at that. Look at that. It's as if she was working off of the photograph of this man. But when she drew that sketch on the left, she had never seen his face. She had a cop who didn't think he had seen his face. A cop who' suffered massive trauma. So you'd have to really question whether he he remembered anything. You could be relied on for a description. It is as if she drew the photograph. So we do need to take Lois seriously when she puts this sketch together and says, "I took a shot." And here's what she wrote on X. I guessed at the parts of the face covered with the ski mask on this uh this Nancy Guthrie kidnapping suspect. I use the surveillance photos shown. I spent 43 years at the job trying to help detectives with similar photos. Only things somewhat sure are eyes and part

of lips/m mustache. I'll take the hit if I'm drastically wrong. Don't criticize. Do your own. So Lois is like she's not taking guff from anybody. She's throwing down. It was a bold thing for her to do because she knows she could be wrong. I take her very seriously and just for not for nothing, but let's just compare her sketch to Porch Man from last night.

Something's wrong. Pretty good. I mean, it's pretty damn good. I got to say, for listening audience, it's eerily similar. Like, do they not have to seriously investigate this latest porch man Jim? Well, I'd be curious if Lois saw this latest porch man, as we'll call him. I don't I don't think so from what you said. And

no, because this came out yesterday and this latest guy, this this this hit today.

Well, you're not going to hear Jim Fitzgerald on Megan Kelly's show say, "Don't incorporate this sketch into the investigation." This is obviously a a a positive lead. And uh and I by the way it's refreshing to see sketch artists who actually draw their composite sketches as opposed to using software there. The software is okay but I really like seeing the artists. It's a it's a it's a true art. Not to use that word over again. Lots and lots of practice is needed. You have to be a very good listener and you have to know how to interact with people. Obviously she's not doing that in this case. Uh so I would say very much this this sketch is worth putting out. I will add this caveat though. Uh, and I I put some of these pointers out a few days ago with you, Megan. It's a this guy may have been change may have changed his identity since certainly since the abduction itself, but certainly since

the the video went out, even with the uh with the skull mask on. So, look at the basic I would tell the the public look at the basic features in this composite sketch, but don't get thrown off, you know, without the goatee, mustache, whatever. But just think, did this guy have it before? If he wore this most of his life, whatever, or certainly in the last few years, all of a sudden it came off in the last week or so, call the FBI tip line.

Red alert. I mean, Moren, it's this woman's got a lifetime of figuring out what does someone look like without being shown what they look like by just being given a few clues, a few remembrances. And here, I mean, I would argue the the face masked subject is probably even easier to work off of than someone's memory because you can see things like face shape and some facial hair. And the eyes are the eyes are everything,

right? But if the face mask is tight, it can smash down the nose considerably. Um, but I'm not going to argue with this lady either. I mean, she's she's legit. She's done the job. She's succeeded at it over and over and over. So, but I would agree with Fitz that let let's not limit our um imaginations to what this person will or will not look like. They'll definitely be on edge. They're going to be um you know, they're going to be freaking out, but this whole where we are now is just like another dip or rise in this roller coaster called the Nancy Guthrie case. This is just unprecedented.

It's sad because we're here. We are, you know, it's it's now getting extremely unlikely that Nancy is still alive because the family told us she can't survive without her critical meds. And you know, it's possible they just said that in order to engender sympathy with the kidnapper, like this is about to turn into a murder in case you didn't know that and didn't plan that. But here we are almost two weeks later and we still don't have her. and they they said they'd been checking the hospitals to see if anybody had like popped in to try to get meds and at least the initial surge suggested no. Go ahead, Mory.

With regard to the meds, um my mother-in-law was put on hospice because they were she was it was during COVID and she was in assisted living and they said we're taking her off all of her meds for whatever reason and we don't expect her to last long. We don't think she can last long without all this medic, heart medication, everything, right? They took her off the meds. She lasted another couple years and she felt better than she felt while she was on the meds.

So that gives me a little bit of hope. We have to work this case. Law enforcement has to work this case like she's alive. It's the only way to work this. And that's why tensions run high. That's why the stakes are so high is because everyone's trying to believe she's going to be a she's going to come home. Well, I mean, Jim, you know as well as I do that these sketches, they they can be really good. I mean, they can be great. Like Lois, they can be not as great. I mean, the Uni Bomber sketch is the most famous or infamous sketch in the world. Everybody knew the uni uniomber by his police sketch for the vast I bet. In fact, when you say uniomber, I think people think of the police sketch more than they think of the actual image of Ted Kazinski once you guys got him. Um, I can't really look. I'm looking at it now. Can I really say this sketch artist nailed Ted Kazinski? I don't know. I mean, like,

you know, it shows him with the hood, the hoodie and the sunglasses, and then you see him later with his crazy mane of hair and his crazy beard. I'm not sure. Um, there have been others. There was one the the Nightstalker, a serial killer in um San Francisco Bay Area, LA, April 84 through August of 85. He killed at least 15 people. We're showing his sketch on the board right now. That's not bad. That one's not bad at all. Um, police had released one of these to the media and he was caught later, but that one's not bad. Uh, the one of Dennis Raider, BTK, I don't know. You tell me what you think.

It's not going to identify him with his family or friends. Unfortunately, you could rule some people out.

It'll be tough to rule someone in based on that composite right there. But they tried.

Let me show you one other. Here's here's Son of Sam, David Burkowitz, who terrified us all. 1977, one year in New York City, and let me tell you, growing up in upstate New York during that time, everybody knew who Son of Sam was. This one actually got a lot of criticism after he was caught because they they ripped on the sketch artist. I think it's actually pretty good not knowing, you know, for somebody who who's never seen him before. But the face is a lot thinner than Burkowitz really was. Like Burkowitz was fat. He was kind of chubby,

fat, and he had a that that receding hairline that you don't, you know, this the sketch just looks like some guy with perfect hair versus

And the sketch shows a nose that looks like I don't know, it's like more wide at the bottom with wider nostrils and a thinner bridge. and Burkowitz's nose was it looks more Italian to me like

it doesn't look the same down at the bottom and the lips don't look the same but I mean it bears a resemblance I think it's fair to say but so I don't know like they're hit or miss basically

but let let me add here all this stuff is good and important but this opens up another door for us that I was hesitant to get into for the last week or so I think he touched on it yesterday why is this guy now on the porch of someone else a week before or so, five miles away. And what is the problem with that? Uh, and was this a missionoriented project, which I thought it was all along, to kidnap Mrs. Guthrie, and we'll rule out Tupac from last night, but this guy does look good. Is this now a random sort of act of violence, an abduction there? and and then hope that even strengthens more now that the kidnapping part and the the raising the money for ransom is even more specious and not connected at all to the actual abduction. So why is this guy a week beforehand going on someone else's? That's why I asked yesterday, was the address very similar or one block away? The police go to wrong

houses sometimes when they're doing search warrants and that's a bad thing. Uh and FBI's done it, too. So this just opens up this other door. I hate to use the word meaningless, but like almost motiveless and everything we put into this, all my experience, Moren's, could this just be some rando walking down the street? Why he puts on the mask, you know, or or NY's abduction and not a week before because maybe he did this surveillance before, looked in the window. Hey, there's this old lady by herself. I see a camera. So, I I if if this is directed to kidnap her, why go to some other place a week before?

That's what I'm trying to reconcile in my head, unless the guy is not connected at all. But we have to figure out who this guy was from this latest video and figure out his name.

If it's not connected, I think it's safe to say we should not move to Tucson. Like

how many men do they have roaming in the middle of the night trying to break in creepily praying on people's porches possibly abducting women from their beds like um I didn't know that Tucson was such a hot bed of criminality but it's kind of disturbing Moren

well he's got something in his hands Fitz what would you say to the possibility that maybe he's he was going around as part of his um his uh pre-inccident work and trying to get clothing from people that had someone else's DNA all the way, you know, just

that's I can't rule that out, but it's it's I don't think this guy is as bright as some people are giving him credit for. I mean, again, it's a successful abduction. We have to give this guy credit for that so far. But is it all by happen stance, by fluke and some mistakes made early on by the investigators? I mean,

well, let let me let me give you one other I have another criminal for you from the Tucson area who's on camera. This one is a peeping tom and uh I believe this is from December. This is a a local couple realized that they live in like an apartment complex it looks like and they look at this guy. He's wearing a reflective vest. It's almost like he wants to be seen for the listening audience. Um, he's got reflections like the stripes all over his shirt and the couple that is is has been spied on is now filming him. I I don't know if it's with their Nest camera, their Ring camera, or they actually just did it, but he's going up on his tiptoes and he's holding his phone in front of a high up window. The couple spoke to the local media saying that's um a bathroom window.

