Ayla Reynolds, 20 mos. Maine missing

[Lady Cop]

well i don't suspect her, but that was complete

i think she's a junkie and was freaking out midway through poly. i am just guessing.

[Lady Cop]

WATERVILLE -- Two maternal relatives of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds have taken polygraph exams, according to a website dedicated to finding the child.

Ayla's uncle passed the exam, while Ayla's grandmother was unable to complete it, according to aylareynolds.com.

In an interview with the Morning Sentinel, Becca Hanson, Ayla's grandmother, declined to discuss the exam's specific questions, but said she told the polygraph examiner she had nothing to do with 21-month-old toddler's disappearance.

The exam was administered Friday by Maine State Police at Cumberland County Jail in Portland, she said, but the polygraph administrator couldn't conclude the exam because Hanson's daily medications interfered with the results. Hanson takes "muscle relaxers, pain-killers, depression medication and an antibiotic," she said.

Hanson said she offered to suspend her medication and retake the exam later, but police didn't offer a direct response, she said.

"They didn't say yes, they didn't say no. They just said they didn't think it was necessary," she said.

Ronnie Reynolds, Ayla's uncle, took his exam Thursday at the Maine State Police barracks in Gray, and passed it, according to Jeff Hanson -- Becca Hanson's husband and webmaster for aylareynolds.com.

Ronnie Reynolds was unavailable for comment Friday.

vigil today (saturday)

[Lady Cop]

1/28/12

WMUR


WATERVILLE, Maine -- Blood has been found inside the home where a missing 20-month-old toddler from Maine was last seen, NewsCenter 5’s Michele McPhee reported Saturday.

Ayla Reynolds vanished Dec. 17. She was reported missing by her father, Justin DiPietro, who told police he believed his daughter was snatched from her bedroom in his Waterville, Maine home.

Days later, law enforcement authorities said in a news release that the case had evolved from the search for a missing child to a "criminal investigation."

Now, Team 5 Investigates has learned why.

Multiple law enforcement sources have told McPhee that blood was found inside the home.

Maine State Police have now confirmed blood was found in the basement of the home at 29 Violette Ave.

Authorities said the crime lab is still working to determine whose blood it is, and how long it had been in the basement.

Multiple law enforcement sources also told Team 5 Investigates that Reynolds’ father left the police station when he was shown crime scene photos of luminol-enhanced blood stains taken at the home.

[Jezreel]

How long could it take to determine who the blood belongs too?
I hate thinking Ayla is no longer with us, she deserved a good happy life as all children do.

[Lady Cop]

i have no doubt they know whose blood it is. releasing this now is a squeeze.

WBZ

Police singled out Justin DiPietro, his sister, and his new girlfriend, who were all at the house the night Ayla disappeared, saying they know more than they’re telling investigators.

“We have questioned the three adults that were there in the home that night,” McCausland told The Associated Press. “We believe they have not given us the full story.”

The discovery of the blood is the latest development in the investigation.

McCausland declined to discuss how much blood was found in the basement or how old it might have been.

[Lady Cop]

Kennebec Journal/Maine Today

WATERVILLE — Police on Saturday confirmed that blood was found in the basement of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds house and intimated that those who last saw her are not telling the full truth about what happened the night she disappeared.
The police information was released the same day the child’s estranged parents appeared together for the first time in public, at a vigil outside City Hall.
The vigil drew more than 60 friends, family members and supporters of Justin DiPietro and Trista Reynolds who, in an unusual twist, stood together for photos and later engaged in a lengthy private conversation on the City Hall steps, away from the crowd.
Steve McCausland, spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety, said police believe the three adults who allegedly last saw the toddler Dec. 16 have information they have not given police that may lead to Ayla’s whereabouts.
“There were three adults in the home, and their version of events is not backed up by any forensic evidence that we have located,” McCausland said Saturday, after the vigil had ended.
“That someone slipped into the home in the middle of the night, while three adults are there ... that someone went into the bedroom where Ayla was sleeping alone, removed her and vanished into the night — and that the three adults did not see or hear anything — doesn’t pass the straight-face test.” oh yeah, the squeeze is on.

vigil today:
Ayla Reynolds' parents, Justin DiPietro and Trista Reynolds, attended Saturday's vigil. Trista Reynolds, who learned of the new evidence while at the vigil, was visibly upset.
































