PORTLAND, Maine — Trista Reynolds, mother of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds, said in an Internet post late Wednesday that she was unable to complete a polygraph test Wednesday because of a medical condition.
Reynolds posted the following statement on the website aylareynolds.com:
“I have prepared this statement because I said that I would release the results of my lie detector test to the public. I took that test today.
“According to the test administrator, who was very courteous and professional, I was unable to complete the test due to a medical condition. It was suggested to me that after treatment by a doctor I would be able to finish the test, but the investigating authority is content with the general outcome of the incomplete test (as it stands).
“This is far from the result I wanted to share with the public, but I will take the advice of the administrator and seek attention for my medical condition so I can be healthy enough to be re-tested if required. In the meantime I wish that people will keep Ayla in their hearts and wish with all of us for her safe return.”
Reynolds confirmed Wednesday night that she had written the statement but declined further comment.
LOL……..
Hmmmmmmmmm……
LMAO, ok you trolls calling the Dad a murderer for taking the test but not talking about it, what have you to say now?
I was wondering the same thing. If it were the other way around, they’d be setting up the gallows for him in the town square.
What are you talking about? Neither of them had a result to brag about. You make it sound like he passed with flying colors but he didn’t… and hers is incomplete. So, it looks like that ONE INVESTIGATIVE TOOL failed to prove anyone innocent.
So, since that’s a wash investigators will have to rely on all the other details starting with who was the last to see her? Who had access to Justin’s mother’s house? Who has the intelligence, means and ability to hide this child from law enforcement for more than a month? There are other questions to be asked and answered before this investigation is concluded. From where I’m sitting Dad’s still got a lot to answer to because he was responsible that night to keep his baby safe… he NEGLECTED to do that and because of his NEGLECT the baby is gone. Statistically it’s not likely that she’s even alive after all this time… If there is one thing I hope I’m wrong about is that I hope that this child is alive and being kept safe.
That poor girl having two dysfunctional parents. I sure hope she’s safe and sound with someone.
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Some medical anomallys cause inacurate results . We want Ayla home. Not More speculation .Im happy the Administrator was Proffesional enough to see this.This isnt STEVE WILKO Show .
PLEASE RESPECT AYLA AND HER PARENTS POSTING HERE …..
Got to love the web site. It has a bank account number for people to send money to. It does not say what the money is going to be used for or whether it has any legitimate nonprofit status. Seems pretty sketchy.
Actually, anyone with a respiratory illness or a cold are not supposed to take a polygraph test. That’s most likely the reason why they stopped the test.
Actually a person high on painkillers may exhibit those conditions…..
I don’t know who’s lying but hopefully this will come out in the wash in a few days to weeks to months…
meanwhile why is this woman allowed to have a childe at home?
I also believe the truth will come out and the guilty will be uncovered.
Meanwhile, this woman is “allowed to have a child at home” because she hasn’t or hasn’t been proven to have committed any crime. Seeking treatment for a drug or alcohol addiction isn’t a crime. I do hope whatever the outcome of this tragic event, that she continue her treatment and sobriety for her young son. He’s already had to face such awful trauma in his young life.
I think these tests are pretty unreliable. It’s interesting how they never talk about the other adults living in the dad’s house. They originally said there were other adults, one not a relative, living in his home. What about this bunch???
Statement Analysis…very enlightening.
http://www.statementanalysis.com/ayla-reynolds/
The bio of the person who wrote the above analysis:
http://www.statementanalysis.com/bio/
http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/2012/01/understanding-justin-dipietros.html
I read it, and it is a crock. Not everyone is an english teacher. It is all pure speculation, surely you don’t consider this ‘evidence”? I have no idea what happened and maybe he did have something to do with it, but I think this “analysis” is a joke.
Bio of Mark McClish (the one who did the first statement analysis)
Mark was a federal law enforcement officer for 26 years. He started his law enforcement career in 1983 with the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division. During the two years he was with the Secret Service he was assigned to the White House. His main duties were protecting the White House complex. He would also on occasion provide protection for President Reagan when the President traveled.
In 1985, Mark was hired by the U.S. Marshals Service and served as a Deputy U.S. Marshal in Springfield, IL. This change allowed him to focus more on investigations and less on protection. He worked numerous federal fugitive cases and assisted local law enforcement in apprehending state fugitives. He also worked on a “Warrant Apprehension Narcotic’s Team” which was a national drug task force.
