Season 2, Episode 2 – The Microscope

Frozen Truth

Scott Fuller

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The media coverage of Ayla’s disappearance was intense.

Rob Poindexter joins me on this episode.

At the time Ayla disappeared, Rob was the Central Maine Bureau Chief for WABI TV5. His office was on Main Street in Waterville.

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0:00.0	Previously on Frozen Truth.
0:04.2	That is our primary focus, folks.
0:06.3	It's to find a 20-month-year-old little girl who has now been missing at least 45 hours.
0:11.7	The amount of blood they found inside the house where Aila was staying was a little more than just a little.
0:19.5	We feel that they know more than they've told us.
0:22.6	He is very strictly reporting his daughter missing.
0:25.6	We want to be candid and upfront based on everything we know.
0:28.6	We think it is highly unlikely that Aila Reynolds will be found alive.
0:33.6	We're approaching this as an open mind.
0:35.6	There are all types of possibilities and we need to see where the information and the evidence lead us.
0:40.7	He fought for custody of ELA. He was granted custody by the state. He took out a life insurance policy on ELA.
0:47.1	Is that a legal? Ask him.
1:11.6	The largest and longest lasting in and most expensive search for a missing person in the history of the state of Maine was not for a fisherman lost at sea or a hiker lost in the woods, but for Ayla Reynolds, who was under two years old when she apparently disappeared in the middle of the night.
1:19.6	The next day, police search dogs, along with FBI agents and local volunteers and neighbors, scoured the area. The initial ground search lasted for nearly two weeks.
1:22.6	Good evening. I'm Steve Minnick-in for Tracy Sable.
1:25.6	Three days after 20-month-old
1:27.8	Ayla Reynolds vanished from her bedroom in Waterville. State police, the FBI, and
1:32.3	dozens of other officers still have not been able to locate the young girl. The toddler
1:37.3	disappeared from her home on 29 Violet Avenue in Waterville. Investigators think she
1:42.7	went missing sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. Rightville, investigators think she went missing sometime between Friday night and
1:45.6	Saturday morning. Right now, investigators have no suspects and no one in custody and are treating
1:51.6	it as a missing person's case. News 8's Cam Tram is live from our Auburn studios on how the
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