Police officers, divers and dogs are searching the St. Johns River outside Satsuma. Apparently there is a new lead in the case. Maybe from the reported jail house letter Misty wrote a few days ago?
Misty Croslin is still being held on drug-trafficking charges.
Sheriff Jeff Hardy didn’t elaborate on whether anything was discovered, but responded that Haleigh had not been found. He said he updated the family on the search along the St. Johns River about five miles south of Haleigh’s Satsuma home. He said it will continue as long as it takes and information will be released as it becomes available.
Robert Fields, Misty’s attorney had this to say.
“This latest search was based on information from someone else,” Croslin may have “shed some light” on who was responsible.
“Somebody else has possibly been implicated in this,” he said. “You need to look away from Misty.”
Croslin’s mother, Lisa Croslin, said her daughter said she was taken to Putnam County but was separated from other members of Haleigh’s family and left alone in a room before she was returned to St. Johns County.
Lisa Croslin said her daughter told her by phone from the St. Johns jail that she was not interviewed about the case Tuesday.
Haleigh’s birth mother, Crystal Sheffield, said she would rather not comment. She and her mother, Marie Griffis, met with the sheriff Tuesday. From their ranch in Baker County, other family members said the Sheriff’s Office and property owners didn’t want media there and couldn’t comment further.
Investigators have not described the nature of the lead, but Joe Overstreet’s aunt said media there have staked out his house in the Nashville area.
Joseph Overstreet is a Misty Croslin’s cousin and was in a dispute with Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, when Cummings accused him of stealing a gun. Overstreet moved back to Tennessee after Haleigh disappeared. He was interviewed by detectives before being cleared last year.
Tuesday, officers, divers and police dogs from several Northeast Florida agencies combed an area off County Road 309, including the river and woods on either bank. Dozens of searchers, divers and several boats are being used, including some equipped with sophisticated underwater sonar.
The search location is previously un-searched. It is off Shell Harbour Road, close to where Misty Croslin’s parents lived on Magnolia Drive before Haleigh disappeared. Her father, Hank Croslin Sr., said Overstreet had stayed at the residence before.
“Although various resources are being utilized to conduct this search, it is just one of many operations conducted during this investigation,” a statement from the Sheriff’s Office said.
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