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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Only my opinion but I looked at that pic of CS at the court house before I read the caption and said good lord she went to court that doped up? That did not look like a hold me back cause I gonna beat up Misty’s egg donor!!!! I’m just sayin it due to her background with drugs.
I agree Melissa b. It is hard to believe one of these people, let alone tell if they’re under the influence of drugs. And if I’m an adult and I’m having a hard time, imagine being a little kid in that family wondering who is in what mood when. Doesn’t the attorneys for them speak to the family before court? You would think he knows there are a few who decided to “medicate” beforehand. They can be fooling too many people
How do you know that she was doped up? Just curious. I don’t believe she actually interacted with Lisa Croslin at Ronnie’s hearing, that would have been headline news for sure, but if I were Crystal, I just might have to be restrained from doing a bit of a convo with Lisa.
I might feel different if Lisa Croslin had once encouraged her misbegotten issue to tell the truth, but all she did was enable Misty and agree with her, telling her that “You did the right thing!” over and over again on every taped interview with Misty in jail. That helped. Not.
MsE I don’t know that she was doped up it was only an opinion. Someone rushing past people to go after another doesn’t usually go backwards without their feet on the ground. Her eyes half closed too. Just sayin. I think we all know she had a drug problem admittedly so by her and her Mom. It would be even harder to get off them with a child missing and God knows where and how. I only hope she is open to recieving counseling not only for her but Junior also. I’ve often seen her as a little country girl who got raked over the coals by RC through the court system. It’s very easy to lie, cheat and change court dates and have mail delivered to the wrong addy if you really don’t want someone to show for custody court. Ron knew how to use the system to keep her kids from her and she just couldn’t fight the fight. This is MOO too, HC’s condition would likely make her eligible for SSI and RC would want to keep that monthly check and it also made him eligible for food stamps. He may have loved her but to these people children are only property. A smart, caring man would have the childs mother in their lives no matter what if he truly cared for the children.
melissab,
I don’t cotton to anybody in any of the families involved. As far as I am concerned they all played fast and lose with Haleigh and her little brother.
I do feel that your description of Crystal is probably dead on, though. I don’t usually give her and her side of the family much thought, actually, because Haleigh didn’t “disappear” under their watch.
It’s hard enough to concentrate on the prevaricators who were supposedly Haleigh’s caretakers on Feb. 9/10 and the weekend leading up to whenever Haleigh vanished. Who has time to take on Crystal’s side of the family, too!
I don’t think that anyone in the Croslins, Cummings, and Sykes dynasties can tell the truth. They lie just to keep in practice. Never mind that a child is missing. Drugs, guns, or rage, or a combination of all three, are the answer to Haleigh’s probable demise. IMO.
I agree MsE! Oh my gosh, if I had the time to tell you the stories out of the mouths of pregnant girls/women from when I worked in Ob/Gyn! I had the option to drug screen those I thougt to be under the influence or dumb enouth to confide in me that they used, and I didn’t have to tell them I was doing it. Drug screening was part of the waiver signed to be in that office. We were one of the Medicaid providers who also took the Health Dept. referrals. If drugs were suspected I could keep their urine and send it off. Dept. of Child. and Fam. was notified ASAP with a pos. screen and they followed them through the birth. Sometimes the system works. The stories I heard were awful! The multiple fathers, having babies to get the guy to stay, rape, prostitution it was sad and sickening at the same time. I could only have one child and here were babies/girls/women/ having throw away babies. There ought to be a law. Don’t know what kind but there should be one!!
I think the idea that Haleigh was drugged sounds possible but if she were, then why wasn’t Junior drugged as well. I think that throws a kink in that scenario.
joerose:
Perhaps Jr. wasn’t there if and when Haleigh was drugged. Perhaps Jr. was broughtback later after whatever happened to Haleigh occurred.
One thing for sure, Jr. didn’t sleep all day and all night Monday as Ron’s mother, Misty, and Ron described him doing. No kid sleeps all night Sunday and all day Monday. Unless he was drugged…or staying some place other than the MH.
Here’s a big question – wouldn’t they have gotten enough forensic evidence from the trailer that evening to at least determine who all was possibly there? Not to mention some indication if any such struggle had occured…..
fingerprints from the propped open back door, shoe prints leading up to the house and inside if possible
….never heard a thing mentioned about any of it – please don’t let that mean they didn’t even collect it! Does anyone know?
