By Tori Richards

July 22, 2006

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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 off the face of the earth."

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. 

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.

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.

"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 Rick, and about 10 other couples and friends. The little girl slept in a corner of the basement.

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