Haleigh Cummings Case: Misty Croslin Confession.. “He took her away in a Black Bag”
As 18 year old Misty Croslin pleaded no contest to another drug trafficking charge today, Defense Attorney Robert Fields told the court his client, Misty Croslin, former wife of Haleigh Cummings Father Ron, also serving time on drug charges, that she knew what happened to 5 year old Haleigh the night of February 10, 2009.
“According to Misty, Joe took Haleigh while Misty was laying in bed and covered herself up with a blanket,” Fields told Channel 4 Tuesday morning outside the courtroom. “They were there for like seven minutes, appeared to be on drugs and Misty says she saw Joe put Haleigh in a black bag and she heard Haleigh scream.”
Joe Overstreet, who is Misty Croslin’s cousin from Tennesee allegedly came to the Mobile home with Misty’s brother Hank Croslin following a drug arrest in January, looking for an assault rifle. When the assault rifle was not found, Overstreet allegedly covered Haleigh with a blanket and then removed her from the home in a black bag.
Misty Croslin claims to have heard Haleigh scream, and did nothing to stop the abduction.
Joe Overstreet was recently arrested on drug charges in Tennesee, although authorities do not believe that crime is related to Haleigh’s disappearance.
Today is Haleigh Cummings 7th birthday.
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DISGUSTING! She did NOTHING???
Rarely do I say this in public.
OMFG!
Let me at her. And him.
And here I thought Joe was a cut above these other creeps. How can we trust anything Misty says. I think her brain is fried and on top of that I think she is retarded – this family wins the white trash prize of the century and the permanent members of the A**Hole of Fame.
Duh.. I meant the A**hole Hall of Fame.
Why did she wait so long to tell this story? Why did Ronald Cummings marry her? At the very least, he had to have strong suspicions, since Misty was home with his kids at the time of the abduction. Just think what might have happened if Misty had called the police immediately, if she’d told the truth about it at the time of the abduction…. Haleigh might have been rescued. Misty should die for this and so should cousin Joe and brother Hank. Evil triad!
Is this a confirmed confession Blink? as I don’t know how many this is now so far and if it is true, I really think tommy and Timmy are in the mix too? what do you think about this one?
It is confirmed she said it, that’s all I got.
B
if this is true….Sweet jesus…….all the tradegy going on today against kids today. I wish I can say I am shocked at this but….I am numb from all of it. I’m tired of life and all this tradegy…..
I understand your utter disgust Word Girl. What a bunch of low life humans.
There is a portion of our society that we see represented by Misty and her cousins that operate without concern for anyone except themselves. I feel sorry for the children who must live in this environment. Misty is a product of this too. May GOD have mercy on their souls, if they have one.
I have a dear friend of mine who was onscene there for weeks, she literally begged not go back, it was that uncomfortable.
B
Let her pass a lie detector test on this and perhaps I’ll be more likely to believe her.
Have they given Joe Overstreet a polygraph or are just taking his word for it ?
My sources tell me he passed a poly long ago.
B
IDK.
This girl has told so many stories, so many lies.
I absolutely, 100%, believe she ‘knows’ what happened to little Haleigh…
However, I find any story she tells that places much of the blame on a 3rd party, such as Joe Overstreet, highly suspect.
I think Misty Croslin took a much more ‘active’ role in whatever befell Haleigh. I find it hard to believe she was ‘laying idly by, with the covers over her head’, and doing nothing, while J.O. spirited away a screaming Haleigh, into the night. If that was the case, why didn’t she report what she knew immediately???
Yes, this story has Misty shouldering a lot of ‘moral’ blame… for not reporting the abduction immediately, etc, but…. This could also (*potentially*) allow Misty to escape a murder charge, and therefore strikes me as a pretty ‘convenient’ story.
I’ve always felt that a much more likely scenario would be that Misty was directly responsible.
With all the prescription and illicit narcotic drug activity surrounding these people, I think, Misty *might* have been drugging the kids into a stupor when Ron was at work, so that she wouldn’t have to be bothered with dealing with them.