JR:
LE said that the forensic evidence at the MH “doea not match” Misty’s account of what happened that night. Personally, I am translating that statement to mean LE might not believe the MH has the pivotal evidence. LE says so little. That statement is a major relevation on their part,IMO. In other words the MH is a staging scene, not the scene of the crime.
It took them a few weeks to take the door away to be processed. I don’t know what that was all about.
I wonder if LE went over the homes of Timmy, Tommy and Hank Sr. for evidence. An altercation, or a drug ingestion could have occurred at any of the residences of this cast of characters. Misty had a habit of baby sitting her brothers’ kids and running away to her parents or brothers’ homes to escape Ron. Allegedly.
thanks MsEnscene – did a little searching on it as well and basically came up with a few other interesting tid bits (however true or not) that overall, I would say LE knows a lot more and/or making a lot ‘appear’ to be something its not.
for example, apparently around 2:16am before Ron ordered Misty to make the 911 call, someone other than Misty had made another call first – for the police to search for someone at that address. and some other things I’m too tired to write out right now (lazy Sunday).
i remember when this story first broke, my gut about Misty was that she was lying but not so much as ‘the premeditated murderer’…simply that she wasn’t really even there that night and only repeating the rehearsed nonsensical time line more to convince us she was rather than provide the logistics with Haleigh.
and thinking on things now, I’ve never really heard of LE relying so heavily on a potential suspect’s words to solve a case and not be working on every angle of evidence to provide the basis as well. the first huge thing she said was ‘the back door was propped open’ so why wouldn’t they take both doors right then and there? figure out exactly where the cinder block came from if they can’t lift any prints of that? ive heard of so much as half a shoe or foot print nailing culprits, so surely there was enough dirt outside to find some kind of shoe or tire prints.
and ive always thought that IF everyone WAS there as the story says, then they’ve got to have young Jr. as some level of a witness.
now they’ve got Ron set up to be ‘rewarded’ in some form of a plea bargain to potentially reveal what he wasn’t quick to offer before about his own missing daughter?
shit is f*#**d up…..
I just found this on Facebook and it was soooo sweet to watch… please take the time as it is a cute one…
HaLeigh and daddy (child of mine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEHt_TZ4qu4
A songbook of Ronald Cummings and his daughter HaLeigh.
made me cry…
Jr:
Hear, hear! On your post. Yeah, what the heck was that 2:30 dispatch call all about? Was somebody looking for Misty? The call said “she” was “last seen at her home one and a half hours ago”. It couldn’t have been Haleigh they were looking for. So just who was looking for a “she” at 2:30, an hour before Ron and Misty made the missing Haleigh call? Did somebody want Misty located so she could be at the Mobile Home to “discover” Haleigh missing? Boggles the mind.
And why the big LE silence on almost everything? It looks as if they released a little more of what they do know, someone could possibly have their memory triggered to something they heard or saw. Like the neighbor who allegedley saw Misty outside the MH on her phone crying about 2:30 a.m.that morning. So did Misty discover Haleigh missing and then was given a script to explain Haleigh’s disappearance? Misty was so bad at that script. She couldn’t answer any questions outside her initial rehearsal. She constantly did “retakes”.
Re Jr.: He is hiding under the covers with Misty while all sorts of terrible things are happening to his sister with accompanying brutal noises ans screams and he doesn’t remember any of it? A black man with squaky shoes took his sister. Or some such tale…it varies according to what adult repeats the story. He was either drugged or not even there. I vote for the latter. I think he was with his Gma Sykes all day and then brought back to the Mobile Home sometime.
I wonder at LE’s analyzing of the door way down the line after the crime scene was invaded by all sorts of Ron relatives. And, btw, Ron’s wounds on his hand do not appear ones which would be those resulting from punching a door (or a car…whichever, depending on when Ron tells the story.) There are cuts on his hand, and between his fingers, which could have been inflicted by other means.
I have been pondering this question for a long time: just who in Putnam Co. was the recipient of Ron’s drug largesse? The Sheriff’s son being arrested on drug charges certainly gives me pause. Were he and Ron drug buddies?
Add to that Ron’s seemingly complete freedom from any incarceration due to all his arrests for drug abuse, violence and car accidents…one of which he left the scene of an accident WITH INJURIES. Again, what is going on? He indeed must have some pull in the County.
I think none of their stories…the combined Croslins, Sykes, Cummings families…make a lick of sense. Not one bit.
