KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? The parents of a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl are no longer cooperating with authorities, and their claims that whoever took their daughter stole their cellphones hasn't produce any leads, police said Thursday night.
Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, who said their daughter, Lisa, was snatched from her crib sometime Monday night or early Tuesday, had been cooperative since reporting her missing. But they changed course Thursday, Kansas City police spokesman Steve Young said.
"Tonight, they decided to stop talking to detectives, and I don't have to illustrate how that affects the investigation. That speaks for itself," he said.
But he reiterated that investigators still have no suspects.
During a tearful news conference Thursday morning, Irwin and Bradley described how they frantically searched their home for any sign of their daughter after her father came home from work early Tuesday and she wasn't in her crib.
They said they found an open window, an unlocked front door and house lights blazing, and later discovered that their three cellphones were gone.
"They told us three cell phones were missing. It hasn't produced anything we can go forward with," Young said. "The investigation is directed and handled by hard information."
Investigators focused their search Thursday on a heavily wooded area, sewers and an industrial park. About 100 officers were scouring the industrial area and adjacent woods, while others were lifting drain covers and crawling inside.
Authorities have used search dogs to go over the family's home and nearby woods, helicopters, all-terrain vehicles and door-to-door interviews with neighbors.
Police have said one possibility was whether someone entered the home through a front window and snatched the baby, but they haven't pointed to any sign of forced entry.
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Associated Press writer Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City contributed to this report.
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