"Missing baby’s family marks 1st birthday" by Associated Press, November 12, 2011
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The parents of a missing Kansas City girl planned a private gathering yesterday to mark her first birthday, while their lawyer reasserted that they have no plans to let police interview them separately after what he called “nasty’’ questioning....
John Picerno, their lawyer, reiterated that Bradley and Irwin would not be questioned by police separately, saying he did not want them to be “subjected to interrogation techniques.’’
Yes, they are. I learned that in my sociology class. Then the cops lie to them, saying the other said such-and-such.
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That interview was cut short by Sean O’Brien, a board member of the Midwestern Innocence Project who briefly helped the family.
“He told me about what went on in the third interview and he ended the third interview,’’ Picerno said. “He had had enough. And that’s enough for us.’’
Irwin has said he came home around 4 a.m. Oct. 4 after a rare late shift at work and discovered the baby was gone.
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"Property of Mo. family of missing baby searched" October 20, 2011|By Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Investigators using shovels, rakes, and bomb-detection equipment yesterday scoured the Kansas City home and yard of a family who say their baby was abducted from her crib as they slept.
Shortly after sunrise yesterday, FBI crime scene trucks and trailers pulled up outside the house, and a phalanx of FBI agents and Kansas City police officers gathered at the property. Officers used yellow tape to cordon off about a half-block perimeter around the house, pushing back the ever-present abundance of reporters and media trucks packing the street.
Officers headed to the back of the home with shovels, rakes, and a ladder. Some could be seen digging behind a shed in the yard. No law enforcement officials would comment on the nature of the latest search.
Just before noon, three investigators left the house carrying brown paper bags and clear plastic bags and took them to the vehicles parked outside. Kansas City police spokesman Captain Steve Young said he could not comment on the contents.
Young said investigators were bringing in a bomb and arson truck to assist in the search. He said there were no indications of explosives in the house. Some bomb detection devices use X-ray technology to scan solid objects to reveal items concealed within. An Associated Press reporter saw investigators carrying at least a dozen thin, black rectangular sheets away from the home.
This is why you really never want to call the cops for anything. You are immediately a suspect.
Lisa Irwin was 10 months old on Oct. 4 when her parents reported her missing. Her father, Jeremy Irwin, an electrician, said he returned home from a late shift to discover the lights on, a window tampered with, the front door unlocked, and Lisa gone. The baby’s mother, Deborah Bradley, and Lisa’s two older brothers had been asleep elsewhere in the house. Bradley has admitted she drank heavily that night and may have blacked out.
The parents insist their baby was snatched by an intruder.
Police, FBI agents, officers from area law enforcement agencies and the Missouri National Guard have already searched the family’s home, neighborhood, nearby wooded areas, a landfill, and abandoned homes. Police have refused to discuss any evidence gathered in the searches, saying only they remain without a suspect.
Meaning they have none so it is time to frame the family.
“We have a warrant for the house,’’ Young told the AP. He did not explain why a warrant was necessary. There was no indication that the family has tried to block investigators’ access to their home, which has already been scoured by FBI agents with dogs.
FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the search is not based on any sort of tip.
Just a fishing expedition, 'eh?
Patton said they were restricting media access because agents are using a procedure involving dogs that they did not want to be recorded. She declined to elaborate....
But your actions can be recorded, dear citizens, in the total surveillance society you now live under.
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"Cadaver dog prompts search of baby’s home" October 22, 2011|Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Police say an FBI dog reacted to the scent of a dead person inside the home where a baby girl disappeared and investigators found soil in the backyard that had been “recently disturbed or overturned.’’
The statements were in a police affidavit filed to support a search warrant for the home of Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin. The parents reported their 10-month-old daughter, Lisa, missing Oct. 4.
The document released yesterday also says Bradley told police she didn’t initially look for her baby behind the house because she was afraid of what she might find.
The affidavit said the dog, taken into the house Monday, indicated a “positive hit for the scent of a deceased human in an area of the floor of Bradley’s bedroom.’’ Police and the FBI conducted a daylong search Wednesday. Police declined to discuss what they found.
The family’s lawyer, Cynthia Short did not return a phone call seeking comment.
Looks like the parents killed the kid, 'eh?
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Also see: Dumping Missing Baby Story
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"A West Texas woman is accused of buying a 7-week-old infant from the child’s mother for $2,000 - to be paid in installments, Abilene police said yesterday....
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