Sean Hannity examines FBI footage of a masked intruder at Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home—84, missing 10 days—revealing tampered doorbell cameras and forensic tech like Celebrite. Crowdsourced sleuthing estimates height at 5’10”–5’11”, while a parallel case of an unpublicized teen abduction since January sparks frustration over media bias. Atypical kidnapping tactics, Bitcoin ransom, and delayed proof-of-life demands fuel speculation about premeditation or foul play. Hannity ties this to broader critiques: ICE’s vetting failures vs. Democratic attacks on law enforcement, contrasting Guthrie’s case with ignored urban violence while urging listeners to engage. The episode blends forensic intrigue with political urgency, questioning systemic priorities in justice and media coverage. [Automatically generated summary]
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Sean, if you want to join us, Kash Patel FBI authorities now have released videos and images and images on videos that show a masked arm person at Nancy Guthrie's doorstep the night she was abducted.
This is now, what, 10 days in, the first and real only significant break in the search for the 84-year-old mother of the Today co-host, Today's show co-host Savannah Guthrie.
Black and white images released by the FBI depict a person wearing a ski mask, gloves, backpack, what appears to be a holstered handgun.
Investigators say the person in the images was armed.
Authorities said the images show the person tampering with the camera.
It looks like this person sees the camera, knows he's being videotaped, goes and tries to pick flowers or something and cover it up with that.
He's wearing heavy gloves.
They're not boxing gloves.
Some people said to me, and they're not.
You can tell their fingers on it.
But the images now show the person tampering with that camera next to the front door of the house just north of Tucson.
The strongest pieces of evidence that, in fact, she's been abducted, which has been consistent with what everybody's believed from the beginning, especially the blood on the front steps leading outside of that door.
And police have said that the doorbell camera was disconnected.
Now, we've been talking at length about new investigative techniques that they have.
And I got to tell you, you got to really hand it to law enforcement because they've come so far.
What is it called?
Celebrite.
And it is an ability that I didn't even know existed.
And that is the FBI is able to go in.
And even though somebody might have erased text messages, even encrypted app messages, and you think those things are gone forever, and let's say they don't have a cloud on, et cetera, et cetera, or maybe it's a burner phone or whatever.
They're able to recover all of those messages because of this new technology.
Pretty amazing, actually.
I got to give a shout out to a lot of you people online.
And I mean this with all sincerity.
And I've said this before on the air.
I mean, if you go online, if I want to feel bad about myself, I'll just start reading about comments about myself online.
And, you know, it goes with the territory.
And I can't believe that there are so many people in this business that give opinions and they're shocked that not everybody in the world agrees with them.
And they get offended that people take shots at them.
I'm like, well, you're kind of opening yourself up.
It goes with the territory.
And if you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.
And Linda, we've joked about that quite a bit.
But there are times, I've said this many times, that I will see something or Linda or Blair or Sweet Baby James will see something and they'll send it to me.
And it is wickedly funny, all at my expense, whether it be a meme or a comment or something.
And, you know, the level of brilliance and creativity of people online sometimes is beyond impressive.
Linda, we've had many times where we joked about, and I laugh at, like, for example, if Colbert and Kimmel were actually funny and when they go after conservatives, it'd be worth watching.
But they're just angry liberals.
They're not funny.
Like, I think that Bill Maher can be funny, and he's also unpredictable, and he'll take a position that maybe people wouldn't expect him to take.
He doesn't have a problem talking to people that he disagrees with.
Although, if you go on a show, I mean, it's pretty much a stacked deck.
That audience hates conservatives, and you're just dead on that show if you're a conservative.
And, you know, who the heck needs that abuse?
And the same with Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart can be very, very funny.
I think one of the funniest bits ever done about me was by Jon Stewart.
And, you know, at times he'll take a shot.
Sometimes it's actually warranted.
Sometimes they make a good point.
I'm like, yeah, that's true.
I'm pretty partisan.
Yeah, I do support this or that, whatever it happens to be.
