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.

Courtesy 4Jax

“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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  1. MsEnscene, they could patent that good “sweet tea” that Grandma made!! Bet that would be enough to bond him out! LOL Hoop and Hollar!!!

  2. chickiegirl says:

    Lol, you guys! MsEnscene, I have thought about that also. Fresh new eyes from an outside the area department (or something) would be helpful. Maybe not to present LE on the case but to Haleigh yeah, I think so. Moo :)

  3. MsEnscene says:

    believeitornot:

    Heh! Not a bad idea in how to make funds! Don’t think Ron’s family has any property to speak of to use as collateral in putting up enough for his bond. Ron’s mom,Teresa, was evicted from an apartment in Ladylake which is some miles from Satsuma. GGM Sykes lives in a trailer. Not sure if his status would permit him to get out on bond since he’s accepted a plea deal. A legal eagle would have to explain all that.

    The latest is that Ron is finally talking to LE about the timeline of the case. Before and after Haleigh went missing? Who knows?

    He is also talking to LE about all the phone calls he made to Misty that night, plus the many texts he made besides the phone calls.

    Now, he’s telling something. Good on ya’, Ron “baby”! Stepping up to the plate, are you dearie?

    All this from Art Harris on JVM tonight. I trust AH as far as I can
    toss him. JVM said that LE doesn’t need Ron Cummings info about any phone records and texts;they have them already.

    AH, said that Ron also believes that Misty “is the key”. Sheesh! What a change of heart, Ronnie! Ron told Miz Nancy that he never talked to Misty about the case while they were married. Ron and his mom and his grandmother seemed to have such explicit faith in Misty, too. So sad, she’s bad!

    Now Teresa thinks Misty should be humg from the town square for all the lies she has told as Teresa told us recently on the news. Yet, Haleigh “is still out there” according to Teresa and GGma Sykes. Why in hell don’t they do anything about finding her, then? Nary a word about looking for Haleigh comes from their mouths. Shades of Cindy Anthony!

    Sigh. Who knows what LE has? Who knows what they know? At one point they did announce that they were have trouble with the “electronics” connected to the case. That sounds like phone calls, pings, and texts to me. But who knows? Everything is a big dark secret because they don’t want to compromise their case. I hope.

  4. NancyS says:

    Thank you I thought it was a rumor as I think that would not go undetected. THE jail info is very confusing. I think these drug charges are REDICULOUS really ( I don’t mean that I don’t agree with the law) it is that I think they outta be arresting people for Haleighs case and not 300 dollars worth of drugs….stupid to me IMO…..
    it just make my blood boil is all…..WHERE IS HALEIGH?

  5. MsEnscene says:

    NancyS:

    Do you really think the drug arrests are unconnected to the Haleigh case? Unconnected with the fact that some in LE are trying to find any measure to help them find out happened to Haleigh? If it is true that LE from FOUR LE agencies were questioning Ron in August (according to Art Harris), what do you think that means?

    Evidently, Ron has “offered up” info and has agreed to testify should Haleigh’s case come to trial, according to LE.

    By giving up that info, Ron got a reduction in his charges from 5 to 3 charges, thus reducing the minimum he will likely serve in prison for the drug busts. IF he testifies truthfully. What do you think that means?

    What do you think Ron has been holding back for 19 months? And why?

    After all, it was Ron’s “heart” who went missing. His little girl. Why would he hold back anything?

    Why, indeed, wouldn’t he be camped at LE heardquarters as are other worried parents of missing children waiting for, demanding, news of their missing children?

    Instead Ron lawyers up immediately, marries Misty, the “key” to Haleigh’s disappearance, and refuses to talk to LE after March of 2009. He’s done talking because as he says, “I was at work.”

    I am curious. I don’t get what you think happened to Haleigh? Not trying to be snarky, none of us knows definitely what happened to her. I just can’t figure out what you think. And why you don’t think the drug busts were a way for LE to get somebody to crack in the Haleigh case.

