ME ME - Ayla Reynolds, 20 mnths, Waterville, 17 December 2011 - # 2

[PlainJaneDoe]

Good morning all, I won't be here as much today because I will be spending the day working with some representatives from the company that makes the equipment and program my experiments rely on. :censored: is all I'm going to say about that experience.

May Ayla come home today!

 

[cityslick]

How did Trista know that Justin didn't take the baby to the dr. for her broken arm for 24 hours? Who told her that? And why weren't these bruises and pulled muscles reported? If she was coming home with bruises every time she visited the dad, why would CPS give custody to him just because Trista was in rehab? She had the grandmother and aunt who could care for her temporarily, so I don't see the problem.
It's so hard to get to the truth in these cases when both sides tell a different story.
I wonder if Ayla ever fell and got a bruise when she was in mom's care, or grandma's or aunt's. I can't believe she only ever came up with bruises when she was with her dad, that's just strange.

I think there is a whole other story what we are not being subject to that probably would make a whole lot of sense. CPS does not remove children from homes willy nilly, mainly out of consideration to the children and the negative effects that has.

I've learned in the past that when you have two sides are at odds, but yet only one side is doing the barking, odds are there is a good reason why the other side isn't barking back.

 

[PlainJaneDoe]

I think there is a whole other story what we are not being subject to that probably would make a whole lot of sense. CPS does not remove children from homes willy nilly, mainly out of consideration to the children and the negative effects that has.

I've learned in the past that when you have two sides are at odds, but yet only one side is doing the barking, odds are there is a good reason why the other side isn't barking back.

I think it's important for us to remember that every one of us, including TR & JD, are only privy to some of the information. It is like the sBlind men and an elephant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Some versions of this story have the blind men all being right, and some have them all being wrong. In all the versions, the blind men are very sure of their beliefs, and in some they even get in fights because of how strongly they hold them! I guess what I am trying to say is that just because a person gives a factually incorrect statement, that doesn't mean that they are intentionally being misleading or deceptive.

In addition, each of us has certain Cognitive bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - filters through which we view the world, or in this case, Ayla's disappearance and its context. I am not using bias as a negative word; filters per se are not bad - in fact, some are downright adaptive. (Please click on the link for some examples.) As a result, even when we look at the same set of facts, we see them differently. Specific examples of "filters" for this case are (and I hope I don't offend anyone, because I am first of all not criticizing, and second of all not directing this to anyone specific)

• Personal experiences raising/caring for or being children,
• Understanding of other cases (eg., how they are similar to or different from Ayla's), &
• Personal experiences with the justice system, DFS, etc.
  IMO, none of these filters is inherently "good" or "bad." They are a fact of life. The thing is to recognize what filters you personally are using, and evaluate them in terms of how useful they are for your understanding of a given situation or case, IMO.
  
  Oops, this is getting long. Sorry, more later, I hope I am not being preachy because it's definitely not my intent.

 

[not_my_kids]

I agree PlainJane. I'm looking at things as a mother of five, that's my lens, and I can take it off, but only if I try very hard. I also have all of my life experience and personal opinions that are influencing how I see things, even one hundred percent factual info. We all see things through our own lens, and sometimes it's easy to forget that what seems so obvious to one person might seem outlandish or impossible to another.

Thanks for the reminder. I was starting to get a touch of tunnel vision myself.

 

[lauriej]

http://www.wmtw.com/slideshow/news/30051160/detail.html
Photos: Vigil Held For Ayla Reynolds

http://livewire.wmtw.com/Event/Search_F ... ler?Page=3
Search For Missing Waterville Toddler LIVE Wire--

Search crews are currently in the woods behind a church looking for any possible clues.
by Becky Sawtelle/Staff 8:29 AM

The search for Ayla Reynolds has entered its sixth day.
by Becky Sawtelle/Staff 8:29 AM

Police will be holding another news conference this afternoon at 2 p.m.
by Becky Sawtelle/Staff 8:50 AM

 

[SuziQ]

I cant understand why a dad would ask for time to spend with his daughter, then hurt her... Kwim I can't help but feel the mom is so upset, which is ok, and just making more of stuff then what really happen. Did dad do something to her, i don't know, did someone take the child, i don't know. But in the moms defense, I can see how scared, and angry and how blame has to be somewhere.
I am always up in the air in cases. Never want to point fingers. I just hope that Ayla comes home. I am so curious of who was in that house, and what they were doing.

