Owner of Gloves Found Near Nancy Guthrie’s Home Revealed Amid Reports Searchers Are Looking for ‘Something Decomposed’
Jason Pham
At least one mystery around the Nancy Guthrie’s abduction case has been solved. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed in an update to KVOA on March 3 that a mysterious black glove found near Nancy’s home in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson, Arizona, had “nothing to do with the case” and belonged to a restaurant employee who worked nearby.
“The owner of the glove, we found working at a restaurant across the street,” Nanos said. He also denied rumors that the glove belonged to his own officers. “There was some talk and discussion that it was police officers out in the field just discarding them, that is so far from the truth,” he said. “We knew that at that time.” He continued, “We believed wholeheartedly that those gloves belonged to a restaurant [worker].”
The glove was discovered in February with an FBI spokesperson claiming at the time that it matched the gloves worn by Nancy’s alleged kidnapper in surveillance footage from the front door the night she disappeared. The FBI also claimed that the glove contained DNA different from others found at the crime scene.
Nanos later confirmed to Fox News that the DNA reuslts did not match records in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database and there were “no hits.” He also reported on March 2 that other gloves fond near Nancy’s home have been sent to a Florida lab to be tested and potentially matched.
“It’s a challenge because we know we have DNA but now we have to deal with that mixture and how we’re going to separate it,” Nanos said before addressing conspiracy theories about the alleged suspect caught on Nancy’s Ring camera footage.
“I get the speculation with others saying, ‘He’s wearing this at this moment and not this. He looks like this and he doesn’t look the same,” Nanos said, noting that he “understand[s]” the temptation to analyze the footage for clues. He continued, “I can’t go on speculation. We need evidence.”
News of the glove’s owner comes after Savannah Guthrie, Nancy’s daughter, shared an Instagram video in February stating that she’s “accepted” that her mother “may already be gone” almost a month into her disappearance. “We also know that she may be lost; she may already be gone. She may already have gone home to the Lord that she loves, and is dancing in heaven with her mom and her dad and her beloved brother, Pierce, and with our daddy,” Savannah said. “And if this is what is to be, then we will all accept it. But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home.”
Around that same time, USA Today reported about a search group Madres Buscadoras de Sonora looking for “something decomposed” on Nancy’s property. During the interview, Lupita Tello, a Tucson residentand a member of the group—a Mexico-based volunteer organization made up of mothers who lost their own searchers—demonstrated how she poked the dirt outside of Nancy’s home with a sharp metal rod soldered to a handle in hopes of finding a lead. After wiggling the rod in the dirt, Tello pulled it out and smelled the sharpened metal tip of anything rotting. “If it smells bad like something decomposed, that’s where we start,” she said.
“We have had experience looking, looking. We’re a little familiar with the land, we’re a little familiar with the areas where there could be a body,” she also told KTVQ. “It’s a way of giving visibility so that way people know that we’re looking for her and they can call us.”
