OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
9:53 AM – Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Authorities have determined that “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie and her family members are not suspects in the disappearance of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, based on DNA from a glove dropped by the likely suspect.
“To be clear … the Guthrie family — to include all siblings and spouses — has been cleared as possible suspects,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a statement on Monday. “The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.”
“To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel,” the statement continued. “The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple … please, I’m begging you the media to honor your profession and report with some sense of compassion and professionalism.”
Authorities found a discarded glove two miles from Guthrie’s Tucson home, where she was last seen before she was reported missing on February 1st. Genetic material found on the glove and in other areas in the house did not match any records in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database, officials said on Tuesday.
“We’re hopeful that we’re always getting closer, but the news now, I think, is we had heard this morning that, of course, the DNA on the glove that was found 2 miles away was submitted for CODIS. And I just heard that, CODIS had no hits,” the sheriff said.
CODIS cross-references profiles from DNA samples found at crime scenes with DNA from other violent crimes or felonies that have already been collected.
The glove’s importance in the case comes from video footage that was collected from a Nest doorbell in front of Guthrie’s home. In the black-and-white video, a masked individual approached the door, covering the camera at times with a hand that appeared to wear a dark glove.
The sheriff’s department reported that the glove is being further analyzed and tested as part of the investigation.
Though the Guthrie family has not been named as official suspects in the investigation, speculation has run rampant through February after it became clear that Guthrie, 84, was dropped off on January 31st by some family members, who were the last to see her before churchgoers noticed she was not in attendance on Sunday morning.
“DNA other than Nancy Guthrie’s and those in close contact to her has been collected from the property. Investigators are working to identify who it belongs to. We are not disclosing where that DNA was located,” the he Pima County Sheriff’s Department (PSCD) had said in a statement to PEOPLE on Friday.
Though the DNA has not found a match, Nanos said on Monday that local law enforcement and the FBI are working with between 40,000 and 50,000 leads thus far.
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