On April 13, 2010 Putnam County Police converged on the St. Johns River following a tip in the disappearance of Haleigh Cummings, but didn’t find anything. Misty Croslin was brought to the scene. It was never made clear why she was there or what she might have said about the claim that her cousin Joe placed her there. I was also claimed that Joe and Tommy have fed alligators at the boat dock in the past.

On April 15, 2010 in Nashville, Tenn. an emotional Joe Overstreet, a cousin of Misty Croslin, broke down, saying he does not know what happened to Haleigh Cummings.




Attorney Terry Shoemaker said Saturday that Ronald Cummings believes Haleigh was placed in the river. “I think he has a pretty good idea that’s what transpired.”
Putnam Co. Sheriff says Haleigh Cummings is likely dead and authorities are considering her disappearance a homicide.

Ronald Cummings says he was targeted by police so that they could question him about the disappearance of his daughter, Haleigh. He was caught on surveillance tape with his wife Misty Croslin buying hundreds of oxycotin pills from an undercover officer.

Both were charged and convicted with drug trafficking charges and are serving lengthy sentences in Florida today. Several other family members have also been convicted of various crimes. Almost everyone connected to this case has been convicted on several unrelated charges but still no sign of Haleigh Cummings.

I have lost faith the Haleigh will ever be found.

Over two years and still no one in the Croslin’s family has came out with the truth about with what happened to the missing five year old Haleigh Cummings. Since Feb. 9, 2009 there have been numerous stories told of the events of that night, but all have been lies. The accusations have been thrown at Misty’s cousin Joe Overstreet, an easy mark with his seedy looks, drug habit, and previous run ins with law enforcement.

Misty Croslin Interview

Now Misty says she made that up. Chelsea Croslin, who joined in on these accusations, recently apologized and has reunited with Joe.

Tommy Croslin was recorded in the back of a police car instructing Misty to lie to authorities about Haleigh just before these accusations were made. Now they are both serving lengthy sentences for drug crimes, 25 years for Misty, 15 years for Tommy but no one has cracked.

It is my opinion at this point that Misty and/or Tommy Croslin killed Haleigh, either accidentally or on purpose. I have come to this conclusion after considering all other options. I’m not sure if Ronald Cummings knows anything. He was at work during the time of the disappearance, that’s if they have been truthful about the time of the disappearance. His 90 phone calls home is pretty suspicious. After the phone call frenzy, he reportedly asked to work overtime and then then stopped by a convenience store after work.

If he was so worried about Misty or what was going on in his home why did he ask for more hours and then stop anywhere before going home? I believe Ronald married Misty after Haleigh’s disappearance to avoid a statutory rape charge that was more likely to come after the world-wide publicity. Misty was only 15 when she moved into his home, making him at the very least, a pedophile and a drug dealer.

There are no heros here.

Joe has been thoroughly checked out and has not been arrested. Everyone has been scrutinized and no one has been arrested. Facing 25 years, Misty would have turned the real killer in if it was anyone else other than herself or her brother.

These siblings had a rough life and likely feel they were all each other had growing up. I believe Misty would have told the truth long before being sentenced if the truth would not have been worse on her or her brother than a 25 year drug sentence.

Even after they were thrown in jail on the drug charges, they felt that whatever sentence they get for those charges will be less than murder.

What are your thoughts?

Judge Terry Larue accepted Cummings guilty plea to three counts of trafficking in hydrocodone.

Two trafficking counts were dropped as part of Cummings’ plea agreement and he has agreed to “provide truthful testimony” in future cases, including the one involving his daughter’s disappearance, said Christopher Kelly, assistant state attorney and spokesman with the 7th Circuit State Attorney’s Office.

Misty Croslin was also involved in the same drug-trafficking case. She has plead no contest to six counts of trafficking in hydrocodone and two counts of trafficking in oxycodone.

She has tentative sentencing dates of Oct. 4 and Oct. 8 in those cases.

Still no arrests for missing Haleigh Cummings even though Hank Croslin Jr., Misty’s brother recentlyadmitted he saw Haleigh Cummings taken from her Satsuma home in a bag last year. His attorney James Werter has said and his cousin, Joe Overstreet, drove the girl to a Putnam County boat ramp and dumped into the St. Johns River.

Werter said Croslin and Overstreet went to the mobile home where Haleigh was being watched by Croslin’s sister, Misty Croslin.

He said Hank Croslin described the girl as limp and quiet.

The police have announced that Haleigh is dead, and are searching the river for evidence. Multiple persons of interest identified.