But I only bring this up for this reason is I don't know if you, Linda, if you're seeing what I'm seeing, somehow people are able to use these images, these pictures, reverse the lighting on it on AI.
Okay, now I don't know 100% that it's accurate and true.
I'm assuming it probably is, though.
It's pretty interesting to see what they can do by doing the reverse lighting and giving you the ability to see that in color, you know, or something close to it.
It's almost like when they technicolored all the old black and white movies and you're like, oh, wow, that's so cool.
It just enhances your ability to see it a little bit more clearly.
It definitely does.
Now, I've saw other analysis.
Somebody that knows the, you know, that figured out the width of the bricks in the doorway leading to the front door of Nancy Guthrie's house and somebody, you know, knew that particular brick and width and height, et cetera.
And they just, you know, did their own measurements and they think that this person is 5'10 or 5'11.
I mean, stuff like that.
I mean, there are just some really, really smart people that, you know, put their genius to work.
And I got to tip my hat to these people online.
They often get criticized.
There are crazy people online, and that's fine.
And there are people that are just viciously vile and mean and horrible and toxic.
And, you know, I just don't pay attention.
You have to pick and choose what you read and what you watch and what you listen to.
But I'm finding that aspect of this very, very interesting.
The good news is this is the first break we've had in this case.
This is it.
It has been frustrating.
You know, and I will say this, you know, and occasionally people will complain, well, why are you covering this?
Well, why did we cover Richard Jewell the way we did?
Why did we cover Duke LaCrosse the way we did?
Why did we cover Ferguson, Missouri the way we did?
Why did we cover George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin the way we did?
I mean, there are certain cases that kind of capture the attention of the country.
I made a broader point, and I did get criticized for this, and I was sincere when I said on TV that this is not a political statement.
I don't want it to be inferred to be political, but it's just a fact.
You know, this is why I often talk about lives mattering.
You can see in this one case how much one person's life matters, not only to one individual, Savannah Guthrie, but also to her entire family and how devastating it is to one family to lose a loved one.
And that's why it is frustrating to me.
And again, I'm not being political here, that for two decades, I have been scrolling names that nobody ever heard of, nobody ever thinks about, of people that have been shot, shot and killed.
Happens every weekend in New York City, Chicago, whatever it happens to be.
And I couldn't believe that when Barack Obama was president during his time in office for eight years, he mentioned his home city of Chicago and the violence there maybe three times.
And why did he not make it a priority to bring law and order and safety and security?
Because those names are just as important to the families of their loved ones as in this particular case.
It's not a political statement.
It's just a fact is that if human life does matter, and I believe everybody, every human being, all of you listening to my voice, were created by a God, a creator.
That's why you have your own individual fingerprint and that God put within you talent and ability.
And when you hear about people, young people in particular, and they're killed in the prime of their life, it is tragic and it needs to be paid attention to.
You know, they had these ridiculous, absurd hearings on Capitol Hill today attacking ICE.
And we'll get into the issue later in the program.
And I'm sitting there listening to people.
First of all, Rodney Scott with the CBP, he's their commissioner, touting all the accomplishments.
They have captured hundreds of thousands of unvetted Biden-Harris illegals, unvetted allowed in this country.
And among them, known terrorists and murderers and rapists and child molesters and drug dealers, cartel members, and they never get any credit for it.
And, you know, they have all these coordinated, well-funded insurgencies trying to prevent legal law enforcement and laws of this country from being enforced.
Andy Bashir wants to put his hat in the ring and potentially be a Democratic presidential candidate for 2028.
So he goes on the view.
He knows his constituency.
He knows if he wants to get the nomination, he's got to go hard, hard left.
And he didn't sound at all like the conservative that he's always tried to, you know, portray himself as.
And it's just sad.
I mean, even at one point, believe it or not, you had this congresswoman, Lamonica MacIver, asking Todd Lyons if he thinks he's going to hell.
I mean, this is how absurd this whole thing got.
