Retired FBI agent Jason Pack<\/a> told Fox News Digital on Sunday that the recovery of a glove matching the type that the subject is seen wearing in surveillance video outside Nancy Guthrie\u2019s home is \u201ca promising development,\u201d though there are still many hurdles that stand in the way of identifying a suspect.<\/p>\nPack said that veterans of major crime cases \u201cknow how often these leads wash out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFinding one that looks right doesn\u2019t mean it is right,\u201d Pack told Fox News Digital. \u201cEven when a glove appears to match, the DNA inside can be degraded by weather, moisture, or handling. It can come back to someone who had nothing to do with the crime. Or it can yield nothing usable at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat said, if the DNA does come back to the suspect, you\u2019re talking about powerful physical evidence that places him at or near the scene, and that\u2019s the kind of thing that builds a prosecutable case,\u201d Pack added.<\/p>\n
An FBI spokesperson earlier told Fox News Digital that a glove with an unknown male DNA profile that was recovered is \u201cdifferent\u201d from over a dozen other gloves collected near the scene and \u201cappears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pack questioned what makes investigators believe the recovered glove matches the ones the subject is seen wearing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it simply the same color and brand found in proximity to the scene, or do they know something we don\u2019t?\u201d Pack asked, noting that investigators often keep certain details out of the public. \u201cMaybe they know the specific brand he purchased, maybe there\u2019s surveillance footage of him wearing a particular type, maybe a receipt or packaging was found during a search warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pack said that the apparent match is \u201cworth paying attention to,\u201d adding that rapid DNA testing can deliver a profile in a matter of hours or a day, meaning that answers about the glove could come soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the right approach is the one good investigators always take: be hopeful, be cautious, and follow the evidence wherever it leads,\u201d the retired FBI agent said. \u201cIf it pans out, great. If it doesn\u2019t, they are still working the other leads that are pouring in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Jon Street and Kelley Kramer contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former FBI agent breaks down recovery of glove that appears to match subject\u2019s in surveillance video Retired FBI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[220,903,42,630,225,43,40,38,41,39,126],"class_list":["post-293704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}