ME ME - Ayla Reynolds, 20 mnths, Waterville, 17 December 2011 - # 4

[my_tee_mouse]

Knowing that the girlfriend had a young child in the home makes me kind of suspicious, for personal reasons. My stepmom, who I disliked intensely, HATED us. She was always jealous when we came to visit. And she really wanted her kid to have my dad's undivided attention. She hated it that he gave us love and affection. She even made up chit to tell him to try and get us in trouble. She wanted to taint his view of us, and make her kid look like an angel.

So I wonder how she felt when suddenly, Ayla came to live with him. I wonder if it made her angry?

RBBM
Geeze, my first stepmother...aka the Wicked Witch of the West...sure got around, I see! Guess we were lucky we were all old enough to fight back and/or tell (if we dared). She had to limit herself to getting rid of all our innocent pets to whom my dad gave attention.

I don't normally like to color cases with personal experiences (mine or other folks'), but in this case, well, it's a distinct possibility, IMO.

 

[dillysmom11]

Ok - I'm working on going through and transcribing from interviews the mom's statements and boy is there a lot of inconsistency. I'll post it when I get more put together - it's time consuming to say the least.

With that said, I saw this news video and a couple of things struck out at me Also in this vid - there's a woman standing (at about the 1:31 mark) who looks remarkably like the woman holding a baby in this photo

taken at the house where Ayla was abducted. Doesn't appear to be the same baby - but the similarity of the woman really caught my attention!

After viewing both several times, I do think this bears some sleuthing... both women are African American, both woman wear their hair the same and in the same sort of hair tie as well as the same "height" pony tail. Really coincidental. I don't think the woman in the video is heavier than the other, I believe it's stance and position... MOO

 

[lonetraveler]

Seat pad???? I'll have to look that one up.

:floorlaugh: I guess he's lucky a seat pad was used instead of a probe!

 

[tamild]

I was just thinking....maybe JDs girlfriend and son weren't visitors that night. It's possible that they were living there. She could still be using her Portland address yet not be staying in Portland.

 

[CincinnatiKate]

wait wait wait, about his comments on the lie detector test-- maybe he is smarter than me BUT... When I was 18 and a senior in high school. I was issued a LDtest in regards to a robbery at my home, while I was in the shower. I never saw the results but I def was told I failed it, repeatedly, for weeks at every questioning and every time the police saw me in the street. Also, my parents were told I failed it..I was the number one suspect for over 6 months..UNTIL the jewelry and silver place settings started showing up in N. Kentucky in pawn shops. The man who robbed us was eventually caught (he was a random stranger walking through the town who happened to see the door open and just walked in, he even mentioned knowing when to leave when the shower turned off) and I was cleared of all suspicion . My personal lawyer got this file for me years later and we found the test was, as my lawyer put it.... "clearly inconclusive and irrelevant" HIS EXACT WORDS. I remember driving back from the LDtest with the officers, and they repeatedly called me all kinds of liars and drilled into my head that I had failed the test and I should get ready to go to prison....

 

[lonetraveler]

http://www.chicagopolygraphinstitute.com/products.html

found information regarding the seat pad, "Activity Sensor Seat Pad". I was right about the anal clenches. One method to beat a poly is to clench the anal muscles during questioning to change the blood pressure while you are lying.

http://www.wikihow.com/Cheat-a-Polygraph-Test-(Lie-Detector)

 

[katydid23]

wait wait wait, about his comments on the lie detector test-- maybe he is smarter than me BUT... When I was 18 and a senior in high school. I was issued a LDtest in regards to a robbery at my home, while I was in the shower. I was told I failed it, and my parents were told I failed it..I was the number one suspect for over 6 months..UNTIL the jewelry and silver place settings started showing up in N. Kentucky in pawn shops. The man who robbed us was eventually caught (he was a random stranger walking through the town who happened to see the door open and just walked in, he even mentioned knowing when to leave when the shower turned off) and I was cleared of all charges. My personal lawyer got this file for me years later and we found the test was, as my lawyer put it.... "clearly inconclusive and irrelevant" HIS EXACT WORDS. I remember driving back from the LDtest with the officers, and they repeatedly called me all kinds of liars and drilled into my head that I had failed the test and I should get ready to go to prison....

Awwww. ..I'm sorry that you went through that. That sucks that they focused in on you. SORRY.

 

[cluciano63]

LE isn't the one who brought up the LD test, are they? So they are probably taking the results in stride, and clearly are looking into everything, as far as I can. Even if he failed, it is not like they are dismissing all other scenarios as far as I can tell. JMO

 

[Sparklin]

I just had the chance to read this article where he took the LDT and I've read it three times just to see if I had misinterpreted what I thought I read. My very first thought was that he must have been told that he failed but he is insisting that he "went in there and smoked it". Just going by his words I'm thinking that he argued with LE about the results. The following part of the article pushed me entirely off the proverbial fence. This sounds too much like Ronald Cummings passing his LDT "with flying colors".

http://www.kjonline.com/news/Missing-toddlers-father-took-polygraph-exam.html

“He knows how he did, because we told him,” McCausland said. “To say that he didn’t know, is just not true.”

