Overview
- The FBI, which said Tuesday the hair and other DNA from Guthrie’s home were not new, is now testing material it requested months earlier after it was first sent to a private lab.
- Previous testing produced no match on a glove found two miles from the home, and experts say complex samples such as mixed profiles or rootless hair can take weeks or months to analyze through genetic genealogy.
- Under mounting questions about his past discipline, Sheriff Chris Nanos sent a lengthy letter Tuesday acknowledging he resigned from El Paso police in 1982 to avoid a three‑day suspension and county supervisors plan to review it on May 12.
- Investigators still treat the disappearance as a likely abduction based on doorbell video of a masked, armed person and porch blood confirmed as Nancy Guthrie’s, and a retired FBI profiler says the blood pattern suggests she fought back.
- No suspect has been publicly identified, rewards from the FBI, 88-CRIME and the family total more than $1.2 million, and several outlets report receiving unverified ransom messages that authorities have not deemed credible.