I'd like to see how old that female victim was in that uh She's not She's young. She's not old, which is the distinction here. I mean, I I think because it's like

if you're peeping Tom and you want to look into the windows of young women in their bathrooms, and this woman is young. She looks like maybe young 30s to me. Um, that that doesn't necessarily put you on the line for abducting an 84 year old no in the middle of the night. But I'm I am just saying like this is Tucson's got a crime a crime problem. Maybe it's every city that has all this stuff on camera, but this one happened, the one that we're showing you the video of happened um December 18th, 2025. Uh he was spotted peeping into apartments near Karo Farms in Thorndale and Puma County. I don't know where that is in relation to Nancy. Actually, I do.

Uh it's 9.3 miles west of NY's house. My crack team looked that up. But this man is six foot three to six foot four

and has a different So it's not our guy because the FBI they wouldn't be off by that many inches in estimating who to who took Nancy.

And um yeah the couple was reporting that they they saw him looking into one of their neighbors windows as well. This wasn't the first time. They say that uh the estimated population in Tucson for at least 2024, the most recent we have is 554,000. Um this they had about two 2200 no they had 2,84 burglaries in 2024 which is 401 burglaries per every 100,000 residents. I don't know how if that's that seems high to me.

It's high. But perhaps this is like I don't know like if this were the case is is it like Tucson's forgotten how to investigate these or what? Because nobody has confidence in this sheriff at this point. And I would think this guy would say, "I've been around the block. I know how to investigate a break-in. I've done all the things I need to do. There was no problem with me turning over the crime scene when I did." But instead, he's been kind of like, "Okay, if there's someone to blame, I'll take the blame." Um it doesn't seem like they're very good at investigating so far.

Well, if you have a city council Oh, go ahead Fitz. No, you go and then I'll pick up.

If you have a city council and a mayor that aren't supportive of law enforcement going after any kind of petty crime, this is exactly what you're going to get. It's like a bunch of three-year-olds. Criminals are like three-year-olds. If you let them get away with anything, they're going to get away with everything.

Well, that's clear. That's clearly what's happening. And I don't know if it was any accident that you know this guy thought he could get away with it on Nancy Guthy's doors stop or breaking into her house because maybe he's in this crime world fits to your point and like he's like everyone's getting away with it. You know, I can get away with it too. And then things went wrong in there and it just turned into now I got to get rid of the evidence of what I did. But wouldn't there be something stolen out of the house if that were the case?

Absolutely. There's always a motive for a crime. I I mentioned your program the other day, Megan, about the double homicide in uh in Vermont of two professors out of Dartmouth College. Uh my profile was initially off. We thought it was someone they knew because the family said nothing was stolen out of the house. I told you later two teenage boys were boys were arrested. They stabbed both parties to death. Uh and they said nothing was stolen. And then we said it's someone they know. The the guy was in business with someone in South America and and maybe there was an affair or something like that or a former student. Didn't like the grades they got. Well, it turns out four days later they the daughters reported cash was stolen from the house. Somehow the daughters knew where cash was kept. That changed everything. That was then the crime scene became a a theft, a robbery, uh you know, a burglary. They were

allowed into the house. They pretend they were taking survey. So, there have been some problems with this investigation. Um, if it turns out that there are some missing items, but you're not going to steal missing items and the person who lives there. Um, you may kill the person in there if they see you because they're not going to talk when they're dead if they somehow have ID, but you're or identification, but you're wearing a mask to begin with. So the purpose of this whatever this breakin abduct whatever this breakin was it doesn't seem to be something was stolen unless there's something the family is not telling us about at all and then for some reason mom Nancy had to come along at the same time. So no this the mission had to be to abduct this woman. Was she the specific one? Could it have been anyone? That that's what we still have to ask ourselves. It just it just seems so unlikely that it's like oh and they

just happen to get Savannah Guthri's mother of all people. Right. Right. Oh, and why don't here I'm here to rob the house. I got a great idea. Why don't you just come with me? So get dressed.

Yeah. You know. Yep. Stop bleeding. Oh, you don't want to. And then out. Yeah. And then

No, it doesn't. It seems It seems much more likely they knew exactly who was in there. It just seems impossible to me. Though I understand some people there have said it it took them years to know that Nancy was Savannah's mother. I get apparently she's not like my mom running around telling like the electrician and everybody like my mom loves to tell people her doctors they all know. Um I guess Nancy was um more reserved about that fact which my mom and I have had some laughs over the past week. We've been laughing and worrying together. um you know, Gallow's humor on on our own account. But in any event, so it is possible that her that the locals didn't know that this was Savannah Guthri's mom, but it just seems too extraordinary to think it had nothing to do with the reason she was chosen. Uh I want to keep going because there's a couple of other things that I've got to ask you about

you guys about. This is just breaking now. Okay, here we are again. I'm sorry to even raise it, but I have to. TMZ just says it says it just received a third email from the man who claims he knows the identity of Nancy Guthri's killer or sorry kidnapper and that he's now upped his price. Remember he was going to give us that information for the low low price of one bitcoin about 65 grand. No, he's pissed now. The email says he's contacting TMZ because he doesn't trust law enforcement, but he trusts Harvey Levan, who spends most of his time talking about celebrity news inside the 30- mile zone or Los Angeles.

Okay. He's essentially using TMZ as an intermediary, telling authorities, "You don't trust me, I don't trust you." He suggests the reward is now he says oh he suggests the FBI reward having been doubled to 100,000 because that happened yesterday after our show was a move designed quote to discredit me. Now he wants the 100,000 from the FBI and here's how he's asking for a fraction of Bitcoin worth 50 grand and in return he will give up the information and then he expects another 50,000 in Bitcoin. He promises not to withdraw the first 50,000 until the kidnapper is arrested.

There's another important change. He says when he gets the initial payment, he will give up quote the name of the main individual, referring to the main individual, suggesting possibly that there are accompllices. But this excuse me, like what's happening here? You're you're both shaking your heads

from you. I'm good. It's fine. They don't need to go through me. But I have to say like Harvey Harvey Levan is milking this for everything it's worth. I I just feel like he's he's too salacious. He's too eager to to put himself out there and see himself on TV every night with Aaron Bernett and then with Shawn and then with other It's like he's forgive me because I have nothing against Harvey, but he's to me undermining the credibility that he had when he reported the initial ransom notes or whatever we're referring to the original communications.

We could almost say he's an opportunist taking advantage of the opportunist who's taking advantage of the abduction of Nancy Guthrie. I can't tell you how many times I've been in prison in jail cells with longtimers, short-timers, marine, you can probably relate to this. And you're working in some other crimes, the guy's part of a gang, whatever. And you say, "Yeah, we need information on this." Happened in the unibigit number. So happened, it was a social security number that came back to a guy in prison. It was in the manhunt uni bomber miniseries in my book. But the point and we went in and talked to the guy and he said, "Uh, oh yeah, the uni bomber. Yeah, I'll tell you what. You get me out of prison, I'll find this uni bomber guy for you. Now, that's one big example of a big case. But I've done that other times with guys. Yeah. Yeah.

Those burglars. Yeah. Get me out of here for my charges. I'll find who's doing it. No, the deal is you tell us first, then we'll go to the the prosecutor, the judge, and we'll get you, you know, a a lower a lower sentence and maybe get you out if it's good information. Yes. This guy, everyone knows

because this guy would have the 100,000. If he had the name of the kidnapper, all you'd have to do is give it up and he'd get the 100,000. He doesn't have to do any of this rigomearroll

and he can be anonymous and we told him yesterday the guy whoever was at the porch we said yesterday on your show don't fear that guy on the porch he's not going to hurt you I assure you nor will the main guy whoever that is supposed to be so uh I would not take this person serious the family the FBI have to decide if nothing else say they'd have to put out there you know publicly and maybe we're doing it right now give us a little something give us a little something to prove that you're valid that you have decent information and and maybe will then take you serious and he if he knows this much about the case he could he can give something. Now we're not going to know if it's true or not but he uh if he's this close to the information and now TMZ now think about this too and I'll let Moren take over.

So TMZ is putting this information out. If there's a real kidnapper or team of kidnappers holding Nancy in custody or wherever she may be at this point, they're going to be looking around at each other saying, "Hey, who's talking? Who's talking to TMZ?" And they're going to start, you know, accusing each others of things. So unless that's some wild strategy that someone's employing for that purpose alone, but I'm not talking. No, I'm not talking. So nothing about this makes sense.

Would you What would you be doing with this information, Moren, if you were investigating this case? Well, like Fitz, I have had guys in prison on this CA, this big case we worked where they would say, "If if you let me out, I could solve this other one." That seems to be something that you see a lot. And I just said, "Hey, you know, I like your enthusiasm, but uh I think it's fairly obvious. I can't like let you walk out of prison for some vague promise." You know, this I I do think this whole thing is a distraction. I think it's taken away resources from the real work that needs to be done. And if this clown, we're starting to normalize this this theory or this this thought that you can just come up with your own rules and try to rewrite the way everything's been done since the beginning of time. You cannot come in and say, "Give me money for absolutely nothing." And I, you know, and I don't have to give you

anything. This is a negotiation. He's just like the other notewriters, right? Just like the original notewriters who claim they have Nancy. He's claiming I know who has Nancy. Ju like I'll give you absolutely nothing, right? And you'll get you'll give me something. I'll give you no proof of life and you'll pay me. And this guy, it's like the FBI has already said, tell us if you know who the kidnapper is, and we will give you $100,000 if it leads to his arrest. If this guy really knows who the kidnapper is, that the protocol is very simple. Any idiot could follow it. just tell them if you're right, you get 100 grand.

