It’s been 8 years since Ayla disappeared. Will she ever be found? Will her family ever know what really happened to her? How much longer can this go on with no answers and no justice?
Once you’ve seen her blue eyes and precious smile, you can never forget Ayla. None of us can. We can’t bring her back but we can remember her. Most of us only know Ayla through her family’s memories. Those memories keep them going from day to day and year to year. As sad as it is that Ayla is no longer alive, it would be so much worse if she were forgotten.
When you think of Ayla, what stands out to you? What makes her real to you? What is it about Ayla that stole your heart? After 8 years we keep watching and waiting for news about Ayla. This little missing Maine toddler has brought us together throughout the years and we’re still here for Ayla. Please share your thoughts of Ayla. Let’s remember her together.
I’ll try to find and add pictures of Ayla to this post if anyone remembers a favorite one. This one is similar to the one MsP mentioned.
Friends For Ayla 
mountain mama
December 16, 2019 at 9:12 pm
“This year just seems really hard to me,” Trista Reynolds, 31, said Sunday in a telephone interview from her Portland home. “It’s coming up on eight years, but nine years since Ayla and I had shared a Christmas together. I think emotions are running really high right now.”
Anonymous
December 17, 2019 at 5:12 am
❤
mountain mama
December 16, 2019 at 9:15 pm
https://www.wabi.tv/content/news/Anonymous-person-hangs-Christmas-card-on-Portland-tree-for-mother-of-Ayla-Reynolds-566254261.html
msp
December 17, 2019 at 4:55 am
Just a beautiful thing to do !
mountain mama
December 16, 2019 at 9:16 pm
https://wgme.com/news/local/mother-of-ayla-reynolds-plans-to-mark-anniversary-of-disappearance-privately
Anonymous
December 17, 2019 at 5:17 am
I don’t want to say their individual names today. But, if their is any chance someone could find their human heart today please speak on behalf of Ayla. Bring her home by telling the truth.
msperidot19
December 17, 2019 at 5:21 am
I am not going to say the individual names today the 17th. But, if there is any chance, I hope someone – just one of them – speaks up on Ayla’s behalf and tells the truth.
Deanie
December 16, 2019 at 10:40 pm
I hold on to hope that Ayla and Tristan gets justice. My heart breaks
msperidot19
December 17, 2019 at 5:26 am
What stood out to me was that Ayla was full of love for her family. She really enjoyed her life. She was vary curious and clearly was a people person as well as a doggy person.
Frankie Maines
December 17, 2019 at 2:10 pm
Her chubby little cheeks, and her big blue eyes. Making her laugh, and shopping for her. Watching her mom snuggle her at night in my house. Wishing she was still here to meet her cousin Naomi. I think they would have been great friends! Love you Ayla❤🙏😇💝
ConcernedUK
December 17, 2019 at 2:53 pm
My abiding memory of Ayla is her beautiful infectious smile which lit up her face and I’m sure made her loved ones love her even more. I’ll also not forget the utter heartbreaking anguish of Trista; no parent should ever have to endure the inexplicable loss of their child. Trista has had to live a positive life for her boys with courage and fortitude that I’m sure has tested her sanity many times. Eight years on and we’re still no closer to punishing those guilty of taking sweet Ayla’s life. This Christmas I’ll be thinking of Ayla and Trista and praying for answers in 2020.
ms.peridot19
December 17, 2019 at 11:02 pm
Do you remember that absolutely darling picture of Ayla kissing her little brother. Her face was so sweet and motherly even though she was so little herself. Trista is in the picture. I think her brother was in a bouncy seat or maybe it was one of those carry car seats? Anyway, I also got the idea from pictures and stories that Ayla definitely had some personality traits of her mother. And that they were definitely very bonded in a really good way.
mountain mama
December 17, 2019 at 11:21 pm
I couldn’t find the one you mentioned but I added a similar one to this post.
ms.peridot19
December 17, 2019 at 11:31 pm
Oh I love that picture. Thank You!
barbarag816
December 19, 2019 at 1:00 pm
I clearly remember the first time I saw Ayla’s face on TV. The reporter made it sound as if she had wandered away from the house and my heart broke thinking of that poor little darling out on a freezing cold December night in Maine. Then more news came that maybe she had been taken and I thought of her mother and wondered how she could endure having her baby gone for Christmas. From that first moment I could just tell that Ayla was as sweet as she was beautiful and her eyes and her smile just melted my heart. If I had ever had a baby girl I would have wanted her to be just like Ayla. I think of her every day and pray for her and her loved ones. May they find some peace and comfort in each other this holiday season.
(Justin’s demeanor and actions in those first few days were very telling and led me to feel he was guilty as sin, and I still feel that way.)
Let’s hope for justice in the new year. Thank you, MM, for keeping this site going.
Merry Christmas to all here!
Nina
December 29, 2019 at 3:41 pm
I haven’t given up hope.
barbarag816
February 3, 2020 at 4:01 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/baby-girl-died-suffered-catalogue-of-injuries-father-185525059.html
Another sweet little angel dies at the hands of her POS father. What cowards they are, the disgusting men who beat up on babies! The “I accidentally fell while holding her” excuse really reminded me of Ayla. Fly high, sweet angels!
msperidot19
February 5, 2020 at 11:26 pm
Today I keep thinking about what happened to Ayla – all of it.
mountain mama
February 5, 2020 at 11:37 pm
And there’s so much we don’t know.
msperidot19
February 6, 2020 at 10:10 pm
Oh yes !
barbarag816
February 25, 2020 at 2:32 pm
Prayers for the safety of sweet little Evelyn Mae Boswell.
ms.peridot19
March 5, 2020 at 4:37 am
A very sad case of another baby being missing. Since the Grandma did not have her… who else could have her?
