Guthrie suspect's mask, clothing believed to be from Walmart, sheriff says

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Sheriff Chris Nanos of Pima County, Arizona, tells CBS News that investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie judge the covering and look disguise worn by the fishy successful the chilling doorbell video released past week were purchased astatine Walmart.

They are inactive moving to place each brand. CBS News first reported that the suspect's backpack, identified arsenic a achromatic Ozark Trail Hiker, was sold exclusively astatine Walmart.

It remains unclear whether the items were bought online oregon in-store successful Arizona oregon elsewhere. The sheriff said investigators person spent respective days reviewing surveillance video astatine section Walmarts.

Guthrie, 84, the parent of "Today" amusement co-host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing since Feb. 1. Authorities judge she was abducted from her location successful Tucson successful the mediate of the night.

Nanos called the backpack 1 of the astir promising leads successful the case.

Walmart has provided records of each Ozark Trail Hiker online and in-store purchases implicit the past respective months, including income beyond the Tucson area, to investigators.

CBS News reached retired to Walmart firm offices, but a spokesperson declined to comment.

Investigators judge the look disguise the fishy wore is achromatic but appears lighter connected the video footage owed to Nest camera's infrared technology.

DNA grounds connected glove

Meanwhile, authorities are conducting DNA testing connected a achromatic glove recovered adjacent Guthrie's location which "appears to lucifer the gloves of the taxable successful the surveillance video," the FBI said successful a connection connected Sunday.

The FBI said it received preliminary results of DNA investigating connected Saturday, and erstwhile those findings were confirmed it would participate what it called "the chartless antheral profile" into CoDIS, the FBI's nationalist database for matching DNA profiles.

The bureau antecedently described the idiosyncratic arsenic a antheral with an mean physique who is astir 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches tall.

Investigators person besides collected different DNA evidence from Nancy Guthrie's spot arsenic portion of the ongoing investigation, but the results person not led to a suspect, according to Nanos.

Multiple instrumentality enforcement agencies spent hours Friday evening searching a residence little than 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie's home.

Nanos told CBS affiliate KOLD that the enactment was the effect of pursuing up connected "a pb that led to a hunt warrant and nary arrest." Authorities did not merchandise different details connected what led them determination oregon what, if anything, whitethorn person been found.

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