I think that she overdosed Haleigh, probably accidentally, and when she realized the child was unresponsive, rather than summon help and risk being charged with a crime, she allowed Haleigh to die. She disposed of her and then tried to make it look like the child was abducted from her bed by a stranger.
Perhaps Joe Overstreet *is* a pedophile (he is certainly a low-life creep!), and maybe he played some kind of peripheral role. Maybe Misty was providing a drugged Haleigh to JO to abuse, in exchange for money or drugs etc., and/or he helped dispose of Haleigh after Misty caused her death. These scenarios seem plausible to me, unfortunately, as I do not put *anything* past *any* of these people…
I just firmly believe that Misty Croslin is ultimately and directly responsible for Haleigh’s demise!
Of course, this is *just* my gut feeling about things, and is MOO.
I agree with this.
B
BUll- He put her in a black bag and she heard her scream? How did she know what color the bag was? What did she scream? What happened to her before all of this? Did he sell her? What? She knows a heck of alot more than this.
I am sorry little Haleigh- Happy Birthday
Two words, people. Birth control.
Ick. Sick, sad, horrible story. Poor Haleigh.
omg!!! this poor little girl didnt stand a chance, she was doomed to suffer , from day 1, i hope they get justice {i mean real justice] for this little angel,,..
This is the heart of what incenses to no end in this case- thanks for the permission slip to “go off.”
When this case broke, and I did the 411 on the RSO’s in the vicinity, I nearly fell over.
THEN, I learn the age of the gf, and the familial dynamics that have occurred since her and her brother have been born and their extended families.
My question was never “How did this happen” for me, the question was “how did it take so long”.
I am not being glib, not a redeeming family member in the bunch, and don’t go all Ms. Neves on me, who believes she happened to drive past them on the porch- my ass-
She drove past because she was sent there by Ron to check on Misty because she just came off a 3 day drug bender. Here’s a thought.. No 17 year old druggy is going to watch my grandbabies-
Or.. maybe the excessive absences? Anyone?
Sorry, I am wicked angry for this baby.
B
Okay, more than two words: Misty is a liar. But now that she is pointing the finger at Joe, maybe he will come up with an alternate scenario. I suspect Misty was so wasted that she doesn’t even remember what happened that night.
Rest the soul of sweet little Haleigh.
With the exception of the “black bag”, it’s not any new news that she said she hid under the covers while Joe took Haleigh. Not understanding what’s the hub bub about???
15.twinkletoes says:
August 17, 2010 at 3:05 pm
I suspect Misty was so wasted that she doesn’t even remember what happened that night.
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I agree. I do not believe her. add me to the list that thinks Misty dosed little Haleigh.
Dear God in Heaven..please hold little Haleigh tight in your arms and wish her a happy birthday from us.
Misty needs a good bop upside the head with a two by four.She and her brother and Joe are just the dregs of society. I suspect she is lying again..but this time it feels like there maybe some truth in her lies. I suspect too that she was drugging little Haleigh so Joe could do his nasty deeds. Either she over dosed her or Joe so cruelly raped her that she died.
I imagine the only truth in Misy’s statement is Joe put a blanket over her, put her in a bag and carried her out of the home to dispose of the body. How in the heck did they think they would get away with this? How do they live with themselves? How do they sleep at night?
Rest in peace sweet little Haleigh..rest in peace.
http://www.bloggernews.net/125089
PCSO releases statement concerning Attorney Fields latest statement given by Misty concerning what happened to Haleigh that “Night”.
I was just wonderin why LE doesnt ever give a Pressor like in Kyrons case. I fully 100% resent and thing PCSO is in the wrong for not keeping the public informed better, requesting information, asking for leads, sightings, anything. But nope, not Putnam County.
They can take their stance and do the obvious. Sorry my Dear friends here, I’m angry right now. I fully understand you cant jeopardize an investigation, but come on now. It’s Haleighs 7th Birthday today. LE should have been keeping her name and face in the news at all costs and times possible.
