LISA IRWIN - 10 months (2011) - Kansas City MO

Interviews with baby Lisa's brothers underway
Posted: Nov 10, 2011 5:36 PM EST Updated: Nov 10, 2011 6:39 PM EST

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
Interviews with the older half brothers of missing baby Lisa Irwin are underway, Kansas City Police Department officials said Thursday afternoon.

The FBI is helping oversee the interviews by trained child specialists, police department spokesman Darin Snapp said.


The two half brothers were in the home when Lisa went missing. Her father, Jeremy Irwin, reported her missing at 4 a.m. Oct. 4. Her parents say she was snatched from her crib by a kidnapper, but her mother, Debbie Bradley, has said she expects to be arrested in connection with the case.

Bradley was the last to see the baby.


Lisa's first birthday is Friday.

The boys, ages five and 8 years old, were first interviewed in the hours after their sister went missing. The younger boy was interviewed for 30 minutes while the older boy was interviewed for 50 minutes, police have said.

Police had then sought a second interview with the boys after investigators had gathered more information. They also sought their DNA to compare it to DNA in the home.

After weeks of delays, the interviews began Thursday afternoon. FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said both the FBI and Kansas City Police investigators are participating in the interview process. The trained specialist would conduct the interview in a special room aimed to make the boys feel comfortable while the investigators would observe via closed circuit television.

Patton refused to confirm a report that the FBI had flown a specially trained child specialist in from Washington to conduct the interviews. Authorities have also declined to say where the interviews are being done or how long they might last.


To read when Bradley and Irwin scrapped the interviews planned last month, click here. To read about the initial plans to interview the boys a second time, click here.

http://www.kctv5.com/story/16012022/interviews-with-brothers

Verogal wrote:BREAKING Now per JimS CNN twitter page

jimspellmancnnjim spellman

#babylisa the boys are being reinterviewed right now per KCPD

Oh wow! Can't believe this baby will be one soon! No news!!!

Thanks Verogal for all your updates. I check the forum everyday and read all the new posts. I'd post more but sometimes I don't want to post and my message be the one to come up and people miss the important updates. You've been posting a lot about the baby Lisa case and I really appreciate it. I keep hoping every time I open this thread that she will have been found!

You are welcome..I do try..and, try to keep it current...though somedays I post a day after the release of the new news. I really hope she is found, but, I think she is gone and mommy did it! But, I want her found one way or another asap...I wish their was more of an interest of the community to searche for her...but, my guess is the community doesn't seem an interest by mommy and daddy so what is the point...they could feel they know the answer....another mom lying about the demise of her daughter...wild goose chase and a waste of time...imo

Kansas City police: Hunt for baby Lisa isn't out of steam; her birthday is Friday
November 10, 2011
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The first birthday of a baby who disappeared last month is Friday. Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young, says the investigation has not lost steam. Police have received 1,271 tips and cleared 966 of them.

Lisa Irwin's father returned home from work around 4 a.m. on Oct. 4, and discovered her missing. The ensuing Amber Alert sparked intensive police searches of the neighborhood, nearby wooded areas, industrial sites and landfills. That hunt has ended
Attorneys for Lisa's parents, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, say they might make statements on Friday after nearly two weeks of shunning reporters. Young says investigators want to interview Irwin and Bradley separately, something they've not done since Oct. 8.

http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-baby-lisa-irwin-search-continues-on-her-birthday-20111110,0,25257.story?track=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I wonder what they will say tomorrow. I don't blame the community for not looking as where do they look plus they aren't sure if they are looking for a dead baby. If someone did kidnap the baby, then they'd be long gone by now. It wouldn't be hard to abduct a baby and then move far away and raise it. Or maybe someone has already left the country with her. So mysterious.

