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[Lori Davis]

Missing Baby Lisa Irwin: Police and Parents Spar on Tot's Birthday

By CHRISTINA NG
Nov. 11, 2011

The parents of missing Missouri tot Lisa Irwin marked the girl's first birthday today by holding a news conference in which their lawyer claimed that police have indicated that they are suspects in Lisa's disappearance.

The police denied indicating to the parents that they are suspects, marking the latest round of sparring between the parents and police.

Lisa disappeared from her Missouri home on the night of Oct. 3 and her parents have maintained since then that the little girl was abducted from her crib.

When asked if he thought police consider parents Deborah Bradley, 25, and Jeremy Irwin, 29, suspects, criminal defense attorney John Picerno replied, "Absolutely. They've told them as much, Debbie in particular."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.co...54#.Tr2vIvKQIcs

[Lori Davis]

Sunday, November 13, 2011
Missing baby’s parents silent

By Tony Rizzo
McClatchy-Tribune

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An attorney for the parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin said Friday that his clients will not sit down for separate interviews, as Kansas City police are requesting.

Speaking on the first birthday of the Northland girl, John Picerno said that Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin already have been “interviewed/interrogated” about their daughter’s Oct. 4 disappearance for more than 30 hours spread across five occasions.

“At this point there’s nothing more to be said,” said Picerno, who joined the case two weeks ago.

He said the idea that the parents have not been cooperative “is just fantasy.”

Read more: http://www.nashuatel...nts-silent.html

[Lori Davis]

SEARCH FOR LISA
Baby Lisa's family return to their home

Posted: 11/15/2011

By Chris Oberholtz, Multimedia Producer
By DeAnn Smith, Digital Content Manager
By Sandra Olivas, Reporter
By Jeanene Kiesling, Reporter

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - The parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin returned to their Northland residence Tuesday afternoon.

The family packed Tuesday morning, left a relative's home about noon and moved back in just before 12:30 p.m.

Joe Tacopina, the New York attorney for Lisa's parents, supported his clients along with Lisa's older half brothers returning to their home in the 3600 block of North Lister Avenue.

"To get some normality back into their lives and, most importantly, their two little boys' lives," he said.

Read more: http://www.kctv5.com...-back-into-home

[Lori Davis]

Witness in baby Lisa case returns to KC

Posted: 11/17/2011
By DeAnn Smith, Digital Content Manager
By Nima Shaffe, Multi-Media Journalist



KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - A witness in the case of missing baby Lisa Irwin has returned to Kansas City.

Sources tell KCT5 that the man is someone investigators want to talk to in an effort to verify someone else's statement. The sources emphasized that the man is not a person of interest in the disappearance of the baby.

Lisa's parents, Jeremy Irwin and Debbie Bradley, reported her missing about 4 a.m. Oct. 3.

Read more: http://www.kctv5.com.../witness-in-bab

[Lori Davis]

Picerno: Witness Claims Handyman Paid $300 For Kidnapping
An attorney for the parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin said Friday that a witness claims a neighborhood handyman was paid $300 to kidnap her.

Reporter: KCTV, Posted By Marques White 
Posted: 9:13 AM Nov 19, 2011

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - An attorney for the parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin said Friday that a witness claims a neighborhood handyman was paid $300 to kidnap her.

Kansas City attorney John Picerno said the information has been turned over to the authorities.

Picerno said he, New York attorney Joe Tacopina and private detective Bill Stanton met with the 17-year-old girl Tuesday. Picerno said the girl who claims the handyman bragged about the kidnapping to another man.

Read more: http://www.wibw.com/..._134172858.html

[Lori Davis]

Remember Missing Loved Ones on Thanksgiving

November 24, 2011 09:21 AM EST

The family members of missing loved ones have very little to be thankful for when they're distraught, worried and confused over the disappearance of someone close to them. This Thanksgiving, it's important to remember those who are missing and keep their worried loved one's in your thoughts.

