Mysterious Suspects in Nancy Guthrie Case May Have Crossed the Border Amid Manhunt: Reports

The FBI has reached out to federal law enforcement in Mexico to alert them to the still-unsolved kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, as they believe there is a possibility the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie had been taken across the border, according to a TMZ report. Authorities believe Ms. Guthrie may have been taken across the border sometime well after the kidnapping but not directly following it, TMZ reported. So far, Border Patrol cameras and “other electronic devices” have not yielded any corroborating evidence that Ms. Guthrie or her alleged abductors had crossed the border.However, local law enforcement officials told NewsNation reporter Brian Entin that Ms. Guthrie’s disappearance did not show any indications of “cartel involvement.”Embattled Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos had previously denied that Ms. Guthrie had been transported over the border.An FBI spokesperson did not respond to questions from the Sun. On Tuesday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department announced that the DNA recovered from a glove recovered about two miles away from the home of Nancy Guthrie does not match non-Guthrie family DNA found at her home. The separate DNA samples from the glove, which matched the one the masked suspect was seen wearing in recovered surveillance footage, and the home also failed to produce any hits in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, a national database of DNA of people who are arrested or are otherwise compelled to give samples. Investigators are now turning to investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, which uses public genealogy databases to match relatives to DNA evidence recovered from crime scenes. IGG was notably used to arrest and convict Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo for 13 murders and multiple rapes that for decades remained unsolved. It was also used to identify Bryan Kohlberger, the killer in the 2022 University of Idaho murders.But IGG can take anywhere from 20 minutes to more than seven-and-a-half years to yield a definitive analysis of the DNA, a genetic genealogist, Cece Moore, told CNN on Wednesday. “If I was the Guthrie family, I would be begging AncestryDNA, 23andMe and MyHeritage to allow this profile to be compared against their databases,” Moore said. “I don’t believe they will allow it, unless they are served with a warrant,” Ms. Moore told CNN host Kaitlan Collins. In previous investigations, law enforcement has worked with so-called “armchair detectives” – private citizens who aren’t bound by legal restrictions on use of private genealogy databases and can flout the platforms’ policies. Once the armchair detectives give detectives a name, law enforcement will then root through the suspect’s refuse to get a DNA sample (from dental floss, cigarette butts, or the like) and go from there.FBI agents in recent days have visited several gun stores throughout the Tucson area, showing employees lists of names and photographs to determine whether any of the individuals had recently visited or patronized the store. However, TMZ reported Wednesday that the FBI “did not get any leads” from the stores it contacted.TMZ also reported it had received a new ransom demand worth upwards of $6 million in a different cryptocurrency that wasn’t bitcoin, unlike previous ransom notes the online news site received. TMZ said it forwarded the note to the FBI and declined to be more specific.

Mysterious Suspects in Nancy Guthrie Case May Have Crossed the Border Amid Manhunt: Reports

Mysterious Suspects in Nancy Guthrie Case May Have Crossed the Border Amid Manhunt: Reports

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