In 1990, Mark was promoted to an instructor position at the U.S. Marshals Service Training Academy located at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, GA. He taught at the Training Academy for nine years serving as the lead instructor on interviewing techniques. He used this time to study deceptive statements and conduct his own research on deception. Based on his findings, he created the Statement Analysis techniques for detecting deception in a verbal and written statement. He was frequently asked to share his techniques with other law enforcement agencies. While assigned to the Training Academy Mark was also the lead defensive tactics instructor for the Marshals Service.In 1999, Mark left the Training Academy and took a position as a Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal in Greenville, NC. He supervised four offices located in Eastern NC. He also spoke at law enforcement conferences and conducted Statement Analysis seminars on behalf of the Marshals Service.Mark retired from the Marshals Service in 2009 and started Advanced Interviewing Concepts. His company provides interviewing skills training and assists investigators in analyzing a statement. Mark currently gives presentations and seminars on Statement Analysis throughout the U.S. He has spoken at numerous law enforcement conferences and has trained a variety of law enforcement agencies and military organizations. He is the author of the book “I Know You Are Lying” and the developer of the “Statement Analyzer” which is software that will analyze a statement for deception.
I don’t care about the guys resume, I feel the analysis is a crock. I am sure he is good, and he has probably been right more then wrong, but I am sure he has been wrong a lot of times. If he was born in Maine and speaks one of our dialects, I might put more stock into it.
I think the analysis is flawed as well, but really, what does “if he was from here” have to do with anything? Maine isnt some “esoteric” culture that cant be understood by “outsiders”, it’s the same as everywhere else.
Sorry, but the “Maine is special” stuff just gets on my nerves. The same stuff happens here as everywhere else, so don’t make it a cultural thing when it’s really not.
the “Maine is special” line is an excuse for so many things, tunnel vision included.
I wasn’t saying “Maine was special”. dialects means the way we talk. When I was in the Air Force in Texas, people kept wanting me to say things in my funny way. In Washington State, a couple of people asked me if I was from England. All over the country, people commented on my accent. Some other people have called me “special’, but I don’t think they meant the same thing you do!
Right- he has lots of training as a detective. He doesn’t appear to have any training in any field related to language or psychology, but he’s making strong claims in both of those domains.
I think it’s totally fine if the way a suspect says something makes an investigator suspicious, and that sensitivity helps the investigator to look at some issue more closely. However, the kind of statements he’s making about these transcript are totally useless in terms of *proving* anything about the suspect’s hidden knowledge or attitudes, which is what it looks like you’re taking them to do. I’m not even sure that McClish claims he can tell when someone is guilty based on their speech- I haven’t bothered to look at the website that closely.
Anyway, there’s no evidence that this kind of analysis is anything more than a hunch-generating tool. If he’s working with the investigators, I hope it helps give them some good direction and doesn’t distract them from any reliable evidence.
According to her, and the police probably cannot release anything on it even if she is being inaccurate, being a volunteer test. I am not as involved in the case as you appear to be, knowing who is guilty. You are amazing, why are you not in law enforcement? If it turns out you are wrong and it is the mother or someone else, you are going to have a lot of crow to eat!
As we don’t know the results of the father’s test (& we can only speculate what those results would be) that there is a good possibility that his were the same. Its easy to point the finger at both sides depending on your own personal feelings (eg: nobody wants to believe a mother would hurt their own), but without knowing the inside details we can’t possibly know how its going to turn out for either of them. Having listened to her in interviews I can say that her statement seemed to have been written for her as her ability to vocabularize seems somewhat inept. To some this can be considered a sign of anxiety. To others it could be sound legal advice. You seem to be doing an awful lot of advocating on behalf of the mother, a relative or friend of hers perhaps? Or just someone with a particular dislike for the father??? I prefer to be on the side of facts based in reality no matter which side of the fence it falls on….
Blood thirsty group, Leads one to believe that people are wishy-washy and don’t care who did it is as long as they are on the side who pointed the finger.
Maybe her blood pressure is high because of the horror of her child is missing?
Oh, like Casey Anthony?
well if your a fellow trashy tv watcher like myself this kind of excuse is used all the time on Dr. Phil. What a joke. I dont care if someone said I had an illness I would of taken the test a long time ago!!!!!!!!!!
Dont feel bad. I LOVE those trashy shows.
WOOOSSHHHHHH!!!! As she was leaving the room.
Is it me, or does it sound like a lawyer wrote her sick note?
