Missing Baby Lisa Irwin: Could Mystery Call Lead to More Clues?
More than four weeks into the case of the missing blue-eyed baby Lisa Irwin, clues continue to emerge as to what might have happened the night the child went missing. An emerging pointer in the baby Lisa case might come from a mysterious phone call placed the evening the girl disappeared.
Baby Lisa went missing from her crib on Oct. 4. Her mother, Deborah Bradley, claims to have last seen the child when she put her to bed at 6:40 p.m.
When Lisa’s father Jeremy Irwin came home at 3:45 a.m. from an overnight job he found the front door unlocked, lights on, a window screen tampered with, missing cell phones, and a missing child.
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However, it appears that a phone call was made from one of the missing phones the night the baby disappeared. The call was made to a woman named Megan Wright.
Records show Wright received a 50-second call from one of the cell phones stolen from the Irwin home.
Wright says that she does not know the parents of Baby Lisa and is not even sure who answered her phone. She told police “I don't know what was said, or who called, or who answered my phone,” she told KCTV5.
It is uncertain what time the call was made, but some reports suggest that the call was made either at 8:30 p.m., 11:57 p.m. or 2:30 a.m.
Interestingly, Lisa's parents claim that their missing phones were barred from making outside calls due to late payments.
Police are not saying what the phone call could indicate, but many are wondering if the call could point police in the direction of the missing baby girl.
Some commentators are suggesting that the alleged call from the missing phone may have come from the “shady” neighborhood handyman known as “Jersey” John Tanko.
Tanko is the ex-boyfriend of Wright and has a history of break-ins in the vicinity of the Kansas City home where Lisa went missing.
Police have said that “Jersey’ has cooperated in the investigation. However, they maintain that the case remains “wide open” and that nobody has been "cleared" in terms of involvement in the case.
Whether the phone call points investigators in the right direction of the missing baby girl remains to be seen. However, with one month into the search and no real leads – figuring out who made the call appears to be a start.
