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The parents of missing toddler Lisa Irwin haven't submitted to an interview with detectives for the last 10 days to answer questions about things "they might only know," police said today.

The 11-month-old girl vanished from her crib Oct. 3. Police have not named any suspects in the girl's disappearance, but the story of mother Deborah Bradley has altered somewhat and she has admitted to being drunk that night, possibly even blacking out.

Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young expressed some frustration today with Bradley and the girl's father, Jeremy Irwin.

"The last time that the mom and dad sat down with detectives to answer questions about things they might only know was Oct. 8," Young told ABCNews.com.

"And that time, and previous times, there came a point when Deborah became uncomfortable and stopped the questioning," Young said.

Young conceded that the parents have spoken with detectives since Oct. 8, but only to clarify information about tips that have come in.

"We strongly believe that that parent's cooperation and involvement is critical [in finding Lisa]," Young said.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-baby-lisa-parents-dodge-questions-police/story?id=14760706

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I have never understood the concept of being afraid to voice an opinion, especially here on a discussion board. I cannot answer for all boards as this is the only crime discussion board I'm a member of where I'm also privy to the behind the scenes stuff, but I can state categorically that nobody has ever been banned from posting here based on their opinion. People certainly HAVE been banned for the manner in which they express themselves, and we will continue to do that no matter what side they pick, if any. If you come on here and call the members who disagree with you a mob of koolaid-drinking sheep who just want to be in the majority, and when told to not do it you respond that you have the absolute right to post that way because you are right and everyone else is wrong, you're going to get the boot and your point of view has nothing to do with it.

From a logical standpoint the number of people that hold a particular view is totally irrelevant to the process used to substantiate that view. With that in mind, if someone were to come on here and try to argue that [JI/DB are] innocent because [Baby Lisa] never existed and was just a figment of everyone's imagination, they would be immediately challenged with the ample evidence of [Lisa]'s existence. So that fact that a post is challenged does not automatically mean that the challenge is invalid. Nor does it mean the theory posted is invalid.

In my professional life I live in a world where, on a regular basis, people from outside come in to look at my work and question what I am doing, so I am used to justifying my decisions and actions without taking offense. I'm not an attorney, but I've paid a few attorney bills in my time and I understand the adversarial system - you've got to either be able to back up your position to the trier of fact OR convince your opponent that they will not prevail if they push it if you think can't back it up. Like poker. The same thing works here on the board - if you feel strongly about your position, post it and defend it. You may be right.

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There are a lot of people posting here who have been touched by crime. Some talk about it openly, some I just know about from private conversations. This board is biased, and it's no secret - it's in the mission statement. We are here for the victims, the innocents, the ones who have been hurt by the evil that is criminal behavior. The anger you will see expressed on these pages against players such as criminal defense attorneys is based on the knowledge that, in our system, they can consider their day a success if an individual that actually committed the criminal acts with which they have been charged is found "not guilty" because they can pick apart the efforts of the police. But that's how our system works, and if I was ever unjustly accused I'd want to be afforded the best opportunity possible to clear my name.

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Brought from other thread: In response to Salem asking about the rolled-up rug and the bedroom carpet:

Thanks - I wasn't aware of that. I don't have time at the moment, but later I'll do some checking. It seems there was something about the hit on the carpet in the bedroom but I can't remember at the moment. I have that problem sometimes :innocent:

Salem

There may be more, but here is what we know about the carpet, based on facts and not speculation:

A rolled up rug was taken out of the garage. It was visible to the media. I don't believe anything was done to it (I may be wrong - there was talk about the possibility that LE let the HRD dog sniff it). It was then returned to the garage.

The carpet inside the parent's bedroom at the foot of the bed, where the HRD hit allegedly took place, did not appear disturbed after the warrant search. The carpet had not been removed in whole or in part, and neither had any flooring by appearances. The wall next to the area had also not been removed or apparently disturbed.

That is all verified by video of the events. What ELSE happened to the rolled-up rug or the bedroom carpet, we just don't know.
 
I totally disagree. It is similar in the scheme of things to telling a suspect that they failed a polygraph, or that there is a video of them when there isn't. It is an easy, "mostly legal", means to an end.

To put this in perspective just answer one question: how would LE have gotten probable cause for a search warrant in this case, otherwise?

Seriously, PC is one of the hardest things to get, and judges shoot down requests all the time. A missing baby is not enough. Holes in the mom's story is not enough. But a cadaver dog hit? Oh yeah - that's enough!

