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THE HEREBY SIGNPOST DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE SUFFERED AS THE RESULT OF ANY ADVERTISEMENT IN THIS NEWSPAPER. THE SIGNPOST IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CLAIMS OR REPRESENTATIONS THE SIGNPOST MADE IN DOES NOT ENDORSE, ADVERTISEMENTS IN PROMOTE OR THIS NEWSPAPER. THE ENCOURAGE THE SIGNPOST HAS THE SOLE PURCHASE OR SALE AUTHORITYTO EDIT AND OF ANY PRODUCT OR LOCATE ANY CLASSIFIED SERVICE ADVERTISED ADVERTISEMENT AS IN THIS NEWSPAPER. DEEMED APPROPRIATE. ADVERTISEMENTS THE SIGNPOST RESERVES ARE THE SOLE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE RESPONSIBILITY OF ANY ADVERTISING. SIGNPOST POLICY Foul play suspected in Maine child's disappearance By David Sharp writer I Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Police investigating the disappearance of a toddler from her father's central Maine home two weeks ago said Friday they believe foul play was involved, but investigators tried to remain optimistic even as the job of law enforcement officials becomes more difficult with each passing day. Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey announced Friday night that the case "has evolved from the search for a missing child to a criminal investigation." In a statement, the chief said the conclusion about the disappearance of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds was based on evidence that has been gathered over the past two weeks, but he didn't elaborate. He said state police would take the lead on the investigation. On Friday, a team of evidence technicians from Massachusetts joined Maine State Police at the Waterville home where Ayla was last seen and was reported missing by her father. `All of our efforts continue to locate Ayla. Although this is beginning the third week, we remain hopeful," Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. He declined to say what the technicians were looking for. Ayla's father, Justin DiPietro, told police he last saw her when he put her to bed the night of Dec. 16. He reported her missing when she was nowhere to be found the following morning. Before she vanished, Ayla was wearing green polka dot pajamas with the words "Daddy's Princess" on them and had a soft cast on her broken left arm. Extensive searches of woods, waterways, fields and private properties around Waterville, a city of 16,000 residents 20 miles north of the state capital, Augusta, have failed to turn up anything. The day after Christmas, investigators announced a $30,000 reward, the largest ever for a missing person case in Maine, for information leading to Ayla's whereabouts. McCausland on Friday declined to discuss whether any of the 300-plus leads had borne fruit for investigators. He also declined to talk about suspects or evidence that has been gathered. He said DiPietro and Ayla's mother, Trista Reynolds, of Portland, were cooperating with investigators. There were news reports Friday that two cars seized from the Waterville home were returned to DiPietro and an unidentified woman. McCausland declined to confirm those reports. Investigators put up crime scene tape at the father's home last week Outside the home, about 75 miles from Portland, a pile of teddy bears and stuffed animals were piled at a makeshift shrine. Ayla was placed in her father's care while her mother was in a substance abuse rehabilitation program, which she completed. Trista Reynolds, making an appeal on national television on Thursday, said that she had questions for DiPietro but that he had not returned her calls since their daughter went missing. She previously raised concerns about Ayla's treatment while in her father's care after the girl broke her arm, which police said happened in an accidental fall. She had no further comment Friday night, her sister said. DiPietro couldn't be reached for comment Friday night. The Associated Press has been unable to find a telephone listing for him, and he has not been at his home, which is empty. A few days before Christmas, DiPietro, addressing the public for the first time, said in a statement he had "no idea what happened to Ayla or who is responsible." He said his family and friends would do "everything we can to assist in this investigation and get Ayla back home." "I would never do anything to hurt my child," he said Wednesday in another statement. team looking at people with Former FBI profiler Clint access to her, such as relaVan Zandt said Friday that tives and family friends, and the odds of finding a child another group looking at the lessen if he or she isn't found potential for an abduction within the first day or two by an outsider or stranger, of disappearing. But he said Van Zandt said. Under both there's always reason for op- scenarios, he said, the odds timism, noting that there are are that the person who even rare cases of missing took Ayla knew something children who turn up years about her or her family. later in someone's care. Strangers' abductions "If you don't get this child of children do occur, but back real quickly, you know they're rare, accounting for that it gets harder and hard- only 105 to 115 children out er," he said. "But you can't of 750,000 to 900,000 missgive up hope." ing-persons cases each year Scott Bernstein, founder in the United States, Van of Child Recovery Inter- Zandt said. national, a New York CityVan Zandt, who has based organization that worked similar cases, said helps find missing chil- Ayla's disappearance, which dren, agreed the first hours once had more than 80 of an investigation are key searchers and law enforcein tracking down missing ment officers involved, has children as young as Ayla. been difficult for law enforcAlthough the situation looks ers as well as for distraught bleak, there's still room for family members. hope, he said. "As an FBI agent working "One percent hope - these cases, you never turn but I'll go for that 1 percent off the emotional porch hope," he said. light," he said. "You always After Ayla went missing, leave on the light with the law enforcement officials hope that the child will likely divided their investi- come home again." gation into two parts, one Family seeks answers to shooting of CA veteran By John Rogers writer I Associated Press opposing team's players to that prompted him to forgo the referees