FBI Dog Finds Cadaver Smell in Parents' Home

The Kansas City parents of a missing baby girl are facing a new dilemma: An FBI cadaver dog has sniffed out the scent of a dead body in their home, the AP reports. The dog found a "positive 'hit' ... in an area of the floor of Bradley's bedroom near the bed," according to a court document released yesterday. The document also says investigators discovered "recently disturbed or overturned" dirt in the family's backyard.

The Bradleys' high-profile attorney, Joe Tacopina, noted that cadaver dogs also react to the scent of human waste—like "a dirty diaper or 10 other non-human-remains items. There's really no scenario where this baby, God forbid she was dead, would have decomposed in that short a period of time." The parents themselves are keeping mum: After mother Deborah Bradley recently admitted on the Today show to getting drunk after putting her baby to bed, Tacopina told both parents to stop talking to the media. (More Deborah Bradley stories.)