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[Lori Davis]

Attorney: Baby Lisa's mother will 'absolutely not' be arrested
'I believe this baby is alive and in the hands of someone else, private investigator tells TODAY

By Scott Stump
TODAY.com contributor
updated 10/18/2011 9:05:32 AM ET

Grief over missing baby Lisa Irwin has caused inconsistencies in her mother’s story, according to a private investigator and prominent defense attorney who have been hired by the family.

They also maintain Deborah Bradley had nothing to do with the baby's disappearance.

“I do believe this baby is alive and in the hands of someone else,’’ private investigator Bill Stanton told TODAY’s Ann Curry Tuesday. “The fact that they haven’t found this child just reinforces my belief that the baby is alive..."

Read more: http://today.msnbc.m...y-today_people/

[Lori Davis]

KC police want more from parents of missing baby

MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER, Associated Press
Updated 04:11 p.m., Tuesday, October 18, 2011

KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) Kansas City police said Tuesday that the parents of a missing baby have not sat down face-to-face with investigators since October 8, four days after the couple said someone must have entered their home and taken their baby as the mom and two other children slept.

It's been 10 days since the couple have answered police questions on "things that we believe only they would know about," Kansas City police spokesman Steve Young said.

The child's mother, Deborah Bradley, has given television interviews since then, including at least two in which she said she had been drinking the night Lisa disappeared and may have blacked out.

"Our focus has always been and remains to find this girl," Young said.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi...p#ixzz1bBEmc8kX

[Lori Davis]

FAA halts flights near home of missing Mo. baby
Police searched heavily wooded area near home of Lisa Irwin

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
10/18/2011

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police searched a heavily wooded area blocks away from the home of missing Missouri baby on Tuesday, and the FAA temporarily issued flight restrictions for the area, NBC News reported.

But the search, police said, yielded no clues to the disappearance of 10-month-old Lisa Irwin, whose parents say vanished from her crib early on Oct. 4.

The information that sparked the search of the area was a lead that didn't pan out, police said. They did not elaborate.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn...ime_and_courts/

[Lori Davis]

Missing Baby Lisa: 17-Hour Search at Family Home


By CHRISTINA NG

Oct. 20, 2011

Investigators in white hazmat suits carried out several large brown paper bags of evidence and a large carpet from the Kansas City, Mo., home of missing 11-month-old baby Lisa Irwin.

The 17-hour search allowed for glimpses into the types of evidence collected and the tight-lipped investigation's techniques.

This was the first search in the case that was conducted without the consent of Baby Lisa's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin. Investigators obtained a search warrant from a judge.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=14779537

[Lori Davis]

Cadaver Dog Detects Scent of Human Body in Missing Lisa Irwin's Home, Affidavit Says

Published October 21, 2011
FoxNews.com

An FBI cadaver dog searching the home of a missing Missouri baby has detected the scent of a human body, according to a police affidavit, which noted that investigators discovered soil in the backyard that had been "recently disturbed or overturned."

The document, obtained by Fox News' "Justice with Judge Jeanine," says the cadaver dog indicated a reaction to the scent of a dead person inside the parents' bedroom.

Police filed the affidavit to support a search warrant request for the home of Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, who reported 10-month-old Lisa Lisa missing on Oct. 4.

The affidavit says the dog was taken into the house Monday and indicated a "hit" on the floor of Bradley's bedroom.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.c.../#ixzz1bTHwr3xx

[Lori Davis]

Baby Lisa Irwin: New Surveillance Footage of Mystery Man

By CHRISTINA NG and ROB NELSON
Oct. 23, 2011

New surveillance footage of mystery man may support Lisa Irwin parents' claim that their daughter was abducted.

In video obtained exclusively by "Good Morning America," a man dressed in white is seen leaving a wooded area, at 2:30 a.m. -- the night of Lisa's disappearance.

The family claims Lisa was abducted and they point to key witnesses who saw a suspicious man that night, carrying a baby.

Mike Thompson told ABC News that he was on his way home from work around 4 a.m. on Oct. 4 when he saw a man in a t-shirt carrying a baby at an intersection about three miles from the Irwin home.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=14795844

[Lori Davis]

Attorney: Baby Lisa's Family 'Stumped'
Parents Urge Community To Keep Looking For Missing Baby

POSTED: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
UPDATED: 2:47 pm CDT October 25, 2011
Ken Stanford/CNN

(CNN) -- An attorney representing the family of a missing Missouri 11-month-old said the girl's parents are "stumped" as to what happened to her, but are "an open book" for investigators.

A prayer vigil held for Lisa Irwin on Sunday was important to parents Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, as it showed them others in the community support them, attorney Cyndy Short told CNN Monday.

"They're on a journey that no one has a road map for," she said of the couple.

