WATERVILLE, Maine — The mother of a 20-month-old missing girl in Maine says she has now spoken to the toddler’s father but that she still has unanswered questions about the disappearance.
Trista Reynolds said Tuesday that she still isn’t getting “the whole truth” about what happened in Justin DiPietro’s Waterville home on the night Ayla Reynolds went missing.
Reynolds criticized DiPietro for refusing to speak to her after Ayla’s disappearance. She said Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show that they’ve now spoken, but she still wonders why he waited more than two weeks to make a public appearance to appeal for the return of their daughter.
DiPietro told authorities he last saw Ayla on the night of Dec. 16. He called the police the next morning when he discovered she wasn’t in her bed.
so what did the father say to the mother?
they are not talking right now he is refusing to talk to her
No, she just made it clear in the video that they’d talked.
Also, you were talking about how the father was “reading on here and adjusting his strategy”, yet couldn’t the mother be accused of that with this recent video as well? I mean, she did mention how she was “reading the information”, and then after people had commented about her prior Today Show appearance, this time looks like a hot mess and backs off the broken arm issue (and no other mentions of the “bruises”/concerns under his care, going so far as to “understand” how her arm came to be broken).
While it’s strictly opinion, she looks like she is abusing “whatever” (be it booze or drugs) again. Mixing pronouns, slow on her side of the convo, just kinda muddled thought that wasnt in the previous interviews.
my apoliges, i did not finish watching the video before commenting. I just heard they were not speaking and never would. My apologies to you sir or maam
not a prob.
As to the “not speaking” thing in general, assuming he didnt do anything wrong here, with the way she’s handled things, I really cant blame him that much on that. He should have called her right after he called the cops (the day she went missing), but when she immediately started going “scorched earth” on him, I wouldnt have wanted to speak with her either.
Whatever. Why wasn’t she the first person after the cops that he would call to make sure she didn’t get into the house and take the kid? And when she calls him, or tries to, he won’t speak to her? You don’t think that’s extremely odd? Who cares how they feel about each other, or felt about each other, up until December 17th, their kid is now missing, so talk to each other. And granny changing her story so long after the baby went missing is very odd. That continues to dig at me. Why? And what was this deal with him going around after business hours and after dark just this past weekend to put up flyers? That’s yet another odd thing these two have done or said. Sorry, he’s a much better suspect than Trista. If the cops could put Trista anywhere near the house that night it would be different, but that doesn’t seem to be the case, because if they could they’d have her in a little room grilling her mercilessly. The father needs grilling actually. I haven’t read any real facts about how they are investigating, and I suppose it’s good they’re keeping things close to the vest, but it’s still maddening for those of us who care about a missing baby but can’t do anything to help, except hope against hope she’s found alive and well.
I agree..and I wonder who paid for her rehab…my guess is MaineCare. For what ? A loser ?
I agree with LePage..that system need to be cleaned up. Getting rid of losers like her is one way.
And she wonders why he waited more than 2 weeks to make a public appearance, why does he have to? He has probably spent more time looking for his daughter than the mother who seems to be hell bent on getting air time!
And you know this how?
I think he’s using logic and common sense *gasp*
I’m thinking not — he’s just now putting up posters, a little late I’d think.
currently 90 (Bythejesus) to 4 people (you) :-)
We’ll see…seem’s like Justin and grammy have been getting more air time than Trista has. Whatever actually — its only a matter of time when we will all know where Ayla is and if she is safe in the arms of a loving provider or has met a terrible end.
Pardon me for mentioning this but……..he was the one who ‘lost’ the child.
Isn’t it odd how people skip right over that?
I agree. I watched Jane last night on HLN and what my ears heard was that the grandmother changed her story and now states that she wasn’t home the night Ayla went missing. Why did the paternal grandmother say she was home for so long, then change her story weeks later to, I wasn’t home? You can’t remember if your home or not the night your grandaughter is stolen? If they had given lie detector tests to everyone in that home the night Ayla went missing we would’ve found this out weeks ago.
Who wouldn’t take multiple lie detector tests in order to clear yourself and put all of the authorities time in the right direction?
