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Bone Found Near Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson Home Is Prehistoric and Not Linked to Her Disappearance

Police said the May 7 discovery is an archaeological matter that shifts the probe toward professional forensic work, limiting public searches.

Overview

  • Nancy Guthrie, 84, has been missing since Jan. 31 and investigators treat the case as an apparent abduction with no suspect publicly identified.
  • A livestreamer found a bone on May 7 near washes outside Tucson and experts dated it to roughly AD 650–1250, so officials say it will be handled as a prehistoric anthropological matter.
  • Authorities recovered Nancy Guthrie’s blood at her home and have mixed or unidentified DNA from the scene that requires advanced testing and genetic analysis before yielding usable profiles.
  • The FBI and local detectives are reviewing more than 50,000 public leads, have seized and processed at least one family‑linked vehicle for forensics, and have not announced any charges.
  • Law enforcement has urged civilian searchers and livestreamers to stop searching and avoid forensic contamination while specialists continue evidence, digital and archaeological work and consult Indigenous groups on repatriation.