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An Arizona sheriff defended sending grounds successful the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the parent of "Today" amusement co-host Savannah Guthrie, to a laboratory successful Florida for DNA investigating implicit the FBI's laboratory successful Quantico, Virginia.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos besides said the results that investigators person received from DNA investigating truthful acold haven't led to a suspect. Authorities judge Nancy Guthrie was forcibly taken from her Tucson location during the mediate of the nighttime astir 2 weeks ago.
Nanos told CBS News analogous Jonathan Vigliotti successful an interrogation Friday that his bureau has been sending grounds to a Florida laboratory for years, and helium doesn't privation samples sent to 2 antithetic facilities.
"It adds a measurement that's not needed," Nanos said. "If you person 2 labs you're looking at, and one's atrocious oregon one's better, that's fine. That's not the lawsuit here, nobody's saying that."
Nanos said the Florida laboratory has samples taken from the Guthrie household and radical who person worked astatine Nancy Guthrie's location to comparison against the grounds that has been gathered during the investigation.
"Let's conscionable usage 1 lab, they person it all, the reports are generated, those reports are shared betwixt some agencies, and we support moving," Nanos said.
The sheriff didn't supply details astir what results investigators person gotten backmost from the laboratory amid the ongoing investigation.
"We did get immoderate DNA back, and we are looking astatine each those things," Nanos said.
Asked if the results person led to a suspect, Nanos said, "Boy, I privation it did, not yet. We've got DNA, and it's inactive working, that's each I tin archer you."
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos exits the property country past a missing idiosyncratic poster aft giving an update connected the probe into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie successful Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 5, 2026.
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The FBI released a description Thursday of a idiosyncratic it referred to arsenic a fishy who was seen connected video footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest location information camera connected the greeting of her disappearance.
The bureau described the idiosyncratic arsenic a antheral who is astir 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches gangly with an mean build. In the footage, the idiosyncratic is wearing a skis mask, gloves and what the FBI said was a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack.
CBS News has learned the backpack is sold exclusively astatine Walmart. Sources with cognition of the probe told CBS News that instrumentality enforcement officials reviewed video astatine 1 Walmart determination successful Tucson. CBS News reached retired to Walmart firm offices, but a spokesperson declined to comment.
The FBI says the masked fig seen connected Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell camera was carrying a achromatic 25-liter "Ozark Trail Hiker Pack" backpack similar the 1 seen astatine right.
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In summation to the description, the FBI doubled its reward to up to $100,000 for accusation starring to Guthrie's determination oregon the apprehension and condemnation of anyone progressive successful her disappearance. Guthrie was besides added to the bureau's database of its most wanted missing persons.
Investigators person issued a wider telephone for video footage from Guthrie's neighbors. The Pima County Sheriff's Department asked radical who unrecorded wrong 2 miles of her location to supply authorities with each footage of vehicles, radical oregon thing that seems retired of the mean from New Year's Day to Feb. 2, the time aft Guthrie was reported missing.
Investigators precocious recovered a brace of black gloves that are being tested for DNA, sources adjacent to the probe confirmed to CBS News. Nanos told CBS News connected Friday that the gloves person been sent retired for DNA testing.
Images from the New York Post amusement investigators picking up 1 of the gloves, which was reportedly recovered from the broadside of a roadworthy astir a mile and a fractional from Guthrie's home. The mitt resembles those seen successful the information camera footage that authorities released earlier this week.
The FBI said Wednesday that agents were conducting an "extensive search" on aggregate roadways successful the Catalina Foothills country wherever Guthrie lives.
On Thursday, Savannah Guthrie posted a connection to societal media featuring clips of a household location movie erstwhile her ma was younger, writing, "We volition ne'er springiness up connected her."
Jonathan Vigliotti, Anna Schecter and Laura Geller contributed to this report.
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