From Deseret News archives:
Salt Lake police search for missing 5-year-old
Today's search is to begin at 7 a.m. in the northwest corner of Liberty Park, near 900 South and 500 East.
An exhaustive search of a five-block radius around the little girl's downtown Salt Lake City home on Monday turned up no traces of the girl. More than 50 Salt Lake City police officers and FBI agents were involved in the search, looking in trash cans, cars, houses and alleys.
"We have nothing specific to go on," Salt Lake City police detective Robin Snyder said. "We are investigating it as if she was taken."
Salt Lake City police, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are expected to announce a reward today for information leading to Destiny's recovery. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 801-799-INFO (4636).
Throughout the day, friends and family gathered outside the Nortons' home near 700 South and500 East. They could be seen hugging and anxiously awaiting any news of Destiny's whereabouts.
"We have to keep all hope alive," the girl's uncle Peter Brooks said, fighting back tears.
Late in the afternoon, FBI agents and Salt Lake City police detectives searched a Dumpster located north of the Norton's back yard. Evidence teams dressed in white jumpsuits collected two large and two small paper bags of evidence.
Police would not reveal what was collected, only saying it may or may not pertain to the case. Written on one of the bags was "blue and white pillow."
Sevkija Ferhatovic, a 51-year-old Bosnian national with a previous arrest for investigation of crimes against children, was questioned for most of the day Monday by police before being released about 8 p.m. Police say they may call Ferhatovic back for additional questioning today.
"He's still being very cooperative," Salt Lake City police detective Joe Cyr said.
Police brought in a Bosnian translator to aid in the interrogation.
Police said they also questioned 103 registered sex offenders living within the Norton's ZIP code area and two adjacent ZIP code areas.
Family members were also interested to know more about Ferhatovic, a man called a "person of interest" by police. Some said they heard rumors of stuffed animals found in the back of his car, something police would not confirm nor deny Monday.
Destiny, who also goes by the name "Annie," was last seen about 8:30 p.m. Sunday. She reportedly had had an argument with her mother and went outside to "cool off," Cyr said.
When her parents, Rick and Rachelle Norton, went out 10 minutes later to check on her, she was gone.
