Overview
- The Today co-anchor left the broadcast mid-show on Wednesday, May 6, then returned on Thursday, May 7, after Craig Melvin told viewers she had to leave early and would be back.
- Pima County Sheriff’s Office says the investigation remains active and coordinated with the FBI, with DNA and video analysis underway at laboratories across the United States.
- A private lab reportedly sent a rootless hair connected to the case to the FBI Laboratory in Quantico in mid-April for advanced testing, a process that can take weeks when samples are mixed or degraded.
- The key public evidence is doorbell footage released by the FBI that shows a masked person tampering with a camera at Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home, and investigators have named no suspect despite thousands of tips.
- FBI Director Kash Patel said the Bureau was kept out for four days, a claim the Pima County Sheriff’s Office disputed as it asserted the FBI was engaged from the start, while the family maintains a $1 million reward and Elizabeth Smart urged people not to give up hope.