Or Mr. Fang Fang, Eric Swalwell, you know, asking if Todd Lyons is going to apologize to the families of Renee Goode and Alex Predty.
In the Renee Good case, I think it's pretty cut and dry.
She did accelerate her car.
It was in the direction of an ICE agent.
That ICE agent, by every objective measure, was hit, and that resulted in internal bleeding and injuries.
And, you know, at that point, when do people become responsible?
We saw the tape 10 days earlier, and I'll concede the point to Alex Predi's attorney that what happened 10 days ago when this guy was attacking and calling out and cursing out and spitting at and kicking the taillight off that car of law enforcement.
I mean, it does give you a glimpse into his mindset.
It's separate and apart from what happened that day, but he did go to that protest.
He was up close and personal to those agents.
Probably by that point, he'd been at so many of those things.
I might guess.
I don't know.
I know he went to the one 10 days prior.
He might have even been known, but he was armed.
And, you know, if you're a responsible gun owner, I would advise you never to do that.
But that's, again, an untold story.
But the bigger picture here is you can see in this case why life matters.
And sometimes maybe it takes one case to remind us that every life matters.
And then you ask yourself, well, why do some people, why do we only hear about the George Floyds?
You know, Gianno Caldwell's a friend of ours on this program.
And his brother was one of those many names of a young man doing nothing wrong, just hanging out and got shot and killed in Chicago.
And Gianno now has pretty much to change the trajectory of his life, and he's dedicated his life to helping to end crime in Chicago and stop it and bring attention to it.
But all these people never pay attention to it.
You know, if it's not happening to you, what it's not happening, it is happening.
And it just does raise awareness.
And all I am saying in this is that every life does matter.
And, you know, I never understood why Democrats wouldn't stand for the family of Lake and Riley.
I couldn't understand why they wouldn't stand for the family of Jocelyn Nungarry.
I mean, Lake and Riley, nursing student, brutally murdered on a jog.
Poor Jocelyn Nungari, 12 years old, brutally raped, and then, you know, murdered and thrown in a river.
And, you know, do you think those families are ever going to be the same again?
They're not.
And at that point, I just made a determination that politics trumps everything, unfortunately, for this modern Democratic Party and their hatred of Donald Trump guides their every move.
Because if you can't stand and honor those families that lost everything, I mean, think about it.
If you lost a 12-year-old daughter, if you lost a nursing student daughter, you know, do you think you'd ever be the same again?
When we had Nancy Grace on this program, and part of me regrets asking her how she got so engaged in crime and what she had lived through, and that was the murder of her fiancé and how it impacted her life.
It also changed the trajectory of her life and how to this day, she's not the same person she was before that happened.
And that's what families across this country, that's why restoring law and order and bringing safety and security and getting rid of criminals in this country and not defunding, dismantling police and reimagining police and keeping people in jail, that means you need bail laws.
You know, that's why you do need voter ID.
What, Linda?
You know, it matters.
And my prayer, my hope is, is that they find Nancy Guthrie, that this becomes the breakthrough that we've been hoping for in this case.
It's 10 days later.
I know she needs her medication badly.
I am working under the assumption she's alive and I'm going to stay there unless, you know, God forbid we get bad news.
I don't want bad news.
We have enough violence and death in this country.
We'll continue to get out of the media spin room.
Well, you've come to the right place.
Dan Bongino's Frustration00:02:09
This is The Sean Hannity Show.
You know, you've got to sometimes just stop and pause and think.
And, you know, I've been friends with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi.
And, you know, I observe everything.
I try not to get into the intramural squabbles that go on among conservatives because I think they've all lost the plot by, you know, shooting at each other instead of focusing on the bigger picture, which is the left in this country and their policies.
I mean, the idea they don't want voter ID, really?
They want to defund ICE, really?
They want to defund, dismantle, no bail, all of this nonsense.
And then, of course, they vote for the largest tax increase in history.
They don't stand up for working men and women, getting rid of taxes on tips and overtime.
They don't stand up for the elderly, no tax on Social Security.
