HALEIGH CUMMINGS - 5 yo - Satsuma FL - The Beginning

Exclusive: Misty Croslin Boots Bounty Hunter!

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth

February 21st, 2010

Excerpt:

After she begged for his help and the family of accused drug trafficker Misty Croslin accepted a $3,000 Ford Taurus as a gift from generous Bounty Hunter Leonard Padilla to drive back and forth to visit their daughter in the St. John’s County, Florida jail, the former stepmother of missing six year old Haleigh Cummings has ordered Padilla not to contact her again.

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Nancy Grace Case Files

Haleigh Cummings
• Petition for Dissolution of Marriage
• Martial Settlement Agreement
• Misty Road Rage Incident Report|
• Marital Settlement Agreement
• Misty Road Rage Incident Report
• Florida Spousal Privilege Law
• Mystery Blond Haleigh Tipster Identified!
• False Haleigh Rumors
• Ronald Cummings Arrest Report
• Croslin Police Report
• Tommy Croslin Domestic Violence Police Report
• Palatka Police Report
• Arrest Report Part 4
• Arrest Report Part 5
• Arrest Report Part 6
• Drug Arrest Photos
• Tommy Croslin 2010 Burglary Report
• Follow up press release on drug bust

Confirmed: Haleigh’s Mom Failed Drug Test, Keeps Child


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I told Marie that there is talk that Butterbean remains at home, but that Crystal may have failed a drug test due to the ingestion of a Loritab pill.
Marie Griffis responded:
“I will say yes that is true, all the other stuff on the internet came from the ones scorned (that is all I will say about them). Please let everyone know that Crystal is doing what DCF wants her too, Crystal has needed these therapies that they are offering she has dealt with a lot losing a child a second time and maybe this time permanently and on top of that, everyone in the home will receive some type of therapy. Chad’s children have been affected by HaLeigh’s disappearance, they are all like brothers and sisters. Update on Butterbean he is doing great he is very happy and loving being with his Mommy he gets very upset when she has to be away from him from 3hrs to go to her classes but he understands why. We have explained everything to him that we feel he understands, he just simply wants to be with his Mommy.”
Thanks
Marie
VIGIL REMINDER
A reminder that vigil for missing Haleigh Cummings is taking place today, Saturday, February 6, 2010 set for 5:30 p.m. at Celebration Park, in Glen St. Mary.
Investigators believe someone abducted Haleigh from her Satsuma home during the early morning hours of Feb. 10, 2009.
Despite thousands of tips and countless hours of searching, there have been no signs of the girl.
One person who won’t be at Saturday’s vigil is Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, who remains locked up after being arrested for selling illegal prescription painkillers.
His ex-wife, Misty Croslin, who was the last person to see Haleigh alive, also remains behind bars for the same charges.
While Croslin has come under suspicion, she maintains she had nothing to do with the little girl’s disappearance.
No one has been charged in the case.
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Posted on March 8th, 2010

by Simon Barrett in All News, crime
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On yesterdays radio program
we played a couple of audio clips that came into our possession some
time ago. When we first received them they were immediately forwarded
to PCSO. At the time they did not appear to have much relevancy and so
they have languished on our hard drives for some time. In the light of
the recent drug bust of Misty Croslin, Tommy Croslin, and Ronald
Cummings maybe these clips are more relevant than we originally thought.
Even more interesting are the PCSO comments on the tapes. They are
saying absolutely nothing. That in itself speaks volumes. It is almost
as if they do not exist.
Do they help find Haleigh Cummings, probably not. What they do
though is provide is yet more evidence (albeit indirect) of Misty’s
long involvement with drugs. Unless I am much mistaken these audio
files surfaced around the same time as that mysterious Nay Nay Pravat
letter.
We have decided to release the tapes in their entirety, we make no
claims about the usefulness of the information in the search for
Haleigh Cummings we will leave that determination up to you. Neither
can we vouch for the truthfulness of the information contained in them.
These conversations are between William Cobra Staubs and a lady
identified only as Barbara. The recordings were made at a hotel in
Palatka.
(Warning Strong Language)
Click on the link at the top to hear the audio's

Putting a copy here so it's easy to find when we want it.

Misty Croslin Leaks New Clue About What She Knows: “It’s gonna hurt two people”
Newly released jailhouse tapes gives us some insight into what Misty
Croslin, the last person to see 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings alive,
knows about the night the little girl disappeared.

