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Mom of missing Mo. girl: 'We just want our baby back'

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The parents of a missing 10-month-old Kansas City girl begged that she be dropped off someplace safe, no questions asked, prompting the mother to plead : "We just want our baby back."

The parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, spoke to the media for the first time Wednesday afternoon, almost two days after their child, Lisa, disappeared from her crib.

The couple made a tearful plea, urging people to come forward with information about their child and took no questions from reporters.

"Anything, even the smallest bit of information could lead to her return," the father said.

Lisa Irwin was last seen around 10:30 p.m. Monday when her mother put her to bed. Her father, an electrician, discovered Lisa missing when he got home around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday from a late-night shift at work, police said.

Image: Missing baby Lisa Irwin

"Detectives are looking at every possible angle," Capt. Steve Young of the Kansas City Police Department told msnbc.com. "All we know is that there should've been a 10-month-old in that house and we are doing everything we can to find the kid."

On Wednesday, FBI agents with dogs searched the family's home, a light-green ranch-style home in an older neighborhood along a winding street near hills. An FBI spokeswoman acknowledged the agency was committing significant resources to the search, but declined to discuss why the agents entered the home or what they found.

Officers scoured the neighborhood and knocked doors throughout the neighborhood in their hunt for Lisa Irwin.

"We've received several tips and we certainly encourage people to call, but we also need information that is specific to the case," Young told msnbc.com.

Police discounted the notion that Lisa could have crawled away and are investigating the possibility that an intruder entered the home through a window and snatched her.

Young said the parents have been cooperative and aren't considered suspects. "As you can imagine nobody knows more about what's going on in that house than the parents do," he said.

A daylong search Tuesday that included more than 100 officers, FBI agents, and police dogs yielded no substantial clues. Interviews with the parents that ended late Tuesday also didn't provide any clues, Young said.

Nothing turned up around the house or in a search of the two cars in the family's driveway either, investigators said, according to NBC's Peter Alexander.

The parents were staying with relatives away from their northern Kansas City home. Police said they were aware of the parents whereabouts, but would not disclose their location.

Lisa Irwin’s grandparents and neighbors told KSHB-TV, NBC News affiliate in Kansas City, they have not heard from the couple since they left police questioning Tuesday evening. The grandparents told the TV station that they were caring for the couple's two other children.

Tip from neighbor 'went nowhere' Police canceled the Amber Alert Tuesday evening since the public awareness had been raised.

Police spokesman Darin Snapp said a report that a neighbor saw a man in the neighborhood carrying a baby overnight Tuesday "went nowhere."

Lisa has blue eyes and blond hair. She is 30 inches tall and weighs between 26 and 30 pounds. Police say she has two bottom teeth, a small bug bite under her left ear and a beauty mark on her right thigh. She also has a cold with a cough.

She was wearing purple shorts and a purple shirt with white kittens on it.