WATERVILLE, Maine — Two windows were broken at the home where a toddler was reported missing seven weeks ago, officials said Saturday.
The missing girl’s grandmother, Phoebe DiPietro, called police at about 11:15 p.m. Friday to report that someone was throwing things through the windows at her Waterville home, police said in a statement.
When officers arrived, they found that two windows had been broken. Police believe the windows were smashed by a bat or something else that was carried away since they didn’t find any rocks or other objects at the home.
“The force not only broke the window, it broke the screen. It broke a blind behind the window and it sent glass flying throughout the kitchen area onto the floor, onto the counter and onto a highchair that belonged to the grandchild,” said Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey during a press conference outside Waterville City Hall on Saturday afternoon.
Twenty-month-old Ayla Reynolds was reported missing from the home Dec. 17 by her father, Justin DiPietro, who lives there with his mother. DiPietro told police he last saw Ayla when he put her to bed the night before. Police are calling her disappearance a crime and have said that DiPietro and two other adults in the home that night haven’t been totally forthcoming.
After the girl’s grandmother called police Friday night, a search of the surrounding area didn’t turn up anything, police said. A police dog followed a track that ended at a nearby street.
Phoebe DiPietro told police she thought she heard a car drive off after the incident.
Justin’s sister, Elisha DiPietro, along with her daughter, 19-month-old Gabrielle, were also in the home Friday night.
Nobody was hurt, but Police Chief Joseph Massey said somebody could have been injured by flying glass.
“It’s pretty disturbing,” he said. “I’m simply not going to tolerate having someone go up and harass people, damage their property.
“I say disturbing because whoever went there probably knew that there were people inside the house, including a small child,” Massey said. “Breaking the windows with that much force and sending glass flying all over the place, waking up people at that hour of the night, waking a small child, exposing them to the cold and possible injury. I think that’s kind of cowardly.”
Massey said he believes this is the first time the home has been vandalized and said he isn’t aware of any threats towards the DiPietros.
He also said he wouldn’t speculate about whether Friday night’s incident has any relation to Ayla’s disappearance.
“It’s totally separate. We got a report of criminal mischief,” said Massey. “Everybody can draw their own conclusions, their own opinions about whether it’s related to the other case, but again, we are going to focus on criminal mischief until we can find out who’s responsible and until we can get motive of why they did it, then maybe we can comment as to why.”
Massey urged the public to let the police do their job and not get involved themselves.
“This is not helping,” he said. “Whatever the motive may have been, it’s diverting resources from what we’re trying to accomplish. Again, people trying to take issues into their own hands is never a way to go. You’re committing another crime, for whatever reason, you’re angry, you don’t like someone, that just doesn’t solve anything. It doesn’t help.”
Waterville police will step up patrols in the area, which is routine practice in similar criminal mischief cases, Massey said.
“It’s pretty low, pretty cowardly and we’ll do everything we can to try to find out who’s responsible and keep it from happening again,” he said.
State police and warden service divers searched stretches of the Kennebec River and a nearby stream on Friday as part of the ongoing investigation, but didn’t turn up anything new.
At the time of her disappearance, Ayla was living with her father in Waterville. Her mother, Trista Reynolds, lives in Portland, about 75 miles south.
After the vandalism, Reynolds and her family released a statement saying Trista feels “that it is none of her business … but thinks it to be ignorant and rude.”
That is weird that someone would go close to the house in order to break windows. All of this is so strange.
Agree totally… I think they did this themselves to make it look like someone has been after them all along.
Unlikely. I think right now they would prefer not to get any attention at all because they have to know that most people can’t stand them. If one of them doesn’t come forward and tell the truth soon it’s going to be similar to the Casey Anthony case where angry people protest outside of that house until there is justice for Ayla. The kind of people who do this sort of thing mean well but are so mentally unstable that they act kinda crazy.
I rather agree with DJBrown…..people will do things to get the attention off them and onto something else. They may not do it consciencely, but to bring a “poor, poor me” kind of attention.
The police have made it clear that they know it wasn’t a kidnapping, and the public is not going to pity that family over a broken window when everyone knows that they KNOW where Ayla is and won’t tell.