For sure, if it was me? wire me up now!!!!! Then you could turn your focus on to something that might be a real lead in the case..
that is because your not guilty of anything…but in their defense..polygraph is not always accurate. Not sure I would go that route either.
Maybe, since all the players here are not exactly ‘model citizens’ , they all should take a poly.. including tot-grandad & tot-gran mom.
I think she should learn the very definition of “Loose lips sink ships” and be quiet. She’s making this whole sad, sad, and serious situation look like a bad soap opera.
Let the investigators investigate without agitating the public into a frenzy, and sending the investigators off onto wild goose chases by ‘leads’ from people who know nothing of substance, but just want attention. Taking trips to NY to plaster her crying face on the news is doing nothing to help find that baby IMO. It’s a horrible sitation.
So many different stories that have been published, that have been aired on tv.. which way did they go?? I cannot wrap my brain around the concept of someone walking into a house in the dark and kidnapping a baby. If so it is someone they know. A stranger knowing the floor plans, and where the baby was. picking her up and walking out of the house with not a single noise to make anyone stir, and get up and see where the noise was? Sorry that still don’t work for me.. I can understand the broken arm, accidents do happen. I can’t see a month later, that he is just now hanging out posters and getting involved.. We haven’t seen any action from her joining in this search and hunt for her baby.. I swear one did it and the other one is covering for them.. Has been thrown in our faces to much that they don’t talk, that they don’t see each other, and I don’t care if they don’t get along “supposedly”. I have no heart for my ex husband, but you can bet your bottom dollar if my child was missing, we would become a team and search together for our child… And like Judge Judy says.. If it doesn’t make sense, It’s not true.. I smell a cover up between both of them, question is who is covering for who??
Very good points. Evidence though must exist in order to prove any wrong doing. Confessions are evidence.
Having four adults say they heard nothing the night Ayla supposedly disappeared, aroused the suspicion of a former FBI profiler – Nicholas Van Sant (sp). He was also curious as to why a father did not check the girl once he put the child to bed. An extension to this, would of course make anyone wonder primarily why the grandmother never checked on her granddaughter.
With this and so much more that we know nothing about, investigators must be rapidly pasting the evidence together to show exactly what happened on the night of December 16.
Now we’ve just learned that Ayla’s grandmother who previously said she heard nothing, is now claiming she wasn’t even at the house.
I agree. Its hard to check on a grandaughter when you aren’t even home. Thinking all of a sudden grandmother doesn’t want to be an accomplice.
I agree. I still check on my kids at night and they are all older. I don’t know many parents who wouldn’t be checking on their baby during the night. And for them to have not heard anything, how is that possible? I know if someone had entered my house in the middle of the night I would have heard it. These stories of parents harming their children and then covering it up (if that is in fact what happen in this case) is sickening, if you can’t take care of them or don’t want to take care of them anymore, there are plenty of place you can bring them where they will be taken care of and loved.
My son is nearly 13 – I still check him multiple times every night – how can someone not check a toddler?
Agreed, something smells like fish. He is just now coming out of hiding and putting up posters and appealing to the public.
Kids have been know to be snatched from their beds..by strangers who have been stalking them..I do not necessarily think that is the case here. I do think one of the parents know what happened to Ayla..
What a bunch of incompassionate monsters are commenting on this article. You’d better believe if my baby was gone I’d be sticking my ugly mug on every website, tv show, and article I could to keep her disappearance in the public’s mind.
Lemme ask you this…. would you wear a tee shirt that obscures most of the lost child’s face? Isn’t the whole point of the tee to keep Ayla’s image out there? Or is it to garner sympathy?
I might if it was the most recent picture I had of the baby. Babies change fast. Mine looks completely different than she did two months ago.
If my baby was missing I wouldn’t be sitting around here reading news articles and blogs. I would be out searching and wouldn’t care what my name looked like. I’d also take the polygraphs and get it over with.
And here we go with finger pointing and he said, she said. Perhaps the child she currently has should be removed and neither of them should be allowed to have custody of children in the future.
