The parents of missing baby Lisa Irwin appeared on Dr. Phil on Friday, breaking the silence after several weeks. Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin have been described by Kansas City detectives as uncooperative, and the mother's own behavior has caused nothing but suspicion to be dealt in her direction, more so than her husband it seems.
To be completely blunt, at risk of losing popularity points, Deborah Bradley is not going to win an Oscar for her performance on Dr. Phil. The footage has been studied for the past three hours, and the mannerisms displayed by the mother of missing baby Lisa Irwin are still suspicious. As usual, Jeremy Irwin was stone-faced for the majority of the interview, with Deb leading the show and sitting directly in the spotlight with her performance of alligator tears. Her eyes shifted nonstop to the right and left as she appeared to be pulling statements out of the air at times. One of her most prominent tells is the action of gazing upward as if she is literally looking in the air above her for the words she needs.
To the far right of her sat their lawyer, who also seemed to nod deliberately with some of her sentences as if saying, "That's right, you said that right." The entire thing seemed like rehearsed theatrics. Yes, that is an honest opinion based on very intent observation, and nobody is expected to agree with it.
All in all, Friday's Dr. Phil appearance really didn't seem as much about finding Lisa Irwin as it was about Deborah Bradley trying to convince the world that she's a great mom—a great mom who gets drunk and forgets to check on her kid, then forgets that she was drunk and then fails a polygraph test. But trust her when she says none of that had anything to do with her baby's disappearance—how would she know, since she claims to not know anything of what happened? At the very least if she wouldn't have gotten so sloppy drunk that she passed out like a rock, she would've been alert and more readily able to stop an abduction from going down in her home.
Hopefully detectives in Kansas City are studying this footage more intently than the media, and hopefully they can garner some kind of new details from it. However, it seems that the details that should be trusted will be coming from the investigators. They're not on a mission of convincing the public that they're doing their jobs right, nor are they trying to direct attention away from the actual task at hand: finding baby Lisa.
Chelsea Hoffman is a prolific crime writer and fiction author with several works published. Her writing has been recognized by such entities as NBC Dateline and several others. Contact her directly by visiting ChelseaHoffman.Com.
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Comments: 68 ( 17 removed by Chelsea Hoffman )
The supposed lie detector test that she was told she failed? This was cleared up by the lawyer. Do you hear the KC police department making a statement to the contrary? Nope not a word. Its a tactic they use. Police lie all the time to try and make their case or get a confession. When the Kansas City Police Dept. comes out with a statement saying that the Bradleys lawyer lied and releases the results of her polygraph, I will be the first to admit I was wrong.
Then we have the supposed Cadaver dogs that his on the carpet in the bedroom? Hello, why did they not take this chunk of carpet for their evidence? Because it was another tactic, the fact that the carpet is still in the room says all that needs to be said about that so called evidence....
Are there things that dont make sense to us on the outside? Of course we were not there, we are on the outside listening to distorted media and "Commentators" who are looking for hits to their sites or ratings on the T.V. Its complete opinions of a case in which they know nothing about other than what is reported by other distorted outlets.
People need to keep an open mind and accept that there is a possibility they are telling the truth and until there is evidence of a murder (like a body) that people should stop being so judgemental about how a person sits or expresses emotions or whatever and keep their eyes open for a beautiful little girl that might be out there waiting to be found.
Just my opinion
and I haven't been for a very long time ;)
(please make sure someone fits the definition of the term you're casting upon them)
I don't think any evidence has been "swept under the rug" by police, but everything the parents want the rest of us to think is flawed. I am personally offended by the fact that they present themselves as a married couple when they are not, especially with Debbie actually being married to someone else. I am also offended when Debbie refers to another mom's child as her own. It makes me wonder what else she is not honest about.
There is not way, and no need for Tacopina to "clear up" a polygraph result. A polygraph is only an investigative tool, nothing more. It is no surprise that Debbie Bradley would fail a polygraph, as so many things about her life are falsehoods, from her family situation to the use of a plural noun to describe the number of male children she has born. She wants us all to believe things about her that are not true.
I don't have to study Debbie. I already know enough about the area and the population to understand some of the challenges faced by the police, and to understand the frustration of those friends and neighbors who are sincerely trying to find Lisa Irwin.
A polygraph is more than just a series of electronic results on a printout. It is also not something that is either "passed" or "failed". Debbie's behavior and answers indicated deception at the time she was tested, and law enforcement pressed her further, hoping to find Lisa. Of course, Debbie's entire lifestyle is a bit of a deception, from drinking wine with prescribed medication against medical advice to giving more than one version to law enforcement of what happened when she realized her child was missing. Just her reference to Lisa's brothers as "her" boys is not the truth, but deception, and since she knows it, it could affect her polygraph performance, whether she is conscious of her lies or not. If I poly'ed her for some sort of security clearance, I would not expect her to do well, just because of things like that.
