FBI: Glove With DNA Appears to Match Gloves of Suspect in Guthrie Video

A glove recovered two miles away from Nancy Guthrie’s house “appears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video” recovered outside the 84-year-old’s home, the FBI said in a statement to The Epoch Times on Feb. 15.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department found multiple gloves in a field near a road that was not revealed, according to the FBI’s statement.

“The FBI received preliminary results yesterday on 2/14 and are awaiting quality control and official confirmation today before putting [an] unknown male profile into CoDIS, the national database unique to the bureau,” the FBI stated on Feb. 15.

“This process typically takes 24 hours from when the bureau receives DNA.”

The FBI collected a total of 16 gloves while searching in Guthrie’s neighborhood.

“Most of them were searchers’ gloves that they discarded in various areas when they searched the vicinity,” the FBI stated.

It’s not clear if FBI agents, deputies from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, or other law enforcement officials left gloves on the ground while looking for clues regarding Guthrie’s disappearance. The Epoch Times asked the FBI which agency had searchers disposing of gloves on the ground but did not hear back by the time of publication.

Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was last seen at her home in the Tucson, Arizona, area on Jan. 31.

Law enforcement officials say they believe that she was taken from the home.

The suspect who appeared on Feb. 1 in Guthrie’s doorbell camera footage, which was restored by the FBI, was described as a male, approximately 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches tall with an average build.

Investigators believe that the suspect in the footage was wearing a black 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack.

No arrests have been made in the case, which has entered its third week.

The FBI is offering up to $100,000 for information leading to the location of Guthrie or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved.

The Guthrie family, including the national television anchor, offered to pay the alleged kidnapper for the return of their mother, according to videos they posted on social media. It is not known if a payment has been made from the family to an alleged suspect.

More than 13,000 tips from the public have been submitted to the FBI since Feb. 1.