DNA Results for Glove Found at Savannah Guthrie’s Mom’s Home Revealed as Officials Claim Her Kidnapper Had a ‘Target’

The investigation into the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy, has at this point turned up many leads, but not much concrete evidence. Police and even the FBI have been focused on where Nancy Guthrie, who went missing sometime between the night of January 31 and the morning of February 1, is and who could have taken her.

For a moment, it felt like perhaps police was getting close. Photos and surveillance video recovered from Nancy’s security cameras showed a man, even if his face was covered. Police had found a glove someone disposed off in the vicinity of the house, and DNA was being analyzed. However, officials are no claiming there were no hits for the DNA found in the glove.

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“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,” sheriff Chris Nanos told Fox News.

COSI is the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System database. It allows the agency to store, compare DNA profiles from crime scenes, convicted offenders and missing persons against individuals convicted of violent crimes, or, in some states, of any felony. The Sheriff Department also confirmed on X that the DNA found at Nancy Guthrie’s residence is still being analyzed but it does not match the glove.

“The DNA that was submitted to CODIS was from the set of gloves found 2 miles away. It did not trigger a match in CODIS and did not match DNA found at the property. The DNA found at the property is being analyzed & further testing needs to be done as part of the investigation,” the sheriff’s office wrote.

Authorities have still not formally identified any suspects or persons of interest in the disappearance, and retired FBI special agent Jason Pack told Fox News Digital that law enforcement is likely to turn to “Investigative genetic genealogy” now.

“[Investigators] go here: Investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, is a technique the FBI uses that combines DNA analysis from crime scenes with searching publicly available commercial genealogy databases and old-fashioned genealogy research,” Pack said. “It is completely different from CODIS, the FBI’s law enforcement DNA database that only compares crime scene DNA against people who have already been arrested or convicted.”

This method was used to catch the Golden State Killer in 2018.

Sheriff Chris Nanos also indicated in the NBC interview that whoever took Nancy Guthrie had a target. “I think this was an individual who had a target for whatever reason, and he has made it tough, but I’ve got some pretty tough investigators too,” Nanos told NBC’s Liz Kreutz in an interview which aired on the Today show on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

Nanos also said that the investigation is now focusing on the house. “We believe we may have some DNA there that may be our suspect, but we won’t know that until that DNA is separated, sorted out. To me, that’s more critical than any glove I found two miles away.”

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