On January 6, 2021, amid the chaos at the U.S. Capitol, one of the most alarming discoveries was the placement of two pipe bombs — one near the Democratic National Committee headquarters and another at the Capitol Hill Club. The identity of the individual responsible has never been officially disclosed, but a new report claims to have uncovered a lead.
According to Blaze Media, a computer forensics program has identified the suspect as a former Capitol Police officer. The outlet reports that the software analyzed FBI-released video footage and produced a 94% match based on the individual’s gait and other physical characteristics.
Several intelligence agencies have reportedly confirmed the information:
A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect, according to a Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources.
A source close to a congressional investigation of Jan. 6 additionally told Blaze News evidence has emerged recently that pointed toward law enforcement possibly being involved in the planting of the pipe bombs.
The software analysis was commissioned by Blaze News. While there are still many unanswered questions, the outlet reports that this is how the forensic program is designed to operate:
A software algorithm that analyzes walking parameters including flexion (knee bend), hip extension, speed, step length, cadence, and variance rated Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, 31, of Alexandria, Va., as a 94% match to the bomb suspect shown on video from Jan. 5, 2021. The veteran analyst who ran the analysis for Blaze News said that based on visual observations the program can struggle with, he personally pegged the match at closer to 98%.
Kerkhoff, who was a Capitol Police officer for four and a half years, left the department in mid-2021 for a security detail at the Central Intelligence Agency, sources told Blaze News.
Kerkhoff previously worked in campus security at the CIA, but her current employment status is unclear, according to the outlet.
Blaze Media also interviewed a former FBI agent who said he conducted surveillance on the house adjacent to Kerkhoff’s residence just days after the January 6 unrest:
Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin realized Friday that he was doing surveillance next door to the woman now suspected of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber.
“The FBI put us one door away from the pipe bomber within days of January 6, and we were deliberately pulled away for no logical or logically investigative reason,” Seraphin told Blaze News Friday. “And everything about that tells me that they were involved in a cover-up and have been since day one.”
This report is packed with “ifs,” but if it turns out to be accurate, the implications are enormous. It would mean that a sitting Capitol Police officer carried out an act of political terrorism in the heart of the nation’s capital — on the very day a new president was being inaugurated. That’s not just another headline; that’s a national scandal of historic proportions.