But the reason they don't want to do it is because they're going to have to sit down with FBI FBI agents who are going to identify them and check every bit of what they're saying. And that's why they want no part of it because they have no bonafides and no no position to even, you know, make these claims.

Last last question before I let you guys go. Um there's all sorts of news today. Okay, we're going to get into our next panel, too, but about a turf war unfolding between uh Sheriff Nanos and the FBI that the FBI wanted to send the DNA that it's getting from the crime scene and related searches like the gloves that were found uh when the New York Post was tracking law enforcement to Quantico to the FBI lab and that Sheriff Nanos said no. That early on he had sent things to a Florida lab he trusts and he just wants to send everybody everything to that lab for consistency. He says, "You can trust this lab. The FBI's got a great lab, too. But this lab already has been processing for us, and we're going to stay with them." And the FBI clearly has been speaking to the media, pointing the finger at him, you know, like this guy, you know, he's not cooperating. He doesn't really want us there, which is

not a good sign. It's a like my overall thought is this is not a good sign that they're on the eve of an arrest because, you know, as they say, success has a thousand fathers and failure as an orphan. You know, once they start doing this, it's like very bad for Nancy. Does not does not mean they found Nancy or are close to finding her or a kidnapper. But can I get your quick takes on the turf war? The sheriff's denying it. The sheriff's saying we get along fine. You know, we're not going to let the media divide us. Um I happen to know there is constrnation over at the FBI with this sheriff and it is his investigation. The the the protocol is it belongs to the locals unless they want to give it over to the FBI or let the FBI take the lead, which he clearly doesn't. So thoughts on him and that Moren?

First of all, if the sheriff is the one making the calls as to where the evidence go is going, he's the one that's in charge of the investigation.

That's that's the way it is. Yep. That is what's happening. But I mean, what do you make of are you surprised that this is happening turf war when we're no, you know, so many days in and so little to show for it?

I've heard I've heard about this turf war for longer than I I care to admit. I think it's a leadership problem and I think um you know I think the line officers and FBI agents are doing everything they can and they're just going they're doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. It's just the bosses, it sounds like, that are that are having issues with each other. And there were, you know, to be fair, there were big issues at the Boston bombing. And um I I think I'm pretty sure in that instance, one FBI boss was removed. Um because so I know the FBI is a ready, willing, and able to remove someone if they're the big problem. But here, uh from everything I'm hearing, because all the sheriff's deputies and former deputies and everything are all saying the same thing as the FBI agents. So, it sounds like the outlier seems to be the actual sheriff, but um the the truth the truth will prevail at some point.

They'll all be, you know, kumbayying it fits if they find this abductor. Yeah. I an interesting combination is uh alpha males, high-profile unsolved case, and an and at least one elected official. And you put those three together and and of course media coverage add all those other ancillary factors in there, it's going to create these these these turf wars or at least these problems. Um I remember the DC sniper case. It was Chief Moose who was the head of McGomery County Police Department. he was technically in charge and there were I witnessed some shouting matches in there and going back and forth between not just the FBI but every alphabet agency in in in Washington DC area was uh was involved in that case because everybody's getting shot even an FBI employee eventually was killed. So uh so yeah these things are going to happen. I just hope cooler minds prevail and I think Moren touched on the

important part. The worker bees get along fine. Uh even when I was on the J joint tax uh bank robbery task force in New York, the NYPD guys, the FBI guys, agents, detectives, all got along great. It's the bosses that have the the personality issues, whatever. So, I'm hoping that stuff can all be put aside. The people can get the job done on the lower level, the men and the women, you know, wearing the uniforms, carrying the badges, and we get some break on this case hopefully over this weekend.

Yeah. One other observation is where in God's earth are the mayor and the DA of Puma County How come we haven't seen or heard from them at all?

Question. At least the DA. Normally, you'd see the DA getting involved in this right?

Right. Do they Isn't that Isn't that who the sheriff would be working with to get any warrants? You know,

and even the FBI would have to work through, right? Wouldn't the FBI go to the the local prosecutor to get warrants if they need them?

Maybe. Or the US attorney in that district. But yeah, and I wouldn't expect the US attorney say anything. They never do. But yeah, the local DAs would normally be speaking out. You're right. Maybe they they don't want to step on this guy's toes. I mean, I'm concerned because he's an elected official, the sheriff. Um, he knows it's a celebrity case. I mean, like, let me just say say this. You You'd think that when you're well known, right, like Savannah's very well known, um, you'd get the red carpet treatment and you'd get better treatment than like the average person. I mean, I think that's what the average person thinks that these celebrities get like the red carpet and like an level up. And there's no question that if this were, you know, some Jane Smith 84y old woman, we would not have anywhere near this level of media coverage or law enforcement coverage and not anywhere near. So that there is some

of that, but there's also the risk of like what happened to Kobe Bryant where like that helicopter pilot flew when he had to know he shouldn't have because it was Kobe Bryant and he didn't want to tell him no and he didn't just follow protocol because it was Kobe Bryant. And I like I've had some of this in my own life too where you're like it's actually not a gift for them to treat you in any special way whatsoever. I just want to be treated just like you would treat anybody else. And so, like, if this sheriff is holding on to this case and not sending evidence where, you know, he could force this off on the FBI and it could be their problem, you that'd be great. But, like, does he really want to take himself off of the Savannah Guthrie case and not be the one to bring Nancy home and possibly get all the glory? You know, I don't think he's yet at the phase where he's like, I'm going to get

all the blame if I don't solve this. And I I wonder whether that's hurting this case. some of these personality issues can definitely uh uh chime in here and you you articulated them them well, Megan. I I kind of touched on it, you know, a few minutes ago. Uh but but a true and you know, the pilot you referred to with with Kobe Bryant and and others, if you're a true professional, if you have hopefully decades uh you know, one one and a half plus decades of experience, you know not to fall to the for those traps. You know not to let your guard down. you know, not to back off on what's gotten you to where you are at this point in time. And and and I'm not saying, you know, we're going to give the benefit of the doubt despite some, you know, uh people at loggerheads. I'm going to assume the investigation is still running the best it can at this point in time with a number of agencies involved, including our own with me and

Moren, the FBI. And I'm just hoping that some of this is just, you know, fodder for the media. Let other people think this is what's happening. Maybe some of it's true, but we're still going to get the job done. But if you're truly experienced, you're gonna get it done right.

Morin, don't you think some of this is coming because the media is used to CSI and they think this should be solved already and there's a lot of pressure on the law enforcement, FBI and local in why haven't you solved this case? And so that's when you start to see stories planted of it's him, it you know this guy, right? and then now he feels a need to fight back and he's given an interview with Matt Finn of Fox News which we're going to talk about a little bit more with our next panel. But to me this this has a little bit of that in it.

I I don't I don't know. I I think I really think everyone's heart well most everyone except for a couple of outliers. I think their heart's in the right place and they're just pushing as hard as they can and they're trying as hard and they're working longer and overtime shifts left, right, and center. And you know, I think people are really trying because that's been my experience on all these big and there are times where you see breakdowns and um meaning like it's it just gets to be too much all of it. I think the media does add a whole bunch of extra pressure, but then there's someone out there like Brian Anon who's, you know, out there making news for um for everyone and doing doing a good job. So, everyone knows that the stakes are high. uh the scrutiny is even higher and you know you that that that's when you just have to put your head down and keep your ammo dry and keep going and hope to

God you've got a good leader that's going to get you what you need, stay out of your way and keep everyone off your back. That's their job and too many forget that. Micromanagers are the worst in a situation like this.

I'm sure that's true. I just fight crime. I mean just like Cash has said, let cops be cops. Hopefully that's what's happening at the federal level and the local level. Guys, thank you both so much. Have a great weekend. We appreciate it.

Bye. Bye, Moren. All right, we're going to bring in our next panel, too, because there's a lot more to discuss.