    It seems pretty obvious to many of us from Ron’s plea deal in the drug case, that LE wants his TRUTHFUL testimony about important events in the Haleigh case. Info which he seems to have witheld until now when he needs leverage to get his sentences reduced.

    Why do you think the drug busts were a waste? Even (which I do not believe for a moment), wouldn’t you have wanted these drug dealers, who sell to children, btw, (that’s how they get future hooked customers) locked up for their crimes?

  6. MsEnscene says:

    Correction: “I meant to say “Even if the drug busts were not connected in any way to Haleigh’s case (which I do not believe for a moment), wouldn’t you want these drug dealers…”etc.

  7. I think that says alot about Ron Cummings coming out now with info. And for what, to save his own arse? Was he even thinking about little Haleigh, which was suppose to be his heart? I think not. I have always had that overwhelming feeling of guilt on Rons part. He knows something!!!!!As does his mother. Was little Haleighs life meaningless to these people? I say lock him up and throw away the key. What blows my mind, is how he ever got custody of those two babies in the first place, because he certainly doesnt measure up to “Dad of the Year” in my book.

  8. MsEnscene says:

    Believe,

    I think Ron got custody because he had the kids for a visit and just kept them. Took them to Mexico, of all things, on a “vacation”. (Two little kids in diapers!) As I understand it, he just didn’t return them to Crystal.

    Then, when he went before the judge, he already had the kids and supposedly he had proof of having a job with insurance for the kids’health issues, especially Haleigh. The kids’ mom was not employed and couldn’t provide any health insurance for the kids. And she was said to have a drug problem and had missed some Drs. appointments for the kids.

    There are rumors that Ron committed other skullduggery against Crystal to get the kids. I am sure some state of Fed money went with those children. And I think Ron intimated that he would have help from his mom and grandmother with the kids. First he had an underaged Amber looking after the kids, and then underaged foggy Misty!

    Plenty of fighting ‘twixt the two families over custody of Haleigh and Jr. and it was continuing up until the drug caper with the Fab Five resulting in Ronald’s arrest.

  9. MsEnscene says:

    Ronald Cummings’ stipulated role in his plea deal…what is required from him…can be heard on this video. The deal is being read by the SA into the record beginning at the 1:07 mark.

    http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/…a/591024107001

    It is very clearly stipulated what Ron Cummings must do or else his two dropped charges will be reinstated and the penalties for those charges might run consecutively.

    I would gather that LE thinks they know what the truth is and will know if Ron is lying when he testifies. (Are his lips moving, Mister SA?)

    It is a good question to ask why he has remained mum (“I was at work.”) all these months since he knew somthing about the phone calls and texts and possibly other stuff pertaining to Haleigh’s disappearance.

    A Logical answer to that question appears to be that the truth didn’t matter to Ron until his buttinsky was in a sling. Then he went into crafty Ron maneuvers to shave some years off his sentence.

    Now, he admits there was a fight over a gun? He always lied about that before.
    Now, he admits that he believes “Misty is the key” as LE has always said.

    He was married to “the key” and had her at his disposal for months but never queried her about Haleigh’s disappearance? After he divorced Misty, Ron also warned Misty that Donna Brock was working undercover to find out what Misty knew. Sounds as if “the key” was under Ron’s protection even though they were divorced.

    I wish they’d charge the whole darn bunch with lying to LE about a missing child and obstructing justice in finding her. I mean in addition to their drug crimes. I’d like to see them all in the same room with a few good men and watch the squirming and the finger pointing at each other. And perhaps the blubbering and breaking down under the relentless questioning by the few good men.

    Oh, wait. I must be thinking of another planet.

