Baby Lisa Search: Investigators To Question Missing Infant's Brothers, Obtain DNA Samples

Investigators searching for Lisa Irwin plan to question the missing Missouri infant's two brothers later this week.

The boys, ages 5 and 8, have not spoken with police since Oct. 4 -- the day the 10-month-old was reported missing, Kansas City police told The Kansas City Star.

"This will be the first time we've had a chance to interview them since then," said Kansas City Police Officer Darin Snapp, according to ABC News. "We have not been allowed access to the children until [parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin] agreed to bring them in this Friday."

Lisa Irwin's parents believe she was kidnapped from her crib while the family slept. Her brothers were home on the night of their sister's disappearance and may have information that could aid in the search, investigators said.

The boys, identified by CNN as Lisa Irwin's half-brothers, will be questioned on Friday by an expert in child forensic interviewing, not detectives, according to The Star.

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Authorities will also take "non-intrusive" DNA samples from the boys in an attempt to help rule out "unknown" DNA samples collected from the family's Kansas City home, ABC News reports.

Investigators also say they want to speak with Lisa Irwin's parents.

"We need them to sit down apart from each other, with detectives, and answer the tough questions detectives have for them concerning what they may or may not know about anything, who came and went [the night Lisa disappeared]," Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young told ABC. "There's a whole list of things that they may know."

Bradley and Irwin -- who have criticized investigators for treating them like suspects -- claim they are willing to sit down with police separately, CNN reports.

However, they reportedly don't want to take part if there are no lawyers present, or if detectives enter the interviews with assumptions of guilt or launch accusatorial lines of questioning.

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Comments

[Find Compassion]

05:38 PM on 11/18/2011

In our local newspaper just posted today online: http://www.bnd.com/2011/11/18/1946492/police-investigate-death-of-baby.html

The father rolled over onto the baby, and the parents woke up and rushed it to the hospital. Too late.

Where is Baby Lisa? It is really bothering me, and I don't know those people for anything!!! But if my child were missing, I wouldn't stop looking, I would be out every day, I would allow my boys to be interviewed.

I think one of the boys accidentally killed her to make her stop crying while Deborah was passed out stupid, and the parents are protecting the boy.

[Harleysmomma]

10:10 PM on 11/16/2011

The sad thing is is that Casey Anthony has made it so that wether the parents are involved or not any case of a missing child with suspicious circumstances surrounding it will always first be pointed at the parents. I really hope she is found ok. I have a young son and would be devastated if anything like this happened. She should have been more careful about the people she was involving herself with and exposing her children to. What about a baby monitor? If I was sitting outside while my baby slept in it's crib I would have the monitor on.

[livingdangerously]

08:49 AM on 11/10/2011

I still say someone is going to come forward with pertinent information. If Jeremey and Debbie are involved, the guilt must be overwhelming. Somewhere, the truth will be told to someone.....

[guilala13]

12:44 PM on 11/08/2011

sorry spelled kidnapping wrong- typing error

[Marsy Stein]

05:21 AM on 11/04/2011

If I was awakened by my angry husband, discovered my 10-month old was missing, and all the interviews and the tone of the investigation was pointed at her. She was home, therefore she must be guilty. Even a person she used to know, the one that said Deborah had a 'dark side', now what exactly did that mean? I think she was someone trying to cash in on a very bad situation and wanted their 15 minutes of fame. If the mother and father are innocent, what do you have left? A torn screen, doors unlocked, lights on, 3 cell phones missing, and a stray kitten found by the parents bed. We don't know if the kitten was brought in or if the door had been open and it just came in; did anyone ask about the kitten? Two witnesses saw a baby that they didn't see move that maybe only had a diaper on. There is one other thing that I haven't seen mentioned in any of these reports. A 10 month old is a perfect age for the adoption rings who sell babies and then, I hate to say it, the pedophilles. I pray that none of this is what happened.The baby might be alive. Remember the story of the woman that killed the pregnant lady for her baby? Could steal the baby, move to a different area, say the baby was a home birth. Had to be someone watching that knew she had been drinking.

[Imakarmagirl]

12:58 PM on 11/03/2011

Here is a message to Deborah Bradley...

