A glove recovered by authorities searching for Nancy Guthrie was found about a mile and a half from her home, the New York Post reporter who was there when the item was found told CNN.
Georgia Worrell said she and the photographer working with her saw a black object on the side of the road, and as they got closer, they thought it might be a glove.
“It had just been discarded on the side of the road,” Worrell told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
It wasn’t until after they were able to see the photographer’s high-resolution photos that they confirmed it was a glove.
The item was bagged as evidence, Worrell said.
It is not clear whether authorities believe it to be the same glove worn by the person seen in doorbell camera footage released by the FBI.
The terrain around Guthrie’s home is rough, making it easy to miss things, Bob Krygier, former commander for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department SWAT, told Burnett.
The recovery of the item leads to a lot of investigative questions, said John Miller, CNN’s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.
If the glove is similar to the one seen in the video, investigators will want to see if it is possible to recover DNA, fiber, hair and traces of the plant that was used to cover up the camera, Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
But even if it’s not the glove seen in the video, “it should be probative anyway,” he added.
