Savannah Guthrie and her family members are not suspects in the disappearance of their mother, Nancy Guthrie, authorities in Pima County, Arizona announced.
“To be clear … the Guthrie family — to include all siblings and spouses — has been cleared as possible suspects,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a statement released on Monday, Feb. 16. “The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.”
“To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel,” the statement continued. “The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple.”
The sheriff went on to plead with the media to “report with some sense of compassion and professionalism.”
The family members were never officially named suspects, but some outlets suggested at least one of them may have been involved after authorities searched the home of Savannah’s sister, Annie Guthrie, and her husband, Tommaso Cioni.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen at her home in Tucson on Jan. 31.
Officials believe a masked man recorded by her doorbell camera kidnapped the mother-of-three in the early morning hours of Feb. 1. The man is described as “approximately 5’9” – 5’10” tall, with an average build.”
The FBI is awaiting DNA results on a glove found near Nancy’s home that appears to be a match to those worn by the suspect who was seen in the surveillance video.
In a statement to Fox 10 Phoenix, the bureau said the glove was one of several “found approximately 2 miles from the Guthrie residence in a field near the side of the road.”
“Investigators collected approximately 16 gloves in various areas near the house. Most of them were searchers’ gloves that they discarded in various areas when they searched the vicinity. The one with the DNA profile recovered is different and appears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video. The FBI has and will continue to provide assistance on whatever timeline is provided to us,” the bureau said in a statement.
The glove was sent to a private lab in Florida for testing and the results will be run through the FBI’s national database known as CODIS or Combined DNA Index System.
The federal government has doubled its reward to $100,000 for “information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.”
According to the FBI, “over 13,000 tips from the public” have come in about the case since Guthrie was reported missing.
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