Waterville and Winslow fire personnel and state game wardens search yards and outbuildings on Dec. 17, 2011, in the Violette Avenue neighborhood in Waterville for signs of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds.
Authorites clear Messalonskee Stream of ice with an airboat in 2012 near North Street bridge in Waterville. Dive teams from the Maine Warden Service and the Maine State Police searched the stream and Kennebec River repeatedly after the December 2011 disappearance of Ayla Reynolds.
Trista Reynolds, left, and Justin DePietro, right, parents of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds, speak in January 2012 on the steps of Waterville City Hall during a vigil in Castonguay Square, a few weeks after Ayla was reported missing.
Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, is surrounded by law enforcement officers and news media representatives on Oct. 22, 2013 during a news conference on Nike Lane in Oakland, after a search in the case of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds.
An October 2013 search in Oakland in the Ayla Reynolds disappearance was the last search until several smaller searches this summer.
A teddy bear shrine grew on the lawn at 29 Violette Ave. in the days after Ayla Reynolds’ disappearance. It is seen here on Christmas Day 2011.
Ayla Reynolds was 20 months old when she disappeared from her father’s Waterville home on the night of Dec. 16-17, 2011.
State police Detective Sgt. Jeff Love, seen in December 2014, stands with the files of the Ayla Reynolds case at his barracks in Augusta. The investigation into the Waterville toddler’s disappearance is the largest in the state’s history, police say. Love oversees the investigative team.
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