So, our suspect could be…
brudda from a nudda mudda 
Isn’t that from a song? I’ve heard it for most of my life.
DNA Genealogy is very interesting. It’s used in some of the cases on A&E Cold Case Files
I thing I saw on one of the crime docs said that of people with European ancestry, there’s some really high percentage chance , 80 or more, that they can match to a cousin of some sort, but significantly lower for *Hispanic and AA ancestry–although if ‘Finding Your Roots’ is representative, most AAs also have noticeable European ancestry.
*Yeah, I know, but maybe it’s just that Hispanics aren’t that interested in that sowrnof thing.
Let’s hope it wasn’t innocently discarded by a yard worker.
They checked known associates. Pretty much first thing.
Could be a yard worker is not so innocent. But they’d need far more than a latex glove to corraborate an actual individual that frequented the home had caused her disappearance.
There are yard workers who show up once or twice a year and will do about any yard work you ask them to. When dad lived in the foothills - though 3 or so miles away - he would have them do things like get rid of dead cacti or agaves. He always suspected they were either illegally here or came up from Mexicco for a week or so.
We have itinerate Hispanics farm and yard workers here. They often go around offering their services, when regular work is not available. Vine pulling is a big need. We see the same faces regularly. We know them.
These people reside in the community. Their kids are here and go to school with my grandkids.
Buy groceries, eat a restaurants and spend most of what they earn in this area. They are not going around kidnapping old ladies from their beds.
They get accused of every sort of crime..the worst I’ve seen is alcohol based. Driving under the influence or fighting.
Mostly they are just normal people with the same problems we all have.
Their fear of the PTB is palpable right now.
I just can’t make myself blame every brown person for what some criminal lowlifes have done to one older lady. They very well may be Hispanic, they just as easily may not be.
It’s a mistake to look that direction without cause. IMHO
I’ve used Google to follow retired agent Jason Pack’s comments on CNN and other news outlets. He’s pulled back the curtain a little bit on the investigation
Jason Pack, a retired FBI supervisory special agent with more than 20 years’ experience, described the coordinated searches and detentions as the ‘hallmarks of actionable intelligence.’
Later Pack uses the phrase significant escalation. He sems to imply there is important movement in the investigation.
If Pack is correct, that is quite interesting.
He said on CNN that the backpack is a key piece of evidence.
The backpack is something that I hadn’t thought much about. Maybe its sale at Walmark can be traced. 
This article has some of his better comments.
How in the world can they trace anyone from a generic backpack that may or may not have been bought at a random store in a gigantic chain?
The purchase of a single backpack alone probably isn’t enough, but it might be one purchase that they can cross reference with others. They also found the gloves. Now that they have the gloves, they can narrow down their search to the small subset of purchases where the same person bought both of those specific items.
A murder in my home town was possibly cracked when police found that both the murder weapon and a discarded glove had been purchased from the local hardware store by the victim’s husband.
But it was two items from a small local store. Does that generalize? I doubt it.
TV and movies lead me to believe that cops spend a lot of their time trying to track down the purchase and ownership of a variety of common articles. I’m not sure what the reality is.
Conan Doyle had Sherlock running allover for where items came from.
In the Blue Carbuncle Holmes had to find exactly what poulterers had sold a particular goose that had the gem in his crop.
They could have ordered them on Amazon or had them for a long time and bought years apart. If one of them was some weird specialized off brand it might be a good avenue to investigate. That said, they may not have many other options.
I’m not inclined to trust tv talking head “experts” despite their credentials. My ex liked following these sorts of things and when it was resolved, the experts were largely full of shit with their speculations. They still got hired by their network buddies the next time though.
I am not blaming them. I am pointing out that it could be from one.
Criminey.
No matches for now.
Someone might match long after this becomes a cold case. CODIS is constantly updated.
Hopefully it won’t come to that.
For now, the focus is finding Nancy in whatever condition and give the family closure.
The investigators haven’t mentioned the type of mask worn by the perpetrator. How would one describe it? Could possessing that type of mask possibly narrow a search to persons of interest?
I’m really taking a shot in the dark here as apparently none of my relatives or associates apparently own a mask of that type. So I’m asking out of some kind of real ignorance.
I thought it was described as a balaclava.
Which is the technical term for a “cloth hood with eye & mouth holes”.
They’re common in cold country, which Tucson is not. In a lightweight cotton or nylon form they’re also increasingly common as sunburn protection in some countries.
It’s not some weird exotic thing; millions are made and sold every year.
And I have five of them (albeit one I can’t seem to find, one was a hand-knotted gift that doesn’t cover my neck, and two—of lighter fabric—were issued for service in Iraq, more to minimize inhaling dust and sand than anything).
So O.J. hasn’t definitively been ruled out?