IMO, getting possesion of the child is a control thing. Taking possession of what is theirs. Ethan Stacy is only one example out there of a parent demanding their rights to custody and even fighting in court to get it. Same story with Robert Manwill's mother.

 

[JeannaT]

I know I never said ignore them. I said it is hard to identify an abused child. I should have added with the naked eye. Most abused children will have other breaks and contusions that can only be seen with an exra or felt by a doctor.

I think we should all be aware of the children around us and if we see too much bruising or breaks we should do something about it. Make a phone call. It could save a child's life.

I did something yesterday I never would have imagined doing before joining WS.

I pulled into a convenience store and a woman pulled in beside me into a handicapped parking spot. (No handicapped sticker either). She jumped out of the car and ran into the store leaving her car running and the driver's door open.

When she got inside she had a long line to stand in. I noticed a baby in the back seat. The overhead light was on and anyone could see her. She was about 18 to 20 months old.

This woman would glance out every so often but she stayed in line. After 10 minutes I couldn't stand it. I had my eyes on that car and all the people walking past her and it drove me crazy so I said to a girl next to me, "A child in abducted every 20 minutes in the US". The woman turned around and said, "I'm watching". I said, And when someone jumps in the seat and drives off you will still be watching". I said, I'm not trying to be rude or mean but it only takes a second for someone to take a child and most children are dead within 3 hours of an abduction. Other people began talking. She smiled, stayed in line, and bought a lottery ticket!

I don't know if she'll do it again but I sure hope not. Especially if I'm around. My nerves can't take it. Maybe I should have gotten her tag # or called LE, or taken a picture. I didn't think of any of that. The only thing I could do was watch the baby. :banghead:

I had a similar experience recently. When I entered a Ross Dress store (large store) an unusual woman brushed past me nearly knocking into me, yelling on her cell phone. I shopped for a L O N G time, about an hour, and was shopping next to a boy about a year old, standing holding on to a stroller. There was an old woman near him, I assumed Grandma. After a LONG time, she walked off and I realized no one was with this child. He was all alone. I asked him where his mother was, he gave me a blank stare. So I got a security guard and said this child is all alone, and just then the same woman who nearly knocked me over came breezing back into the store, put him in the stroller and strolled off. The guard gave me a look like well that's solved. By the time I could have told him the whole story about she'd been gone an hour, she was out the door. No one but me cared - the grandmotherly looking woman didn't care when I asked if he was hers, the guard didn't care, it was like I was on Mars.

 

[Leomoon80]

Putting myself in other's shoes, I know that if my grandchild was missing, I'd be on the next plane out, not to confront, knock on the door of the party who had her, but to put up signs, posters, talk to everyone around who may have seen her at anytime, whether neighbors, caregivers, nannies, etc.No doubt I'd get in touch with organizations who would pick up where i left off having to go back home eventually as all must. That is what the grandmother & mother of a missing serviceman's wife did in Japan, she didn't confront or fight with the one who last saw her, but rather organized best she could, worked with the LE and put up flyers, posters and started a FB page before flying back home knowing nothing more about her missing loved one. You do what you can do.


THAT, is very clear to me. And not sit at home wondering and complaining,
I suppose it's my nature to be up and doing, not sitting and wondering.

But that's just how I would react, (and have reacted when my loved one was missing)
Driving through neighborhoods, everyplace I could think of.

I suppose everyone is different, is the true answer.

 

[OneLove]

BBM
It's possible he didn't realise how difficult parenting her would be but I have known of people to sue for custody just to spite the other parent. My ex included. He sued for sole custody from prison knowing he would never get it - it was just his way of attempting to maintain power and control.

Obviously not saying this is the case in this case but there are definitely parents out there that want their children just so their ex's cannot have them.

JMO and FWIW

Thank you for reminding us that MANY parents hate their exes more than they love their children. This alone has been responsible for many deaths.

Only time will tell if this case revolves around love or hate.

And by "hate", I also mean vindictiveness, control, avoidance of responsibility, etc.