Or maybe since it says in the article that the detectives are content with the results that maybe she still isnt considered involved
The article was quoting Trista Reynold’s statement. The detectives have not confirmed that they are content with the results.
The detectives have confirmed nothing, either way.
Is there a point? any where there? At least she said I’m voluntarily taking one, and this is what happened, the examiner told me to stop, not me.
DiPeitro says……I was never told the results…..thats BS! and you know it.
When you have something that is worth listening to, go ahead and enlighten us. Until then, just keep embarassing yourself you self serving degenerate!
“Judge not and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.” … Luke 6:37.
Do some of the commenters here suppose that this may be good advice?
Leave fairy tales out of this!
“Fairy tale” or not, still good words to live by…
What evidence is that ? If you know something maybe you should share it with us and we”ll understand. Seems to me they have NO evidence at all.
Shes probably pregnant…Or at least saying she is… Women who are pregnant can not take polygraph with out dr. approval..
If that were the case that could have been handled by making a quick phone call.
A quick phone call would not do in that case. She would need to go through an exam and the doctor would need to make sure the fetus is strong enough to go through the poly. Theres more then just a phone call whenever it comes to doctors.
O.K. so she could not finish the test because of a “Medical Condition”. Anyone who is going through drug and alcohol rehab will not produce a valid lie dector test. Why? Because the medication she is taking is a mind altering drug and will produce an invalid result.
How convenient for her.
If she has a cold she’s not supposed to take the test. She probably didn’t know this, since it’s not common knowledge.
That’s not true. You can have a cold and be on cold meds, anti-anxiety medications, muscle relaxants, and sedatives and still take the test and get ‘reliable results.’
One of the main “medical conditions” that people have that can stop a poly is pregnancy….
I didn’t post a link, but I found a polygraph site that listed reasons why someone should not take a test and a cold or flu was on the list.
It’s dependent on the test administrator- as i have taken several polygraph tests and i have been under the influence of several muscle relaxants and pain medications due to a surgery. After telling the administrator about my medications he thanked me for being forth-telling and said that the medications would not influence the results. I still passed the test. With that said, polygraph tests are crap anyway. So aside from what an article says online, i can tell you from several personal experiences- it doesn’t matter. I can’t vouch for the pregnancy claim- but it makes sense.
Either way, its a step further from finding Ayla. While you argue about who did it and how you know, I’ll pray somehow they find this precious little girl safe and sound.
Has it occurred to any of you that Trista’s son was recently treated for a respiratory illness? Isn’t it quite likely that she became sick with the same thing? That would cause her to not be able to take the test. I don’t understand why you all think you know who did what. You are not detectives or any kind of authority in this matter, and you are all treated this like it’s some kind of game or like you’re watching some mystery on television. It’s not entertainment people, this is real life and real people are really hurting.
Anyone remember the joke, would you sleep with me for a million dollars? ” sure “, would you sleep with me for 10 bucks?, ” hey, what kind of girl do you think I am.”….BDN, pease keep this person out of the paper, maybe she will go away and we can find out what happened to the little angel.
what was the fathers results ?
it would be improper for the police to release that information. there is a pending case, our curiosity is not there concern.
At least she tried to take the test!!How many people would be bashing her if she didnt take it at all?!?!?Im not siding with mom or dad…just saying
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Hollywood can’t write this. One of those sappy lifetime made for TV movies is up next. She’s still alive and Daddy & Grammy know it.
Just a few thoughts: Neither of Ayla’s parents were ever going to win any “parent of the year” awards, and at the very least their negligence as parents played a part in Ayla’s disappearance, but who am I to judge whether either of them are directly responsible for this? I don’t know them, and none of us know what the police may know (it would hinder their investigation to tell the public everything), so we are basing our opinions on what we see/hear on tv & print, which given that is not reassuring, but still a tiny picture & biased one way or another. If you know something concrete, please go to the police, and if you don’t, please consider foucusing your energies on this innocent little girl, that she may be found, and whoever took her brought to justice.
Alas! Me thinks I have offended Thee!
Oh well…
Yeah, you’re not the only one. I had hundreds of likes on my comment and it is still flagged for review. I hate to think the BDN is going to take away someone’s finds ammendment rights because my opinion was not popular with a few but popular with hundreds.
I have no idea what’s going on with all the flags here. There was nothing wrong with any of them. The most benign comments can offend some dainty sensibilities, I guess. The BDN isn’t guilty of flags, only the removals. I also believe that even with a removal, it doesn’t take away from your total ‘like’ total’ (if you care).
