Nancy Guthrie: Trump Threatens Death Penalty as FBI Races to ID Unknown DNA
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Nancy Guthrie case just collided with presidential politics, forensic science, and an evidence-handling controversy that has exposed deep fractures between local and federal investigators.
A black glove found two miles from Nancy's Tucson home contains DNA from an unknown male. The FBI says it matches the gloves worn by the masked suspect on doorbell footage from the morning she disappeared. That profile is being prepared for CODIS entry. A match could break this case. No match means forensic genealogy — and a timeline an 84-year-old woman without her medication cannot afford.
President Trump told the New York Post Monday he would direct the Justice Department to seek the death penalty if Nancy is found dead. The family has spent sixteen days telling the suspect it's never too late to do the right thing. Those messages are now directly at odds.
The evidence war between Sheriff Chris Nanos and the FBI reached a turning point. After federal sources accused Nanos of blocking the FBI from processing the glove at Quantico and routing evidence to a private Florida lab, the sheriff's department on Monday told media to direct all DNA questions to the FBI. Othram, the forensic genealogy company behind the Bryan Kohberger identification, publicly called the evidence routing devastating.
A CBS 5 inside source says investigators believe this was a burglary gone wrong — not an intended kidnapping. Both agencies denied the report. But former FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke has identified amateur markers in the porch footage across multiple interviews on this show. The behavioral evidence has been building toward this conclusion for two weeks.
The family has been cleared as suspects. Helicopters with signal sniffers are scanning for Nancy's pacemaker. And this case now hinges on a DNA profile and a federal database.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.4 | Three weeks, we are into it. |
| 0:09.7 | 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie has been missing now. |
| 0:16.5 | Going into three weeks. |
| 0:19.3 | Publicly, as of this moment, no suspect identified, no arrest, no idea where she is, |
| 0:23.7 | and right now the most important thing, the entire investigation, |
| 0:28.0 | seems to be hinging on, depending on who you talk to, |
| 0:32.3 | might be a black glove found in a field on the side of a road, |
| 0:42.2 | two miles away from her home in an area that we've learned as quite a large homeless population and a lot of drug use going on and |
| 0:50.5 | you know reasons that people may have rubber gloves |
| 0:54.7 | other than committing whatever all this is. |
| 1:05.0 | The FBI confirmed over the weekend that the glove may may contain may contain DNA of an unknown meal it uh visually |
| 1:20.7 | matches the gloves worn by the masked arm figure captured on nancy guthrie's doorbell |
| 1:25.3 | camera the morning she disappeared and i want to be careful with that phrasing because that's not my phrasing. |
| 1:31.1 | That's like literally what we're hearing from authorities of when you ask why, why this, |
| 1:37.6 | why does this glove would visually match? |
| 1:40.4 | Really, it visually matches. |
| 1:42.0 | It visually matches the black and white |
| 1:44.4 | nest doorbell camera of some sort of glove |
| 1:50.2 | that was apparently, it looked like it was worn over another glove. |
| 1:55.1 | This somehow, this, visually speaking, you're telling me that this looks like it wouldn't really any, any really |
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