109: MISSING: Baby Lisa Irwin

Detective Perspective

Derrick Levasseur

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

At around 3:45 a.m. on October 4, 2011, Jeremy Irwin came home from a late-night electrical job to find the front door unlocked and the lights still on inside his Kansas City home. As he walked through the house, turning off lights and checking on his children, he made a chilling discovery - his nearly eleven-month-old daughter, Lisa, was gone.

Lisa had been last seen the night before, at around 6:40 p.m., when her mother, Deborah Bradley, said she put her to bed in her crib. Within those nine hours, Lisa vanished without a trace.

In the days that followed, detectives found burned baby clothes in a nearby dumpster, and multiple people reported seeing a man walking with a baby in the middle of the night near the Irwin home. But Lisa was never found.

More than fourteen years later, her disappearance remains one of Kansas City’s most haunting unsolved cases, leaving everyone asking: what happened to Baby Lisa ?

If anyone has information about this case, please call Kansas City CrimeStoppers at 1-816-474-8477. There is a $100,000 reward available.

For more information, visit https://findlisairwin.org/

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0:00.0	At around 3.45 a.m. on October 4th, 2011, Jeremy Irwin came home from a.
0:15.0	late night electrical job to find the front door unlocked and the light still on inside his Kansas City home. As he walked
0:21.6	through the house, turning off lights and checking on his children, he made a chilling discovery.
0:26.9	His nearly 11-month-old daughter, Lisa, was gone. Lisa had last been seen the night before
0:32.9	at around 6.40 p.m. when her mother, Deborah Bradley, said she put her in her crib. Within those nine
0:39.9	hours, Lisa vanished without a trace. In the days that followed, detectives found burned baby
0:45.7	clothes in a nearby dumpster, and multiple people reported seeing a man walking with a baby
0:51.0	in the middle of the night near the Irwin home. But Lisa was never found.
0:56.8	More than 14 years later, her disappearance remains one of Kansas City's most haunting unsolved cases,
1:03.2	leaving everyone asking, what happened to baby Lisa?
1:10.8	Music So. The Hey everyone. Welcome back to Detective Perspective. My name is Derek Lavasser. I'm a licensed private investigator and former police detective.
1:45.2	Each week I'll be covering an unsolved case and story format. I'll then give you my perspective
1:49.5	on the investigation and provide contact information for the individuals or organizations
1:55.0	connected to the case so that if you have any tips, you can contact them directly. Maybe
2:00.2	you can help solve a case.
2:01.8	So if you're someone who's interested in true crime, specifically unsolved cases,
2:06.1	and you would like to hear my opinion on those investigations,
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2:12.0	or listening on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or whatever platform you use.
2:17.2	Okay, so Baby Lisa's case, we have received a lot
2:21.0	of requests for this one. And I will tell you right up front that there is a lot of information
2:26.4	to this case. So I'm going to be focusing this episode on the core info. And there's many sources
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