Misty Croslin’s grandmother appeared on Nancy Grace saying that Timmy Croslin had called her from jail and said he was in the Cummings home with Misty and Joe Overstreet the night Haleigh went missing. The grandmother also said that Joe had went there to steal a gun and when Misty couldn’t find it he took Haleigh instead.

Apparently Misty confirmed this story fifteen minutes later in a similar conversation with her grandmother. Misty has reportedly said that Joe Overstreet had held a knife to her throat and told her he would kill her if she ever told and she was frightened.

Rumors are spreading that Joe killed Haleigh and tied cinder blocks to her body and threw her in a river near Misty’s parents former home.

This entire story is suspect because Misty has already named Joe over a year ago as someone that might be involved because “he has been a criminal all his life.”

This from the Nancy Grace blog…

Flora Hollars laid out multiple versions she says Misty and Tommy Croslin gave her about the night Haleigh vanished, all of them ending in the little girl’s brutal death. One of them, that a yellow rope was put around Haleigh’s body, a brick tied around the bottom of the other end of the rope and Haleigh thrown into the river.

After we see Misty Croslin on video in handcuffs standing on the dock of the Saint Johns river, investigators reveal Misty Croslin went to the river voluntarily. But what exactly did she tell police? We also learn she’s not the only one who was at the river with cops. Tommy Croslin’s attorney says he was the one who brought investigators to the St. Johns River in the first place, the same spot where unnamed sources say dive teams have been searching for a murder weapon.

We know cops have pulled “items” from the river for testing, but are Haleigh’s remains among them? And are multiple arrests about to go down.

This might very well be the way the crime went down but Misty’s justification that she was scared and didn’t tell is ridiculous. That defense only works to the point that Joe left the home. Was she to scared to tell when she being questioned by the police for countless hours? Did she believe Joe would burst into the police station at any minute and kill her? Would he break into jail where she is currently incarcerated on drug charges and kill her?

The “scared of Joe” defense is likely only a justification to absolve herself and her brother Timmy from any wrong doing in the murder of Haleigh Cummings. They all kept their mouths shut for the past 14 months because the were likely all involved in some way. IMO.

Misty Croslin Cummings

Members of Equusearch, the Texas-based search team, are once again searching an area near the home of Ronald Cummings, whose 4-year-old daughter Haleigh Cummings vanished from the family’s trailer in March.

Myfoxorlando is reporting that under hypnosis, Ronald Cumming’s 17-year-old wife Misty Croslin Cummings told searchers to look for Haleigh near a rose left in an undisclosed area in Putnam County.

Based on that tip, Equusearch on Saturday headed back out to Satsuma to search for leads in the case.

Fox 35 has a crew at the search location. I have an inside track if anything is found. Check back.

Update for KAT

October 5th, 2009

My info is from a Steph Watts interview, who recorded the sessions for EquuSearch.

According to several news sources, while Misty was undergoing and completely failing the battery of tests being administered, she made a comment that indicated she may know where to search for Haleigh. She told investigators they needed to double-check a patch of ground marked by a single plastic rose.

“She said there was a place that was not searched very well and that we should look for a red rose, and she gave us the location,” said Steph Watts, who recorded the sessions for EquuSearch.

“We went and we looked, and we found it, and the next day we took Putnam County investigators back there,” Watts said. “I don’t think they are going to dig where the rose is and find the body, but the fact that they went with us shows that they are following up on every lead.” EquuSearch is making plans to return to the area in the near future.

Misty Croslin says she was with Haleigh inside a mobile home in Satsuma when someone took the girl in the middle of the night back in February.

Ronald Cummings, Haleigh’s father, married Croslin almost immediately after Haleigh’s disappearance.

The couple asked Texas EquuSearch to return to Central Florida to help look for the girl and clear their names.

EquuSearch arranged for Croslin to take a lie detector test, which the group says she “failed miserably.”

Texas EquuSearch turned their findings over to Putnam County deputies who say they’re not surprised.

Croslin says she was pressured to take the test. But Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller denies that claim.

Deputies say they don’t have enough evidence to charge Croslin with any crime.

Putnam County investigators say they don’t think that Misty Croslin-Cummings has been straight with them as they continue to investigate the disappearance six months ago of Haleigh Cummings from her father’s home in Satsuma.

In a news release marking the child’s sixth birthday Monday, investigators said the child’s biological parents, Ronald Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, were not suspects.

But for the first time, they don’t think Haleigh was abducted by a stranger. They said, Misty Croslin, who was baby-sitting the girl when she vanished from her father’s mobile home in February, “continues to hold important answers in the case.”

“She has failed to provide any sort of detailed accounting of the hours during the late evening and early morning of Haleigh’s disappearance. Furthermore, physical evidence at the scene contradicts Misty’s sketchy account of her evening activities.”