Lisa was reported missing at 4 a.m. Oct. 4, after Jeremy Irwin arrived home from work to find the door unlocked, the lights on and a window that had been tampered with.

Read more: http://www.ksat.com/...723/detail.html

[Lori Davis]

Baby Lisa Search: Missing Missouri Infant's Age Makes Her Harder To Find

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The reported sightings have come from as far as California, people just certain they've spotted the blond-haired Kansas City baby whose cherubic face has been printed on fliers and circulated on national television programs since her disappearance three weeks ago.

Yet so far, the roughly 200 calls fielded by Kansas City police have only generated a string of false positives in the search for Lisa Irwin.

The problem, officials say, is that at her age – just 10 months when she went missing on Oct. 4 – countless babies match the same description, right down to the bright blue eyes and two bottom teeth. She does have a distinguishing birth mark on her right thigh, but that would hardly be noticed from a distance.

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[Lori Davis]

Missing Baby Lisa: Interviews with Brothers Canceled, Attorney Dismissed

By CHRISTINA NG
Oct. 28, 2011

An overnight shake-up in the search for missing Missouri 11-month-old Lisa Irwin canceled interviews with her two half-brothers and forced one of the family's attorneys off the case.

Baby Lisa's 5 and 8-year-old brothers had been scheduled to sit down with child specialists today for interviews about the night Lisa disappeared and to have DNA samples collected, but those interviews were abruptly called off Thursday night by the Irwin family's attorney Joe Tacopina.

Tacopina said he would call police next week and reschedule the interview, according to ABC News' Kansas City affiliate KMBC. Attorneys will reportedly still allow DNA samples to be taken from the boys' cheeks.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=14834151

[Lori Davis]

Tina Porter turned away, Stanton returns, family leaves

By Laura McCallister, Multimedia Producer
By Jeanene Kiesling, Reporter
10/29/2011

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - Friday night Tina Porter tried to offer her help to baby Lisa Irwin's parents but she was turned away.

"They are not being friendly with the community, not opening up to anybody. Who really hides in that situation? They should be out there beating the streets looking for their daughter, which they're not doing at all," she said angrily to reporters after being turned away.

Read more: http://www.kctv5.com...s-family-leaves

[Lori Davis]

Police Hope Digital Billboards Will Aid in Search for Missing Baby Lisa Irwin

Published October 30, 2011
Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. –  Nearly a decade ago, a suburban Kansas City man desperately searching for his teenage daughter's killer divined an idea: Place a "wanted" poster with the suspect's picture on a billboard.

A year later, Leawood, Kan., resident Roger Kemp got his wish and investigators got their man. Two anonymous tipsters who had seen the Kansas City billboards recognized the photo and contacted police.

Today, law enforcement agencies nationwide say billboards -- especially digital ones -- have become a valuable tool in their high-tech crime-fighting arsenal. This week, more than a dozen electronic billboards began flashing pictures of little Lisa Irwin, the missing Kansas City baby who was 10 months old when her parents reported her missing Oct. 4.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.c.../#ixzz1cK6ZpGdr

[Lori Davis]

Investigator Tours Home of Missing Baby Lisa

2:44 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Written by Today Show

A private investigator hired to find missing infant Lisa Irwin finally had his first look Monday inside the family home from which the child disappeared in early October.

Former New York City police officer Bill Stanton took NBC News along for a look inside the home, where he believes an intruder came through the front door or through a window in front of the family room and snatched then-10-month-old Lisa Irwin from her crib in the early hours of Oct. 4. Cameras were not allowed inside the house in this instance, but NBC's Peter Alexander was granted access by the family with a camera crew last week.

The baby's parents, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, have both come under increasing scrutiny.

Read more: http://www.firstcoas...sing-Baby-Lisa-

[Lori Davis]

Search for missing Baby Lisa enters fifth week

October 31, 2011 By Allison Blood

The search for the missing infant from Kansas City continues. The former attorney for baby Lisa Irwin’s family, Cyndy Short has been dismissed from the case, saying she can’t work with the new high-profile New York attorney the family hired. Over the weekend the NYC man who calls himself a private investigator,”Wild Bill” Stanton came to town and took the baby’s parents to an “undisclosed location.” Short says she doesn’t know why.

Read more: http://www.missourin...ers-fifth-week/

[Lori Davis]

Kansas City Police Say They Haven't Given Up Search for Missing Baby Lisa Irwin

By Cristina Corbin
Published November 04, 2011
FoxNews.com

Tips have slowed in the case of missing Missouri baby Lisa Irwin, but investigators remain active in their hunt for the child, a police spokeswoman said Friday.

One report claimed police had ended their search for the girl, but Kansas City police spokeswoman Stacey Graves said, "that's inaccurate."