VTLady79 says:
“Maybe Misty was providing a drugged Haleigh to JO to abuse, in exchange for money or drugs etc.,”
I think this is probably what happened, and the child died during the abuse, possibly from an overdose. Then JO and whoever disposed of poor little Haleigh. How very sad.
And, yes… if the covers are over her head, how does she see the black bag?
@ Cheryl,
re: the ‘hub bub’ regarding this newest story (IMOO):
I think that every time Misty comes up with a new ‘story’ about what happened, we get a little closer to the truth….
It’s not so much that this story is *believable*, but, that she is now admitting to actually knowing what happened, and to being present. The explanation as to her role in these events is bogus, IMHO.
However, the detail about the “black bag” tells me she not only ‘knows’ what happened but was present and participating when Haleigh was ‘disposed of’.
I would not be surprised if this one, small, detail of the story— the black bag— is ultimately factual, even if the rest of the story is not. Liars often ‘muddy the waters’ by intermingling a few ‘truths’ into their lies.
If the ‘black bag’ detail *is* true, it *may* also give some insight as to how the child’s body was disposed of, and, *where* investigators should focus a new search to recover her remains, IMO.
This poor little baby deserves a proper burial, not to be discarded like a piece of trash, and has waited *far* too long to be found!
Finding her remains would also help bring the adult(s) responsible for her death to justice, and I *know* we all want to see that happen as soon as possible…
J4H
Well, how could Joe possibly pass a poly if he was guilty, BUT maybe he IS RESPONSIBLE as even liars believe their own lies, therefor believing their own lies. I too agree that Misty was wasted out of her mind and POSSIBLY thinks she was DREAMING when this went down but THEY KNOW what happened. MISTY KNOWS!!! and so does TOMMY AND TIMMY the COWARDS, sorry Blink taking a walk (TIME OUT!!!) I loathe these people.
I thought Joe did pass the poly. Anybody ????
The whole family is in jail. Misty did it!
That is my belief.
B
In one of the first media interviews given by Misty she slipped up & said something about Haleigh’s blanket being “in the van that they took”. I was surprised that no one questioned her further about this slip up. Who were “they”? Well, now we hear this story about Haleigh being taken & put into a van. Also, I find it hard to believe that Ronald was not aware of what really went down in the Cummings trailer that evening. Ronald has never seemed sincere about his grief… I believe he has fooled many many people.
That was my first question.
Missing Blanket from crime scene, Misty saying Haleigh soiled it. I knew then.
It is in the video she is in with her dopehead Mom.
B
Blink please tell me the police know that she did this and there is a FREAKIN REASON they are all locked up and not getting out…
Is there EVER going to be justice for this child? and look who the little guy is stuck with? geesh, I wish I had a foster home in Florida. This is just more disgusting and YES WHITE TRASH and I don’t EVER use that term…. yikes I feel like I could actually beat some of these people….
I don’t think that Misty’s story about hiding under the covers while Joe did all of this is true because he would have seen her under the covers with the little boy. The beds were right next to each other.
VTLady79 said at 2:36
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I totally agree with this post wholeheartedly!The only thing I have to add is that if the black bag in this story is true, then that is wonderful information, because if her body is in a bag, then when the police finally find it, they can find all of her. The clothes she was wearing and do the proper tests, to check for seaman on the clothes and what not. This is far better news, then her being thrown into a river, and her little bones scattered across it, or the worse sceanerio, alligators got to her. I know this sounds kind of crude, but really I try to find the positive in things, and this is really all I can come up with. IMO.
Ms. Neves should have babysat her grand-children and this would not have happened.
Oh and another thing, whatever she “did” that night, she obviously knows she will get a harsher sentance than 6-30yrs. Which in my opinion is why she has not told the whole truth, and will take her chances on being charged as youthful offender for the drug charges. If she get lucky she can get 6 years, and she’s has almost served a year of it, with good behavior and time served, she could get out in way less. However if this was to happen I feel it would be totally unfair, being as she IMO is the ringleader in the drug charges, (speaking on the phone with the undercover,setting up where to meet,what time,who to get the pills from, ect.), and the Haleigh case, and all the other players, with their bit parts (being along for the ride), have gotten a 15 year manditory min sentance.