Staff photos by Michael G. Seamans

[Lady Cop]

WABI

Waterville - A statement has been put up on the Ayla Reynolds Web site that claims State Police have informed the family the blood found in the basement of the Violette Ave home in Waterville is in fact Ayla's.

State Police Spokesman Steve McCausland tells TV-5 some of the blood samples found did belong to Ayla.

McCausland says testing continues on a number of other samples.

The Website also says police told them "it was more blood than a small cut would produce."

McCausland says he will not comment on the amount of the blood.

expect bozo baez or someone like him soon. there is money to be made from dead kids!

[Lady Cop]

the squeeze continues, slow and relentless like a python.


Fox
WATERVILLE, Maine – Police who confirmed the discovery of blood from a missing toddler in the basement of her father's home said Monday they've found no evidence to support an abduction, and they believe adults in the home know more than what they're telling investigators.

Six weeks after Ayla Reynold's disappearance in Waterville, state and local detectives believe the father, Justin DiPietro, and two other adults in the home on the night Ayla was last seen are not giving a full account of what happened, said Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

The idea that someone sneaked into the small house and took Ayla without awakening any of the adults "doesn't pass the straight-face test," McCausland said.
"To say that somebody came into that home, grabbed Ayla, vanished in the middle of the night, and those three adults heard and saw nothing just doesn't make any sense. We don't think we've gotten the full story from those three as to exactly what happened."

"We've followed every conceivable piece of evidence that would follow their version of events, and we have found not one piece of evidence that supports an abduction," he said Monday.

[krystalshores]

This just makes me sick to my stomach! Filthy fucking trash parents...poor baby.

[Lady Cop]

something will break soon. now they are saying blood was splattered.

WCVB

WATERVILLE, Maine -- Investigators who have spent six weeks looking for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds believe the missing Maine toddler is dead and have intensified the search for her body, Newscenter 5’s Michele McPhee reported Monday.

The toddler’s blood was found splattered in the basement of 29 Violette Ave. in the Waterville home where Ayla was staying with her father, Justin DiPietro, Maine State Police said.

Several law enforcement sources said the blood appeared to have been "cleaned up" and that DiPietro left a police station when confronted with luminol-enhanced photos of his daughter’s blood splatters taken by crime scene investigators a week after he reported her missing.

"Abduction is no longer a part of this investigation. We have grave doubts that an abduction took place and there is no evidence to support it," Stephen McCausland, spokesman for Maine Department of Public Safety, told Newscenter 5.

Justin DiPietro's mother contacted News 13 Monday morning, referring all questions to the family's attorney. Our calls to the attorney went unreturned.

[Lady Cop]

re: last post #90 ^


Boston Herald
BRUNSWICK, Maine -- A Maine State Police spokesman reacted angrily Monday to what he called an "unattributed, irresponsible and inaccurate" report on the Ayla Reynolds case that aired on Boston television station WCVB.

Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland, reached late Monday at his home, would not detail everything he found objectionable in the report because he said he didn’t want to repeat inaccurate statements.

"That is why I issued a release," he said of a press release he emailed to reporters at 8:36 p.m. Monday. "I’ve never spoken those words and I’m not going to repeat them. I’m not going to pick apart something that is unattributed, irresponsible and inaccurate."

WCVB reporter Michele McPhee is credited with a story that appeared Monday night on the Boston ABC affiliate as well as an article online under the headline "Police Believe Missing Maine Toddler Dead."

[Lady Cop]

Morning Sentinel

Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland brushed the snow from his sleeves Tuesday afternoon, looked into the camera and began the interview.



AUGUSTA -- Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland brushed the snow from his sleeves Tuesday afternoon, looked into the camera and began the interview.

Nancy Grace, the feisty host of a national TV news program, had pointed questions on the disappearance of 21-month-old Ayla Reynolds from her father's Waterville home seven weeks ago. The HLN personality's questions were carried electronically from her studio in Atlanta to a speaker tucked in McCausland's ear.

There was cooperation, but only to a point.

"You've characterized it that way, Nancy -- we haven't," McCausland said, responding to Grace's questions about blood, some of which belonged to Ayla, that investigators found in the home's basement.

Reynolds' disappearance has captured the attention of media across the country, all prying for kernels of new information to give to a public hungry for details on what happened.

As the investigation enters its seventh week, McCausland wants to say just enough to keep the girl's disappearance front and center in people's minds without giving up details that police believe could hinder investigators' efforts.

