Nancy Guthrie Cops Are Close to Identifying ‘Porch Guy’ Ex-FBI Agent Tells Megyn Kelly

A retired FBI agent has said she is “75 percent” certain that law enforcement is “getting close” to identifying the masked man caught on camera on Nancy Guthrie‘s porch the night she disappeared.

“I think they’re close right now to pulling this case together,” ex-FBI agent Maureen O’Connell said when appearing on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show on Tuesday (June 23). “That’s what my sources are telling me… Things are happening.”

The news seemed to shock Kelly, who replied, “What?!” She then asked O’Connell to expand on why she thinks the authorities are getting close. “They’re close to making an arrest?” she asked.

“I think they’re getting close to the porch guy,” O’Connell answered, referring to the masked individual. “And when they get the porch guy, the floodgates shall swing open.”

“Really?” Kelly responded. “What’s your level of confidence on that?”

O’Connell put her confidence at “75 percent.”

“That is big news!” the former Fox News anchor said.

Nancy, the 84-year-old mother of Today‘s Savannah Guthrie, went missing on February 1, when police believe she was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Investigators have released doorbell camera footage of a masked suspect and sent DNA for testing at the FBI lab in Quantico, but no suspects have been named publicly.

O’Connell also touched on why the case has been moving so slowly, noting that it’s important for law enforcement to ensure their evidence is airtight before trial. She said whoever is eventually charged in this case is “going to have the greatest defense attorney in the world… so you have to operate under the assumption that a couple big chunks of your evidence may get tossed.”

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has made similar statements in recent weeks, emphasizing the importance of doing things by the book. “People are working, doing their best to stay within those rules so that they have that understanding that, look, nobody wants to arrest the wrong person,” he told KOLD-TV. “We want to make sure that DNA doesn’t just identify a suspect. It also exonerates those who are innocent.”

“So it’s a tedious process, we get that,” he continued. “And especially when you add in all the other complexities of one DNA on top of the other and the separation of that. It moves at a snail’s pace, I guess, for some. But for my investigative team and for me, we look at it as this is doing exactly what we need it to do.”