Croslin married Cummings about a month after Haleigh’s disappearance. Their telephone in Welaka has been disconnected and it is not known if Croslin has an attorney.

According to the news release, investigators have received more than 4,000 leads, all of which have been followed up.

They have conducted 138 formal interviews and several hundred informal ones. DNA samples were collected from many of those interviewed.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement processed the crime scene and did analysis on DNA and fingerprint evidence, none of which has identified a suspect.

Thousands of acres have been searched by air, on foot and by horseback. Divers have combed the water areas near where Haleigh disappeared.

“Sheriff (Jeff) Hardy wants to assure the public, but mainly Haleigh’s family, that we will continue to aggressively pursue this case,” the news release said.

Also Monday, a Texas-based search group said it would conduct another search for Haleigh Cummings.

Tim Miller, director of Texas EquuSearch, said the 50 group members and volunteers would search in four to six weeks. He said he thinks weather and vegetation conditions will be more conducive to finding the girl.

Deputies dig up animals at home of Haleigh’s grandmother

By Cindy Swirko
Staff writer

Published: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 3:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 3:39 p.m.
Authorities on Friday dug up the remains of a horse and other animals at the Baker County home of a grandmother of missing Putnam County girl Haleigh Cummings to ensure that her body is not among them.

Click to enlarge The search took place at the 25-acre tract belonging to Marie Griffis, Haleigh’s maternal grandmother.

Putnam County sheriff’s Lt. Johnny Greenwood said authorities had earlier conducted a ground search of the home. They were told by a family member that a horse and other farm animals were buried on the land.

“We are going back over our notes and conducting secondary searches. There has not been any new information leading us that way. We are pretty much going to dig up the horse,” Greenwood said. “There is no information that she is buried there at all. We just want to cover our bases to make sure we don’t leave any stone unturned.”

Several agencies were assisting in the search, including Baker and Duval county sheriff’s offices.

Haleigh, 5, vanished from her Satsuma home in February when she was with her little brother and Misty Croslin, the then-girlfriend and now the wife of her father, Ronald Cummings. Croslin told authorities she woke about up 3 a.m. to find Haleigh missing. Cummings was at work.

Extensive searches were conducted for weeks after the disappearance in Satsuma and elsewhere without success.

Greenwood said it was likely the search of Griffis’ property would wrap up on Friday.

“We are checking every place more than one time,” he said. “Just because we checked it before doesn’t mean we didn’t miss something.”

Putnam County
Sheriff’s Office
Jeff Hardy, Sheriff

NEWS RELEASE

June 5, 2009

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement hosted a round table gathering Thursday (06/04/09) of all the different agencies and personnel involved in the investigation of missing five year old Haleigh Cummings. Approximately 40 people participated in the meeting to discuss what has been accomplished so far, what needs are still pending, as well as focus on any new directions that may be pursued. The assembly was attended by members of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office.

During the discussion, a review was conducted of the initial call, searches that had been performed, evidence that had been gathered, results of laboratory analysis of the evidence and the results of various interviews by the different agencies.

The participants determined there are still some of the more than 4,000 leads received to be followed up on, and different ways of prioritizing those leads were discussed. Also, quite a lot of evidence was initially collected by the FDLE Crime Scene Technicians. Some has not yet been analyzed, and priorities were set for that analysis. Each agency accepted responsibility for various continuing assignments as the investigation moves forward.

No suspects were identified as a result of this meeting, and no persons were eliminated. The participants emphasized that the Haleigh Cummings case IS NOT a cold case. There are still investigative leads to be followed, evidence to be analyzed, and previous interviews to be re-conducted. The group intends to meet again in 30 days if the case has not yet been solved.

Sheriff Jeff Hardy was very complimentary of the efforts thus far, and commented, “There were a lot of new ideas and a lot of things that we’ve looked at that we’re going to look at again.” He further stated, “We are going to follow this through to the end.”

Captain Dick Schauland

Haleigh and Ronald Cummings fishing

But today he amended that message — he wants help from everyone except Cindy and George Anthony.

“The family of Ronald Cummings, father of Haleigh Cummings, wishes to make it clear that they do not want any involvement by George and Cindy Anthony in the continuing search for Haleigh Cummings,” according to a news release issued by the Kimball & Snider Law Firm, which represents Cummings.

“The Anthony’s have their own agenda, as witnessed by their recent media tour. The facts relating to the death of Calee (sic) Anthony, which resulted in the first degree murder charges against Casey Anthony, are in no way similar to Haleigh’s disappearance,” the release said.