Investigators searching for clues in Nancy Guthrie‘s disappearance found a black glove abandoned on the side of the road around a mile and a half away from the missing 84-year-old’s Arizona home, it has been revealed.
As first reported by the New York Post, the glove was located on a roadside by authorities who have been scouring the area surrounding Nancy’s property since early on Wednesday.
Nancy, who is the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, was first reported missing on Feb. 1. Video footage released from a security camera that was located at the front door of her home revealed a masked, armed intruder approaching the property in the early hours of the morning on that same day.
The unidentified person was wearing a knitted ski mask and black gloves—although it is unclear whether the glove located in the FBI search is in any way connected to this alleged suspect.
The FBI revealed in a post shared to its X account that it was carrying out an “extensive search along multiple roadways in the Catalina Foothills area related to the Nancy Guthrie investigation.”
Anyone in the area was asked to “remain especially cautious when passing law enforcement personnel near the roadways.”
Anyone with any information about Nancy Guthrie’s case should call 1-800-CALL-FBI, 520-351-4900, 88-CRIME, or visit https://tips.fbi.gov/.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department noted that it has received close to 18,000 calls about Nancy’s case in the last few days, noting that “several hundred detectives and agents” have been assigned to assist with the ongoing investigation.
“You will continue to see increased law enforcement activity throughout Pima County as the investigation expands,” a spokesperson noted.
Speaking to the New York Post, former FBI agent Michael Harrigan explained that agents will now try to ascertain whether the glove holds any DNA—although he made clear that the item could well have been discarded by someone with no connection to Nancy’s case.
Addressing the scale of the search, Harrigan added that the fact agents are searching more than a mile away from Nancy’s home indicates that they are “absolutely doing a lot of detail work in this case behind the scenes.”
“In this instance, with it being a kidnapping, there is no limit really to a perimeter,” he added.
The discover comes soon after the Pima County Sheriff’s Department revealed that it has received close to 18,000 calls about Nancy’s case in the last few days, noting that “several hundred detectives and agents” have been assigned to assist with the ongoing investigation.
Around 4,000 of those calls were submitted in a 24-hour period.
On Tuesday night, authorities detained a local delivery driver, who later identified himself as Carlos Palazuelos, after a traffic stop in the Tucson area.
Speaking to Telemundo outside his home in Rio Rico, AZ, after his release Palazuelos said that agents had arrived at his home with a warrant to search the property, having taken him in for questioning, claiming that authorities “held [him] against [his] will.”
“They held me against my will,” the 36-year-old stated. “They didn’t even read me my rights until two hours later.”
Recalling what ran through his head during the questioning, Palazuelos said he thought: “What the f–k am I doing here? I didn’t do anything, to be honest, I’m innocent.”
The delivery worker said that agents told him he resembled a person seen in security camera footage that was retrieved from a Nest device that was taken from Nancy’s home on the night of her abduction.
“Until right now, all I know is that they showed my in-law a picture of somebody wearing a mask, or something, and they supposedly looked like my eyes,” he added to Fox News.
While Palazuelos works as a delivery driver, he said he does not know whether he has ever delivered anything to Nancy’s house.
What is the full timeline of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance?
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos noted during a media briefing on Feb. 5 that, while times are approximate, his team has pieced together several pieces of evidence that indicate Nancy’s movements—and the timeline of her apparent abduction.
Nancy, 84, was reported missing at around 12 p.m. local time on Feb. 1, around 14 hours after she was dropped off at the property following a family dinner. When she failed to turn up at her usual church gathering on Sunday, her friends alerted her family, who found her home was empty.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31
5:32 p.m. Nancy travels to Annie’s house in an Uber for “dinner and playing games with the family.”
9:48 p.m. A garage door at Nancy’s house opens when she was dropped off at the property by her daughter.
9:50 p.m. The garage door closes, indicating that Nancy was inside the home.
SUNDAY, FEB. 1
1:47 a.m. Nancy’s doorbell security camera is disconnected.
2:12 a.m. Movement is detected on a security camera at the home. No footage of this is currently available.
2:28 a.m. Nancy’s pacemaker app indicates that the device has been disconnected from her phone.
11:00 a.m. Nancy fails to arrive at the home of a friend, where she had been due to watch a church service livestream.
11:56 a.m. Nancy’s family travels to her home to check on her and finds the property empty.
12:03 p.m. The family calls 911 to report Nancy missing.
12:14 p.m. Police officers arrive at Nancy’s home.
While no footage is available from the cameras, Nanos noted that the security camera alerts lead them to believe that a person or persons may have been inside Nancy’s home between 2:12 a.m., when movement was detected, and 2:28 a.m., when her pacemaker stopped syncing with her Apple devices.
Why did it take so long for footage of a suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case to be released?
Authorities had previously stated that they were unable to retrieve any footage from the Nest camera that was taken from the doorway of Nancy’s property because she did not have a subscription that enables archival video to be stored.
However, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department revealed in a statement issued on Tuesday that the video was ultimately “recovered from residual data located in backend systems.”
“Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie‘s home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors, including the removal of recording devices,” the statement read.
“The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems. Working with our partners—as of this morning—law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance.”
Authorities further stated that they have no other information to share about the suspect at this time, nor are any additional press briefings planned.