Oh, I know that they want the public’s pity and they’re not going to get it. The only one people feel sorry for is Ayla. But, people who want to get the attention off them for one thing, will do something to steer the attention in another direction. This whole thing has gone on too long and no one is going to fall for it. They just need to tell what happened, cuz this isn’t going to go away. I don’t know how they sleep at night.
Kind of weird how “someone” would break windows now…but when Ayla was “taken” they just walked in the door and took her, nothing was distrubed and no one heard a thing. How foolish do those nutcases think the police are.
I being truthful am surprised it has taken this long for someone to do something to that house. I am not saying its right, but there are a lot of people hurting from this.. I pray she is recovered if not found alive and healthy. I can not even start to imagine what this family is going through. They need answers and if it means the recovery of their loved one to start the closure process.. I hope it comes soon.
I seriously doubt that anyone outside that home walked up to her two windows and broke them out with an object, perhaps a baseball bat, knowing that people were home, that the lawn has been posted with a “no tresspassing” sign, and probably thinking that the house is under surveillance or generally being watched by media. The family would be the only ones to know when no one was there watching. I think they did this themselves to try and make it look as if someone had it out for them… you know, some kind of baby abductor or something like that. I don’t believe anyone outside the home did this.
Do you not remember the zoo that took place outside Casey Anthony’s house.
Yes, I remember well… not one window got broken, not one bit of the Anthony’s property or belongings were harmed by the public or the media. People in Florida were even angrier than people up here and there were a lot more of them too. Heck the judge went out of his way to keep Casey safe for fear that the public would harm her. No one did… to this date still she has not been harmed by anyone. No member of her family or any of their belongings or property has been harmed.
Yes, I remember well that the public put a great deal of pressure on the Anthony family and I’m glad they did. The Anthony’s wanted to deal with Caylee’s disappearance the same way Justin’s family wants to deal with it… quietly and within their family. If this had happened I don’t think Caylee’s remains would have ever been found. I don’t believe the people of Maine are harming these people or their property. I think the family wants people to believe that so someone will feel sorry for them that the media is hounding them and maybe the media will back off. I hope they don’t back off… not until Ayla is found.
That said… I’m glad the public gave the Anthony family no privacy in this matter and as much as people expected the public to harm Casey – no one did. Because of the public interest Caylee’s body was eventually found and at the very least she was removed from the trash bag she was thrown in and taken out of the swampy grave she was tossed into and was laid to rest properly.
The public is not the bad guy in all this… in fact, the public hopes that Ayla is found alive. However, if she is deceased the public wants her found and laid to rest with dignity. It’s just unfortunate if the father, his friends and family don’t like the attention on them because Ayla disappeared from their home while they were there. Maybe if they told police all they knew then Ayla might be found. No, it’s not just the public who thinks that Justin and his friend and family are not telling all they know… law enforcement is closest to the facts in this case and that is what they think. I happen to believe them…
People in Maine are more apt to vandalize than people in Florida are. Up here people get a slap on the wrist for bad behavior. In Florida the police aren’t quite as understanding. Up here everyone knows each other in a community. That’s not the case in Orlando, Florida. The family wouldn’t break their own windows. I can’t imagine they have a lot of money to fix that now that they have retained a lawyer (based on a report that Elisha referred a reporter to a lawyer when they asked her a question.)
Not so… not so at all! I lived and worked in Florida for just over 7 years before returning to Maine a few years ago. I was Realtor there was very familiar with many communities in several different counties. I knew high crime areas and I can tell you that much of Orlando is a high crime area. For absolute certain Orlando has a much higher crime rate than Waterville, ME.
The very fact that Waterville, ME is a community where everyone knows everyone would be the biggest deterrent to vandalism in that area. Florida is high crime state, it’s a gateway to drug trafficking and home to many devious criminals who want to be somewhere where no one knows each other. These people would stand out like a sore thumb in any Maine neighborhood but not so in Orlando. Serious criminals typically do not care about people or their property. In fact serious criminals often flee to Florida after committing heinous crimes because Florida is a place where they can easily hide in plain sight. These people are far more likely, not less likely, to think nothing of commiting a little vandalism.
