Authorities investigating Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance are reportedly looking for additional video footage that could have been lost or saved over.
“Crime Stories” host Nancy Grace told Fox’s Sean Hannity that Google officials are “scratching” video footage from Guthrie’s Tucson, Arizona, home in hopes of finding recordings that were “taped over.” Grace noted that Pima County police initially said there was no footage of the break-in, only for Google to later recover the video.
“‘Scratching’ is like scratching through like seven or eight layers of paint,” Grace explains. “You want to get down to layer number four, so you better be careful when you get to layer five cause you may scratch away layer four.”
“If they get that rooftop cam, Sean, they might be able to get a vehicle. If they get the vehicle, it all starts to fall together,” she said.
Investigators are in the process of analyzing a glove found two miles from Guthrie’s home and DNA samples recovered from the residence. On Tuesday, the FBI confirmed that genealogy testing is being used to identify familial matches after DNA samples were entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) and yielded no matches.
Pima County sheriff Chris Nanos also announced on Tuesday that the DNA samples taken from the home and glove did not match.
The shift in the investigation comes a week after the FBI released footage and surveillance stills of someone outside of Guthrie’s home around the time she vanished on January 31. The footage showed someone outside Guthrie’s home wearing a glove which resembled the one found two miles from her home.
In addition to locating Guthrie, police are investigating two ransom notes that were reportedly sent to local news outlets. One of the notes demanded millions in Bitcoin in exchange for Guthrie’s return.
No arrests have been made.
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