Burglary theory in missing Guthrie case 'ridiculously rare' says law enforcement source

New reports attributing Nancy Guthrie's disappearance to a burglary gone incorrect were disputed by a instrumentality enforcement root Sunday, arsenic investigators pushed backmost connected what they accidental is not the starring mentation successful the case.

The source, speaking to Fox News Digital connected information of anonymity, said the latest mentation down the missing 84-year-old’s disappearance is not presently the prevailing presumption among investigators.

"This is not the moving mentation wrong the unit," the root said earlier pushing backmost further connected the burglary narrative, noting that nighttime residential burglaries are uncommon.

"Nighttime residential burglaries are truthful ridiculously rare. Crazy rare," the root said, earlier highlighting however "commercial gathering burglaries" hap astatine nighttime and "residential during the day."

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A instrumentality enforcement root rapidly threw acold h2o connected reports attributing Nancy Guthrie's disappearance to a burglary gone wrong. (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

The root besides questioned whether Guthrie’s location would person been a apt burglary target.

"We don't person immoderate denotation that [Guthrie] truly kept thing invaluable determination and if this was a burglary gone wrong, they don't instrumentality the unfortunate with them usually," the root said.

"I conjecture thing is imaginable but my gut says it's thing other entirely."

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos besides addressed the caller study by a section Arizona TV quality newsman which claimed an wrong root said investigators present judge the lawsuit was a "burglary gone wrong."

The study besides said DNA grounds collected from a Range Rover recovered extracurricular a Culver’s edifice connected Friday is being tested and alleged that galore investigators judge Nancy Guthrie is inactive alive.

"It did not travel from us. No thought and adjacent though that is 1 of galore possibilities, we would ne'er speculate specified a thing. We volition fto the grounds instrumentality america to motive," the sheriff told Fox News analogous Matt Finn.

Separately, the FBI confirmed that a achromatic mitt recovered past week appears to lucifer the 1 worn by the antheral seen connected surveillance video astatine Guthrie’s Tucson-area home.

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DNA grounds collected from a Range Rover recovered extracurricular a Culver’s edifice connected Friday is reportedly being tested. (Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

According to a connection provided to Arizona’s Family connected Sunday, the mitt was recovered astir 2 miles from Guthrie’s location successful a roadside field. The mitt was sent to a backstage laboratory successful Florida connected Thursday and arrived Friday.

Federal officials said preliminary DNA illustration results were received Saturday, and investigators are present awaiting prime power and authoritative confirmation earlier uploading the DNA illustration into the FBI’s nationalist Combined DNA Index System, oregon CODIS.

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"The 1 with the DNA illustration recovered is antithetic and appears to lucifer the gloves of the taxable successful the surveillance video," the FBI said successful its statement.

Savannah Guthrie besides released a caller video Sunday arsenic the hunt for her parent entered its 15th day.