Very interesting. Obviously, this statement was written by someone other than this woman. It think it is time for the authorities to take a much closer look at the Mother.
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Very obvious to me. This written statement is done in legalize.
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sounds to me like someone was trying very hard to sound well written and eloquent and failed.
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you might want to throw a comma into your attempt at an insult.
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It is legalese not legalize.
You are so right. Duh!
I am not an attorney, however, I have a decent command of the English language. It is possible a layperson helped her with her statement.
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Can you all not read? She said she is going to finish the test when she is better and able to? If she had something to hide, then why would she even TRY to take a test? What about the fathers results? How about not pointing fingers? How would you all feel if this were you, I have my own personal opinions on what and who I think is guilty, but that is my opinion! I am not going to post it on here for the whole world to see, because what difference is it going to make? And everyone hating on her for her past with drug abuse…so what? People make mistakes, people lose their way sometimes, it does not make them a bad person. And how dare anyone say that they “read her history” and know that she isn’t fit to be a mother. You don’t know ANYTHING! Until you lived with her and watched her be a parent, clean up your own backyards first. People make me SICK!
Remember Terrie Robinson put her son in an oven and cooked over 3 hours….her sister said something very similar such as “she was a great parent, a good person” and further stated “do not sit there and call her a bad mom cause that’s not what she is”….An alcoholic needs long term therapy to accommodate their need for drinking. In the meantime she will be too self-absorbed to be the best parent she can possibly be – unfortunately this is the side she is showing in the media.
Might be bad that the test incomplete is content for the investigators
Would you share this evidence with the public, your honoress?
I did share what the facts are…what has been reported by authorities and someone keeps flagging my responses. They’ll be back up soon, though.
I hope they are not back up soon. Although i certainly wasn`t the one that flagged them, i can tell you this. I haven`t seen anything that you have ever commented on, that was worth listening to!!
OldWench, you are as socially challenged as the child pathetic mother! Maybe someday you will realize your opinions are as worthless as you are?!!!
Why would you say something like that? Maybe someday you will realize that neither of you know what happened, now isn’t that a new idea!
I would hope that you have a little bit more courtesy and tact. How would you appreciate someone telling you that your opinion is worthless?
I might add…..your’s is.
As told by an degenerate. And maybe someday, you will realize your opinions are as worthless as you are!
I would like to see the media close these articles to comments as all it does is create hype. None of the comments here are founded. Leave the resolution of this to the authorities who are best equiped to deal with it. Most things said in these posts can only be harming and speculative.
You must be a liberal!!!! Only your type knows best. Ever hear of “Freedom of the press?”
It is one of those things the founding fathers takled about in the U.S. Constitution. Try reading in sometime.
I do not often reply to comments but i will on this one. You should read the constitution again and also the policy for posting in this medium. BDN met it’s freedom of the press rights when they printed the story. And you and I met ours by our comments.
Amen.
Thank you someone who understands. :)
What do you think the whole purpose of this comments section is? It’s NOT for any sort of public service or to gather the collective wisdom of you or I or a several dozen other semi-literate people with a little time on their hands and a desire to type their opinions on the Internet. It’s to create hype so the article gets more hits and then BDN can then tell advertisers how many thousands of hits they get in a day to justify charging them more.
How is any of that evidence and how does it implicate the father?
That’s what I was thinking. That “evidence” could be used to implicate me! It points to no one, it is all circumstantial. It could be either of them, or anyone for that matter if that is the only “evidence” you are basing your opinion on.
I don’t think she harmed her child. I don’t think she had anything to do with the disapearance.
I don’t know how this case is still open. Don’t the investigators read the BDN comments? It’s clear that posters here have this case solved.
Crowd-sourced criminal investigations – the wave of the future!
Don’t forget jury nullification my friend.
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LMAO, that was a great comment….
And we wondered “how” they could ever possibly have the Salem Witch Trials.
the web site is “wikisolve” quick call Go Daddy and license it now!!
Ayla has a mother. By focusing on her, perhaps the perpetrator will develop some remorse. If you focus on the investigators, you dehumanize what the mother and father may be going through, and you turn it into a game to beat the police.
Watching way to much criminal minds!
something isnt right with this whole case. So messed up. i hope this poor baby is found safe, where ever she is. I hope she alive at the least.
