Multiple gloves found near Nancy Guthrie’s home after FBI collects potential evidence

TUCSON, ARIZONA: Multiple discarded gloves were recovered in the same Catalina Foothills area where the FBI previously collected a black glove.

On Sunday afternoon, February 15, The New York Post found three more gloves scattered roughly two miles from the Tucson home of the missing 84-year-old, Nancy Guthrie, mother of Savannah Guthrie.

Authorities have not determined whether the newly discovered gloves are connected to the case. However, their presence in an area law enforcement has intensively searched for two weeks raises fresh questions about possible gaps in the investigation.

New gloves found near Nancy Guthrie case scene

The New York Post notified the Pima County Sheriff’s Department after reporters found the gloves.

Investigators recently received a potential breakthrough when DNA taken from a black nitrile glove appeared to match a pair worn by Nancy Guthrie’s masked kidnapper, who was caught on camera tampering with her doorbell on February 1, the day she was reported missing.

The Post found each glove near the highway, in locations where someone could have tossed them from a moving car.

The gloves, a leather work glove, a woven blue glove, and a red glove that looked as if someone had peeled it off, lay along a route the suspect likely would have taken while fleeing Nancy’s home toward Tucson or the Mexican border. Drivers could easily spot them from the highway that runs through the Catalina Foothills, where Nancy lives.

The gloves turned up in a quiet stretch with no homes or buildings nearby, though several side streets connect the area to suburban neighborhoods. While the site sits about two miles from Nancy’s house, it falls within the same general area where the FBI collected the black glove now undergoing DNA testing.

Security footage shows the abductor wearing black synthetic gloves during the kidnapping. Investigators believe the suspect may have worn another pair underneath, raising the possibility that the gloves found by The Post could be related to the case or at least warrant closer examination.

FBI uses Bluetooth tool to track Nancy Guthrie pacemaker

Despite the new glove discoveries, investigators have made little progress in locating Nancy Guthrie since she was reported missing. The 84-year-old vanished after her son-in-law drove her home on January 31 following a night of dinner and games with family.

Authorities raised the alarm the next day when she did not arrive at a friend’s house to watch a stream of their Sunday church service.

Law enforcement can track Nancy’s pacemaker from up to 800 feet away using a new Bluetooth “sniffer,” the device’s creator told The Post.

Police have been flying over the Arizona desert with an FBI scanning tool that can detect a working Bluetooth device, hoping to home in on the pacemaker Nancy Guthrie had paired with her iPhone.

“Eight hundred feet reliably,” said former NSA agent David Kennedy, who is helping law enforcement on the case, when asked about the device’s range. “Bluetooth communicates at 2.4 gigahertz, the same as all your other wireless devices. In a perfect world, where there's no wireless devices, no obstructions, and you have a line of sight, you can probably get 4,000-5,000 feet if not further.

"But it's in her body, and water is a detractor from signal gain. You also have buildings and walls, interference with other 2.4 gigahertz devices as well,” Kennedy, now an ethical hacker and CEO of TrustedSec, explained.