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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This story has a funny smell to it. The guy pulls a long shift and doesn’t show back up to the house till the early morning hours. That’s when he discovers the kid gone. Then you toss in these cellphones gone. Why take the cellphones? And who would spend precious minutes in a house like this...hunting down the cellphones? It’s either one of the parents or a very close relative.
Too many spring traps.
/johnny
Unless they are both there on the coffee table.
And you've jumped right to the conclusion you are going to reach.
Which is why I don't spend time trying to take care of foundlings.
You have issues.
/johnny
This story has a funny smell to it for me as well. Something’s not adding up.
Stranger abduction of an infant is exceedingly rare; only 283 or so case since 1983. Of these, only 12 instances occur where the infant has not been brought back to the parent or parents. Of course, it is a possibility and one that, for the time being, I will not preclude.
Taking the cellphones is unusual. Most homes have a landline, even households that possess cellphones, though in fairness I do know some of my friends have gone strictly cellphone, so that might be the case here. If the kidnapper stole the cellphones, it would be so that the parents couldn’t call 911 to report the crime, to delay notification of the police. Okay, that makes some sense. Yet nothing else is missing from the house, at least according to the parents. Just the cellphones and the baby. So common burglary is out of the question, and I can’t think of a common burglar wanting to suddenly graduate to kidnapping. Mind you, there are some tweakers out there in the world who might do something so utterly insane, but that’s a fairly small probability.
I suspect a financial motive. If this was a random abduction, it would likely be to sell the baby for a tidy profit. There is the possibility that some unhinged person or persons kidnapped the child simply because she’s a cute kid, and they wanted her as their own; that’s usually the case in instances like this. But I’m starting to suspect that the baby has been sold. And I’m starting to suspect that one, or maybe both, of the parents may be involved. Hopefully, investigators are looking at their finances; are they heavily in debt, etc.? This is strictly a suspicion on my part, and I admit, ever since Susan Smith, I look a little more askance at these kind of cases. The sad truth is that in the vast majority of these cases, the perp is someone close to the victim.
As to the cellphones? Most likely powered off and disposed of to make it look like a theft.
Why would the authorities publicly come out and state that the parents are no longer cooperating in the investigation? A pressure tactic, perhaps? I don’t have kids, but certainly, if this were my little girl, I’d be cooperating with the investigators to the point of being a pain in the a§§.
There’s something rotten in Kansas City. This case is becoming more peculiar every day.
Very gracious of you. I don't know anyone except one brother that has a land-line.
It's just not cost-effective, and most people are at least that smart.
Why would the authorities publicly come out and state that the parents are no longer cooperating in the investigation? A pressure tactic, perhaps?
Probably mostly because the lawyer they hired to navigate the 'justice system' told them to shut the hell up.
You are hella naive. And watch way too much TV.
/johnny
Landlines are becoming obsolete, you’re quite right. Here in the Czech Republic, it’s really only businesses that have them, and there are some businesses that are only cellphone.
You have a point about the lawyers: to be honest, I haven’t read that the parents lawyered up, though when dealing with law enforcement, it’s a good idea. And their lawyer probably told them to not say so much.
As to TV, the only TV I have here is Czech, and I didn’t find out about this case except for the internet; this story hasn’t received any coverage here in the Czech media. The reason I have my suspicions about the parents, like I said, is because of the Susan Smith case (and a few others like Diane Downs). There was a similar case to this near Prague in about 2002 as I recall. A young woman, in her 20s, claimed her 11 month old son had been kidnapped. Naturally, THAT made the news here big time, and there was an extensive search for the child for about one week or so. Shortly after the search, which found nothing, the Czech police revealed that the young woman had was lying. Turned out, she had accidentally smothered the child (she was kind of a corn-fed heifer and rolled over the child in her sleep), and she buried the body in the basement of her apartment building, as I recall. I certainly do hope however, no matter my suspicions, that the child is found safe and unharmed.
Make that, “had been lying” in my response. Finger typing faster than the brain allows. Oops.
LOL I have a land line and no cell phone.
If someone had managed to open it quietly how could they have pulled themselves up and through the window then into the hall without making a sound?
After that they had to sneak down the hall and into the baby's room, grab the baby without waking it, also find the 3 cellophones and grab them then get back to the window and slither out with the baby in hand.
Possibly they could have exited out the door but that's even more chance of making noise.
You are correct, something smells.
now = no 2x...jeesh!
So you agree that you just can't make assumptions, based on what you are doing at the moment, or what you see on TV.
I have NO land line, and actually, sorta cut down the wires. But I do have a cell for the business.
/johnny
I agree you can’t make assumptions.
LOL. My father lived in Oregon, near Portland, and I remember in 2003 or so, when I was here in Europe (been here since 2001), he called me and asked about ditching his landline and going with straight cellphone service. He wound up having both; he just couldn’t give up the landline. And he always had an old rotary phone.....never anything with push buttons for the landline.
/johnny
The sole priority should be finding this little girl, and getting her back safe and sound.
Prayers that she’s ok.
No additional insight here - the story just recaps what aired on the local news. I have a feeling the police are pressing the family on the cell phone issue, as well as point of entry. The cell phone thing is strange to me (and surely is to the police also). For most people, the phone is a constant companion...by their bed during the night...not in a place where it could easily be spirited out of the house.
Who are you? I have to hunt up my phone to find it. After I put in my teeth, tie up my hair, and uncross my eyes.
You really sleep with a cell phone? I felt bad about sleeping with some of these old local gals from Jacksborro Highway.
I can't imagine your shame.
/johnny
Most cell phones have a GPS tracking feature. Phone company logs their proximity to cell phone towers...FWIW
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