Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos admitted he’s only holding out hope Nancy Guthrie is alive because he hasn’t seen any “proof of death.”
“They ask me, do I have proof of life? I ask them, is there proof of death?” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in an interview with Fox10 on Tuesday.
The 84-year-old grandmother was last seen at her house on Jan. 31 when she was dropped off after a family dinner. While the FBI released a description and chilling video last week of a masked, gloved man tampering with her doorbell camera around the time she disappeared, they still haven’t identified any suspects or persons of interest.
Authorities have doubled the cash reward for information leading to a breakthrough in the case, to a staggering $100,000.
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Nancy Guthrie sheriff admits only holding out hope as no ‘proof of death’
The sheriff leading the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has admitted he is only holding out hope she is alive because he hasn’t seen any “proof of death.”
“They ask me, do I have proof of life? I ask them, is there proof of death?” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in an interview with Fox10 on Tuesday.
“I’m going to have that faith, and sometimes that faith, that hope, is all we have,” he added as the investigation heads into its 18th day. “My team, 400 people out there in the field today, woke up this morning and went out there with the hope and the belief that they’re going to find Nancy.”
He was speaking hours after investigators were handed another setback, when DNA found in a glove 2 miles from Nancy’s house turned up no matches on the FBI’s database.
“We’re going to continue working this case, every minute of every day, and we will find her,” Nanos insisted, before speaking directly to Nancy’s captor.
“And we will find you … to the individual doing this, let her go, just let her go. It will work out better for you in the long run, trust me,” he said.
Savannah Guthrie with her mom, Nancy, in an undated photo.Instagram/savannahguthrie
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Bryan Kohberger genetic expert says DNA can still help crack Nancy Guthrie case
A DNA expert involved in the Bryan Kohberger case suggests advanced genomic sequencing could help identify a suspect in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. Despite the FBI finding no matches for DNA on a glove near her Arizona home, this technique could build a detailed profile for genealogical databases, crucial for solving the active case.
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FBI visited Tucson gun shop about Nancy Guthrie suspect, owner says
The co-owner of a Tucson gun shop said an FBI agent recently paid him a visit — bearing a list of photos and names to suss out for recent gun purchases.
Phillip Martin, of Armor Bearer Arms, said the agent showed him three pages with six to eight faces and names to run through his system. All of the photos had facial hair matching the description of Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnapper.
“Most of them had a mustache or goatee or whatever,” Martin told The Post Tuesday. “All of those photos immediately brought me back to that video of the guy in the mask. … After he showed me the photos, I had the immediate intuition it was related to the Guthrie case.”
The agent wanted to know whether any of the names had purchased a firearm from Martin’s shop, he told Fox News, which first reported on the visit.
None of the names match any of Martin’s prior customers.
He declined to say exactly which day the agent swung by.
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Suspect may have been caught on camera wearing ring: sheriff
The Nancy Guthrie kidnap suspect may have been caught on camera wearing a ring, Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff Chris Nanos said Tuesday.
Nanos told NBC News that he saw a surveillance photo he believes may have captured the jewelry but that investigators will need to study it further.
“I look at the same photo you look at, and I get, I see it,” the lawman told the outlet.
“I’m going to give that to my team. They’ll look at that. They’ll analyze it, and we’ll see. Maybe, maybe it is,” he said.
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Marine vet created high-tech Bluetooth signal sniffer to find Nancy Guthrie — and now he’s building an app
An “ethical hacker” developed a Bluetooth “signal sniffer” to locate Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker since her Feb. 1 disappearance.
Nancy Guthrie’s bluetooth-enabled pacemaker could be the key to finding her.Courtesy NBC Universal
David Kennedy, formerly of the NSA, explained his project to The Post.CNBC
The device can detect her Bluetooth-enabled pacemaker up to 800 feet away. The creator is also developing an app to aid in the search for the missing matriarch.
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No match found for DNA from inside Nancy Guthrie’s house: sheriff
DNA recovered from inside Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home did not match records in the FBI database, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Tuesday.
DNA recovered from inside Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home did not match records in the FBI database, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Tuesday.Getty Images
The DNA found in Nancy’s million-dollar house in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson was different from genetic material found on a glove that also came up without a hit Tuesday, Nanos told Fox News.Getty Images
Genetic material also found on a potentially key black glove discovered near the home also came up empty, Nanos said.
The DNA found in Nancy’s million-dollar house in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson was different from the genetic material found on the glove, Nanos told Fox News.
Both of the DNA samples were run against the FBI’s CODIS database, which contains profiles of all known violent criminals — and all those convicted of felonies in certain states.
The glove zeroed in on was among more than a dozen found in the area but the only one considered promising because most if not all of the rest were later determined to have been dropped by searchers and others, officials said.
