Search for Nancy Guthrie: Pima County sheriff discusses investigation in one-on-one interview
Tonight Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos speaking with us for
the first time in a week about the investigation into
Nancy Guthrie's disappearance
We've got some good leads today that we're working on
that we hope we hope pan out
Hundreds of detectives are fanned out across the Catalina foothills
scouring the desert floor for any potential evidence like gloves
The sheriff says they found a pair 2 miles from
Nancy's home
2 miles away is the closest
Is there another pair of gloves There's a lot of
gloves
Those gloves are all being sent to a private crime
lab he says the department has used for decades and
that's been processing the DNA for this case from the
beginning
But it's a decision that has come under some scrutiny
amid reports of tension between the FBI and sheriff's department
including that the sheriff is blocking the FBI's access to
evidence
The FBI and the Peden County Sheriff's Department are connected
at the hip
That has not changed in this case of
Blocking evidence from the FBI that's just so far from
the truth
We asked him why not send the DNA samples to
the FBI's lab
There's gloves found so the FBI says OK so should
we send them to the FBI lab I said No
let's send it all to our lab
Let's just keep it all in one place
Our lab does good work
Their lab does good work
We talked to the FBI
They said yep makes sense
Thanks Sheriff and we move on to the next problem
So you're basically saying this is maybe one person that
had a problem with it but you feel like you
know you've got 400 officers out there working together
They're not always going to see eye to eye
Are you sharing the results Everything with the FBI Absolutely
and they are with us like the surveillance video which
the FBI used to create a profile of the suspect
5'9 to 5'10 average build with this backpack that's exclusively
sold at Walmart
Do we know hair color or race or anything like
that You have the same video I have
It's
That's all we have
I assume you guys have been in touch with Walmart
to figure out
There's all kinds of investigative efforts into all of that
Nearly two weeks since Nancy's disappearance so many questions still
unanswered
There's no vehicle of interest and little surveillance footage
Nano says he's hoping more will be retrieved from other
cameras outside Nancy's home
Are you close to finding this person We think we're
getting there
We think we're getting closer
Like what a day 23 I mean people it is
we're day 13 now
I know but you know what Some of these cases
go for months
Some of these cases can go for years
We're prepared that whatever that time is we will find
this person that we know