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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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?

The time will be served concurrently with the other 25-year sentence she is already serving on a St. Johns County conviction of trafficking in oxycodone.

In addition to the prison time, Croslin will receive five years of probation, a $1.25 million fine and mandatory drug rehabilitation.

Although several undercover video tapes show Misty selling drugs she told the judge she was not a drug dealer. “I have made some bad choices, and I know I have to take what I have done, and I just ask that you give me another chance.”

Her father, Hank Croslin Sr., made the same plea to the judge.

“She was not a drug dealer. She never was,” he said. “She just got caught acting stupid. She never sold drugs in her life. I don’t believe she took too many of them. I just ask the court be lenient, please.”

Croslin; Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings; brother, Hank Croslin Jr.; and two others were arrested in January 2010 in an undercover sting and charged with selling prescription drugs in January.

Prosecutors released surveillance videos they said shows undercover drug deals involving Misty Croslin and Ronald Cummings.

Misty Croslin was sentenced to 25 years on a charge of trafficking oxycodone in St. Johns County.

Last summer, Croslin’s attorney, Robert Fields, told the judge that a “landslide of evidence,” including the undercover video, led to her to plead no contest to the St. Johns County charges.

Misty Croslin is the last of the five arrested to be sentenced. Ronald Cummings and Hank Croslin Jr. both received 15-year sentences.

During the October sentencing hearing, Croslin told Judge Wendy Berger that she was raped between the ages of 7 and 14 by two people while she was taking care of her great-grandmother. She said that while Ronald Cummings was rough with her, it was an upgrade in her life and she loved him.

Authorities have maintained that the drug charges have no connection to the ongoing investigation of Haleigh’s disappearance, which they now consider a homicide case.

Haleigh was 5 years old when she vanished from her home in Satsuma, in southern Putnam County. Croslin, who was Ronald’s girlfriend when Haleigh disappeared, married and divorced him within six months.

Even with little to no physical evidence, deputies are treating Haleigh’s disappearance as a homicide, and investigators have continued questioning the Croslins while in jail hoping to learn new information.

Crystal Sheffield, Haleigh’s mother, was in the courtroom Monday, but she said she wasn’t too concerned with the outcome of the sentencing.

“I don’t care about her or her family. All I want is my baby home.”

“It’s all in her hands,” Sheffield said. “She has the answers, not me. I was not there.”

“Just tell the truth,” Sheffield said. “You say you love my children, why do this? God will remember one day. He will give me answers.”

Months after Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin appeared in a series of undercover videos showing multiple drug deals, Misty is sentenced to the maximum penalty.

Misty Croslin was sentenced today to 25 years in prison on a drug trafficking charge.

Misty Croslin Sentenced

Misty Cummings plead no contest to drug trafficking charges in August in a St. Johns County courtroom.

In August, Misty’s attorney, Robert Fields, told the judge that a “landslide of evidence,” including the undercover video, led to her to plead no contest.

Ronald Cummings and Hank Croslin Jr. have both received 15-year sentences.

Misty told Judge Wendy Berger that she was raped by two people between the ages of 7 and 14 while she was taking care of her great grandmother. She said that while Ronald Cummings was rough with her, it was an upgrade in her life and she loved him.

Misty was sentenced on the one count of trafficking in oxycodone in St. Johns County. She still awaits sentencing on seven counts of drug trafficking pending in Putnam County, where she could face up to 200 years.

Prosecutors said she could qualify for a reduced sentence as a youthful offender, since she was 17 at the time of the crime, which could reduce her sentence to between six and 25 years.

Authorities have maintained that the drug charges have no connection to the ongoing investigation of Haleigh’s disappearance, which they now consider a homicide case.

Even with little to no physical evidence, deputies are treating Haleigh’s disappearance as a homicide, and investigators have continued questioning the Croslins while in jail hoping to learn new information.

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.

On August 16th 2010 Misty Croslin entered no-contest plea in her drug trafficking charges. Misty was at home the night Haleigh disappeared and as you know, she has had multiple stories as to what happened to the toddler. Misty Croslin could be sentenced up to 25 years in prison. The 18-year-old woman was arrested in January following a sting operation that netted her and husband Ronald Cummings.

Ronald Cummings, the father of missing Putnam County girl Haleigh Cummings pleaded guilty August 20, 2010 to three drug-trafficking charges, jacksonville.com said. He could get up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on Sept. 24.

Donna M. Brock, 44, an Orlando woman who befriended Misty Croslin during the unsuccessful search for a Haleigh, was sentenced September 2, 2010 to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking.

She pleaded guilty in St. Johns County to one count of trafficking in prescription drugs.

Haleigh Cummings

Brock, a former Texas EquuSearch volunteer, said she got close to Croslin to learn more about Haleigh Cummings’ disappearance.

Donna Brock and Misty Croslin sold an undercover officer 155 oxycodone pills at a St. Johns County truck stop.

Still no word on little Haleigh.

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.

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Misty Croslin has reportedly written a letter telling what happened to Haleigh

Several sources are reporting that Misty Croslin wrote a letter to a family member revealing what she knows about the night Haleigh Cummings disappeared. The letter is being examined by authorities in Satsuma, Florida for its authenticity and validity.

Will this new evidence finally lead investigators to Haleigh?

Remember when the story broke that Tommy came by and stole a gun? Well now the story seems to be that Tim and Joe, Misty’s cousin, came by to steal the gun but it wasn’t there. Joe got pissed and took Haleigh.

It has also been reported that Misty Croslin’s attorney has known what Misty has been hiding since she was arrested on drug trafficing charges when she sold prescription pain killers oxycodone and oxycoton to an undercover officer.

This is not verified but its being passed around by Art Harris, a freelance reporter that has been covering this case.
Nancy Grace has the latest breaking developments tonight at 8pm.

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Six little words blended in to five but maybe the first crack in Misty’s armor. Such a simple sentence but an unbelievably explosive statement.

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 is speaking to her sister-in-law Chelsea, she knows she is being recorded so she doesn’t say much. She is speaking of a bounty hunter who has offered to bail her out in exchange for information that will lead him to Haleigh.

Here is what she said:

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**k about Ronald, 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.

“just think Chelsea, use your head. And you’ll know.”

I believe Misty Croslin is protecting her brother Tommy Croslin. I have always thought it was pretty obvious that one of these “two people” is Ronald but this gives me some doubts. In the sting video they brought up Haleigh. They had no way of knowing they were being recorded and they spoke like they had no idea what happened to her. I have pretty much ruled out that they acted together at this point.

Tommy left the area immediatley after Haleigh went missing.

Your thoughts?