The mystery DNA found on a potentially crucial piece of evidence — a single black glove — found near Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home did not match any records in the FBI’s database, authorities said Tuesday.
The genetic material on the discarded glove, which was discovered 2 miles from Guthrie’s million-dollar house in Tucson, resulted in no hits within the agency’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, database, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Fox News.
“We’re hopeful that we’re always getting closer, but the news now, I think, is we had heard this morning that, of course, the DNA on the glove that was found 2 miles away was submitted for CODIS. And I just heard that, CODIS had no hits,” the sheriff said.
Separate DNA found in Nancy’s home also did not match any records in the FBI database, Nanos said.
Authorities had previously confirmed that the DNA on the glove was different from the DNA found in Nancy’s home.
Authorities had said the recovered black glove appeared to be the same kind as the one worn by a masked man seen in surveillance footage at Nancy’s house before her abduction.
The glove was one of more than a dozen that were collected from the scene close to the main highway heading through the Catalina Foothills neighborhood north of Tucson, where Nancy lived.
But most of those gloves were determined to have been dropped on the ground by searchers taking part in the initial hunt for Nancy, the FBI said.
It’s not clear if there are other gloves that probers are still hopeful about.
It typically takes 24 hours from when the FBI receives a DNA sample to get the results after running it through CODIS.
CODIS works by cross-referencing profiles from DNA evidence found at crime scenes with DNA profiles of individuals convicted of violent crimes, or, in some states, of any felony.
Authorities still have identified no suspects or persons of interest in the disappearance of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, who was last seen on the night of Jan. 31.
In the meantime, local cops and the FBI are dealing with between 40,000 and 50,000 leads, Sheriff Nanos said Monday.
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