DNA found on a glove near the home of Nancy Guthrie was submitted for analysis, but no match was found in the FBI’s national database, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in an update Tuesday.
Sheriff Chris Nanos shared the new information as the desperate search for the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie entered its third week.
“The DNA that was submitted to CODIS was from the set of gloves found two miles away,” Nanos said in a statement. “It did not trigger a match in CODIS & did not match DNA found at the property. The DNA found at the property is being analyzed & further testing needs to be done as part of the investigation.”
CODIS stands for Combined DNA Index System, a national database that holds more than 19 million offender profiles, according to the FBI.
On Sunday, Nanos said the gloves appeared to match the ones worn by the suspect in doorbell camera footage on the morning she went missing.
On Monday, the sheriff’s office said that all members of Guthrie’s family, including Savannah Guthrie, her siblings, and their spouses, have been cleared as possible suspects, with Nanos adding that the Guthrie family has been “nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.”
”To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel,” he said. “The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple.”
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her home in Arizona on February 1. While law enforcement has been busy running down leads, Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have been making emotional pleas on social media asking the supposed kidnapper to reach out and provide proof of life and further instructions for how they can get their mother back.
