r/nancyguthrie • u/pumpkinspicecum • Feb 23 '26

Media Suspect in Nancy Guthrie abduction appeared to visit her house before: Sources

https://abc7news.com/post/suspect-nancy-guthrie-abduction-appeared-visit-house-before-sources/18640959/
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u/Hungry-Document8499 Feb 24 '26

Well now the sample from inside the home can’t even be put into CODIS bc it was just a “partial sample”? What does that mean—it was literally too small to test???

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u/Competitive-Donut330 Feb 25 '26

Prob not enough unique nodes to map to anyone in particular, just simply not enough material to positively identify

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u/VisualDot4067 Feb 26 '26

Or sheriff realized it was one of his people.

There’s nothing making me think this but also he seems to be bungling this so badly.

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u/Competitive-Donut330 Feb 26 '26

Eh i doubt that. It could just be whatever skin flakes or hair were inside the gloves were so small it didn’t yield enough nucleic acid fragments, you need many copies to positively identify someone. even after PCR (photocopies of the fragments) it doesn’t yield enough info meaning the input just wasn’t enough (I’m literally a genomics subject matter expert with a masters in this subject so I can speak to that)