By Tori Richards
July 22, 2006
SALT LAKE CITY, Ut. (Crime Library) —It's been five agonizing days since a young girl vanished from outside her home here and baffled police are no closer to finding her than when they first started looking.
"We don't have anything," said Detective Joe Cyr of the Salt Lake City Police Department. "It's as if she just disappeared into thin air."
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| Destiny Norton |
A $15,000 reward, hundreds of community volunteers in search parties and help from the FBI have so far failed to turn up any evidence pointing to where Destiny Norton, 5, may have gone. Cyr said police believe she is still alive "because we have no evidence otherwise."
The last anyone saw of her was 8:30 p.m. Sunday as she left her downtown Salt Lake home after arguing with her parents about going to bed. Destiny had just finished with her bath, donned an adult black and gray T-shirt and stepped out into the balmy nighttime air.
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| Destiny Norton |
Press reports differ over whether Destiny disappeared from the front porch or back yard and her mother, Rachael Norton, told reporters that Destiny was last seen around 8 p.m. These discrepancies are part of the investigation, Cyr said.
"I'm just hoping and praying she's going to come home soon," Norton said.
Destiny lived in a small ranch house with her mother, who is eight months pregnant, father Ricky, and about 10 other couples and friends who have banded together for economic reasons. The little girl slept in a corner of the basement.
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