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first of all uh it is not true that his office found a glove at NY's home. There had been a news report that in addition to that pair of gloves that were found on the road that a glove had been found inside Nancy Guthri's house and that it had been shipped off. He said that's not true. We have no glove. We have never found a glove on the property. He did say though that they have found a lot of gloves, not just the pair that the New York Post happened to be on site when they retrieved. Um, in this case, you know, to the point we were discussing yesterday, it's not that unusual to see gloves discarded in, you know, the desert near cacti and so on. He said they've all been sent off. Um and he defended his use of that one lab saying we started sending the Guthrie evidence to this lab from the start and um along with the Guthrie family DNA and other DNA swabs are all there too. So it makes sense he said to keep sending the

incoming evidence there so the lab can immediately run the new evidence against what is already in house. Hold on a second because he says that in sound 6 which we have on tape. split your evidence to two different labs that could create a conflict. But more importantly, it adds that additional step. This lab has this piece. This lab has this piece. Now, they've got to they've got to converge those two pieces to to make an elimination or identification. No, just send it to one lab. Let's go. They're both great labs.

Okay. So, let's start there, guys. Uh what do we make of that argument? because some people really are hammering him for not using the FBI's lab at Quantico. James is the former FBI. I'll start with you on that.

Hey, good to see you again. Thanks for having me. I I feel almost clairvoyant in that yesterday, I think we said this exact same thing.

And we said that, you know, that everything looks good on the outside, but behind the scenes there's going to be friction. And here here we are. Not surprised by it at all. Uh there is some pretty good evidence that you know, no pun intended, that the FBI lab at Quantico is is a a superior choice and mostly because they do this all the time. They created the technology. They have access to the KODS database. Um you know, it's a high-profile case, but you know, the sheriff made made a call and and obviously people aren't happy about it and they're going to try to drive a wedge. Uh, and I think you you were spot on earlier when you were saying that, you know, we haven't caught anybody and and now it's looking bad and now we're going to start pointing fingers and and this is very very common.

It's a bad bad sign. Just as a reporter on the outside, I know when they start doing this, it's bad. It it means they're not getting anywhere.

That's right. And so it almost to me took out a big eraser and erased all of our leads. Like

I think I'm starting to think now they're all because they they don't seem close to arresting somebody. Will they don't talk like this when they're close to arresting somebody?

No. I mean certainly my experience on negotiations one of the biggest biggest challenges is just trying to control information and that's information that's not only imparted by the law enforcement agencies if they are involved. Uh or it could be the media or or it could actually be the family itself. So, it's about containment to that information, not setting designated schedules for updates or anything like that, and being very cautious about what information is going to be revealed that could potentially heed the law enforcement agencies or the investigative agencies that are getting involved in this. So, I think there is some ego that's kicking off here with the sheriff and I think, you know, he he's he's bathing in the spotlight right now as being the sort of the center point for this. And that that's concerning because I mean how many cases of this type has he managed before and it's only with a lot of years experience

that you realize actually the less you say you know the better. Mhm. Yes. I know. I mean well you Chad there's been the difference between the sheriff two Mondays ago and the sheriff that has emerged this week right like when this case first broke he was talking to everybody and that seemed okay because it was a missing person's case. It was like we all have to find her. We need the community's help. Everybody pitch in. find Nancy all hands on deck and then the FBI got involved and then suddenly he wasn't saying as much and then they held that Thursday presser and they haven't had a presser since and now since then it's just been rumor innuendo accusations behind the scenes you know some some leaks to the media then some denials um it feels more like disarray

yeah I mean that's the frustrating part and and I think the sad part through all of this is at the end of the day there's still a family that's looking for their missing mother and and there this isn't the type of they need to be hearing or having to deal with. So I listen I've worked plenty of cases with you know threeletter agencies whether it was the FBI, the DEA and sometimes listen you you've got to lower your your your pride a little bit and and realize that listen I was a local law enforcement officer and I understand the resources that the bureau has and so it's not them coming over here and trying to take a you know take a part of my case. It's us trying to work together. And that's really what needs to happen. Like there's so much tension right now in this case because it's such a high-profile case. People want answers immediately. But guys, we've got to come together and work together because

there's a family that is heartbroken and grieving right now. It's got to stop. I know. I I can't help but wonder and and who would know? I mean, no one has experience, no civilian in dealing with a kidnapping. Oh, I know exactly what to do or who to call. But you know the it's been confirmed that Savannah's first one of her first calls was to Senator Mark Kelly who is her home state senator uh the state of Arizona and US senator Gabby Gford's husband and kind of asked him for help and like let's line things up appropriately and it looks like they went with the locals. They they put the locals in the lead and they trusted the sheriff and they didn't insist as I think you probably could try to that the FBI got brought in which is you know kidnappings and you know possible ransom that's I guess when the sheriff called in on the ransom the FBI but like one wonders whether the FBI should have been

there day one uh James and and like on this yeah you got to be careful on this just because they don't have the jurisdiction you know they have to have

if they got the invitation Definitely if they get the invitation, that's absolutely right. But if there is, you know, some ego and in these relationships, as Chad's saying, they're not always great. And and it really, you know,

it's not great here, right? There's a history between this sheriff and the FBI and it's not good.

Yeah. Exactly. And you see these things play out and this is what's happening. And you know, he has to ask. Now, if we had solid evidence that she had, god forbid, been taken to Mexico, international kidnapping, FBI is going to be at the lead. Um, if we had information went across state lines, FBI, but right now, they just don't have that that federal nexus that they can come in, you know, in the typical movie fashion and FBI, we're in charge. They don't have that. And so now, they're really just at the, you know, the behest of the sheriff and and it's causing conflict. Clearly,

I'm going to show you something on this uh sheriff and the FBI from yester year. Okay, this is November. No, I don't know the month. It's 2016, February, February 12th, 2016 in an interview with KGUN and he is ripping on the FBI because they were investigating his department's spending and he didn't much appreciate that. ST 10.

When it comes to an FBI investigation, um I was taken back by that as much as anybody. Here's an agency who um for years has been known to uh deny or acknowledge or anything about any kind of investigation. They're famous for that. Am I upset at the FBI? Absolutely. They should be. They they they get by with saying no comment. Who does that in today's world? Who does that? I think the FBI, if they are having problems doing criminal investigations, please call us because we have real policemen here. we'll we'll do that for you because obviously they can't get it done. I'm upset at that and I'm upset at the inappropriateness of their investigative efforts

and they are inappropriate. All right. It was 10 years ago, but Will, it's on camera. It's tough to dispute. They're investigating him and his sheriff's department.

Yeah, he's he's he's got a massive chip on his shoulder towards uh the bureau. That's inevitable. And I think he's uh he's obviously not very happy about having to re-engage with them. and not allow him to do the proper police work as uh he puts it. Um the the one of my concerns Megan that I I did want to raise which sort of goes back a little bit is about the classification of what this case actually is. Uh in the private sector you know we have one of the advantages we have is that we don't actually have to interact with media agencies. We can keep it completely under wraps and keep it very very quiet.

Um, but at the same time, when we're talking to the family, if someone has gone missing, it's always going to be a missing person until such time as a credible proof of life has been sent with a ransom demand. And and my concern is is that this has been classified as a kidnapping. There has been no credible proof of life that has been provided yet. So, uh, again, it changes the dynamic somewhat in how it would be approached. And again, I very much welcome Chad and James' input on that from their perspective as well.

Right. Should be should they be treating this as um and I've heard one of you guys call it homicide nobody as opposed to

kidnapping? Well, before Chad jumps in, I would say real quick with regards to that interview, um the FBI is the only one that investigates cops. Now, the state police can do it and certainly there's IAS in, you know, bigger metropolitan divisions, but the FBI by, you know, charter, they work color law violations against police. They're the only ones that do it. And so, it obviously ruffles feathers and, you know, I've been involved in those and it's not comfortable at all. Um, so I understand the sheriff's frustration, but that that video was was quite was was quite interesting. Thanks for sharing. Here's another one and we'll go back to whether this should be declared homicide nobody.

Put a pin in that for a second, Will, because there's another one. The um under sheriff out there who is now former under sheriff under under this sheriff Nanos is named Rick Castagar and he spoke to Brian Enton. It doesn't appear that they get along. He and his former boss and here's what he said. ST 9

should have been recognized initially that once this is labeled an abdu an abduction get a task force together and bring on the FBI and ask them to take it over.

Why do you think that didn't happen? Unfortunately, the the sheriff, Chris Nanos, has a an exorbitant ego and he in one case I can think of prior to this one told the FBI he's the better investigator and he doesn't need their help. And that was a critical case that we needed their help with. This one in particular, they have far more resources than a sheriff's department has.

Go ahead, Chad. It's kind of funny how his how the FBI says no comment came full circle back to him uh in every one of his press conferences that he's given so far. That's funny to me. What's frustrating though is the fact that he cannot humble himself enough. We have a 84 year old missing woman and I'm not here to beat, you know, this thing to death. But listen, you don't have the resources. You are Listen, Megan, I said it day one on your show probably over a week ago. I feel like the sheriff is in over his head. We need to rely solely on the bureau. Humble yourself. Your investigators. Listen, people out there are telling me, I've got a buddy of mine that's out there in the the area that's affiliated with that law enforcement agency, not directly, but is very close to those people and saying that the investigators want the help of the bureau, but the upper management is the one that's knocking that down.

