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Arizona's Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos rejected reports that he is blocking the FBI from key evidence in the Nancy Guthrie investigation, calling the claim "not even close to the truth."
The alleged dispute, reported by Reuters, which cited an unnamed U.S. law enforcement official, centers on gloves and DNA that Nanos wanted sent to a private Florida lab for analysis instead of the FBI's national crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.
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"Actually, the FBI just wanted to send the one or two [gloves] they found by the crime scene, closest to it—mile, mile and a half," Nanos told News 4 Tucson. "I said 'No, why do that? Let’s just send them all to where all the DNA exist, all the profiles and the markers exist.' They agreed, makes sense."
Nanos said "quite a number" of gloves had been recovered in searches during the investigation, but cautioned: "We don't even know the true value of these gloves."
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Nancy Guthrie is the 84-year-old mother of NBC Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. She has been missing for nearly two weeks in what is a suspected kidnapping.
The disappearance and search have sparked nationwide attention. Nanos has said items at the scene indicated Nancy did not leave her Tucson-area home "on her own."
FBI Doubles Nancy Guthrie Reward, Updates Suspect Description
The FBI announced on Thursday that it is doubling the reward to $100,000 for information leading to Guthrie's location and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.
The bureau also released an updated description of the suspect seen in doorbell camera footage outside Guthrie's home.
"The suspect is described as a male, approximately 5’9” - 5’10” tall, with an average build. In the video, he is wearing a black, 25-liter ‘Ozark Trail Hiker Pack’ backpack," the FBI said in its X post in part.
Pima County Sheriff Asks for Surveillance Footage
The Pima County Sheriff's Department, which has primary jurisdiction over the FBI, said on Thursday that investigators want residents near Guthrie's home to share surveillance footage of suspicious cars, people or "anything neighbors deem out of the ordinary or important to our investigation" from the month before she disappeared.
The department said it sent an alert to neighbors within a 2-mile radius of Guthrie's residence, asking for footage from January 1 to February 2.
"Investigators are reviewing all video submitted by neighbors, including any new ones that come in," the sheriff's department said.
Meanwhile, investigators have been canvassing neighborhoods in Tucson and looking for clues in the desert terrain near Guthrie's home. Authorities on Thursday briefly erected a tent outside Guthrie's front entryway, where her blood was discovered early in the investigation and where the doorbell camera recorded the masked person on the night she disappeared. Hundreds of detectives and agents are now assigned to the investigation, the sheriff's department said.
Savannah Guthrie Shares Home Video of Mother in Fresh Appeal
Savannah Guthrie shared a vintage home video of her mother on Instagram on Thursday, writing that the family would "never give up on her" and thanking supporters for their prayers.
She and her siblings have said they are prepared to pay for their mother's return if necessary, though authorities have not confirmed the legitimacy of ransom notes that had demanded money by deadlines that have now passed.
A famed crime sketch artist has released an illustration of the masked person seen on Nancy Guthrie's doorstep in the doorbell camera footage recorded the night she went missing.
"I GUESSED at the parts of face covered with ski mask on this Nancy Guthrie kidnapping suspect. I used the surveillance photos shown," Lois Gibson, who retired from the Houston Police Department in 2021 and is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most successful forensic artist, wrote on Facebook alongside the sketch.
Gibson is not involved in the Guthrie investigation.
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