Great idea! We all know just how wonderful the foster care system is in this country. The poor child has lost her sibling so let screw him/her up more and put her in a home with strangers who take in kids for money.
the tragedy of the situation is the police took over a week to claim there was maybe some kind of foul play involved…OH REALLY? Genius. Meanwhile the little girl has already been missing a week. She obviously was kidnapped. That was my first thought when I read the story…and yet the keystone cops are scratching their heads about it. I would have been on both parents on day one. Makes me mad. Incompetent law enforcement.
Actually it was over a week before the police released that to us. We have no idea when they decided that for their own. You are basing your ideas of their incompetence based on what they release to us. I assure you they are far more competent then you give them credit for.
The real tragedy of this situation is how incompetent the police were in acknowledging that PERHAPS there was foul-play involved. OH REALLY? You think so…
It took them over a week to say something to that degree. Meanwhile statistics show that the longer a child is missing the lower the chances enforcement will actually find them. If you don’t find them within the first 48 hours chances are you won’t . They should have been on those parents on DAY ONE. Really infuriating.
Originally, the disappearance was handled as a missing child, as is customary in such cases.
I love it when people think they know how everything works.
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No kidding he isnt, im still shocked why would he hire a lawyer if he not guilty of anything. Maybe the lawyer he hired, no names mentioned by the way and dont ask) should tell the police what he told them. Good luck finding precious one
If I ever had a child stolen out of my custody I would hire a lawyer immediately.
#1 the police can’t ask you the same question over and over and retain you for insane hours. The lawyer will simply state, he has already answered that.
#2 You are treated with respect and dignity and not so much like an immediate criminal.
That said, I would take the polygraph because its not submittable in court and I’d know I would pass. That would place the heat where it belonged or at least in a different direction. Closer to finding my child, hopefully.
Sometimes innocent people, especially if they are unfamiliar with the law and court system will hire attorneys for advice, not necessarily for defense.
I caught Nancy Grace’s show last night. They highlighted the father’s mother (child’s grandmother) telling TV “I heard nothing.” The commentator then compared it with her revised comment made yesterday in which she tells TV “I wasn’t even there,” on the night Ayla disappeared.
This whole case is going to pop soon. We know little. But when people nervously start revising their statements, something’s going to happen. Just a hunch.
She needs to be wired up to polygraph, who is she trying to cover for? She would either clear herself or we would know that she was somehow involved.
Also, have you heard the excuse she gave for Ayla’s bruises. Ayla’s grandmother stated that Ayla’s bruises came from playing with other children. Wonder who was supervising those children? Ayla was only 20 months old. I did daycare years ago and watched teachers children as well as other professionals children. When they picked them up if there was ever a bruise, once I remember a bite mark. I knew their child had been bruised, I was held very accountable. Babysitting is very stressful, when done right.
Toddlers will scrap with each other…and bitting is frequently the way the do it. They need to be corrected and watched. I had a granddaughter who was a biter until she got bit…that cured her. She was barely walking. Such a bad habit.
Kids that bite often have ear infections or fluid build up in their ears. Biting down relieves the pressure they feel in the ear. Anytime a child bites excessively you should check their ears.
No ear problem here…just a brat..she is growing up nicely now!!! LOL
Thanks Doc !
Have you noticed a certain person has not been commenting
“This whole case is going to pop soon”
Drug dealers have been known to settle debts with first borns. Mom was the one on drugs.
Do we know what the fathers involvement in the drug area was? Don’t jump to quickly to blame it on someone that mom knew, after all she raised her daughter for 18 months prior to Justin laying his claim and was not taken or hurt during this time. Two months after he has the child she is taken — kind of odd. But all will come out soon hopefully.
Justin talk to her!! You might find out where your daughter is? It will be interesting to hear what connection the unknown owner (female) of the other car who is from portland whos name is not being released has with the mother.. Perhaps nothning however there is a reason for not releasing a name of someone who was in a house where a baby went missing.