NancyS:I had seen that video of Daddy Ron and Haleigh early on. It is very sad. Poor little Haleigh. I am reminded of Susan Smith’s loving videos with her two little boys whom she cast down into their watery deaths.
And I don’t even think Haleigh’s demise was planned. I think it was an accident. It’s heartbreaking that so many of the people who professed to love Haleigh so much can cover up the circumstances of her death. She was expendable. JMO.
Yeah it seems to be a hard case to solve but the video helped me to keep focus on what we know other than what we judge this poor family for? it is obvious that Ron loved his children, he did things with them and smiles on their faces.
We only know for sure that he was at work and I started thinking that maybe the kids were somewhere else when that phone call was made and Misty was missing OR maybe the kids were left at the MH by Misty and Tommy placed himself there, so maybe him Timmy and Joe went there and did something to Haleigh? they found Misty and told her to go home and when she went home Ron pulled up in the driveway and then the call was made? who knows? the only ones the sheriff said were cleared is Ron and Crystal so until I hear something different, that is all we know.
Oh and one more family you left out is the Sheffields and Crystals moms family? a lot of people involved in this case.
Where is Haleigh?
I wonder if they have talked to Mark Lunsford at all? he was from that area wasn’t he and maybe would have some pointers on how to get some information?
MsEnscene-
respectfully, how do you know this family that has lost Haleigh is covering whatever happened to her?
Why do they need to cover up? I don’t get this conspiracy theory, what would they gain? Please explain your thoughts?
NancyS,
The stories that everyone tells about that night in question are all nonsense. They don’t match. They keep changing and evolving.
Gma Sykes didn’t place Misty at the Mobile Home at all that night until LE asked for info from the public about Misty’s whereabouts. I don’t think Misty was there until about 2:30 a,m. when a neighbor heard her crying on the phone outside the mobile home.
LE said way back in the case that the forensics at the MH don’t match Misty’s story. So what evidence did they find which proves Misty’s story a made-up story? Why did Mama Teresa and Gma Syles back Misty’s story if it is a lie?
Ron’s hours at work have never been confirmed by LE. When did he get there? When did he leave? He says he worked eight hours…so when did he get off? He even admits on the Cobra tapes that LE asked him, “What took you so long to get home?” So they must know when he got off. And are not satisfied with his hours.
And those things above are just for starters. There is so much more concerning the actions and explanations given by Teresa and Annette that I can’t find the strength to go into. Stories don’t jell.
I’d put the Sheffields et.al in there, too. They are all weird,too, but Haleigh didn’t go missing on Crystal’s watch. She went missing on Ron’s watch.
He knows very well what happened to his daughter. And so does his Mom and Grandma. And they are covering for him . The Croslins may be involved, too. Ron put a headless rat in Tommy’s mailbox. Sounds like a “Keep your mouth shut or else…” about something. Possibly about what happened to Haleigh or some drug caper that Ron was involved in with the Croslin brothers.
They are all tied in this together. Everyone involved in Putnam County has something to hide so they cover their behinds,
wow all of this information with no proof or valid explanation? all that you just said is rumors and what you have heard.
Now answer my questions please.
How do you KNOW Ron did something to his daughter?
How do you KNOW he put a rat in the mailbox with its head cut off and what it was for?
You keep talking about rumors and like I said if you `can show me facts I will believe you.
I have heard that Ron got custody as Crystal wouldn’t get off drugs and didn’t want her kids. I have heard she didn’t want Haleigh. I have heard a lot of things but don’t believe a darn one of them.
Ron did not buy that truck with the donation money as it wasn’t in his name, I do believe it was a settlement from his accident and therefor why he was really on the Vicodin. IT was prescribed by a doctor. Also a good point to remember is that it was around the time to get taxes back and I am sure, since Ron was one of the only ones that seemed to work around there probably got a good amount of taxes back as he had BOTH kids living with him under DCS watchful eye…
Please stop the nonsense and show me or us on here some proof.
I would really like to see it as this case is frustrating.
wow talk about calling people out! And to think that I really loved to read here, maybe Blink needs to do some funneling out. Seems to me there is a certain person that just likes to nit pick on a few people for not agreeing with her. I think we are all entitled to our own opinions. Correct me if Im wrong, but arent we all here for the same reason? Justice for lil Haleigh?
NancySYou could Google; Ron Cummings, Tommy Croslin and headless rat in mailbox.
