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Megyn Kelly Investigates: Disappearance of "Baby Lisa" Series - Megyn's "True Crime" Mega-Episode

April 5, 2026

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The disappearance of ten-month-old Lisa Irwin from her Kansas City, Missouri, home on the night of October 3–4, 2011, remains unsolved more than twelve years later. Her father, Jeremy Irwin, returned from a night shift to find lights on, a window open with the screen pushed in, the front door unlocked, and the baby missing from her crib. Her mother, Deborah Bradley, had been drinking with a neighbor earlier that evening. Searches yielded no body or clear physical evidence, and public attention quickly turned to the parents even as witnesses reported seeing a man carrying a baby in the area after midnight.

Early Timeline and Immediate Leads

Deborah put Lisa to bed around 6:30 p.m. and later checked on her before going to sleep with her two older sons. Three cell phones left on the kitchen counter disappeared that night. One working phone placed a roughly fifty-second call near midnight to a number belonging to Megan Wright, a young woman who had recently broken up with a local handyman. Two witnesses around the corner, Onesto and Lisa Parskal, reported seeing a man carrying an unclothed baby at about 12:15 a.m. Another man, Mike Thompson, described a similar sighting several hours later a few miles away. A nearby dumpster fire and grainy gas-station footage of a man emerging from woods added to the questions, but none produced a confirmed suspect or recovered child.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (02:49) **Case Setup & Night of Disappearance** - Establishes the quiet Kansas City neighborhood and exact timeline leading to 10-month-old Lisa Irwin vanishing from her crib.
  • 2 (05:18) **Initial Search & Media Frenzy** - Police, FBI, and volunteers comb the area while national coverage descends on North Lister Avenue.
  • 3 (06:53) **Emerging Timeline & Key Sightings** - Details the evening's events plus the Parskals' report of a man carrying a baby near midnight.
  • 4 (10:28) **More Suspicious Activity** - Dumpster fire and grainy BP station footage of a man emerging from woods hours before discovery.
  • 5 (11:07) **Deborah's Revised Account & Drinking** - Deborah admits heavy drinking that night and uncertainty about checking on Lisa.
  • 6 (13:31) **Polygraph Fallout & Police Pressure** - Deborah believes she failed the test; police publicly accuse the couple of stopping cooperation.
  • 7 (16:18) **Private Investigation Begins** - Christy Schiller funds experts including CIA deception specialist Phil Houston to interview the parents.

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Show Notes

On today's true crime mega-pod, you can find the full five-part series of Megyn Kelly Investigates" on the disappearance of "Baby Lisa" - the mystery that's still ongoing, including Megyn's hidden camera moment during the investigation.

 

 

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