Lisa Irwin Update: Deborah Bradley And Jeremy Irwin Appeared On 'Dr. Phil' Show

The parents of the Kansas City baby missing since October said last week that they believe the little girl is still alive.

Deborah Bradly and Jeremy Irwin told KCTV that their 10-month-old daughter, Lisa Irwin, is closer than ever to being found after they made an appearance last week on the Dr. Phil show, pleading for her safe return.

"Nobody takes a baby to hurt her," Bradley told the station. "She's coming home."

The Missouri couple reported Lisa missing from her crib at about 4 a.m. on October 4. Bradley has said that she fell asleep drunk while taking care of her daughter. Her husband returned from working a night shift to find the front door and a window in the baby's room open, according to Reuters.

Both Bradley and Irwin have spent hours talking to the cops, though they've been accused of failing to cooperate and refused to be interviewed separately.

Speaking on the TV psychologist's show, they reiterated previous denials that they had anything to do with their daughter's disappearance.

"She is out there somewhere, and I am desperate to find her ... I just want my daughter home," Bradley told The Associated Press. "People don’t understand just how difficult it is to wake up and find out that someone has came into your house and taken your baby, and then you are accused of doing something to her or covering something up."

Cops assigned to the case aren't as optimistic. The Kasas City Star reports that detectives had their first interview on Thursday with Irwin and Bradley since Oct. 8, but the sit-down didn't lead to any breakthroughs.

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Below are photos of baby Lisa and information on her disappearance:

Comments

[xanxia]

05:03 AM on 02/09/2012

I honestly hope the parents didn't sell her for money (sorry to be mean about this)....I hope baby Lisa and Ayla will be found, unharmed..both are very beautiful blue eyed blondes..

[La Petite Tempete]

01:30 AM on 03/21/2012

I know of some dark haired and dark skinned who are missing and also in the news recently. They are also very beautiful.
It is so tragic when any child goes missing. Being blond with blue eyes doesn't make one child worth more than another. Just sayin'.

[cuoi]

12:04 PM on 02/08/2012

IMHO. She did it. Her admission and discussion of drinking is the first chink in the armour and the beginning of a defense. "I drank too much and don't remember doing it." would be my guess at the next stage. "The abuse excuse" gambit has been initiated. The deceptiveness of both is another clue.

[625fan]

11:58 AM on 02/08/2012

That is what Casey Anthony said she is nearby and she was but dead. If my kid were missing I would be all over the cops not running from them.

[ReasonOverRant]

12:12 AM on 02/08/2012

You still have to explain this: What about the man seen walking with a baby on the night Lisa disappeared? Seen three doors down from the Irwin home after midnight and spotted hours later a couple of miles away? This man was described by a witness as looking like a handyman who was working next door to the Irwin home late that night.

[dvglass3]

11:40 AM on 02/09/2012

He could have been anybody and there is only proof that he was seen over a mile away. I'm sure the mother would love to use hi, as a "see, I did not do anything" but that is not going to work. She lied and changed her story, she was reported to of been seen at a dumpster fire that night, she failed the lie detector test.....on and on and on with deception. Why lie to the police when they are trying to find your child if you did nothing wrong? Answer, you would not lie you would do everything in your power to help the police...she still will not even talk to them.

[ReasonOverRant]

03:37 AM on 02/10/2012

Wrong - the man with the baby was seen by two different witnesses. The first was a neighbor of Lisa Irwins - three houses down the street - who saw a man holding a a baby walk by just after midnight. Then a few hours later a man walking with a baby on a cold night was seen by a biker who passed within 10 feet of him.

The parents did cooperate with police at first. Why would you not continue to cooperate? When it becomes obvious the police are more interested in pinning the crime on you than investigating anyone else.