The headless rat event is an action of his that Ron even admitted to doing because “I wanted to see how Misty could lie to the police.” Also, a neighbor of Tommy Croslins saw Ron do it. And the police were called in about it.
If people’s (Cummings, Sykes and Croslin) stories do not match up and keep changing from interview to interview what do you personally think about their basic story of Haleigh’s “disappearance”? That Misty woke up, while Ron “was at work”, and discovered Haleigh missing? What do you think of that story?
Since you know all the details of how Ronald Cummings, volatile personality, drug addict, drug dealer, gun collector with small children around and woman abuser, got custody of his kids, then you know as much about this case as I do and you could probably prove something to me with links and such.
You obviously have your set ideas…and I have mine…never the twain shall meet, evidently. Finally, you don’t seem one to have to have anything proved to you. But there is a huge pool of articles out there if you like research. Take care.
I PERSONALLY don’t think Misty was home that night or she was passed out.
I WILL not say Ron has a volatile personality as I have not seen it, even with Geraldo in his face. I will not call him a drug addict as I don’t know what he is on but heard he was on prescription medicines. I own guns and it doesn’t mean anything but I have the right to own them. I love to shoot guns and I am a mom and a gramma. I taught my children how to shoot guns as I thought it was a GOOD thing to do so they had respect for them.
They both made sharp shooter in the military…
I don’t care IF Ron put a rat in someones mailbox. NOT MY BUSINESS and the rest of it isn’t either.
This forum is for FACTS so that is why I ask for them. If I wanted to do gossip or hearsay or attack families and victims, I would go to other sites that I won’t name.
I am not calling people out!!! I am saying I don’t believe you is all.
If you can prove me wrong I will apologize but at this point it sounds like you are an angry person and you don’t need to take it out on me.
I come to this particular thread to see if someone has something to say in here that is not a lie or bashing this poor family.
The truth will come out some day. Until then I am not going to hurt innocent people that are missing an angel in their lives.
scroll and roll Blink has enough to deal with
NancyS…We all have our own ideas about the case. As I said, I try to follow what LE says. As they say practically nothing, it’s difficult to form any cohesive theories. Nothing can be confirmed. And nobody in the community, outside the families involved, is now talking. Some did in the past…and I have tried to pay attention to
what unconnected and objective bystanders in the neighborhood have said.
I think what it boils down to for me is that Misty told a big fat whopper fairy tale to the cops on Feb.10.
Ron covered for her and married her, that “b***h that let my child get stole”.
Teresa Neves covered for her, saying that Misty was the “most mature” of all Ron’s girlfriends. Then she planned the wedding, donated her own diamond to the wedding festivities, and accompanied the happy couple on their honeymoon to NYC and the morning shows where Misty failed miserably in answering any questions.
Annette Sykes covered for Misty by inventing a story (nine days after the inital investigation) that she personally saw Misty at the MH at 7:00 p.m. with both kids EATING ON THE PORCH W/O SHIRTS in February.
Another whopper, btw.
Why not tell her story of visiting Misty and the kids right away? Because she had to come out with something since LE was asking the community if anyone saw Misty that night away from the MH. Gma Sykes had to bail Misty out of being suspected of not even being at the “scene of the abduction”.
Why were they all covering for Misty? Why were they supporting her story which LE never believed? Why did Ron and his mother and grandmother all cover the stories of the “key” to Haleigh’s disappearance — the “key” being what LE calls Misty.
It’s my own personal belief that they are covering for Misty because an accident happened to Haleigh due directly to Ron and his druggy lifestyle and his choice of companions.
LE says “Ron has an alibi. He was at work. But we don’t know WHEN what happened to Haleigh occurred.”
In other words when did Haleigh go missing or meet up with her death?
Ron’s alibi, his work hours, have never been confirmed by LE as a tight alibi because they do not know when Haleigh got hurt.
In the end, it often comes down to what people believe or sense about Ronald Cummings. The feeling about Ron seems to be unevenly split between those who think he is the poor grieving father (with enormous bad-boy charm, btw) like Mizzzz Nancy, and the majority of us who believe he is a stunted emotional man-child who caused the death of his daughter through neglect, drugs, bad companions, or an ungovernable temper.
Until LE gives us any indication of what they know for sure, we can continue to discuss our theories. Doesn’t mean those theories are cast in stone.
Even if Ron is eventually cleared of actually doing harm to his daughter, he is morally responsible for what happened to her, and ,imo, so are his mother and grandmother. They all knew Misty was an irresponsible person to have care of two young children when drugs, guns, and tempers were abundant in that home.
