A glove found in the search for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom belonged to a restaurant worker near where it was found.
Much was made of the glove, found some two miles from 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie’s home, and said to at least resemble those worn by a suspect in her disappearance, who was seen on Guthrie’s doorbell camera the night she vanished.
Investigators found DNA on the glove, and media played up the discovery, noting that the DNA didn’t match anything in criminal databases and saying investigators were using genetic genealogy to find a match.
Apparently, they did. Investigators interviewed the restaurant employee and found they have “nothing to do with the case,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said, according to ABC News.
According to CBS News, the glove was one of about 16 gloves collected by investigators in their search of areas as far away as two miles from the Guthrie home, but the FBI said most of the gloves had been carelessly tossed onto the roadside by searchers in the area.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, family members said Guthrie was last seen on January 31, after having dinner at her daughter Annie Guthrie’s residence. Family members then dropped Nancy off at her home north of Tucson, and reported her missing the following day when she failed to show up at another friend’s home for an online church service.
While at least two purported ransom notes were sent to media outlets demanding millions in Bitcoin, the deadlines for those notes have passed. Guthrie’s family as offered a $1 million reward, added to the FBI’s $100,000 reward.
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