[Mauri Helms]

06:54 PM on 02/19/2012

The handyman was arrested a few months ago on an unrelated charge; the police interviewed him and decided he had nothing to do with Lisa's disappearance. The man seen walking with the baby was witnessed by neighbors 3 doors down at 12:15am (a tall, thin, bald man with a baby clad only in a diaper); a blur was seen on gas station surveillance footage two hours later (2:15am, less than a mile away) which was indistinguishable as a man or woman or if it was carrying anything; two hours after THAT at 4:15am, a motorcyclist saw a man 3 miles away from the house (a short, muscular man with salt-and-pepper hair carrying a baby in a shirt and diaper). The witnesses were all interviewed, and as far as the media has been told, the leads did not go anywhere.
(more at http://hellhounds4marz.blogspot.com/2012/02/baby-lisa-parents-lawyer-up-more.html)

[bizbag]

10:18 PM on 02/07/2012

I just hope they find her alive and well, How people should act one never knows til you walk in her shoes.

[Johnny3021]

09:42 PM on 02/07/2012

This mother is sick in the head it was hard watching her horrible performance on why she shouldn't be the person of interest and that we need to leave her alone and focus on the missing baby that's alive.She couldn't even do the interview on his stage,they had to look through a large T.V with the Mother,Father and Lawyer sitting.I hope Dr.Phil didn't give them that much because she dodged every question Dr.Phil asked by rambling on about herself and how she is a victim also.

[Cynthia Deacons Carlson]

11:35 PM on 04/15/2012

I pray for the welfare of baby Lisa Irwin and other children in her situation. What strikes me is the mom's statement was that she was both drunk enough to be blacked out and was "taking care of her other child." If she was drunk enough to be blacked out: what happened to that baby? Her serious drinking is a part of this investigation; it can't be ignored. I am surprised that the parents still have custody of the other child. Also, in news reports it was stated that a dog found the scent of a dead body in the house. I pray for that little baby; I hope for God's work on this earth and in heaven.

[babyboomernina]

04:01 PM on 02/07/2012

I hope she is alive. Doesn't look like it though. Pray for baby Lisa. All this ugly news lately about innocent little children. Very depressing isn't it? I need a break from the internet & the news. I'm tired!!!

[subdu]

01:52 PM on 02/07/2012

Another case of Trial by Media. Ever notice that they never seem to get it right?

[subdu]

01:47 PM on 02/07/2012

Even if you are not guilty of any crime, do not ever talk to a detective or officer without an attorney hired and present. I have seen to many detectives that get focused on who they believe commited a crime and they will do what ever it takes to make it stick to that person. Cops have a really tough job but need to stay focused on evidence and not how do we make it fit our narative to this one person. I have always taught my kids to never assume someone has authority over you, and never talk to anyone who thinks they have authority over you with out me present. This included Teachers, Principles, Police, Pastor, or a Relative.

[Patricia Cournoyer]

10:35 PM on 02/07/2012

I think you got it right.

[beccawentzler]

12:34 PM on 02/08/2012

subdu, but at the same time you need to teach your children to show authority figures respect too. Especially if your child is left under their care. Otherwise you'll have an unruly child, and one who doesn't think they have to go by the rules of society.

[DeAnnaClaudette]

12:00 PM on 02/07/2012

The media needs to be careful not to do with this case what they did with the C. Anthony case. They thoroughly tainted the jury pool and that doesn't need to happen here.

[Ystorm]

04:38 PM on 02/07/2012

I dunno..drunkie mummy kinda tainted herself.

[DeAnnaClaudette]

06:15 PM on 02/07/2012

Regardless. If the media gives it a ton of attention, people are going to hear about it and when it comes down to selecting the jury pool, if people are honest, they are going to be excluded because their opinions would have already been formed. When you whittle down to jury pool PRIOR to the start of any trial, it's going to be hard to get smart people on the jury. Then we'll end up with people needing photographic, videotaped and audiotaped evidence because they can't be bothered to put two and two together.

[cuoi]

11:54 AM on 02/08/2012

They need to make sure none of the jury are scheduled for an ocean cruise

[Fletch55]

11:54 AM on 02/07/2012

If the parents are found to be involved no jail time death the day they are convicted.

[ReasonOverRant]

12:09 AM on 02/08/2012

Throw out 200+ years of American law on your emotional whim? Don't think so.

[digoldman]

11:47 AM on 02/07/2012

Excuse me...didn't Casey Anthony say her little girl was coming home too?