was laughing. college for the Army. "I said, 'You played the "He was signed up to go whole game with a penalty to college, and he comes flag in your pants?'," Monica home right after school one recalled. "He said, 'Yeah, it day and goes, 'Mom, I signed was bothering me, but I had up for the Army instead," to wait for the perfect time to Brandon Sullivan recalls. "It throw it." was a shocker to all of us." After high school, Sullivan Friends and family say got into mixed martial arts, Sullivan doesn't see himself hoping he might someday as any kind of hero because make that a career. After of his war injuries and several successful amateur doesn't like to talk about bouts he had turned pro and what happened when he was won his first fight, although stationed in Afghanistan last he never bragged about it. December. "He doesn't tell people Now, his coach is praying because he doesn't want that he will be saved again. people to be intimidated by "Everybody is," Monica him," Baltimore said. said quietly. His ultimate dream, friends and family say, was to someday buy a nice home for his family and open a gym 6 7 8 9 2 4 3 1 5 where he and all his friends 4 2 1 7 5 3 9 8 6 could work out. "He takes great care of 9 3 5 8 6 1 4 2 7 7 1 6 4 9 2 8 5 3 his mother and his brothers 8 4 2 3 7 5 6 9 1 and sisters," said neighbor Michelle Mueller, who lives 3 5 9 6 1 8 2 7 4 next door on a leafy block of 5 8 7 2 3 6 1 4 9 1 6 4 5 8 9 7 3 2 modest homes that is tucked into a corner of town just 2 9 3 1 4 7 5 6 8 LAT TE I DECA 11 WAR below the foothills. AFOOT ETHEL I RE It's a house Baltimore said MARKETSHARE NBA HENS MANOR Sullivan pressed the family PRAY H O M E C O MP OER A to move to, to get his siblings ETA I L A S AN away from street gangs. THISL I TTLEP IGGY USONE As the family's oldest HOR A NEA PINS N son, it was Sullivan's desire RO A STBE SUB DUCHY E N TR PREP to provide for his single ASK NONETOOSURE mother and four siblings WEE CREME JESSE Solutions cc . la It's hard for friends to grasp that because no one they knew embraced life more than Sullivan. He excelled at wrestling and football at San Bernardino High School in this gritty, working-class city of 210,000 that generally goes unnoticed by people passing through on their way to Las Vegas or mountain resort towns. "The one thing that kept him away from playing college ball was his size," Monica said. "He was probably 5-feet-10 and 180 pounds, but his heart was as big as a 6-foot-5, 300-pounder." A relentless prankster, he also pulled the greatest practical joke Monica can remember. In the last game of his high school career, his team losing, the clock running out, Sullivan sought out the biggest guy on the opposing team, tackled him after the ball was dead, picked him up and attempted to toss him over his shoulder. When the angry referee threw a penalty flag at him and shouted, 'You're out of here," Sullivan pulled his own penalty flag out of his pants and shouted, "No, ref, you're out of here." By the time Monica got to the field, everyone from the 121 ,0 1:1 IMO ii Om wrong, why did the guy run?" asked Peter Baltimore, one of Sullivan's closest friends. "Why didn't he wait until the cops got there and tell them his side of the story?" And, he asked, why did Jurado, who once played football with Sullivan but was not a close friend, have a loaded gun? `Any real friend of Chris would not have brought a gun to a party," Baltimore said, stopping to rest his head in his hands and compose himself as he sat on a friend's living room couch. Sullivan remains hospitalized in critical condition. With a tube assisting his breathing, he's only able to answer yes or no questions from family and friends by blinking his eyes. He has shown signs of improvement, according to his 20-year-old brother, Brandon. When his mother recently told him one of his nurses was exceptionally pretty, he smiled and moved his eyes to check her out. When he is strong enough, his brother said, he will undergo surgery. After that, doctors have told the family they'll have a better idea of his prospects for long-term recovery. For now, they say it appears he will remain paralyzed from the neck down. CIO El m El SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Christopher Sullivan's family and friends figured the soldier had already been through one of the most difficult challenges he could face when he survived a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan last year. Now, the 22-year-old Army specialist is facing an even greater one. He lies in a Southern California hospital bed, paralyzed from the neck down, after he was shot trying to break up a fight at his welcome home party last week. Friends of the soldier say it was a miracle he survived the suicide bombing that killed six of his fellow soldiers. Sullivan, who tried to save his comrades, was left with broken bones and a brain injury that took months to heal. This week, theyare praying for another miracle, one that will let him walk again, as they try to understand how someone who came so close to dying may now have to live the rest of his life paralyzed. "He's on a mission. He comes back And then ..." said his high school football coach, Dominic Monica, his voice trailing off as it thickened with emotion and began to crack Sullivan, who received a Purple Heart, figured he could once again be crazy Chris, the fun-loving, prankpulling guy who was looking forward to getting together for a party at a friend's house, just as he had done the year before. It was approaching midnight on Dec. 23 when, according to Sullivan's family, an argument broke out among some party-goers over the merits of various NFL football teams. When punches began to be thrown, Sullivan, always the peacemaker, according to friends, stepped in to break it up. He was shot twice, one of the bullets ripping through his spine. The shooter fled before police arrived. Ruben Ray Jurado, 19, surrendered to authorities three days later. On Thursday, he pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and is jailed on $1 million bail. Shortly after he surrendered, Jurado's lawyer, Michael J. Holmes, said his client was being beaten and kicked by party-goers and was defending himself when Sullivan was shot. The soldier's family and friends emphatically dispute that account. "If Chris was in any way GST L TYR OTHER |