People like 20-year old Lauren Spierer, 21-year old Holly Bobo, Robyn Gardner, Michelle Lee Parker, baby Lisa Irwin and many others aren't going to be enjoying this Thanksgiving day with their families. The five children of missing woman Karen Johnson Swift aren't going to be comforted and warmed by their mother's cooking and other yearly traditions.

Read more: http://news.gather.c...281474980810651

[Lori Davis]

Parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin want vigils outside home to end

Posted on Thu, Dec. 01, 2011 01:24 AM
BY GLENN E. RICE
The Kansas City Star

The family of a missing Northland infant has asked that vigils discontinue in front of their home on North Lister Avenue.

People praying there for Lisa Irwin were told Tuesday that they no longer were welcome to gather in front the residence. John Picerno, an attorney for Lisa’s parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, said the family will continue private vigils.

Edith Fine-Duskin, the leader of the group called Lisa’s Angels, said she did not understand why the family no longer wanted vigils, which have been held in front their home since Lisa disappeared on Oct. 4.

Read more: http://www.kansascit...l#ixzz1fLQtjDpc

[Lori Davis]

Family of similar child is caught in baby Lisa nightmare
Since Northland girl vanished, police and strangers have demanded Overland Park parents prove identity of their child.

BY CHRISTINE VENDEL
The Kansas City Star
Posted on Sat, Dec. 10, 2011 12:45 AM

Shortly after baby Lisa Irwin disappeared in October, Amy noticed other shoppers looking at her and her 10-month-old baby, Lucy, in the supermarket.

“I saw people peering down the aisles at me,” the Overland Park mother said. “But I convinced myself that they were probably just looking for a can of green beans or something.”

Then three older women surrounded her.

“How old is your baby?” they asked. One of them pulled down Lucy’s blanket and lifted the baby’s dress to inspect her legs.

Other shoppers whispered and pointed Amy’s way.

“They think this is baby Lisa,” she realized. The woman was checking Lucy’s leg for the birthmark on Lisa Irwin’s right thigh.

Read more: http://www.kansascit...l#ixzz1g9CU22dc

[Lori Davis]

‘Dr. Phil’ interviews parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin

Posted on Sat, Jan. 28, 2012 03:55 PM

The family of a missing Kansas City baby has taped on appearance on the “Dr. Phil” show.

Viewers can tune in this coming Friday to watch the interview with Lisa Irwin’s parents and a private investigator searching for her.

Lisa was reported missing Oct. 4 when her father, Jeremy Irwin, came home around 4 a.m. from work and couldn’t find her. Irwin and Deborah Bradley say they think someone broke into the house and took their daughter.

Read more here: http://www.kansascit...l#storylink=cpy

[Lori Davis]

Parents believe missing KC baby is alive and well

February 04, 2012 00:31 GMT
By MARIA SUDEKUM Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The parents of a Kansas City baby missing since October say they believe the child is alive, and they're pleading for her return.

Lisa Irwin was 10 months old when her parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, reported her disappearance in early October. They say the baby was abducted from her crib overnight.

Police and the FBI have conducted several searches but say they don't have a suspect.

Read more: http://www.wgme.com/....wgme.com.shtml

[Shannon]

http://www.wptv.com/...o-break-in-case

Missing baby Lisa Irwin: Parents hope fraudulent debit card charge leads to break in case

Posted: 9:33 AM Monday, May 21, 2012

More than seven months after the disappearance of then-10-month-old Lisa Irwin, her parents have revealed new information they hope can lead to a break in the case.

Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley tell NBC News Jeremy’s debit card was stolen about a month after Lisa disappeared, and according to Jeremy, a fraudulent charge made on the account was to an overseas company that changes baby’s names for a small fee.

Kansas City Police tell NBC News they are investigating the $69.04 charge, but it appears to be nothing more than stolen card numbers.

Lisa Irwin was reported missing from her north Kansas City home in the early-morning hours of Oct. 4, 2011, when Jeremy returned home from an overnight shift at work.

Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley say their door was unlocked, the lights were on in the house and Lisa’s crib was empty.

Searches for Lisa - highly-publicized in the days and weeks immediately after her disappearance, but which have since become few and far between – have focused on neighborhoods near the Irwin home, nearby woods and have even led to a landfill across the state line in Johnson County, Kansas.

Sitting alongside their attorney, Joe Tacopina, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley appeared Monday live on NBC’s “Today” show to talk about the latest could-be development in the case.

“I am a mess,” Deborah Bradley told Ann Curry. “I am frustrated. It has been almost 8 months and we’re not getting any answers.”

Bradley said while she understands the police and FBI have jobs to do, the answers she has received about her daughter are unacceptable.

“We need answers,” she said. “ We need Lisa.”

Jeremy Irwin says they first came across the fraudulent charge on his debit card in December, but it hasn’t led to any significant leads in the case.

During the interview, Ann Curry said an NBC producer looked at the charges on Jeremy Irwin’s credit card, and they appear to lead to a website for a stationery paper company.

“I don’t know why it takes you there now,” Jeremy Irwin responded, “but when we first found out about this in December, that’s where it used to go was the website where you can change someone’s name online.”

[Lori Davis]

http://www.delcotime...wmode=fullstory

Family continues search for infant

Published: Sunday, June 24, 2012
By JEFF WOLFE

UPPER CHICHESTER — Debbie Shanko thinks about her great-niece all of the time.

That’s not unusual.

And she’d love to see her.

That’s not too unusual either.

But the Delaware County native isn’t sure when that will happen. The problem is, her great-niece’s parents can’t be sure of when that will happen either.

Shanko’s great-niece is Lisa Renee Irwin, who was last seen at her Kansas City home at 6 p.m. Oct. 3, 2011.

Saturday on a baseball field behind the Upper Chichester Police Department, Shanko, along with Irwin’s cousins, Kim Pretti and Felicia Chivalette, released 300 balloons at 4 p.m. at the same time as family and friends in Rosharon, Texas, just south of Houston, and in Kansas City to bring attention to the situation.
“It’s something where you can go all through life and think it will never happen to you,” Shanko said. “Who would think someone would steal a baby out of crib in the middle of the night? No one ever thinks that it will happen to them.

“But it did and it’s a nightmare all the way around.”

According to family members, there were three witnesses that say a man was walking around Kansas City at around midnight on Oct. 3 holding a baby. However, the man was never found and consequently, neither has Lisa Irwin been found yet.

But the family is keeping hope. They received one clue when Lisa Irwin’s name was apparently changed on a birth certificate and recorded on an United Kingdom website. However, the site is no longer active and it’s not sure if the transaction would have taken place in the United States or somewhere else.

“Right now we are very hopeful,” Shanko said. “We are hoping by doing this we can get regional and national attention.”

About 75 people showed up for Saturday’s ceremony.

The ceremony included short speeches by Pretti and Chivalette. Part of Pretti’s speech included a statement from Lisa’s parents, Debbie Bradley and Jeremy Irwin.

“Everyday we wake up hoping it will be the day our Lisa comes home. With each day that passes, it gets harder to be without her. It’s been over eight months since we got to see her, hold her, kiss her and play with her. Our family is broken without her. We beg anyone that knows anything to please do the right thing with Lisa. She deserves to be with the people that love her the most, her family. We want to thank everyone for their support and coming together to help bring Lisa home.”

According to the website findlisairwin.com, there is a $100,000 reward for information that leads to her finding. There is also a facebook page at Facebook.com/find.lisa. The number to call for any tips that may lead authorities to Lisa is 1-816-474-TIPS. Also, Lisa, who was born on Nov. 11 of 2010, has a birth mark on her right thigh.

And there’s no doubt Lisa’s family would love to see what she looks like now.