Orlando police aren’t at all like you think they are. Any homeowner who calls police because they think someone broke their window had better be prepared to meet some very pissed off officers. They’re busy… they really don’t have time to respond to petty nonsense like vandalism. Orlando police are busy respond to calls about domestic violence, gang wars, smuggling, drug busts, you name it… but certainly not broken windows. They wouldn’t do any more than advise you that you can press charges if you know who did it and if you don’t then you should file a claim with your insurance company. Then they would leave but not before making sure you understood not to bother calling them about this kind of petty nonsense. Vandalism is petty in Florida and probably wouldn’t even make it into the police blotter section of the daily news.
I’m surprised they didn’t sleep through it.
Well said.
Maybe there should be more community pressure put on these people and the girlfriend. They know exactly what happened.
Seems like the police and media pressure might already be getting to them.
They should water board everyone involved until the truth is known.
or keep them all in a room together with no drugs and see who talks first.
I thought all the people, dad, girlfriend, sister were evacuated from that house when Ayla went missing and it was reported? Isn’t the house vacant?
Since it’s basically a “crime scene” and the cops took evidence from the house, blood was found in the cellar, one would think that. I agree with you! If it is indeed a crime scene, it is now very badly contaminated.
The house was turned back over to them a few weeks ago…they’ve been in the house since then.
How can they be surprised by something they probably did themselves?
With all you jumping to conclusions and speculating , why is it so hard to believe one of you didn’t bash those windows?
Now THAT is really funny…. What a wonderful imagination you have!!! Haaa…. I seriously can’t wait to tell my grand kids that you think that maybe I or some of my friends were out knocking out windows with baseball bats! Yep, That’s us… the Old Bat and Ball Night Brigade! That’s just way too funny! Thanks for the laugh…
Hey… do you think that maybe one of us did it on the way to the drug store when we went to buy poise pads and Viagra but forgot why we were there and accidentally bought a baseball bat instead and then didn’t know what else to do with it so we started knocking out windows. Only then we discovered that we weren’t in Kansas anymore… oops, somehow we ended up at the DiPietro house! The public is not responsible for these people remaining in the spot light. The reason they are in the spot light is that Ayla is still missing and they’re not being truthful about what they saw and heard the night she went missing. I have a sneaking suspicion that when Ayla’s body is found that these shy folks will move to a new home – perhaps behind bars.
Once most women become someone’s mom they sleep much lighter. Think back to coming home late as a teenager-who was waiting up-MOM. “Did you hear that?” usually comes from MOM. The idea that not one person in that house heard anything that night is rediculous, especially when one of those poeple was a Mom and a Grandmother-they just don’t sleep that deep with a two year old in the house.
Except mom and grandmother weren’t in the house… get it right
you are right that the grandmother wasn’t there but the post didn’t say Ayla’s Mom, it said “a mom.”
the grandmother wasn’t there that night.
maybe…at first she was..then she wasn’t…that has always had me wondering.
Right but at first she lied and said she was
Excellent comment!!
Teach that grandma how to defend herself!
Grandma knows how to defend herself and her little boy, Justin…Someone needed to teach her how to protect her little grand-daughter, Ayla. This is a ploy to take some attention away from the whereabouts of Ayla. Maybe they know the police are getting close.
All in the koolaid and don’t even know the flavor.
I am still thinking Justin and his sister is protecting their mother.. She hasn’t been shown anywhere, not at the vigils, not on the tv, no articles in the news paper about her,, she is playing a good hiding act, and didn’t even know where she was when the baby went missing…
They probably don’t trust her to speak to the press. She already misspoke about being home on the night of Ayla’s disappearance. Maybe she can’t get the details right.
When children get hurt I think it’s easy for people to go into vigilantes mode.
I know but as I’ve tried to point out there is another child in that house, as innocent as Ayla. She needs protection both from vandals and her mother’s family. I think they are dangerous and she should be removed from her mother’s care, unless her mother has the good sense to move away from that house. The situation is unacceptable for her.
That is sick!
Time to move or get a surveillance system, neither of which they should have to do.
What’s next? A lynch mob complete with torches?
I agree with you. SAD. Does not speak well of our Maine citizenry.
I’m surprised that’s all that happened to them……
so far anyways,,
We know that a stone was not cast, and it’s a bit unbelievable that anyone would go that close to the home to hit the windows with a baseball bat or other object knowing people were home. So… maybe they did it themselves to make it look like they have been a target to someone all along. I don’t trust these people at all…
No State Police “eyes” of any kind on this house? This organization is turning Kennebec County upside down and they don’t have any kind of surveilance at ground zero?
