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    Missing Baby Lisa Irwin Case: One Week In

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    It was a week ago tonight that Kansas City, Mo. baby Lisa Irwin disappeared from her crib. The search for her has been hampered by a lack of specific leads and at one point friction between her parents, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, and police. Irwin and Bradley reported that Bradley put the baby to bed about 10:30 p.m., and that Irwin returned home from his night shift at about 4:00 a.m. to find the front door open, lights on, and the baby missing from her crib. The couple's three cell phones were also taken from the home, they said.

    These are the latest developments in the case:

    * Police acknowledge that Lisa's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, are now cooperating with them. On Thursday, police said the couple stopped cooperating with them but Irwin and Bradley said they were taking a break.

    * Police have been questioning neighbors about a local handyman who hasn't been seen since baby Lisa disappeared.

    * In a re-enactment of a how a possible kidnapping could have occurred on Sunday, detectives climbed through the window of the Irwin-Bradley home. The window was one the couple said had been tampered with the night their baby disappeared. The police re-enactment, which involved more than a half-dozen efforts to climb in the window, showed that that climbing in the window would have been awkward and probably noisy.

    * Deborah Bradley, who repeatedly presented herself in the media as Jeremy Irwin's fiancée, is legally married to another man, the Daily Mail reported Monday. Her husband is Sean Bradley, and the couple has a 6-year-old son together. That son is one of the two boys living with Bradley and Irwin. The other is Irwin's son from a prior marriage. Sean Bradley's family reportedly told reporters for Kansas City's Fox 4 that Sean and Deborah have been separated four years but did not divorce because of the cost. They also said she is a good person and they don't believe she would harm her baby.

    * Jeremy Irwin's sister Ashley and friends of the family handed out copies of the Lisa Irwin missing persons flyer at the Kansas Speedway Sunday.

    * Bradley and Irwin are setting up a trust fund to take donations for a reward for information leading to the return of their daughter.

    * The Kansas City Crime Stoppers TIPS hotline says it generated at least 148 of the 250 tips given to police in the case. The hotline has generated leads that helped law enforcement solve 10,000 cases in its 29-year history, with number 10,000 occurring last week.

    * Kansas City's Northland neighborhood residents held a vigil Sunday night to pray for Lisa Irwin's safe return.

     

    23 comments

    • Wesley  •  7 mths ago
      How many Parents out there would agree,that it is beyond comprehension, to even imagine what the outcome of this will be...And i bet the majority of parents would agree , when i say that i would GLADLY, give my life, for ANY child...yours,mine,ours, doesn't matter to me...a child is a Child, and i would trust that people out there, would protect my child,as much as their own... But it pains me, to see a picture of this innocent child, knowing the odds are against finding her, safe and sound...but also prepare for the worse.......

      The World is a savage place for children, in this day and age......
    • NavyBrat  •  7 mths ago
      How does all of the phones end up getting taken from the house? I always keep my cell phone right next to my bed in case of an emergency. As a mother to an infant myself, unless I have the baby monitor on in my child's room, I would never close my door to my room. How are you supposed to hear if your child cries in the middle of the night if you dont have either a baby monitor or your door open? Doing either would have allowed the mother to hear if anything was going on in the house. I am very suspicous of the mother because of her actions. Also I would never take a break from cooperating with people trying to find my child, I don't think I would even be able to sleep if my child was missing.
    • TOMMY  •  7 mths ago
      Sumthins fishy in Denmark folks !!
      • Wesley 7 mths ago
        Missouri, too !
    • Mary Wensing Dvorachek  •  7 mths ago
      I hope they find the baby soon, so she can be reunited with her parents.
    • user1913  •  7 mths ago
      there is no reason for anyone else to take the baby..there is no likelyhood they would get ransom from this group so thats ruled out. This only leaves the liklihood that the parents are involved. Surely someone will break down eventually and tell where they buried the baby. The crime scene was evidently staged police could not re-enact the kidnapping so all signs point back to the parents. The father was working so hes out. Now onto the killer...baby mama..where did she hide the body is the only questin that remains.
      • Alf 7 mths ago
        There is always a reason for some nut case to take a baby
    • Vinnie  •  7 mths ago
      As it turns out, mom was caught on a video camera at the local grocery store at 5 PM the night Lisa disappered with an unknown man, buying wine. Seems mom had a lover! It is probably the "handyman" that the cops are looking for. Maybe this is really Lisa's "father", who knows! If they find the lover, they will find out what happened to the girl. I hope that he has her and she is still alive. Makes me wonder if the lover was at the house and high-tailed it out the window when Mr. Irwin came home. That might be the man the neighbors claimed they saw walking down the street with a baby.
    • Randy  •  7 mths ago
      Something doesn't seem right here
    • Kendra  •  7 mths ago
      Does anyone edit or proof these articles??
    • Me  •  7 mths ago
      WOW i just read "Gone Baby Gone" and i just dont believe the parents, dont know if its the book or not but one of the two if not both parents seem to be lying