RussPtacekRuss Ptacek

Investigative Reporter - KSHB - Kansas City

Boys' interview over. Police still want boys' DNA and interviews with parents #babylisa #lisairwinhttp://shar.es/bPRIB
RussPtacekRuss Ptacek

PI Bill Stanton, "It's my understanding he may have heard a tapping sound," tonight at 10 @nbcactionnews #babylisa #lisairwin

https://twitter.com/#!/RussPtacek

JHoltFox4KCJohn Holt

BRKNG: #Fox4 Eric Burke: #LisaIrwin parents have arrived back at a nland home where they've stayed. No sign of boys.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The parents of a missing Kansas City girl
planned a private gathering Friday 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.

Lisa Irwin’s birthday was a “tough day” for the family and only
close relatives would attend the gathering, said John Picerno, their
Kansas City lawyer. Authorities have been searching for the girl since
Oct. 4, when her parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, reported her missing.


(Associated Press) - FILE - This file photo provided Oct. 4, 2011,
by the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, shows Lisa Irwin who
disappeared from her crib more than five weeks ago. Police say they have
run out of places to look for Lisa, who’s first birthday is Friday,
Nov. 11, 2011, until someone comes forward with more information
Picerno reiterated that Bradley and Irwin would not be
questioned by police separately, saying he didn’t want them to be
“subjected to interrogation techniques.” He said previous questioning “got nasty.”
Kansas City police didn’t immediately return calls
Friday. They have previously said the couple has failed to be open with
authorities because they haven’t met separately with detectives since
Oct. 8. 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. He said a
window was ajar, all the lights were on, the front door was unlocked and
three cellphones were missing.
Bradley admits she spent the
previous evening sitting outside with a neighbor, smoking cigarettes and
getting drunk on boxed wine, and says she last checked on the baby around 6:30 p.m.
She has said police have accused her of being
involved in the child’s disappearance, and that she failed a polygraph
test. In tearful early statements to the media, Bradley repeatedly
insisted she doesn’t know what happened to her child.
Discrepancies in Bradley’s story — she initially told investigators she checked on
the baby around 10:30 p.m. — and the parents’ apparent unwillingness to
speak separately with detectives have cast the family in a negative
light.
Picerno said police are “absolutely” focusing too much on
the parents and noted that the couple had met with police for more than
30 hours on five separate occasions before limiting contact.
“At this point, there is nothing more to said,” Picerno explained. He said
police should contact him or the couple’s New York attorney “if there
are still things that they need to know or questions that they want to ask.”
One day earlier, Lisa’s half-brothers — ages 5 and 8 — were
interviewed for two hours by an FBI expert who specializes in working
with children, Picerno said. He said the boys weren’t interviewed
earlier because the FBI expert wasn’t available until then.
He said the children “seemed to be in good spirits” afterward when he took
them out to eat. He said he didn’t grill them about what happened during
the interview and urged their parents not to either. The interview was
taped, but the family’s attorneys will only be able to see it if charges are filed.
Picerno said an FBI agent told him in an email that the interview went “fine” and that there were “no new developments.”
“They are cute little boys,” Picerno said. “I first met them this week.
The first thing they said when I sat down with them at their kitchen
table was, the older one said, ‘Are you going to help us find Lisa?’ If
you guys have kids, you know how older siblings like infants, and so
it’s a traumatic experience for them.”
FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency was involved in the interview with the boys along
with the Kansas City police. She offered no details.
“We are still working this investigation,” Patton said. “We are still following
up on all tips that have come in,” alongside Kansas City police.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/family-of-missing-kansas-city-baby-mark-girls-first-birthday-with-private-family-gathering/2011/11/11/gIQAPhfhCN_story.html

OP Comment: Three part videos from various players on new breaking possible bombshell/break in case news. IMO really really notice "what" is said and more important "what" is not...fishy imo..seems to be feeding us what he wants us to think.

Part One w/ Bill Stanton the "PI/Consultant"

http://www.myspace.com/video/565006329/lisa-irwin-bill-stanton-take-on-cellphones-11-11-11/108334627

Video Part Two and Three


Fox Exclusive: Cell Phone Records of Baby Lisa’s Parents Released; More Calls Were Attempted From Deborah Bradley’s Phone the Night Lisa Disappeared

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Today, Megyn Kelly reported in a Fox exclusive that cell phone records show that at 3:17 am and 3:22 am that same night, someone tried to access Deborah Bradley’s voicemail and use the internet.