[bigdaveh]

11:19 AM on 02/08/2012

These are biblical references that nobody seems to be picking up. It's a subconscious acknowledgement that the child is "off to Jesus and home with Him." Really very sad.

[kinderprintables]

11:35 AM on 02/07/2012

There were a lot of mistakes made in this case from the onset. The law enforcement came across like they were inept by making comments/statements to the media and then retracting them later. The parents are not suspects, yet they were made out to be because of misstatements by the police. The LEO's did some sort of reinactment of what they thought may have happened, yet there were too many variables unanswered. Tips and eyewitness accounts of seeing a man carrying a baby down the road around the time the baby was abducted weren't followed up on until days/weeks later. By that time the leads are cold. LEO's claimed that the parents were uncooperative, and later had to retract that because it wasn't true. Nobody knows what they would do for sure unless faced with the situation themselves, God forbid any one of us ever have to experience it. Citing "statistics" or posting that the parents are guilty based on what has been presented so far is not helping anything. Innocent until PROVEN guilty. Right now the priority is finding the little girl...

[Mafdet]

02:17 PM on 02/07/2012

That is totally not my take on how the police have handled this case. What comments did they make? I can only think of a couple: The Irwins were not cooperating with authorities in that they refused to be questioned separately, they refused the authorities access to the sons for a long time, and they restricted the Q&A sessions they would grant. I think that as the parents have now booked themselves on every single talk show to declare that they have cooperated completely with the police, it is the duty of the police to give the public some insight about that. It was Irwin herself who told everyone that she didn't pass a polygraph. As regards the man/men spotted with baby/babies, the people who say they saw that guy and that baby didn't call the police until the next day or days later. How good could the follow-through be then? But they did everything they could with what they had.

[Lesley Mays]

03:22 PM on 02/07/2012

You, and many other victims of the American education system, completely misunderstand the concept of "Innocent until proven guilty." The phrase applies to law enforcement, restricting them from restricting the freedoms of suspects who have not yet been proven guilty. It does not apply to society, who can, and should, judge situations based on what they see, rather than what they choose to blind themselves to. There is overwhelming circumstantial evidence in this case pointing to the mother. Law enforcement has not retracted the statement that the parents are not cooperating- they only retracted the statement that this case could take years to solve. It won't. The only part of this case that is not solved and not currently provable is the accomplice, and they will have that tied up soon. Mark my words.

[bashash]

04:59 PM on 02/07/2012

Lesley Mays, you and many other victims of the American education system completely misunderstand how society is supposed to work. When a child goes missing, we as a society should spend the rest of our lives looking at each child hoping one of them is the missing. We should offer help and support to the family. Innocent until proven guilty is a great motto to live by, after all they have not been charged with any crime nor have they been named suspects, I believe they cooperated fully until they felt threatened by the outcome of a lie detector test. A test that is not allowed in court because they are unreliable and can have an inconclusive results if the person is under extreme duress. I think this situation qualifies. Baby Lisa is not presumed dead and there is no evidence of this .... A child is missing, parents are grieving and a community is terrified that this could have been their own. The Mother should not have been so irresponsible with her children but that doesn't make her a murderer. I agree, the whole story stinks but I'm just not ready to throw the Mom into the fire yet. Hopefully this Family doesn't have to count on you for any blessings.

[G Goo]

11:14 AM on 02/07/2012

Whenever I see these stories (lately, it is very frequently), I immediately assume that the toddler is already dead. In the case of baby Ayla, I do believe that she is dead.
However, in this case of Baby Lisa, I somehow believe that she was taken from her bed (as her drunken mother was passed out), and I believe she is alive.
It's just a feeling I have, I really don't know why, can't explain !!
I really pray that I am right, and she is alive somewhere out there.

[Mafdet]

02:18 PM on 02/07/2012

I think it is more likely that the parents sold her than that they killed her.

[G Goo]

03:18 PM on 02/07/2012

That is a very likely possibility !!

[Ystorm]

04:39 PM on 02/07/2012

late term abortion. where will it end.

[DeAnnaClaudette]

10:39 AM on 02/07/2012

Why don't I believe her?