Nancy Guthrie Update: New Details Released on Bone Found Near Her Home
The Nancy Guthrie abduction has brought true crime sleuths, YouTubers, and podcasters to Tucson, AZ, where they have joined the community in helping search for evidence and information.
What happened to Nancy Guthrie? It's one of the biggest true-crime mysteries of the year, if not the decade. The mom of TODAY Show co-host Savannah Guthrie was snatched from her home during the early morning hours of February 1 and hasn't been seen since.
Periodically, there appears to be a possible break in the case. And so it was with a bone discovered near her home. However, new details have now emerged on that find.
The Bone Found Near Nancy Guthrie's Home Was 750,000 Years Old
According to The New York Times, the bone "was more than 750 years old." The bone was discovered by a live streamer, who promptly called police, while also capturing the discovery on video, The Times reported.
James T. Watson, the curator of bioarchaelogy at the Arizona State Museum, was contacted by the Times for an explanation. He said the bone "dated back to a period between 650 and 1250 A.D., when the Hohokam people tended farms and lived in the area," which is interesting in and of itself but wholly unrelated to what happened to Nancy Guthrie.
Watson told The Times, “Whether it’s Nancy Guthrie or an ancient individual, you shouldn’t be poking at them with a stick. It’s common decency. Would you do that with your grandmother’s remains?”
“This will be a prehistoric anthropological investigation,” a Tucson police spokesman said, according to The Times. “This is not a criminal investigation.”
"The Hohokam lived in the Phoenix Basin along the Gila and Salt Rivers, in southern Arizona along the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Rivers, and north on the Lower Verde River and along the New and Agua Fria Rivers," the National Park Service wrote. "Hohokam influences were even more widespread, with Hohokam-style architecture and artifacts as far north as Flagstaff, Arizona, south into northern Sonora, Mexico, and east into southwestern New Mexico."
They were known for their farming techniques in the desert. "Their cultural pattern existed from the first years A.D. through about A.D. 1450, barely 90 years before Spanish explorers arrived in the Southwest. During this time, they achieved remarkable successes. The Hohokam are probably most famous for their creation of extensive irrigation canals along the Salt and Gila river," the National Park Service noted.
The Pima County Sheriff Has Said DNA Analysis Is Ongoing in the Nancy Guthrie Case
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There is other legitimate evidence in the case, although authorities have been cryptic about it, other than revealing in an early press conference that blood droplets on the porch tested to Nancy. "PCSD has worked with the FBI since the beginning of the Guthrie investigation. This is not new information. The private lab we utilize in Florida continues to share information with the FBI lab & other partner labs across the country. DNA analysis remains ongoing," the Pima County Sheriff wrote in a statement.
In addition, authorities previously released chilling door cam videos that show the suspect, masked and armed with a gun, at Nancy's front door.
Authorities are also analyzing hair evidence in the case. They have said little about suspects, other than to rule out Guthrie's kids and their spouses as suspects in the case.
source https://www.mensjournal.com/news/nancy-guthrie-update-new-details-released-on-bone-found-near-her-home
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