Nancy Guthrie case: Police share update after woman found dead on canalside in Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix police said Saturday, March 7, that they are investigating the death of a woman found on a canal in the city, Fox 10 Phoenix reported. According to reports, they were called to the area of ​​Plaza 27 and the Grand Canal Trail around 7:40 a.m. local time that morning.

“Details from the call indicated that an adult female was on the nearby canal bank but unresponsive,” a police statement said. “When officers arrived, they located the woman who was pronounced dead at the scene.”

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No further details were provided. The woman’s identity remains unknown.

Fox News reports Michael Ruiz wrote in an article Update on X“PCSD stated that it is not aware of any law enforcement activity at the Phoenix Canal this morning related to the Nancy Guthrie case.”

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos Officials have long suspected this might be the case, and dozens of gloves were found randomly near Nancy’s Tucson home, she told KVOA.

“There was some talk and discussion that the police on the scene simply discarded [the gloves]which couldn’t be further from the truth,” Nanos said.

“We knew then and we believed wholeheartedly that these gloves belonged to a restaurant, and guess what? We found out that the owner of the gloves worked at a restaurant across the street. It had nothing to do with the case,” he added.

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However, Nanos also explained that other gloves found near the home may have had different DNA matches.

“It’s a challenge because we know we have DNA, but now we have to deal with this mixture and how to separate it,” he said.

Nanos recently said authorities are “definitely closer” to tracking down a suspect in Nancy’s case.