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Debbie Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, parents of missing infant Lisa Irwin, are shown during a news conference with their attorney in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 17, 2011. The baby disappeared on October 4. (Rich Sugg/Kansas City Star/MCT)

From 'mother hen' to media villain: The life of a missing baby's mom

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 12:56pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- He can't sleep. He has trouble focusing his thoughts or quieting roiling emotions after each news story about his missing granddaughter.

And baby Lisa Irwin's first birthday looms five days away.

"That's gonna be the oh-my-God moment," said David Netz Jr., weeping. "I can't even imagine what that day will be like. What will we do? How will we get through that? I don't even know how to ask Debbie and Jeremy what we should do or how to help them through that."

Since the mystifying Oct. 4 disappearance of the 10-month-old, much of the nation has been introduced to her parents, Debbie Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, as the latest breathless, blow-by-blow, cable-crime-case sensation.

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(ORLIN WAGNER/The Associated Press) In this Oct. 11, 2011, file photo posters for missing baby Lisa Irwin are taped to a light pole near the Irwin home in Kansas City, Mo. The pictures on the “KIDNAPPED” flier have put an emotional face on what could have been simply just another missing person’s case. Lisa’s parents reported her missing Oct. 4.

Missing Mo. baby’s age makes her harder to find

Heather Hollingsworth The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 7:37am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The reported sightings have come from as far as California, people just certain they’ve spotted the blond-haired Kansas City baby whose cherubic face has been printed on fliers and circulated on national television programs since her disappearance three weeks ago.

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(The Associated Press) This file photo provided Oct. 4, 2011, by the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, shows Lisa Irwin. Police and federal authorities have been searching extensively for Irwin who was 10 months old when her parents reported her missing on Oct. 4, 2011.

Lawyer: Mom of missing baby has ‘nothing to hide’

Maria Sudekum Fisher The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 9:46am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The mother of a missing Missouri baby may not be casting herself in the best light by telling national media that she drank heavily the night her daughter disappeared and other unflattering details, but her honesty shows that she and her family “have nothing to hide,” her attorney said.

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FILE - This file photo provided Oct. 4, 2011, by the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, shows Lisa Irwin. Police and federal authorities have been searching extensively for Irwin who was 10 months old when her parents reported her missing on Oct. 4, 2011. (AP Photo, Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, File)

Mom admits she was drunk on night baby vanished

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 5:34pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The mother of a missing Kansas City baby said Monday that she was drunk when her daughter disappeared, may have blacked out and actually last saw the child hours before the time she originally told police she checked on her.

The revelations came hours before a New York attorney best known for defending Joran Van der Sloot, the Dutch man suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, said he had been hired to represent parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin.

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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 Associated Press) An undated family photo of Lisa Irwin, now 10-months-old, is shown at a news conference in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. The parents of Lisa 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.

Family of missing Missouri baby setting up reward

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 4:58pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Decades of statistics on infant abductions in the U.S. suggest one of the least likely scenarios in this week’s disappearance of a Kansas City baby is that a stranger broke into her home and quietly snatched her from her crib.

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FBI searches for missing baby in Kan. landfill

Maria Sudekum Fisher The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 9:00am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- FBI agents scoured a Kansas landfill for the second time this week as the search for a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl entered its fourth day -- and just hours after the child's mother said police accused her of being involved.

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Frenzy surrounds missing baby investigation

Eric Alder Kansas City Star

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 8:17am

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- In the search for little Lisa Irwin, crime investigators say, every minute counts. Time is passing.

It has been three days since Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley reported that their 10-month-old baby had been snatched from her crib in their Northland home.

About 300 investigators representing local police, sheriff's departments, the FBI and others have been working the scene and beyond, gathering evidence and following leads they hope will reveal Lisa's location.

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Deborah Bradley, front, stands with Jeremy Irwin while in the lobby of a Hampton Inn hotel in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. Bradley said in an interview Friday that she took a polygraph earlier this week after her baby, Lisa Irwin, disappeared from their Kansas City home. Bradley says police told her she failed the test. Lisa's father, Jeremy Irwin, said he has offered to take a lie detector test, but police said he did not have to. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Police pressure mom of missing baby: 'You did it'

Maria Sudekum Fisher The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 9:45am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The mother of a 10-month-old girl who went missing from their Kansas City home said police told her she failed a lie detector test and accused her of being involved in her baby's disappearance.

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