If I was her I would have a gun and use it. This is what happens when we become a nation of inflammatory rhetoric.
But i doubt it very highly it was done, probably by someone in her family to get more attention to the matter. Its matter of time, days from nows that someone will be arrested
Sooner the better and remove the rest from suspicion.
Totally agree!
LOL. Inflammatory rhetoric? Guess that was what was responsible for all those deaths from murder each year. Please.
This is not the nation’s fault. She would not have this problem at all if she hadn’t lied about where she was the night her grand daughter went missing. She would have had the public’s sympathy if she had chosen to be honest. She is solely responsible for choosing to lie on national tv about where she was and what she knew related to Baby Ayla’s disappearance. Like it or not people respond negatively to lies – particularly when those lies affect the life of a very young child. No lie is ever “necessary”.
She wouldn’t want to shoot one of her own would she?
Thats speculation.
Well of course…
A tangled web of deception,
half-truths, indifference, and lies.
Loser adults with no consciences,
no character, and no alibis.
When the dust settles on this case,
And the truth be laid out bare
We’ll find low-life, self-centered people
who didn’t provide Ayla with loving care.
May there be no mercy from the judges bench
And they get the justice they have fully earned.
For Little Ayla certainly deserved a much better life
And for us , what lessons have we learned?
Last person to write a poem was interveiwed by the police.
You’re kidding, right? That’s messed up..
tell the police where ayla is and im sure the throwing will stop.
I doubt that, thats when someone with “good intentions” gone awry will torch the house and destroy unfound evidence, maybe hurt the other kids.
I would not be surprised if a lot of people feel like venting their collective frustration over this in such a manner. Human nature I guess. However, it serves no purpose. And when the rule of law breaks down, well, let’s not contemplate that. Let’s let the police do their jobs and due process play out. Anxious to see the perpetrator held accountable for this terrible act.
Well… personally I think the perpetrator lives in that house. I seriously doubt that anyone outside the home would walk up to that house and beat out two windows with a baseball bat knowing that people were home and that this house could be being watched by police or media. I think this is just more drama.
Don’t we all? But we aren’t the judge, jury and executioner. That’s all I am saying.
You need to know exactly what happened before you can pass judgment! You can’t accuse someone on what you think or believe, you need the facts! If you act on what you think, you are nothing more than a criminal yourself!
Hear, Hear!
Acting on what you think does not make anyone a criminal… unless of course you are thinking about committing crimes. All people have a right to think and to believe whatever they want to think or believe. Judgment passed by posters on a forum is not really relevant to anything vital.
If Ayla has been harmed, I would personally like to to be locked in a room with the person responsible for ten minutes to see how many bones I could break before they lost consciousness! So far I do not know who is guilty or what really happened, I only have my suspicions and what I think so to point fingers or break windows would make me a criminal too!
And your suspicions are trista right, would not surprise me
I see where you’re coming from now and I couldn’t agree more… I hope that this baby has not been harmed and is still alive. Sadly I don’t think she is and I, like the police, do believe these people do know more than they are saying. These people meaning everyone in the home that night – Justin, his girlfriend Courtney and his sister. I also believe that Justin’s mother knows more than she is saying too. No one does that if they are not in some way responsible for the child being missing and/or deceased unless they don’t want her found – especially not a loving father, a loving grandmother, a loving aunt and a loving friend. People may react differently to tragedy and crisis, but what are the odds that only the people in the home that night simultaneously became too traumatized to tell everything they know in order to bring Ayla back? Pretty unlikely… very unlikely. I agree with police that these people know more than they are saying and I think they know where Ayla is and what happened to her. If they won’t talk I hope police find the truth.
I agree, we must continue to pray for her safe return but if she has been harmed in any way I want to see the person or persons responsible dealt with properly. Let the punishment fit the crime!
I’m surprised somebody didn’t throw in a Molotov cocktail. Theres a lot of angry people out there because of whats happening.
Jesus I hope not. There is another baby in that house you know. For her sake, this is not acceptable.
Im surprised anyone herd the comotion!
Great Comment!