You know, they think paying higher gas prices is the price of democracy.
And I just think of this, and this is what I know has frustrated Dan Bongino and Cash and Pam.
And they just, there's this, you know, Republicans and conservatives and even people that I would argue are conveniently MAGA.
Because if you look at their history and the things that they've said in every single case, they've been, you know, only conveniently MAGA.
But putting that aside, and I'm like, you guys have lost the plot because the left in this country, if they're back in power, they will destroy the country.
And while we might have some differences, there's more that should unite us.
You know, Reagan said, if we're 80% in agreement, you're not my enemy, you're my friend.
And I think sometimes we need to remember that.
Federal Agents in Tucson00:15:04
All right, we'll have more on these new developments, images, videos of Nancy Guthrie's abductor straight ahead.
Let me give you a little bit of background.
Foxnews.com reporting: federal agents arrived in Tucson last week.
And I've known this is going on, but I've kind of stayed quiet about it.
I'm sure you can put together why I know.
But the federal agents did not exactly receive a warm welcome.
And by that, I mean the FBI in this harrowing search for Nancy Guthrie.
And she's abducted from this house by force.
They have no leads at all.
It's from her home in Catalina in the foothills in northern Tucson around 2:30 a.m.
And according to the Pima County Sheriff, law enforcement sources described a delay in local cooperation with federal investigators.
Now, jurisdiction lies with local law enforcement.
They have to ask for help.
President Trump, very early on, said he's making available all federal resources, meaning law enforcement, in the search for Nancy Guthrie.
And so they were there, willing, able to help.
And, you know, it's sad because it delayed the cooperation.
Now, if you look at some of the techniques and the equipment that the FBI has, it is, you know, for example, like Celebrite, which has the ability to take even messages that were erased, not on the cloud, and they're able to recover them.
This is probably how they were able to recover this video.
What do you call it?
What do you call it?
Ring toe.
Ring?
She has ring and she has nest.
Okay.
It sounds to me, and I'm guessing here, I don't know.
I haven't seen an exact report on it.
That's probably how they recovered all of this.
And it probably happened at Quantico.
Have probably happened because of FBI participation in this.
And I don't understand this happens too often with law enforcement.
And when it does happen, it frustrates me to no end because the goal should be not who gets the credit, but just get the job done.
And people should want to cooperate with each other.
There's a lot happening, too, that I want to just tell you about.
And the first person that brought this up was last night.
This was Nancy Gray, said it's time.
And he's like, everybody in that family, everybody that knew Nancy Guthrie ought to get, you know, they ought to sent for a lie detector test.
She wasn't wrong.
Now we have a report today that Nancy Guthrie's landscaper, pool cleaner, other hired help are submitting swabs.
You know, it's now more than a week after the suspected abduction from her home in Tucson, according to law enforcement sources.
The move likely means that DNA results have finally come back from inside of the house.
Last week, the Pima County Sheriff said at a news conference, DNA testing on evidence outside the home, including the blood drops outside the front door, came back to Guthrie.
If, you know, it's significant because it reveals that maybe they did get some DNA from inside the home.
Although, if it's people that worked in the home, that might not be unusual, but it's something to go on.
They're looking, you know, at this point, they're looking for everything they could possibly find.
You know, the latest is, you know, that this ransom deadline number two came and went.
And we don't know for sure.
They've not said whether or not there was another Bitcoin address.
Now, Harvey Levin of TMZ, in the original note, he did not get the other two notes that went to a local news station in Tucson.
But he does make a, he does have a good theory regarding that, that he thinks that in the original note, they said that the mother would be returned within nine hours.
And if they did pay the money, that period of time has long since come and gone.
And if you make a radius of a nine-hour drive, that would also include parts of Mexico.
That's got to concern people, too.
I'm sure law enforcement is thinking about that as well.
The reward is still in place, by the way, with the FBI, $50,000.
And I'm not sure.
I am thinking based on the brilliant people in this country that go online and were able to use artificial intelligence, reverse the lighting, assuming that's real.
