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.




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