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Search for Missing Child Enters Second Day

Missing child Lisa Irwin.
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Missing child Lisa Irwin.

By Steve Bell

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – After cutting back to a minimal investigative force overnight, Kansas City police and cooperating law enforcement agencies are resuming their full-scale search for a missing 10-month-old girl.

Police say the parents of little Lisa Irwin are cooperative and there's no reason to disbelieve their story that the little girl disappeared from her bedroom in the middle of the night.

Officers reported that a window in the family's house, near 36th and North Lister, had been forced open. And police captain Steve Young said one phone tip mentioned a person walking down the street with a baby.

But no more information came out of that tip, and last night, Young told reporters police have no substantive leads on what happened to the child.

Lisa is described as blonde, with blue eyes and two bottom teeth. When she went to sleep she was wearing a purple outfit with pictures of white kittens on the shirt.

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