The Pima County sheriff said that even though DNA from gloves found in the Guthrie investigation yielded no hits on databases, “that’s not the end.”
“Now we start with genealogy and some of the partial DNA we have at the home,” Nanos said in an interview today.
“To me, that’s more critical than any glove I found 2 miles away. I’m not dismissing the glove 2 miles away, but I have gloves 5 miles away, 10 miles away, so we prioritize,” he said.
Nanos did not say where in the home the DNA was found.
“We believe that we may have some DNA there that may be our suspect, but we won’t know that until that DNA is separated, sorted out, maybe admitted to CODIS, maybe through genealogy,” Nanos said.
CODIS is the Combined DNA Index System, a database run by the FBI that has federal and local information about DNA profiles, including those of convicted offenders, and evidence collected at scenes of unsolved crimes.