Finally, for me the proof that Ron Cummings always knew the fate of his daughter is his excited utterance the day after his daughter went missing. Dropping on his knees to the ground with a maximum of dramatic energy, he cries,”I would give my life to have my daughter’s life BACK!” That was not concern or hope in that performance, that Haleigh was missing, or abducted. That was Ron showing full knowledge of her fate. Ron knew she was dead. And so did his mother beside him with her tears.
All just my take. Every person has a right to her own beliefs about the case until it is solved.
I have little hope that it will be.
NancyS…I think I don’t understand your theory. I guess you won’t believe anything anybody tells you because your mind is set. You don’t believe. That’s okay, honestly.But why do you ask for examples or links?
We all have our own ideas about the case. As I said, I try to follow what LE says. As they say practically nothing, it’s difficult to form any cohesive theories. Nothing can be confirmed. And nobody in the community, outside the families involved, is now talking. Some did in the past…and I have also tried to pay attention to what unconnected and objective bystanders in the neighborhood have said. Ron and Misty and the rest don’t have matching stories. Bystanders say Misty picked up the kids, Ron says he did. Whom to believe? They all lie.
I think what it boils down to for me is that Misty told a big fat whopper fairy tale to the cops on Feb.10. So I agree with you that Misty was not there. I don’t even believe she was there and passed out.
Ron covered for her and married her –that “b***h that let my child get stole”.
Teresa Neves covered for her, saying that Misty was the “most mature” of all Ron’s girlfriends. Then she planned the wedding, donated her own diamond to the wedding festivities, and accompanied the happy couple on their honeymoon to NYC and the morning shows where Misty failed miserably in answering any questions. To the point that one host asked Misty “Why do your stories change?” To which Misty, hesitated looking at Ron to bail her out, and when he looked dead ahead, she asnswered weakly, “I don’t know.”
Annette Sykes covered for Misty by inventing a story (nine days after the inital investigation) that she personally saw Misty at the MH at 7:00 p.m. with both kids EATING ON THE PORCH W/O SHIRTS in February.
Another whopper, btw. And a necessary one because Misty HAD to be shown to be at the MH when Haleigh disappeared because nine days after the initial interviews, LE was asking the community if anyone saw Misty that night away from the MH. Gma Sykes had to bail Misty out of being suspected of not even being at the “scene of the abduction”. Why?
Why were they all covering for Misty? Why were they supporting her story which LE never believed because they said so. LE said the forensic evidence at the MH “does not match Misty’s story.”
Why did Ron and his mother and grandmother all cover the stories of the “key” to Haleigh’s disappearance — the “key” being what LE calls Misty.
It’s my own personal belief that they are covering for Misty because an accident happened to Haleigh due directly to Ron and his druggy lifestyle, or his temper, or his guns, or hnis choice of criminal companions.
LE says “Ron has an alibi. He was at work. But we don’t know WHEN what happened to Haleigh occurred.” what does that statement say to you, NancyS. Just curious, not trying to put you on any hot seat.
In other words when did Haleigh go missing or meet up with her death?
Ron’s alibi, his work hours, have never been confirmed by LE as a tight alibi because they do not know WHEN Haleigh got taken, became ill, or met with an accident which killed her.
In the end, it often comes down to what people believe or sense about Ronald Cummings. The feeling about Ron seems to be unevenly split between those who think he is the poor grieving father (with enormous bad-boy charm) like Mizzzz Nancy, and the majority of us who believe he is a stunted emotional man-child wanna be gangster, always adored and enabled by the females in his family, who caused the death of his daughter through neglect, drugs, bad companions, or an ungovernable temper.
Until LE gives us any indication of what they know for sure, we can continue to discuss our theories. Doesn’t mean those theories are cast in stone.
Even if Ron is eventually cleared of actually doing harm to his daughter, he is morally responsible for what happened to her, and, imo, so are his mother and grandmother. They all knew Misty was an irresponsible person to have care of two young children when drugs, guns, and tempers were abundant in that home. Did she leave the kids alone? Did Ronald have to take them to work with him to sleep alone in the car? Did Haleigh fall ill and was there nmobody around to call an ambulance? Did Haleigh get in the way of a fight over drugs or guns? Did she get in the way of a fight between Misty and Ron?