@ VTLady79
Thanks, I wasn’t understanding the significance of the black bag but now I do. I hope they all rot in jail or hell.
Thanks Blink.
I agree, agree with all the above. Misty doping up the kids and she knows what happened to Haleigh because she is responsible. Ha—Haleigh taken away in a Black bag–with Misty’s head under the covers
presumably with Junior? Sounds like she is willing to bargain for a reduced sentence on drugs but doesnt even know how to make up a good lie and cover her tracks. Yes this whole bunch and they way they have lived and grown up is very very sad—and even sadder that inocent childrens lives are damaged and or taken.
What about Misty’s age at the time of the crime – wasn’t she just 17?How will that affect her is she is convicted of something in this child’s demise?
The thing is, whether she did it or let it happen, how can she LIVE with that? How someone could possibly without offing themselves is mind-boggling. Thank you, Phil Markoff. At least it shows SOME conscience. (Maybe it was fear for his OWN but being in jail for life, but anyway…)
Butt I mean, I’m sure you get my drift.
Twinkletoes,
Three words…MANDATORY Birth Control.
I’m sorry but I don’t believe her story. I don’t think Joe was anywhere near there when Haleigh went missing. I still think Haleigh was drugged and died as a result of it. I also believe that Ron, TN, AS as well as the Croslin siblings and their spouses knew either directly or indirectly what really happened to Haleigh that night. I think they have the main players already locked up but there are many more who are accessories to the fact that should also be rounded up and put behind bars!
What ever happened to them getting Ronald Cummings to cop a plea? It never happened. I believe he has always known what happened to this child. They all knew from day one, which is why they never seriously tried to search for her. They were too busy searching for drugs. Make Misty tell that story under oath and under polygraph and see what happens. She hasn’t passed one yet! I do not believe this Overstreet kid did this. He’s lowlife like the rest of them but they are railroading him into taking the rap for this. So—–if Overstreet took Hayleigh away in a black bag, then why did TWO cadaver dogs hit on a dumpster out back of their trailer several days later?? They were trained CADAVER dogs, their job only to seek out the scent of decomposition. Why did RC call Misty some 90 time according to the cell phone records?? Pretty desperate I’d say—but why? The secret of what happened to Hayleigh in my view is between Ronald and Misty.
Everyone in that town seems to have a dread fear of Ronald Cummings. Probably because it seems no matter what law he breaks, he never seems to do any real prison time. Misty is lying to protect him too.
Why would someone take a live child in a black bag? Why not carry her out in the blanket, wouldn’t that cause less of a freak out? It doesn’t sound right.
Exactly. That child is not letting them put a blanket over her and remove her, and then screaming as she is being put in a bag?
She is meshing truth with fiction, to exonnerate herself, imo.
B
I guess I don’t understand how you put a 5 year-old in a bag. Am I wrong? What kind of bag? Wouldn’t she be fighting to get out? I can’t see putting a 5 year-old alive in a bag – no matter how big – unless you had more than two people? Just doesn’t make sense to me.
” Sorry I am wicked angry for this baby”
“B”
nice to see YOU pissed Ms.Blink, I don’t say that in a good way, I say that with tears and saddness, all this shi! is a nightmare for many, and just because we don’t personally know these children, doesnt mean we dont have feelings about it, what we do know is we understand love and hurt and loss and it makes us sick inside because we know in our own way how horrible all this is, reasonable people just can’t wrap their minds around this.
Thank you for your heart felt CARE AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR THESE BABIES
God be with you and these innocent children, much luv too you and them
God be with Haliegh, Caylee, Kyron and the many many others
This is soo wrong in every level! What a classic example for scums and $#@ and %@$# !! Misty and Joe , I so hope LE got them ! And her idiot causin , who just got 15 yrs, and her brother, and her mother , and her father
Can they all get sentenced ?
