Glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s home has DNA evidence, looks like what suspect in video was wearing, FBI says

A black glove found near Arizona’s house Nancy Guthrie contains DNA evidence that is currently being tested and appears to match the gloves worn by the suspect seen in doorbell camera videoaccording to the FBI.

The glove was one of approximately 16 gloves collected by investigators from various areas near the house, but most of those other gloves belonged to researchers who discarded them while working in the area, the FBI said.

“The one with the recovered DNA profile is different and appears to match the subject’s gloves in the surveillance video,” the FBI said in a statement.

The FBI said it received preliminary DNA test results Saturday and is awaiting confirmation Sunday before entering what it calls “the unknown male profile” into CoDIS, the FBI’s national database for matching DNA profiles.

“This process typically takes 24 hours from the time the office receives the DNA,” the FBI said.

Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the ‘Today’ show co-host Savannah Guthriewas last seen on January 31 and was reported missing the next day, February 1. Authorities believe she was kidnapped from her home in the middle of the night.

Last week, the FBI released a description of the person they called suspicious: a man of average build and approximately 5 feet 9 inches or 5 feet 10 inches tall. They said he was carrying a black-colored 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack in the security video.

Authorities are still trying to figure out who is behind a ransom note that was first sent to KOLD, the CBS News affiliate in Tucson, demand bitcoin. The Guthrie family, at one point, promised to pay even though they had received no proof of life and posted several video appeals for their mother’s return.

So far, investigators have searched at least two homes, according to multiple police sources. Law enforcement, including a Pima County Sheriff’s SWAT team, descended on a residence less than 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home Friday evening.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS affiliate KOLD that this activity was the result of following “a lead that led to a search warrant and no arrests.” Nanos also told KOLD that a traffic stop was conducted on a person of interest and the individual was cooperative and later released.

Another person said he was detained during a traffic stop linked to the investigation south of Tucson last week and was also later released.