HALEIGH CUMMINGS - 5 yo(2009) - Satsuma FL - Part II

Misty Croslin video:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/videobeta/806ec7a2-ddb3-4ed5-b61b-fac2a0162c50/News/Misty-Croslin-The-last-person-to-see-Haleigh

mom_in_il wrote:Misty Croslin video:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/videobeta/806ec7a2-ddb3-4ed5-b61b-fac2a0162c50/News/Misty-Croslin-The-last-person-to-see-Haleigh

---I could tell from the sentencing footage that she put on weight...but sheesh.
That lack of Rx's has certainly chunked her out...
She sure is throwing "Ronald" under the bus. He's getting the blame, and all of it, according to her.
She even has some story about Haleigh being alive in Mexico and could be back if Ron paid the money he owed to some drug dude.
If you believe that, let me tell you about a great deal I have for you on Oceanfront property in Kansas....

Misty Croslin, Considered by Police to be 'Key' in Disappearance of Haleigh Cummings Speaks Out from Jail

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/205225/3/Misty-Croslin-Speaks-out-for-First-Time-since-Going-to-Jail

MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- Misty Croslin, the woman known as the last
person to see 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings before she disappeared, is
speaking publicly on television for the first time since she was sent to
prison on drug charges.
She responds to being called the "key" by the Putnam County Sheriff's
Office to cracking the Haleigh case. Croslin was married to Ron
Cummings, the father of Haleigh; the girl vanished while in Croslin's
care in February 2009.
"They got me in prison for 25 years. If I knew anything, they would
know it from Day 1. I don't know anything. ... Just because when I say
something one time, it doesn't come out the same way. I guess that's why
they think I'm changing my story, but I'm not," Croslin said.
It is her first in-depth television interview since being arrested on
drug charges. She was sentenced in January and is now serving 25 years
at Lowell.
Croslin describes how investigators in Haleigh's case told her before
her sentencing that if she told them where Haleigh was, they would drop
the drug charges. Croslin said she told them she didn't know anything.
"People don't understand that it kills me every day. I was asleep, I
woke up and she was gone. Every night I go to sleep, I think maybe when I
wake up she's going to be beside me," Croslin said.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said Croslin has told various stories about the night Haleigh disappeared.
She also explains she married Ron Cummings because he was worried
about dating someone underage. They started dating when she was 16, she
said.
"I feel like he used me the whole time we were together," Croslin said. She did say he is a good father.
"I would give my life for her to come home any day. I would spend the
rest of my life in this place just for her to come home," Croslin said.

25 years for drug charges- Casey gets nothing for killing sweet Caylee

All during Caylee's case we have not forgotten Haliegh. Hoping there will be yet another search for her. There were a great many of us searching for her as well. Haliegh and every other 'missing' child should receive the same attention as Caylee's case. I pray constantly that her little body is found and can be put to rest & given rest. peace

ThunderHawk wrote:All during Caylee's case we have not forgotten Haliegh. Hoping there will be yet another search for her. There were a great many of us searching for her as well. Haliegh and every other 'missing' child should receive the same attention as Caylee's case. I pray constantly that her little body is found and can be put to rest & given rest. peace

Thank you for joining us. I agree, we should start putting pressure to find Haleigh.God Bless you for searching. Please join us on the main blog.

onehope wrote:

ThunderHawk wrote:All during Caylee's case we have not forgotten Haliegh. Hoping there will be yet another search for her. There were a great many of us searching for her as well. Haliegh and every other 'missing' child should receive the same attention as Caylee's case. I pray constantly that her little body is found and can be put to rest & given rest. peace

Thank you for joining us. I agree, we should start putting pressure to find Haleigh.God Bless you for searching. Please join us on the main blog.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/article/215201/3/Haleigh-Cummings-8th-Birthday-Today-Mother-to-Release-Balloons

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. -- Today is the day Ronald Cummings and Crystal Sheffield planned to be celebrating their daughter's eighth birthday.

Instead, Sheffield will be on Reid Street in Palatka for a balloon release in honor of Haleigh Cummings, her daughter who remains the subject of a nationwide Amber Alert and who hasn't been seen since February 2009.

MORE: Nov. ail interview with Misty Croslin

Sheffield said she will release the balloons at 2:16 p.m. at the mini-storage facility at 1400 Reid St.

Haleigh, Sheffield said, was born at 2:16 a.m. on this day in 2003.

Haleigh Cummings went to bed in her home as her father's girlfriend, Misty Croslin, was watching her. She was not there the following morning.

Investigators have told the family they believe Haleigh is most likely dead, but Sheffield has maintained that her daughter is alive. The reward for information leading to Haleigh is over $30,000.

Croslin and Ronald Cummings are both in jail on drug charges. The search for Haleigh intensified most recently in April 2010, but turned up no new evidence.

First Coast News

Three years ago today was the last time Haleigh Cummings was seen alive.