The unknown female that belonged to the car was reported as being Justin’s girlfriend.
exactly ty
This is turning into a tragic episode of Jerry Springer. I don’t care what the parents think and say about each other. I want to know if they’re close to finding out what happened, but I could not care less what either of the parents have to say about the other. I’m sick of seeing their faces and hearing their finger-pointing drivel. Arguing via national media won’t find Ayla.
They should have done a lie detector test on them way back in the beginning, I bet it would have narrowed down the direction they went looking for her.
I am doubtful that this poor child has ever had a single responsible adult looking out for her best interest, putting her first before all else, the way children deserve to be cared for. Do they love her? Oh, I’m sure they do, but how much attention did she get when she wasn’t convenient?
Aylas mom is an addict. how would she know anything? That is the epitomy of the pot calling the kettle black.
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I am sorry. obviously some of teh people who comment here do not read all the articles telling about how she has been in rehab etc, and that is why teh daughter was staying with the father. pardon me for your ignorance
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Why is this women more concerned with badmouthing other people than trying to find her daughter? Once this child is hopefully found, DHS will place her in a DECENT home, these two are not fit to be parents.
I think the mother believes the father to be responsible. What good does it do to take the high road if you believe the other parent harmed your child?
Man there are a lot of Columbos read this paper. I wish had those deductive capabilities.
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Do you know any non-addicts that check themselves into rehab?
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grammy no longer at home? maybe she left with Ayla.
She cannot handle the truth.
I know a little about this family and yes I agree the father knows more than he is saying but the mother and her family are no angels in this story, the fact is, is that if Trista was doing her job as a mother and not putting the bottle before her child, none of this would have happened, this entire family is a train wreck and the baby is lucky to have lived as long as she did.
Well, at least Trista can say she didn’t “lose” her daughter, drunk or sober. Daddy managed to do that, with granny’s help. I think it’s still possible a stranger took the baby for themselves. A real long shot I know, but truth is stranger than fiction sometimes. And BTW, Trista still has a child in her care, so she must not be as awful as some would have the rest of us believe she is. She hasn’t lied, the dad has, the grandma has, the two adults who live with the baby. I’m sorry, but until I see evidence to make me think otherwise, I’m sticking with Trista. She’s been straight up so far.
Why does Trista feel that she should go on T.V and bash the father
instead of asking for people to look for and return her baby girl, ok
she explained that the website was helping to get her face out there and
make people aware, but still no plea’s and begging for her childs safe
return.
She doesnt look like shes been losing much sleep, but looks like she
took note of what people were saying after her being all dressed up in
her last interview.
Either way someone knows what happened to that little girl, and before long it will become public knowledge!
Why do we keep hearing all this gossip in the news articles. I thought the news was for news. Not who is talking to who. Since when is that news? Why don’t you BangorDaily post an article about getting a search party together of volunteers to keep looking for her in every nook and cranny, hanging flyers etc. When a child goes missing a whole community should think about it as one of their own children and come together to do whatever it takes to get her to safe place with the people the baby loves.
This woman should keep her mouth shut. She knows nothing yet she continues to bad mouth everyone but herself. Maybe she should look inward. I hope we will find out exactly what happened, howver, it does no good for her to keep bad mouthing the people who were responsible for the care of her child.
Why hasn’t BDN posted the grandmothers interview. That was a piece of work, talk about telling numerous different stories. Funny that BDN choices to post Trista’s interview in order to keep the mother bashing alive and well — Good job BDN
As the days go by I feel like this is going to be another Caylee story. Now I’m NOT saying that mom had anything to do with it or the father as I do not know if one or the other did do something to her. I prey they find little Ayla alive and well but as time passes the likely hood of it get slimmer. My thoughts are we all should post her picture on our social networking page, and maybe someone somewhere will know something and contact the police
Headline News is talking about this case right now.
Interesting to hear each persons perspective…The grandmother certainly took a beating over her changing stories. Somewhat different views than most of the posters here have. Interesting!
Nice choice of picture for the T-shirt.
/sarcasm
With Elizabeth Smart, her sister was right in the room when it happend, but never ID’d the guy until months later. It’s not always the parents. Sometimes the unbelievable really happens.