      (I know i have bad grammar and spelling, i dont need it corrected)
    • Eileen  •  7 mths ago
      I know everyone reacts differently, but as the mother of six, I have tried to imagine how I would feel if my baby were missing. I cannot imagine any other response than total hysteria. I would live at the police station, I would beg early on for a lie detector so their focus would not be on me but on finding who took my baby, I would hardly be sane and I know I would not be able to stop crying. Maybe none of this would be "helpful" by any standards, but it would be my response nevertheless. You cannot blame the police for being suspicious of calm parents who "need a break" from questioning. I would not be able to "take a break" until my baby was in my arms again and I would gladly answer anything they thought of as possibly pertinent. I just hope and pray that baby Lisa is found safe, that her parents had nothing to do with her disappearance, and that the police apprehend whoever took her.
    • hitman  •  7 mths ago
      when is the mom going to come clean , she knows!
    • Dr. Brown  •  7 mths ago
      Like the police or hate them, they should be cooperating and do everything in their means to bring their child home as soon as possible
    • Charlotte  •  7 mths ago
      My question is do you make it a habit of going to bed with a window & door open knowing that there is a 10 month old baby in the house? How could you leave a window and door open. That's not motherly. A real mother can't sleep without knowing that their children are safe in their rooms. If indeed a door & widow was left open, it had to be left open on purpose and there was a reason. Someone know what's going on!
      • Jen 7 mths ago
        I sleep with the windows open all the time and have forgot to lock the door on occasion. I guess I am not going to win mother of the year...
    • Maryann  •  7 mths ago
      Come on people! When is this going to stop ,How are we suppose to keep being compassionite, unjudgemental, vigalante in prayers for these missing little children, when all it does is break our hearts when we find out the parents we're responsible all along. I pray, I pray that little Lisa isnt suffering. Thats all I can say!
    • MICHAEL  •  7 mths ago
      The truth will come out on this one - any day now.
    • Olga639  •  7 mths ago
      The mother said the baby was sick with a cold and cough. Did they take baby to doctor? The mother slept with her door closed and with one of her sons and a stray cat they found. A mother with a sick baby does not close the door to her door so she can get rest. A mother never rests, especially with a sick baby. There is still not enough about the father and I am sure they will find out soon enough. The father said he went to check on the boys first and then Baby Lisa. Something happened to the baby earlier that day or the previous day because the little boy kept asking about when the baby would be coming back too soon for him to have an inkling of what is really going on.
      • Carol 7 mths ago
        That a really apt observation about the boy. You are so right on that!
      • Carol 7 mths ago
        Forgot to add, maybe he will be the break in the case same way the little tyke in the Balloon Boy episode was.
      • Hot777wins 7 mths ago
        Well no one ever thinks of cats smothering infants because its not in the news all to often but does happen. I'm just thinking something is not right here taking the 3 cell phones from the house with the lights all on, with two other children in the house. Did Deborah meet the stray guy on Craiglist or some other website? How about Myspace? Id like to know If she was involved with those websites.
    • Manyinone  •  7 mths ago
      I'm not sure I would keep cooperating with police who grilled me for 3 days and kept blaming me for my childs disappearance if i was innocent. That does not mean I wouldn't stop doing things AT HOME or around looking for my child. it means I needed a mental break before I went off the deep end. The fact that they are again working with police shows me that there is a doubt that they did something to this baby. Unlike many who have already tried, and convicted them and want them dead (previous posts on similar articles) I want the baby home and whoever is at fault for taking her (weather it be the parents or someone else) needs to pay!
    • Debbie  •  7 mths ago
      If the police would look BACK at when Deb stated that she put baby LISA to BED and then when She stated the time she CHECKED on baby LISA they would see and find the THURTH OF WHO DID IT. She said in her 1st STATEMENT that she had put BABY LISA in her CRIB at 10:30 then in the 2nd STATEMENT she said that she CHECKED on BABY LISA at 10:30.Besides Why in gods name WHY wasn't BABY'S LISA window LOCKED?
      I will tell you why,cuz Deb killed BABY LISA then left the WINDOW,THE DOOR UNLOCKED and TURNED ON ALL THE LIGHTS!!!! And WHY was there 3 CELL PHONES??????????
      When Jeremy got home from WORK Deb told him what she had DONE and THEY BOTH got scared and DID SOMETHING WITH BABY LISA AND THE CELL PHONES,THEN CALLED THE POLICE AND SAID THAT SOMEONE BROKED IN THEIR HOUSE AND TOOK BABY LISA SO THAT IT TOOK THE PRESSURE AWAY FROM THEM AND ON THE GHOST THAT TOOK BABY LISA...
      Did Jeremy and Deb show REMORSE and TEARS when they where talking to the cops? HELL NO!!!!!!!! If any 1 goes and looks at the VIDEOS they WILL SEE THAT IT WAS ALL AN ACT WHEN SHE FAKED CRYING and for Jeremy did he even CRY? HELL NO,the look on his face was FEAR THAT THEY ARE REALLY FIND OUT THAT HIM AND DEB DONE IT, And when they DO I HOPE THAT THEY WILL GET THE DEATH SENTENCE AND WHILE THEY ARE GIVIN THEM THE LEGAL INJECTION THERE SHOULD BE A PICTURE OF POOR BABY LISA THAT THEY CAN SEE WHAT THEY HAD DONE TO A INNOCENT CHILD THAT DID NOT GET THE CHANGE TO GROW UP AND DO THINGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
      DEAR LORD IN HEAVEN,HELP THEM FIND BABY LISA SAFE AND SOUND BUT IF THEY FIND HER LITTLE BODY LIFELESS, TAKE HER IN YOUR ARMS AND KEEP HER SAFE AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 mths ago
      What was the friction BETWEEN the parents? Have seen it in several headlines but have yet to find it actually addressed within any article.
      • MICHAEL 7 mths ago
        Carol- read slower and look at the commas. The friction was between the "parents" and the "police" ...not between the parents.
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        Disagree. I found the info. Mother was out buying wine with unidentified male. "Statement Analyst Peter Hyatt, who has been analyzing Jeremy and Debbi’s media interviews, said he found it peculiar that when asked why someone would do this, steal his baby, one of Jeremy’s responses was, “Someone who cheated on her husband.” There is friction between the parents.
    • 2012  •  7 mths ago
      daddy sure doesnt seem to say much. just saying...
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