By Tori Richards
July 24, 2006
SALT LAKE CITY, Ut. (Crime Library) — After a week of fruitless searching, it appears that police have their first solid lead in the case of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared while playing outside her downtown home.
A gas station attendant in the neighboring city of Farmington reported seeing a girl that looked like Destiny Norton sitting in the front seat of a black pickup truck Sunday night, but he gave the wrong license plate the number to police and that truck is still out there somewhere, said Davis County Sheriff's Sgt. Arnold Butcher said Monday afternoon.
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| Destiny Norton |
"It appears that it was she," Butcher said of the sighting. The witness reported seeing a girl with green streaks in her hair and "shiny teeth" on the bottom. Destiny has streaked hair and silver-capped teeth.
After the attendant had spotted the girl, he eyed the driver suspiciously as the man walked back to his truck and started to drive away. The attendant called 911 on his cell phone and told the operator that he had spotted Destiny. The operator had asked him to get the truck's license plate number. When the attendant glanced back at the truck, he was unaware that the vehicle containing the girl was gone and another similar truck was exiting the gas station at the same time. He wrote down the partial license plate number of the wrong truck, Butcher said.
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