The family was cleared in the first few days. So, why did it take two weeks to tell the public?

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed on Monday that every member of Nancy Guthrie's family, including all siblings and spouses, had been ruled out as suspects shortly after her 1 February disappearance. The delay in announcing it? That came down to online sleuths who wouldn't stop pointing fingers.

'Not one single person in the family is a suspect,' Nanos told KOLD News 13. 'So I am telling everyone, effective today, you guys need to knock it off, quit. People are hurting. They are victims.'

The 84-year-old mother of 'Today' show host Savannah Guthrie vanished from her Tucson, Arizona home more than two weeks ago. Since then, true-crime influencers and amateur detectives have flooded TikTok, Instagram, X, and YouTube with accusations. Some posted photos. Others named names. None of it was true.

According to CNN, Monday's statement was a direct response to 'armchair detectives' who have 'wildly and sometimes irresponsibly' speculated about suspects. The speculation exploded after a cable news presenter suggested a family member was a 'prime suspect'. That claim spread fast. It had no official backing.

Law enforcement tried to make this point privately at first. But the finger-pointing happened mostly in a 'parallel universe of true-crime influencers and amateur sleuths.' Going public became the only option.

'The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple,' Nanos stated. 'To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel.'

A longtime friend of Savannah Guthrie told CNN: 'Let's hope this puts an end to the reckless and malicious nonsense.'

While social media spun theories, investigators chased actual evidence. Aglove recovered about two miles from Nancy Guthrie's homeappears to match those worn by a masked suspect caught on her doorbell camera the morning she disappeared.

TheFBIconfirmed the glove contains DNA from an 'unknown male'. It's now in CODIS, the bureau's national database holding over 16 million offender profiles. That database has helped solve more than 758,000 investigations.

Source: International Business Times UK