After collecting forensic evidence they questioned two men in a nearby village and discovered three sacks of meat, 16 lion claws and four teeth. These body parts would later be tested against the database, with the DNA from all matching the profile of that missing lion.
Feb. 17 (UPI) — The DNA on a glove found Nancy Guthrie’s home was not a match to anyone in the federal DNA database, police said Tuesday.
Guthrie, 84, is the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie. She has been missing from her home since Jan. 31 and was reported missing after she failed to show up the next morning to watch a live stream of a church service at a friend’s house.
“We’re hopeful that we’re always getting closer, but the news now, I think, is we had heard this morning that, of course, the DNA on the glove that was found two miles away was submitted for CODIS. And I just heard that CODIS had no hits,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told KARE 11 News.
The glove DNA was sent through the Combined DNA Index System, which is managed by the FBI. CODIS is a national DNA database that has more than 19 million profiles of offenders.
“There is additional DNA evidence that was found at the residence, and that is also being analyzed,” Nanos said.
There were about 16 gloves found near Guthrie’s home, and most of the gloves belonged to searchers who discarded them while in the area.
Investigators are also reviewing evidence taken via two search warrants from last week, CNN reported the sheriff said. All those detained for questioning have been released, Nanos said.
Police are “canvassing businesses and showing the doorbell video released by the FBI to determine whether the suspect appears familiar,” the sheriff’s department said in response to questions about gun shops.
On Monday, police confirmed that no members of Guthrie’s family are suspects and that the family have been “100 percent cooperative” in the investigation.
“Not one single person in the family is a suspect,” Nanos said. “Effective today, you guys need to knock it off. Quit. People are hurting — they are victims.”
He added that police took their phones and computers, and processed their vehicles and homes.
Feb. 14 (UPI) — Investigators announced finding DNA evidence on the property of Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home that does not belong to her or anyone close to her, in addition to impounding a Range Rover SUV on Saturday.
No arrests have been made in the case two weeks since Guthrie, 84, was reported missing from her Tucson home, but investigators worked from Friday night into the early morning hours on Saturday after discovering the DNA sample on her property.
A Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman on Friday confirmed the DNA discovery but said they do not know to whom it belongs.
“Investigators are working to identify who it belongs to,” the sheriff’s department acknowledged, while declining to reveal where it was found.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed “law enforcement activity” was underway at 11:47 p.m. MST Friday at a home near Guthrie’s in the Catalina Foothills and at the home of her older daughter and her husband.
Nearby roads were closed for four hours while investigators were in the area and reopened early Saturday morning.
Investigators also were seen examining a gray Range Rover SUV at a nearby Culver’s restaurant and towed it away after sealing its rear liftgate.
The sheriff’s department said an update on the matter would be made soon.
While the investigation continues, Nanos denied reports accusing the sheriff’s department of withholding evidence from the FBI.
“That’s absolutely crazy,” he told a Fox News reporter on Friday.
“We don’t withhold information from anybody that’s going to help us,” he said. “Why would we do that? There are no egos here. This is all about finding Nancy.”
He said local investigators and FBI agents are working closely together and invited the reporter to see for himself.
“They are there every minute of the day,” Nanos said. “They want to find her.”
The FBI earlier in the week doubled its reward to $100,000 for information leading to Guthrie’s location and said the suspect is a male who is between 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches tall.
The suspect was wearing an Ozark Trails backpack when Guthrie’s doorbell camera recorded his actions on her porch on the morning that she went missing.
Guthrie is the mother of NBC Today host Savannah Guthrie.
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THREE people were detained after a Swat team descended on a home near the Tucson home of missing Nancy Guthrie, reports say.
The Friday night operation unfolded about two miles from Guthrie’s property as members of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant, reportedly acting on a tip.
Two men – along with one of their mothers – were taken into custody, a local police told Fox News Digital.
It’s unclear whether any of those detained are considered suspects.
Late Friday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department posted on X that a statement would be “forthcoming,” but did not specify what the announcement would address.
The SWAT operation came just hours after investigators recovered DNA evidence from someone not known to be “close” to Guthrie at her property.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed the unidentified DNA – discovered on the missing 84-year-old’s Tucson property – is now central to the probe.
He declined to say where inside the home it was found.
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MYSTERY DNA found inside Nancy Guthrie’s home does not belong to anyone “close” to her, it has been confirmed.
The unidentified DNA, which was found on the missing 84-year-old woman’s Tucson, Arizona, property is a focus of the investigation, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said.
Despite the breakthrough, the sheriff issued a devastating update on the case.
He did not explain where the DNA was found in the home.
Questioned on whether authorities believe they are close to finding Guthrie, Nanos said: “Some of these cases take months, some take years.”
Guthrie, the mom of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing since February 1.
Authorities are currently working with their contracted forensic lab in Florida to analyse the biological evidence.
Nanos pushed back on criticism over evidence handling, saying the decision to send biological evidence to the Florida lab reflects long-standing procedures.
Local investigators have been accused of blocking the FBI from accessing key physical evidence.
Nanos also clarified that a glove believed to be potential evidence was not found at Guthrie’s home but discovered about two miles away.
Despite the ongoing investigation, Nanos stressed the search remains a rescue effort.
“They all have hope and belief that this is a rescue mission”, he said.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has allegedly already spent around $200,000 on processing evidence with the Florida lab, with which the department contracts.
It comes after federal agents released new details about the suspect from the doorbell surveillance footage.
“This updated description will concentrate the public tips we are receiving,” investigators said after over 13,000 tips were called in since Guthrie went missing.
The terrifying footage captured an armed intruder wearing thick gloves, pacing around Nancy’s front porch the night she was taken and trying to disable her doorbell camera.
It fueled theories surrounding her disappearance, including whether the individual was acting alone.
Officials now say they are looking for a man who is around five-foot-nine-inches to five-foot-ten-inches with an average build.
He was seen in the footage wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Hiker Pack backpack.
The reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case has been increased from $50,000 to $100,000.
Investigators have also issued a request for neighbors to send in any footage they have from the area from 9pm to midnight on January 11, and from 9:30am to 11am on January 31.
Meanwhile, the man spotted in a second doorbell video, who was also wearing a backpack and appeared to be trying a locked gate five miles from Nancy’s house, has been cleared of involvement in the case.
The clip that was obtained by TMZ, was taken around 1:50am around the time the masked intruder was filmed at Guthrie’s home.
He was filmed throwing a second backpack over a brick wall and investigators were seeking him for questioning.
However, he has since been ruled out of the investigation, two officials close to the matter told NBC News.