That's what Meen seemed to be saying. She said, "I guarantee you the rank and file would love the help, but the leadership um is a different story." Here's what President Trump said, which is, I will say, telling. Listen to uh Trump in SAT 12.

How hasn't the FBI taken over the Nancy Jeffrey case as the lead investigator? Do you have any updates on how that's going?

Well, they took it over originally, you know, it was a local case originally and uh they didn't want to let go of it, which is fine. It's up to them. It's really up to the community, but ultimately when the FBI got involved, I think uh you know, progress has been made. Okay, it's that last part. Ultimately, when the FBI got involved, progress has been made, which you know, in Trump speak, he's he's basically saying, "We're the ones getting things done." And but what you guys said, we can't take it over unless this sheriff asks us to take it over. And far from asking that, he's holding on to it. He's making decisions that it sounds like the FBI disagrees with by not using the FBI's lab at Quantico. I don't know this. You tell me, James. Is it like Jim? Is it um is the FBI's lab at Quanico so special that nothing could be it can't be replicated by some good lab in Florida?

Um well it's it's the premier criminal lab in the world. So that's probably better than the one in Florida. Um it does have again access to that DNA database. So that's what you need. You need to okay we we run the test but what are we going to do with it? Well, we need to compare it for a human being. And how do you do that? Well, that lab in Florida is going to have to ask the FBI for access to the COD system. So, it's another step that you don't have to be making if we just go direct to the FBI. But I really want to circle back real quick to the videos because you've got the sheriff saying, and this is very typical, the sheriff saying, you know, we're the real cops. We're the real law enforcement. You know, the FBI don't know how to work a case. We're the real cops. And then you heard his former deputy chief say, yeah, he thinks he's the only one that can investigate anything. And you know, frankly, I don't

to we, you know, I can't tell you how many people I worked with in my academy class who were former cops. I'm a former cop, but we don't go around beating our chest about it, but you don't get any credit for it. You know, that sheriff would would have you think that the FBI doesn't have a soul that ever worked law enforcement before they got to the bureau. And that's just nonsense.

That's very telling. That's actually quite interesting because it dovetales perfectly with his behavior that he is running herd on it. that we are getting some quiet complaints from the feds that they're not getting the cooperation they need and they think is necessary to to solve the case. And now you have Nanos who clearly is worried about his image because why would he be sitting down doing an interview when he said I'm not giving any interviews. Um twothirds of which was spent on this turf war

uh if he weren't worried about his image. And also I'm sorry. Sorry, James. Go ahead.

Jim and then Will. Well, Chad and I both come from, you know, southern sheriff's departments. These sheriffs are terribly powerful. I mean, terribly powerful. And so when people are talking about why in the mayor or the DA there because the sheriff doesn't work for the mayor. He doesn't work for the DA. The sheriff is the highest elected official in the county. And and that plays out. It may not play out in LA or New York or Dallas or Houston or but I see it in the South all the time. I'm sure Chad has seen it, you know, where he was.

James, we saw it at Spartberg County just recently. There you go. Wow. What happened in Spartanber County?

The sheriff was buying pills and on a pill binger and going to dope dealers and buying pills from uh deputies that had back surgery. And

we're not even talking about Alex Murdoch. That'll come later on. Megan, that also was in the South. Will, go ahead.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I was just going to sort of just complement what James and Chad were saying, and I mean, and certainly from my experience around the world, you know, when I've been connected to kidnappings in in some shape or form, the FBI, uh, if this does turn out to be a kidnapping and a credible proof of life is presented, then the FBI are one of the best, if not the best, negotiators and crisis managers of these types of events. So, I'm sorry, Sheriff. You know, get back in your lane because to be honest, he's stepping well beyond his capability and should be leaving it to the experts to get on with it and compliment him.

And especially at this point when we're not we don't appear I mean I I want to say we don't appear close to solving it. Um that's not how this feels. May maybe right now somebody who knows Masked Man is calling the FBI with a tip and this thing gets solved by midnight tonight. I mean, that could happen at any moment, but very discouraging that it hasn't happened so far. Um,

seems like if somebody called saying, "I know who that is," they would make it to the top of the tip line, right? I mean, there's a system for that, is there not? It's not like it's just going to be sitting in the midst of the 4,000. And they have to go through them one by one. Like the the person who's like, I know who that is, does get forwarded up. And that that goes quickly, does it not, Jim?

Yeah. And look what happened yesterday. Again, like you and I are clairvoyant. It it what did they do? They raised it the reward to 100.

You are you are clairvoyant. Here here you are. Wait, we pulled it actually. Here's this is happened on our show yesterday. S five.

I'm shocked that we're only talking 50,000 bucks right now. I mean that that reward that's a joke.

Really? Amp it up. Hell yeah. $50,000. That's nothing. You know what should it be?

I'd put it up to half a million dollars. It's 11 12 days now. I want this woman back. What's 500 grand? we we got that kind of money, you know. I I just for me, let's get some let's get some strong strong interest to identify these people.

Are you not worried that it's going to incentivize the crazies? You know, like I think they're incentivized already. We're dropping Bitcoin money and and and all that's already happened. Those horses have left the barn as we say where I come from.

Called it. Not not quite a half a million yet, Jim, but you called it. Well, I mean, gosh, and that shows the FBI is like, we need to get some pressure here and we need to get these people identified and and I'm I was glad to see it, but uh wow.

Let's keep going a little a little higher. Uh and and let me keep going on the Nanos interview and get to some of the news he made non-turf war related. Uh on the ransom notes and their legitimacy, he punted and said the FBI is the expert at that one and he wouldn't comment on whether this is a kidnapping will or something else. He says, quote, "We believe it's a kidnapping, but quote, "You always consider all possibilities." Okay. Um, he did, the sheriff said in a local news interview, Matt Finn notes in his Fox News report that they found a few different gloves in the area, some miles away. On this topic, he told Fox News they are not necessarily prioritizing every glove. For example, they're getting calls of gloves in Phoenix, a long way away, so news of every glove that's found may not be critical. Um, when asked whether anybody has been ruled out, the answer was quote, "Nobody is ever really eliminated." When they

talked about the Rio Rico man in Arizona, um, Carlos, who was the Door Dash delivery man who got roughed up a bit by the, uh, the officers the other night and then they moved on. He said that, uh, he was a delivery person who was quote in the area of NY's house. quote more than one end quote issue led the sheriff to the Rio Rico man. After talking, the sheriff feels satisfied with his alibi. So, notwithstanding his nobody's ever really eliminated comment. It sounds like he has eliminated poor Carlos. Nanos will not confirm to Fox if there was forced entry at NY's house or whether the front or back door was used.

He's still not giving it up on that. Nanos, of course, Ashley Banfield's reporting is that there was forced entry and they used the back door. Nano said NY's blood was found outside of her home and NY's DNA was recovered inside but cannot confirm that the DA inside inside the house was blood. Um on the criticism that he released the Guthrie crime scene house too soon, opened it up too quick. He said it's not true. They got what they needed. Uh Finn writes, I asked him if they should have cleaned up the blood out of sanctity and he said that's not their role. Said it's a slap to his team to say that they left too soon. also says the deputy cars out front now are at the request of the family for safety.

It's not that the sheriff is signaling they left too soon. On allegations that family members are involved, the family has been fully 100% completely whatever we've asked for they've done. It was getting crazy out there with allegations about the family. You can't accuse people of a horrific crime like that and not have any facts behind it. But in the same interview, he does say that no one has ever really ruled out as of today. Um, Nanos has talked to Savannah. He says they've talked and texted, but she doesn't need to talk to the sheriff. She has people. Quote, "The whole family has my number." Um, okay. That's odd. And then one final comment on the FBI on reports and previous incidents suggesting they don't have a good relationship. He with the FBI. You Google what you Google. You read what you read. I've got no response. I've always had a good relationship with the FBI. They're a good team. They're good

people. And there was another comment where he said a a an officer, like a lower guy in the FBI had said to him like, "Let's not let the media divide us. It's it's not the media. The media is making the reports, but they're getting this from obviously federal sources who are not happy with this sheriff." Let's go to the um the substance here. I mean, I think it's very interesting the part about um how he's he's he's defending turning over the crime scene, guys, just today. I mean, she's not found. Okay. Like, we don't even know if if this was a kidnapping or a murder.

Exactly. So, it it's very disturbing that just any Tom, Dicker, Harry can walk up there as one did when our own Phil Holloway was still there this morning filming. And a woman walked up. I believe we have this. Again, I can't communicate to my team when I'm remote, so forgive me because I don't know if we have the sound. Um, a woman walked up and her dog peed on Yeah, here it is. peed on the crime scene. Her This is a neighbor. There she is. Her dog took a pee on the crime scene, which like I'm kind of guessing that's not ideal. You You guys tell me.