  10. NancyS says:

    MsEnscene,
    Please understand that I have no way of starting to know what happened to Haleigh, BUT I do believe that LE needs to go for the juglar here (these people are tough to deal with) they need start arresting them for Haleigh directly. They have nothing to lose with the drug charges. They have NO REASON to talk. They have been is jail for so long now and STILL NO ANSWERS.
    Ron maybe get a slight deal for testifying information that LE already has or not but it cracks me up on how the LE has not arrested anyone for Haleigh and Ron is making deals over that which has NOTHING to do with missing Haleigh, something about it just don’t jive. I dont mean I don’t think they are connected BUT legally how can they deal with a plea deal for a case where there has been no arrest?
    Example: Ron goes in for sentencing for “drug trafficking” and the JUDGE says “Ron you are getting sentenced today, for drug trafficking, what do you have to say about your daughters case? that is what I mean about how can they do that? don’t make sense in a court of law?

    NancyS-
    I do not like it anymore than you do, but if they had probable cause to arrest anyone for Haleigh’s case, they would have done so. They are dealing in proffers and hypotheticals at the moment. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind if Ron C does not offer information that can bring charges in Haleigh’s case, whatever they may be, that he will have the 2 dropped charges reinstated.

    Other than that I think we all know where I stand on this matter.
    B

  11. NancyS says:

    In other words, I have been in the court system for work and either these people are EXTREMELY stupid or their counsel knows EXACTLY what I am saying. I do believe they need to take a different approach, they will serve less time for drugs than doing something to Haleigh. why talk?

  12. MsEnscene says:

    NancyS

    I’m afraid you are correct! I have to keep faith that LE knows more than we think they do, and with that knowledge, coupled with the drug bust sentences, one of the ones who have lied all along will finally “get religion” and back up whatever the cops think they know.

  13. In my thinking, it has to be that all the arrests for the druggies were to see if anything could be revealed about Haleigh. LE probably assumed that sooner or later someone would talk……to no avail. And as for Ron, well someone with a criminal mind, a mother in cahoots with the law, and Satsuma being such a small area, I have no doubt that anything will ever surface for poor little Haleighs sake! Even if it did…WHO in their right minds would believe it?

  14. MsEnscene says:

    What worries me is Ron’s smirk the other day in court when the SA was reading his (Ron’s) “deal”. He looked liked the cat who ate the little yellow birdie.

    Of course, the smirk could be just Ron’s facade; he looks as if he is in control and maybe that’s as good as being in control for him.

    After Ron’s deal, the LE talked to Misty. I hope Misty gets a clue about what is going down with Ron and his deal.

  15. MsEnscene-

    So do I! I hate to think Misty is responsible for Haleigh being missing, but we just dont know at this time. I still blame TN for not watching the kids that night, and RON for being so irresponsible!! Will it ever end?

  16. MsEnscene says:

    In my present condition, believeitornot, I think Ron’s participation in Haleigh’s disappearance runs to a little more than irresponsible.

    Somthing happened to Haleigh,which caused her immediate or sometime later, death. And, IMO, not at the MH because the “forensics don’t match Misty’s story” says LE. Nothing happened there but the staging of the “abduction”.

    More likely whatever happened to Haleigh occurred at Hank Croslin Sr. and Lisa’s house while they were both away at the hospital the night of Feb.9/10. I think that is where Misty fled to after her wild weekend away from Ron. Remember, he had knocked her about and kicked her out.And then dumped her belongings on somebody’s lawn. She wouldn’t have gone back to the MH, surely.

    What happened to Haleigh and what time? We don’t know that, either, but I’d bet the bank that it happened before Ron went to “werk”. And the rest of his “alibi” time at work, was spent by various people doing the clean up and getting rid of Haleigh’s body.

    For what it’s worth, I still believe that Haleigh got in the way of something…I don’t think Haleigh’s death was a deliberate action on anybody’s part.

    Flaming tempers, drugs, guns and little kids do not mix. The cover up is something else though, imo, very deliberate effort to save Ron’s hide and finally, all their ass-ets. Everyone involved has something to hide. Sounds like a conspiracy doesn’t it?

