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Stolen Lives True Crime

123: Ayla Reynolds

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4619 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The disappearance of toddler Ayla Reynolds


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Research and script writing by Ali


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Music by Myuu

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0:00.0

December 2021.

0:11.3

9-1 received a phone call from a panicked father.

0:14.6

Actually, no rewind of that.

0:16.6

911 would receive multiple phone calls from a panicked father.

0:22.6

His phone kept cutting out and he would have to call back to report his 20-month-old daughter missing. This would be a point of contention

0:27.9

in the decade that followed. A baby with a broken arm goes missing overnight from her cot.

0:33.5

There are no signs of a break-in and no sign of what happened to the baby.

0:42.5

What will follow will be one of the most frustrating and rapid hold-filled cases you have ever heard.

0:47.2

All we know is Ayla are still missing, and there are no answers where this baby could be.

0:49.4

This is Ayla's story.

0:56.0

A happy Ayla Reynolds dancing around her living room. She was just 20 months old when she disappeared from her father's Waterville home a week before Christmas, 2011.

1:03.0

It's been nearly six months since Justin DePetro told police his daughter was abducted.

1:07.0

Her father, Justin DePetro, reported her missing on December 17th, telling

1:12.3

police he put her to bed the night before and she must have been abducted. In the days,

1:18.1

weeks and months that followed intensive searches in and around 29 Violet Avenue, a five-mile

1:24.6

radius around the home. Trista Reynolds and Justin DePetrio had known each other for quite a long time, but they were never really in a relationship.

1:33.3

They were in the same circle of friends, they knew each other kind of thing.

1:37.3

Ayla was an unplanned pregnancy given they were only casually seeing each other and still quite young.

1:42.3

They were in their early 20s.

1:45.3

When Trista told Justin she was pregnant with his baby, Justin actually didn't believe he was

1:49.8

the father, telling Trista if she was going to go through with this, that was on her, and he wanted

1:55.5

nothing to do with her or the baby. Aela Bell Reynolds was born Aprilth, 2010, and Trista would comment right away that she

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