McCausland would not say how DiPietro did. “That is something I can’t get into,” he said.

DiPietro said, “I know I went in there and smoked it. I told the truth and that’s that.”

When asked if police told him the results, DiPietro said. “They can tell me whatever they want. Again, I didn’t physically see the results.”

When asked if police told him he failed the test, DiPietro said, “That’s all irrelevant. I wanted to see the results myself. They’re not letting me see them. Why don’t they let the public see them?”


:twocents:

I think this sounds like he is VERY confident he passed, but LE is telling him otherwise. He's daring LE to make the info public. Does he know that they can't/won't do that? I doubt it.

 

[Sparklin]

:innocent:

Shortened by me.

I agree. I don't think jd was the person who found Ayla missing. And I am leaning toward not missing but something happened. Whether hurt, given away, or taken (with jd or family aware.).
Some things don't add up and now even more so that there was another toddler there. If the gf and her son spent the night there is NO way all three toddlers slept until after 9am. I have thought through many scenarios and with the information that we have, the taking of ayla from the house without anyone aware is one of the least likely things i have concluded could have happened. Moo

hmmm...just jumping off your post Yoda

Maybe....just maybe..JD/gf and HER child left at some point for whatever reason...lack of sleeping room for the little one?...and sister was left with both babies? Where is JD's sister? What if HER child woke her in the a.m. and she had to call JD to get home and call 911. I wonder would she have called JD first or 911? And what JD would have have done then. This whole scenario(s) are making me grey (that's my story and I'm sticking to it). With the amount of info or mis-info we are getting, absolutely ANYTHING is possible. No concrete, hard facts to piece together here except that a sweet, beautiful little girl is missing and I would say more than one person knows exactly what happened!! I still have no problem theorizing mom was in some way responsible. Not saying she is, but some of the things she contradicts herself on in her interviews are no different, in my opinion, than PD's interview leading people to believe she was in the home. At least PD set the record straight quite clearly, within 24 hours.

 

[Sparklin]

What is so ironic is that TR agreed to allow JD to keep Ayla on the condition he moved in with his mother because she felt it was a safer environment for Ayla. Now, PD supposedly wasn't home that night, or for a portion of time the night Ayla disappeared.

I don't think TR had a choice in letting JD care for Ayla while she went through rehab since DHHS was involved, and I doubt she had a formal agreement with JD. I think TR simply conceded to the arrangement providing that he move in with Mom because she (TR) wasn't convinced of his maturity and reliability, and perhaps was uncomfortable with his choice of friends. Unfortunately, living with his mother may not have toned down his social life, and possibly PD wasn't as reliable as TR had hoped in protecting her baby.

This is so sad for the whole family, but especially for TR who trusted that Ayla would be well-cared for while she straightened out her life because, I assume, she wanted to be a better caretaker of her children herself. Hoping Ayla will be found safe!

I see that ~ but I also see that JD DID go and get Ayla through the proper channels, going so far as getting a police escort (hmmm)...he did comply with moving in with his mom. Seems he did those things FOR Ayla, because he wanted her with him. My biggest worry about JD is that he lost his temper...but I can't see two mommies standing by and/or supporting/assisting him for/in hurting Ayla. Then again...where is sister and gf's interviews??

 

[EllaMae]

Here is a thought:
3 Bedrooms: JD and GF in one; all 3 kids in one; sister by herself. If that is how the sleeping arrangements transpired, then I would say the older child of the gf could have woke up and opened the door and out went Ayla. Who knows for sure? Maybe this was some horrible accident after all? Remember the neighbor heard a noise outside? I hope everyone in that area checked their own properties for any cars parked around for shut trunk lids, looked well in their garages, under porches, etc.

That theory just doesn't work for me. She would not have been able to get very far, since she was only a toddler. If JD is telling the truth about what she was wearing, then she didn't even have on shoes, or a coat, and it is bitter cold in Maine. I think she would've been found by now if she had wandered off on her own. She would've started crying at some point, and more than likely someone would've heard her or seen her. I don't remember if they used tracking dogs, but her scent would've been easy for them to follow if she had left the house on her own.


IMHO...something happened to Ayla, and JD is either personally responsible for making her disappear, or he knows more than he's telling about what happened to her that night. That group is covering something up....IMHO.

 

[LvsAMystry]

I've never seen this as potentially a purely stranger abduction but had considered possible custodial abduction of some sort, perhaps mostly from wishful thinking because I don't like the alternatives. The more time that passes and the more confusion over what went on, particularly the deliberately misleading information, well the alternatives become more likely. We've got known substance abuse on one side with a good possibility of at least some use on the other and along with what appears to have been somewhat lax supervision the last night Ayla seen. Got me thinking, was there actually a party, were there substances around, did she ingest something?

 

[Kiln Wood]

Not sure about Trista but Justin doesn't even know if members of his own family have taken one:

Asked if other family members had taken a polygraph exam, DiPietro said he was not sure.

