Baby Lisa Irwin Found? Investigation Continues as Parents Seek Normal Life Again

Family Attorney Says Parents Moving Back in Home Will Help Them Feel Normal Again

By Katherine Weber, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, November 17, 2011

The parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, moved back into their Kansas City home Tuesday in attempt to regain normalcy to their spotlight life, according to family attorney Joe Tacopina. 

"To put them back into a setting with their own bedroom, their own clothes, and toys, is important. Put them back with their neighbors," Tacopina told NBC's News Channel Five.

Police received a search warrant of the Bradley residence in late October, thus temporarily forcing the family out of their home.

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In a court document released Oct. 21, police indicated that a cadaver dog had picked up a scent of dead body in the Bradley bedroom, and police had removed carpet in the bedroom for further investigation.

The document also reported soil in the backyard that had been "recently disturbed or overturned."

Records also state that Bradley told investigators that she did not initially search her backyard for her missing child because she "was afraid of what she might find."

Baby Lisa's parents have advocated the importance of maintaining normalcy throughout the case.

For weeks the parents denied police permission to re-interview Lisa's half-brothers, claiming they sought to protect the children, as they are only 6 and 8 years old.

During their initial interview, the brothers told investigators they had heard a "tapping" noise the night of Lisa's disappearance.

The brothers were re-interviewed on Nov. 10.

The parents still refuse to grant the police separate interviews as they now reside in their Kansas City home.

I'm not saying they're not cooperating," Kansas City police Capt. Steve Young told Fox News.

"They have met some of our needs. What I've been talking about specifically is sitting down, separate from each other, to be interviewed by detectives. In regard to that, no, that hasn't happened since the 8th of October," he added.

The mystery of missing baby Lisa has been going on for over a month with no significant leads.

Lisa's father, Jeremy Irwin, was out on a late call doing electrical work for a local Starbucks the night his daughter disappeared on Oct. 4. When he returned from work roughly around 4 a.m., he reported several lights on, the front door unlocked, three missing cell phones, and a tampered screen window.

Upon checking his daughter's crib, Irwin realized Lisa was missing.

Lisa's first birthday was on Nov. 11. The case has received over 1,200 tips.

The public has been so concerned with the little girl's case, that many seem to have taken to the Web to conduct their own searches in an effort to dig up clues about the baby's whereabouts.

According to Dr. David Solly, a human behavior expert, "Folks seem to turn [to the] online environment for everything for which they have a question but don't have an answer."

The Christian Post explored this trend in a previous article, which can be read here.