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FBI Dog Finds Cadaver Smell in Parents' Home

Missing baby probe uncovers disturbed backyard soil

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 22, 2011 2:31 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Kansas City parents of a missing baby girl are facing a new dilemma: An FBI cadaver dog has sniffed out the scent of a dead body in their home, the AP reports. The dog found a "positive 'hit' ... in an area of the floor of Bradley's bedroom near the bed," according to a court document released yesterday. The document also says investigators discovered "recently disturbed or overturned" dirt in the family's backyard.

The Bradleys' high-profile attorney, Joe Tacopina, noted that cadaver dogs also react to the scent of human waste—like "a dirty diaper or 10 other non-human-remains items. There's really no scenario where this baby, God forbid she was dead, would have decomposed in that short a period of time." The parents themselves are keeping mum: After mother Deborah Bradley recently admitted on the Today show to getting drunk after putting her baby to bed, Tacopina told both parents to stop talking to the media.

The parents of missing 10-month old Lisa Irwin, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, speak during a news conference in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 5, 2011.
The parents of missing 10-month old Lisa Irwin, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, speak during a news conference in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 5, 2011.   (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Mike Ransdell)
Deborah Bradley, left, and Jeremy Irwin embrace while in the lobby of an Hampton Inn hotel in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Oct. 7, 2011.
Deborah Bradley, left, and Jeremy Irwin embrace while in the lobby of an Hampton Inn hotel in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Oct. 7, 2011.   (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Ultraworld
Oct 23, 2011 4:42 PM CDT
I fear that the police will concentrate so much on the parents that the child wont be found. The parents stopped talking to force the police to look for the baby. Once they find the baby, the police can investigate who was involved. You may find this shocking, but some parents put their kids to bed & start drinking. They don't kill their children.
brucke
Oct 23, 2011 8:50 AM CDT
I would like to know who releases these details and for what reason? If there is a perfectly innocent explanation (and we must assume so in the interests of fairness and justice) then these parents have had to bear more uneccessary suffering.
G.O.P.
Oct 23, 2011 6:31 AM CDT
They found disturbed backyard soil.  Tune in tomorrow to the answer to the thrilling question, what was under that soil?

 
Kansas City • cadaver • police dog • missing baby • Lisa Irwin • Deborah Bradley

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