200 look for missing girl

Volunteer searches are expected to resume today for missing 5-year-old Destiny Norton, who vanished Sunday night outside her Salt Lake City home.

"I need my baby," Destiny's mother, Rachael Norton said, sobbing. "I miss my daughter."

Search efforts will resume at 7 a.m. at a new command post set up at an LDS stake center at 445 E. Harvard Ave. (1110 South). More than 200 volunteer searchers turned out at Liberty Park Tuesday to pass out fliers and search in alleys, trash bins and bushes for any sign of Destiny.

Meanwhile, Salt Lake City police acknowledged Tuesday they still had no concrete evidence that the girl was kidnapped or that a crime was committed.

"We still don't have any information," Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said. "We are considering this a missing little girl right now. The frustration is the lack of information where she might be."

Rachael Norton told the Deseret Morning News she would go to the Salt Lake City Police Department today to give a DNA sample. She and her husband, Rick Norton, have been questioned repeatedly. They both passed polygraph tests, she said.

"As far as they're concerned, we're not suspects anymore," she said.

More pieces of potential evidence were taken from the Nortons' Central City house, near 700 South and 500 East, Tuesday afternoon.

Norton said the family was in the process of remodeling their basement, so they allowed Destiny to fingerpaint on the wall. Investigators cut out an approximately 2-foot-by-2-foot piece of drywall from the basement that included some of the artwork. Norton said Destiny's palm print was on the wall.

A technician from the Utah State Crime Lab was also seen taking a large pink, rolled-up piece of poster board from the house. There appeared to be more of Destiny's drawings on the poster board.

Police and FBI agents seized four bags of undisclosed items as evidence from a Dumpster behind Destiny's home Monday. That evidence is now being analyzed, police said.

Tuesday, Salt Lake City police closed the command center they had set up in an LDS Church parking lot across the street from the Norton home. Before doing so, detectives took Rachael Norton into her house and explained what was happening.

"They said they're doing all they can and that we'll be in contact with them every day," she said.