Please click link read but a must hear two videos to watch...I know it says part one and two...but, really, imo bills needs to be heard first as to order of release...thanks.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2011/11/11/fox-exclusive-cell-phone-records-of-baby-lisa%e2%80%99s-parents-released-more-calls-were-attempted-from-deborah-bradley%e2%80%99s-phone-the-night-lisa-disappeared/

Missing Baby Lisa Irwin -- Inconsistencies Piling Up


The tide of public opinion is turning further against the parents of missing Kansas City, Mo., baby Lisa Irwin. Those parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, say Bradley put the baby to bed at 10:30 p.m. last Monday and Irwin discovered her missing from her crib when he returned from work about 4 a.m. Tuesday. As the investigation into 11-month-old Lisa's disappearance continues into a second week, the inconsistencies in the parents' accounts of what happened are piling up and casting suspicion their way.


* The Irwins have a black lab as a pet who was on the porch on the night Lisa was reported missing. Bradley denied the dog barked that night. But she acknowledged in an interview the dog would have barked if there had been noise, if something out of the ordinary had happened or if there was someone she didn't know present. With dogs tending to be protective, the absence of barking casts doubt on the claim a stranger broke into the Irwin home.

* The last time Bradley saw Lisa was when she put her to bed at 10:30 p.m., she says. "I just changed her, you know, put fresh clothes on her, and get her ready for bed." Yet the baby disappeared while wearing purple shorts and a purple top with white kittens on it. Why would Bradley have changed a baby who was going to bed for the night into shorts and a shirt rather than pajamas?
* In another interview, Bradley said Lisa went to bed first and the boys later; the boys are 6 and 8 and it was a school night. Yet the boys went to bed subsequent to 10:30 p.m.?

* Police asked the Irwins to make a list of anyone who could have been responsible for Lisa's disappearance. When asked in an interview by Judge Jeanine Pirro, "How did you pick these names," Jeremy Irwin answered, "Anybody. People who have been in the house. People that have had miscarriages lately. People who got divorces, cheating on their husb- (he stopped himself; his wife shook her head "no"). Irwin's mention of people getting divorces and cheating on their husbands has no logical nexus with a baby kidnapping and raises eyebrows.

* Lisa Irwin went to bed with a cold and cough. Bradley claims to have slept in her own room with another child and a stray cat in her bed, her bedroom door shut. This is an unusual choice for a mother with a sick baby. In an interview Sunday, Bradley says she had a baby monitor operating that night. Yet she, like the dog, heard nothing when a stranger allegedly entered her baby's bedroom and removed her baby.

* Irwin and Bradley suggested a window in an adjacent room as a point of entry, saying the screen had been tampered with. A police re-enactment showed the window to be an unlikely -- almost impossible -- point of quiet entry. It's hard to access and the screen was not fully removed, tying the intruder theory to the improbable scenario that a kidnapper took time to put the screen back in the window after entering the house. Who tampered with the screen and why?

* The couple claims an intruder took their three cellphones at the same time as taking the baby, delaying their call to 911. Yet they admitted to Judge Jeanine that Jeremy had a functioning work phone he ultimately used to call 911.

http://news.yahoo.com/missing-baby-lisa-irwin-inconsistencies-piling-174800193.html

Gathering for Baby Lisa 1st Birthday and Baloon Release...per Jim Spellman about 25 people came...paternal gps but not step brother, aunts, uncle or maternal grandfather??

http://campl.us/gK8A#gK8A

Pic from JSpellman/CNN twitter page

Balloon Release

http://campl.us/gK8F

Pic from JSpellman/CNN twitter page

Happy Bday sign in front of home today

http://campl.us/gKTr
Pic from JSpellman/CNN twitter page

...but, no one has or is living there...I wonder if the "KIDNAPPER" wanted to return the baby, come by or mail the mom and dad how they would find them...hmmmmm??? OP Comment

Small memorial marks Baby Lisa’s birthday
By Jim Spellman, November 11, 2011

Each day of the year children’s first birthdays are celebrated. Family and friends gather, presents are opened and a little boy or girl is at the center of it all.

In Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, it is an altogether different kind of first birthday for baby Lisa Irwin.

She disappeared from her home on October 4 and hasn’t been seen since. A vigorous investigation by the Kansas City Police Department and FBI has ensued. Over a thousand leads have been chased, wooded areas have been searched and there's still no indication that authorities are any closer to finding baby Lisa or knowing what happened that night.

In front of Lisa’s house, in a part of Kansas City known as the Northland, makeshift memorials come and go. A stuffed animal appears and then is gone after a storm. Flowers are left, radiant in the sunshine for a day or two then wilt and blow away.

Notes of hope written in marker fill a bulletin board that sits at the edge of Lisa’s yard.

"I pray you come home safely. I am praying for you little girl," wrote Christine Rogers.

"Bring baby Lisa home," wrote Bailey Dumas.

Pinned to the same board, wrapped in plastic to protect it from the elements is a poster. It reads, "KIDNAPPED" with a pair of now iconic photos of Baby Lisa. "CALL 816-474-TIPS" it reads at the bottom. Police here tell us calls to that tip line and other leads are coming in less frequently.

Many figures have popped up in the investigation: neighbors, a homeless handyman, a mysterious pink-haired girl. Police aren’t calling any of them suspects.

Nor do they say the mother Deborah Bradley or the father Jeremy Irwin are suspects, though they want to re-interview them both. It’s been a month since police have spoken to them and they have refused another interview since.

The family moved from their home and is staying with a relative a few miles away. Most days the only person at Lisa’s home is a local woman named Edith, who holds a sort of one-woman vigil here. She puts together occasional neighborhood searches and prayer services and for Lisa’s birthday she has planned a balloon release in the front yard. Usually not more than a dozen people come.

Meantime, everything is changing all around. The leaves have gone from green to orange. Halloween came and went; for the first time in weeks kids in the neighborhood were able to have fun and be kids. They all knew not to knock on Lisa’s door.

In the last few weeks my daughter celebrated her fifth birthday. Producer Bill Kirkos’s twins celebrated their third, and thousands of other kids across the country have marked milestones, safe and sound with their families.

We are sincerely hoping Lisa Irwin is likewise safe and sound tonight, and on her way home..

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2011/11/11/missing-baby-lisa-turns-one-year-old-parents-celebrate-birthday-private

Attorney for Lisa Irwin’s parents explains their cooperation situation with police
By TONY RIZZO
The Kansas City Star

John Picerno, one of the attorneys representing the family of baby Lisa Irwin, spoke Friday morning with the media.
Irwin family attorney talks to the media
KCTV | Baby Lisa's birthday; brothers talk to authorities
Brothers of missing baby Lisa Irwin interviewed again by authorities


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.”

Bradley and Irwin have been interviewed separately twice without attorneys, he said.

The third time they were interviewed, with an attorney present, “it got nasty,” according to Picerno.

The attorney called off those interviews, he said.

“He had enough, and that’s enough for us,” Picerno said.

That attorney, Sean O’Brien, confirmed Friday that he had stopped those interviews because of the “accusatory” nature of police questioning.

“It was clear to me it was not going to produce any relevant information,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien said that Bradley and Irwin consented to that interview even though previous interviews also had involved accusatory tactics.

“They still wanted to give information because they know the police are the best hope of finding their baby,” he said.

Picerno said he believes that police are “absolutely” focusing too much on the parents, and he said his clients have indicated that police are treating them like suspects.

“They told them as much, Debbie in particular,” he said.

But a Kansas City police spokeswoman on Friday disputed that anyone had been singled out as a suspect.

“We have no suspects in this case,” said Police Sgt. Stacey Graves.

