Breaking: FBI Sources Claim Arrest of ‘Porch Guy’ Nearly Within Reach in Abduction Case

A retired FBI agent told Megyn Kelly on Tuesday that investigators are closing in on the masked, armed man captured on a doorbell camera outside Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home—the night she was abducted—reporting she is 75% confident an arrest of the figure known as the “porch guy” is near.

As of Wednesday, the FBI has made no public announcement of an arrest.

Maureen O’Connell, the former special agent, said her information came from sources tracking the federal investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie.

“I think they’re close right now to pulling this case together, and that’s what my sources are telling me,” she told Kelly. “Things are happening.” When pressed on whether an arrest was imminent, she said, “I think they’re getting close to the porch guy. And when they get, when they get the porch guy, the floodgates shall swing open.”

Nancy Guthrie, who had a heart condition, was taken from her home in the early hours of February 1. Days later, authorities released footage showing a masked man on her porch staring directly into the camera, holding a flashlight in his mouth and attempting to blot it out with gloved fists and flowers yanked from her garden.

He wore fleece clothing, carried a backpack and was armed with a pistol. The FBI later doubled its reward for the case.

O’Connell attributed the slow pace of the investigation to trial preparation, stating that investigators are working under the assumption that defense lawyers would move to suppress key evidence and that prosecutors must build a strong case to withstand such losses.

“From day one, you’re doing your trial prep, practically,” she said. “Everything you do is geared toward the trial and prosecution. You have to put a case together in such a way that it would withstand losing some of these chunks of evidence.”

The segment aired the same week, and reports surfaced that two ransom notes sent to Nancy Guthrie’s family are now believed credible by investigators.

The first note demanded millions of dollars in bitcoin and contained details about a broken floodlight in her yard and what she was wearing the night she was taken.

A second note apologized to the family and stated that Nancy Guthrie had died and been buried in nature. Both notes were sent from the same IP address.

Savannah Guthrie made a tearful appeal during a live segment on NBC’s “Today” show, saying: “I wanted to just take the opportunity to ask people, to really beg people, to come forward. Somebody knows something.”

Kelly later called the development the biggest breakthrough yet. “I don’t know whether he is the one writing the notes, whether he is the one who masterminded it, but clearly that is the one who took her,” she said. “And if we find him, then it’s ball game.”