The Megyn Kelly Show
Mysterious Phone Call, New Leads - Part 3 of Megyn Kelly Investigates: Baby Lisa's Disappearance | Ep. 1024
Wed, 12 Mar 2025
In part three of Megyn Kelly Investigates on the disappearance of Baby Lisa Irwin, Megyn Kelly digs into the mystery of the phone call that we know went from a phone stolen from the Baby Lisa household to Megan Wright, we hear from Megan Wright on what that might have been about, what John "Jersey" Tanko had to say about the stolen phones, what police may know that they aren't saying, and law enforcement experts Phil Houston and Bill Stanton give their analysis on the case and the series.Find out more and watch all episodes here: https://www.megynkelly.com/2025/03/10/megyn-kelly-investigates-the-disappearance-of-baby-lisa-irwin/Done with Debt: https://www.DoneWithDebt.com/Grand Canyon University: https://GCU.eduFollow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
Chapter 1: What is the mystery behind Baby Lisa's disappearance?
I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. In episode three of our special series, Megyn Kelly investigates on the disappearance of baby Lisa. Nearly 13 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, Lisa Irwin, a 10-month-old baby girl, vanished in the middle of the night. What could have possibly happened to her? One man emerges who might have some answers.
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That's donewithdebt.com. Here's where we are. After a $100,000 reward was posted and the widespread pursuit of an unknown man walking with a baby, two people of interest emerged. James Brando, who lived next door to Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, and who had split up with his wife, Samantha, earlier that day.
Samantha, you may remember, was drinking with Deborah on Deborah's front stoop the night baby Lisa went missing. Brando was investigated and ultimately ruled out. That left John Jersey Tanko, the handyman with a history of drug abuse, arson, and break-ins, who was working nearby. As we learned in our last episode, he had an ex-girlfriend who he may have believed wanted a baby.
Her name is Megan Wright. Was Tanko trying to bring Megan a baby in the hopes of getting back together? And now we turn to perhaps the most crucial clue in this case. Remember those three cell phones on the Irwin's kitchen counter taken the night that Lisa was? Two of them had restrictions for nonpayment. But right near midnight, there was an attempted phone call from the one phone that worked.
It was to a cell phone that was less than a mile away, and it lasted 50 seconds. So what did the cops say to you about that piece of evidence? Lisa's father, Jeremy Irwin.
So they told me that there was a phone call from one of Deborah's phones and we were able to get the records from that phone line. Went back over three years and I myself, hand by hand, went over every number in the whole thing. And that was the first time in which that number had ever popped up.
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Chapter 2: Who are the key suspects in Baby Lisa's case?
And under this bridge, there is a culvert. And so there is water there, but it's very low water. Because at one point he had talked about throwing the phones into a pond. He'd also talked about the phones being in this woman's car. But just to back up, just to back up.
So he's saying... There we are having some car trouble. Get out of the car and boom, three cell phones. And I was just guessing that these belong to Deborah and Jeremy. Does he offer any reason why he knows it's those phones?
He just told me they were three cell phones on the side of the road. Now, he's not telling me that they're Jeremy and... But I think the connection would be that if he- It's three cell phones that are sitting there together. Yes, three cell phones sitting there together. Now, at some point he had, you know, he tried to tell me that I don't steal cell phones.
But the thing about it is a thief, if you're gonna go into a house- to steal stuff, which this guy does, then you're gonna steal things you can sell really easily, cell phones, guns, any kind of electronics, things you can pick up easily, throw them in your pockets.
These three cell phones were sitting on a counter in the kitchen, so it would have been very easy for a burglar coming into the home through the front door or through that window the phones would have been right there.
But keep in mind Jersey's drug use and his rap sheet. How reliable was he? Was he playing games with Cindy? Trying to get information from her to see what she and investigators knew? It's extraordinary that in his time with you, he volunteered that he spent time with these cell phones.
Yes.
That even he seems to be suggesting are related to the case. Yeah. I think Phil Houston would say, that's a liar who doesn't know what you know about what connections he has, admitting- Just so much just to see, you know, but leaving himself escape routes. Right. So maybe he could get some more information from you or just in case you knew more than he thought you did. Right. Right.
That must have been chilling. I mean, was that chilling, Cindy, when he admitted that? Yes. I take it that was the most shocking revelation that he copped to finding three mysterious cell phones. Yes. Shortly after baby Lisa went missing. How close in time? It was right in that timeframe. It was right when it happened.
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Chapter 3: What role does Megan Wright play in the investigation?
Yes. All right. I'm going to admit that stood out at me.
Why was that night so powerful? Why on earth was it so powerful?
Okay, but I'll defend her. I'm going to defend her. You're already unstable. You're on drugs. Your family doesn't want anything to do with you. You were in a domestic violence shelter, you know, from some jerk in your life. Now you're with this other jerk who you've broken up with, who's stalking you. You're you're traumatized. There was a lot that morning.
At least she found out that the FBI was calling her and she's worried. I don't know. She's worried. So could that be, you know, like I said, scared straight.
She says she says the FBI called her. We don't know that. That's what she said.
Yeah. Also, she said, oh, I didn't know who to call back. Google the FBI and you have a phone number. If somebody thought I had committed a crime, I'd be on the phone with the police or with the FBI. She's a drug addict.
She lives in a drug house. None of these people wants to voluntarily bring law enforcement into their lives. What does she gain by telling us falsely that the FBI called her when they didn't call her? I don't see it. See, there you go. I've rehabilitated her on one of your key points, Phil.
Take the L. It's very possible that she's simply trying to get everyone to believe that she's been through all the right steps and she cooperated in every step along the way.
I feel bad. I don't want Megan Wright to be completely bashed here without a defense because I thought it was very courageous for her to sit across from somebody like me who, even though I'm sympathetic to everything she's gone through, she knows I'm not an easy interviewer. She's not a dope.
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