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Legendary Houston Sketch Artist ‘Unretires’ for Nancy Guthrie Case

Lois Gibson created an unofficial sketch of the masked suspect based on limited doorbell footage as investigators test DNA evidence and follow over 13,000 public tips, the FBI said.

  • Veteran forensic artist Lois Gibson released an unofficial sketch based on doorbell footage of a masked person at Nancy Guthrie's front entrance, who has been missing since February 1.
  • Nancy Guthrie was last seen January 31 and has been missing since February 1, and authorities say she was taken against her will after blood was found at her front entry, prompting a white tent there while detectives searched Tucson-area neighborhoods and nearby desert terrain.
  • FBI described the suspect as a male about 5'9"–5'10" with an average build wearing a black Ozark Trail Hiker Pack; recovered gloves are tested for DNA, FBI raised the reward to $100,000, and collected over 13,000 tips.
  • Investigators are reviewing all neighbor-submitted video and asked residents within a 2-mile radius for footage from January 1 to February 2, with hundreds of detectives and agents screening every tip while officials said the FBI descriptors and the unofficial sketch could focus public tips.
  • Acknowledging limits, Lois Gibson, famed forensic artist, admitted `I GUESSED at the parts of face covered with ski mask on this Nancy Guthrie kidnapping suspect` and said `I'll take the hit if I'm drastically wrong.
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Hope of finding Nancy Guthrie alive fades by the day. But it still lives on in her hometown of Tucson, where both the local and global community surrounds her and her family.

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KHOU 11 broke the news in Houston, United States on Thursday, February 12, 2026.
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