Today's Baby Lisa Presser featured a rather BRILLIANT rhetorical tactic from authorities that speaks to most local discourse on the subject . . .
Like it or not: National media mostly abandoned their concern in this case and in the aftermath there's not a lot of sympathy for Baby Lisa's mom in the rather cruel court of local opinion.
Check the statement in full:
One year later, police still looking for answers in Lisa Irwin disappearance
As the one-year anniversary of the Lisa Irwin disappearance nears, Kansas City Missouri Police continue to actively investigate the case.
Police and their FBI partners have investigated 1,667 tips since 10-month-old Lisa went missing from her home in the 3600 block of North Lister in the early morning hours of Oct. 4, 2011. They are checking into about a dozen tips at present. Five hundred of the total tips have been infant sightings across the United States and internationally. Police thank the FBI agents and detectives at other law enforcement agencies – domestically and overseas – who investigated each of these sightings. None of them was determined to be Lisa Irwin.
A KCPD detective and FBI agent actively work the case nearly every day. They still are looking for quality tips. They have gone back over nearly 100 previously closed leads, re-interviewing those involved, to ensure they haven’t missed anything. They and Crime Lab analysts also have re-evaluated several pieces of forensic evidence. Dozens more detectives stand at the ready to investigate a break in the case.
Police have exhausted leads provided by Lisa Irwin’s family and their attorneys, and the leads were of no benefit to the investigation. While communication with the family has been ongoing, police have not had the opportunity to sit down one-on-one to speak with Lisa’s mother, Deborah Bradley. As the only adult in the home at the time of the baby’s disappearance, police continue to have questions to which only she can provide answers.
Detectives have reviewed the entire case file with subject matter experts from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va. The subject matter experts continue to offer their assistance in any matter needed.
Detectives remain hopeful for quality tips that will lead them to Lisa. However, several tips stemming from social media and online rumors have been reported, detracting from detectives’ ability to work legitimate case leads. Police ask anyone with substantial knowledge of what happened to Lisa Irwin to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
Because the Lisa Irwin disappearance remains an active, open investigation, Kansas City Police will not grant any further interviews.
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"police have not had the opportunity to sit down one-on-one to speak with Lisa’s mother"
ReplyDeleteTo my mind this is circumstantial evidence of guilt, regardless if she really has the right to do this.
They need to charge her. There are no other suspects.
ReplyDelete2:07. Charge her with what & based on what evidence? A hunch? Common sense? There is no EVIDENCE (that we know of) that the baby is dead. Obviously Clay County prosecutors don't have enough to charge her (or anyone else) with anything. That would be just great... charge her, go to trial, she gets off & cannot be tried again even if she confesses later. BRILLIANT idea, Einstein. I think she knows something too but if you can't prove it to convince a jury - don't charge her.
ReplyDeleteThanks to this thing called the "constitution" the authorities can't go off an violate people's rights all willy nilly on a hunch. Every citizen in this great country has the right to be proven guilty by a jury of their peers, and they are presumed innocent until that happens. The police can't legally arrest anyone until conditions are meth that strongly suggest that Lisa's mom is likely to be guilty.
ReplyDeleteWe can't just throw out people's rights when it's convenient and politically expedient. (Travon)
Don't forget that the Federal authorities and KCPD likely know more than they're releasing to the public. If they gave everything, confessions, and some court testimonies will be useless; not to mention the fact that BS tips will increase dramatically.
They will either find her, or they wont. We need to have faith that the police are doing everything they can, and we can't accuse the innocent without proof.
Sack up America.
If this woman won't grant an interview with police, after this much time has passed, then charge her ass and MAKE HER interview with investigators. What a bunch of shit. She won't talk to cops because "she don't want to" is absolute bullshit. She's hiding something for sure.....Just ask Shawn Pernice. He held out a long time too!
ReplyDeleteI think it is the fault of the Police Board for firing the officers who stopped Sofia Salva. Clearly the detectives and the FBI have de-policed. Just ask the douche Earnest Evans.
ReplyDeleteMaybe next time the cops will shut their pie hole, stay away from trying to pressure suspects through the use of the press and just do the leg work instead of thinking they are going to shake down a kidnapper or murderer by jaw jacking in public. Did law enforcement honestly believe that the crook(s) were so naive as to get "knock kneed" and come running in to the station to fess up? And there there is that hokey assed search warrant that was issued over a "so called" cadaver dog? For Cripes sakes! What a damn fiasco this investigation has been so far.
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of the girl in California a couple of years ago who had been missing for years. She had been kidnapped as a child and was found years later. Her step-father was the main suspect but it turns out a psychotic married couple had kidnapped her. Maybe her mom did it, maybe she didn't. I would think the cops know more than we do and would charge her if they had evidence. I realize the mom looks bad but stranger things have happened.
ReplyDeleteDeborah Bradley, talk to the police. Many of us do care what happened to the baby... do you?
ReplyDeleteTalk to someone.
Very well said
DeleteThe candle, balloon, and teddy bear manufacturers must have started all of this shit up again.
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