What's The Latest Nancy Guthrie Case Update? FBI DNA Tests Rule Out Discarded Gloves In Abduction Hunt

The 84-year-old mother of Today co-host Savannah Guthrie has been missing since the early hours of 1 February 2026, in a case that investigators continue to treat as a criminal abduction.

Nancy Guthrie was last confirmed to have been dropped off at 9.48pm on 31 January, with her garage door closing at 9.50pm, before doorbell cameras later detected someone at her house overnight, and her family reported her missing at 12.03pm the next day. Investigators have treated the matter as an abduction inquiry for weeks, yet no one has been arrested in connection with it, despite people being detained and questioned earlier in the search.

Nancy Guthrie Search Loses One More Lead

The gloves had briefly looked like one of the few tangible clues in a case that has often seemed to generate more dread than certainty. Earlier reports said DNA from gloves found along the route, away from Guthrie's home, had produced an unknown male profile and had been submitted for comparison, raising hopes of a direct link to the person seen on her doorbell camera.

That line of inquiry has now collapsed. The sheriff's department said the gloves belonged to a restaurant worker and were not tied to the disappearance, while laboratory work on other DNA evidence is still continuing. It is the sort of setback detectives know well, and families loathe, because a lead can look solid for days and then vanish into the paperwork.

Sheriff Chris Nanos has nevertheless insisted the case is moving. In an interview broadcast by NBC News, he said he 'absolutely' believed investigators were getting closer and that a dedicated team from his homicide division was working with the FBI on the search. That confidence is notable, though it still sits awkwardly beside the public reality that more than a month has passed without a suspect being named or Nancy Guthrie being found.

Nanos also suggested that investigators are widening their thinking rather than narrowing it. Speaking to NBC, he said the backpack worn by the masked man in the doorbell footage was a 25-litre Ozark Trail Hiker Pack, sold exclusively at Walmart when new, but added that it may have been bought secondhand instead.

'Who's to say I didn't buy it and put it on eBay,' he said, in a remark that landed with the weary logic of a case where even apparently simple clues refuse to behave.​

Case Still Offers More Questions Than Answers

The azcentral report published on 4 March was blunt about the wider picture. It said developments in the fifth week had been sparse and noted that more than a month had passed since law enforcement last held a news conference on the investigation.

That matters because in a case so publicly watched, silence does not calm anyone. It just leaves room for rumour.​

Some facts remain firm. The sheriff told NBC that he and his team are working on the assumption that Guthrie is still alive, and that they are pursuing thousands of leads while withholding some details to protect the investigation. Some facts remain contested or incomplete, and that should be stated plainly.

Nothing in the latest updates confirms where Nancy Guthrie is, who took her, or whether any single piece of evidence has yet placed investigators on the verge of an arrest, so every apparent breakthrough still deserves to be taken with a grain of salt.

The family, meanwhile, remains caught between public visibility and private anguish. NBC said Savannah Guthrie visited the Today studio on 5 March and plans to return on air, but for now remains focused on supporting her family and helping efforts to bring Nancy home.

That was not a resolution, only a brief sign of normal life intruding on a case that continues to resist it.​ The hardest detail may be the simplest one.

The search has entered its second month, and one much-discussed clue has been ruled out; the rest of the evidence still sits with investigators and the FBI, waiting to yield something more useful than hope.