I mean, I'm sitting there thinking, didn't we just have a a tarp and a tent set up yesterday to continue the process of this crime scene? Really and truly, that whole property needs to be roped off and secured until Nancy Guthrie is found dead or alive. That's still a crime scene. For some reason, we still, you know, agents keep coming back. Law enforcement keeps coming back. For some reason, if if the family is not at, you know, Annie and Tomaso's house and they keep going back there personally, both of those need to be secured, taped off, nobody in and out, unless it's an investigator at this point.

Yeah. Yeah, cuz you tell me, will, but don't you you don't know what's relevant to look at for sure until you know what crime you're dealing with? Like you come in, do an initial survey, you take a guess, you proceed, but like there may be something they learn when and if they catch this guy that then they want to go back into that house and check out again. And there's no reason to release it. NY's not in it, and if we get her back, she can stay with her other daughter, Annie, down the road.

Absolutely. It should be a sterile area. Megan, you're absolutely right about the whole area just basically being sealed off until such time as we can determine what's happened to Nancy. Uh because right now she's just evaporated. We don't know where she is. We don't know in what capacity. We don't know what the motive was of the individual that that broke into the house or individuals as yet to be confirmed. And ultimately it really comes down to the fact that this environment needs to be left alone because there could be some subsequent information or intelligence that is brought to the attention of uh the bureau or of the sheriff or to the sheriff uh that they may want to revisit the house and and look for something. I I seriously doubt within the last two weeks they've intrinsically and forensically gone through that house in every part.

Yeah, I I have the same doubt. What do you make, Jim, of his comment about the family, saying the family's been fully whatever we've asked for, they've done. It was getting crazy out there with allegations about the family. You can't accuse people of a horrific crime like that, and not have any facts behind it. Now, this, of course, is a reference to Ashley Banfield's reporting week one. Uh it hit on the Tuesday after Nancy disappeared, which was a the wee hours of a Sunday morning, that her law enforcement source, impeccable, she describes him or her high up, she says that she's known for years, um said at that as of that day, right now, the brother-in-law Tamas is may be the prime suspect. Now, she has said even this weekend, just just up until yesterday, she has said nothing's changed. She talks to this person every day and this person has not said, "No, we've gone in a different direction."

And I asked her personally, "Let me ask you if this person is in a position to know." And and the question was basically trying to get at, is this like just some rando in the FBI or is this somebody who's actually on the investigation? That's that was the implicit

gist of the question. And she said, "Yes, this person is in a position to know the facts of the investigation." So you tell me what you make of that sheriff's answer, Jim. Well, he's playing both sides against the middle. He's saying that, you know, they've given 100% I hate that, by the way. You know, 100% cooperation or something and that uh but you can't rule out anyone. Which one is it? And so, right, we're we're kind of playing both sides there. Uh and I did want to really quick go back to the comment and he said that it's not their job to clean up the blood. Yes, I agree with you and and and Chad and and Will that it was given up too soon. And and now, by the way, when you go back with your white tent to get whatever, it's compromised. Okay, a defense attorney is going to have a field day with that. I mean, an absolute field day. And we we are always taught like basic 101. Don't give up the scene

until you absolutely need to. And in this case, as you pointed out, you don't need to, right? She's not going to be upset. She's not there. But uh to say that we don't clean up the blood, well then what? Her family has to do that. Is that what we're hearing? Sheriff that that that's okay. That her poor family is going to have to go and clean up the blood. You know, certainly you have crime scene people who have vendors that do, you know, dis disposal and cleaning of crime scenes and terrible like suicides and stuff. That is a service that we are all familiar with through the corner's office. They could obviously do that. And I think that's extremely callous. That's just my opinion to say something like that that we don't deal with that and and you let the family deal with it. I just

I find that to be quite quite callous. I It's just I I also feel like isn't it a little odd? I don't know like to leave NY's blood sitting there like that's that's evidence. Don't you try to preserve that and like bottle it or you know keep it someplace for trial as opposed to just

leaving all those those drug blood droplets on the porch? I I don't know. Seems kind of sloppy e even forget like what's kind to the family or sanctity as as um Matt Finn put it at Fox News. It's it's like that seems evidentiary to me. It seems like something you'd want all of the evidence to be gathered. Not

not any of it to be left at the crime scene if you can. Well, we keep seeing too, Megan. We keep seeing that blue shirt that's been laying out there since day one. It seems like every time they pan on that porch, we see that blue sweatshirt or or something that's been laid out that they've identified. Why was that not even taken? That's so confusing to me. Any type of clothing needs to be taken. Yeah. I mean, look at this. I mean, this is like police 101.

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right before I'm trying to look for the exact date. January, I'll find it. January 23rd around 3:30 in the morning. And then he returned again at 5 a.m. Um, it was a woman who said, "I didn't answer the door, but my dog started barking and scared him away." Uh he again is trying to appear to block the camera, but it wasn't very good at it because there he is. It's about as good a mug shot as you could ask for. And we had we compared it now to the sketch that this famous sketch artist like the she's in the Guinness Book of Records for her amazing sketch artists. This is what she came up with based off the masked man features that we could see on Nancy Guthri's porch. It's not a bad comparison. Maybe I'm being swayed by the beard, which is identical, but what do you make of this latest porch man?

Uh, a couple things. I'll I'll take it. I I was listening to your segment with Fitz and talking about Tucson and this, you know, area, this Catalina Hills, and I looked up their crime rate. It It's a C plus, I believe, I read on the internet, and and there are some missing persons in this area. So now we've got three guys walking around porches at 2 am. Like what's going on? And I think there I read something that her impetus to get I'm sorry, Miss Guthy's impetus to get the the ringhammer to begin with because of some stuff that was going on in the neighborhood and even though she said something about want to watch animals, but she was concerned about things going on in the neighborhood. So, what is going on in this area that there's all these people on these porches at 3:00 a.m.? That's a hell of a coincidence, you know, and yeah, I think the sketch looks great. Another lead.

These are real leads that that, you know, real cops, use the sheriff's term, need to start, you know, identifying these people ASAP,

not like the TMZ, right? SmokeOK screen. That's all that is. Now, you're not moved by the $100,000 demand. And that's I want but I want to split 50 in Bitcoin and then another 50 and then I'll

I've dealt with the bizarest of ransom demands and you can you can weed them out very quickly Megan you know between obviously those that are actually legitimate and genuine and are professional or even the the amateurs who are doing it to the to the chancellors who are simply looking for opportunity. You know, the one thing that we would know, uh, certainly pertaining to Nancy, is that, you know, abductions, whether they be for whatever reason, whether it even be for kidnapping, are rarely spontaneous. There will always be some advanced reconnaissance, there will be some scoping out of the environment, the location. Uh, okay. And in this instance, obviously with the porch guy trying to dismantle and remove the the Ring um doorbell, he obviously didn't have a great deal of success as you proved yesterday in terms of using the key. But um certainly I think this guy cannot be discounted as as a viable

prospect or suspect. I mean that would certainly be my feeling is he is the closest that they've got yet.

Right. And like I I don't know. I mean that picture of him is so clear, Chad. I mean, it is like he's looking right into the camera, almost posing for a head shot. Somebody knows this guy. There's got to be a call coming into the FBI on who this is.

Yeah, I'm sure that's already happening because that was something I wanted to bring up is people around him. Let's start surveillance on him. Let's talk to people that are in his inner circle. Has he started changing the way he's acting? Can you imagine? Unless you're an absolute sociopath, which you have to be pretty crazy to do something like this. Um, it almost takes me back to that Todd Coh case uh here in the upstate of South Carolina where he kept the girl in the conx boxes and all those people he had murdered. Um, but let's let's find out is this guy acting strange all of a sudden. Has he disassociated himself from friends, but I truly believe within the next I I honestly think by now if this picture's come out that they already have an idea of who this guy is.

Yeah. Notice Megan, he had a pretty good neck tattoo on that and that, you know,

did they can zoom in on that. It's pretty, you know, those are really good because there's not so many of them. Then you, you know, you go to the artist, all that type of thing. But I I would, you know, I I tell you, now we've got a third. So we yesterday we have this Pac-Man guy. Now we got this guy and we've got, you know, all around the same time. For me, the more these things start popping up, the less and less I think this was a targeted at Nancy at Nancy Guthrie because of who Savannah is. I that's how I mean, I just feel less and less inclined to believe it was targeted because of who she is and more that it's that there's something going on in this area where there's somebody, you know, knock go up on porches and some You said that a lady said that, you know, he knocked on the door or something and didn't let him in. He came he came on the on the porch at 3:30 and then her dogs went crazy and he left and he came

back. He came back at 5. Yeah. I think if I keep seeing these ring videos about the same time in the same area, I'm less and less thinking this was, you know, targeted at her because of who Savannah is and more and more. In the first hour, we also showed the video of the peeping Tom in late December who boldly is standing there outside of a woman's uh bathroom just filming her, like holding his cell phone up. He's trying to get naked video of this woman or this couple inside this house. They said it had happened repeatedly. That's also happening in Tucson. I mean, like, I am I am I wrong that like this is a high percentage of like porch crime to have on camera in a two-month period? Less than two months, like six weeks.