I don't think falsifying a dog hit in a search warrant application is "mostly legal" on the part of LE or the dog handler. It's not only unethical, it's illegal to do so. Lying to the court is a totally different ball of wax than telling a suspect they've failed a polygraph when they didn't. Totally different.

Of course there are bad apples in every profession, but since we've absolutely no indication that anything hinky (much less illegal) happened with LE or the dog handler, I can't entertain that premise. Same way I'm not going to entertain the thought that DB overdosed or drowned Lisa without one iota of evidence.

IMO, LE deserves the benefit of the doubt for being truthful in their statements to the court at least as much as the parents deserve to be believed about what they claim. In other words, I think it's a road we don't need to go down unless and until there's some indication LE was dishonest with the court.

I enjoy your posts even when I don't agree. Debate is good! :)
 
Quoting cityslick:

Here is what I think. I think I only know there is a dog hit and nothing else. I also think that LE and the FBI must not be fully confident of BL dead in the house since they were following up on tips on the east coast after the dog hit happened.
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I think they would have to rule out tips in any case. If they get enough evidence to charge someone some day it'll look better at the trial if they can say they ruled out n+1 tips and none of those produced Lisa.

The cadaver dog hit doesn't have Lisa's name in it so even if they were very confident that it was a real hit by several dogs who only alert to cadaver smell and nothing else it could have been somebody else who died there or just partial remains that happened to decompose there or even a transferred smell from a death that happened somewhere else. If I'm understanding correctly the dogs can't tell if it's a dead body or a lost fingertip or another body part that one could live without.

Moreover, if someone reports a suspiciously behaving person with a baby IMO they should check it out because it could solve some other case. Even if they're sure it's not Lisa's abductor it could be somebody else who had something to hide. Maybe a parent who lost custody etc.
 
I honestly think LE messed up with their initial search by not searching the house better. If the parents are guilty they had time to remove things, if they aren't then LE lost a valuable window of time to find her. I am not sure why they didn't but I think Jeremy did sign a warrant giving them permission just seems like if he didn't give them full access they could have gotten pretty quickly based on the fact the house is a crime scene. A kidnapping is a crime so I would think a judge would sign off based on that fact and allow them full access.
So much speculation on things that may or may not have happened is good, its what this site is all about,and I love to read peoples speculation even if I disagree. Its good that people think about things and come up with so many theories I never would have even considered.
 
Would a HRD dog alert to a tooth?

That's something IMO that very possibly could decompose unnoticed in a bedroom if there are children in tooth-losing age.

More so than a poopy diaper, anyway. I wouldn't keep those in my bedroom.
 
I honestly think LE messed up with their initial search by not searching the house better. If the parents are guilty they had time to remove things, if they aren't then LE lost a valuable window of time to find her. I am not sure why they didn't but I think Jeremy did sign a warrant giving them permission just seems like if he didn't give them full access they could have gotten pretty quickly based on the fact the house is a crime scene. A kidnapping is a crime so I would think a judge would sign off based on that fact and allow them full access.
So much speculation on things that may or may not have happened is good, its what this site is all about,and I love to read peoples speculation even if I disagree. Its good that people think about things and come up with so many theories I never would have even considered.

I totally agree and have felt since early days that LE believed the parents and only accepted the agreement to check a few areas because they actually felt it was a kidnapping. Upon hearing the changing timelines and lies did they IMHO reacess the situation. I also knew I had read that JI only allowed certain areas to be done in the early days.

I have questions about what access the family had to the house especially in the early early hours of the investigation. The phones especially would have been so easy to sneak out of the house in a purse, a jacket, in luggage to another home.

Another thing that has my radar up is that Jim Spellman from CNN seems to have dropped out rather quickly. Following his Twitter he kept indicating that LE had much more and then poof he was gone. I wonder if they asked him to leave because he was starting to tread on info they wanted to keep close to the vest.

I still think LE knows what happened and they are just biding the time. I think they know the baby is no longer among the living, they don't have all the info to a T just yet but they know much more than we do. These detectives are trained pro's not armchair like I am.

I trust them and have a gut the person or persons responsible are gonna stand trial.
 
Would a HRD dog alert to a tooth?

That's something IMO that very possibly could decompose unnoticed in a bedroom if there are children in tooth-losing age.

More so than a poopy diaper, anyway. I wouldn't keep those in my bedroom.
That's a good one. There must be some way to find out what things, other than a dead body, a HRD dog could hit on. I think we all pretty much agree that human or animal feces/urine is not something they would hit on. What about vomit?
 