Lee
March 8, 2020 at 9:20 am
It has been 3004 days since Ayla was reported missing.
msperidot19
March 9, 2020 at 4:59 am
😢
barbarag816
March 9, 2020 at 9:14 am
Wow…so many days since Ayla has been seen. Love and prayers going out to her.
Baby Evelyn Mae’s remains have been found. I didn’t think there’d be a happy ending for her, but hoped for it anyway.
msperidot19
March 15, 2020 at 9:25 pm
Barbara, I hoped too. I could not think how Evelyn could be alright other than with a relative, but who. I am still hoping she was loved and did not suffer. I hope it was a genuine accident. Obviously Evelyn deserves the truth and for legal justice if it was abuse.
msperidot19
April 3, 2020 at 3:21 am
one thing is for sure – everything is on hold for now. I sure hope everyone is doing well in Ayla’s family and with mama and everyone else who comes here.
mountain mama
April 3, 2020 at 8:15 am
Hey MsP. We’re okay here. Good to hear from you.
Vesna Cooper
April 4, 2020 at 12:16 pm
Happy 10th birthday, sweet Ayla Bell. Another milestone with no answers 😢
ms.peridot19
April 15, 2020 at 6:28 pm
😦
Fred H.
May 22, 2020 at 5:23 pm
Where’s Ayla?
msperidot19
May 29, 2020 at 3:31 pm
With thoughts of this precious angel Ayla ❤
msperidot19
July 13, 2020 at 10:33 pm
I am so glad this site is here for Ayla through these trying times. i am still seeing Ayla’s Angels on Facebook. Ayla is still waiting for her Justice. Trista and loving family are still waiting for the answers they deserve as well as Justice. So many of us are still waiting for justice for this precious baby and her family. We continue to hope, pray and dream of the day for truth to be told and for justice to be served.
mountain mama
July 13, 2020 at 11:03 pm
Hey MsP. Good to see you. I wish there was something new to post. We’ll never forget about Ayla.
msperidot19
July 13, 2020 at 11:18 pm
Good to see you mama. 🙂
mountain mama
July 13, 2020 at 11:25 pm
I hope you and everyone out there is staying healthy and safe. Our world is pretty crazy right now.
Nina
July 16, 2020 at 5:14 am
Cases that stick out to McCausland during his time with the public safety department include the 2003 arsenic poisonings at a church in New Sweden, the motor vehicle crash along the Allagash waterway in 2002 that killed 14 migrant workers, and the propane explosion in Farmington last fall that killed a firefighter and seriously injured several more.
But topping them all was the disappearance of toddler Ayla Reynolds in Waterville in 2011, which prompted the largest police investigation ever conducted in Maine and remains active. The child has never been found.
Ayla was 20 months old and staying with her father, Justin DiPietro, at his mother’s house in Waterville when he reported her missing on Dec. 17, 2011.
DiPietro denies he had anything to do with Ayla’s disappearance and he has never been charged. In September 2017, a probate judge ruled that the child was dead, opening up the right of the child’s mother, Trista Reynolds, to file a wrongful death lawsuit against DiPetro.
“I had hoped I would make the announcement of the case being resolved. But it will be resolved someday,” McCausland said.
mountain mama
July 16, 2020 at 12:35 pm
Thank you Nina. Hope you are well.
ms.peridot19
August 8, 2020 at 3:17 am
Thank you Nina.
Nina
August 26, 2020 at 4:48 pm
We need Justice for Ayla! What is happening? Any updates from the family?
mountain mama
August 26, 2020 at 4:51 pm
I haven’t heard anything recently.
ms.peridot19
August 26, 2020 at 11:09 pm
Hello mama ! I saw the following on facebook. (If I remember correctly you do not publicly use facebook.) And I wanted to make sure you are aware of this. (Also, I assume Trista is aware of this – as I cannot imagine Ayla not being included.)
Anyway, here it is for anyone checking in here that is from the area.
This is posted on Kim Moreau missing page:
Friday 8/28/20 be sure to watch channel 6 news in the morning. A new series starts on missing people and Kim’s featured first!
ms.peridot19
August 27, 2020 at 10:43 pm
This is a update on Kim Moreau’s story being told on channel 6. (I hope these stories being aired on tv will inspire people with knowledge – that the very missing person deserves the truth to be told. I also hope it helps their loved ones get the answers they so deserve.)
Copied from Karen:
” It is going to be a continuous series which will air every Friday on missing people. They will involve many families who are willing to tell their stories. They are trying to help spread awareness and closure to families who desperately need help. My sister Kim has been missing for 34 years. From day 1 her case was botched from the police who never put her information on the national database for other police to see for 4 months. We have been waiting for searches to happen all summer and here it is at the end of August and we are still waiting.”
Nina
October 22, 2020 at 7:47 am
Coming on nine years! Where is Justin? What is happening?
mountain mama
October 22, 2020 at 8:09 am
Good morning Nina. I wish I knew something but I don’t.
What are they hiding?
November 20, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Can anyone give us an update? All I know is everyone connected lives are in the crapper. Can’t be going that well in court, eh? If the point of the lawsuit was to get information, why is no information coming out?