I think you're more I personally I think your MO on the peeping tom. You're more likely to have an MO to commit some type of sexual assault or kidnapping or violent crime than you do a porch pirate.

He's 6'4. Chad, I should point out he's So, it's not him because FBI says that NY's abductor is 5'9 or But um

I think certainly to concur with what the guys were saying, I mean what we're seeing here is a very unusual patterns of behavior by these particular individuals. I mean the peeping tom, yeah, they're usually pretty predictable. But I think in terms of the other two, uh this is, you know, it's not the typical time of day or night for a porch pirate to come and steal someone's packages which have been left outside. That's that's generally going to be around those predictable t times where they will be delivered. Um, and therefore this individual actually lurking around and as you said, Megan, returning a couple of hours later, something very unusual. There's something very odd that's going on in this particular town.

Okay, but let me say something. Let's say this latest porch guy is the guy. I mean, it's interesting. He didn't wear the face mask for

that crime or possible crime. We don't know if it was a crime on January 23rd, but by January 31st, he was. I don't know. And he would have had to gain some weight, too, cuz he seemed skinnier, I think. I'm not totally sure cuz you don't see his body as well as you saw Pac-Man's. Um, but let's say it's him. Like, once again, this does not look like a sophisticated criminal at all.

He probably is a sophisticated consumer of the criminal justice system, you know? I mean, didn't look too nervous to be on some lady's porch in the middle of the night twice coming back, even though there's dogs. and he didn't live there because it's the woman whose home it is saying, "Who's this creepy guy who came on my porch not once but twice?" So, my point is simply that guy that guy is keeping a hundred FBI agents and sheriff's deputies befuddled for two weeks now. Like, he covered his track so abley that they can't crack that guy. I just I I have a hard time believing it. He just Mr. I look straight into the camera like, "No, I I don't believe it."

And then the next time you bring a bouquet of flowers or weeds to try to cover up the camera when you come in, come on.

That Well, and that guy didn't look that sophisticated to me either with the flowers, you know? Like I I Ashley's theory is that he was using the flowers to like divide the nest camera from its base, like possibly get it off. Um I don't know whether that's true. It seemed to me to look more like a camouflage. And as we demonstrated with our video tape demonstration by Jake Whitman, our producer, all you have to do to get that Nest camera off its b its cradle is this. Like you just a couple of times and it's off. You don't have to go through like the the camera with the I don't know the the vegetation. I don't know. But none of these guys seems all that sophisticated to me. I mean, I will say this guy with the ski mask is definitely he looks the scariest and he means business with that mouth light and that backpack, you know, these other guys,

they don't look as business-like as the real abductor. And is it possible there's not a group? Is it possible there's not a group of people hitting these houses at 2, three in the morning? Yeah, we don't know. Um, but clearly there's something to miss in this in this town or this area of Tucson that we have this much, you know, activity on porches with, you know, these men.

It's a fail by the sheriff. I think that's fair to say. He he should spend less time at the basketball games and more time arresting people who are harassing law-abiding citizens in their homes. Um, I don't know. We're now almost at the twoe mark. Today's Friday. A lot of people will listen to the show over the weekend. It'll be Saturday and it will be two weeks. It was, you know, in the wee hours of Sunday morning it overnight Saturday that she was taken

and and possibly worse. Where do you put the chances like scale of 1 to 20 that Nancy is still alive?

I personally from my own experience I will always keep the balance in there until such time as you've got a body and you've got a confirmation. um or you've get her back alive. I I think it's I think it's just a very very slow process. I've had some negotiations in the past which have taken if not what weeks certainly months uh to try and uh identify what's going on. But my biggest concern, Megan, is that there's been no credible proof of life. So that's why the numbers will probably tilt more towards the pessimistic than the optimistic as far as I'm concerned.

Go ahead. Yeah, million%. And I'm with Will, you know, without any any communication. I mean, if this was like we said before, if this was a kidnapping for ransom, it we would have had communication and and that's the, you know, proper way to do it. Nothing about this case has been proper. Uh if you got her, why aren't you telling somebody? I think something bad would have I think something happened in that house. He ended up hurting her more than he wanted to. I think she died. And and that's where we are. That's what it feels like to me without, you know, anything, any communication, nothing. It It's just bizarre.

Go ahead, Chad. Yeah, I'm on the same page. And also, we we're dealing with an 84 year old woman that had serious health conditions, health issues. You know, she had a pacemaker. She can't go without her medication. Two weeks. The trauma and stress that's on her body if she was taken alive and held captive. I don't know if she had the wherewithal or the strength, if her heart was even strong enough to maintain everything she went through. I agree with both guys. I don't think she made it out of the house alive that night.

Chad, I know you got to run. I'm just going to keep uh you other two guys for a couple extra minutes. I got a couple of questions to ask you. Good to see you, Chad, and thanks for everything. You too, man. Um, on the subject of the you're both concerned because there hasn't been proof of life and we don't know whether there's been proof of abduction or legitimate ransom demands either. Put aside the nutcase who keeps coming back for a a coin to tell us who it is. Let's focus just for a second on the original alleged ransom note that TMZ and the two local stations got and then the follow-up note that only one of the local stations got.

Neither of which had proof of life. The first one said, "We have her." The second one, even though they had begged for proof proof of life, did not provide it. Um, but Harvey Levan has said has is saying this uh today he said he posted this on an X.com video. Okay, this is today. He's saying this about that original give us four million by Thursday and if not by Thursday then by Monday 6 million or else ransom note. Here's Saut 4.

I will tell you this. I know and when I say I know I am positive that authorities including the FBI are vitally interested in that ransom note. Uh, I know this to be true. Um, and I can't say the specifics because I promised I wouldn't, but I can tell you they are absolutely still vitally interested uh in this ransom note. But I will tell you they are still really interested really interested in that ransom note.

Okay. I mean, I I think part of what Harvey's suffering from here is what his normal day job is, but he's a very talented lawyer. I mean, I disagree with him vehemently on his take on Don Lemon. Um, but that aside, Harvey's been in the legal business for a long time. He's no dope. Uh, so I'm I'm trying to like sort of check what people's biases may be because he, you know, he does celebrity tabloid news for a living. But he clearly has sources on this case because he's 100% been dealing with the FBI on these alleged ransom notes. Of course, they've been dealing with him, so for sure he's got sourcing. And you know, what do you guys make of that? That they're saying they're still taking that note, those notes deadly seriously, um, vitally interested in that note still.

And like maybe that is still their best lead. I mean, other than face mask man, which so far hasn't gone anywhere. that is is it possible still that the actual kidnapper did communicate with them and that there's some way of tracking him either through those anonymous forms or the Bitcoin account that the man who or the person posted.

Um James, if I may jump in if you don't mind. Um I I would say okay so firstly in the background what happens with these kinds of uh demands when they first come in Megan is that the the crisis management team will obviously assess it they'll evaluate it as clearly as they possibly can as to the credibility then they will refer they will treat it as a serious uh request and they will obviously revert back giving the assurances to the individual who's who's claiming this ransom of some sorts or claims to have this information and then what they'll do is they they will make it very clear and they will put in the rationale and the reasoning to say look you know we would love to help you we'd love to give you that money but there are certain processes we have to follow and there are certain processes we have to go through to verify that you are in fact telling the truth which we believe of course but we

need you to provide us with that sufficient evidence and information to confirm that you do have this information and you can provide it and obviously if you can you'll be paid and as you said Megan Earlier in the show, you said, you know, there's a $100,000 reward now. So, you know, it don't have to go through the complicated process of one bitcoin initially and then a subsequent bitcoin later down the line. If he provides good information, he'll get paid. It is as simple as that. I think unfortunately TMZ are making massive theatrics about this. And I would find this if I was within the FBI team, I'd be very um irritated by this somewhat.

What do you think, Jim? Yeah, I think he said vital and really interested. I think he said it four times. Um, who's negotiating? So, even if and by the way, it's a big if. Even if it was a kidnapping and they reached out to TMZ and not the family or the police or the FBI to to, you know, to begin the communication to get their money. Okay. Well, at some point that communication with the news agency would then be turned over, as Will's saying, to the crisis management team, to the family, to the people could actually get the cash. Unless, you know, Mr. Leven's going to get the cash and he's negotiating the safe return of Miss Guthrie, then I don't understand why you would continue to go to TMZ. Remember, we want him,

right? We want our money. So, so if it's not the legitimate kidnapper who sent the first two, forget the weird charlatan at the end,

the guy who's continuing to text about his Bitcoin now split into two. Um, if if you're not the legitimate kidnapper on notes one and two, what are you doing? You're just you're just a fraudster. You're opportunist.