And I think it is real.
Linda, I'm pretty sure that's real.
And you get a much clearer picture of the guy.
Now, granted, he has this full-face ski mask on, but you do see certain facial features.
You get a much cleaner view of the individual, a much cleaner view.
So now that we have the video and obviously this person was self-conscious, noticed that the camera was there or knew that the camera was there.
I don't know.
And then went and seemed to pick up dirt and flowers and wanted to cover that camera pretty desperately.
But security experts are saying the FBI is best suited to handle this.
And that's why it's frustrating that I, and I knew this from the beginning, that they were kind of being pushed off to the side.
And the chief defended the investigation, say critics haven't got a clue.
Isn't that the same guy that was at the basketball game, Linda?
I don't know if I'd be at a basketball game if I was in charge of a case like this.
Would you be at a basketball game?
I don't think I would be.
I think there's a lot of things about this case that are super weird.
But, you know, in looking at the comments online, you know, one of the things that I was talking about with the team, and that's really troubling, is there's a lot of people missing right now.
A lot of them are kids.
And obviously, this is a celebrity, so it gets celebrity attention.
It gets federal reinforcement.
We got senators involved.
We got the president involved.
There's a girl in the same area in Tucson.
She's like, I think she's 17 or 18 years old.
She's been missing since the middle of January.
Nobody's doing anything for her.
You know, just a little kid.
Haven't seen her in, you know, a month.
And I think that's the thing that average Americans are struggling with.
Well, my heart goes out to the Guthrie family and any family whose mother, son, uncle, cousin, brother, aunt, friend has been kidnapped and is missing.
It's heartbreaking.
But the amount of coverage that we are seeing on this, it's heartbreaking that we can't do this kind of investigation for everybody.
It's really sad.
But I will say, it's awesome to see what you said.
These people coming out online doing what they're doing.
It's their ability to pick up little things and things you don't see.
And I love it.
I think that's really cool.
I love their genius.
And if they make fun of me sometimes, I love when they're really funny.
I really do.
And I love what their ability to do all of it.
I mean, you've seen all the AI-generated videos of a wedding of mine that never took place.
I mean, it's hilarious.
I find that.
Tucks was great, though.
You looked fantastic.
I looked fantastic.
Your AI version of you was looking very sharp on your fake wedding day.
So kudos.
Oh, I just think it's funny.
Me crying, though, that won't piss me off because I don't cry.
Yeah, not much of a cry.
But the twins, the twins looked very healthy at birth.
Yeah, the twins.
I can't believe what you read online, guys, especially with AI.
AI is scary.
The worst part is, some of my closest friends see it like on Facebook.
Oh, I got so many text messages.
So many.
Well, you didn't have to invite me, but you could have at least told me.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Josh, what's wrong with you?
We've been friends forever.
You've read every horrible thing about me in the world.
I do think that there are things that we should pay attention to.
There's a former SWAT team captain.
His name is Josh Sherard.
He was interviewed by the Daily Mail.
And, you know, again, this gets very complicated in terms of what's the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do in terms of if you're not able to communicate with the people that you believe have your loved one and they don't show proof of life, then it becomes, you know, a little more dicey.
The fact that this was a kind of, look, what I'm seeing in this video is somebody that this is a premeditated crime and with a lot of thought and sophistication behind the Bitcoin ploy, because as soon as you have a Bitcoin address, if that money was ever sent to now, we know it wasn't sent to the original address, but another address could be set up.
Another account could be set up in 10 minutes.
It's not that hard to do.
Anybody that has had any cryptocurrency.
But with no direct line established between the Guthrie family, it's a much harder call.
Veteran FBI special agent Lance Lessing of Arizona suggested that the fact that the notes were sent to media outlets rather than negotiators or family members, that's a red flag to him.
And his analysis was it's a legitimate, if it's in a legitimate ransom case, kidnappers move fast.
They establish leverage quickly.
Communication begins within hours, not days, of an abduction.
Proof of life is produced early and often.
