Witnesses back up Baby Lisa's parents' abduction claim

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- New video footage may back claims by the parents of the Kansas City, Mo., toddler that their daughter was abducted, witnesses said.

The video, obtained by ABC's "Good Morning America," showed a man dressed in white leaving a wooded area on the night of 11-month-old Lisa Irwin's disappearance. The family has maintained their daughter was abducted and witnesses said they saw a suspicious man carrying a baby on the night of the abduction.

Mike Thompson, a witness, told ABC News he was returning home from work around 4 a.m. Oct. 4 when he saw a man in a T-shirt carrying a baby at an intersection about 3 miles from the child's home, ABC reported Sunday.

It was shortly after that time that the child's parents, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, reported their daughter missing.

"[At] 4 a.m., 45 degrees, baby don't have a coat or nothing and this guy is walking down the street and I thought it was kind of weird," Thompson said.

A few hours earlier, a couple living near the Irwin family told ABC News they saw a man in a T-shirt carrying a baby and reported it to police on the morning of Oct. 4.

"It was shocking because I couldn't imagine anyone outside walking with their baby in the cold like that with no clothes on," the woman told ABC News.

ABC News said police also were investigating a fire in a trash receptacle that happened near the area at the same time. The fire could explain why burnt clothes were shown to Irwin and Bradley during an interrogation and why authorities searched an area landfill as part of the investigation.