That's a good one. There must be some way to find out what things, other than a dead body, a HRD dog could hit on. I think we all pretty much agree that human or animal feces/urine is not something they would hit on. What about vomit?

The impression I get from reading our HRD experts here and some other research over the years is that it all comes down to what the dogs are trained TO detect and what they're trained NOT to detect; seems the possibilities are virtually limitless.
 
From my understanding the body starts to decay within minutes and it starts to shed cells and emit gases. The HRD scents these gas odors. I don't think vomit, poopy, snot, sour milk, etc would emit the gases that the decaying body puts off.
 
I totally agree and have felt since early days that LE believed the parents and only accepted the agreement to check a few areas because they actually felt it was a kidnapping. Upon hearing the changing timelines and lies did they IMHO reacess the situation. I also knew I had read that JI only allowed certain areas to be done in the early days.

I have questions about what access the family had to the house especially in the early early hours of the investigation. The phones especially would have been so easy to sneak out of the house in a purse, a jacket, in luggage to another home.

Another thing that has my radar up is that Jim Spellman from CNN seems to have dropped out rather quickly. Following his Twitter he kept indicating that LE had much more and then poof he was gone. I wonder if they asked him to leave because he was starting to tread on info they wanted to keep close to the vest.

I still think LE knows what happened and they are just biding the time. I think they know the baby is no longer among the living, they don't have all the info to a T just yet but they know much more than we do. These detectives are trained pro's not armchair like I am.

I trust them and have a gut the person or persons responsible are gonna stand trial.
I think CNN had Jim leave because they had been parked there for about if not over a month. They have other stories to pursue and to keep that many resources here when not much is happening would not make good business sense.
 
I have questions about what access the family had to the house especially in the early early hours of the investigation. The phones especially would have been so easy to sneak out of the house in a purse, a jacket, in luggage to another home. .

I have had the fleeting thought that if DB was the one calling her voice mail shortly before JI came home there was not a lot of time to get rid of the phones and if SB is a really good friend the phones could possibly have ended up at SB's home when they went there before calling LE, supposedly to ask her if she had Lisa. I presume that JI and DB were busy with LE for quite some time so SB could have had more time to get rid of them.

I don't know why she'd have agreed to hide them though... so, maybe not.
 
I totally agree and have felt since early days that LE believed the parents and only accepted the agreement to check a few areas because they actually felt it was a kidnapping. Upon hearing the changing timelines and lies did they IMHO reacess the situation. I also knew I had read that JI only allowed certain areas to be done in the early days.

I have questions about what access the family had to the house especially in the early early hours of the investigation. The phones especially would have been so easy to sneak out of the house in a purse, a jacket, in luggage to another home.

Another thing that has my radar up is that Jim Spellman from CNN seems to have dropped out rather quickly. Following his Twitter he kept indicating that LE had much more and then poof he was gone. I wonder if they asked him to leave because he was starting to tread on info they wanted to keep close to the vest.

I still think LE knows what happened and they are just biding the time. I think they know the baby is no longer among the living, they don't have all the info to a T just yet but they know much more than we do. These detectives are trained pro's not armchair like I am.

I trust them and have a gut the person or persons responsible are gonna stand trial.

Jeremy gave permission to search the entire house. LE, believing it was a kidnapping only took fingerprints from Lisas room and the computer room. Why not the light switches? That doesn't make sense, when they were told it was unusual for the lights to be on. The counter where the cell phones were? Did they suspect the parents immediately and just not bother?

As for Jim Spellman, I think like all other reporters, he just got moved along to another hot story. He had said he was going to be back there after Thanksgiving, but what else was there for him to do? If there wasn't much happening and he had spoken to everyone he could (they wouldn't allow him to speak with Jersey) there really didn't seem much point in him being there anymore.

I truly don't think LE have any idea what happened. I think they have a whole lot of info that adds up to nada at this point.

At this point, in my mind, both an intruder and/or DB/JI having anything to do with Lisa being gone is hard to figure. Like someone magically picked her up and disappeared into thin air.

ALL moo
 
But would LE even think to search DB purse that day?? Or jackets, pants, kids luggage, etc. See where I'm going with this? Doesn't seem the LE actually "searched" much at all in the home within those very early days and even though they did accompany the Irwins back to the home on several occasions I am sure they were not frisking them every time.


They were investigating a kidnapping and a theft of phones. I'm sure if I reported my phone missing and my son kidnapped the local SP would not immediately search my purse. I'm most positive I'd have time to remove a bunch of stuff if I wasn't the focus of attention.
 
