Lisa Irwin Missing

Lisa Irwin Missing

Oct 10

Deborah Bradley peeked in to her infant’s room at around 10:30 PM on October 3rd and saw her 10 month old daughter Lisa sound asleep. At around 4 AM the next morning, Lisa’s father came home from work to find that the front door was locked, most of the lights were on in the house, and the main window in the home was wide open. Police were contacted soon after to report that Lisa had been abducted.

Steven Young, the Kansas City (MO) police chief and the man heading up the investigation suspected that the kidnapper entered the home through a bedroom window and left through the front door. While police and volunteers have canvassed the area, including a nearby landfill and city creek, there are no leads on the whereabouts of Lisa.

While tragic, this story took an unexpected turn when Young announced only three days into the investigation that the girl’s parents had stopped cooperating with the police. During the interim, Deborah Bradley, the girl’s mother, had failed a polygraph test she had volunteered to take.

According to Bradley, the authorities proceeded to accuse her of the crime. In her own words: “When they first questioned me,” she said, “once I couldn’t fill in gaps, it turned into, ‘You did it.’ And they put the picture down of her on the table and they said, ‘Look at your baby and do what’s right for her and just tell everybody where she is so she can come home.’ And I kept saying, ‘I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know.’”

Lisa’s parents deny that they stopped cooperating with the police, stating in a letter that “It’s just a lot of miscommunication, to be honest.”

This last Saturday, five days into the investigation, the parents of the abducted girl once again began to cooperate with the police.

My question is, if the parents really wanted to cooperate with the police, why all this drama? And how do you explain a failed polygraph test?