Baby Lisa Irwin Missing: Victim of Meth Conspiracy?
Rumors Circulate Concerning Potential Meth Users Involved in Baby Lisa Irwin Case
Online rumors are questioning whether missing baby Lisa Irwin was a victim of meth users needing a quick fix.
The questions arose when investigators questioned Megan Wright, who lives a mile away from the Bradley home.
Lisa's father, Jeremy Irwin, was out on a late call doing electrical work for a local Starbucks when his 10-month-old daughter disappeared during the early morning hours of Oct. 4. When he returned from work roughly around 4 a.m., he reported several lights on, the front door unlocked, three missing cell phones and a tampered screen window.
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Irwin and Lisa’s mother, Deborah Bradley, told detectives their daughter was snatched from her Kansas City home. Irwin also reported three cell phones missing from the house.
Records show Wright received a 50-second phone call from one of these cellphones on the night of the disappearance.
“I don't know what was said, or who called, or who answered my phone,” said Wright to KCTV5.
Wright argued she lived with two other families, totaling six adults and three children, so a number of people could have answered her phone.
Online bloggers questioned whether this highly populated residence was a flophouse for meth users.
In rebuttal to the scathing questions, Wright created the Facebook page “Megan Wright, Q&A Baby Lisa,” to address questions concerning her involvement in the case.
“She lived in a flop house, with known meth addicts,” said one Internet user, according to NBC Action News.
“I'm not saying she has a drug problem, I'm asking,” the user added.
“If this is a drug house and all these people are supposedly using drugs, why no arrests?” questioned another Internet user, according to NBC Action News.
Local Kansas City private investigator Ron Rugen interviewed Wright, questioning her about her home, dubbed by Internet bloggers as an alleged “meth house.”
“It wasn't a flop house as it was said to be on Fox,” Wright told Rugen.
“It’s very tough to see the house presented that way, because it’s not the case. The people are wonderful and caring and considerate and as nice as could be. Just because they helped out friends doesn’t make them drug users or anything else that was said in that report,” Wright added.
Wright is suspected to have been in a relationship with a transient named “Jersey,” who routinely did repair work on the Irwin’s street.
A neighbor to the Irwin family, Mary Hurt, told CNN’s Nancy Grace she thought Jersey was “shady.”
Many speculate Jersey had close ties with one of the men likely to have Wright’s cellphone the night of the child’s disappearance.
“I do believe that he had my phone all night. But other than that, I'm not sure. Just because he had my phone doesn't make him guilty of anything,” Wright wrote on Facebook regarding the man who may have had her cellphone the night Lisa disappeared.
On Nov. 2, Wright spoke with Jane Velez-Mitchell, a talk show host on HLN, concerning her relationship with “Jersey.”
Wright said she “found out that he was getting into some drug activity,” and she thought he was into “meth.”
She added Jersey would disappear for hours without explanation: “Towards the last couple of days I was actually fearful being around him.”
Investigators reported that Jersey is cooperating with their questioning. He is currently in prison on an unrelated burglary charge.
“We're satisfied at the moment and we're moving on. That's not to say something may change later where we would like to speak to [him] again. That's why I'm staying away from the word 'cleared.' Really, truly, the investigation is wide open. We aren't ruling anything out yet,” said Kansas City spokesperson Steve Young to People Magazine regarding Jersey.
Baby Lisa’s case entered its one-month anniversary on Nov. 4. Police said they plan to pursue new leads in the mystery as Lisa’s first birthday approaches on Friday.