I totally agree and have felt since early days that LE believed the parents and only accepted the agreement to check a few areas because they actually felt it was a kidnapping. Upon hearing the changing timelines and lies did they IMHO reacess the situation. I also knew I had read that JI only allowed certain areas to be done in the early days.

I have questions about what access the family had to the house especially in the early early hours of the investigation. The phones especially would have been so easy to sneak out of the house in a purse, a jacket, in luggage to another home.

Another thing that has my radar up is that Jim Spellman from CNN seems to have dropped out rather quickly. Following his Twitter he kept indicating that LE had much more and then poof he was gone. I wonder if they asked him to leave because he was starting to tread on info they wanted to keep close to the vest.

I still think LE knows what happened and they are just biding the time. I think they know the baby is no longer among the living, they don't have all the info to a T just yet but they know much more than we do. These detectives are trained pro's not armchair like I am.

I trust them and have a gut the person or persons responsible are gonna stand trial.
Where was this read? I have only seen that LE made the decision to only process certain areas of the house.
and as for early hours of the investigation, the family was WITH LE at the station for the entire first day. The house was not released as a crime scene until later.
 
Where was this read? I have only seen that LE made the decision to only process certain areas of the house.
and as for early hours of the investigation, the family was WITH LE at the station for the entire first day. The house was not released as a crime scene until later.

It was first released as a crime scene between 7 and 8 p.m. that Thursday night. The crime tape was rolled up just before Steve Young held his news conference.

Based on the videos and photos I saw, looked like they were combing over anything and everything those first few days.

Good Morning America and possibly NBC were then granted access to the home on Friday or Saturday. Police were back at the home by Sunday as I recall after the parents were interviewed on that Saturday. Maybe Monday.
 
It was first released as a crime scene between 7 and 8 p.m. that Thursday night. The crime tape was rolled up just before Steve Young held his news conference.

Based on the videos and photos I saw, looked like they were combing over anything and everything those first few days.

Good Morning America and possibly NBC were then granted access to the home on Friday or Saturday. Police were back at the home by Sunday as I recall after the parents were interviewed on that Saturday. Maybe Monday.
Yep and Thursday night was nearly 3 days after the initial call (2 1/2 days anyway). I only know about how long it was as our road was closed completely down while it was deemed a crime scene and it was several days of that.
And it was pretty apparent visually that they had more than just access to only the few areas that are being stated. They were EVERY where all over the property.
 
There's a correlation between trust in LE and the suspicion of the parents ,imo.
It seems those who don't trust LE are more supportive of the parents innocence.

There also seems to be blame placed because LE either didn't search the home enough because they thought it was a kidnapping, or they did too much because they had tunnel vision focusing on the parents guilt. Either way,this is all LE's fault.

We have a profession who literally puts their lives on the line every day that they work,who work odd hours and holidays,often leaving families to do so.
There are rotten people in every profession ,but the large majority are in it for the right reasons.

just wondering who to call when someone with a weapon is trying to break into your home ?
If an over zealous Lisa supporter harasses the parents ,who will they call for help?
 
There's a correlation between trust in LE and the suspicion of the parents ,imo.
It seems those who don't trust LE are more supportive of the parents innocence.

There also seems to be blame placed because LE either didn't search the home enough because they thought it was a kidnapping, or they did too much because they had tunnel vision focusing on the parents guilt. Either way,this is all LE's fault.

We have a profession who literally puts their lives on the line every day that they work,who work odd hours and holidays,often leaving families to do so.
There are rotten people in every profession ,but the large majority are in it for the right reasons.

just wondering who to call when someone with a weapon is trying to break into your home ?
If an over zealous Lisa supporter harasses the parents ,who will they call for help?

I was married to and have a child with a police officer. I spent a lot of time with them - one of my best friends is LE. I trust them completely. I also know they are human and they make mistakes...as a group and individually. I also know that they absolutely do have tunnel vision and jump to their own conclusions on some cases...this I know for a fact.
So...
I would like to know though, why they didn't fingerprint the light switches or counter area in the kitchen...even the door handles? The warrant request said they only did the point of entry in the computer room? And Lisas crib? They wouldn't even have to touch the crib to pick up the baby. I just found that odd. If D/J specifically told them that the lights were on and that Deb knew she had turned them all off, why not print the lights?? I just wonder if they had some reason to suspect the parents right off the bat, otherwise, how can that be overlooked.
 

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