Finally, for me the proof that Ron Cummings always knew the fate of his daughter is his excited utterance the day after his daughter went missing. Dropping on his knees to the ground with a maximum of dramatic energy, he cries, “I would give my life to have my daughter’s life BACK!”
That was not concern or hope in that performance, thinking that Haleigh was missing, or abducted. That was Ron showing full knowledge of her fate. Ron knew she was dead. And so did his mother beside him ,with her tears streaming down her face.
All just my take. Every person has a right to her own beliefs about the case until it is solved.
I have little hope that it will be.
#23-McEscence—– Your Post was SPOT ON. Exactly correct, IMO. Also, very well put—could not have said it better myself.
The saddest part of this case, is that many also believe your last statement—-I agree with that also. I do not believe the public or LE will ever get the whole truth or be privy to all of the real facts behind this case, and it’s proper timeline. The real Culprit(s) will continue to lie and finger point in another direction.
Again, your entire assessment was very accurate.
I am probably going to shock a few of you. It is not my intention.
Haleigh’s case, like many, haunts me for reasons you are all aware of- dare I say, adnauseum.
In general, compassionate and reasonable people try to find a way to comfort the ancillary victim, to the actual victim, who in this case is Haleigh.
I have found it next to impossible to feel that way for anyone other than her baby brother in this mess.
N O BO D Y did right by this child. I don’t want to hear it anymore.
There are adults who have the ability to make choices, all of which appearing to be bad, and then there is this sweet little lady with a 10,000 watt smile, completely dependent on them, and it makes me seethe.
There was an assault rifle in the home. There was a teenage pseudo step-mom with a severe drug problem put in charge by the Father, whom imo, had a drug history at a minimum, who also put her in charge of his babies after a 3 day drug and sex bender.
Those of you who want to espouse how he was not involved, I agree, and I don’t care.
Ron Cummings behavior and lifestyle choices put his kids at risk, and ultimately caused the death of his daughter, so for me- what’s the damn difference exactly?
This little girl was sleeping on a bare toddler mattress on the floor.
Most of their family either has been arrested, or is currently in jail with drug or drug “related” offenses.
I am so utterly ill that folks continue to try to figure out who to stick up for, or who we should feel sorry for in this situation.
Let me clue you in. H A L E I G H.
Every single other person in this scenario has made choices that in one way or another enabled or contributed to this baby’s death, period.
In the world of a murdered child, there are no degrees of culpability.
Nobody gave a shit past their own foibles or vices and Haleigh Cummings died, and I say died, as the BEST CASE scenario in this horrifc nightmare, as a result.
If I sound angry over my usual “level” self, it is because I guess I am like most and want to find the person or persons to give love and compassion to at her loss, and there is not a deserving soul but her that I can see.
How do I get through it in this work, where a modicum of desensitization and distance is required to function?
I tell myself that through some Karmic Plan B, little Miss Sweetcheeks is frollicking through fairyland with all her friends and the safest she has ever been, and at night, when these freaks are jonesing for oxy in their bunks, she is crawling out of the well in black and white jumping through their imaginary TV’s while the phone rings in one of their houses.
May God forgive me, there is a part of me that is ok with her never being recovered.
I believe unequivocally she is at peace, and the thought of these people surrounding her donated casket crying so they can forgive themselves when they walk away is more than I can gastrically process, and more than they deserve.
B
Forebearance, please. Excuse my double posting on a long dissertation. I hate that.
Internet Explorer and AOL hate me. They evidently ganged up to impede my “submitting” with locking up my ‘puter for a few seconds. Grrrrrr.
Also, my typing errors are due to not being able to see well, and that may change soon!
To answer your question, I don’t know.
Blink God Bless you and God Bless Haleigh. and the little guy.
And You my dear friend.
B
I couldnt agree more with that Blink. Little Haleigh is at peace, and I oft wonder if she ever really experienced that while living the life that she did. Had Daddy truly been concerned about those children’s well-being, he wouldn’t have jeopardized their lives by playing with guns, drugs, and teenyboppers! God Bless her little soul. And by the way, You are an excellent writer!!
TY.
I just want it to matter at the end of the day.
B
Yes, little Haleigh is at peace, but I still would like justice for her. I want her life to mean something in that community, that little piece of sod, where she went to school, enjoyed birthdays and Christmas, rode her bicycle, played with her brother and cousins.
Instead she seems to mean more to nameless bloggers and posters, and not just for mind-bending sleuthing exercises, but because she deserved so much better than what that community in general and her family in particular offered her.
