WATERVILLE (AP) — Dive teams from the Maine Warden Service and the state police will begin searching bodies of water around Waterville today for a toddler who’s been missing since December.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said the teams will continue searching for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds. The girl was reported missing from her father’s home on Dec. 17.
A stretch of the Messalonskee Stream was drained nearly dry on Dec. 21 so wardens could get a better look, both from the ground and from an airplane overhead.
McCausland said the additional bodies of water that will be searched were selected by the warden service. He said the locations of the dives will be made public today. Diving will begin in the morning and continue throughout the afternoon.
Meanwhile, Ayla’s mother said Tuesday that she has spoken to the girl’s father but still has unanswered questions about the disappearance.
Trista Reynolds said she still isn’t getting “the whole truth” about what happened in Justin DiPietro’s Waterville home on the night her daughter went missing.
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