Case so far
http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/201...ew-searches-for-missing-baby-lisa/?hpt=ng_mid
The mom admits to being drunk when the child went missing.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/17/justice/missouri-missing-girl/
Family hires shady lawyer.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-ba...torney-representing-parents/story?id=14752818
http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/201...ew-searches-for-missing-baby-lisa/?hpt=ng_mid
While family members of missing baby Lisa Irwin prepared to update the media Monday afternoon, authorities were conducting several searches related to the in investigation of her disappearance.
Private investigator Bill Stanton, who is working with the missing 10-month-old's family, planned to hold a press conference with relatives at 2:30 pm CT, though it was unclear what information would be discussed.
FBI agents and Kansas City police searched a creek bed a few blocks from the Irwin home with shovels and metal detectors on Monday morning. One investigator told KSHB that they were also working to pump water out of the creek to get a better view.
Canine units were brought in to search near the Kansas City house where Lisa Irwins parents have been staying. FBI agents would not say what they were looking for, but WDAF reported that news crews were asked not to film the search.
Police also reportedly used canines to search around the parents N. Lister Ave. home on Monday. This is the house where Lisa is believed to have gone missing from her crib almost two weeks ago.
In several interviews Monday, Lisas mother, Deborah Bradley, acknowledged that she last remembers seeing her daughter around 6:40 pm on October 3, rather than at 10:30 pm as she had originally said. She also told People.com that she probably drank more than five glasses of wine that night after putting Lisa to bed.
"She was sleeping. I don't have a problem with me having adult time," Bradley said.
Bradley said she believes somebody came into the house through a front window and took Lisa while she was sleeping, though she admitted to People that she may have blacked out from the alcohol.
Lisa Irwin was reported missing at 4:00 am on October 4 after her father returned home from work and discovered she was gone. A police spokesman told a CNN producer Monday that they have no significant new leads or suspects in the case.
The mom admits to being drunk when the child went missing.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/17/justice/missouri-missing-girl/
(CNN) -- The mother of Lisa Irwin, an 11-month old Missouri girl missing for nearly two weeks, said in an interview she was drunk the night the infant disappeared.
Deborah Bradley made the admission during an NBC interview, portions of which were aired Monday on "Today."
She also said she last saw Lisa at 6:40 p.m. October 3, when she put the girl to bed, not at 10:30 p.m., as initially believed.
Lisa was reported missing at 4 a.m. October 4, after Lisa's father, Jeremy Irwin, came home from work to find the door unlocked, lights on and a window that had been tampered with at the family's Kansas City home.
Bradley told NBC she is afraid she will be arrested. Police have accused her of killing Lisa, she said, and told her that she failed a lie detector test, with deception indicated when she was asked where Lisa was.
"I was the last one with her," a tearful Bradley said in the interview. "And from judging on how the questioning went, that's kind of a fear that I have. And the main fear with that is, if they arrest me, people are going to stop looking for her. And then I'll never see her again, and I'll never know what happened."
Asked how much she had been drinking that night, Bradley said, "enough to be drunk."
But she rejected the notion that she could have harmed her daughter while under the influence of alcohol.
"No, no, no," she told NBC. "And if I thought there was a chance, I'd say it. No. No. I don't think alcohol changes a person enough to do something like that."
She said it's "terrible" that police may be focusing on her. "My daughter is missing," she said. "The last thing that I want to have to worry about is something like that. I shouldn't have to put any energy, any time or effort, into anything but finding her."
Asked whether he had questions about Bradley, Irwin told NBC, "No. There's no question to be had there. I know who she is. I know the kind of mother she is."
He said it's possible someone could have entered the house without Bradley hearing, as the couple's bedroom is on the opposite corner of the house from Lisa's room and Bradley sleeps with a fan at high speed.
Police have said three cell phones were also missing from the home along with Lisa.
On Sunday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the one-day deployment of 25 National Guardsmen to help search for Lisa.
