WINSLOW, Maine — The search for toddler Ayla Reynolds, who has been missing since December 2011, resumed Tuesday.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said teams from the Maine Warden Service and Maine State Police are searching the Kennebec River in the vicinity of the Brookfield Dam.
The Brookfield Dam spans the Kennebec River between northern Waterville and Winslow, and McCausland said the search point is “up the river from where we previously searched the river.”
Dam operators have lowered the water levels in the river to aid in the search, according to McCausland.
Volunteer dog teams are also on the scene, he said.
Tuesday marks seven months since Ayla was reported missing by her father, Justin DiPietro. DiPietro has said the toddler vanished from her bed overnight. She was 20 months old at the time.
Police have said they don’t expect to find Ayla alive. No charges have been filed in the case.
I want to cry every time I see her precious little face. Her family needs answers.
“No charges have been filed in the case.”
::rolls eyes::
Gotta believe the cops are doing all they can to find enough evidence to make an arrest. At the same time, they have to make sure that its all done in the proper way, so that when they do make one the DA and the courts can make it stick. Nothing would be any worse than arresting whoever is responsible for this and then losing the case on a technicality.
I’ll bet it breaks the heart of the toughest cop, too. You know they want her back or a good arrest.
This makes me so sad! Who ever did this should have a backbone and come forward! This has gone on long enough!
is it even possible a father or a possible family member could have killed this child and then throw her little body in the river? it seems unbelievable that the little one could not have at least had a decent burial.
We are in a throw away society if you don’t like it, you just throw it away .
God I pray they find her so her little body can finally rest in peace with her tiny little soul and so her family and friends can finally have closure… :'(
You certainly would NOT be saying that if it were YOUR child!!
i don’t have children
THANK GOD!!!
Probably a good choice!
Seven months. How do you know there isn’t a new development? They aren’t diving without reason.
Poor Ayla, I pray you are found and can finally rest sweet baby. I am so sorry you were so mistreated in this world, little angel. I pray also that justice will be true and swift……
I believe the Police are doing their best in this case. There comes a point in time when all they can do is wait for new evidence to come to them.
I think both parents have suffered durning this time with people accusing each of them of wrong doing….
I don’t think anyone would want to live under a microscope an have it made public.
May God bless everyone involved.
Both parents are suffering — I think not. Just my opinion BDN no need to delete this comment like my last one!
What happened to her being found alive in a secret compartment in the house?
If that dream were true, there would be a lot of happy people!
This story makes me so sad, as does the story of the poor teenager in New Hampshire, Celina Cass. NO arrests have been made in that case either. Hard to believe that the guilty person, or people I should say, are still walking around free.
I pray to God she is found so Trista and the family can have closure. Sweet little Alya….
It breaks my heart that this case remains unsolved. I hope that the people who know what happened… those in the house that night who refuse to be forthcoming are haunted by whatever happened that night until this case is solved. If it is never resolved… I hope they are haunted until the day they die.
throw every last person in the home at the time of the “disappearance” in jail…just this once…make an exception.
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i agree..if they have to sit in jail then maybe they will tell the truth!!!
The one thing that gives me comfort regarding this little angel and the other 2 lost not too too long ago – Caylee Anthony and little Camden Pierce Hughes,is KNOWING that they greeted little angel Ayla and are now ALL in the arms of Jesus…..
Fairy tales give you comfort… no wonder society is so messed up, we avoid truth like the plague.
If those thoughts are what provides comfort to people, who are you to belittle their beliefs? No one is asking you to even go along with it….live and let live.
After a heavy rain is bad timing to control a river. Dam operators should drain the whole section until up river reaches mid flood stage. The dry season is right around the corner.
The police are doing everything they can by law to get this case solved.. what will bother me is if and when they get who did this to court.. i pray the judge will do his/her job.. the court system scares me more then anything.