    Well, if it walks like a duck…

  17. NancyS says:

    Yes Blink I know you are right and how can anyone even have theories on this case? I would love to be able to go down there and maybe it would be a different feel to me.
    I keep going back to the Jessica Lundsford case, and to me, so far it runs similar besides the fact that I feel so inclined towards the Croslins on this one. I just think that if Ron did something, he would have broke by now. He just seems to me (MOO) an adult sized child that made child like choices. I hope to God I am not wrong as I don’t think this happened on his watch. Blink have you been there?
    OH I just wish I could stop reading on this case as it just gets nowhere.

  18. NancyS says:

    OH Blink, one question, or thought?
    Why couldn’t they get Misty on child neglect? or endangerment as the kids were in her care and she was passed out?

    OH and I am sure that gramma regrets every day that passes.

    Because it would negate the possibility of charging her with something else ( short version) and they may have evidence she is deceased.
    B

  19. MsEnscene says:

    NancyS:

    How do we know that Haleigh was in the care of Misty?

    How do we know that Misty was passed out?

    LE stated that the “forensics at the MH do not match Misty’s story”.

    In other words: Misty lied. Or she wasn’t there. Or Haleigh didn’t go missing from that site. Or Misty is the “key” to the real story.

    Why does that initial story of Misty’s keep getting stated by everyone on websites as the truth? Misty has changed her story a number of times, but people are still quoting her initial story which LE says doesn’t fit their facts. Why are Misty’s statements from her first story still being quoted?

    I just don’t get it.

  20. NancyS says:

    MsEnscene-
    I know huh… it is rediculous. I wasn’t saying I believed her, I was just saying that is the information that we have.
    I am wondering if there was evidence in that van and that is why no one was arrested yet as they cannot prove who was driving it or what?
    Why would ANYONE put a dead deer in the back of a van?
    I think it was done to cover up evidence or blood from Haleigh? is this the evidence they have? I wish that little punk Timmy could be arrested too, he is involved somehow.

  21. OR MsEnscene, Haleigh was already dead before RON went to work!! Maybe thats why he took his good ole time getting home from work that early morning (if in fact he even went to work) So many IFS ANDS and BUTS, but so few answers.

  22. need to be more clear on my above statement. Maybe the reason he was slow getting home, was because he was waiting for the mess to be cleared up, and when he came home, Misty would have had everything taken care of, then the 911 call could come into play. Just M/O

  23. MsEnscene says:

    believeitornot:

    Oh, yeah! What you said!

    Ron’s lawyer said Ronald told him that he went into work 45 minutes early that day. (We’ve never found out his actual hours.) Does that sound like Ronald Cummings? The eager worker? I think he had to be SEEN coming into work at that particular time because that is the time frame in which something happened to Haleigh.

    He took his time getting home “like a cracker” because Misty was supposed to make that call to 911 while he was at work. And Misty screwed up, didn’t cooperate, or couldn’t be found to be placed at the MH while Ron was at work. Where was she?

    I don’t think she was at the MH at 7:00 to be seen by GGM Sykes when she “brought laundry”. I don’t think she was there at 8:00 bathing Haleigh and putting her in PJ’s (Misty didn’t know what Haleigh wore to bed.) Misty was not there putting a video in for Haleigh to watch. And I don’t think she was there at 10:00 cleaning up and doing laundry that night. She’s already dropped that story, anyway.

    In my opinion, this is a conspiracy. And Miz Misty is the fall guy. And she’s so dumb that I wonder if she realized she’s the scapegoat, yet. Ron and his female enablers set her up for the big fall and I don’t think that the marriage they promised her has quite worked out! Ha! As always, just my take.

  24. Heidi says:

    Question, Why haven’t we seem any written statements /phone ping data discovery?

  25. MsEnscene says:

    Heidi,
    Because none of them have been arrested for whatever happened to Haleigh? With Casey Anthony, we got lots of discovery, ping records, etc., because she was arrested and going to trial. I think. The legal eagles could tell us why nothing is avaiable through the Sunshine Law in this case, but I think it’s because no one has been arrested for the crime against Haleigh.