I agree
Who Really Gives a Sweet S*** If Windows were broken…Maybe it will scare them enough to stop hiding what they know really happened to that baby…they should be shaking in their boots!!!!
You’d do well in Iran, Afghanistan or some other third world country where proof is not needed.
You better keep your day job….
A bunch of missing baby blood in their basement isn’t proof?
Proof of what?
The headline and article here are 10,000 times better than the one published in the PPH. I called them out on it and they simply ignored my comment and refused to publish it. I didn’t say anything offensive, other than to them I guess. What I like about the BDN is that they will publish my criticism of them. Makes me feel like someone is listening even if I disagree with the paper most of the time.
I had a spooky dream last night that Ayla was trying to tell me something. I didn’t realize it was her until the end of the dream. I do hope in some way she is calling out to help us find her. Sorry to sound superstitious.
Dear Timothy B. Wilson thanks for taking down your post but I found it offensive. Just because you don’t have a spiritual bone in your entire body doesn’t mean you can disrespect others need for “hope” or “faith”. Or as you called it “drivel”.
A bat?… Hmmm…. OK! Could be a “first”… Maybe a “baseball” bat?
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I’m surprised that someone hasn’t used a baseball bat on Justin!
No matter what has happened – when people take the law in their own hand, and ruin peoples lives and property – this is not right. Belive me the truth will come out – but destroying peoples property – come on.
Among the potential “suspects” for who may have broken out two windows with a baseball bat or something like it are the people who live in that home. I personally think they did it themselves. Anyone living outside the home and following this case probably wouldn’t do this because they would be likely to think the house was under police surveillance or that the media was constantly watching. Would you be so bold… especially right after grandma posts a “No Trespassing” sign and people were home. Don’t forget who is telling this story to police… the same people who said that Ayla simply vanished and no one saw or heard anything. Are you telling me that they just started using Q-tips?
dj brown likes to repeat himself…….
What do you care? Akkadia Blue likes to post irrelevant comments having nothing whatsoever to do with the article…
Its not weird at all daddy and his co-conspirators broke the windows to support the kidnapping ruse designed to cover up whatever really happened to this baby.
They are starting to get scared and tripping up.. Lets see what Superman does next..
Hmm Maines version of the Casey Anthony drama…
Well we could all probably guess why people are showing hatred toward this household. Regardless, it doesn’t make it right. Let the law enforcement do their job instead of wasting the time ruining someone’s stuff when nobody has even been convicted for anything at this point.
Maybe those bath salts have arrived in Waterville and they altered someones judgment so the kidnappers returned to break the windows they forgot to break when they entered Dec. 16th when they supposedly kidnapped Ayla. Maybe we have now all entered into the “Twilight Zone.”
Doesn’t the criminal always return to the site of the crime…OH…Wait they live there never mind.
That’s a Saddam Hussein mentality.
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Nice…Justin and his tribe probably did it themselves to garner sympathy. Who walks up to a house with a bat and breaks windows out while people are in the house especially when there’s been so many people around the house lately. I have no sympathy for anyone in that house…come clean with what you know about your grand daughter and daughter.
you are so right justbeing
More than likely they broke the windows out themselves to try and get the communities sympathy back.
Grandma called the police but was she really even home when the windows were broke?? shes probably unsure right now what her story is…
Shocking my comment got flagged, but several on here are rude. Bangor daily needs new moderators soon
I know we have all been looking at the house she was in as being the responsible ones, but the one I am wondering about is her mom, I am not saying she hurt her but am wondering if she had something to do with her disappearance. I am sometimes wondering if she had Ayla taken out of the house and put some where safe.
The police have said several times that that scenerio doesn’t even pass the straight face test. Someone coming in from outside and taking Ayla with three adults and two other children in this tiny house is pretty much been completely ruled out.
I understand people are angry but this serves no purpose. Come on. What if the police need to get back into the home. This makes it more difficult. Let the police handle this and finish the investigation.
All they need to get back into the house is a search warrant…and with blood being found in the home and Ayla going missing from here I don’t think they’d have any trouble getting a search warrant for the house anytime they need it.
Taking bets they did it themselves. Taking from the Playbook of the ocCupiers.
What I want to know is how can they sleep through the night in the house where god knows what was done to that little innocent child…sick…just sick…it’s cause they have no conscience.
