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Nancy Guthrie case: Chris Nanos provides update on whose blood was found at Tucson home, ‘Closer to finding out…’
Sheriff Chris Nanos shared an update on the blood that was found outside Nancy Guthrie's home after her abduction.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has reportedly said while providing a DNA analysis on the Nancy Guthrie case that information on whose blood was found on the missing woman’s property could soon be revealed. Nanos told People that the Forensics Department, particularly those working on the DNA analysis, are getting closer to identifying whose blood was found.
“I know we have DNA that is unknown, who the contributor or depositor is, but I think they're getting closer to finding out who that was,” he said.
Nanos also pushed back on claims that the Guthrie case has become a “cold case.” He suggested that it could only become a cold case after the labs tell them that they could not ID the blood evidence.
“When the labs tell us, 'Hey, there's nothing else we can do,' well, then maybe we've got a problem... we've got a cold case... but right now, the labs aren't telling us that,” he said.
Blood found outside Nancy Guthrie’s home
Footage released days after Nancy's disappearance showed what appears to be blood outside her home. A video posted by NewsNation on February 3, showed an apparent blood trail outside the door of Nancy’s home in Arizona. Dark blood spatter was visible on the brown tiles leading up to the door.
The Los Angeles Times also reported that authorities found blood inside Nancy’s home.
A retired FBI special agent previously claimed that the blood droplets discovered on Nancy's porch and driveway indicated that she possibly did not walk out of the home on foot.
"So, let’s say the pattern of the blood is concentrated here, but the sphere is this big, it’s round, you would have a void here from one foot or from another foot or from something," Maureen O’Connell explained at the time. "There don’t appear to be any voids.”
According to this theory, Nancy was standing upright and may have already been unconscious when she was removed from her Tucson house.
"In my mind, she’s wrapped up in something and they’re carrying her out," O'Connell said.