    We have heard tapes of their telephone calls released on Misty and Tommy. Not very many at all on Ron Cummings.

  26. Heidi says:

    Thanks (smiling).

  27. MsEnscene says:

    Heidi:

    Remember, for what it’s worth! I’m very far from a legal eagle.

  28. NancyS says:

    I am wondering if anyone here is near or in Putnam county as I do believe we can get records from the drug charges if we write and request them? could someone call there to find out? If I get address I will send for them. I would like to see Rons plea deals and Mistys case records to see what is all involved

  29. MsEnscene says:

    NancyS.

    If you can wait until this coming Friday, you might learn a bit about Ron’s deal or not. Who knows? That is the day he will be sentenced…supposedly…unless there is a continuance. Ron agreed to tell about Misty’s phone calls, and his call to Tommy that fateful night, and admitted,finally, that he was in a fight over a gun with Jo. This news is all from either Ron’s lawyer or Art Harris. Neither of them are bastions of truth, IMO, but there you are.

  30. NancyS says:

    Well even though I am not sure he didn’t give this in the beginning when the police and his lawyer said he came in to the station to answer questions about the cell phone pings and or calls to Misty and Tommy.

    I still want to believe that he was working with police during this drug trafficking deal and that is why he is getting a deal but this will make it look like new info for the state having it look like he was a real player.

    I also believe he told about the fight also but didn’t want the media to know. I will be disappointed to be wrong in my thinking but still believe Ron is innocent in Haleigh missing.

  31. NancyS says:

    I also think that he did this drug thing to catch some bigger dealers as he can get charges dropped for that also. This is why I would love to read the deals to see if they are going to be sealed.

    Yes we will see if they sentence him and what he gets as “technically” this is a first offense for him.

    Misty sentencing on October 4th, I wish we had someone that could go to court…. dang it.

  32. Im hanging tough with my thoughts … Throw the book at him! Ratting people out to keep his arse from doing too much time, with a daughter missing, and people covering for him, ugh, makes me wanna puke. Where is the Justice? This has been going on for waaaaaaay too long! Bring Haleigh home, and give her to her mother, where she should have been in the first place!

  33. MsEnscene says:

    Ron described in detail the fight with Jo over the gun on the Cobra tapes. Ron said next time he would crush Jo’s hands into a pulp so he wouldn’t steal anything from anybody ever again. Ron is a toughie!

    Wonder why he never pursued his daughter’s abductor as he said he would. He was going to “take out the trash!” Big bad Ron! He told Cobra on tape that his daughter was probably underwater feeding the alligators. Mr. Softie! What grief stricken parent says a thing like that even a braggadocio like Ron?

    I have the distinct impression that Ron Cummings is a slippery eel.
    And to quote Tim Miller “Things are not all what they seem in Satsuma.” I have thought all along that Ron has something on somebody big in LE concerning drugs. Not on everybody, but maybe on a few that count.

    Whatever happens on Friday, I know positively in my heart that Ron Cumming is ultimately responsible for his daughter’s death no matter if he walks free on Friday or goes away for 15 years.

    And why is he responsible for Haleigh’s demise? Because of his immorality,his personality, his “profession” and his associates.

    He knows very well what happened to his daughter. Whether he was “at werk” as he always mentions when ANY pertinent questions are asked of him about Haleigh’s abduction, or whether he was wearing a burnoose and joy riding a camel in Timbuktu, Ron Cummings knows ALL about it.

    Only my feelings, of course. Others may continue to believe that Ron is God’s gift to law enforcement.

  34. MsEnscene-
    I believe on Friday we will see it for ourselves. I totally agree with Ron knows what has happened to Haleigh. I just dont have any proof to back up my suspicions. And yes his personality speaks volumes about the type of person he is, along with his “robbing the cradle” so to speak of girls way younger than himself. Wonder why he never dated anyone his own age? Noone would have him? Also I cant remember how long he held this ONE job, do you recall? You are right on when you say hes slippery as an eel, along with mama and grandma too!!! God Bless little Haleigh, and please bring some closure to the ones that love her! I hope Justice will be served.