Oh my……they forgot to break a window when they abducted Ayla, so now they’ve returned after 49 days to try and provide the Dipietro’s with some evidence of an abduction. I’ll bet they didn’t shut an eye for the rest of the night, in fear they would all be abducted! Probably the first nights sleep they HAVEN’T gotten since December 17th, 2011. Sheer sarcasm on my part.
You’re very rude.
waterboard them
I have lived in many sketchy neighborhoods in my 50 year life, and in good ones, too, and only once was a window broken. And I knew who did it, afterward. It was not random. People don’t just wander around bashing in windows in random houses.
How was this random? This was an inside job on the families part or it was someone trying to be threatening. Eveyone knows where they live, the address is in every article.
My guess, Justin broke the windows to try in a lame excuse to back the abduction claim.
Doesn’t even make since…Wouldn’t someone just throw rocks or something from the road or at least a little distance from the house incase someone was awake or came after them? I also have read that the windows are 5ft up from the ground maybe someone brought their stepping stool too. The only people that would be brave enough to stand that close to the house and break not one but two windows is someone that knew no one would come running out after them (wouldn’t you get the hell out of there after you caused the noise that one window breaking would make, no, the theory is the person walked to another window and broke that one too — no wait — I forgot they must all sleep with sh*t stuck in their ears, they don’t hear anything once their heads hit the pillow)
There is snow on the ground — check out the boot prints and match them to one of the DePietro clan and see if we have a winner!
What the hell are you talking about…I’m stating my opinions in the COMMENT section of the paper — don’t like it don’t play in this section. I don’t even know what your talking about “cleaning up her act 90 mettings in 90 days” If you have suggestions for Trista about something that worked for you give them to her not me.
I love running my mouth — because I can, thank you very much — better run off to your meeting (perhaps anger management) not sure if that ones 120 meetings in 120 days or not but could be well worth your time!
Rut ro, i think we have another new poster. Not saying if its one of them though, because my comment will get removed
Be careful now Dkenzie…you said alias, that for sure could get you flagged. Your comments get removed before I even get a chance to read them. Too funny!
I gotta edit that comment, but i bet you it is who you think it is, its another name i dont recognize
I’m thinking your safe with that one :) I did look through the last few stories and don’t see Eastbrook commenting anywhere. I’m thinking someone changed their name.
Ill go with you on that one. Something is really wierd. New commenters, which i mean is not uncommon but lots and certain ones are not reappearing after so long
please, this is not nut that is pizzed, although I understand the frustration-this is an inside job, Elisha has no fear of staying in that home even though a ninja kidnapper allegedly and according to the 3 in that home took Ayla, it’s an inside job. Compare which windows were broken from the layout on NG on 2/1/12 and compare to the windows smashed, none are bedrooms…isn’t that convenient? I wonder if they remembered to break them from the outside in instead of from the inside out, surely they learned something from the story they are spinning about the ninja kidnapper coming in Ayla’s window that night, only to learn from MSP that the window didn’t even open from the outside. Nice attempt at the pity me play or attempt to distract attn from the real perps, the 3 in the home and more than likely I am adding Lance and Phoebe
Some of you people are unreal. I happen to work in the same building as the grandmother, and know her casually. My daughter brought my granddaughter to work a couple of days before this happened, and Phoebe stopped me later and whipped out pictures of Ayla, beaming from ear to ear with pride as she had an excuse to show off pictures of her granddaughter. The report I heard on the day this all went down is that she was so distraught when she called in to work, they could barely make out what she was saying.
Yet you folks are certain she was in on a big conspiracy.
Perhaps you assume a little too much.
A baby is missing from that house. You saw a picture of Ayla, did you ever see Ayla? She could have been distraught for many reasons. Perhaps she is beside herself with grief because something happened to her grand daughter on her sons watch. It doesn’t mean that she’s a bad person because her son did something or covered something up…what makes her a person that is disliked is because she isn’t being honest and therefore seems to be helping to cover up whats gone on in that house.
I totally agree and if Pheebs was so smitten by her why did’t she bother seeing her more than once before she was taken from Trista? She is not believable and hammering the no trespassing sign is a Cindy Anthony tactic, oh it was after she yelled at the reporter to get off her lawn. You would think she would want media attn for the grandbaby she was so proud of…
She didn’t seem to broken up when she was on t.v. saying that “nothing was different about that night” and she didn’t hear anything and she wasn’t the last to go to bed that night so she hadn’t checked the doors — all blatant lies. These are her words so what does that leave the public to think of her when later she says, oh I wasn’t home that night after all.