Didn’t Misty previously say that Joe sexually asaulted her and it was backed up with the little brothers version of the couch bouncing up and down.
vidda:
the Higher Power works wonders, Let Him Rip! It is his time not ours, and with that take comfort…I don’t care if she is in jail for drugs or whatever all I care is that her A$$ is not walking the streets, let the MAN do his thing, as my Late and Great Mama inlaw once said, God Don’t like UGLY!
Blink said: I am not being glib, not a redeeming family member in the bunch, and don’t go all Ms. Neves on me, who believes she happened to drive past them on the porch- my ass-”
It was Theresa Neves’s mom, Mrs. Sykes who claimed to drive by the MH that eve with the laundry around 7:00 and helped wunnerful, and bestest Ron GF Mistypoo change the kids shirts while they were eating…on the porch…in cool weather. So why doesn’t GMA Sykes know what Haleigh was wearing that eve, just before bedtime?
Why doesn’t Misty know what Haleigh was wearing if she put her to bed? She has not a clue what Haleigh was wearing to bed;she changed the outfit story three times.
That info about Annette Sykes visiting the MH to be able to put Misty there at 7:00, didn’t come out until later, however, and was not in the first stories released. Neves was first on the scene after Ron and Misty made their initial 3.35 a.m. 911 call. And she drove like a bat out of hell to get there from a address she wasn’t registered as living at.
MISTY”S “NEW” STORY IS OLD.
Not a new story…in fact, one of the first Misty told and she didn’t pass the LD on it.
Until somebody in LE releases Ron’s work hours for real, I am not buying in to Ron “being at werk” too convenient altogether when nobody is allowed to announce Ron’s hours. Not LE and not his workplace.
So why did Halieigh have to go missing after Ron went to work, anyway? We don’t know his hours. They change magically like every single thing in this case…except Haleigh is gone.
Who places Haleigh gone missing AFTER Ron goes to work? His mom, grandmother, Misty (sort of) and Ron. Who else says that Ron was at work before Haleigh went missing? Well, name someone who doesn’t tell lies like taking breaths?
Why couldn’t Haleigh have “gone missing” earlier in the afternoon? After either Ron or Misty (no one knows which one because they both lied about Haleigh’s transportation home) picked Haleigh up after school?
Who really believes that Misty even knows what has happened? I have my doubts and often thing she’s been told the story of what happened…and by damm…she has to go along because everybody has something pretty big on everybody else.
I am not convinced Misty was even at the MH earlier in the evening. LE doesn’t believe it, either. Why would they put out questions begging anybody to tell if they saw Misty that evening away from the MH?
Why did LE say that evidence at the MH doesn’t match Misty’s numerous stories?
Did whatever happen to Haleigh not take place at the MH, at all? Was she some place else? The neighbors say it was quiet on the street that night. Except one neighbor heard and saw Misty outside at 2:30 a.m. husterically crying on the phone. (Before Ron “got off werk”)
And why can’t we hear anything at all from the bus driver, the teacher, the principal, the air-conditioning man who might shed some light about what took place that fateful Feb. 9th and just who was at the motor home that afternoon.
LE has said very little…too bad in my opinion…they might have received some tips that were actually gainful from the public…but even they have said that (paraphrased) “Ron Cummings was at work. He has an alibi, but then WE DON’T KNOW WHEN what happend to Haleigh happened”.
BTW, Gma Flo tonight on JVM said “Joe DID NOT pass his LDT”.
But then I think GMA FLO has been fed a load of road apples by all her grandkids. If Jo didn’t pass his LDT, LE is mighty shy of showing much interest in him.
I am confident in my source that he passed a poly. That said, they are inadmissable for a reason.
B
http://www.artharris.com/2010/08/17/exclusive-haleigh-tossed-into-black-bag/#more-4569
this is just a crap a$$ version if I ever heard one, oh lets hide underneath the covers to protect ouselves, ok we all did that when we were like 7 hiding from the Buggy Man under our beds, this girl is knee deep in this.
Dear Heaven Above put and end to this nonsense once and for all!!!!
with that, Good Night!
“and tossed her into a black bag”
hmmmmmmm where have we heard this before?