Misty Croslin & Haleigh Cummings

In a phone call to her sister-in-law Lindsey Croslin, Misty Croslin
is cryptically talking about a California bounty hunter who has offered
to bail her out in exchange for information that will lead him to
Haleigh. Here is the portion of the conversation:
Sister-in-law: So what, you have things you need to talk to him about?
Misty Croslin: Well yeah, I mean, it’s you know, hard to talk.
Sister-in-law: I know.
Misty Croslin: Yeah. But it’s gonna hurt two people. It’s gonna hurt two people.
Sister-in-law: That we care about?
Misty Croslin: Kinda. One, yeah. And the other, kinda.
Sister-in-law: That I care about?
Misty Croslin: Yeah.
Sister-in-law: Cause I know I don’t give a f*** about Ronal, excuse my language.
Misty Croslin: No, No. No it’s somebody. Yeah, no.
Sister-in-law: It’s not him?
Misty Croslin: No, you just think Chelsea, use your head. And you’ll know.
In a separate recorded conversation with her mother, Misty Croslin
says that detectives have questioned her but she told everything she
knows through her lawyer, Robert Fields. She also mentions that Fields
is “comfortable”. What that means remains unclear.

Nancy Grace 3/12/2010

Misty Hints at Unrevealed Evidence

Transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/12/ng.01.html

PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOo6zba41Q0
PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1MPrjVt7Ok
PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtcAtuXNc9o
PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AenQWiedG0c
PART 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obemTptSE-0
PART 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1Bjjak7LU

Needs bumping. I've gone over this case again recently. IMO Haleigh was abducted - probably by a stranger - possibly while Misty was out although I can imagine someone who had watched them for a while might be bold enough to go in while Misty was home. From a perps point of view there were 3 children home alone. Misty is still a child herself at 17 and she looks much younger than that. I've gone over again what she has said and read again all the comments everywhere about her inconsistent answers. A lot of those inconsistencies are miss-communication IMO. Misty is a teenager and my own teenager and I often have conversations where we are talking at cross purposes. An example that is often talked about is Misty saying she got up to go to the toilet and then on another occasion she said she got up to get a drink. If you ask me she was probably intending to do both. When I get up in the night I always do. She just didn't say "I got up to go to the toilet and get a drink". I don't even think I would have said that either. The fact that she didn't get to go to the toilet before she noticed Haleigh wasn't in her bed is probably why she dropped the part about going to the toilet on some occasions. The other discrepancy was where they were all sleeping. People got suspicious because that was always changing. Looking at what she said, I don't think it really changed. She just didn't think to elaborate when she was asked. For weeks reporters kept asking her questions about it but they never asked the question clearly because they didn't know that there were two mattresses in the one room where they all slept. She would be asked "Were you sleeping together?" Sleeping in the same room to Misty is together so she responds yes. Then when the media report she was sleeping in the same bed as Misty and she says that Haleigh had her own bed. Throw in the "she was sleeping in front of the TV" comment by Misty and people are now picturing Haleigh in the lounge. It went round and round like this until everyone had written her off as a liar. All the time Misty and Junior were on one mattress in the room and Haleigh was on the other mattress in front of the TV in the same bedroom. It's a pity the media didn't just ask her to explain the sleeping arrangements in the first place. Not only is she young, she doesn't seem that bright and she's a drugy as well. I also understand that to a 17 year old, if she was completely innocent, she may not realize the importance of being exactly precise about her answers. If someone did indeed go in and take Haleigh they must live close by IMO. I can't see a car not being noticed coming and going in that quiet spot and someone would be taking a huge risk taking a car. They may have left a car not too far away though but I think it's someone close.

Excellent thoughts and great picture review of the scene Kiwi!!!
My money is still on Misty's relatives from Tennessee. Cannot be just coincidence that they decide to leave just before the child is discovered missing.

Family members of missing child Haleigh Cummings appeared in court
Wednesday morning for pretrial hearings on various drug trafficking
charges.

Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings, her former stepmother,
Misty Croslin and Cummings' cousin, Hope Sykes, appeared in a
bustling courtroom shortly after 9 a.m. in response to charges that
stem from a month-long narcotics investigation that ended in January in
which the three were allegedly dealing in $3,900 worth of prescription
drugs.

