An Arizona sheriff defended sending proof within the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mom of “Right now” present co-host Savannah Guthrie, to a lab in Florida for DNA testing over the FBI’s lab in Quantico, Virginia.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos additionally mentioned the outcomes that investigators have acquired from DNA testing to date have not led to a suspect. Authorities imagine Nancy Guthrie was forcibly taken from her Tucson dwelling throughout the midnight almost two weeks in the past.
Nanos advised CBS Information correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti in an interview Friday that his company has been sending proof to a Florida lab for years, and he would not need samples despatched to 2 completely different services.
“It provides a step that is not wanted,” Nanos mentioned. “If in case you have two labs you are taking a look at, and one’s dangerous or one’s higher, that is nice. That is not the case right here, no person’s saying that.”
Nanos mentioned the Florida lab has samples taken from the Guthrie household and individuals who have labored at Nancy Guthrie’s dwelling to match in opposition to the proof that has been gathered throughout the investigation.
“Let’s simply use one lab, they’ve all of it, the reviews are generated, these reviews are shared between each businesses, and we preserve transferring,” Nanos mentioned.
The sheriff did not present particulars about what outcomes investigators have gotten again from the lab amid the continued investigation.
“We did get some DNA again, and we’re taking a look at all these issues,” Nanos mentioned.
Requested if the outcomes have led to a suspect, Nanos mentioned, “Boy, I want it did. Not but. We have got DNA, and it is nonetheless working, that is all I can let you know.”
DNA that wasn’t Nancy Guthrie’s or that of these in shut contact together with her was collected from the property, the Pima County Sheriff’s Division mentioned in an replace Friday afternoon. Investigators are working to establish who it belongs to. The division is not disclosing the place the DNA was discovered on the property.
In the meantime, whereas Nanos mentioned they have not acquired proof of life, he additionally added that “there was no signal of dying.” When requested if the suspect ought to be afraid, he responded: “I feel the suspect ought to be afraid each night time. We will discover you.”
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The FBI launched an outline Thursday of an individual it known as a suspect who was seen on video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s Nest dwelling safety digital camera on the morning of her disappearance.
The bureau described the person as a male who’s about 5 ft, 9 inches to five ft, 10 inches tall with a median construct. Within the footage, the particular person is sporting a ski masks, gloves and what the FBI mentioned was a black, 25-liter Ozark Path Hiker Pack backpack.
CBS Information has realized the backpack is offered solely at Walmart. Sources with information of the investigation advised CBS Information that regulation enforcement officers reviewed video at one Walmart location in Tucson. CBS Information reached out to Walmart company places of work, however a spokesperson declined to remark.
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Along with the outline, the FBI doubled its reward to as much as $100,000 for data resulting in Guthrie’s location or the arrest and conviction of anybody concerned in her disappearance. Guthrie was additionally added to the bureau’s record of its most wished lacking individuals.
Investigators have issued a wider name for video footage from Guthrie’s neighbors. The Pima County Sheriff’s Division requested individuals who stay inside 2 miles of her dwelling to supply authorities with all footage of automobiles, individuals or something that appears out of the atypical from New 12 months’s Day to Feb. 2, the day after Guthrie was reported lacking.
Investigators not too long ago discovered a pair of black gloves which can be being examined for DNA, sources near the investigation confirmed to CBS Information. Nanos advised CBS Information on Friday that the gloves have been despatched out for testing.
In its replace Friday, the sheriff’s division mentioned “a number of” gloves have been discovered throughout the investigation, and that the closest gloves had been discovered about 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s dwelling. A glove seen in pictures from the New York Put up resembles these seen within the safety digital camera footage authorities launched earlier this week.
The FBI mentioned Wednesday that brokers had been conducting an “intensive search” alongside a number of roadways within the Catalina Foothills space the place Guthrie lives.
On Thursday, Savannah Guthrie posted a message to social media that includes clips of a household dwelling film when her mother was youthful, writing, “We are going to by no means quit on her.”