Picerno said Friday that if police have questions they want answered, the questions can be relayed to him or co-counsel Joe Tacopina of New York, and they will get answers.

“What we’re not going to do is let our clients be subjected to interrogation techniques,” Picerno said.

Police conducted another search of a wooded area in the Northland on Friday, Graves said. The search near Vivion Road and Interstate 35 was not prompted by a specific tip but was part of the ongoing effort to expand the search area. It did not yield any new information, she said.

Also on Friday, Picerno spoke about Thursday night’s interviews that an expert conducted with Lisa’s two older half brothers. Picerno said an FBI agent told him the interviews “went well” but yielded “no new developments.”

Picerno said he won’t have access to videos of the interviews unless charges are filed.

The whole ordeal has been traumatic for the two boys, who are 8 and 5, Picerno said. He described meeting them for the first time.

“Are you going to help us find Lisa?” he said the older boy asked him.

And finding Lisa is the family’s primary focus, he said.

The team representing the family is conducting an independent investigation of Lisa’s disappearance, but Picerno declined to discuss specifics. He said anything the team uncovers will be relayed to police.

He asked that the media leave Lisa’s parents alone Friday, a difficult day because it marked Lisa’s first birthday.

Later Friday, Picerno, citing information from the FBI, provided details about calls involving family cellphones reported stolen on the night of Lisa’s disappearance.

Speaking on Fox News Channel’s “America Live With Megyn Kelly,” Picerno said that a call was placed from one of the family’s cellphones at 11:57 p.m. on Oct. 3. That call went to the phone of a Northland woman named Megan Wright.

Wright has said that someone else had her phone that night and that she does not know Bradley or Irwin.

The records also show that someone tried to access the voice mail and Internet browser on Bradley’s phone between 3:17 and 3:32 a.m. on Oct. 4, Picerno said. The activity took place one-fifth to one-third


Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/11/3260417/baby-lisas-attorney-explains-parents.html#ixzz1dXAcz6Ad

New search on baby Lisa's first birthday

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KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
Lisa Irwin turned 1 year old Friday as the Kansas City Police Department searched a Northland area for the missing baby.

KCPD spokesman Capt. Steve Young said an area near the Stroud's chicken restaurant was searched again.

"Just the next idea, nothing more," Young said in email to KCTV5.

This came the day after Lisa's two older, half-brothers met with a trained child specialist with the FBI.

Very Sad New Video and Read more at:

http://www.kctv5.com/story/16017789/baby-lisas-first-birthday-and-still-few-clues

Baby Lisa's parents now suspects, according to attorney.

November 11, 2011

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The parents of Lisa Irwin, the infant that disappeared from her crib on the evening of October, 3rd, are now official suspects in the criminal investigation of the case.

According to the couple's attorney, John Picerno, the Kansas City Police Department have notified Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin that they are, indeed, suspects in the investigation.

The revelations came during a news conference called by the couple's legal team on what would have been the baby's first birthday.

When asked directly whether or not the couple had been advised by law enforcement that they were the target of the investigation, Picerno replied, "Oh, they've told them as much…sure. Debbie in particular."


Continue reading on Examiner.com Baby Lisa's parents now suspects, according to attorney. - National Crime & Justice | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/crime-justice-in-national/baby-lisa-s-parents-now-suspects-according-to-attorney#ixzz1dXBriS00

Lawyer: Phone call clears Baby Lisa's parents

Claims someone used cell phone stolen night little girl vanished from her home

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A call from a cell phone reportedly stolen the night Kansas City infant Lisa Irwin vanished from her home points to the innocence of the parents in her disappearance, their lawyer said Saturday night.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45277244/ns/today-today_people/

Custody Battle Brewing Over Baby Lisa’s Brother
10:10 am, November 13, 2011, by Dave Dunn

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It’s been almost six weeks since the baby Lisa Irwin was last seen. Family members celebrated the baby’s first birthday on November 11. Now, FOX 4 has learned the baby’s father, Jeremy Irwin is in a custody battle over one of Lisa’s half brothers.

