DNA is still pending as volunteers find another glove in the search for Nancy Guthrie

TUCSON, Ariz. — More than a twelve volunteers turned retired to hunt for grounds successful the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie successful Tucson’s Catalina Foothills vicinity Sunday, 3 weeks to the time aft the 84-year-old’s suspected abduction.

The hunt came a time aft Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said DNA recovered from the country had not yet led constabulary to a fishy successful the kidnapping of the parent of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie.

In an interrogation with her network, NBC, that aired Saturday, helium said a mixed illustration could instrumentality weeks, months oregon up to a twelvemonth to unravel astatine the Florida laboratory wherever helium sent the evidence.

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Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson location successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Feb. 1, with investigators treating the lawsuit arsenic an evident abduction.   (Fox Flight Team; Courtesy of NBC)

Other DNA has already been processed. Blood connected the beforehand structure traced backmost to Guthrie. The laboratory besides tested a suspicious mitt recovered astir 2 miles from her home, which authorities said appeared akin to those worn by a masked fishy connected Guthrie’s Nest doorbell camera.

Photos released connected Feb. 10, 2025, amusement a "subject" connected Nancy Guthrie's property.  (Provided by FBI)

The mitt provided nary answers — it did not lucifer immoderate known criminals successful the FBI’s CODIS database and did not lucifer immoderate different samples recovered wrong the home.

Sources told Fox News Digital implicit the play that the mixed DNA wrong Guthrie’s location has truthful acold provided lone a partial profile, which was insufficient to cheque against CODIS.

However, genealogy experts archer Fox News Digital that investigative familial genealogy, different instrumentality successful the DNA toolbox, relies connected antithetic familial accusation and whitethorn inactive beryllium viable from the aforesaid portion of evidence.

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Savannah Guthrie and her mother, Nancy Guthrie. (Instagram/Savannah Guthrie)

CODIS relies connected abbreviated tandem repetition (STR) testing, which compares 20 familial markers against the national database to question a nonstop match. IGG, besides known arsenic FGG oregon forensic familial genealogy, tests for hundreds of thousands of azygous nucleotide polymorphism (SNP oregon "snip") markers, a wholly antithetic facet of DNA to find ancestral ties.

"It is imaginable to deconvolute a mixed illustration and get a profile, but it's truly hard to get a illustration into CODIS," said CeCe Moore, the main familial genealogist astatine Parabon Nanolabs and a starring adept successful the field. "It has to beryllium practically perfect."

If the illustration doesn’t person a implicit STR profile, determination whitethorn beryllium nary CODIS hit. As a result, SNP sequencing is much effectual connected degraded oregon incomplete samples.

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"You could perfectly usage that aforesaid illustration to make a snip profile," Moore told Fox News Digital.

And portion SNP profiles person lone precocious been accepted successful court, partial STR profiles tin beryllium utilized to get an apprehension warrant, adjacent erstwhile they are not eligible for CODIS, she said.

"If you're comparing 13 markers, oregon conscionable 10 markers, you tin inactive comparison them," she said.

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A pistillate moves discarded covering recovered successful a drainage passageway during a unpaid hunt successful the Nancy Guthrie lawsuit connected Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. A radical of astir 12 to 15 radical divided up and searched on the roadways flanking Guthrie's neighborhood. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

With fewer authoritative updates, volunteers stepped retired implicit the play to instrumentality the hunt into their ain hands. Among the items they recovered were a achromatic glove, perchance akin to others recovered successful the case, and a backpack that did not lucifer the statement of what authorities accidental a fishy was wearing.

A small implicit a twelve volunteers met soon aft 8 a.m. Sunday, broke up into groups of 2 to 4 and divided up into antithetic parts of the neighborhood. Organizers declined to fto Fox News Digital spot the representation they’d marked up.

People behaviour an unofficial hunt for clues successful the Nancy Guthrie case, successful Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, February 22, 2026. Guthrie was past seen live astatine the extremity of January. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

"I conscionable consciousness similar if it was my ma oregon anybody successful my household that was missing, I'd privation idiosyncratic to travel retired and hunt and effort to assistance find her and bring her home," said Christi Wiggins, a unpaid who drove successful from Phoenix Sunday greeting to assistance out.

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Volunteer searchers located this achromatic mitt astatine the intersection of First Avenue and East Camino Alberca successful Tucson, astir 2.3 miles from Nancy Guthrie's location connected Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. A pistillate who lives crossed the thoroughfare said she'd already turned implicit her Ring camera video to police. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

The volunteers were looking for clues tied to a masked suspect, who whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person acted alone. Earlier successful the investigation, the FBI released doorbell camera video showing a masked antheral connected her beforehand porch.  Notably, according to the bureau, helium was wearing a achromatic Ozark Trail marque hiking backpack.

"I'm nervous, I'm benignant of scared, I americium unsure, but I'm also, I person a batch of vigor to get retired determination and hopefully, you know, assistance find thing to assistance find her," said Katherine Montanez, different searcher.

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A pistillate holds up a SwissGear marque backpack discovered during a unpaid hunt successful the Nancy Guthrie lawsuit connected Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. Authorities said aboriginal it did not supply immoderate viable leads. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

Volunteers recovered a SwissGear marque backpack Sunday, astir 2.8 miles from Guthrie’s home, which a Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said appeared unconnected to the case.

The mitt was person to Guthrie's address, astir 2.3 miles distant astatine the intersection of First Avenue and East Camino Alberca. But the spokesperson said hunt crews had not reported it arsenic of aboriginal Sunday evening.

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People behaviour an unofficial hunt for clues successful the Nancy Guthrie case, connected Sunday, February 22, 2026. Guthrie was past seen live astatine the extremity of January. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

Organizers did not respond to an email astir the hunt Monday morning.

The mitt turned up adjacent the location wherever a hunt warrant had been served connected Feb. 13 successful transportation with the case. That warrant did not effect successful immoderate charges, however.

A pistillate surviving crossed the thoroughfare told reporters that constabulary had already canvassed her vicinity for Ring camera video. She said she turned implicit what she had but did not judge it showed thing significant.

Sheriff Nanos said implicit the play that investigators were moving to corroborate the different items the fishy was seen wearing.

Deputies examined a flyer taped to Nancy Guthrie's mailbox connected Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. They were called to the country aft unpaid searchers and respective streamers walked onto Guthrie's spot with a shovel. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

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Back astatine Guthrie’s home, a brace of women from a radical called Madres Sonoras Desaparecida, oregon Sonoran Mothers of the Missing, went onto the spot concisely with a shovel and a magnitude of rebar.

Several streamers taking video with their phones followed them onto the grounds earlier a lawman asked them each to leave.

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Anyone with accusation is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Fox News' Olivianna Calmes contributed to this report.

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