"Exchange custody" is something that goes on between parents who are not together, and Debbie admits to drinking on antipsychotic meds. She is also quite reactionary, and I do not need a hearing aid to know that! I'm sorry you do not like my assessment of the situation.
Say, did Debbie or Jeremy discuss any progress made in the investigation of their missing daughter, while on the Dr. Phil show?
Trust me, if she is unconcerned with her daughter enough to conduct herself the way she has, ever since her daughter went missing, she probably has not accepted Rasleen's son "as her own".
I'm pretty sure they were asked at least three times by Dr. Phil about actual progress of the case, and the whole premise, in the cases of innocent parents of missing children who go on the air, of going on the air is to talk about THE CASE, not the gossip and rumors surrounding the case. Debbie did a lot of fussing about what other people are saying, but did not mention Lisa's name once. Call me a stickler for details, but that stands out to me as significant, in a very bad way.
And where have you been?? The other person Debbie is boffing is Jeremy! She is married to her son's father, not to be confused with her daughter's father!
I'd love it if Jeremy would worry about his own children! Geesh! Perhaps if he'd tried that from the beginning, none of them would be missing! And I never said accepting Rasleen's son was deceptive, I said calling him HER son was deceptive. And it is!
And yes; I do not want anyone with a lifestyle like Debbie Bradley's around my kids. The substance abuse alone is frightnin' enough....throw in the reactionary insanity problems and you have a dangerous, undesireable person. Put makeup on her for the Dr. Phil show, and you have a pig with lipstick. Why do you wanna defend her so much?
I want to join in, but busy this week :(
BTW....you mention crucifying Debbie Bradley. No; that is not an option, as it is not a penalty in 21st century American law. But I would like to see some justice done, not her "ability to love someone else's child" (puleez!) but for whatever happened to Lisa, whether it involved Debbie or not. I do not see Debbie pushing for it. Did she love her own child?
I haven't seen the interview yet, waiting for it to show up online somewhere, but, from the screen shot it seems as though DB had her hair dyed black? What is up with that??? She doesn't go look for her daughter when other people from the area set up searches, but the mom's gotta look beautiful and sexy for TV interview, of course.
I'm not saying she's guilty or not, but something doesn't add up....these people lie to much. If you lie you got something to hide, otherwise, why isn't she out there with the searchers, at the lakes, at the casino sites to find HER daughter? I'm sure the interview is a lot of tears, which as a mother, I can and will relate to...but I just want to hear the truth for once from her mouth from the beginning to end. Yeah, Joe TacoPenis, I'm sure has got a lot to say, he's been having a lot to say since the beginning where he was advertising himself more, than actually take care of the case.
The cadaver dog? The supposed hit was ignored by the police or they would have taken the piece of carpet as evidence and for analysis (like in the casey anthony case) It is obvious that it was not an important piece of evidence to the police.
The FBI has claimed they have cooperated with them. I personally dont put a lot of confidence in the Kansas City Police, if the child truly was kidnapped they missed the chance of finding her because they were to busy trying to get a murder confession...One track minds.
Beautiful and Sexy Ada? Really you got that from her in the interview, she looked like any guest that is ever on the TV, they put make up on them etc.
Our Society has become a very sad place with judgemental hateful people that close their minds to anything except what they decide is truth even if there are no facts to back up those supposed truths. Very Sad, I dont know if she is guilty or not but I know that the media and "commentators" are hurting this childs chances of being found.
If any of your posts were deleted it was done on accident -- when I delete some posts, the system takes posts underneath as well. Apologies!
Let's keep this thread on topic ;)
I'm not going to discuss conflicts w/ members w/ other members. Sorry.
Let's keep this thread on topic ;)
The issue didn't concern you and it was resolved. Thanks.
There is still plenty of conversation, and you're still being civil. No beef here.
Even though I dont agree with you on alot of these articles (its mostly the stuff I feel is speculated on and the somewhat rude analysis you point at the subjects you are writing about) I do admire you for keeping this topic going and I do feel that you have some informative info that people can look up for themselves to get the answers they seek.
I do enjoy the conversations between you and Lee Hicks, I think they bring a crazy sort of balance in some way and I hope that he/she sticks around.
I think we all have our own opinions and its nice to be able to express them especially with some much going on in the world that makes it seem out of our control so much of the time. Thanks for providing the forum for people to post and have passionate conversations about things that are important like missing children. I know there are other forums on gather with these same topics but for some reason I keep coming back to yours. I guess a Kudo's to you is in order. Have a great day