Cummings, 26, was the first to stand before the court, but
was interrupted as an accused murderer awaiting his own pretrial
hearing cut himself.

As Judge Terry LaRue began to read each of
the five charges Cummings faces, a deputy declared to the court that an
inmate was bleeding, quickly leading Clint Horvatt into a holding room.

Horvatt is accused of shooting his fiance, Summer Smith, to death in 2008.

The 33-year-old used a small piece of metal smuggled out of the
Putnam County Jail between his fingers to cut his
left wrist, Lt. Johnny Greenwood, Putnam County Sheriff's Office
spokesman, said.

With a bandaged wrist, he was eventually led out
and was taken to Putnam Community Medical Center for treatment for
"superficial wounds," Greenwood said.

"No stitches were necessary," he said. "We are conducting an investigation as to how he
got (the metal)."

Horvatt's trial was set for Sept. 13. He faces first-degree murder charges.

Meanwhile, Cummings stood quietly as his pretrial was continued
to May 13 for five counts of trafficking in Hydrocodone.

Misty Croslin, the 18-year-old who was babysitting Haleigh the
night she disappeared, took the stand next in handcuffs and shackles.
Croslin faces eight total counts of trafficking in Hydrocodone, with seven of
the charges in Putnam County and one within St. Johns County.
Her attorney, Robert Fields, was granted permission to move Croslin's next
pretrial to June 3 due to issues coordinating depositions.

Hope Sykes, 19, pleaded no contest to one of two counts of trafficking in
Hydrocodone, as she took the floor 20 minutes later.
Sykes' attorney explained there were surveillance tapes containing a drug
transaction with Sykes present.
"That certainly supports your plea," LaRue said.
Sykes faces up to 30 years in prison for the felony charge.

Several family members of Cummings and Sykes were
present during the hearings, including Teresa Neves, Cummings' mother.

"I believe Hope Sykes has to do what is best for her, and if that is what
she and her attorney feel is best for her, then we fully support that,"
Neves said.

Neves said they are trying to keep the focus on
Haleigh, who was reported missing from her Satsuma home by Croslin at
3:27 a.m. on Feb. 10, 2009. No sign of the child has been found, though
numerous searches have been conducted.

Neves said it "is very hard" to see her family behind bars. "Haleigh is what we have to spend
all of our energy on, and it's hard to know there are other things going
on beyond our control," she said.

Croslin's brother, 23-year-old Hank Croslin Jr., was present Wednesday afternoon to face one count of
trafficking in Hydrocodone in the same case.
His pretrial was continued to May 13.

When asked how Cummings was handling everything, she replied that he is having a "very hard time right now."
"He is fighting a lot of depression - he thought Haleigh would be home by now," Neves said.
Neves continues to hold hope that 6-year-old Haleigh is alive, and someone has her.

"Somebody out there knows
something and you never know who it's going to be," she said. "All you
can do is keep looking and asking and hoping and praying."

More jailhouse conversations between Misty Croslin and her father,
Hank Croslin, have been released. In the conversations, Misty and her
father talked about Misty's drug charges. But the tone quickly changed
as the conversation turned to Haleigh Cummings.
Haleigh disappeared Feb. 9, 2009, while in Misty's care. At the time,
Misty was dating Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings. Misty told
investigators she put Haleigh to bed that night, and when she woke up,
Haleigh was gone. Misty and Ronald were married, but divorced a short
time later.
At one point in the jailhouse conversations, Hank and Misty talk of
those charges. But his tone changes when the conversation turned to
Haleigh.
Hank: I tried to tell you. I know I tried to tell
you. But no, you had to do your own thing just like you always had.
Well, it's too late to cry over spilled milk anyway, so just forget
about it. We all gotta do what we gotta do. I don't understand why it's
happening, but it's happening. Don't cry.
Misty: I hate this man! They're trying to ruin our
whole lives.
Hank: Yea, whoever did this thing to Haleigh is the one
that ruined our lives. They need to ruin the person's life that did
this, not ours!
Misty is facing a list of drug charges after she was arrested with
her brother, Tommy, and ex-husband Ronald in January. All three are all
charged with multiple counts of trafficking hydrocodone. Misty and
Ronald are both being held on bail totaling nearly a million dollars.
Wednesday Haleigh's aunt, Hope Sykes, pleaded no contest to her
charges on trafficking hydrocodone. She could face up to 15 years in
prison.

New search underway