The Pima County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that the DNA found during the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie did not come back with any matches from the FBI’s national database.
The FBI uploaded the two DNA samples found into the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, on Tuesday morning. Investigators recovered a DNA profile of an unknown male inside gloves found about two miles from Guthrie’s home and other DNA evidence inside her house. The gloves appeared to match those worn by a masked person seen on Guthrie’s doorbell camera the night she disappeared.
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The sheriff’s office clarified that the DNA profile recovered in the gloves found miles away from Guthrie’s home did not match the DNA evidence found inside her home. Investigators are conducting additional analysis of the DNA found inside the home.
The database holds DNA profiles in two groups: the forensic index, which includes DNA recovered from crime scenes, and the offender index, which contains DNA profiles of criminals. If the person had a previous arrest and had to provide DNA, the database would have shown a match and identification.
Guthrie, 84, was last seen on Jan. 31, when a family member dropped her off at her home following a dinner. The family reported her missing the next day after friends didn’t see her at Sunday morning church service.
She has been missing since Feb. 1, when investigators believe she was abducted from her Tucson home overnight.
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Police said Monday that they’ve cleared all family members as suspects in Guthrie’s disappearance. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said that the family has cooperated with law enforcement since the beginning of the investigation.
“The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,” Nanos said. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel.”
Savannah Guthrie, co-host of NBC’s “Today,” and her siblings have not given up hope that their mother is still alive. In a video shared Sunday night, Guthrie urged whoever is holding her mother to “do the right thing.”
Authorities told CBS News that investigators have deployed a “signal sniffer” mounted on a helicopter to detect possible transmissions from Guthrie’s pacemaker. Officials said her pacemaker app disconnected from her cellphone at 2:28 a.m. on Feb. 1.
The FBI described the suspect seen in surveillance footage as a man about 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches, with an average build, wearing a face mask, gloves and a black 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack.
The bureau has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to Guthrie’s location or the arrest and conviction of those involved.
