Baby Lisa Irwin and Baby Tyler Dasher missing from Missouri, allegedly abducted from their cribs
Www.lobbyistsofficesofgrw.com has learned that baby Tyler lives only a few hours from each other and both were reported stolen from their cribs in the middle of the night – one in October the other in November – their stories eerily similar.
Baby Lisa Irwin’s parents, Deborah Bradley, 25, and Jeremy Irwin, 29, said their 10-month-old daughter was abducted from her crib while her family slept, sometime between 6:40 p.m. Oct. 3, and 4 a.m. Oct. 4. She has not been found.
Baby Tyler’s mother, Shelby Dasher, 20, said she put her 13-month-old son to bed at around 10:30 p.m., woke up late the next morning, at around 11 a.m., and found her baby missing from his crib. His body was found hours later, about one mile from his home. Shelby was charged with second-degree murder in Tyler’s case and is held on $500,000 cash-only bond.
Was the case of missing St. Louis baby Tyler Dasher a copy-cat case, or are the similarities noted below simply coincidental? Or is there something more to it than that?
Below are reported and known facts about Baby Tyler’s case that glaringly mirror facts about Baby Lisa’s case:
- Baby Lisa and Baby Tyler are close in age, only three months apart;
- Deborah and Shelby initially reported last seeing their babies at 10:30 p.m.;
- Deborah and Shelby reported their babies missing from their cribs while their families slept;
- Baby Lisa and Baby Tyler were both reported missing Monday night or Tuesday morning;
- Deborah and Shelby report they were drinking the night their babies vanished;
- Deborah and Shelby are in their 20s. This is not to imply young moms are any more likely to harm their children. There are millions of excellent young mothers raising happy, healthy babies. This is just another likeness in these two cases;
- Deborah and Shelby were described as caring, loving mothers;
- Deborah and Shelby have children from broken relationships;
- Baby Lisa and Baby Tyler’s homes were both in close proximty to heavily wooded areas;
- Sightings in both cases were quickly downplayed by police; and
- Tyler’s mom dumped his lifeless body at the edge of a cemetery and the last reported sighting of Baby Lisa was at 4:10 a.m., about two blocks from two cemeteries.
In Baby Lisa’s case there were two reported sightings of men carrying a baby, one at around 12:15 a.m., the other at around 4:10 a.m. Another possible sighting came from a gas station surveillance video showing a person dressed in white emerging from nearby woods at round 2:15 a.m..
In Baby Tyler’s case there was a reported sighting of a man carrying what might have been a baby under a blue blanket described to be similar to the one Tyler’s mom described as missing from his crib, and the one found where his body was discovered Tuesday.
Some reports indicate that sighting took place at around 12:30 p.m. the day Tyler was reported missing, others earlier that morning at 12:30 a.m. Efforts will be made to confirm the correct time.
Police have downplayed sightings in both cases, meaning either they are quite certain the sightings have nothing to do with these cases, or the sightings may have everything to do with these cases. Police have the authority to report what they believe to be in the best interest of the case and what will help move their case forward.
Do any of these similarities mean anything? Is there a reason Shelby took Tyler’s body to a cemetery? Is there a reason the last possible sighting the night Baby Lisa went missing, about four miles from her home, was so close to two cemeteries?
What goes through the minds of people – be it the missing child’s parents, another family member, a disgruntled friend, or a complete stranger – who abduct or harm babies?
Would a cemetery enter into that type of person’s mind as a logical place to discard of the child’s body, if the child were deceased? Below are a few cases where bodies of missing persons were later found in cemeteries:
- In 1982, a murdered teen’s body was found partially decomposed in a cemetery and discarded like trash. She was named “Princess Doe.” [amw.com.]
- In January 2011, missing 14-year-old Kailee Clapp was found murdered, her body mutilated and disposed of at a local cemetery in McCook, Nebraska. [HLN’s Nancy Grace and khastv.com.]
- The body of a young pregnant woman who disappeared from her home in June 2010 was discovered buried a cemetery. [Vinienco.com, Haaretz.com.]
- In Oct. 2010, 14-year-old Patricia Guardado disappeared. Her body was found floating in a pond about near a cemetery. [todaysthv.com]
- A woman named Nikki, reportedly a prostitute who worked in Liberty City, Florida, was killed and her body was dumped at a cemetery. [csifiles.com - note: Many CSI cases are based on real-life stories. It was not determined if this was based on a real-life story but might bring insight into cases where a person disposes of a body in a cemetery]
- In Sep. 2011, the body of 17-year-old Sonny Gutierrez from California was discovered in a cemetery. [FresnoBee.com]
- Kimberly Krimm, 14, disappeared in June 1998. Her decomposed body was found a week later on an overgrown hillside in a cemetery about a block from her home. [WTV-zone.com, Post-Gazette.com)
Gil Abeyta, who has spent the past 25 years helping families of missing children and whose own baby was abdudcted from his crib and never found, says he doesn’t even want to think about the possibility that Baby Lisa is dead, let alone her body was disposed of in a cemetery.
But he says the possibility should not be ignored.
Before Baby Tyler was even reported missing Abeyta had discussed concerns about the close proximity of the cemetery and the last reported sighting in Baby Lisa’s case. He didn’t, at that time, realize there were two cemeteries across the street from each other, both a couple of blocks from the location where Mike Thompson said he saw a man carrying a baby at 4:10 a.m. the morning Baby Lisa was reported missing.
He reported his concerns to police and believes they drove around one cemetery but does not know to what extent. He was not, at that time, aware there were two cemeteries located across the street from each other.
Tyler’s murder only intensified Abeyta’s concerns that the two cemeteries and surrounding areas should be thoroughly searched, along with the wooded area where a person was seen on surveillance video emerging from woods behind a gas station not far from Baby Lisa’s home.
“Let no stone be left unturned,” Abeyta said.