"We did not call off the search by any means," Graves told FoxNews.com.

Graves said investigators had not conducted any "large field searches" in the past few days, but "we're still receiving tips and following up on them."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.c.../#ixzz1cmTqNF6H

[Lori Davis]

Expert: There is still hope for missing baby Lisa Irwin

November 4, 2011 11:20 AM
By Julia Dahl Topics Daily Blotter

(CBS) NEW YORK - As a new timeline of the family's version of the events leading up to the disappearance of Kansas City infant Lisa Irwin from her home on October 4 emerges, the President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) tells Crimesider that according to statistics on abducted children, the Irwins are more likely than not to see their baby girl again.

According to Ernie Allen, each year in the U.S., there are approximately 115 "stereotypical kidnappings." Of those, Allen says, 56 percent come home alive.

"We think there is real hope for Lisa," says Allen.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.c...aby-lisa-irwin/

[Lori Davis]

Volunteers Hold Baby Lisa Search
Last Police Search More Than 2 Weeks Ago

POSTED: 3:06 pm CDT November 5, 2011
UPDATED: 3:15 pm CDT November 5, 2011

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Volunteers searched Saturday in hopes of finding clues in the disappearance of missing baby Lisa Irwin.

People, including the baby's grandparents, combed through the woods near 53rd Street and Randolph Road. Witnesses have reported seeing a man carrying a baby in that direction on the night Lisa Irwin disappeared.

"The last sighting was at 48th Street and Parvin (Road), right down the road," said search organizer Edith Fine-Duskin.

Read more: http://www.kmbc.com/...l#ixzz1csIeSJuz

[Lori Davis]

Grandpa: Baby Lisa's Birthday To Be Tough
Missing Girl To Turn 1 On Friday

POSTED: 3:25 pm CST November 6, 2011

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Lisa Irwin's first birthday, less than a week away, will be "the oh-my-God moment" for the missing baby's Kansas City family, her grandfather said.

Lisa, whose parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, reported her missing a month ago, turns 1 on Nov. 11. Bradley's father, David Netz Jr., told The Kansas City Star that the date will be a wrenching milestone for the family.

"That's gonna be the oh-my-God moment," said the 48-year-old Netz, weeping.

Read more: http://www.kmbc.com/...l#ixzz1cyvmmrjs

[Lori Davis]

Attempted Call From Phone of Baby Lisa's Mother Brings New Questions

Published November 08, 2011
FoxNews.com

On the night baby Lisa Irwin disappeared, someone attempted to use her mother's cell phone to call a woman whose ex-boyfriend has a reported history of break-ins in the vicinity of the family's Kansas City home, according to police.

Megan Wright, who had been residing at a home a mile from Deborah Bradley, Lisa's mother, denies ever having received the call. She said she shared the phone with seven others and did not have the phone in her possession during the alleged call, which was attempted on the night the 10-month-old Lisa disappeared.

A resident from Wright's home contradicted her recollection, and said house members do not share phones.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.c...s#ixzz1dAGi84zH

[Lori Davis]

Timeline of Attempted Call From Phone of Baby Lisa's Mother Raises Questions

Published November 09, 2011
FoxNews.com

A source close to the missing baby Lisa Irwin investigation told Fox News’ "America Live" that the attempted phone call from the phone of Lisa's mother occurred just hours before the baby was discovered missing.

Someone tried to use Deborah Bradley’s phone to call a woman whose ex-boyfriend has a reported history of break-ins in the vicinity of the family's Kansas City home, according to police.

Megan Wright, who denies ever receiving the 50-second call, had said publicly that she believes the call was made at 8:30 p.m. that night. But the source said the call was made at 11:57 p.m., or about 20 minutes before a neighbor reportedly noticed a bald man with a baby near Lisa’s house.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.c.../#ixzz1dG4u4aZ3

[Lori Davis]

Phone Owner in Baby Lisa Irwin Case Answers Questions on Facebook

Samantha Murphy, TechNewsDaily Senior Writer
10 November 2011 12:19 PM ET

A woman who received a mysterious phone call from someone tied to the disappearing case of baby Lisa Irwin has set up a public Facebook profile group to answer questions about her involvement.

Kansas City, Mo., resident Megan Wright was recently informed by police that someone called her cellphone with a phone stolen from the Irwin family home the same night Lisa vanished in the early morning hours of Oct. 4.

Three cellphones are believed to be taken from the Irwin residence, also in Kansas City, and according to Wright, her phone received a 50-second call during the hours that Lisa could have been taken.

Lisa’s parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin report that she disappeared from her crib sometime between 6:40 p.m. and 4 a.m., when the father came home to find the lights on, the door open and the phones and child missing.

Read more: http://www.technewsd...s-facebook.html