Authorities are looking into two new leads today in the case of a missing 10-month-old Missouri baby.
Lisa Irwin has been missing from her Kansas City home since Monday night.
On Friday, a teenage neighbor of Lisa's parents was questioned by investigators and forensic experts took a DNA sample, a source told ABC News . That neighbor was apparently at the home the day Lisa vanished and also knew the access code to the family's garage.
However, police said they still have no suspects.
Investigators are also looking into reports from the west coast, where a couple was seen with a small child fitting Lisa's description, relative Mike Lerette told ABC affiliate KMBC-TV.
"They're pursuing surveillance tape on a couple with the baby in California," said Lerette.
FBI Special agent and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett said the first of those leads is a more feasible possibility than the second from California.
"I can tell you based on experience of working high profile abductions that you get leads from literally all over the world. Is that possible? Of course it's possible. Is it likely? I don't think so," Garrett said. "I think this situation is probably going to stay within the Kansas City area."
Earlier on Friday, the FBI and police searched through a landfill for a second time, but found nothing.
Agents armed with metal detectors were back at the home shared by Lisa's parents, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley.
Police are not commenting but the leads could be the first real progress since Tuesday when Jeremy Irwin said he came home from working an overnight shift and found his daughter's crib empty, a window open and the family's three cell phones gone.
"The windows were open and lights were on and she was nowhere to be found," Irwin told "Good Morning America" Thursday. "We've been going over everything in our minds. We just don't have any idea."
Irwin said that his front door was unlocked when he returned home from work as an electrician at 4 a.m. to find his daughter missing.
Parents Questioned in Lisa's Disappearance
On Friday, Lisa's mother, Deborah Bradley said that police accused her of having done something to her child.
"From the start when they've questioned me, once I couldn't fill in gaps, it turned into 'You did it, you did it,'" Deborah Bradley told "Good Morning America." "They took a picture down from the table and said, 'Look at your baby! And do what's right for her!' I kept saying I don't know . I just sat there. I didn't even ask to leave. I just let them keep asking questions."
Bradley also said police accused her of failing a polygraph test. Police said they could not comment on this claim, but said Bradley is "free to say whatever she wants."
Bradley, who sobbed through her interview with "GMA," spoke out after Kansas City police said Bradley and the toddler's father Jeremy Irwin had stopped cooperating on Thursday.
The parents told "GMA" they have not ended their cooperation with police.
"If they say they're willing to continue speaking with detectives, I say great. Our door is open," Police Capt. Steve Young told ABCNews.com this morning. "Their involvement in the case is the best thing for this case. Our only goal is to find this little girl."
Young said detectives would be happy to resume conversations with Lisa's parents, but added, "We still haven't heard from the mother or father as of this morning."
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