With the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit leading the investigation, McCausland is the public face and voice of investigators, providing information they hope will spur that next big tip.

It's a balancing act, but McCausland believes authorities have worked hard to protect the investigation while keeping the public informed.

"We've asked for help consistently from day one," McCausland said in an interview later Tuesday. "We've done our best to keep the public informed because we are going to need their help to find Ayla."

McCausland, again responding to questions filtered into his earpiece on Tuesday, offered Grace few additional details about the investigation and events that occurred the night of Dec. 16.

"We are going under the premise that little Ayla was there that night," McCausland told Grace at one point.

There were three adults and three children in the house at 29 Violette Ave. in Waterville the night of Dec. 16 -- DiPietro and Ayla, his sister Elisha DiPietro and her young daughter, and DiPietro's girlfriend, Courtney Roberts, and her young son.

DiPietro has contended that someone took his daughter out of the home. But McCausland on Tuesday reiterated that such an abduction scenario is highly unlikely and doesn't "pass the straight-face test."

McCausland said over the weekend that the version of events presented by the three adults who were in the home "is not backed up by any forensic evidence that we have located" and that the adults "haven't told us everything they know."

Prodded by Grace, McCausland stopped short of making any accusations against DiPietro.

"We've talked to Justin on a number of occasions," McCausland told Grace. "When we've called him, he's talked to us, and we hope that dialogue continues."

Pushing back

McCausland took the unusual step late Monday night of issuing a media statement reprimanding a TV news report for what he called an "unattributed, irresponsible and inaccurate" report.

WCVB TV in Boston reporter earlier Monday, citing anonymous sources, that police believed Reynolds is dead and had stepped up efforts to find her body.

By Tuesday, WCVB had revised the story on its website, saying instead that "hope is fading" among investigators, who it did not name.

McCausland acknowledged Tuesday that the statement was intended to be strongly worded.

"If you let it just stand, other stations are going to pick it up," McCausland said. In fact, a local Channel 8 affiliate in Portland ran the WCVB report verbatim on its website, so "it was incumbent on us to make sure the public understood what our position is."

While there have been an unusual number of interviews granted and authorities acknowledge they had to react quickly to denounce the WCVB report, McCausland said the national media attention has had little impact how he and investigators go about their business.

"It's a few new faces, but otherwise, there really is no difference," he said.

McCausland said investigators released information about the blood found in DiPietro's basement, and later acknowledged that some of that blood belonged to Ayla Reynolds, in response to a story first reported by WCVB on Saturday. Family members later posted similar information on a website, aylareynolds.com, saying police told them there was "more blood than a small cut would produce," a detail that McCausland still won't confirm.

The question of what details to release, and when, is a key challenge for McCausland and investigators.

"We obviously need a break in this case to locate this little girl," McCausland said. "That's going to come from information that's given to us. It takes one call to break this case wide open."

[sharit]

JMO, I think this poor baby girl is dead.

[Sterling]

JMO, I think this poor baby girl is dead.

Go figure.

[IMaDick]

JMO, I think this poor baby girl is dead.

Go figure.

Don't fuck around in the crime forums shitbird.

[Sterling]

JMO, I think this poor baby girl is dead.

Go figure.

Don't fuck around in the crime forums shitbird.

Hey, Mr. Hall Monitor! Why don't you and Sharit take you super deductive reasoning and go catch a cold. Her comment was as stupid as you trying to be hard assed. Hey! Look over there! A spelling error is waiting for you to post it in both red and bold!

[Duchess]

Hey, Mr. Hall Monitor! Why don't you and Sharit take you super deductive reasoning and go catch a cold. Her comment was as stupid as you trying to be hard assed. Hey! Look over there! A spelling error is waiting for you to post it in both red and bold!

Don't invite discord in the crime forum. Are you TRYING to turn it into a free for all?

[Lady Cop]

back on track...

interesting little video here, where the lying DiPietro grandmother (who looks like a beaver) threw reporters off of property--->
these people are getting verrrrrry nervous.

http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/...-property/

[Sterling]

No. I wasn't. I believe his concern and counsel would have been best suited with a PM versus a post begging for a reply. In fact, this post should have been a PM, too. JMO - I think.

[Lady Cop]

back on track...

interesting little video here, where the lying DiPietro grandmother (who looks like a beaver) threw reporters off of property--->
these people are getting verrrrrry nervous.

http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/...-property/