By The Megyn Kelly Show | Created at 2026-06-23 21:58:31 | Updated at 2026-06-23 23:23:42
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Nearly five months after Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the middle of the night, new reporting suggests there may be progress in the case.
Multiple news outlets are now reporting that a second note sent after Nancy’s disappearance claimed she was “buried in nature,” seeming to indicate that she had passed away. The revelation prompted an emotional on-air response from Savannah Tuesday morning, who tearfully said her family is living in “agony” and pleaded for anyone with information to come forward.
On Tuesday’s show, Megyn was joined by former FBI agents James Hamilton and Maureen O’Connell to react to the latest information about the note. O’Connell also revealed that, according to her sources, authorities may be getting closer to making an arrest in the case.
The Second Note
According to a report by investigative journalist Howard Blum for AirMail, a ‘ransom’ note emailed to media outlets six days after Nancy’s disappearance indicated she had died after being abducted.
Blum cited “sources close to the case” who told him the second email “opened with a sputtering and labored ‘apology’ for Guthrie’s inadvertent death.” The email also apparently offered the possibility that Nancy’s body could be returned for a price.
The sources told Blum the second email was credible because it came from the same IP address as the first note – in which apparent abductors had demanded a $4 million ransom in Bitcoin – and contained details on the placement of her Apple Watch, what she was wearing the night she was taken, and more.
In a March interview with Hoda Kotb, Savannah said that she believed the two notes her family responded to in social media videos were credible. “I tend to believe those are real,” she said.
Following the receipt of the second email on February 6, Savannah and her siblings posted a grim video that seemed to suggest they knew their mother had died.
“We received your message and we understand,” Savannah said, alongside her brother Camron and sister Annie, in the video. “We beg you now to return our mother to us so we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we can have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Megyn noted Blum’s reporting and the confirmations from the other media outlets that followed was actually first circulated on X back in March by an account called @Nerdy_Addict.
“We covered this in March when an X account that goes by Nerdy_Addict actually did report some of these same contents from that second note,” she recalled. “We kind of laughed about it because we are not used to hinging our reporting on an X account with somebody who just goes by Nerdy_Addict, but, in our experience, Nerdy_Addict has been right a lot in this case and clearly has developed their own sources.”
A Possible Arrest?
Much has been made about the quality of the investigation into Nancy’s disappearance, especially as it related to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos. But O’Connell told Megyn she believes there could soon be a break in the case.
“I think they’re close right now to pulling this case together, and that’s what my sources are telling me,” she revealed. “Things are happening.”
Megyn asked O’Connell to expand on why she said they are getting close to making an arrest.
“I think they’re getting close to the porch guy,” she responded. “And when they get, when they get the porch guy, the floodgates shall swing open.”
Asked for her “level of confidence on that,” O’Connell put it at “75 percent.”
Ten days into the search for Nancy,the FBI has released photos and videos of a potential suspect captured from a doorbell camera on her property. In the footage, an armed man wearing a ski mask, gloves, and backpack could be seen approaching the front door of the home and tampering with the Nest camera on the morning of her disappearance.
O’Connell suggested authorities are now dotting their Is and crossing their Ts. “One of the reasons it is taking so long is because… from day one… practically everything you do is geared toward trial and prosecution,” she explained. “And if you are going to have the greatest defense attorney in the world handling this case – whoever takes this case – you have to operate under the assumption that a couple of big chunks of your evidence may get tossed. You have to put a case together in such a way that it would withstand losing some of these chunks of evidence, depending on how you got them or how vulnerable they might be to getting tossed.”
“So, I think they are just working on these other chunks of evidence, shoring them up even more, but I think we’re getting closer. I actually really do think they’re getting closer,” she added.
In Megyn’s view, O’Connell’s update trumped everything else that has broken as of late in the case. “Maureen’s update is bigger than anything we came to air with – that she is 75 percent sure that they are closing in on ‘Porch Man.’ I mean, that would be that would be everything,” she concluded. “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. And if we find him, then it’s ball game.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Hamilton and O’Connell by tuning in to episode 1,345 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Channel (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.
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