[Shannon]

http://fox4kc.com/20...sing-baby-lisa/

Police Issue Statement Regarding Missing Baby Lisa

Posted on: 12:14 pm, September 28, 2012
updated on: 10:31pm, September 28, 2012

by Sarah Clark and Macradee Aegerter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nearly a year after Lisa Irwin, then 10 months old, was reported missing from her Kansas City, Mo., home, police issued a statement saying they “continue to actively investigate the case.”

After much anticipation, and months of silence, the statement from police revealed little information. Police released no new suspect information or evidence regarding the whereabouts of the missing child.

In their statement, police said they have investigated 1,667 tips. They currently are investigating about a dozen leads.

The statement in part read, “Police have exhausted leads provided by Lisa Irwin’s family and their attorneys, and the leads were of no benefit to the investigation. While communication with the family has been ongoing, police have not had the opportunity to sit down one-on-one to speak with Lisa’s mother, Deborah Bradley. As the only adult in the home at the time of the baby’s disappearance, police continue to have questions to which only she can provide answers.”

On Thursday, in a news interview, Lisa’s mother, Deborah Bradley, said she believes her daughter will be found alive.

Lisa was reported missing in the early morning hours on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. Her parents reported her missing after her father, Jeremy Irwin, came home from work around 4 a.m. and discovered she was not in her crib.

Police said Lisa’s disappearance remains an active investigation. Anyone with tips is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474.TIPS or to text 274 637 and include the code TIP452 in the message. All calls and texts remain anonymous.

[Lori Davis]

http://www.reuters.c...E88R1HP20120928

Mother of missing Missouri baby has not given needed answers: police

By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Missouri | Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:20pm EDT

(Reuters) - The mother of missing Missouri baby Lisa Irwin has still not provided answers needed in the investigation into her daughter's disappearance from her home nearly a year ago in a high-profile case that drew national attention, police said on Friday.

Baby Lisa was last seen the night of October 3, 2011, when her mother, Deborah Bradley, says she put the then 10-month-old in her crib. The baby's father, Jeremy Irwin, discovered she was missing when he got home from work before dawn the next day, he has said.

Kansas City police said in a statement on Friday that the family was in touch with investigators but has still not given them the "opportunity to sit down one-on-one" with Bradley.

"As the only adult in the home at the time of the baby's disappearance, police continue to have questions to which only she can provide answers," police said.

Bradley has admitted to getting drunk the night Lisa disappeared.

But John Picerno, a Kansas City lawyer representing Bradley and Irwin, described as "completely false" the police assertion that Bradley has not been willing to be interviewed. He said she gave a videotaped interview to the FBI and a Kansas City police officer several months after Lisa disappeared and provided 100 pages of hand-written notes.

She remains willing to talk to police, he said.

"My door is always open, they know my phone number," Picerno said.

In a brief interview with Reuters outside her home on Thursday, Bradley said she was focused on helping with the investigation and that she "absolutely" believes Lisa is alive. Bradley said she is convinced the girl was kidnapped.

Police and the FBI have followed up on 1,667 tips on the child's disappearance, including some 500 reported sightings of the girl, the police statement said. They are checking into about a dozen active tips now, police said.

"Police have exhausted leads provided by Lisa Irwin's family and their attorneys and the leads were of no benefit to the investigation," police said.

Picerno said he will continue to provide tips to police but cannot control whether they lead anywhere.

(Editing By Corrie MacLaggan, Cynthia Johnston and Andrew Hay)

[Lori Davis]

http://www.kansas.co...one-nearly.html

‘Baby Lisa’ Irwin gone nearly a year and mystery lingers

By CHRISTINE VENDEL and GLENN E. RICE
Kansas City Star
Published Friday, Sep. 28, 2012, at 11:48 p.m.
Updated Friday, Sep. 28, 2012, at 11:49 p.m.

A vigil is planned for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the family’s home in the 3600 block of North Lister Avenue. They asked that those who attend wear pastels of yellow, pink or white.

Deborah Bradley hasn’t seen her daughter, the tot she calls Baby Lisa, for nearly a year.