Where were the remembrances of Haleigh as a child of that town? Where are the comments about her from teachers and fellow students? From neighbors? She grew up in a vacuum, evidently.
Where in hell is the concern for her in Satsuma where it should originate and grow? Where is the outrage in her family that not one member has plead for months for her return until now when the family druggies are pleading their cases, and begging for reduced sentences. So they suddenly remember something — promise to reveal something they could have told months ago when Haleigh went missing?
How not to honor Haleigh, and protect your own butt.
Blink, I share your outrage, as do so many of us outsiders, but justice is important and I am not willing to let it go simply because Haleigh is at peace.
There is always going to be, tragically, another child in peril down the line. To perhaps stave off another case of an expendable child like her, Haleigh’s justice is more important than Haleigh’s peace.
Just my feelings.
Your points are valid ones McEnscene-
I guess for me I have learned justice comes in many forms, and we do not always get the brand we prefer.
B
Yes Blink unanswered prayers seem to suffice as well.
LMAO, oh I just had a very blonde moment. I have been hoping there was a way to subscribe to threads on here and low and behold! I just found it…lol has it always been there? oh my
1 more sent away. I wish someone would just tell where Haleigh is…
Croslin accomplice Donna Brock gets 15 years
Updated: Wednesday, 01 Sep 2010, 8:10 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 01 Sep 2010, 8:10 PM EDT
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (WAWS TV) – One of 5 people arrested in a drug trafficking ring involving Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin was sentenced Wednesday in St. Johns County court.
Donna Brock, a friend of Misty Croslin, told the judge that she only participated in selling the drugs so that she could get Misty to open up to her about the disappearance of 5 year-old Haleigh.
The judge asked her why she didn’t just tell police what she was doing and she said she didn’t know.
Brock was sentenced to 15 years in jail and $100,000 fine.
Brock, Cummings, Misty and Hank Croslin and Hope Sykes were arrested on charges of drug trafficking in January.
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/local/090110croslin-accomplice-donna-brock-gets-15-years
It is so sad that this case has bowed this low as to the only arrest they can get out of all this time is for drug trafficking in a small amount at that?
I don’t even think they got a big dealer with these wannabees.
Misty got hers (or some) from Donna Brock from a personal prescription.
I think they have enough to arrest at least Misty for child neglect as the last known person to see Haleigh.
If she “confessed” why didn’t they arrest her for knowing Haleigh was in danger in a “black bag”?
Why aren’t the police arresting these people? Or Tommy for “watching Joe dump her in the river?” they are placing themselves there for Gods sake? child abuse? neglecting to protect a child?
Where are the laws for the children?
I have often pondered the idea that the players in our drama resemble nothing so much as the Jukes and Kallikaks meeting up at a barn dance, and, after imbibing too many flagons of their own home-made moonshine ambrosia, and engaging in one long down and dirty donnybrook as entertainment, have seemingly successfully confounded the local trained constabulary with their bloodhounds on the location of their still…for over 18 months.
These simple folk have acquired the genius of the brain surgeon or the rocket scientist in keeping their secrets and manipulating control over the investigation. How? Why, by constanly revising and editing what started out as a too simple story.
Who could ever believe any of them with any story, now? Anyone who might have some truth to tell would never be believed. And any half-way decent defense attorney could make shambles out of any sworn testimony from one about another, that is, if anyone of them would even be inclined to tell any truth.
On second thought, the simple-minded barn-dance moonshiners actually seem to act with sheer brillance!
I feel you- I do.
Here is the recipe that has worked for them thus far:
Have every single person material to the case be guilty of doing something that can land them in jail at the same time so nobody will breathe a word.
Satsuma/Palatka is not willing to make any immunity deals for Haleigh and you have suspects in jail on other charges looking at 15 years plus. There is no hurry for them.
B
LOL. Well, Blink, I have to confess than in my wilder moments, I have thought that all the major players in our sad little drama were all involved in a crime together. Let’s say for ‘stances, we cite getting rid of a bothersome rival drug dealer or snuffin’ out the life of a blackmailing bad cop.
I can see them all getting high or drunk, getting into a brawl with their erstwhile drug buddy, resulting in shots to his head (from an interesting gun) and subsequent feeding bad dude to the ‘gaiters. (But not in February as the critters are dormant in that cooler weather, or so say the wildlife peeps.)
The second-string actors comprised mostly of the older generation are covering for their near and dear for whatever crime their beloved ones played a part in. No matter. Just habit. Any crime will do. Y’all pays your money and takes yer cherce!