 

[OneLove]

Ayla could be secured somewhere and safe, which could account for some of the behaviors we are seeing. I hope so. Another reason for those same behaviors could be that some know searching for a live Ayla would be pointless.

 

[cluciano63]

Ayla could be secured somewhere and safe, which could account for some of the behaviors we are seeing. I hope so. Another reason for those same behaviors could be that some know searching for a live Ayla would be pointless.

As much as I hope she IS safe someplace and this is an immature attempt to hide the child from the other parents, I hate to think of someone sitting back and watching all of the efforts going on to find Ayla...

 

[nomoresorrow]

(BBM)

BBM

And what proof do you have of this? Just because the mom's family says so?

The child was living WITH HER FATHER. She was placed there BY CPS. That makes him a lot more than just a sperm donor in my book. CPS would not have placed her there if they did not feel it was the more stable home for her to be in.

As a Maine native for nearly fifty-years, I have ZERO faith and respect in any child-placement decisions that Maine DHHS makes. I'm not going to take away from Ayla's thread by going into my knowledge & history on this issue but feel free to look at my past posts...

 

[nomoresorrow]

Channel WLBZ2 here in Maine is now announcing that crime scene tape has been put around the home and there has been a sugnificant step-up in activity there. Assistant attorney general is onsite as well - being reported as "very unusual."


I have to step out momentarily - BBS

 

[BritsKate]

Forensics truck is on scene as well. Hopefully this yields some answers.

http://www.wabi.tv/news/26224/maines-deputy-attorney-generals-seen-at-violette-ave-home

 

[krimekat]

Channel WLBZ2 here in Maine is now announcing that crime scene tape has been put around the home and there has been a sugnificant step-up in activity there. Assistant attorney general is onsite as well - being reported as "very unusual."


I have to step out momentarily - BBS

bbm: i understand LE is watching the house & the families but it took them this long for crime scene tape?

 

[cluciano63]

If they are only doing this now (crime scene tape, teams, etc...) I wonder if they have new info or have found something...I gather the house has been sealed until now, so hopefully anything that happened will be more or less intact? Or at least no one has been staying there?

The house is surely "ground zero" either way...hope there is some news on the update in 90 minutes...

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

NEW TODAY 12/21/2011 as of 11pm CT:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/2...ssing-maine-girl-ayla-reynolds/#ixzz1hCT8m2Er

JR and TR quotes from article Dec.21st2011


PC Dec. 21st 2011
http://www.wmtw.com/video/30048773/detail.html

not a full transcipt:

Chief: Let me start off by talking about Justin Dipietro's statement that he gave to investigators sometime around midafternoon yesterday. That was evenutally filtered out to the command staff in the early evening hours. There was a decision made to go ahead and release Justin Dipietro's statement to the Waterville Morning Sentinal. I understand there's been some concerns and issues about that, we talked about that today and we will certainly change that to make sure that in the future that type of information gets filtered on to all of you.
We continue to receive leads. We have approximately 165 leads that have come in since we started the investigation. That has been keeping investigators very very busy, as you might imagine.
A couple of other area's that we've expanded on the search for the Warden service: we've searched the Kennebec River, we are currently searching the Kennebec River, from the Waterville Winslow Bridge south. We've also expanded our search to a small pond on the 1st Rangeway, that pond was pumped down by the Waterville Fire Department, obviously we could see the bottom of it. We are also in the process of searching some trails off from Kennedy Memorial Drive across from Shaw's Plaza.
There are approximately 80 searchers. We have about 50 of those folks who are from the Maine Association of Search and Rescue. They are civiallians but they have a lot of training in search and rescue. They work hand and hand with the Warden Service when they are required. We have about 15 firefighters, more than a dozen Wardens and we also have Marine Patrol that are joining us today and they are providing a search of the river with their boats.
These searches are in places where we would logically want to go ahead and search based on their location. We want to rule out every possible area that we can in our efforts to find Ayla. That is our focus, that is our goal, that is our aim, we are not going to lose focus of that. We are going to continue this investigation until we locate her.
Q: Was Justin Dipietros statement given to you by him or by his attorney?
A: That was given to investigators by Justin.

