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Published: Feb. 15, 2026 at 9:46 PM GMT+7|Updated: Feb. 17, 2026 at 2:21 AM GMT+7
TUCSON, Ariz. (AZFamily/AP) — New investigative leads are being uncovered in the Nancy Guthrie case, and an inside source tells Arizona’s Family true crime correspondent Briana Whitney that there is a widespread belief that the 84-year-old could be alive.
In the past week, multiple experts who reviewed the doorbell camera footage with Arizona’s Family reporters said the incident did not appear to be a planned kidnapping. Now, the inside source says that investigators believe this was a burglary gone wrong.
The sheriff’s department said Monday afternoon that the entire Guthrie family has been cleared as possible suspects in the disappearance case.
“To be clear…the Guthrie family – to include all siblings and spouses – has been cleared as possible suspects in this case. The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in an emailed statement. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel. The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple…please, I’m begging you the media to honor your profession and report with some sense of compassion and professionalism.”
On Sunday afternoon, the source said investigators are waiting for DNA evidence results from a Range Rover SUV that was towed from a Tucson-area Culver’s restaurant late Friday.
On Monday morning, CBS News reported that the mask and clothes worn by the suspect in the doorbell camera footage were believed to be purchased at Walmart, but it’s not clear if they were bought online or in-store.
A statement released by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department later in the morning said that the clothing seen in the video may have been purchased from Walmart, but is not exclusively sold at Walmart.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a text message to The Associated Press on Monday that the 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack was the only clothing item that has been “definitively identified.”
“This backpack is exclusive to Walmart and we are working with Walmart management to develop further leads,” Nanos said.
CBS News also reported that a device to detect emissions from Guthrie’s pacemaker, a tracking tool called a “signal sniffer,” has been deployed. The tracker is mounted on a low-flying helicopter that looks for low-power electronic signals.
Savannah Guthrie released a new video on Sunday as the search for her mother was in its 15th day.
“It’s been two weeks since our mom was taken. I wanted to come on and say we still have hope and we still believe,” she said on Instagram. “To whoever has her or knows where she is… It’s never too late to do the right thing.
This is the newest video in a series she and her family have released since the investigation started.
A black glove recovered last week in connection with the Nancy Guthrie disappearance appears to be the same worn by the man captured on surveillance video at Nancy’s Tucson-area home, the FBI confirmed.
In a statement sent to Arizona’s Family on Sunday, the FBI says the gloves were found about two miles away from Guthrie’s home in a field near the side of the road.
They were sent to a private lab in Florida on Thursday and arrived Friday. The agency reports they received preliminary results of a DNA profile on Saturday, and they’re now awaiting “quality control” and official confirmation before putting the profile into the FBI’s national database, CoDIS. The process reported takes 24 hours from when the FBI receives DNA.
Federal officials say investigators collected 16 gloves in various areas around the house, but that most have been determined to have been worn by searchers who discarded them.
“The one with the DNA profile recovered is different and appears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video,” part of the FBI’s statement read.
It’s unclear if additional information will be released on Sunday regarding the glove.
Meanwhile, investigators have confirmed that a person of interest in Guthrie’s disappearance was questioned and released following a traffic stop in Tucson late last week.
On Sunday, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Arizona’s Family sister station KOLD 13 News that a traffic stop at a fast food restaurant at 1st Avenue and River Road on Friday night was related to the Guthrie investigation. He added that a man was a “person of interest” in Guthrie’s abduction, and that he was cooperative and has since been released.
Video from the scene Friday night showed a Range Rover being towed from the restaurant parking lot. The sheriff said that was a standard practice and was included in the search warrant.
When asked if the man was still a person of interest, Sheriff Nanos told 13 News that “no one has been eliminated.”
Sunday marks the 15th day of the search for Guthrie.
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Law enforcement agents have been gathering more potential evidence as the search for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie‘s mother heads into its third week.
The 84-year-old was last seen at her Arizona home on Jan. 31 and was reported missing the following day. Authorities say her blood was found on the front porch. Purported ransom notes were sent to news outlets, but two deadlines for paying have passed.
Authorities have expressed concern about Nancy Guthrie’s health because she needs vital daily medicine. She is said to have a pacemaker and have dealt with high blood pressure and heart issues, according to sheriff’s dispatcher audio on broadcastify.com .
Here’s what to know about her disappearance and the intense search to find her:
Video of masked man
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie’s front door in Tucson the night she vanished. A porch camera recorded video of a person with a backpack who was wearing a ski mask, long pants, jacket and gloves.
On Thursday, the FBI called the person a suspect. It described him as a man about 5 feet, 9 inches tall with a medium build. The agency said he was carrying a 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack.
Investigators initially said there was no surveillance video available since Guthrie didn’t have an active subscription to the doorbell camera company. But digital forensics experts kept working to find images in back-end software that might have been lost, corrupted or inaccessible.
Studying DNA
Investigators collected DNA from Guthrie’s property which doesn’t belong to Guthrie or those in close contact with her, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said. Investigators are working to identify who it belongs to.
Evidence requiring forensic analysis is being sent to the same out-of-state lab that has been used since the beginning of the case, the department said.
Investigators found several gloves, the nearest about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Guthrie’s home, and submitted them for lab analysis, the sheriff’s department said. It did not specify what type of gloves.
The sheriff stressed his department is working closely with the FBI.
Sorting through tips
The Pima County sheriff and the FBI announced phone numbers and a website to offer tips. Several hundred detectives and agents have been assigned to the case, the sheriff’s department said.
The FBI said it has collected more than 13,000 tips since Feb. 1, the day Guthrie was reported missing. The sheriff’s department, meanwhile, said it has taken at least 18,000 calls.
The sheriff’s department has not said whether any tips have advanced the investigation.
Intensive searches
Late Friday night, law enforcement sealed off a road about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Guthrie’s home as part of their investigation. A parade of sheriff’s and FBI vehicles, including forensics vehicles, passed through the roadblock.
The investigators also tagged and towed a Range Rover SUV from a nearby Culver’s restaurant parking lot late Friday.
The sheriff’s department said Saturday the activity was part of the Guthrie investigation, but no arrests were made.
On Tuesday, sheriff deputies detained a person for questioning during a traffic stop south of Tucson. Authorities didn’t say what led them to stop the man but confirmed he was released.
The same day, deputies and FBI agents conducted a court-authorized search in Rio Rico, about an hour’s drive south of the city.
Family pleas
Savannah Guthrie, her sister and her brother have shared on social media multiple video messages to their mother’s purported captor.
The family’s Instagram videos have shifted in tone from impassioned pleas to whoever may have their mom, saying they want to talk and are even willing to pay a ransom, to bleaker and more desperate requests for the public’s help.
The latest video on Thursday was simply a home video of their mother and a promise to “never give up on her.”
A quiet neighborhood
Nancy Guthrie lived alone in the upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood, where houses are spaced far apart and set back from the street by long driveways, gates and dense desert vegetation.
Savannah Guthrie grew up in Tucson, graduated from the University of Arizona and once worked at a television station in the city, where her parents settled in the 1970s. She joined “Today” in 2011.
In a video, she described her mother as a “loving woman of goodness and light.”
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