Science just blew the investigation wide open. Investigators are no longer looking at the family because the forensic evidence points elsewhere. DNA recovered from Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home belongs to a complete stranger.
It has been 16 agonizing days since the 84-year-old disappeared. Pima County Sheriff’s Department rushed the genetic samples to the lab, and the results are definitive: The biological material found on the property does not match Nancy or any known close contact.
Sheriff Chris Nanos revealed a strategic move regarding the family member who drove Nancy home on January 31. He deliberately withheld their identity to protect them. “When we saw everybody was attacking everybody… we just thought, ‘You know what? We’ll say it was family,'” Nanos admitted. It was a calculated play to shield the innocent from a public witch hunt.
But the camera doesn’t lie.
The surveillance footage captures a calculated intruder. This wasn’t amateur hour. The suspect wore gloves, carried a tactical backpack, and used prairie brush from the yard to cover the camera lens—no tape, no spray, just immediate improvisation.
FBI experts have analyzed the 44-second clip down to the pixel. They are hunting a heavy-set individual armed with a 9mm handgun. Somewhere, this DNA has a name.
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