Q: I recieved a call yesterday from a woman in a southern state saying that she thought she had spotted Ayla in a hospital waiting room and she said she has contacted police. Are you familiar with what I'm talking about?
A: I am not, but I am not aware of every lead that comes in. Those are filtered down to all the investigators and I don't neccassarily see every single lead. We may have gotten it, it may have been looked at, and acted on. I don't know.

Q: Is it true that you told Trista Reynolds not to search, and has Justin Dipietro and his family expressed an interest in searching to police?
A: I personally do not have any information that she has asked to participate in the searches, nor do I have any information that Justin has.
Q: Would you have given them permission? Is that something you would know about if it happened?
A: Not neccassarily. We have talked to the family, and as I said the family continues to be fully cooperative. If they at some point had offered that to investigators, i'm not sure.
Q: Would they be allowed to?
A: Uh, when we do a search, we detirmine the type of searchers that we need. In some areas, we need the specialized training that I talked about these folks have today. In other searches, we ask for volunteers, and we go ahead and coordinate that. That's something that the search coordinator would make some determination on.

Ayla Reynolds: Issues 12/21/11 - YouTube

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/21/ijvm.01.html

RR JR., Trista's brother:






Ayla Reynolds: Nancy 12/21/11 - YouTube

~Transcript of NG not available at time of post~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

LE Press Confereces/Statements:

PC Dec. 18th 2011

http://www.wmur.com/video/30024809/detail.html

PC Dec. 19th 2011

http://www.wmtw.com/video/30031794/detail.html
http://www.wmtw.com/video/30031834/detail.html

not a full transcript:

Q: Friday night, one of the neighbors said she heard a motor vehicle pull up to the house late..but she didn't pay much attention to it..would that have been something that you have been looking into?
A: Yes. We've looked into all the information that has been passed onto us.
Q: So a motor vehicle did come to the house, late?
A: Yes. There was a neighbor that reported a motor vehicle outside..that is with the investigators right now.
Q: Do we know who was in that vehicle, what kind of vehicle it was, where it came from?
A: The only information I have is that a resident reported vehicle outside at some point. That has been forwarded to detectives and they are following up on it.

Q: Is this a missing person or is it an abduction?
A: It's a missing persons case.

Q: The father, Justin Dipietro, he lives at 29 Violette with his mother, correct?
A: Yes.
Q: Okay, is he still in the area as far as you know, or is he...?
A: I'm not sure of his whereabouts at this time, I'm not sure if he is continued there or moved someplace else.

Q: At what point will the family be allowed back into the house?
A: I'm not sure. That would be up to the folks who are actually at the house.

Q: Who is at the house right now? No one in the family is allowed to be at the house right now? Is the house closed off, just investigators right now?
A: Yes.
Q: How long do you think that is going to be?
A: Again, I'd have to speak to those investigators that are there. I'm not sure.

Q: The search that is going on right now, is that along the banks of the river or divers in the river? How do you see that transpiring over the next day or so?
A: The search today was along the banks. Let me defer to Lt. Adams, uh, confined to the banks?
Adams: To the banks, yes sir.
Q: That is still going on right now?
Adams: Yes.

Q: Where does the mother live?
A: I don't think she has a permanent address.
Q: But is she homeless? Does she live with a relative?
A: I believe that she was staying with relatives, yes.

PC Dec. 20th 2011

http://www.wmtw.com/video/30040002/detail.html
http://www.wmtw.com/video/30040246/detail.html

PC Dec. 21st 2011

http://www.wmtw.com/video/30048773/detail.html

not a full transcript:

