The FBI is reportedly currently investigating potentially important DNA evidence collected from Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Arizona.
A private laboratory in Florida working with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, which is investigating the case, recently sent samples to the FBI, ABC News reported Thursday. The FBI is currently conducting advanced analysis of the DNA sample using new technology to see if it could be linked to the person who kidnapped Guthrie.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office previously said the DNA recovered from Guthrie’s home was samples taken from multiple people.
It could take six months for investigators to analyze the DNA.
Today anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy, has been missing since February 1st.
In an interview with the Today show last month, Savannah revealed chilling details about her mother’s abduction, including that her siblings, Camron and Annie, looked into Nancy’s home and realized “something was very wrong.”
“The door was thrown open, there was blood on the porch, and the Ring camera had been torn out,” she told Hoda Kotb. “So we said, ‘This is no good.'”
Savannah emotionally described how Nancy was captured “in the middle of the night in her pajamas, no shoes, no medication.”
“It’s really scary,” she said of the armed and masked person who was caught on video breaking into Nancy’s home. “It’s absolutely horrifying. I can’t imagine that was the person she saw standing over the bed.”
Savannah returned to the “Today” show on April 6.
Former FBI agent Jason Pack exclusively told Page Six earlier this month that “the walls are closing in” on Nancy’s kidnapper after Savannah returned to “Today,” explaining that her return to television will help bring new attention to the case.
“The pressure gets bigger with each passing day. It’s exhausting to keep secrets like this…and it gets even harder every time Savannah Guthrie sits behind the anchor desk,” Pack said.
“Most criminals in cases like this expect the media to come forward,” he continued. “They expect their families to disappear from public view. They expect people to forget. This case is different. Savannah has a national platform and she shows up there every day. Every time viewers see her face, they think of their mother.”
In a “Today” interview with Kotb, Savannah spoke about her decision to return to the NBC morning show as her mother remains missing.
“It’s hard to imagine[coming back]because this is a place of so much joy and brightness,” she said. “I can’t come back and try to be a different person. But I can’t not go back because it’s family. I think that’s part of my purpose now.”
“I want to laugh so it’s real,” she continued. “And my joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer. It’s fun to be there, but when I’m not, I say so.”
