PORTLAND — The mother of the little girl at the center of the state’s most extensive missing-person investigation is lending her voice to an effort to fund Maine’s first full-time cold case homicide investigation squad, she said. “I think it is great that there will be (detectives) working 24-7 on cold cases [if the squad […]
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Statute of limitations draws near for some charges in toddler’s disappearance
PORTLAND (AP) — The blood found throughout the home where Ayla Reynolds was last seen nearly three years ago is all her mother needs to demand charges — any charges — be brought against the child’s father and two other adults who were with the toddler the night she disappeared, setting off the largest investigation […]
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Riders to call attention to missing toddler
PORTLAND (AP) — A motorcycle ride inspired by missing toddler Ayla Reynolds is being held this weekend. The “Ride for the Missing” kicks off Saturday in Lewiston and follows a route that takes riders through New Gloucester and Gray before returning to L-A Harley, a motorcycle dealership where there’s a barbecue lunch and a DJ. […]
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Riders to call attention to missing toddler
PORTLAND — A motorcycle ride inspired by missing toddler Ayla Reynolds is being held this weekend. The “Ride for the Missing” kicks off Saturday in Lewiston and follows a route that takes riders through New Gloucester and Gray before returning to L-A Harley on Main Street, where there will be a barbecue lunch and a […]
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911 transcripts reveal timeline of Ayla Reynolds’ disappearance
PORTLAND — The biggest criminal investigation in state history began with a 911 call in which a father said his 20-month-old daughter was last seen about 10 hours before, gave a brief description of the pajamas she was wearing and said “there’s no way” she could have crawled out of her crib. In transcripts obtained […]
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Mother of missing tot Ayla Reynolds presses police for answers
WATERVILLE (AP) — The mother of a missing toddler and supporters are rallying this weekend at the Waterville Police Department to demand answers from law enforcement officials. Trista Reynolds and her father are participating in the event Saturday in Waterville, where her 22-month-old daughter was reported missing on Dec. 17, 2011. The girl’s father told […]
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Ayla Reynolds’ family still looking for answers 2 years after disappearance
PORTLAND — Two years to the day after the disappearance of Ayla Reynolds, the missing toddler’s family continues to pressure law enforcement and Ayla’s paternal family for a resolution in the case. The girl was 20 months old when her father, Justin DiPietro, reported her missing from his Waterville home on Dec. 17, 2011. Since […]
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Ayla Reynolds still missing two years later
Trista Reynolds and her family issued a statement this month saying they “cannot truly know the peace of Christmas” while her daughter, Ayla Reynolds, remains missing and no one has been brought to justice. “To honor Ayla this December, we ask that you press for justice,” the family said in the statement. The 22-month-old was […]
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Police do not find Ayla Reynolds in new search
An exhaustive search of a wooded area in Oakland on Wednesday for missing toddler Ayla Reynolds failed to locate the girl, according to Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland. “We did not find Ayla,” said McCausland during a news conference. “This is an area we’d looked at preliminarily in the past and investigators though it was time […]
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Ayla Reynolds’ mother keeping door open to suing state over toddler’s disappearance
AUGUSTA — Trista Reynolds, the mother of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds, continues to keep open her option to sue state government for an unspecified amount of money because the Department of Health and Human Services put Ayla in her father’s custody before she disappeared in December 2011. According to a document that was filed in […]