Sure. Just wasting time. I mean, quite often some of these guys can be complete fantasists at all their chances and they just want to make some money out of it. But uh that there should be consequences obviously to that kind of behavior because it it is absorbing resource to even qualify the nonsense that that they're presenting. But uh I'm with James 100% on this. Uh Megan, I discount this um particular demand to TMZ and certainly how they're framing it that they're managing it. No, it doesn't wash me.

I agree. Here we are stymied. Um some leads still out there. DNA being analyzed. Maybe we'll get a hit from the Florida lab on somebody who's in the database. Uh somebody who was in that house who wasn't supposed to be who possibly has a criminal record. That would be huge.

It's taking kind of a while, but you know, I don't want to be the the CSI misled reporter either. These things can take a while and they don't want to screw them up.

So fingers crossed we get a breakthrough on the DNA or possibly an an identification of

masked man on the porch. Absolutely. Absolutely this weekend, guys. Thank you. I'm sure we'll be talking soon.

Good to see you. Thanks so much. You too. Best. Um there's one final point I wanted to make just without the guys. Um

Moren, actually Moren Callahan, uh part of the MK Media Network. If you haven't tuned in to her show, you should. Um the nerve, she raised this point and I have to say I it it resonated so strongly with me that I I wanted to get into it here myself, which is, you know, I I've been telling you all this stuff like we're a family at the Today Show. It isn't true. And I there's no question that I have an axe to grind with these people. As you know, I have a bias here. So, you can factor that into my analysis. But it's not true. It it is a bunch of backstabbers over there. They nobody likes anybody. They're they may go out to lunch with you. They may have dinner with they they could even vacation with you, but trust me when I tell you, they're all planting stories about one another behind their backs. And if their neck is on the chopping block, they make sure somebody else takes it. I mean, it's this is network news is a vicious,

vicious place. way more so than cable. Way more so. And so they put on an image. I'm not saying everybody's bad. I'm saying the relations between them are set up to be fraught and very nasty. And everybody's on guard because they all want their seat. You know, they want their precious seat and they don't want anybody else to get it. And you know, the knives are always out for the people who have those seats. So Moren noted that on the Chanel and Jenna show, I guess that's a show now. I don't I think it's in my old time slot in the third hour of today. Um everything's wonderful. We're all such happy friends and family. They decided to do a segment yesterday, Thursday, involving um an actress who Chanel Chanel knows um from some past. She's she's she's an actress who was there to promote something and they ran a clip of the two of them hugging. Okay. Chanel and this actress.

I'm going to show it. Here it is. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around. She's holding this older woman. She's hugging her. And that was the voice of Hugh Grant from the movie Love. Actually, if you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling that love actually is around. She's hugging Adrien Balon Hton's mom. And someone at the Today Show posts this. It's a It's a It's like the show Instagram, and they post this with a caption, "Nothing beats a mom hug." Chanel shares that Adrien Balon Hton's mom comforted her Chanel in the days after Chanel's husband's passing, which was a tragic event that happened, I think, earlier this year. They reunited in Studio 1A today. I'm sorry, but what news organization, what set of producers, what news anchor who is responsible for that account would allow nothing beats a mom hug to go out on the Today Show social media? The same day, Savannah

Guthrie posted this to her Instagram about her mom. It's video of Nancy Guthrie, much younger. She looks absolutely beautiful and her two daughters, Annie and Savannah, dressed alike. And it ends on a still shot of the whole family. Well, not the whole family, their their dad wasn't in it, but their mom and the three children in a black and white. Okay, so Savannah posted that um Thursday. She posted that and this was the response from her co-workers. Okay, so she posts this about her mom with a note. Hold on. I'm trying to find it on my I can't seem to find Oh, here it is. Here it is.

Savannah's note was, "Our lovely mom. We will never give up on her. She's suffering quite clearly, and this is what her colleagues do. Nothing beats a mom hug. I'm sorry, but network television is a vicious thoughtless heartless nasty place, and you should not be misled into thinking you are watching loving, wonderful people who are just it. It is not what they would have you believe. Um, and I just think that it was a despicable oversight, intentional move. I don't know. At some point, someone's going to have to take responsibility for it and say, "I did a thoughtless thing and I'm deeply sorry." You know, they brought Hod in like Hod's back to help. I'm sure Hod's back to help. Hod has been dying to get back on the set of the Today Show ever since she left it. Morning television isn't making the money that it used to make. It's not bringing in anywhere near the revenue. Neither is cable for that matter. I mean, the CNN

ratings are in the Literally, they've lost more than half their audience. almost 23 of their audience now. They were getting like 1.3 million in like I think it was 201617 when Trump uh took over in their prime time and you know they were fighting him every night with Jeff Zucker directing the coverage. They went hard partisan and people did tune in for that because there was a lot of Trump hatred. Now it's down to on average in the 400 thousands per night. 400 fours, the 400s, 500s at best in the prime time. I can't tell you how dreadful this is. I mean, we were averaging 3 million and change every night in the Kelly file. In the demo, in the Kia advertising demo, we'd easily get a 400,000. I mean, like, if you didn't get that in the demo, which is a much smaller group, 25 to 54 year olds, cable, as you know, is much older viewers. You'd be horrified if you didn't get that. Like now the overall

number at CNN is down in the fours or fives. I mean that is just a five alarm fire. They are not going to survive. This shows views on YouTube are surpassing their entire networks or or at least making it a battle every month. The the total views on all of their shows and even now in a battle for their website hits. Like it's that thing used to be a a monster. It it's not going to survive. That's the bottom line. That's CNN. But the Today Show is not far behind people. Compared to where they used to be, they are a shadow of their former selves. The the ratings are dwindling. Their salaries are dwindling. The report was that they asked Hoda to take a pay cut because they can't afford her huge salary anymore. And she like with dignity walked off the set rather than take the pay cut. I don't know what actually happened there, but she walked away and she's been back about 4,000 times since she did because it is a thing with TV

people that they need to see their mugs on TV or they don't feel like they matter. That is true for many of them. So, I just I'm sorry. I didn't buy that either. I'm back to help. Okay. Sure. Sure you are. Why were you back alltogether 10,000 times when when nobody wanted you? Everything is a manipulation. Just keep that in mind. Everything's a manipul. Don't let them manipulate you. What Savannah is going through is genuinely awful, horrible tragedy. Everything that's happening on the set of that show is theater. Um, I believe that Tom Winter, the reporter they're using for reporting on this issue, is an honest reporter who is doing his very best to stick to just the facts and to not get ahead of his skis on anything out of respect for the family. And I I trust his reporting. He was, it's not, he hasn't been perfect, but he's been legit and I think he tries his best to stay factual. Uh, but as for

the propaganda that gets pushed out on their evening news or their morning news show, beware and don't buy it because that was pretty damn heartless. Nothing beats a mom hug. Having said all that, that is a true sentiment and for those of us who are lucky enough to have them here and well live up to it, man, I'm sure Savannah would want that from all of us. Um, thank you all for watching, for being with us this week. And last, as this bizarre, gripping, troubling story has unfolded. I think it's about more than it's certainly about more than celebrity. It's interesting, of course, because we all know Savannah Guthrie, but I think it's about the value that Americans place on a life. They just do. You know, don't get me started on the abortion issue.

Trust me, we've all we've all had many debates about it. But the way we all come together when someone's life is in jeopardy, whether it's miners in a cave or a little toddler who we can't find or the mystery around four Idaho college students who met a grizzly end. The nation wants answers and it wants accountability and it wants a rescue. If there's any chance for a rescue and then andor justice, the nation wants it. it wants it desperately and the more invested they get in a case, the the more insistent they are on having it and I think that's to our credit. I actually think that's something we should be proud of. Um, having said that, we will be doing some other news next week as well. We got to get back. There's a lot lot happening.

Epstein, my god. And um, the hearing with Pam Bondi was crazy this week. The whole Super Bowl fallout and all the craziness there, the Olympic stuff. Did that French judge steal our medal from our ice skaters, our ice dancers? Certainly looks like people believe that. I'd like to know what the truth is, but a whole scandal's evolving now and whether the French did not deserve to win that gold into that. Uh, and the Olympics in general are sort of a nice getaway from the the darkness of this news story. So, take those in. See, I'm not that biased against NBC. I can't tell you to go watch the Olympics. Some of it is still fun. The ones who still love America, like the hockey team, yeah, we can root for them. Not so much the men's uh freestyle skiers, but live and learn on the ones that we support.

the ones we don't. I support all of you and I appreciate your support of this program. Uh lots of love to you all and I'll see you soon.

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What is mentioned in this Megyn Kelly episode?

29 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Nancy Guthrie, Megan Kelly, Nancy's house, James Fitzgerald, FBI, Tucson. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Local Sheriff vs. FBI Rumblings in Nancy Guthrie Case, and NEW Man Seen on Neighborhood Ring Camera"?

The episode runs 1 h 57 min; the transcript is about 22,430 words in 229 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated February 14, 2026.