New Breakthrough In Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Case Sends Shockwave Through DC

A Blaze News investigation has revealed a shocking potential connection between a former U.S. Capitol Police officer and the still-unidentified January 6 pipe bomb suspect, igniting fresh scrutiny of the FBI’s handling of the case and possible law enforcement involvement in the plot.

According to the report — which cites multiple current and former intelligence sources — a forensic gait analysis comparing the suspect’s movements to those of Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, 31, of Alexandria, Virginia, showed a 94% to 98% match. The analysis used advanced software to measure walking characteristics including knee flexion, hip extension, cadence, and stride variance.

The veteran analyst who conducted the test for Blaze News said the program’s algorithm yielded a 94% match, but his own visual evaluation — taking into account details the AI system can’t interpret — raised the estimate to as high as 98%.

Blaze News reported that Kerkhoff served as a U.S. Capitol Police officer for four and a half years before leaving the force in mid-2021 to take a security position with the CIA. Agency spokeswoman Liz Lyons confirmed that the individual in question was indeed employed “in campus security.”

On Friday night, Blaze News observed law enforcement activity outside Kerkhoff’s Alexandria residence. The outlet’s editor in chief, Christopher Bedford, said he was briefly pulled over by police after stopping near the property, but was later released without incident.

Despite the mounting evidence, no arrests have been made, and no one has been charged in the nearly five-year-old investigation.

Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin told Blaze News that he now realizes he was part of an FBI team conducting surveillance next door to Kerkhoff’s residence in Falls Church, Virginia, just days after January 6 — before the operation was abruptly halted.

“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 said. “Everything about that tells me that they were involved in a cover-up and have been since day one. They were f**king in on it.”

Seraphin recalled suggesting a “knock and talk” with a U.S. Air Force civilian employee linked to a vehicle seen picking up the pipe bomb suspect, but said his superiors denied the request and ordered his team off the case later that night.

“There’s a personal reaction to it, which is the complete vindication that the things I’ve been saying and my recollection of being briefed on this stuff has been accurate for years,” Seraphin said, adding that he has been sharing these details publicly since 2021.

The forensic team compared Capitol Police CCTV footage of Kerkhoff’s gait on January 6 with unedited surveillance video showing the pipe bomb suspect placing a device behind the Capitol Hill Club on the evening of January 5, 2021.

The close resemblance, combined with Kerkhoff’s employment history and the FBI’s early proximity to her address, has fueled speculation that federal authorities either missed or ignored key evidence — or worse, actively covered it up.

For conservatives who have long questioned the FBI’s handling of January 6, Blaze News’ findings appear to confirm what many suspected all along: that the federal government has not been telling the full truth about who was behind the most mysterious act of that day.