Okay, I’m nuts. But any drug baddies missing down there since summer or fall ’08?
Has anyone else heard that Ronnie boy posted bond on Aug. 20? If so, where did he get 50 grand to get outta jail? Hope this isnt true, but I have a link, I just cant get it to post.
http://public.pcso.us/jail/bookingDetails.aspx?SYSID=758544&IMG=49930
This is it
I read the samer thing BoN, but I wasn’t sure of the dockett. And I couldn’t find anything on who did, if it is true and he is out. Maybe Padilla? I don’t know?
Now at the fist link I went to from another place didn’t show the ” bonded out” part. Thanks so much believe it or not!!
. Justice for Haleigh!!
believeitornot-
I am surprised to hear this news? I wonder why no one picked it up?
I bet if he did get out, L Padilla or nephew? they need some more media attention since the Anthony case is settled right now…. blah.
Please let us know if you find out anything else. TY
Hey Nancy, now I’m not sure but it looks like he is still on the inmate list. And that the bonded out part was for the two dropped charges maybe? Idk? But if I find out I will post it
Many stumbling blocks to logic and rational judgment in this case. One of the first is the birthday party of Teresa Neves where great PR was expended on Sir Rom proposing (with ring from Teresa N.) to his Lady Misty.
Kind of a combo birthday/engagement extravanganza. (Huh? Haleigh who? Missing, didja say?)
Then, we follow the details of the wedding, where only the bride was dressed appropriately. And everybody pictured with big shiney smiles, except the groom who looked as if he could bite a ‘gator.
Who, in the name of sweet reason, GETS MARRIED AND CELEBRATES anything soon after your child and grandchild goes missing?
Did they all think that Haleigh was merely away at summer camp?
You are so welcome chickiegirl! Who knows whats true or not in this case? But Im with MsEnscene alllllllllllll the way!!!!!!!! LOL
Ok been doing some checking and it looks like the bond has only been paid on a few of the charges, which doesn’t make sense at all to me, but what does in this case.
I am going to call Mr. Padilla and ask what he knows, IF anything?
get back at you all shortly…..
Ok been doing some checking and it looks like the bond has only been paid on a few of the charges, which doesn’t make sense at all to me, but what does in this case?.
I am going to call Mr. Padilla and ask what he knows, IF anything?
get back at you all shortly…..
Whoa boy, McEnscene!! You hit the nail on the head for sure with that one-you a carpenter? Yeah, Believeitornot, I have no idea which way is up with this case at times! One minute it’s all about Haleigh to people than it’s all about the sideshow, and even then-who doesn’t get distracted when there’s a 3 ring circus going on!?! I don’t know how anyone can keep things straight sometimes, but I don know that a little girl is gone and her life was in the hands of people who put their lives first. Whoever it was. I think, moo, they all put themselves before Haleigh. But what do I know?
I’m so sorry- MsEnscene!:)
Chickiegirl:
Haleigh’s case is driving me nuts. Why doesn’t some “other” family get the third degree as well as the Croslins? Did any of the Cummings, other than Ron, take a LDT? Did he pass it? We have only his word that he and Misty passed it. LE has said nada. Did Gma Sykes and Teresa Neves take LDTs? We don’t know. LE says nothing. After 19 months of nothing, couldn’t they comment on anything?
I have a lot of questions for the Cummings clan about their changing stories, as many as I had for the Croslins. Yet, we never hear much about pressure applied to the Cummings side. Maybe because they weren’t caught drug dealing.
I’d throw in the Sheffields, et.al, also, but, as I have said, Haleigh didn’t go missing under the Sheffields, et.al..
We need outside, more objective investigators, to take on this case. IMO, as always.
NancyS:
Two of Ron’s charges have been dropped for his plea deal…his willingness, now, to give up some ifo on…er… something. (Color of socks worn by a rival drug dealer? Who in hello knows?)
What was dropped for his great info are the two most serious charges against him for the drug trafficking, so those charges carried the highest bonds… $250,000 each or $500,000. When those charges were dropped, the bond charges were dropped, totaling the $500,000 you see as “posted”.
I think Sir Ron has $400,000 bond for the remaining 3 charges which has not been posted. Ron remains in jail until someone ponies up with the necessary bond money. Maybe his mom and Gma can take out a collection among the Cummings Assn. to bond him out on the remaing $400,00…which would be around $40,000?