TUCSON, Ariz.— Investigators couldn't obtain a DNA profile from a hair sample recovered from within Nancy Guthrie’s home, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Fox News Digital in a new interview Thursday, as the case nears the six-month mark."Yes, there was a hair.
We had it and thought, 'Okay, well, we'll do the DNA first,' right? You're going to do DNA before something else," he explained.Working with the FBI, investigators sent the sample to a California laboratory for additional DNA testing.NANCY GUTHRIE'S SUSPECTED ABDUCTION: TIMELINE OF EVENTS IN DISAPPEARANCE OF 'TODAY' HOST'S MOMThis image released by the FBI show an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance in Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, February 1, 2026.(L) An undated photo of Nancy Guthrie provided by NBC in response to the disappearance of the 84 year-old mother of Today Show host, Savannah Guthrie.
(Provided by FBI; Courtesy of NBC)"It came back...there's no DNA," Nanos said."But does that mean the hair isn't that of the suspect? We won't know that till we have the suspect's hair.
You don't just destroy it."Investigators have preserved the sample and it still may be of use later, he added.GOT A TIP?This image released by the FBI show an armed individual who appears has a light emitting from his mouth at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance in Tucson, Arizona, Sunday, February 1, 2026.(Provided by FBI)"There's other things that hair may prove valuable for, but right now it was just about, 'Is there any DNA there?' And the answer was no," the sheriff said.
"That was just a matter of weeks ago."Guthrie is the 84-year-old mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie.She will have been missing for six months on Saturday.Nanos indicated that the hair was only one part of the broader DNA work underway, though he did not specify how many other samples are being tested.DNA testing remains a priority in the...