Still, she occasionally buys toddler clothes in increasingly larger sizes, keeps the baby’s room intact and tells neighbors and friends she fully expects the little girl to come home.

Experts say it could happen. About 57 percent of children abducted by strangers each year are returned home alive. Infants usually have an even higher recovery rate, experts say. But most of those children are found quickly. National statistics from 2011 show 90 percent of children are recovered within 72 hours of an Amber Alert.

Thursday will mark the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 10-month-old Lisa Irwin from her home in the 3600 block of North Lister Avenue. Her father, Jeremy Irwin, returned home from a late shift Oct. 4 and found his front door open, several lights on, and Bradley asleep. Lisa’s crib was empty.

Her parents have maintained that someone broke into their home and snatched Lisa while the toddler slept.

Since then, investigators have worked 1,667 tips, including 500 baby sightings around the world. Police checked about 100 leads twice — just to be sure — and they shared their case file with national experts for advice.

Yet, nearly 12 months later, police and federal agents seem no closer to finding Lisa or establishing how she disappeared.

They say they are facing the same giant hurdle: They haven’t been able to sit down one-on-one with Bradley — the only adult in the home at the time Lisa vanished — since the first days of the investigation. She admitted she had been drinking that night, but has repeatedly said she had nothing to do with the disappearance.

“Police continue to have questions to which only she can provide answers,” police wrote in a press release issued Friday.

The cooperation of parents is vital to an investigation, said Robert Lowery, a senior executive with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

“I would just urge the parents to reconsider,” he said. “The final concern is finding the child and returning her home.”

Leads provided so far by Lisa’s family and their attorneys haven’t helped, police said.

The parents’ lawyer took exception to the tone of the police statement, insisting “our doors are open, the phone is open, they have our numbers and they can call.”

In an email statement, the couple asked for tips and thanked people for support.

“Every day we wake up hoping it will be the day she comes home to us,” their statement said. “Until that day happens, our family will continue to be incomplete without her.”

The initial force of more than 100 investigators has now dwindled to one detective and one federal agent who work tips along with other cases.

Police know one tip could crack things open. The passage of time, they say, can both help and hurt a case. Memories and physical evidence may degrade, but relationships and alliances among people withholding key information can also shift.

A $100,000 reward remains available to anyone with information that brings Lisa home.

Even if the situation appears bleak, Lowery said, people should keep an open mind.

“Someone out there knows what happened,” he said. “That child did not get out of that crib and walk away.”

Sgt. Sondra Zink, who was the lead investigator on the Baby Lisa case for nearly six months, remembers the wakeup call about 4:30 a.m. last Oct. 4 that started it all.

The first she heard was that a baby was missing in a possible custody dispute involving grandparents. The baby wasn’t believed to be in danger.

“Keep me updated,” she told the officer on the phone before she hopped in the shower to head into work early.

Before she could even dry off, she learned the grandparents didn’t have the baby.

Zink’s heart sank. This case was no longer routine. It was an Amber Alert.

“The full scope of what it turned into didn’t hit me until two days into the investigation,” she said.

The weather on a recent afternoon was picture perfect on North Lister. The crisp air was punctuated with the sound of children playing, young boys riding their bicycles up and down the street and a man mowing his yard.

Life here seems little different from other neighborhoods throughout the Northland.

Still, the reminders of a tragedy linger.

Fliers soliciting information about the missing child plaster street light poles. Large posters and signs are taped to the windows and to the front door of Irwins’ one-story, beige ranch home.

One of the first things Zink did at the scene was call the FBI. Together, they assembled a task force of core investigators by 6 a.m.

By lunch, they had set up a command post in a field not far from the Irwin home complete with a bus for the task force to use as an office, portable restrooms, a Salvation Army tent, mounted patrol officers, police dogs and all-terrain vehicles.

Inside the bus, Zink coordinated officers who were arriving by the dozen from area law enforcement agencies. Investigators were told to exhaust every lead, “whether it takes 10 minutes or 10 hours.”