It seems that child was doomed the day it was born. Where are all the hands-around-the-capitol pro-lifers now? They don’t care one iota about life, if they did they’d be helping infants instead of leaving them in less than survivable environments.
You are so right. We should do service in the Works of Mercy that most importantly includes infants and children. I hope your message, written in discussion of such a heart wrenching and sad topic, inspires many of us to do more with the gifts that we have been given.
Probably the same stuff Trista is.
okay-this just adds to MY opinion of this whole thing…IT STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN if these 2 parents got less than good outcomes on the polygraph…I can give her a small pass because she’s in early recovery from drugs and that will affect the results…but ,c’mon,I am connecting the dots and coming up with GUILTY!!!
This smells
There certainly seem to be many who are posting here who are using verbally abusive comments to each other. Face to face, I doubt most would do this unless they had no social skills whatsoever. How about cooling the verbal garbage just because someone has a differing opinion. (And that goes both ways, the Trista side and the Justin side.) Agree to disagree but do it without the abusiveness.
GeezoPete, people!
DITTO!!!!!!!
wasent the mother in rehab when her daughter was taken ? dosent this rule her out ? where was dad ? = in the home in the next room when his daughter was taken.
if I remember correctly she had been out of rehab for a week or so before Ayla disappeared
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I noticed that ALOT of the comments against whatever her name is have been flagged for review. I wonder why.
too late already did and a nice amount at that, and how stupid do you think its for a lawyer its not
Be careful what you type on here. I said almost the same thing last night, and my comment has been flagged for review after recieving 200+ “likes” I’m thinking the moderators for the BDN are probably for Ayla’s mother.
and he got flagged for review
Way too many children are disappearing in the U.S.!! We need to make this a priority that all parents participate in DNA ID kit for Kids( http://www.mypreciouskid.com/ID-DNA-fingerprint-kit.html ) No longer is America safe for our children when they can seemingly vanish from their own beds!
Awfully Suspicious…
Are you telling me that she did not know that she would not be able to take the lie detector test. Come on she is playing with the public.
She suffers from an enlarged ego and acute attention deficit.
And you received your psychiatrist degree from which university/medical school?
I’m sure she’ll be on the cover of various magazines as a “loving and caring” mother.
Did anyone else notice that her son sounded horrible during the interview? If it were me, I wouldn’t be doing an interview and would have taken him to the Dr. According to previous posts after the interview, he spent time at the hospital. He sounded pretty congested and was coughing and there is whooping cough going around.
Interesting, very Interesting!!!!
How convenient!!!
Next thing ya know, there will be HEADLINES – AYLA’S MOTHER BREAKS FINGERNAIL
poor girl must be distraught.
Clearly her “released statement” was prepared other then by her. She is too out there to make it look like she passed it when in fact she probably was not going to pass it so she knew it. What a joke…sheads alot of light now.
I have never seen so many “This comment was flagged for review” on a story…be nice…least till the truth is known
She is scum no matter how you slice it. If she was worthy, her child would have been in her custody, and this PROBABLY wouldn`t have happened. You can tell she is socially challenged, just listen to her. She is too IGNORANT to see that she is embarassing herself. It should be illegal for degenertaes to reproduce! Anyone who thinks i am being to harsh, thats my perrogative. I work for my money, and am sure i work for hers too. Sad pathetic welfare case, and a SHAMELESS one too!
Very judgemental of you — I’m assuming you know her personally so you can make these acusations. However, I’m more apt to believe your just an ignorant, self-centered person who believes you can determine another individuals worth by looking at a picture of them. GOOD LORD — Bless Your Heart!
Now, let me think back. Did the Dad say that he, and his guests were voluntarily taking deception tests?
Did she, or not say that the examiner stopped the test?
And the most important part, did she or did she not come out with what the hell we are talking about?
She has obviously stated the results, she was advised by the examiner to get rid of her chest congestion, preliminary results aren’t shown…….but the point is….she is giving day by day, incident by incident what is going on. And he wasn’t told of his results?
As I stated yesterday, Reformed Drug and Alcohol users who are on mind altering medication cannot complete a lie detector test. Maybe the father is hiding her somewhere safe? Not all mothers are good mothers and maybe the mothers past is catching up with her. I would rather see this be the case then the alternative.
As I stated yesterday, Reformed Drug and Alcohol users who are on mind altering medication cannot complete a lie detector test. Maybe the father is hiding her somewhere safe? Not all mothers are good mothers and maybe the mothers past is catching up with her. I would rather see this be the case then the alternative.