Deborah...you need to come forward and tell the truth about what happened to your daughter. She deserves the truth. Think about it from where she is now. You were the only person she had at the time of her death, and you let her down. DO THE RIGHT THING NOW...for HER. In the end, it will be better for you and your boys too. Law enforcement will probably let you cop a plea and get a lessor sentance, if you tell the truth. Casey Anthony just got lucky...YOU MAY NOT BE SO LUCKY!...you are not as pretty! They will find you guilty of many more charges when they find Lisa's body and proof that she died in your care. JUST COME FORWARD...and tell the truth...it will set you free!

[Littlerascal]

04:29 AM on 11/03/2011

Why be drunk alone?
She had these children to take are of. I believe the baby fell off the bed and died. She panicked,
That's why the trip to the dump panic and I believe the man, she knew , she spotted him and asked him to take the baby off he took the dead baby off and was seen walking . He asked for booze ! He was to carrying a dead baby . A dead baby doesn't need clothes, it needs the cold . She doesn't want to lose her remaining children for what happened. She could have even told the son to watch the baby and he didn't watch her or maybe the son's caused the baby to fall. Anyway she wants to keep her remaining sons and is afraid child neglect charges would affect that. She was very upset and wandering outside when she ended up at the dump. Think about it she had to walk to think and try and calm herself, because she already knew the baby was dead. She may have disposed of the child's clothes there. But she is trying to keep her children that is clear to me. She just doesn't seem like a women who with three children would be so drunk and on drugs that she would not take good care of those kids, she had the kids father coming home from work so she keep a good house, it's just a bad accident made worse by lying.

[anilimili]

09:36 AM on 11/02/2011

It is ABOUT TIME they asked the kids what they saw. What were the waiting for--the statute to expire? Geez! These kids should'a been questioned by a pediatric forensic investigator immediately after the event, and in the days following. The parents' 'refusal' to allow the children to be questioned was suspicious from the beginning--forensic questioning of children, when done by the experts, is non-suggestive, and gentle, and they go to great lengths to not upset the children AS WELL AS TO REASSURE THEM if they are feeling guilty or worried or scared. To have kept the children away from questioning gave these parents a lot of time to influence the children's answers, and contaminate the whole thing.

[carlbfree]

11:57 PM on 11/01/2011

Dose any one know on this blog if the investigators have looked in seeing of the baby could have been sold on the black market. . and why dose it take almost a month to find time to question two young kids.

[elmopalooza12]

02:15 AM on 11/02/2011

They can't question them if mom and dad won't cooperate! They need permission to interview the children as they are minors. They have tried and thought they would get a chance and then their lawyer yanked the interview. What do you want the cops to do? Do you even watch the news? If you did, you would know the police have tried. They now are in a secret location. So cops may not even know where they are.

[pooigoddess]

02:14 PM on 11/02/2011

How do they do that? Go to the friendly neighborhood Black Market Baby Center and ask?

[angelcrnmffn]

11:09 PM on 11/01/2011

Well, i am so sorry for the baby,as the parents now have another lawyer on the case for them.But no one for Bay Lisa. I believe in my heart the child is deceased and the lawyers and parents know it as well. I will sign off the comments until something worth while comes in. This has become a real circus now. I pray that for that little baby's sake they can be made to tell the truth or at the very least be charged with Child Endangerment, and the two be separated. Otherwise to me they have the law under their thumbs and nothing can be done about. Just think Casey must be cheering them on! It is really sad when the criminals can control or feel that they can control the law. I ask You what chance do we have, not to mention little sweet lives that really depend on the adults for survival. Sorry, I just feel that Bay Lisa has lost, just as did little Caylee did. Gone But will never be forgotten.

[Denisehh3]

10:43 PM on 11/01/2011

This whole ordeal gets worse with each passing day........the brothers may have crucial information to provide to law enforcement........I wonder if the baby was given something to make her sleep so mommy could drink late into the night........mommy knows more

[elmopalooza12]

07:32 PM on 11/01/2011

I agree with Nancy Grace. WHO besides mommy saw this baby last? How long has this child really been missing? Nobody other then mommy claims to have seen the kid that night! Daddy got home after she was gone supposedly. How do we know that the kids has not been missing for weeks? Nobody can say who saw the kid last other then a drunk mother!

