Black gloves found in Nancy Guthrie search, sources say

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A brace of achromatic gloves was recovered amid the search for Nancy Guthrie, the parent of "Today" amusement co-host Savannah Guthrie, sources adjacent to the probe confirmed to CBS News. The gloves volition beryllium tested for DNA.

Video from the New York Post shows investigators picking up 1 of the gloves from the broadside of a road, reportedly astir a mile and a fractional from Nancy Guthrie's location successful Arizona. The glove, seen successful images, resembles 1 connected the manus of a idiosyncratic who was captured connected video extracurricular the 84-year-old's location the nighttime she went missing.  

The find of what could people a large interruption successful the lawsuit comes aft the Pima County Sheriff's Department said they received thousands of caller tips pursuing the merchandise of surveillance video, which showed a masked idiosyncratic tampering with a beforehand structure camera. 

fbi-guthrie-2.jpg Two of the images released by the FBI of a taxable seen connected surveillance video successful the Nancy Guthrie case. FBI

Retired FBI peculiar cause Lance Leising said a wealthiness of leads travel straight from that footage, which shows the idiosyncratic wearing a backpack and an evident weapon.

"From the backpack to the holster, to the imaginable weapon, to the jacket, to the flashlight successful his mouth, to the unsocial skis disguise … astir of them person immoderate unsocial characteristics that volition perfectly beryllium followed up on," helium said.

Investigators person been searching for Nancy Guthrie for astir 2 weeks, digging up clues and soliciting tips arsenic they enactment to place a imaginable fishy oregon suspects. The grandma and parent of 3 was past seen connected Jan. 31. Authorities judge she was taken from her location successful an overnight abduction. 

FBI agents are fanning retired crossed her vicinity northbound of Tucson, searching the foothills done brushwood and on roads.

Search For Nancy Guthrie After Suspected Kidnapping Continues In Arizona  A subordinate of the FBI surveils the country astir Nancy Guthrie's residence connected Feb. 11, 2026 successful Tucson, Arizona.  Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The FBI is inactive trying to find retired who is down a ransom enactment that was archetypal sent to CBS News' Tucson affiliate KOLD demanding Bitcoin. The Guthrie household astatine 1 constituent promised to wage contempt receiving nary impervious of beingness and has released aggregate video pleas for the instrumentality of their mother.

TMZ reported connected Wednesday that it received a caller enactment besides demanding Bitcoin from a idiosyncratic claiming to person accusation that could pb to the kidnapper. 

Cybersecurity adept Alex Stamos said a "huge magnitude of cyber transgression is powered by cryptocurrency," and that determination is "a immense misperception astir cryptocurrency transactions, and that tons of radical deliberation they're untraceable."

"That is wholly untrue," helium said. "Most cryptocurrency transactions hap successful implicit presumption of the public." 

The sheriff's bureau says they've received much than 18,000 tips successful the past 12 days. The FBI is continuing to telephone connected the nationalist for assistance and has offered a $50,000 reward for accusation astir Guthrie's whereabouts.

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