The FBI lately acquired and is now analyzing doubtlessly vital DNA recovered from the Tucson, Arizona, dwelling of Nancy Guthrie, sources aware of the investigation advised ABC Information.
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mom of “At this time” present host Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her dwelling early on Feb. 1.
On this Might 4, 2015, file photograph, Australian-born presenter, Savannah Guthrie poses alongside her mom Nancy Guthrie throughout a manufacturing break whereas internet hosting NBC’s “At this time Present” dwell from Australia at Sydney Opera Home in Sydney.
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A personal Florida lab that works with the Pima County Sheriff’s Division despatched the pattern to the FBI in current weeks, the sources mentioned. The FBI is now utilizing new expertise to conduct superior evaluation on the DNA pattern to see if it could possibly result in Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper, in keeping with the sources.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Division has beforehand described the DNA recovered from Nancy Guthrie’s dwelling as a pattern that got here from a couple of particular person.
This picture offered by the FBI Feb. 5, 2026, reveals a lacking particular person Nancy Guthrie.
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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos lately advised a Neighborhood Watch group that it may take six extra months to untangle the pattern, separate the strands and isolate what investigators want.
The sheriff additionally mentioned as many as 5 different labs across the nation are engaged on the Guthrie case. It was not instantly clear which of them, what their roles are or whether or not there are extra DNA samples which might be doubtlessly related.
About two dozen Pima County and FBI investigators are nonetheless actively working the Guthrie case. After investigators launched key proof, like photos from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell digital camera, early on, seemingly little progress has been made on her whereabouts or the particular person or individuals who kidnapped her.
FBI Director Kash Patel launched a surveillance photograph, Feb. 10, 2026 exhibiting a possible topic in investigation of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, AZ.
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FBI Director Kash Patel launched a surveillance photograph, Feb. 10, 2026 exhibiting a possible topic in investigation of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Az.
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Final month, Savannah Guthrie spoke out in her first interview, telling her good friend and former co-host Hoda Kotb that it is “an excessive amount of to bear to suppose that I introduced this to her bedside, that it is due to me.”
“I am so sorry, Mommy, I am so sorry,” Savannah Guthrie mentioned.
And to her household, she apologized by means of tears, “Whether it is me, I am so sorry.”
However she added, “We nonetheless do not know … Actually, we do not know something.”
Savannah Guthrie mentioned her household “can’t be at peace” with out solutions.
“Somebody can do the precise factor,” she mentioned.
Anybody with info is urged to name 911, the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI, or the Pima County Sheriff’s Division at 520-351-4900.
Editor’s Word: The story has up to date the time-frame of when the DNA pattern was acquired
