Nancy Guthrie abduction: FBI analyzing DNA recovered from her home, sources say
The FBI lately obtained and is now analyzing doubtlessly essential DNA recovered months in the past from the Tucson, Arizona, home of Nancy Guthrie, sources conversant in the investigation advised ABC News.
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mom of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her dwelling early on Feb. 1.
In this May 4, 2015, file photograph, Australian-born presenter, Savannah Guthrie poses alongside her mom Nancy Guthrie throughout a manufacturing break whereas internet hosting NBC’s “Today Show” stay from Australia at Sydney Opera House in Sydney.
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A non-public Florida lab that works with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department despatched the pattern to the FBI in latest weeks, the sources stated. The FBI is now utilizing new expertise to conduct superior evaluation on the DNA pattern to see if it might result in Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper, based on the sources.
An FBI official confirmed the bureau was lately despatched a hair pattern that was collected in February.
“There is no new DNA evidence in the Nancy Guthrie case. The FBI requested this material over two months ago,” an FBI official stated. “The Pima County Sheriff’s Office sent it to a private lab in Florida. Eleven weeks later, that lab has now transferred an original hair sample to the FBI Laboratory for testing. We remain fully committed to this investigation.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has beforehand described the DNA recovered from Nancy Guthrie’s dwelling as a pattern that got here from multiple individual and subsequently wanted to be untangled.
This picture supplied by the FBI Feb. 5, 2026, exhibits a lacking individual Nancy Guthrie.
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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos lately advised a Neighborhood Watch group that it may take six extra months to separate the strands and isolate what investigators want.
The sheriff additionally stated as many as 5 different labs across the nation are engaged on the Guthrie case. It was not instantly clear which of them, what their roles are or whether or not there are further DNA samples which might be doubtlessly related.
About two dozen Pima County and FBI investigators are nonetheless actively working the Guthrie case. After investigators launched key proof, like images from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell cameraearly on, seemingly little progress has been made on her whereabouts or the individual or individuals who kidnapped her.
FBI Director Kash Patel launched a surveillance photograph, Feb. 10, 2026 exhibiting a possible topic in investigation of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, AZ.
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FBI Director Kash Patel launched a surveillance photograph, Feb. 10, 2026 exhibiting a possible topic in investigation of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Az.
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Last month, Savannah Guthrie spoke out in her first interviewtelling her pal and former co-host Hoda Kotb that it is “too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me.”
“I’m so sorry, Mommy, I’m so sorry,” Savannah Guthrie stated.
And to her household, she apologized by means of tears, “If it is me, I’m so sorry.”
But she added, “We still don’t know… Honestly, we don’t know anything.”
Savannah Guthrie advised her household “cannot be at peace” with out solutions.
“Someone can do the right thing,” she stated.
Anyone with info is urged to name 911, the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI, or the Pima County Sheriff’s Department at 520-351-4900.
Editor’s Note: The story has up to date the time-frame of when the DNA pattern was obtained.
Additional reporting by Luke Barr.
