Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed that DNA from a glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Arizona, was traced to the identity of a nearby restaurant worker.
Last month, two weeks after Nancy was reported missing, investigators found a glove two miles from her home. The gloves looked similar to those worn by the masked man captured on the doorbell camera the night Nancy was thought to have been abducted.
The glove was tested for DNA and previous reports confirmed there was no match in the FBI database. However, Nanos recently told local outlet KVOA that investigators found a DNA match for a local restaurant employee, even though that person was ruled out as being involved in Nancy’s disappearance.
“There was some talk and discussion that the police on the scene simply discarded [the gloves]”That couldn’t be further from the truth,” Nanos told the outlet. “We knew then and we believed wholeheartedly that those gloves belonged to a restaurant, and guess what?” We discovered that the owner of the gloves worked at a restaurant across the street. “
“It has nothing to do with this case,” Nanos added, without specifying the name of the restaurant or saying whether investigators had interviewed the owner of the gloves.
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84-year-old mother Nancy todaySavannah Guthrie Missing since January 31st, When the police believed her kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Investigators have since released doorbell camera lens Masked suspect and shared a description Potential kidnappers.
Nanos told KVOA that other gloves have been sent to a Florida lab for DNA testing, which may provide different results. “It’s a challenge because we know we have DNA, but now we have to deal with this mixture and how to separate it,” he explains.
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