[Stavo]

09:36 PM on 11/01/2011

nancy grace.....lol

[elmopalooza12]

07:25 PM on 11/01/2011

They have been TRYING for the last month to get mom and dad to cooperate. They refuse. The boys were supposed to be interviewed last week but it was cancelled by their lawyer.
This case is getting stranger by the day. Apparently the cell phone that the parents claim did not work had a call placed on it to this guy "Jersey's" ex girlfriend. the call was apparently placed at 8 pm! While mom was apparently still out drinking in front of her home. How is that possible when mom says she did not go to bed until 10:30? And also the cops say that this guys ex's number was found written on Deborah Bradley's hand! What is she doing talking to this guy's ex? Something is definitely fishy. I wonder if Mommy planned this whole "Abduction" to get money and such? Because they are apparently struggling with money.

[anilimili]

09:41 AM on 11/02/2011

I don't know why the didn't get a judge's order to supercede the parent's rights to forbid the interviews and appoint a guardian to the children so that they can be questioned--not only because the parents are suspects, and as such, their motives for not letting the children talk is VERY suspect...but also because these children may be sitting with traumatic stuff, or be told NOT to talk, or who knows what else to contaminate what they remember happened or did not happen--and with so little evidence, their witnessing of ANYTHING is crucial to the life of a little girl.
Children tend to blame themselves when bad things happen. A judge should've given an order for the children to be questioned also so that it can be assessed if they needed support and to reassure them that they are safe and ok. Letting the parents call all the shots on this is loony. Now we have kids interviewed a MONTH after the fact, when the parents could've muddied the waters tremendously.
Parental rights to deny interviewing minors CAN BE OVER-RIDDEN when there is suspicion that the parent denying access to the children may be part of interfereing with the investigation or influencing witnesses. I cannot understand why they didn't ORDER this sooner. This whole investigation seems botched to me.

[jessijaynes]

10:57 AM on 11/02/2011

The police have emphasized that the parents aren't persons of interest, let alone suspects. To place them into either catagory is to "botch" the investigation if they haven't enough evidence to solidly keep them as either. From my perspective, they're approaching the investigation tight-lipped and cautious - which is of the utmost importance.

[BluesGal17]

10:13 PM on 11/10/2011

From the website, http://m.ibtimes.com/baby-lisa-missing-lisa-irwin-half-brothers-sound-noise-question-interview-deborah-bradley-missing-al-238153.html

"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." Bradley said she has not pressed the boys on the issue because she didn't want to put them through "anything else."
Seems if the boys heard noises before they went to sleep, Deborah would have heard it too as they were all in one bed and she said 'we' as they all went to bed the same time.
There's a saying, ''Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive'
Sir Walter Scott.

[AKQueenie]

05:10 PM on 11/01/2011

An entire month later, and then they decide to ask the people who were in the house when Lisa went missing some questions?! Why wasn't this part of the process done within the first 24 hours again?

If I were a detective, I'd be the worst one out there, actually doing my job and stuff....

[Gizmo9]

05:49 PM on 11/01/2011

Once the investigators made up their mind that it is the parents they did not look at other scenarios. The detective attention was solely on the parents which is probably good to a point. But you have a whole array of characters nearby that they have not really considered. I would have been looking nearby since your neighbors or people in your area know you best and are aware of your habits. They see you coming and going and can easily observe you without being noticed.

[Imakarmagirl]

07:55 PM on 11/01/2011

How do you know that they have not considered any characters nearby? How do you know the detective attention was soley on the parents?

[capnamerca]

01:58 PM on 11/01/2011

This is ridiculous. These people say they need a break from trying to find their daughter? That's because they don't want her found. I I lived in KC and wanted to dispose of a baby, it would be in the Missouri River. She won't be found.

[Imakarmagirl]

07:56 PM on 11/01/2011

So sad capn...so sad!

[capnamerca]

08:40 PM on 11/01/2011

Yes, very sad ! ! !