Why isn't he sure? Why wouldn't they tell him if they have taken one? I call BS. JMO

http://www.kjonline.com/news/Missing-toddlers-father-took-polygraph-exam.html

BBM

Elsewhere on WS I have left posts from time to time about what I describe as "The Mind Your Own Business" theory (my own theory, that is). As difficult as it may be for anyone who hasn't had personal experience with this theory, it goes along the lines of what I'm sure we've all heard a lot about: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in major media in recent years; the significant difference is that The MYOB theory is most generally applied to a wide spectrum of events from the innocent to the heinous.

Having said this, JD may very well be telling the truth when he says he's "not sure" if anyone else in his family has taken a polygraph in connection with Ayla's disappearance: MYOB or stated differently, "I didn't ask them, and they didn't tell me."

As to "why wouldn't they tell him if they had taken one," it's the flip side of the same coin: They subscribe to The MYOB Theory too, and because he didn't ask them, they are not going to tell him.

Not to be presumptious, but I'll hazard a guess that most of you reading this post would be amazed at the sheer numbers of people in the U.S. who firmly believe in The Mind Your Own Business Theory--or something quite like it!

Just imagine the sheer number of disappearances and crimes that could be solved if someone, anyone, would ask a single question of the right person in the right place at the right time that is none of their business, but it just doesn't seem as though anyone would ever actually do such a thing!

 

[katydid23]

I'm still going back to being a bit suspicious of Trista's side of the family. I think that she was very upset after she went and filed for shared custody because she may have figured out that her lack of housing and her recent rehab was going to prohibit her from gaining custody. Then she called Justin that night to make sure he was coming to the doctor visit the next day. I think she was possibly planning a confrontation of some kind but he told her he was not even taking Ayla to that appt.

So I do think it is possible that someone went and tried to take Ayla out of the home themselves that night. And maybe it didnt go so well.

 

[Kiln Wood]

That is my gut feeling too. However, why would someone with a revenge due to say a drug deal gone bad, or money owed....go in and take a sleeping baby? Just does not make sense. Either they are so bad they go in and shoot everyone..or they rip places to pieces, etc...but to take a sleeping baby with sling on their arm? Just doesn't add up. We know if Ayla was abducted..a motive is behind it. Just not sure what the motive would be.

BBM

The "sleeping baby," even with the "sling on their arm", represents the possibility of recovering what had previously been believed to have been a bad debt. The "money owed" is the motive behind the abduction. I'm just throwing this possibility out there; I am not saying this is what actually happened.

 

[Kiln Wood]

I'm still going back to being a bit suspicious of Trista's side of the family. I think that she was very upset after she went and filed for shared custody because she may have figured out that her lack of housing and her recent rehab was going to prohibit her from gaining custody. Then she called Justin that night to make sure he was coming to the doctor visit the next day. I think she was possibly planning a confrontation of some kind but he told her he was not even taking Ayla to that appt.

So I do think it is possible that someone went and tried to take Ayla out of the home themselves that night. And maybe it didnt go so well.

BBM

I find the possibility you've presented intriguing. What I'm wondering is if LE has considered this possibility.....

 

[deoneta]

BBM

Elsewhere on WS I have left posts from time to time about what I describe as "The Mind Your Own Business" theory (my own theory, that is). As difficult as it may be for anyone who hasn't had personal experience with this theory, it goes along the lines of what I'm sure we've all heard a lot about: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in major media in recent years; the significant difference is that The MYOB theory is most generally applied to a wide spectrum of events from the innocent to the heinous.

Having said this, JD may very well be telling the truth when he says he's "not sure" if anyone else in his family has taken a polygraph in connection with Ayla's disappearance: MYOB or stated differently, "I didn't ask them, and they didn't tell me."

As to "why wouldn't they tell him if they had taken one," it's the flip side of the same coin: They subscribe to The MYOB Theory too, and because he didn't ask them, they are not going to tell him.

Not to be presumptious, but I'll hazard a guess that most of you reading this post would be amazed at the sheer numbers of people in the U.S. who firmly believe in The Mind Your Own Business Theory--or something quite like it!

Just imagine the sheer number of disappearances and crimes that could be solved if someone, anyone, would ask a single question of the right person in the right place at the right time that is none of their business, but it just doesn't seem as though anyone would ever actually do such a thing!

I agree that among the young there is a lot of the no snitching, no matter what mentality, and there are many people who look the other way because they don't want to get involved. Whatever this crime is, JD's daughter is the victim, and those involved are either family members or very close to him. I can't believe this hasn't been discussed. From the moment JD said it was just a normal night (dinner, tv, bedtime according to PD), I just knew it was no normal night. I think these people are covering up something. All MOO.

 

[cluciano63]

If TR and company headed up to Portland that night, I would expect some injured adults, not Ayla, JMO. And I wonder if one or the other would really be able to keep quiet all this time if they felt that whatever happened that night was the other one's fault. Somehow I doubt it. I think if any parent knows, it is the one who was last known to be with Ayla.

 

[bessie]

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