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Mom can't recall checking on missing baby

Lisa Irwin (UPI/File)
Lisa Irwin (UPI/File)

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The night 10-month-old Lisa Irwin disappeared from her Kansas City home her mother drank five to 10 glasses of wine, a source familiar with the family said.

The source told The Kansas City Star that Deborah Bradley was so intoxicated she said she could not recall whether she checked on Lisa before going to sleep herself.

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Bradley said she put Lisa to bed about 6:40 p.m. on Oct. 3 and shut the door to her room so the older children wouldn't disturb her.

Bradley then spent several hours sitting on the front stoop smoking cigarettes, drinking wine and talking with next door neighbor Samantha Brando.

By 10:30 p.m., Bradley was intoxicated and went to bed while Brando returned to her own house.

When Lisa's father Jeremy Irwin returned home in the early morning hours he said he found the front door unlocked and the lights on. The window was open in the computer room and the door to Lisa's room was open.

Lisa was not in her crib.

Irwin ran next door thinking she might be at Brando's house but when Brando said she wasn't he called police on his work cellphone.

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Two home cellphones were missing.

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