Today, Monday May 11th, it has been 91 days since Haleigh Cummings was reported missing from her home.
Despite a massive search and criminal investigation as well as national attention on Haleigh’s disappearance and Putnam County bursting into the national spotlight, still no good information as to where she is.
“We don’t know for sure what’s happened, but we do know that somewhere down the end of the line there’s going to be some type of crime involved,” Capt. Dick Schauland, a spokesman for the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, said Friday.
Authorities have refused to discuss specifics about what their investigators have uncovered if anything at all.
“We also have to maintain a criminal investigation and we have to maintain the integrity of that,” Schauland said. “Should we be able to release something that would help us locate Haleigh we would certainly do that even if it would compromise the criminal investigation.”
“Obviously there are other things going on in the county too, but nonetheless the investigators are still working,” Schauland said. “Hundreds and hundreds of interviews have been done, and they are still doing them.”
Authorities said they believed she was abducted, since the child is afraid of the dark and does not wander off alone.
Despite a massive search including divers, volunteer searchers, bloodhounds and helicopters and horseback riders nothing has been found.
“Everybody in that whole area within a mile of the house they have interviewed at last three times, and of course with family members they’ve done as many as 10 times,” Schauland said.
Both sides of Haleigh’s family set up camps in the neighborhood and held nightly vigils, praying for her return.
Haleigh’s parents are divorced and both families are stressed to the max.
Ronald Cummings, Haleigh’s father, shocked America by marrying Misty Croslin just a few weeks after the disappearance, now live at his grandmother’s house in Welaka.
“Every day is a little harder,” Annette Sykes, Cummings’ grandmother, said Friday. “We still have candlelight vigils every night.”
Teresa Neves, Cummings’ mother, said the vigils are open to the public and take place on Front Street in Welaka.
“I just want to thank everyone for their prayers,” Neves said.
Crystal Sheffield, Haleigh’s mother, travels between her home in Baker County and the Haleighbug Center in Satsuma. She has been through a lot in the three months since her daughter has been missing, both mental and physical. Chrystal has been having seizures and during one of them she fell into a glass window at the center, injuring herself.
Pray for Haleigh’s safe return.