Here here. What is upsetting me is the other granddaughter of Phoebe’s. Is anyone really protecting that baby? She was there both the night Ayla supposedly went missing and Friday night. I don’t think she is safe in that house, especially around Uncle Justin. Elisha needs to think of her own child and get away from there ASAP. Oh yeah, and tell the truth about when and how Ayla went missing.
If she was so distraught, why did she lie and say she was home the night the disappeared
Naw…Too little too late…
How the heck can you NOT hear a window being smashed in WOW… The Aunt was in the room next to Ayla’s. Someone would have heard it. COME ON. HOW stupid do they think people are to believe they slept through all that.. A parents instinct… Any noise i hear i am UP
Ummmm what article did you read? The windows were reported broken on Feb 3, seven weeks after the child was reported missing and apparantly they did wake up as the owner called and said someone was thrownig things through the window.
I know me too. Fortunately I don’t have to rely on just myself or my husband to hear a noise as we have a rather large dog who will bark whenever she hears a noise outside our house. I can’t think of a better alarm system than having a dog who is alert and territorial. I take it there is no dog in that house. I guess it’s fortunate for them because how would they explain a stranger coming into the house undetected if they had had a dog in the house? Of course no one is buying that anyway but a dog would really throw a wrentch into their story.
Why would anyone else want to being their baby into a house where Alya mysteriously disappeared from not too long ago? Hmmm, curious.
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I personally would never do such a thing, but in this case they brought this on themselves. The community is extremely upset, and frankly I just don’t see how they can continue to live there. If they didn’t lie and pervert justice they wouldn’t get their windows busted out and everyone would know what has happened to Ayla. They need to come clean because who knows what someone might do next, and there is another little child in the house. I do hope they are thinking more of her safety than they ever did of Ayla’s. Perhaps they need DHHS breathing down their necks and questioning whether or not that baby is safe in that house, considering all that’s happened, she really should not be there anymore, IMO.
I’m not angry at all…I’m not the one making stupid reponses to someones comment that has nothing to do with what they’re commenting on. You happen to see my name and comment about your pent up anger over me making a comment “the other day” Get over yourself…I can’t even remember you.
There are other children in that house! The act of breaking the window isn’t about Ayla, isn’t for her or the person(s) wouldn’t endanger the other children, no matter how they might feel about the adults. Don’t frightening the other kids or cause them or pets injuries.
Now if anyone isn’t “getting” why the police don’t like to release certain information this is a perfect example.
It would be terrible for someone to do this IF indeed someone from outside the house did it. I can’t believe a mother would bring their small child back into a home where a child was “taken” from in the first place. Have they installed a security system or something to make sure that this wouldn’t happen to her child or is she sure nothing will happen to her child in that house because she knows who is responsible?
There are too many “if’s”, too many scenarios possible at this point.
I wish the energy people put into expressing their hate, they’d apply to making or finding jobs.
It’s disheartening to know that I live amongst people so ready to hang, without waiting to hear for everything. Kind of reminds me of watching a wheel on a car. It oftens looks like it’s going backwards but it’s really going forward.
Man you’ve got issues! This person is just letting you know where to report anything you might know. Talk about going after people — now run along you brave little man…this is day two of your 120 meetings and days.
Wow….. When others have been wrongly rude to you in other story postings, you hit the roof. Please, stop poking people no matter how” ill” you view them. I lost a lot of respect for you and your opinion after reading this exchange.
It is okay to agree to disagree without rancor, rudeness, attacks and sarcasm. I found this individual’s posts a bit hard to follow the logic, however, respect is what we all deserve.
NO ONE had a right to break the windows nor commit any form of vandalism against this family no matter what THEY decided the truth is, way it ought to be, etc. If it was done by a family member, it is still wrong. Good grief people, there is another child in the house whether anyone else thinks it is wise, wrong, etc…..
Let’s all think about the child still remaining and hope no harm comes from anyone within the home nor anyone from outside of the home. Terrorizing another person is wrong no matter what the reasoning may be. Place yourself in the shoes of Elisha’s child, please. (Even if you are a family member who did this.) Attempt to find compassion and empathy, please, all of us, family member or public.
