Fort Bragg case offers eerie parallels to Lisa Irwin's disappearance
An 11-month-old girl disappears from her crib.
The frantic young mother reports last seeing the infant around 11:30 p.m. A window to the room is found open. A kidnapping is suspected, an Amber Alert is issued, and family and neighbors worry and grieve.
The case — in which the mother eventually confessed to her child’s murder — erupted four years ago to the month, half the country away.
But now some blogs that thrive on crime stories think a connection can be found to the case of Lisa Irwin.
Deborah Bradley, mother of Lisa, lived at a residence at Fort Bragg, N.C., a little over a mile away from the home where the other infant, Harmony Jade Creech, “disappeared.”
Bradley, the bloggers contend, must have known about the other case. After all, her husband then was a private in the 82nd Airborne, the same unit as the victim’s father.
“After reading the (Deja Vu) post, it sounds like it was a copy cat…,” opined one man, identifying himself as a relative of the North Carolina victim.
An eerie coincidence, yes, one that Kansas City police say they have not
missed.
But the time line does not appear to support anything more. Military records show Pvt. Sean Bradley was discharged in April 2007 — several months before the remains of the Creech baby were found in the attic, stuffed in a plastic-wrapped diaper box.
Sean and his wife and their little boy were likely back in the Kansas City area at the time.
The 25-year-old mother, Johni Michelle Heuser, confessed within hours in the 2007 case; her baby had died weeks earlier, and she was scared of being charged and losing custody of her other kids.
Her husband had been in Iraq when Harmony was born, and the day he arrived home and wanted to see the child, suddenly she was said to be missing.
Heuser was sentenced to 11 to 15 years for second-degree murder — hardly a model for an unsolvable crime, remark the more skeptical bloggers.
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