PORTLAND, Maine — A website devoted to a Maine toddler who vanished six weeks ago says the girl’s uncle and maternal grandmother have taken polygraph tests as part of the police investigation.
Police are investigating the disappearance of Ayla Reynolds, who was reported missing from her father’s Waterville home on Dec. 17.
The website www.aylareynolds.com said Ayla’s uncle took and passed a polygraph on Thursday and that her grandmother took a test Friday but couldn’t complete it because her prescription medication interfered.
Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland said investigators are not commenting on details such as polygraph tests.
Ayla’s father, Justin DiPietro, told police his daughter wasn’t in her bed when he checked on her the morning of Dec. 17. Ayla’s mother, Trista Reynolds, lives in Portland.
Maternal grandmother and mom both could not complete the test…….
Grandmother on prescription drugs……..those are never misused. Substance abuse is a family trait.
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The Mother had an alcohol problem, not drugs. But alcohol is a big problem in Waterville and the surounding area.
she lives in portland
I agree… too much of a coincidence
I watched the videos on her website, and I still think this little girl (Trista) knows more than she’s letting on. Either way, I hope this little girl makes it home soon.
Seems like a very long time has gone by to be just now getting around to polygraph exams.
By the time this mysterious disappearance is solved, Ayla will married with a couple of children of her own.
If polygraphs don’t produce results, let’s kick it up a notch…how about waterboarding or thumbscrews?
let’s hope she gets married & then has kids. She hasn’t had a good role model in that regard.
Amen
What about the Mother’s father or step-father (I can’t remember which). Also, interesting that both the Mother and Grandmother couldn’t finish the test. I have read that certain medications will interfer, however, one would think that could be controlled ahead of time.
All the while, while this lie detecting goes on……none of it is admissible in court.
“I have read that certain medications will interfer, however, one would think that could be controlled ahead of time”
Especially seeing as they “voluntary” took the test!!
Can understand the grandmother on drugs that could alter her testing, the 20-year-old mother? Not so much. God, if anything, she had to have been prescribed something along the lines of anxiety/depression medication, which seemingly would make her pulse take a “dip.” Not a doctor, just sayin’. Hope they find that beautiful baby alive.
didnt they say it was a medical condition or health problem for the mom…not meds? Not sure. THAT could be anxiety. A mom missing a little child could have constant trembling hands…I would have! I do remember that the authorities didn’t have a problem with it at that time. But, we just don’t know. I join ya…we hope, and wait!
The grandmother was involved with the child’s day to day care, the uncle was not. As far as the mom goes, she wants another test.
All the while, they are releasing results (or inability to complete due to medical reasons), but yet they don’t release the results of the father. And, of course, the dad “wasn’t told”.
Round and round they go. Are they searching for blame? Are they searching for the truth? Are they even searching for the little girl? Or are they now searching for a killer?
This is getting ridiculous, both should take another test and be told that they will be tested for any drugs or alcohol prior to it. Finally, the authorities should release the father’s results, everyone else’s has been.
I am not taking sides as to who did or didnt do whatever to this little girl, but just wanted to comment on your “And, of course, the dad “wasn’t told”. comment…..it was stated in the paper, that he did know the outcome to his test, but wasnt SHOWN the test results…ive noticed a lot of people skipped over that…….”One of Portland’s papers has a much more informative article regarding
the father taking a polygraph test. The police did tell him the
results, but did not let him view the results, as he would not be able
to understand the graph, which only an examiner could read &
understand”.
The police didn’t release the results on either side- the families did or in the case of Justin, didn’t.
They should tell us, because something is still fishy with the dads story
Gram changing her story on first she was home on the night Ayla went missing, then she wasn’t there. Then she was? I’m confused! Does she want to be his witness or not?
Probably trying to recall the night she “really” went missing. Maybe she’s saying she was there the night Ayla was really went “missing” but not the night they “say” she went missing. Just a thought I had when I read her story”s”.
From other stories I’ve read it seems that the grandmother was very involved in Ayla’s life. Both Ayla’s mother and grandmother must be on some kind of seditive. I know if my daugher went missing in the dark of night they would have to medicate me until I couldn’t think any longer. Perhaps both are being medicated in this manner and this effects the tests.
The grandmother and mother I suspect you are correct are being medicated as we would be. Obvious to any mother. (A grandmother is a mother) I have admitted that I probably wouldn’t be on the streets as they would have me behind bars at this point for I would have the perp or I would have my baby. End of story….
Medication interfered. . . probable translation that they both have psych issues, are on anxiety medication, and conveniently pretended to lose control when asked questions that were just “too hard to answer”.
Perhaps both are going through a living hell and are having anxiety and a host of other emotions happening to them…they have had the most trumatic thing happen to them — lighten up a bit about there mental health at this time of great turmoil.
The questions to the mother weren’t too hard to answer when in front of cameras, but are too hard to answer on a liar detector test?? Convenient!!! I understand being upset by the child missing, but it should be all the time, not just when taking a polygraph!! For the child’s sake I hope she is OK and found soon and the people involved punished.
Is it just me or is anyone else just getting sick of hearing headlines about this case but NO relative news to finding Ayla?!?! I’m still hoping for the morning I wake up and log onto BDN and see a headline that she has been found safe and sound. Yes, I’m an optimist :)
It’s not just you…
some medicines prescribed to people give them a slight tremor. I assume that could throw a test off. This latest news doesn’t make me suspicious of the grandmother, because of that, and I am not suspicious of Trista. The fact that there is another article about it doesn’t bother me. They said that the more it stays in the news, and in people’s minds is a good thing. It may help to jog someone’s memory about something they saw. I’m not even going to try to point fingers…that’s the job of the police. Let’s just all use this as a reminder to pray for Ayla, and those who genuinely love her. Pray for God’s mercy to bring all things to light! Soon, please Lord!!
It would seem to me,, and in my opinion only, that the only drugs that would mess with the test would be heart meds?? Seems if they were taking other drugs they would have to tell the operator of the test, and take the change of being arrested for drug use? I don’t know…
I hope Alya is ok, and she will be home soon..
heart meds…that’s a good possibility too. They affect heart rate(slowing). I believe heart rate, breathing, BP, etc are messured in these tests/. I agree…we hope and pray!! God knows all…help, Lord!!
This gives me hope that she’s alive!
None-the-less, this poor little girl is out there somewhere. I would be crazy if this was my child…many, many sleepless nights.
I don’t think I have ever heard of so many people not being able to complete a polygraph due to Medical Conditions and Medications. I think that might be a sign that this little girl, if found, should not be with ANY of these idiots…