The disappearance of the Satsuma girl, then 5, stunned the county and created a frenzy to find out what happened to her. Yet the public, her family and authorities - who have labeled the case a homicide - have more questions than answers.

Capt. Dominic Piscitello has worked at the Putnam County Sheriff's Office for 19 years and has been overseeing the case since Haleigh was reported missing on Feb. 10, 2009.

As Piscitello looked recently at a line of framed photographs on his bookshelf, he expressed his frustrations.



"We're coming up on this dreadful day, dreadful for this family, because in our profession we are plunged into this thing with this little girl that we have nothing to do with," Piscitello said. "And it affects us personally, the fact that we haven't gotten her yet. It affects me personally because I have four kids and I get to see them. This family doesn't get to see her."

Detectives have explored every avenue, followed every lead and listened to every call from possible witnesses, he said.

Last year, they decided to start all over.

"We met in June or July and I put together a small task force of some investigators that were retired, cold case, or retired homicide that had been supervisors in pretty big agencies," Piscitello said. "They all flew into town and we met for about three weeks."

During that time, the six veteran investigators were brought up-to-speed on all the information and brought back to the very first phone call that she was missing.

"Let's look at this removing anybody as a potential suspect, let's remove everything away and go back," he said. "We went right back to the minute of the call and we sat together, everybody listened and took notes on what they were hearing, seeing, things happening. We interviewed people together and canvassed areas."

The team went over all the information and they will meet again within the next 30 days, he said.

Piscitello and the special task force came up with things they wanted to follow up on, check into and points that needed to be clarified.

"We're going to brainstorm a little more and see some new angles we want to approach the case at," he said. "The case is still alive and going. Any leads come in we pursue it. We had a picture of some little girl in a store someone thought might have been Haleigh. When we get things like that we go from there."

Piscitello said it was important to note they are still working the case.

A room at the sheriff's office in Palatka is packed with dozens of black binders holding information about Haleigh's case.

A whiteboard filled from top to bottom with notes leans up against a wall, with only a few boxes in the adjacent shelves from other homicide cases.

"We still haven't gotten to a point where we think this person is responsible, the family's responsible, these people are responsible, because we are looking at it with a whole different perspective, rather than just saying what everybody assumes is what's happening," Piscitello said.

"I think that's the only way to look at this, because when you get involved in a case when you're trying to find a little girl, you get focused on finding her or focused on an idea and sometimes you don't allow other things to get in there."

He added the team has a lot of information, but the frustrating part of it is that they've dealt with many people telling them things that weren't true, sources that just weren't credible.

"I think that kind of hurt me in the whole process," he said. "The fact that we had so many people tell us so many different stories and in these kind of cases it's important to try and find those people that you can count on and have some credibility and in this case, there hasn't been a lot of that."

Piscitello said no matter what, he wouldn't give up trying to find Cummings.

"Everyday I've got something on my desk of Haleigh, everyday we think about her and there is not a day that doesn't go by where I don't think about what can we do," he said. "Coming up on this day, the reality of this. As time goes you never heal but it is not as painful. But this day brings it all back again and refreshes it."

As far as speaking with Misty Croslin, who briefly was Haleigh's stepmother or Ronald Cummings, her father, who are both in prison on drug charges, Piscitello said he is always available to listen to them.

Croslin was babysitting at the home when Haleigh went missing.

"If Misty has something that she would want to tell us then by any means, she knows that I'm waiting in the wings for her to tell me anything that she thinks she has," he said. "Ronald too."

Piscitello said as cases similar to Haleigh's are reported across the nation, he inquires with law enforcement agencies to check for any connections.

"We are always looking for answers," he said. "Someone is out there that can give us that piece of information we're missing. That one piece we need to finish the puzzle."

Piscitello said in the beginning there were a lot of people calling in, trying to make a name for themselves and speculate on what happened.

"We don't really have that nowadays. We are not the child that's standing out right now," he said. "But we are still looking for anyone that has any information on what happened. We are not going to forget. We are not going to stop."

http://www.palatkadailynews.com/articles/2012/02/09/news/news01.txt

SATSUMA --
Friday marks three years since a 5-year-old girl disappeared from her Putnam County home in the middle of the night.

Haleigh Cummings was first reported missing on Feb. 10, 2009.

Deputies
quickly launched a massive search, but no sign of Haleigh ever
surfaced, and investigators have said they believe she is dead.

The
last person to see Haleigh alive was her father's then-girlfriend,
Misty Croslin, who was later briefly married to Ronald Cummings during
the search for his daughter.

Both Croslin and Ronald Cummings
were convicted in 2010 after the two were caught on video in an
undercover drug deal. Croslin was sentenced to 25 years in prison, while
Cummings agreed to a plea deal to cut his sentence to 15 years.

As
for what happened to Haleigh, investigators have said they believe the
people connected to the case, including Croslin and Haleigh's father,
have not told everything they know about what happened.

No one, however, has been formally charged in the girl's mysterious disappearance.

www.cfnews13.com/article/.../Haleigh-Cummings-missing-for-3-year...