A glove with a recovered DNA profile discovered about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s dwelling seems to match the glove of the masked, armed suspect seen on Guthrie’s doorbell digital camera, the FBI instructed HuffPost on Sunday.
Investigators discovered about 16 gloves in numerous areas round Guthrie’s home, and most of them belonged to searchers who had discarded them as they searched the world. Nonetheless, “the one with the DNA profile recovered is completely different and seems to match the gloves of the topic within the surveillance video,” the FBI mentioned in a press release to HuffPost.
On Tuesday, the FBI released pictures and movies of the suspect approaching Guthrie’s entrance door. The suspect was described as a person, roughly 5′9″ to five′10″ tall with an “common construct.”
The glove was found Thursday and arrived at a non-public lab on Friday. The FBI mentioned it acquired preliminary outcomes on Saturday, and is now awaiting “high quality management and official affirmation” earlier than placing the “unknown male’s profile” into the nationwide database.
“This course of usually takes 24 hours from when the bureau receives DNA,” the FBI mentioned.
Guthrie is the 84-year-old mom of At present’s co-host, Savannah Guthrie. She was final seen at her dwelling in Tucson, Arizona, on the evening of Jan. 31. The next day, she was reported lacking. Investigators discovered blood on Nancy Guthrie’s entrance porch, which they confirmed belonged to her.
Within the 15 days since Nancy Guthrie has been lacking, a number of alleged ransom notes have surfaced. (In at least one instance, a person is accused of sending a pretend ransom notice.)
On Feb. 2 and three, multiple news outlets reported receiving alleged ransom notes from a purported abductor or abductors asking the Guthrie household for substantial quantities of cryptocurrency in change for the protected return of Nancy Guthrie.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos acknowledged the notes in a statement, saying the authorities “are taking all ideas and leads very critically.”
“We’re prepared to speak,” Savannah Guthrie said subsequent to her siblings Annie and Camron Guthrie in a video on Feb. 4. “Nonetheless, we stay in a world the place voices and pictures are simply manipulated. We have to know, undoubtedly, that she is alive, and that you’ve got her.”
One other ransom notice was sent to local outlet KOLD on Feb. 6, however they didn’t share the contents of the notice.
“We obtained your message and we perceive,” Savannah Guthrie said in a Feb. 7 video. “We beg you now to return our mom to us in order that we will rejoice along with her. That is the one manner we could have peace. That is very precious to us, and we pays.”
In a plea video on Monday as a supposed ransom deadline approached, Savannah Guthrie said, “We’re at an hour of desperation, and we’d like your assist.”
At least one man was beforehand detained for questioning, however he was subsequently released.
On Saturday morning, a spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff’s Division reportedly said that nobody has been arrested or positioned in custody on this case.
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned Wednesday they and the FBI have obtained over 18,000 cellphone ideas in regards to the case since Feb. 1.
