The FBI is starting to have a breakthrough in its investigation into the abduction of Nancy Guthrie.

As the search has entered its third week, the FBI has announced that they have collected DNA evidence from a glove that was found near Nancy Guthrie’s home.

The glove discovered reportedly matches the black gloves seen on the suspect in the FBI’s surveillance video released earlier in the week.

Fox News reported the latest details on the FBI’s investigation:

An FBI spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Sunday that a glove with a DNA profile recovered in the Nancy Guthrie case is different from other gloves that have been found and appears to match the gloves of the subject seen in the surveillance video.

Investigators collected approximately 16 gloves in various areas near the house, the spokesperson said, noting that most of them were searchers’ gloves that they discarded in various areas when they searched the vicinity.

“The one with the DNA profile recovered is different and appears to match the gloves of the subject in the surveillance video,” the spokesperson said.

Experts have said the gloves that the subject appears to be wearing in doorbell video outside Nancy Guthrie’s home look like nitrile gloves that are pulled over another pair of gloves.

The FBI spokesperson said the gloves found in a field near the side of the road about two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home were packaged up by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and sent overnight Thursday to a private lab in Florida, adding that they arrived at the lab on Friday.

The FBI received preliminary results on Saturday, according to the spokesperson, and are awaiting quality control and official confirmation before putting the unknown male profile into CODIS, the bureau’s national DNA database. The spokesperson said this process typically takes 24 hours from when the bureau receives DNA.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Fox News on Sunday that DNA results in the Nancy Guthrie case are still pending at the private lab in Florida and could take anywhere from one to 10 days “depending on the urgency we place on any one item.”

Here’s the glove that was discovered:

🚨 Breaking - Investigators have recovered a black glove from a roadside near Nancy Guthrie’s house pic.twitter.com/WqObiF696v

— Garrett Born (@GarrettEBorn) February 11, 2026

CNN provided details on how the FBI will use the DNA found in the glove:

The FBI says DNA from the recovered glove is being analyzed to determine the identity of a possible suspect.

A first step for investigators when obtaining DNA evidence is to run it through criminal databases to determine if it matches a known criminal.

As part of a burgeoning field known as investigative genetic genealogy, authorities would also likely be submitting the evidence to third-party DNA mapping services offered to the general public. Even if the suspect has never used one of these services, a family member might have, which can provide clues to the suspect’s identity based on the unique nature of family DNA profiling.

Familial DNA was a critical tool used by police in the case of Bryan Kohberger, who was convicted of killing four Idaho college students.

Beyond DNA testing, if the recovered glove is determined to belong to the suspect seen at Guthrie’s home, the location where it was found could be the most important clue yet suggesting his route of travel after her suspected abduction.

We will keep you updated as more details come in.