Chief: Let me start off by talking about Justin Dipietro's statement that he gave to investigators sometime around mid afternoon yesterday. That was eventually filtered out to the command staff in the early evening hours. There was a decision made to go ahead and release Justin Dipietro's statement to the Waterville Morning Sentinel. I understand there's been some concerns and issues about that, we talked about that today and we will certainly change that to make sure that in the future that type of information gets filtered on to all of you.
We continue to receive leads. We have approximately 165 leads that have come in since we started the investigation. That has been keeping investigators very very busy, as you might imagine.
A couple of other area's that we've expanded on the search for the Warden service: we've searched the Kennebec River, we are currently searching the Kennebec River, from the Waterville Winslow Bridge south. We've also expanded our search to a small pond on the 1st Rangeway, that pond was pumped down by the Waterville Fire Department, obviously we could see the bottom of it. We are also in the process of searching some trails off from Kennedy Memorial Drive across from Shaw's Plaza.
There are approximately 80 searchers. We have about 50 of those folks who are from the Maine Association of Search and Rescue. They are civilians but they have a lot of training in search and rescue. They work hand and hand with the Warden Service when they are required. We have about 15 firefighters, more than a dozen Wardens and we also have Marine Patrol that are joining us today and they are providing a search of the river with their boats.
These searches are in places where we would logically want to go ahead and search based on their location. We want to rule out every possible area that we can in our efforts to find Ayla. That is our focus, that is our goal, that is our aim, we are not going to lose focus of that. We are going to continue this investigation until we locate her.
Q: Was Justin Dipietros statement given to you by him or by his attorney?
A: That was given to investigators by Justin.

Q: I received a call yesterday from a woman in a southern state saying that she thought she had spotted Ayla in a hospital waiting room and she said she has contacted police. Are you familiar with what I'm talking about?
A: I am not, but I am not aware of every lead that comes in. Those are filtered down to all the investigators and I don't necessarily see every single lead. We may have gotten it, it may have been looked at, and acted on. I don't know.

Q: Is it true that you told Trista Reynolds not to search, and has Justin Dipietro and his family expressed an interest in searching to police?
A: I personally do not have any information that she has asked to participate in the searches, nor do I have any information that Justin has.
Q: Would you have given them permission? Is that something you would know about if it happened?
A: Not necessarily. We have talked to the family, and as I said the family continues to be fully cooperative. If they at some point had offered that to investigators, I'm not sure.
Q: Would they be allowed to?
A: Uh, when we do a search, we determine the type of searchers that we need. In some areas, we need the specialized training that I talked about these folks have today. In other searches, we ask for volunteers, and we go ahead and coordinate that. That's something that the search coordinator would make some determination on.

Mother and Family Statements w/transcripts:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/investigators-search-ayla-reynolds-15182601

Dec.18th 2011 clips with family members.

RR: Oh, man, what I'm going through right now is..I want to go there, I want to search, I want to just go up there and search, and stay up all night to do whatever I need to do but the police are telling me to let them do their job.
Um, does somebody have her in a car? I, I mean, is she dead?
Ayla's aunt: This is type of thing that I watch on the news, I never thought, in a million years thought, that my sister or anyone that close to me would be dealing with this. I just want my niece to be found, that's all we can hope
for at this point.

http://www.wmtw.com/r-video/30031806/detail.html

Raw video interview TR Dec.19th 2011

TR: I guess there is, everyone is over there right now..and I just, I guess I just want to like, I want to pick her up and I want to hold her. And I just want to tell her like, she's going to be okay. And I just, I want to see her face. I want to see her eyes. I want to feel her touch. I want to tell her I love her and I feel like I can't protect her right now and I thought by me letting her go with her father and by me keeping her there for as long as she has been that it was the safest place for her to be because I knew that I wasn't able to take care of her but now I'm so wrong.
Like, since she's been there she got a broken arm, she's ended up missing, you know what I mean, and I wasn't trying to be secretive by going to the courts. I just, I didn't want to fight with him anymore. Like, me and her father have been fighting constantly and just..I didn't want to fight no more. I was tired of getting my hopes up that my daughter was going to get to come spend the night or even a weekend with me. And then when he wouldn't show with her..you know what I mean? Like..
Reporter: Plus you're in two far apart towns..
TR: Right. Like..she's all the way in Waterville and I'm here and there is nothing I can do right now. Except for sit here and put it out there that I hope that they find her. And I hope she is safe. And I hope she's okay, but like, my biggest fear is that she's all alone and she's scared..and she ain't got nobody to turn to. And I'm her mother, I'm supposed to be protecting her. There are other people out there looking for her, and not me. I should be in Waterville right now searching for my daughter but nobody will let me be there. Waterville PD are telling me I can't be there.
Reporter: Why is that?
TR: I don't know, they just keep saying like "interfere interfere" interfere with what? Like, you..there is an amazing woman out there that I wish I knew her name, I've seen her come up on TV, talking the same thing, you know, like, has Ayla eaten? Is she okay? I mean, like, this lady, she has her own family and she has sent her own kids with her mother so she could go search for my daughter. Like, I thank that woman right now for what she is doing because I can't be there.
Reporter: What if you went up there, like what are they gonna do?
TR: That's what I'm wondering like, what are they gonna do? My whole family is ready to go up there and do our own little search. But it's like, if the dogs can't even sniff her out from the outside, then where is she? If she's not outside, then who has her? Where is she?
Reporter: First there is the abduction theory, and then you hear people are pointing fingers, you're a suspect, he is a suspect, everybody is a suspect now. What really in your heart of hearts tells you happened here? Apparently he had some people over, somebody he didn't know or..?
TR: Uh, I'm really starting to believe that he has done something with my daughter. I'm really starting to feel that, as a mother, that somebody in his family or himself has done something with Ayla. And if he has, all he's gotta do is come out and just say it. Know what I mean? Just come out and talk to me. Just tell me where she is. Because I want to know where she is. I haven't seen her in over a month and then this is what happens? Like I can't..

