Sheriff: No Matches for DNA on Glove in Guthrie Case

Investigators had hoped a discarded glove might help solve the case of Nancy Guthrie, but it has not. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Tuesday that DNA collected from a glove found roughly two miles from the 84-year-old’s Arizona home did not produce a match in the FBI’s national database, the Guardian reports.

The glove resembled one seen in security footage worn by Guthrie’s abductor, and tests revealed DNA from an unknown man. However, Nanos said the sample does not match any federal records or DNA collected from inside Guthrie’s residence.

“There were no DNA hits in CODIS,” the sheriff’s department said, according to the AP, referring to the Combined DNA Index System, which contains DNA from suspects and convicted criminals, along with evidence from unsolved crime scenes. “Now we start with genealogy and some of the partial DNA we have at the home,” Nanos told NBC News. “To me, that’s more critical than any glove I found two miles away. I’m not dismissing the glove, but I have gloves five miles away, ten miles away, so we prioritize.”

As the investigation enters its third week, authorities plan to submit the DNA profile to a commercial genealogy database in hopes of identifying relatives of the unknown man and developing new leads. On Sunday, Guthrie’s daughter, Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, issued a public appeal on Instagram, urging the person responsible to come forward, saying, “It is never too late to do the right thing.”

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