Posted on 07/24/2006 11:54:44 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
Salt Lake City police officers have found the body of missing 5-year-old Destiny Norton in the basement of a home in her neighborhood and have arrested the man living there, police Chief Chris Burbank announced.
The body was found at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Burbank said
The man being held for investigation of homicide was identified as Craig Roger Gregerson.
Earlier Monday, police had issued a sketch of a man seen driving a black Dodge pickup with a girl who looked like 5-year-old Destiny Norton.
Burbank told a news conference Monday night that the leads on Gregerson and on the man in the pickup had developed at the same time, and police officials decided to go ahead with the release of the sketch.
Burbank made a statement and declined to answer any questions.
Authorities also had said earlier that they were looking for a man who went by the name "Bubble Man" at the drum circles that are a weekly Sunday event at Liberty Park.
Destiny and her parents had attended the drum circle July 16 just hours before Destiny disappeared from outside her house. She was barefoot and wearing only an adult-size black T-shirt with gray stripes.
Volunteers turned out in smaller than usual numbers Monday, a state holiday in Utah, to help search for Destiny. They handed out leaflets at the Days of '47 Parade marking the arrival of Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.
A $30,000 reward was offered for information leading to a resolution of the case.
It's a druggie thing. Marijuana users do it on Sunday.
Why did you leave out the o in the word "God?"
It pleases the PC crowd. Says a lot about the poster also.
One of the reasons I couldn't work in law enforcement. He would never make it to booking.
Can this be tried as a federal? Or can they put this scumbag to death in Utah?
What needs to be done to get him dead to worms as quick as possible?
My, God, this is evil incarnate--so many--kill all these bastards until there are no more.
I always thought that G-d was an Orthodox Jewish way of mentioning God.
I believe that's right. One of her mom's maternity T-shirts.
I believe you are correct.
I'm so out of the loop these days.....
Thanks
there has got to be a special level of hell for perps like this. There was a case in Mississippi this past weekend of a perp kidnapping, raping, & shooting in the head and left for dead, a little six year old girl. She was found twenty hours later and brought to Memphis for treatment. The POS in this case was having the usual "peronal problems". Yeah, right! There is no reason to take out one's "personal problems" out on a child. The perp in this thread and the one I just mentioned should have a special level of hell to languish in. They are the lowest form of vermin that needs to be dealt with in the most severe manner.
Gotta wonder about the family in this case, too...
nbc11.com:
Destiny, who is 3 1/2 feet tall and about 45 pounds, with brown eyes and blonde hair, was last seen wearing a long black-and-gray adult-sized T-shirt. Her missing child Web site said that Destiny's hair is short and blonde with green streaks in it, but that it may have been cut and/or dyed another color. Also, her bottom row of teeth are all covered in silver caps.
I thought you were going to say something about it being taken in vain.
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