Posted on 10/07/2011 1:31:50 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
The parents of a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl planned to make a public statement Friday after police announced that the couple had stopped talking with detectives investigating the baby's disappearance.
Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley didn't speak to the media Thursday night after a police news conference accusing them of no longer cooperating, but relatives read a statement insisting they never had stopped. The family said the couple would have more to say Friday.
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You have a point.
My parents died in 2004 and 2008 respectively.
I didn’t cry. Not one tear, at least in public. It’s not that I’m inhuman or something.....I was profoundly saddened by their passings. However, my parents were both older when I was born, and since my earliest childhood, they both told me in a very rationalist manner that they would die, and I would have to accept it, and that I shouldn’t be upset about it, as death is a natural facet of life. Stiff upper lip, so to speak.
When your parents tell you this starting at around the age of four or five, it sinks in. Both of my parents were of the World War 2 generation, with little sentimentality.
As an example....when I was about five, I naturally asked the immortal question, “Where do babies come from?”. My mother handed me a medical encyclopedia that fully explained the process of life from conception to childbirth. Illustrated with pictures of childbirth. She told me to ask her about anything which I didn’t understand fully, and she explained it much in the way I guess a scientist would explain it. She then elaborated on the tremendous responsibilities entailed by creating another life. It sunk in.
So, I do understand what you mean. For some people, emotional displays are simply not for public display.
I lost a son in an accident and there was a time when I had cried so much that when I started sobbing, there were no more tears and I could only cry without tears. It felt strange, but it happens.
not when they are off
not when they are off
Yes They Can!
I saw on CSI where they can 'remotely' turn the phone on and trace it!!
(So There) 8)/sarc
but not only that, why did the dad go to work, at an overnight job which he alledgedly never does, and leaves his cell phone?? That does NOT ring true. Wifey says she was programming it?? You don’t leave your phone behind to program it.
you are one rude sob.
The mom said the cell phones were on the kitchen counter. Wouldn’t have had to really hunt. Leaving lights on was weird.
To me, this is less like Susan Smith and more like that case in Tampa where the couple had 2 older boys and a baby girl, and the baby girl went missing. The parents were highly suspect but nothing ever happened. Never found the baby; never charged the parents.
Bingo. One of the WTC bldgs. had the towers for that area. Guess what!
In a large emergency you can forget cell phone communications.
There are on the market now electronic charger stations that hold two or three phones and those portable gaming gizmos that many people use. Most of the stations I have seen are located by the door into the garage area so one can drop it when one returns from work in the evening then pick the phone up on the way out the door the next morning. I wish we had one.
I was in NYC on 911. I was talking to my sister and all phone services was cut when the first tower fell. They had the landlines back up in about an hour.
Out of 5 households, all keep their cells in different locations. One in each house charges it near the bed and uses it as an alarm. Others in the same house charge their cell in a different room.
You seem to assume that what you do isn't weird.
I find it weird and somewhat disturbing.
You are making just as many assumptions as you accuse others and you are insulting about it, too.
We have both as well for that very reason. In fact, I have kept an old, plug into the wall, rotary phone and it has come in handy many times. The latest was just about 3 weeks ago when the power went out from Mexico to Los Angeles and cell service was spotty, at best.
Yep
Another possibility is that the parents were involved in something hinky, but unrelated to the kidnapping, and didn’t want the police investigating their cell phone contacts, so they quickly “lost” them.
Also, the article doesn’t say, but they could have a fourth cell phone that the father had on him at work. Just the fact that three phones were at home doesn’t seem suspicious to me.
I love it.
The JonBenét Ramsey case all over again.
Interesting case. We'll be following this one.
Prayers for this precious baby...
BTTT
It’s a possibility.
Maybe this becomes one of those enigmatic cases, like the Black Dahlia, the Zodiac Killer, the Cleveland Torso Murders, JonBenet Ramsey; endless grist for the internet, true crime writers, and professional and amateur sleuths.
It’s been well over a century, and people are still fascinated by Jack the Ripper.
I hope this DOESN’T become one of those perpetual cold cases, simply for the sake of that little girl.
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