Kansas City, Missouri (CNN) -- A frantic search for a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl left investigators scouring a Kansas City neighborhood Saturday, a day after searching a nearby creek and landfill.
Federal authorities joined police in the search effort this week, speaking with neighbors and sweeping the area with metal detectors in an expanded search for Lisa Irwin.
Michael Lerette, a family spokesman for the parents of the missing infant, said police collected what could be forensic evidence in the case, but authorities have declined to comment on that claim.
The search, meanwhile, remains clouded by what Kansas City police Capt. Steve Young said was the missing girl's parents' decision to stop cooperating with detectives.
But a woman who identified herself as the sister of Jeremy Irwin, read a statement on behalf of her brother and Deborah Bradley, parents of missing the girl.
"We have never stopped cooperating with the police. We've been cooperative from day one and we continue to assist the police with the investigation," the statement by Ashley Irwin said. "The main goal has always been to find Lisa and bring her home. That remains the sole focus of the parents."
Lerette later added that the parents had been exhausted from questioning.
Young said the couple's decision to leave the police station impacts the case.
"I don't have to illustrate how that affects the investigation," Young said. "It speaks for itself."
Young said the parents are not suspects in the case.
Lisa was last seen around 10:30 p.m. Monday, asleep in her crib, police said. Authorities were called to the home at about 4 a.m. Tuesday.
"It appears the suspect entered/exited through a bedroom window," authorities said in a statement. "Evidence at the scene leads police to believe the child has been abducted."
Jeremy Irwin told reporters that he found Lisa missing when he got home from work. "The front door was unlocked," he said Thursday. "Most of the lights were on in the house, and the window in front was open -- all very unusual."
The couple also said three cell phones were missing at their home, according to Young.
Lisa is described as 30 inches tall with blue eyes and blond hair, police said.
She weighs between 26 and 30 pounds and was last seen wearing purple shorts and a purple shirt with white kittens on it.
The missing girl has two bottom teeth, a small bug bite under her left ear and a "beauty mark" on her right outer thigh.
She currently has a cold with a cough, police said.
CNN's Ed Lavandera contributed to this report.
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