Universe, please let this ego driven creation be over soon. Ayla deserves to rest and be in peace whether alive or dead.
Namaste!
If you look at the first comment of someone “poking” someone it was Eastbrook coming after me. I responded and will continue to do if he’d like to continue. As far as the windows being broken…I agree 100% no one should do something like that. My personal opinion is that it was done by either a family member or someone Justin knows, this is Just my opinion.
Someone has to be the one to stop the poking first. Continuing to “poke if he does” only causes more conflict and is unnecessary. Agree to disagree. It is non confrontational and allows each person to have their opinions and their dignity. It also resolves conflict. No response to “poking” allows it to disappear. I understand that it is human nature to respond and give as you get, however, it is the bigger person who does not respond with like for like.
I’ve seen you do it. I know You can. you have a very good heart.
Namaste!
The only justice in Maine seems to be vigilante. I personally wouldn’t go
throwing stuff at houses, or break things….however I can understand why they
did it. I feel sad for the child, not the killers…just sayin
sadly no matter what we sumise Ayla is still missing :(
The word is S-U-R-M-I-S-E
Thank you
From what i heard justin was not home that nite the window was broken? I still feel as though both parents know what happened to little ayla. As far as someome smashing out their window i suspect you need not look any further than somone who lives in that house.
How did they put baby in those pajamas with a cast on her arm?
The only justice in Maine seems to be vigilante. I personally wouldn’t go
throwing stuff at houses, or break things….however I can understand why they
did it. I feel sad for the child, not the killers…just sayin
Perhaps, since, according to the police, cognizant information is not being released from within, some who care about the young child are attempting to get answers from the outside, looking in. What ever happened to arresting those who the police say are being less than truthful for obstruction of a criminal investigation. Are the news outlets, BDN included giving a pass to those parading. community events, pleas, etc. instead of calling their numbers for accountability? Possibly.
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You must PROVE that those who are “being less than truthful’ actually are, in point of fact, lying. Then you must additionally prove that the alleged lying is actually obstruction. It is perfectly legal to lie to police, so long as those lies do not alter “the facts” concerned in an investigation.
The other mistake you make is to call the BDN a “newspaper. it was once, but now it is just a “shopper” they don’t do any “investigation” they paraphrase police reports.
What kind of a nit-wit would actually smash these windows out? The idea has to first enter your head. Then you see yourself actually making the trip to this house…going onto the property and start smashing the windows. (Perhaps with a baseball bat?) So from the beginning of the crazy thought to the actual act of destroying property, there are a lot of junctures along the way. where a person who contemplates this act would have cogent thoughts about going through with this ignorant, stupid act.
1. Such as, finding the implement to do the damage (maybe I shouldn’t do this?)
2. Leaving your house with the implement and the intention (maybe I shouldn’t do this?)
3. Getting in your car and proceed to drive to the DePietro house (maybe I shouldn’t do this?)
4. On the way to the DePietro house (maybe I shouldn’t do this?)
5. Reaches his or her destination…before getting out of the car with implement (maybe I shouldn’t do this?)
6. Gets out of car and goes on the property (maybe I shouldn’t do this?)
7. Begins smashing the windows (maybe I shouldn’t do this?…..too late)
Only a skull full of compost could perform such an idiotic act.
Maybe the Navy should send in its C.S.I. team she or he must be getting veterans benefits from the navy.
I wonder if the mother is involved in anyway? She seems somewhat disconnected but at least shows some emotion. And she did say she would let her polygraph be public when she does take one.
the mother is not being 100% upfront, in my opinion.
she keeps pointing the finger of blame at waterville people….but never at the father…..why is that?
take a look her this myspace pictures….starting with this one:
http://www.myspace.com/xoxoluckyxoxo06/photos/453825#{%22ImageId%22%3A453825}
I am all for te punishment for whomever has done anything to Ayla but you shouldn’t just start vandilizing the home of people that have nothing to do with it,including another small child.That to me tells me that they should move before anything DOES happen to the other child,which is so sad that in these times it’s hard to move even in the best of circmstances!
Just sayin…
How about that unbiased jury and courtroom.