Nancy Guthrie cops reveal clothes worn by doorbell cam suspect were bought at Walmart as investigators ‘lean away’ from family involvement: Live updates

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News that the clothing and face mask worn by the suspect seen in the chilling doorbell footage were purchased at Walmart.

The suspect’s backpack was also identified as a black Ozark Trail Hiker, which is exclusively sold at Walmart.

Nanos said it is unclear whether the items were purchased in-store or online, and investigators are combing through surveillance footage from local Walmart stores.

Walmart has reportedly provided investigators with records of all Ozark Trail Hiker online and in-store purchases over the past several months, including sales beyond the Tucson area.

Investigators have received more than 30,000 calls for leads in the Guthrie case, Sheriff Chris Nanos told KVOA.

The calls have come into the Pima County Sheriff’s Department as well as the FBI, he said, noting that he believes authorities are making progress in the investigation.

Several hundred law enforcement personnel are now working Nancy Guthrie’s case.

Savannah Guthrie was 16 – a junior at a Tucson high school – when her beloved father Charles Guthrie died suddenly of a heart attack while on the job in Mexico.

She has described his 1988 death at 49 as a defining blow that reshaped her family, her character, and the course of her life.

‘My father died when I was 16. I think about him all the time,’ Savannah has previously said.

Investigators are testing DNA from a pair of gloves that appear to match the ones the unidentified masked captor was wearing in the doorbell video captured at Nancy’s front porch.

Nearly 16 gloves were collected near her home, and most of them were used and discarded by searchers at the site.

However, an FBI spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Sunday that a glove recovered in the case with a DNA profile of an unknown male is different from other gloves found and appears to match the gloves worn by the subject seen in the surveillance video.

‘The one with the DNA profile recovered is different and appears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video,’ the spokesperson said.

The gloves were found in a field near the side of the road, about two miles from Nancy’s home, and were packaged by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and sent overnight Thursday to a private lab in Florida, where they arrived on Friday.

The FBI received preliminary results on Saturday, according to the spokesperson, and is awaiting quality control and official confirmation before putting the unknown male profile into CODIS, the bureau’s national DNA database.

The spokesperson said this process typically takes 24 hours from the time the bureau receives the DNA.

Democratic Rep. Alma Hernandez, who represents Tucson, said she is fed up with the presence of true crime sleuths who have taken over Tucson and the Pima County area.

‘I am so sick of watching the “reporting” grifting, insane speculation, lies and BS by random wannabe journalists and YouTubers who have now caused more harm than good to this entire situation and put this serious case in jeopardy,’ Hernandez said in an X post late Saturday evening.

She then made a direct demand for those people to get out of the way and let officials ‘do their jobs.’

‘Please GO HOME. Let law enforcement do their jobs. Stop following them during swat operations and playing detectives. I am sick of the constant LIES from those who can’t even spell Tucson and clearly have never been to our city,’ she wrote.

Today show host Savannah Guthrie pleaded with her mother’s captors to ‘do the right thing’ and return the 84-year-old woman two weeks after she went missing.

In a somber video message on Sunday, Guthrie said she and her two siblings, Camron and Annie, ‘still have hope’ and that their mother Nancy is alive and ‘still believe’ she will be returned to them.

‘And I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is that it’s never too late, and you’re not lost or alone, and it is never too late to do the right thing,’ the television host said on Instagram.

‘We are here and we believe, and we believe in the essential goodness of every human being, and it’s never too late,’ she concluded the video, which she captioned ‘bring her home.’

Sheriff Chris Nanos told Daily Mail he does not believe Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance was a ‘burglary gone wrong.’

‘This is somebody who’s disappeared from the face of the earth, and now we have a camera that says here’s the person who did this,’ he said.

‘And that’s what makes me say this is a kidnapping. The motivation for it is where we get stuck, right? Is it for money? I mean, we had the one demand where they asked for money. But is it really for money, or is it for revenge for something?’

Nancy Guthrie investigators are ‘leaning away’ from any of her family members as the hunt for the missing 84-year-old continues, NBC Today has revealed.

The update was shared on Savannah Guthrie’s own TV show by reporter Liz Kreutz on Monday morning, after online speculation about Savannah’s sister Annie and her brother-in-law Tommaso Cioni, who were the last to see Nancy.

Kreutz said two law enforcement sources had told her that the probe was ‘leaning away’ from a Tucson family whose house was raided by SWAT on Friday and from the driver of a Range Rover stopped by the FBI the same evening.

She added: ‘Those same officials say investigators are also leaning away from any of Nancy’s relatives as potential suspects.’

Nancy’s daughter Annie Guthrie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni were among the last people to see her before she vanished from her $1 million home.