Two anonymous benefactors have offered a $100,000 reward for Lisa's safe return, according to Bill Stanton, a private investigator working with the family.
Irwin and Bradley told NBC they have refused to let authorities re-interview Lisa's older brothers.
"They said they heard noises (the night Lisa disappeared)," Bradley said. "I don't know if that was before we went to sleep or after." She said she has not talked to her sons about it because she is reluctant to put them through "anything else."
Asked what she would say to someone who might be holding Lisa, Bradley told NBC, "She needs her family, and we need her. We're losing more sanity as each day progresses."
Lisa is described as being 30 inches tall with blue eyes and blond hair, according to police. She weighs between 26 and 30 pounds and was last seen wearing purple shorts and a purple shirt with white kittens on it.
The missing girl has two bottom teeth and a "beauty mark" on her right outer thigh, police said. At the time of her disappearance, she had a cold with a cough.
Family hires shady lawyer.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-ba...torney-representing-parents/story?id=14752818
High-profile New York defense attorney Joe Tacopina is the lastest addition to the team of people representing the Missouri parents of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwin.
Tacopina's roster of clients includes Joran van der Sloot's Aruba trial in the disappearance of Natalee Halloway, Michael Jackson in his molestation trial, and the New York police officer acquitted of charges of raping an intoxicated woman, among many others notable cases. It is unclear who has retained him or who is paying for his service.
Tacopina defended Lisa's parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin at a Kansas City news conference today, and maintaining that they were not involved in the disappearance of their daughter.
"I stand here to ferociously accept their presumption of innocence," he said.
Tacopina defended Bradley's revelation from today that she had been drinking on Oct. 3, the night Lisa disappeared, and may have been drunk.
"She was willing to tell the truth about it, even if it didn't make her look great," Tacopina said. "I think that goes to her credit. It's her being truthful."
Baby Lisa's Mother Changes Alters Her Story
He blamed Bradley's distraught state for her change in the timeline of events on the night that Lisa disappeared. For the past two weeks, she has been saying that the last time she saw Lisa was when she put her to bed at 10:30 p.m. Today, Bradley said she put her daughter to sleep at 6:40 p.m.
Lisa Irwin was last seen around 10:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, when her mother put her to bed.
"On a normal night, when putting your kids to bed, you're not exactly clocking the time," Tacopina said. "She's a mother who is in a high state of trauma who trembles every day and cries. If her recollection isn't what it should be with certain times, I don't think we can be too hard on those inconsistencies, if they are inconsistencies at all."
"I don't recall under recent history anyone under this umbrella of suspicion being so forthright and outgoing, warts and all," Tacopina said. "They're eager because they don't feel they have anything to hide."
Tacopina said that the couple will not be doing any more television or radio interviews for the time being. He expressed his belief that the focus needs to stay on finding Lisa.
Tacopina said multiple times that he did not want to criticize the police investigation, but did express a desire for a more "boots on the ground" approach and said he wished certain unnamed things would have been done earlier.
"Do your investigation and start right here," Tacopina said indicating Bradley and Irwin standing behind him. "It's absolutely normal to start right here. But don't come to a conclusion before having the evidence and then looking for evidence."
Private investigator Bill Stanton announced that he will be leaving Kansas City today, but will continue to be involved in the investigation. He emphasized Friday's announcement of a $100,000 reward for information leading to Lisa or a conviction. "That is valid. That is real," Stanton said about the reward.
Earlier today, Bradley admitted that she was drinking the night of her daughter's disappearance two weeks ago.
"I was drinking, but it has nothing to do with my daughter's disappearance," Deborah Bradley told "Good Morning America."
The questions about whether she had been drinking arose after the discovery of a Missouri grocery store surveillance video from the day of Lisa's disappearance that showed Bradley buying boxed wine. But the mother is adamant that her drinking is unrelated to her missing daughter.
"It doesn't explain anything because that had nothing to do with anything," Bradley said.
In an interview with NBC's "Today," Bradley conceded that she drank "enough to be drunk" the night Lisa disappeared.
