FBI agents recovered a black glove from a road near Nancy Guthrie’s home, a discovery that could provide a major clue in the hunt for the masked assailant believed to have kidnapped Savannah’s mother, who disappeared on January 1, according to the New York Post.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said hundreds of detectives and agents are now working on the investigation, which is expanding in the area.
The Nancy Guthrie Case: Top 10 Updates
- Investigators say gloves, similar to those worn by the armed suspect captured on video, were found about 1.5 miles from the home of the mother of “Today” anchor Savannh, the report said.
- The FBI reportedly found the glove during an “extensive search” in the area, with agents conducting heavy patrols and combing roadsides.
3. Video and photos show a member of the FBI Evidence Response Team removing a glove from low desert scrub in the remote Guthrie neighborhood of Tucson.
4. Authorities have not named any suspects in the apparent abduction, during which Guthrie was apparently dragged from her home, leaving a trail of blood in her wake.
5. In a nearby neighborhood, two investigators were seen leaving the home of Annie Guthrie, the missing woman’s daughter, with a paper grocery bag and a white trash bag. One, still wearing blue protective gloves, also removed a pile of mail from a roadside mailbox before leaving without speaking to reporters.
6. Barb Dutrow, who was jogging in the area during the search, said an FBI agent told her they were looking for any items that may have been thrown from the vehicle. Dutrow, who attended the convention from Louisiana, added that she “can’t imagine the feeling of a family when their mother was taken away.”
7. Authorities said a day earlier they had arrested a man near the U.S.-Mexico border, just hours after the FBI released videos showing someone wearing a ski mask, gun holster and backpack approaching Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home.
8. Black-and-white FBI footage showing a masked individual attempting to block the Guthrie’s porch doorbell camera was the first major lead in the investigation. However, the photographs did not reveal her fate or indicate whether she was still alive.
9. A man told the media Wednesday that he had been detained for several hours but had no connection to Guthrie’s disappearance last week. Officials have not released what led to the stop Tuesday, but confirmed the man has been released. The sheriff’s department added that deputies and FBI agents also searched a property in Rio Rico, a town south of Tucson, where the man lives.
10. A cryptic message sent to TMZ on Wednesday morning demanded a bitcoin payment in exchange for information about Guthrie’s kidnapper. According to TMZ, the transfer of $67,000 was requested in exchange for revealing the “name of the person involved.”