The sheriff leading the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance has admitted he is only holding out hope she is alive because he hasn’t seen any “proof of death.”
“They ask me, do I have proof of life? I ask them, is there proof of death?” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in an interview with Fox10 on Tuesday.
“I’m going to have that faith, and sometimes that faith, that hope, is all we have,” he added as the investigation heads into its 18th day. “My team, 400 people out there in the field today, woke up this morning and went out there with the hope and the belief that they’re going to find Nancy.”
He was speaking hours after investigators were handed another setback, when DNA found in a glove 2 miles from Nancy’s house turned up no matches on the FBI’s database.
“We’re going to continue working this case, every minute of every day, and we will find her,” Nanos insisted, before speaking directly to Nancy’s captor.
“And we will find you … to the individual doing this, let her go, just let her go. It will work out better for you in the long run, trust me,” he said.
