Police say nothing about story adds up
Police say questions over the baffling disappearance of a 2-year-old boy reportedly left by his mother in an unlocked car Sunday continue to far outweigh the answers.
Most of the questions focus on the account of Julia Biryukova, who says her son disappeared after she left him sleeping in her disabled car on a Bellevue street.
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Full Video Police Briefing
Bellevue Police Department spokeswoman Carla Iafrate held this briefing for reporters on Tuesday afternoon.
Friend of missing boys mom speaks with investigators
-- Late Tuesday night, a woman believed to be Shelbi Owen, spent 4 hours with investigators. Owen is a friend of Julia Biryukova, the mother of missing 2 year old, Sky Metalwala. Police believe Owen is the woman Biryukova called for help after she claimed she ran out of gas. KING 5 learned Owen expressed shock to detectives at seeing Sky's mother walking down the road without her son.
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Mother of missing child refuses polygraph test
Julia Biryukova, mother of the 2-year-old toddler who went missing Sunday in Bellevue, Wash., has refused to take a lie detector test, police said today, and detectives are focusing their search on the area surrounding her Redmond apartment.
Biryukova told police she was driving her two children to Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue because her younger child, Sky Metalwala, wasn't feeling well. She said she ran out of gas on 112th Avenue, a two-way street that borders Interstate 520, so she and her 4-year-old daughter trekked about a mile to a nearby gas station, Northtowne Chevron Service, leaving Sky in the car.
Police said she then called a friend, who took her to her car car about an hour later. But when they returned to the two-door silver Acura, Biryukova said, the boy was gone.
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Bellevue police dept releases details in missing toddler case; seeks witnesses
The Bellevue Police Department revealed new details Tuesday in the disappearance of 2-year-old Sky Metalwala of Redmond, whose mother reported him missing Sunday morning.
Police said that after canvassing the Veloce Apartments in Redmond, where the boy lived with his mother, Julia Biryukova, and his 4-year-old sister, the police found just one neighbor who reported seeing the boy within the past two weeks.
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Police suspect foul play in disappearance fo 2 year old boy
Police said they suspect foul play in the disappearance of a 2-year-old Washington state boy who was last seen by his mother inside a parked car.
Sky Metalwala was reported missing Sunday morning by his mother after she discovered him missing from her car in Bellevue, Wash.
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Police: Only mom, sis had seen boy recently
Frustrated police in Washington state said Tuesday that they were working to trace the steps of a missing toddler's mother over the past two weeks because her story about the boy's disappearance makes little sense.
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Police: Julie Biryukova, mother of 2 year old refuses polygraph examination
Police in Bellevue, Wash., say Julia Biryukova, the mother of missing two-year-old Sky Metalwala, has refused to take a polygraph examination.
"Mom isn't willing to come in and provide a polygraph. To be quite honest, that looks suspicious and we're puzzled by that," Bellevue police Maj. Mike Johnson said.
According to Johnson, Biryukova's attorney, Veronica Freitas, said her client is "devastated and is in no condition to take a polygraph."
Freitas did not reply to an email seeking comment from The Huffington Post and calls to her law firm went unanswered Wednesday.
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