And this case has not followed the history of a typical kidnapping at all.
Now, another thing is 90% of the time, these are just the odds, and I'm not casting aspersions, and we don't rush to judgment.
But 90% of abductions do involve someone that the abducted person knows, and a lot of times, unfortunately, that's family or someone very, very close to the family, or in the case of Elizabeth Smart, somebody that worked at the family home that the father was doing a favor for.
So, and another thing, we don't know everything that law enforcement knows.
And that's why.
To that point, Josh Sherard is actually a friend of our show.
He's the director of law enforcement for Burnup, but he's a 30-year SWAT officer.
And the one thing that he's been talking a lot about is how the elderly are easy prey.
And Byrne is doing a whole thing on helping the elderly and getting them armed and teaching them self-defense because it's not just like women or children.
There's a whole other class of people that are being preyed upon, hence this case.
Well, I hope people see, and to your point earlier, that you ask a very legitimate question.
Young girl's been missing for a long time in the same area.
Nobody knows her name.
That's a problem.
All the people shot, shot, and killed every weekend in Chicago.
I've been talking about it for decades.
I've scrolled their names for decades.
That's a problem.
You know, all these, you know, Lake and Riley's family, Rachel Morin's family, you know, all those lives matter.
And maybe as a result of this, maybe people will take, you know, the fact that we need law and order and not defund, dismantle Nobel and we need to fund ICE, not defund ICE, and that we need voter ID and things like that.
Maybe people's perspectives will change a little bit.
And again, I'm not really trying to be political here.
It's just common sense.
Let's go to Doug in Tennessee.
Doug, how are you?
I'm doing good, Sean.
I just wanted to tell you thank you for all you do.
Without we wouldn't get a lot of the information we do, but I want to be the bad guy for you.
I know you don't want to, and I completely understand.
And let me say that I hope and I pray that this idea that I am thinking on is completely wrong.
But let's look at it from the eyes of the kidnapper himself.
And I don't think anybody has really done that.
If you were the kidnapper now, and let's go on the presumption that the random was a ransom was not paid yesterday.
Being that as it would look to the kidnapper, they don't know who you are.
They haven't been able to trace your email.
It almost seems like you wouldn't want to be making any more contact than you had to because you're exposing yourself.
What is the chances there that they have already taken her life, gotten rid of her body, and we're never going to hear from the kidnapper or see her mother's or retrieve the remains?
I pray to God that doesn't happen.
But if you look at it through the eyes of the kidnapper, that would seem to be a viable option for them.
And I pray that I'm wrong.
I pray you're wrong, too.
It's certainly something that is real.
I'm not going to sit here and put my head in the sand.
Doug, appreciate it.
I know where you're coming from.
Americans have a heart.
Americans are good people.
All right.
Quickly, Susan, Arizona.
Hey, Susan.
Sean, I just wanted to comment on Sheriff who went to the University of Arizona game basketball game instead of being at work or whatever.
And my husband and I are both former law enforcement.
I was a federal agent.
He's a Phoenix cop.
And we're total opposites on that.
He thinks he's kind of like, oh, give him a break.
Everybody needs a rest.
And I said, I said, the reason that I think it's terrible is because when something like that happens, whether you're FBI or cops or whatever, sheriff's deputies, it's all hands on deck.
And if I, as just a regular agent, had tickets to a game and said, hey, I really need to go to this game.
I have the tickets.
They would have just said tough, just tough.
And so as a leader, I think you have to lead by example.
So I just thought it was interesting that the both of us buried so deeply.
You know what gets me mad?
Like if my kids take off a day from work, they better give me a good reason or I get pissed.
I'm like, you know, like one day last week, I had a tooth pulled in a root canal on the same day.
I still did radio and TV.
I'm like, show up for work.
You know, I mean, Linda takes off all the time.
It's infuriating.
That's me, foot loose and fancy-free.
No, just teasing.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, we'll continue.
By the way, Nicole Parker on the other side also will check in with Jason Pack, retired FBI supervisory special agent.