http://www.wmtw.com/video/30033639/detail.html

clip with TR Dec. 19th 2011

Reporter: From the kitchen table at her fathers house in Portland, TR says she hasn't slept since the call on Saturday, that her 20 month old baby named Ayla was missing from a Waterville home where she stayed with the father, JD. Reynolds says the couple, who were never married, had no legal custody arrangement, but they did have an agreement. Including around the time Trista was in rehab.
TR: The agreement was, was that if he took Ayla, if I let him take care of Ayla for the time being, for me to get back on my feet, he had to live with his mother because I thought it would have been the safest place for her to be. And..I was wrong.

http://www.wmtw.com/video/30032359/detail.html

WMTV RR interview Dec.19th 2011:

Q: People are pointing fingers at the family..
A: Exactly, I mean, no no no no, see, what you don't understand is, my granddaughter wasn't with us. She was with her father, and has been. Where is my granddaughter? I'll keep saying it until I get closure. Where is my granddaughter? I want her home! Do people not understand that? I want her home and I thank everybody that is out there right now. The state police, the FBI, everybody that is involved, I thank them from the bottom of my heart. This whole thing is just tearing me up..I just..I want her home. I want answers. I want something...just..And if he did have something to do with it, god dammit, say something, come forth and say something, somebody say something out there, somebody knows something about my granddaughter. Okay. The poor helpless little thing right now, she is out there somewhere. She's scared. And I can't do nothing. All I can do is support my family, support my daughter..this whole thing is tearing me up..
Just let me, I'll go to his house. I'll knock on his door. I'll ask him face to face if it comes down to it, where's my granddaughter? But I know what will happen if I go there..I know exactly what will happen.
Q: You'll get arrested.
A: Exactly.

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

Dec.19th 2011 quoted from article:



http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-ma...ll-custody-day/story?id=15186552#.Tu_yUlZIuOd

Dec. 19th 2011 ABC interview with TR

TR: He would help me out, he'd take care of her until I was on my feet. We've been unable to actually get along the last few weeks and "parent" together.
Reporter: Reynolds said she filed paperwork on Thursday to get full custody of the toddler, one day before Ayla went missing, but says she hadn't told Ayla's father.
TR: He didn't know I went to file them. He'll know now but I haven't told him and no one told him.
Reporter: Reynolds says she hasn't spoken to Ayla's father Justin since their daughter disappeared.
TR: I've had no contact with him. He's had no contact with me. Like, all I know is he's the last man to see my daughter and all I want to know is where she is.
RR: I want Ayla home with her family. With her mother, with her Pop Pop, with her Grandmother, with all of us. I want her home, I want her safe. And I pray right now that she is safe.

http://www.necn.com/12/19/11/Missin...ng_newengland.html?blockID=615320&feedID=4206

Dec.19th 2011 NECN interview with TR. The video at this link is changed, it no longer shows the same video, but I transcribed the video before it was deleted.

