Missing baby Lisa Irwin's mom admits she was drunk when her baby disappeared
In a weekend interview with Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly,Deborah Bradley, whose 11-month-old baby Lisa Irwin was reported missing from her Kansas City home earlier this month, says that she had been drinking and may have blacked out the night that her baby disappeared. And, while talking to NBC's "Today" show on Monday, Bradley admitted that she last saw her baby hours earlier than the time she had previously told police.
On "America Live with Megyn Kelly," Bradley explained that she had been drinking with a neighbor, but didn't know if the neighbor had gotten as drunk as she had. "I don't think so, I don't know," she said. "We haven't really talked a whole lot about all of the stuff. We're not sitting around comparing notes."
Surveillance video shows Bradly buying a box of wine at a local grocery store at about 5 p.m. on October 3, Reuters reported. Bradley said that she "probably" had more than five drinks that night, but said that she didn't have a drinking problem. "She was sleeping," she said. "You know I don't see the problem in me having grown up time. I take good care of my kids."
But she also said point-blank that she did not remember the evening, and said that blacking out was "a possibility."
"Just like anybody when you drink you don't remember the things that happened," she told Kelly.
Bradley's husband, Jeremy Irwin, told police that he discovered that his baby daughter was missing when he got home from working his first-ever night shift around 4 a.m. on October 4th. The front door was unlocked, Bradley, an electrician, told police, and extra lights were on. A window also appeared to have been tampered with.
In previous interviews and when questioned by police, Bradley had said that she last saw baby Lisa when she put her in her crib at about 10:30 p.m. the night before, but in an interview with Peter Alexander on the "Today" show she changed her story, saying instead that she last saw her baby nearly four hours earlier, at 6:40 p.m.The baby's 8- and 5-year-old half brothers were also in the house at the time of the alleged abduction; both Bradley and Irwin have not allowed police to re-interview them, and Bradley said that while the boys said that they heard noises that night, she has not talked to them about it "specifically to not have to put them through anything else."
Bradley also told "Today" that, after she put Lisa to bed, she drank "enough to be drunk," but insisted that she did not and would not harm her any of the children.
"No, no, no,'' Bradley said. "If I thought there was a chance, I'd say it. I don't think that alcohol changes a person enough to do something like that."
Her husband agreed, adding that the fact that she changed her story doesn't mean she's guilty of anything. "No, there's no question to be had there," Irwin said. "I know the kind of mother she is, and I know what kind of person she is in general."
No suspect has been identified in the case, though police have interviewed both Bradley and Irwin extensively. Bradley has also admitted that she failed a police-administered lie-detector test ("They said that I failed when they asked me where she was (and) if I knew where she was," Bradley told "Today").
"The main fear is that if they arrest me, people are going to stop looking, and I'll never see her again, and I'll never know what happened," Bradley said.
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