Two civilians started a database to track leads. They also checked license plates associated with baby sightings and reports of sex offenders who lived in the area.

It was like a scene out of a movie, Zink said — assignments barked out and officers springing into action.

Did a police dog search here? Did someone talk to this neighbor?

“It was overwhelming but reassuring at the same time,” Zink said.

As hours ticked by with no sign of Lisa, Zink recalled statistics that show that in fatal child abductions, the child is usually killed within three hours. If Lisa was not found alive, her case would be handed over to homicide detectives. Zink asked for a homicide detective to be put on the task force, just in case. She knew it would be detrimental to try to hand over a complicated case that didn’t have a homicide detective involved from the start.

This week, Bradley pulled the family’s sport utility vehicle into the driveway. A screen decal of a poster featuring her missing daughter dominates the vehicle’s back window.

Bradley stepped out of the vehicle along with Lisa’s half brothers and the family dog. They retreated inside the home but quickly returned outside to sit on the front porch.

Moments later, the dog broke free from its handler and raced down the street. Children who had been gathered in a nearby yard quickly chased down the pet as Bradley walked up to them.

She thanked the children for their help and instructed her older son how to keep a tight grip on the leash to ensure the dog doesn’t run away again.

The case hit international status within 72 hours. Zink said that added layers of frustration and complexity.

The nonstop attention by local and national media provided no escape for investigators.

Although the coverage put Lisa’s picture in front of millions, it also proved to be a “huge hindrance” that muddied the waters, Zink said.

“We wasted a lot of time on tips,” she said, “that turned out to stem from something somebody heard.”

Neighbors and those close to the family paint Bradley as prayerful and confident that Lisa will one day come home.

They say Lisa’s parents believe whoever took the girl either sold her or is raising her as their own.

“When I used to see her for the first few times, Debbie would cry every time she talked about Lisa,” said Dee Garrett, who lives across the street from Baby Lisa’s parents. “But now, she seems to be better. She seems to be excited when she says they are going to get Lisa back soon.”

Emotions remained high at the command post for weeks, Zink said.

“I can’t describe the intensity,” she said. “We all knew, ‘We gotta keep going.’ ”

Two detectives spent a week doing nothing but watching surveillance videos from city buses, red light cameras, businesses near the Irwin home and local big-box stores

“Do you know how many babies go through the checkout at Walmart in an hour?” Zink said.

The case was Zink’s last thought each night and first thought each morning.

Even in the first few days, Zink said there was a time where she believed they were “mere moments” away from recovering Lisa.

“Then, no. She’s not here,” Zink recalled with tears in her eyes.

A small group of neighbors have banded around Bradley. They hold a brief prayer vigil inside the Irwin home each month and counsel Bradley when worry overcomes her.

“It’s hard. She is grieving for her baby. She wants her back,” a neighbor said. “What keeps her going is the hope that her baby will be back at anytime.”

Meanwhile, neighbors have become more vigilant and cautious of strange vehicles that cruise through the neighborhood. They keep a watchful eye on their children, who know that a baby from their block went missing without a trace on a cool October night.

Bradley initially gave police an extended interview, but when investigators started pointing out apparent discrepancies in her story, she told police she no longer wanted to talk to them.

Her attorneys criticized police on national television, alleging that detectives were abusive and focused too much on Bradley’s actions and behaviors. The accusations stung investigators.

“We wanted to say, ‘No! That’s not right,’ ” Zink said. “ ‘That’s not how it went down.’ But we knew it wasn’t in the best interest of the investigation or child.”

Allegations that police had tunnel-vision on Bradley also weren’t true, Zink said. She said investigators regularly brainstormed during their investigation, pretending the mother had a rock-solid alibi.

“If mom had an alibi, where would we go? What would we look at?” she said.

Bradley’s level of cooperation remains in dispute.

Her attorney, John Picerno, maintains that Bradley has been accessible to police and answered their questions.

