Search for missing toddler continues (Updated)

[MaineDem]

Last edited Sun Jan 29, 2012, 10:14 PM - Edit history (1)

WATERVILLE — A 20-month-old girl remained missing late Sunday as police said at an afternoon press conference that they continue to investigate and interview family members.

Ayla Reynolds, wearing a soft cast from a broken arm, was last seen sleeping in her bed about 10 p.m. Friday. Her father reported her missing Saturday at 8:51 a.m. when he said he found an empty bed. The child lives at 29 Violette Ave., off Cool Street.

Police today identified the parents as Justin DiPietro and Trista Reynolds.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Press-conference-today-on-missing-toddler.html

Poor little thing...

[MaineDem]

1. Her mother filed for custody just a day or two before Ayla's disappearance

Without knowing more, this sounds VERY suspicious.

I certainly hope this ends well.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. I'm hoping that the father had some trusted relative spirit her away in an attempt to keep custody.

It's the best possible scenario given how long she's been gone, much better than thinkin she just wandered off or was abducted by a stranger/predator.

I hope that she's found soon.

[MaineDem]

3. Finally her father speaks

http://www.wmtw.com/news/30043095/detail.html

"I have no idea what happened to Ayla, or who is responsible," Justin DiPietro said in the statement.

"I have shared every piece of information possible with police. Contrary to some statements floating around out there, I have been in in communication with Ayla's mother over the last couple weeks," DiPietro said.


Somebody knows something. Her mother said yesterday that she hadn't heard from the daughter or her father in weeks so she's not sure the little girl hasn't been missing for more than just a few days.

I just hope somebody's hiding her for some reason. I so want this to end well.

[MarkCharles]

4. This has made it onto the NBC Today Show twice this week.

I'm not rooting for Justin's innocence in all this at this point.
His story of the night she disappeared makes no sense.

[Scairp]

5. So, what's new?

You do realize this child's story is disappearing down the rabbit hole? Who's going to keep her in the news? No one is bugging the police about finding her. How about a link to a new story, say from today, being posted? We just forget about her because her parents and grandparents suck? Come on people, don't let this little girl's case just fade away into the ether. She deserves better. As does the child in Kansas City who has been missing for months. At first, all over the place, mom was about the be arrested, and then nothing. We cannot let these kids be forgotten. Recently, they arrested a person for the shooting deaths of two Oklahoma girls who had just been walking down the road from one of their homes. Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11. It was going on 4 years since their murders, so it proves these things can be solved. It was so strange because I admit I hadn't thought of those girls in awhile, but about 6 months before the arrest, I started searching for updates or any news about the case, and the next thing I know I'm reading they made an arrest. How strange is that? Let's not let Ayla and Lisa down. Talk about them. Those of you who live where they went missing, keep your ears to the ground and let us know what you're hearing, from rumors or the police or the local news, as the national media has lost interest. Ok?

[Scairp]

6. Gosh

THANKS a bunch y'all. I have some news from the local papers online.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/toddlers-father-took-polygraph-exam_2012-01-14.html

http://www.kjonline.com/news/search-for-ayla-reynoldsfather-policeaccounts-differon-polygraph_2012-01-13.html

[MaineDem]

7. This isn't a very active group, as you've seen

There's nothing new on this poor child's fate. It's in the local news almost every day.

There's going to be a candlelight vigil in Waterville on Tuesday from 5-6PM at First Congregational Church on Eustis parkway for anyone interested.

[Scairp]

8. Heard about it

I live on the west coast, but I've managed to keep up, even if there's nothing new. I know what everyone thinks, but it's not a forgone conclusion, and I refuse to think she's dead until they find her that way, or someone breaks down and confesses to killing her and staging a kidnapping. My maternal instincts leave room for hope for her, for all the missing children out there no longer front page news.

[MaineDem]

9. Report: Blood found in Ayla Reynolds' home

PORTLAND — Investigators have been analyzing blood found in the basement of a Maine home where a missing toddler was last seen six weeks ago, an official said Saturday.

The blood was found early in the investigation into Ayla Reynolds' disappearance from her father's home in Waterville, state police spokesman Steve McCausland said. The state crime laboratory has been running tests on it since then, but it was unclear when results would be available.

Ayla's father, Justin DiPietro, reported her missing Dec. 17. He had put her to bed the night before in the home he shares with his mother and said she wasn't there the next morning.

McCausland called the discovery of the blood "troubling." He declined to discuss how much blood was found in the basement or how old it might have been.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Report-Blood-found-in-Ayla-Reynolds-home.html

[MaineDem]

10. Ayla’s blood confirmed among samples taken from father’s home

AUGUSTA, Maine — A spokesman for the Maine State Police confirmed Sunday that blood samples taken from Justin DiPietro’s home last month belong to Ayla Reynolds.

Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland told the Bangor Daily News on Sunday evening that more testing is pending on blood samples and a slew of other material taken from DiPietro’s home in the days following Reynolds’ disappearance, but that investigators have determined blood found in the home is Ayla’s. Justin DiPietro is Ayla’s father. He reported her missing from his Waterville home on the morning of Dec. 17.

“Our first priority is finding Ayla,” said McCausland. At one point the spokesman said “some of the samples taken from the home were Ayla’s.” Asked if investigators have found anyone else’s blood, McCausland declined to respond, citing the ongoing investigation. He also declined to say how much blood was found or what objects or areas it was found in or on.

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/01/29/news/mid-maine/aylas-blood-confirmed-among-samples-taken-from-fathers-home/

That poor little girl. My heart breaks...

[Scairp]

11. I know

I've been keeping up on other sites and it is the worst news possible, short of finding her body. He had no business being given the child to begin with. He only took her to get out of child support. Bastard.

[Scairp]

12. Come on Mainers

Can't we keep this missing baby's case near the top please? I'm sure you've all been keeping up because according the Maine State Police, they've never had a case quite like this one, whatever that means. So we have blood found in the house, in the basement where Justin was sleeping, police saying the three adults in the house that night aren't telling everything they know, and the big one to me, the allegation that Ayla had not been seen by anyone outside of that family at least one week before Dec. 17th when Justin made the 911 call saying Ayla was gone (he did miss her follow-up dr. appt. to have her broken arm checked on Dec. 12). There are other, small things, but seriously, if they are willing to say that then they must have much more that they are keeping secret. Why don't they arrest him? And of course someone got upset enough to go bust out a couple of windows at the house this past Friday night. I don't condone this behaviour, though I do understand if it was someone who has had enough of these people. My concern is the other baby in that house, Elisha DiPietro's little girl Gabby. She is around the same age as Ayla, about 21 months now I think, and I am really worried that her mother is putting her at risk both by being in that house around her uncle Justin and from vigilantes who may intend to do more than bust a couple of windows next time. She needs to beat feet out of there, or if he is competent, send her little girl to live with the father for awhile. How can she continue to live there when her own little niece is missing from that house, however it happened? I hope the father of her child files for custody. Maybe then she will do the right thing and tell what happened to Ayla.