FOX 4′s Dave Dunn talked to the boy’s family about the battle.

Continue with full video at
http://fox4kc.com/2011/11/13/custody-battle-brewing-over-baby-lisas-brother/

A woman identified a man she says was using her phone when it got a mystery call from one of the three cell phones stolen from the house the night Lisa Irwin disappeared on Oct. 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiZ4Nknhk_o&feature=related

Video

Uploaded by Kansascitypi on Nov 13, 2011


This interview is with my source from my blog last week (www.Kansascitypi.blogspot.com) re the cell phone that received the call from Deborah Bradley's phone the night Baby Lisa Irwin disappeared. My source did this interview at my suggestion and is the only one he plans to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqOJXuX5hXg

Exclusive: Irwin Family Attorney John Picerno Talks to FOX 4′s John Holt


Kansas City-based attorney John Picerno is no stranger to high-profile cases, and was the New York City-based Irwin family attorney Joe Tacopina’s choice to serve as the family’s local attorney.

FOX 4′s John Holt sat down with Picerno on Friday to discuss the Lisa Irwin disappearance case, and why the family chose to hire a defense attorney if, as they claim, they have nothing to hide.

3 part video

http://fox4kc.com/2011/11/11/exclusive-irwin-family-attorney-john-picerno-talks-to-fox-4s-john-holt/

Verogal wrote:

A woman identified a man she says was using her phone when it got a mystery call from one of the three cell phones stolen from the house the night Lisa Irwin disappeared on Oct. 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiZ4Nknhk_o&feature=related

---The use of the phone (s) proves nothing. They could have given it to somebody and they could unknowingly be in the scam.
Further, I was of the belief that none of the phones were working due to unpaid bills.
The detectives, I am sure, have already hit a dead end on this road.
Try again!

KANSAS CITY — The mother of the half brother of a Kansas City
baby who has been missing for six weeks has filed a motion for temporary
custody of her 8-year-old son.

Rasleen Raim, the boy's mother, filed a petition in Clay County that
seeks to modify the custody and visitation agreement between herself and
his father, Jeremy Irwin, her attorney Dorothy Savory told The Kansas City Star.

"Mrs. Raim has always kept her son in her thoughts and prayers,"
Savory said in a written statement. "Now, more than ever, she is
concerned about 'her baby's' comfort and peace of mind. Rasleen misses
her son and has always, and will forever, love him."



Attorneys for the family of Lisa Irwin said the boy dotes on the
baby, who was reported missing Oct. 4. Her parents, Deborah Bradley and
Jeremy Irwin, said she was abducted from her crib as the family slept.

The 8-year-old boy was at home when Lisa vanished. Bradley's
6-year-old son from another relationship was also in the house that
night.

Bradley and Irwin's Kansas City lawyer, John Picerno, didn't
immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press. Joe Tacopina,
the family's New York attorney, said the family is moving back into
their house Tuesday. He said he knew nothing about the custody papers.

The mother didn't have a listed phone number. Calls to police and her attorney from the AP weren't immediately returned.

Irwin has said he discovered the baby was gone when he came home
around 4 a.m. after working a late shift. He said a window was ajar, all
the lights were on, the front door was unlocked and three cellphones
were missing.

Bradley admits she spent the previous evening sitting outside with a
neighbor, smoking cigarettes and getting drunk on boxed wine, and said
she last checked on the baby around 6:30 p.m.

She has said police have accused her of being involved in the child's
disappearance and that she failed a polygraph test. In tearful early
statements to the media, Bradley repeatedly insisted she doesn't know
what happened to her child.

Discrepancies in Bradley's story — she initially told investigators
she last checked on the baby around 10:30 p.m. — and the parents'
apparent unwillingness to speak separately with detectives have cast the
family in a negative light.

Picerno has said the couple spoke to police for more than 30 hours
before limiting contact after the questioning became "nasty." He said
the police can submit new questions for the parents to him or the
couple's New York attorney.
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2011/11/15/update-mom-seeks-custody-missing-kasnas-city-babys-half-brother/