Lisa Irwin 10 Mos. missing. MO

[onefortheroad]

A couple of things on my mind about this case;

1. In the initial article I read about this case, there was mention of the baby being sick with a cold and cough. As a parent of a missing child I think I would play that up as much as possible to garner sympathy if the child had been abducted. I don't recall the parents making any comments about the illness. <correct me if I'm wrong>

2. If the mother was involved and this was planned, why buy baby food and baby wipes?

Your first point is something I hadn't considered, but it makes a lot of sense. Having a baby go missing would be a nightmare, but if the baby was sick at the time the parents would have the added fear that she wasn't getting her medicine or being kept warm enough, or just being cared for properly, and you'd expect them to mention that in an appeal to the abductor.

I don't believe this was planned and the baby purchases seem to bear that out. I do think it's possible that whatever happened may have been due to the combination of a sick, cranky baby together with a fed up mother who'd been drinking and snapped. I wonder how much wine was purchased and if there was any left?

I've also noticed that the signs and t-shirts clearly refer to Lisa as 'kidnapped'. That seems a little unusual to me ... isn't the term 'missing' used in most cases? Maybe I'm the only one that thinks that's a little odd, but it struck me as a little over-insistent.