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Genetic material culled from a glove found near Nancy Guthrie's home in Arizona matches an employee who works at a nearby restaurant, authorities said.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos discussed the revelation during a recent interview with Tucson's KVOA, telling the station the item had been discovered near Guthrie's home in Tucson along with dozens of other gloves.
"There was some talk and discussion that it was police officers out in the field just discarding them, that is so far from the truth," Nanos said. "We knew that at that time, we believed wholeheartedly that those gloves belonged to a restaurant and guess what? The owner of the glove, we found working at a restaurant across the street."
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The glove has "nothing to do with the case," the sheriff confirmed.
Nanos was unavailable for comment on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff's Department told Newsweek. He told NBC News on Tuesday that "investigators are definitely closer" to making a break in the case.
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Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing on February 1, a day after she was last seen. Authorities suspect she had been abducted, but have yet to make an arrest in the high-profile investigation now in its second month.
Savannah Guthrie, her sister and her brother-in-law visited Nancy Guthrie's home on Monday, marking the first time the journalist returned to the residence since her mother vanished. She later thanked her 2 million Instagram followers.
"We feel the love and prayers from our neighbors, from the Tucson community and from around the country," Savannah Guthrie wrote on Monday. "Please don't stop praying and hoping with us. Bring her home."
Guthrie's family is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie. The FBI is also offering $100,000 for tips leading to an arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.
A former FBI agent, meanwhile, said the ongoing investigation is anything but a dead end.
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"This case is the polar opposite of a cold case," retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer told Newsweek earlier Wednesday. "It is a red-hot case with agents, up to 100, and analysts and Pima County Sheriff’s officers and other law enforcement working on all the actionable leads."
Authorities are likely analyzing various leads, including footage from surveillance cameras, a white van reported in Guthrie's neighborhood, interviews with neighbors and video footage from a nearby Circle K, Coffindaffer said.
"There are so many leads, they’re actually drinking from a fire hose," she said.
The masked individual seen on Guthrie's porch should be considered among the most promising leads, according to the former FBI agent.
"Somebody coming forward with who that actually is, that is the biggest lead right now in the case because he’s very identifiable: the eyebrows, the mustache, the way he attires himself, the pinky ring he wears," Coffindaffer said. "When you add that all together, I firmly believe that one, if not many, know who that is. And that’s the number one actionable lead that they are likely getting all sorts of clues as to who that is."
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