Nancy Guthrie Update: New DNA Analysis Could Mark Break in Disappearance Case

There may have been a significant break in the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie.

According to a report from ABC News published on Thursday, April 16, authorities have recovered DNA from more than one person in Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is working with a private lab in Florida, which sent the DNA sample to the FBI in recent weeks. While the sample was first collected in February, investigators say it contains genetic material from more than one person.

The FBI is now using new technology to conduct advanced analysis on the sample in hopes of identifying a suspect.

Nancy, 84, was last seen on January 31 after her daughter Annie Guthrie and son-in-law Tommaso Cioni dropped her off at her house. When she didn’t show up to watch a streaming church service the following morning, a friend contacted the family.

Since then, there have been few major developments in the case.

As In Touch previously reported, on March 19, Morgan Wright, who is the CEO of the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases, told NewsNation’s Brian Entin that investigators should probably start looking at the case as a “no-body homicide” instead of a missing persons situation.

“The longer this goes on, the more it appears to be a targeted abduction that went wrong,” Wright said during an appearance on Brian Entin Investigates. “I know nobody wants to hear it, but I’m an investigator. I’d love to say there’s hope out there, but in reality, this is a no-body homicide right now.”

Earlier this month, Brian Martin, a detective with the Fort Wayne Police Department who specializes in cold cases, said that he believes that Nancy’s abductors possibly “underestimated” her health.

“What really bothers me is if they underestimated Ms. Guthrie’s health and thought, ‘We’ll take her. This will be easy. We’ll hold onto her at an unknown location for a day or two. We’ll get some money out of this, and we’ll leave her in a Walmart parking lot,’” Martin said during the April 7 episode of Brian Entin Investigates.

“It really makes you wonder what our perpetrator or perpetrators’ endgame was,” he added. “It just scares me to think that somebody maybe took Ms. Guthrie and she had some sort of medical event when it was happening.”

People with any information regarding the case are asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324). You may also contact your local FBI office, the nearest American Embassy or Consulate, or you can submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.