Family of Missing Maine Mother Pleads for Her Safe Return

Krista Dittmeyer is happy and outgoing, a single mother who loves her baby daughter. She is also someone who doesn't have enemies who would want to harm her, her mother and sister said today, pleading for her safe return.

Dittmeyer, of Portland, Maine, last spoke to her relatives on Friday, and her mother was expecting her on Easter Sunday. But she vanished overnight.

Her black Nissan Sentra was found at 6:30 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the Cranmore Mountain Resort in Conway, N.H., about 65 miles from her home. Her 14-month-old daughter, Aliyah, had been left asleep in the abandoned car, which was found running with its hazard lights on.

Authorities searched the area but found no sign of Dittmeyer. The FBI joined the investigation on Tuesday, and Dittmeyer's family offered a $3,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts.

Her mother and sister said she is a loving mother who had not been troubled.

"I don't believe she had anybody [that] had a vendetta against her," her mother, Lanell Shackley, said on NBC's "Today" show. "She's very lovable, very outgoing. I've asked all her friends. They tell me the same thing. They don't know who would want to do something to hurt her."

Shackley spoke to her daughter by phone on Friday night and planned to see her on Sunday. "It was brief, and she was normal," Shackley said of the call.

Kayla Dittmeyer spoke to her younger sister Friday morning. She told "Today" she hadn't detected any behavior changes in her sister.

"I never noticed anything at all," Dittmeyer said. "She seemed always happy. I actually talked to her that morning ... and nothing seemed out of the ordinary at all.

"She's a very loving mother," her sister said. "I just know she never would have abandoned her daughter, ever."

Her family said she has friends in the Conway area, but they don't know what she was doing there.

Police are examining Krista Dittmeyer's car and cellphone records, as well as another car, whose owner has not been identified, NBC reported. Police are treating her disappearance as a missing person case, but they don't believe she's a runaway, the network said.

"We are analyzing physical evidence that we've seized as well as reviewing the cellphone records and analyzing them for clues," Conway Police Dept. Lt. Chris Perley told "Today."

He would not comment on reports that blood was found in her car. He was not available to comment to AOL News today.

Aliyah's father, Kyle Acker, is serving an 18-month prison sentence for drug trafficking in Maine, NBC reported. Police would only say that he was not in the area when Dittmeyer vanished, according to NBC.

Shackley would not comment on whether Acker, her daughter's former boyfriend, could have been involved in her disappearance.

"I would like to focus it more on finding my daughter," Shackley said on "Today."

Shackley is caring for her granddaughter, who was checked out at a hospital after being found alone. She said Aliyah is used to sleeping with her mother and is missing her terribly.

"She's been crying a lot at nighttime and very clingy to me," Shackley said. "In the daytime, she's very happy. It's the nights she's having a hard time with."

She pleaded for her daughter's return.

"I know you're out there. I love you. Aliyah loves you, your sister and your whole family loves you," Shackley said on "Today." "We want you home, safe and sound. Whoever has her, just please drop her off wherever. Just let her be found, please. Just let her be found."