Thin Line: Love/Hate

As we all know, detectives met with the DiPietro family in October; the discussion was frank, and McCausland views it as positive. 

FYI:  frank-/fraNGk/Adjective. Open, honest, and direct in speech or writing, esp. when dealing with unpalatable matters.

Somehow, members of a certain cult blog have found a way to spin the nature of the meeting with the DiPietros. At the same time, those people have not managed to find a way to explain the apparent lack of communication between Trista and law enforcement. Why isn't U4A up in arms about this? There must be someone they can send a petition to?!

Anyway, I took a look back at some of the things she has said regarding police, and I found a few statements of interest----

12/23/11-"Everything I'm hearing I'm hearing from news reporters," Trista Reynolds said. "I'm just like everybody else out there right now. I'm not hearing from any detectives, any state police, nothing — just what I hear on the news."

02/15/12-Trista Reynolds said that although police haven’t confirmed it, she is not a suspect. She said part of the reason for that is that police have told her things about the investigation.

05/18/12-Trista Reynolds said it's rare that she gets updates from police these days, but she continues to hope that there will be a tip that helps police crack the case.

05/20/12-Earlier this month, Reynolds was told that investigators planned to show her photographs of those items, but that hasn't happened yet, she said. "I don't know when I will be seeing what was found," she said. Reynolds said she felt mixed emotions upon learning that some items are not related to the case."I'm irritated, angry, frustrated and sad," she said. Reynolds said her frustrations also extend toward state police. "I think they could be doing a lot more than what they're doing," she said. McCausland said Friday that he understands Reynolds' frustration and the frustrations of other people who have been following the case for five months.

06/01/12-While McCausland said he talked to Trista Reyolds before the press conference, in an interview with reporters after the news conference, she said she had not heard from police, that she had been in appointments and had not been near a telephone early Thursday.

12/13/12-
...Ayla's mother Trista Reynolds said the silence from police has become disquieting. Reynolds said she used to receive regular updates from state police detectives, but hasn't heard anything lately. "They don't call me," she said. "The only time I hear from them is if I call them and leave them a message. The detective that I work with will call me, but they don't freely call me like they used to."

12/28/12-Reynolds said a meeting scheduled for Dec. 19 was canceled by a detective who told her it would be rescheduled later that week. "I still haven't heard from them," Reynolds said Thursday. Investigators were planning to show Reynolds items that were recovered from the Kennebec River during a search of the Lockwood Dam on April 25, she said. They also planned to present her the same information that investigators shared with members of Ayla's paternal family -- father Justin DiPietro, aunt Elisha DiPietro and grandmother Phoebe DiPietro -- in October, Reynolds said. "They've been doing this for six months," she said of the delays. "Six months ago, when all this stuff came up in the river, they told me they wanted to sit down and show things to me, and they still haven't done it. Now they're playing games with me."

12/29/12-After complaining Maine State Police cancelled a schedule meeting on the case of her missing daughter Ayla, Trista Reynolds told the Morning Sentinel the meeting has been rescheduled. Ayla Reynolds has been missing for more than a year. Trista Reynolds said this week the cancelled meeting would have focused on reviewing materials found during the search. She said police contacted her Friday to reschedule the appointment for next week.

Is it just me, or does it seem like Trista displays a concerning pattern of passive-aggression? She says horrible things about Justin in the media, and then wonders why he won't talk to her. She has essentially done the same thing to law enforcement. It's okay for her to be frustrated with the lack of progress in the case, but to say investigators aren't doing enough? To lie on investigators? What the hell is this woman's problem? To publicly say these things about the only people who can bring your daughter back to you baffles me. Next thing you know, she'll be threatening to sue them.

Trista may have hit the nail on the head. She said part of the reason she was not a suspect is because they told her things about the investigation. Now that they are not telling her anything, not showing her photos as promised, and cancelling/rescheduling meetings, can we safely assume that she is now a suspect? Hmm...

By the way, the fact that members of the paternal family have already been told the information that they keep withholding from Trista is intriguing. Are they not telling Trista because it implicates her? Because she might run her big mouth to the media and jeopardize the case? Or some other unknown reason? Your guess is as good as mine, but the whole thing is interesting.