KANSAS CITY, Mo. —An intensive search Tuesday of woods a few blocks from where 11-month-old Lisa Irwin disappeared turned up nothing substantial, police said.
"It was a lead we developed that unfortunately did not pan out," said Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young.
High-ranking police officials, federal investigators and crime scene technicians descended on the woods at 34th Terrace and North Brighton Avenue. As the afternoon wore on, the number of police and FBI investigators grew.
Two crime scene vans — one with a trailer — arrived, and officers carried evidence bags and dirt-sifting equipment into the wooded area. But about 4 p.m., authorities began leaving.
"It may have been promising for a minute," Young said. "We are trying to do it right and doing all of what we can."
The location is one of many around the family's home in the 3600 block of North Lister Avenue that authorities have searched since Lisa vanished Oct. 4.
In other developments Tuesday:
* Authorities are looking for two women who had a baby that resembled Lisa at a Manhattan, Kan., restaurant.
A woman told Riley County police the baby was at McAlister's Deli with two women who seemed suspicious, said Capt. Kurt Moldrup. She said the women and baby left heading north in a small black car with Missouri tags.
Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Ben Gardener said the car could be a 1998 or 1999 model, but authorities didn't know what make it was.
Kansas City police are in contact with authorities there, Young said. He said it was one of many tips police have received from outside the area.
"We have followed tips from all over the country and if we get one that is not local, we contact the agency where it is and they look into it for us," he said.
* Fox News Channel aired more of an interview that Lisa's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, did Sunday on "America Live." In the new segment, Bradley told Megyn Kelly she believed police had lied to her in an effort to elicit a confession.
Bradley, who has said several cellphones were missing from their home along with their daughter, said police told her a call was made on one of the phones at 2:30 a.m. Oct. 4, the night that Lisa disappeared.
She told Kelly that she was sleeping at the time and whoever took Lisa would have used the phone. She said police didn't tell her where the call had been placed except that it was "close by."
When asked whether she though police were lying to her about the call, Bradley said, "Yeah, they're supposed to."
"To get a confession?" Kelly asked her.
"Yeah, of course," Bradley answered.
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