Nancy Guthrie Investigation Suffers Another Blow Ahead Of Six Month Anniversary Of Her Disappearance

The search for Nancy Guthrie has suffered different setback aft a hairsbreadth recovered astatine nan segment of her disappearance yielded nary caller DNA evidence.

Guthrie, nan 84 year-old mother of NBC News big Savannah Guthrie, vanished from her location successful nan Catalina Foothills suburb of Tucson, Arizona, connected February 1, pinch this Saturday marking nan six period anniversary.

Speaking to Fox News Digital arsenic nan milestone looms, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos admitted that hopes had been raised by nan find of nan hair, only to beryllium dashed.

“Yes, location was a hair,” he said. “We had it and thought, ‘OK, well, we’ll do nan DNA first,’ right? You’re going to do DNA earlier thing else.”

Nanos’s department, which has been moving pinch investigators from nan FBI, sent nan sample connected to a master laboratory successful California for analysis.

“It came back... there’s nary DNA,” he explained. “But does that mean nan hairsbreadth isn’t that of nan suspect? We won’t cognize that till we person nan suspect’s hair. You don’t conscionable destruct it.

“There’s different things that hairsbreadth whitethorn beryllium valuable for, but correct now it was conscionable about, ‘Is location immoderate DNA there?’ And nan reply was no. That was conscionable a matter of weeks ago.”

The sheriff concluded: “Anything we tin grasp onto pinch DNA is simply a portion of this investigation. That’s really wherever immoderate of my optimism is, that I conscionable cognize that we’re gonna get this point resolved.

“We believe, conscionable arsenic nan family does, conscionable arsenic Savannah does, personification knows something. We request that personification to telephone us.”

Taking to Instagram this week, Savannah Guthrie issued a caller entreaty to her mother’s abductor to free her.

“It has been months since our mom was taken from us,” she said. “Our family is successful agony. We are successful a nightmare that will not end. Nothing astir our business has changed.

“We person done our part. We will ne'er extremity looking for her. We will ever ache for her, consciousness that spread successful our hearts.”

Guthrie continued: “The world tin beryllium a sadistic and unforgiving place, and I cognize that you person tried to do things nan correct way. So I’m asking you, begging you to do nan correct point now. Make nan correct choice.

“Help america find her. Tell america wherever to look for her. I genuinely judge it is ne'er excessively precocious to do nan correct thing. Help america bring this business to an end.”

Investigators person said they judge Nancy was taken against her will aft uncovering humor adjacent nan entranceway to her home.

The FBI later released surveillance footage from nan victim’s Nest doorbell camera showing a masked individual wearing gloves and a achromatic Ozark Trail backpack adjacent nan spot astir nan clip she disappeared.

The lawsuit has drawn a monolithic hunt effort involving rule enforcement officers, volunteers and hunt teams who person combed godforsaken areas surrounding Tucson and beyond. Despite their extended efforts, Nancy has not been found.

It was reported past period that constabulary had received a ransom note, seemingly from Nancy’s abductor, claiming she had died.

However, nan authorities person not publically confirmed nan note’s authenticity nor provided specifications astir precisely what it said.