Reporter: Trista Reynolds says her 20 month old daugther is bright, fun, talkative, and energetic. Not knowing where she is or what has happened to her is heartwrenching.
TR: It's killing me. Every minute and every hour and every second that is going by and there's nothing about her, it's hurts.
Reporter: Reynolds, who has never lived with Ayla's father, says she is angry that this happened on his watched. Asked if she thought he would ever hurt their daughter...
TR: I don't know, like, I barely know who Justin is. We've never been in a relationship. I want to believe that no, he wouldn't hurt my daughter, but if he did...he just needs to tell me. But I feel deep down inside that..he didn't hurt her but I do think he did something with her.
Reporter: Trista Reynolds is holding out hope and praying for her daughters dafe return.
TR: I am praying that the next phone call or the next knock that I get coming at my door, they're gonna say, I want you to come with me cause we got your daughter.

http://www.wmur.com/r/30037216/detail.html

Dec.20th quoted from article:



http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-ma...-unstable-home/story?id=15198125#.TvDtgFZIuOe

Dec. 20th 2011 short quotes from TR.

TR: I just want answers. I just want to know where my daughter is. And who she may be with. Just bring her home.
Reporter: At around 8 oclock on Friday night, Justin Dipietro, Ayla's father, says he put the toddler to bed. When he went to check on her Saturday morning, he says she was gone. He's had custody of Ayla since child welfare agents placed her with him in November, while Reynolds was in rehab for substance abuse. During that time, Ayla's mom said she became concerned when she saw bruises, and confronted him.
TR: He said well, you know, her and my neice like to go down on the stairs. Like, it could be from that. I just..I didn't believe it.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/2...ssing-maine-girl-ayla-reynolds/#ixzz1hCT8m2Er

JR and TR quotes from article Dec.21st2011



Father JD First statement to media Dec .20th 2011

http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/breakingnews/Father-of-missing-toddler-speaks-for-first-time.html



Nancy Grave and JVM Transcripts and Video (thank you to WS user Patty G for the videos):
Ayla Reynolds: Nancy 12/19/11 - YouTube
Ayla Reynolds: Issues 12/19/11 - YouTube
Ayla Reynolds: Issues 12/20/11 - YouTube
Ayla Reynolds: Nancy 12/20/11 - YouTube
Ayla Reynolds: Issues 12/21/11 - YouTube
Ayla Reynolds: Nancy 12/21/11 - YouTube

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/19/ng.01.html



















http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/19/ijvm.01.html

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/20/ijvm.01.html





http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/20/ng.01.html









http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/21/ijvm.01.html








Waterville PD fb
http://www.facebook.com/waterville.police

Photobucket account, thanks to WS user PlainJaneDoe
http://s1185.photobucket.com/albums/z344/PlainJane_WS/Ayla Reynolds/

WMTV live blog:
http://livewire.wmtw.com/Event/Search_For_Missing_Waterville_Toddler#ixzz1h10sEGaQ

Interview with neighbor that heard car:
http://www.wmtw.com/video/30033560/detail.html

Google map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&c...esult&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA

Links to some local reporter Twitter accounts:
https://twitter.com/#!/DanielleWaugh
https://twitter.com/#!/carolyncallahan
http://twitter.com/#!/ccsquirrel
https://twitter.com/#!/wcvbkelleyt

Thanks, Askfornina! You are AWESOME! :great:

 

[BritsKate]

If they are only doing this now (crime scene tape, teams, etc...) I wonder if they have new info or have found something...I gather the house has been sealed until now, so hopefully anything that happened will be more or less intact? Or at least no one has been staying there?

The house is surely "ground zero" either way...hope there is some news on the update in 90 minutes...

My understanding is the home has been sealed. From Jane Velez-Mitchell's "Issues":

That home is now guarded by a police officer, and no one except police is allowed to go in and out.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/21/ijvm.01.html

 

[cluciano63]

My understanding is the home has been sealed. From Jane Velez-Mitchell's "Issues":
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/21/ijvm.01.html

I hope so...yet wonder why whatever is going on did not happen initially...seems it would be a lot easier/more constructive to take apart the house early on, while outdoor searches are also going on to make sure she had not wandered...why wait almost a week? Hoping it is because they have SOME info...

 

[huckleberryhound]

I think everyone who was staying in the house that night knows what happened to that
baby. We dont really know who was there, but IMO the more people who might be
covering up, the better the chance is that someone is going to break and the baby
will be found.