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Victim of shocking elder abuse was 'rotting corpse still breathing'

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 4:52pm

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Independence authorities are awaiting autopsy results before considering possible charges in an apparent case of elder abuse so severe that emergency responders described the victim as a "rotting corpse that was still breathing."

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Well searched as part of missing baby case

Brian Burnes, Glenn E. Rice, Robert A. Cronkleton Kansas City Star

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 4:04pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City firefighters searched a well behind a vacant home Tuesday in connection with the case of missing baby Lisa Irwin, who was born 11 months ago Tuesday.

After lowering firefighters into the well twice and finding nothing, they requested help draining about 10 feet of water from the well, which authorities described as being 30 to 40 feet deep and about 3 feet wide. Then they lowered a firefighter for the third time, just to make sure no cellphones or other evidence sat at the bottom.

They found nothing, said Capt. Steve Young, a police spokesman.

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The parents of missing 10-month old Lisa Irwin, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, speak during a news conference in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 5, 2011. The parents made a tearful plea for the child's safe return Wednesday, nearly two days after she disappeared, begging her abductor to drop her off someplace safe. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Mike Ransdell)

Parents plead for infant's return

Brian Burnes, Robert A. Cronkleton Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 9:47am

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- As authorities continued to pick through wooded areas and rap on doors Wednesday, the parents of missing infant Lisa Irwin made an emotional plea for her safe return.

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Ferret chews off fingers of infant, parents charged

Brian Burnes, Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 9:11am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The parents of a Grain Valley, Mo., infant who lost seven fingers to a pet ferret could not rescue the child because they weren't home at the time, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

Authorities subpoenaed cellphone records to track the parents the night their 4-month-old baby was injured, court records show. Their findings contradict the parents, who originally told police that their baby's screams awakened them.

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