Anonymous Donors Offer $100K Reward For Missing Missouri Baby

Kansas City Police(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) -- Wealthy anonymous benefactors Friday offered a $100,000 reward for the safe return of missing Missouri infant Lisa Irwin or the conviction of whoever took the little girl.

The reward was announced by private investigator Bill Stanton who said the anonymous donors have a relationship with the family and do not want to detract attention from the case with their identities.

The benefactors also brought Stanton into the case, he said. Stanton added that he would be joined by Dr. Marisa Randazzo, a psychologist who specializes in threat assessment and once worked for the U.S. Secret Service.

This week, the family posted a series of videos on YouTube made by Lisa's parents of the baby girl eating cereal, gurgling at her mother and playing with a toy. The family had said they want to keep Lisa's image in the media so that attention stays on the case.

On the eleventh day of the search for Lisa, investigators are searching the woods near the Irwin's Missouri home and acknowledge that running out of places to look is "inevitable."

Exhaustive and fruitless searches have taken police and FBI investigators to the woods multiple times as well as to nearby fields, a well at an abandoned house, drainage areas and a landfill.

"We haven't really thought about shutting down," Kansas City Police Capt. Steve Young told ABC News Friday. "I think that will come sometime, but we hope to solve this case before then."

On Friday, three relatives of the Irwin family emerged from the house where the family has been staying to hang "We [heart] U Lisa" signs on a tree and on the door. Lisa's parents, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, did not come outside.

"I am seeing a family's heart literally torn out of its chest," Stanton told Good Morning America Friday.

When asked by ABC News if he was suspicious of Bradley's involvement in her daughter's disappearance, he answered coyly.

"Let me try not to give a politician's answer," Stanton said. "Let me just say this, she doesn't want to be discounted. She wants to be looked at, vetted and then once everyone feels she's not a suspect, let's move on."

Stanton spent time with Bradley and Irwin Thursday at their home and has become somewhat of an unofficial spokesman for the family. He has said he will give information to investigators, but they do not give him information.

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