“The last time we sat down, I didn’t say a word and they got to videotape it,” he said Friday. “They got to ask everything they wanted, so we are a little suspicious, as we have been all along, about why they want to isolate her.”

Bradley and Irwin have appeared on a variety of national television news and daytime talk shows. Yet they’ve declined interview requests from local reporters.

Picerno said Bradley and Irwin feel those interviews would be counterproductive.

A core group of investigators remained totally focused on Lisa’s case until about mid-March, when they started taking on other cases.

About that same time, Zink took a transfer to the department’s robbery unit. She didn’t want to leave Lisa’s case unresolved, but the daily deluge of child abuse, neglect and porn she encountered from work in the juvenile section had taken its toll over five years.

“For my own sanity, I had to step away,” she said, admitting that she felt guilty. “I felt like I was abandoning the ones (on the Baby Lisa case) who were still left dealing with it.”

Zink is proud of the way police and federal agents worked seamlessly together. But she has one regret.

“The bottom line is, no matter how good the investigation is, there’s still a baby missing and we don’t know how,” she said. “There’s no good way to walk away and feel good about that.”

Zink said she hoped police will be able to find Lisa alive and well even if the odds don’t favor a cheery conclusion.

“But the happy ending where we found out what happened to her and the person is punished?” she said. “I won’t give up on that.”

[Kelly]

NCMEC Poster: http://www.missingki...earchLang=en_US

Endangered Missing
LISA IRWIN


DOB:  Nov 11, 2010
Missing:  Oct 3, 2011
Missing From:
  KANSAS CITY
  MO
  United States
Sex:  Female
Race:  White
Hair:  Blonde
Eyes:  Blue
Height:  2'6" (76cm)
Weight:  30lbs (14kg)


Both photos shown are of Lisa. She was last seen at home on October 3, 2011 at approximately 6:00 p.m. Lisa has a birthmark on her right thigh. She was last known to be wearing purple pants and a purple shirt with kittens on it.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)

Kansas City Police Department (Missouri) 1-816-474-8477

[Kelly]

Lisa's NamUs Profile: https://www.findthem...en/cases/13615/

[Kelly]

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[Kelly]

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[Lori Davis]

http://www.kansascit...hold-vigil.html

Family’s supporters hold vigil for Baby Lisa
October 5
BY RICK MONTGOMERY
The Kansas City Star

About 50 friends and supporters of the family of missing Baby Lisa gathered Saturday outside the lime-green home in the Northland where Lisa Irwin vanished two years ago.    

A computer-generated image shows what Lisa might look like today.

The candlelight vigil drew advocates of missing-persons groups who watched Lisa’s mother, Deborah Bradley, sob as she thanked them and called for greater public vigilance to locate the missing.

“If we all cared, there’d be no such thing as missing persons,” Bradley said.

Early on Oct. 4, 2011, Lisa’s father, Jeremy Irwin, arrived home from work to find lights on, the front door open and the 10-month-old baby’s crib empty. Bradley was sleeping in the house on the 3600 block of North Lister Avenue.

Kansas City police and the FBI have since investigated more than 1,770 tips, including infant sightings from around the world.

Police last week said the tips have slowed considerably. Authorities also released a computer-generated image of what Lisa might look like today, going on 3 years old.

Many at the evening vigil wore T-shirts bearing the baby’s photo under the word “Kidnapped.” Several fought back tears as Lisa’s parents spoke and led prayers.

“When she comes home,” said Bradley, referring to her daughter, “it’s going to mean a lot to her to see so many people” cared for her.

Bradley urged the public to use tools such as social media to draw attention to missing persons.

Lisa’s parents have repeatedly said they had nothing to do with their daughter’s disappearance. Maureen Reintjes, a Kansas advocate with the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, told the vigil crowd that “hateful talk” in the community often surrounds missing-person cases.

Sympathetic supporters, she said, outnumber “every hater out there.”

Police are asking people with information on Lisa’s disappearance to call the TIPS Hotline, 816-474-8477.