  35. NancyS says:

    Msenscene-
    you surely have quite a few good arguments and it is going to be interesting in next couple of weeks that is for sure.
    If we only had some good information or docs to read on this case. It is frustrating but I still cannot judge these people yet as I have known too many similar that love their children.

    I just hope and pray that this is over soon as Haleigh is the reason we are here… Blink, anyone you know going to be in court friday?

  36. MsEnscene says:

    believeitornot:

    Somehow, I don’t think we will learn anything on Friday. Ron will probably get a continuance and the thing will go on forever. I think he wants to be sentenced after Misty. I am sure he has good reasons. We’ll see.

    I don’t expect any info whatsoever on Friday, or, indeed, until someone maybe stumbles over Haleigh’s bones. I don’t think Ron’s saying that “she’s with the ‘gators” is anything but a Ron deflection from the fact that Haleigh is buried somewhere close by. Not with the alligators.

    Why doesn’t Ron live with women his own age? My theory is that he’s damaged goods maybe from abuse, or abandoment in his early years and definitely stunted from being a druggie.

    Ex-druggies have often described how their emotional development was stunted/stopped from that point when they first started taking drugs.

    I can bet that Ron first started drugging at age about 12-14. Maybe earlier. He is now 26, but still stuck at that pubescent level of emotional development.

    He wants a “woman” mental age of 12 or so whom he can control, one who is absolutely dependent upon him for her every need, one who has been ill used and abused and one with little education or work experience which might allow her to leave the Ron-abuse situation once she has had enough.

    If Ron’s maturity is at a 14 year level of emotional growth what could he do with a woman his own age? At his first backhand to her face, or first kick in the head, or the first time he put a gun in his mouth and threatened suicide if she wanted to do something he objected to, she would give him a swift kick in the gonads and go back to her waitress job and get the hello outta there!

    Crystal did. And Amber did…when they finally came to some form of their senses and realized that Sir Ron is only charming to people like Nancy Grace! But I’ll say this about him, whatever the reason, many women on the Net are Mama Bears defending him. Oh, my!

    As to his length of time on this job…I think I read that he was employed at the bridge-building co. for four or five months.

    His mom said he was a crane operator, but I think his job was described as one who “cleans up the yard”. A crane operator would require special training and is probably a union job. He also trimmed trees or brush for his aunt.

    All just my take on Sir Ron. I’ve knows a couple of guys just like him with the same sort of background. Emotional cripples with hairtrigger tempers and drug problems, having no business raising two little kids. But then, nobody has to get a license to breed. Unfortunately.

  37. Yes MsEnscene, I have called him a control freak from the get-go. No one would want someone that is going to physically and mentally abuse them, and yes indeed that is why he picks the younger girls. Unfortunately though for him, those younger gals didnt prove to be marriage material for ole Ronnie, and thank God two of them had sense enough to get away from him.

    As for Misty, had she been given time, I feel she too would have left him. Its just so unfortunate that this tradgedy has unfolded in her presence. In my heart I feel Misty knows what has happened, but I dont feel she was the actual participant in whatever has taken place.

    I’ve read where Ron beat those kids, and that is why DCFS was involved with him and his lifestyle, teaching him how to spank a child. That alone is enough for me to say that Ron Cummings had no business being a sperm donor!

  38. oh one more thing, MsEnscene: As for all the MaMa Bears defending Ron, I pray that you are right in viewing him as a Good Daddy, I am not alone when I say that IMO Hes one of the worst! And if need be I need to eat crow someday, so be it, but until then, this is my opinion!
    Bring Haleigh home!

  39. pomona71 says:

    The Cummings clan is beginning to look like the Croslins with an
    arrest of Crystal Cummings, Ron’s sister. Will she be a factor as
    Ron considers his plea deal. http://public.pcso.us/jail/booking.aspx
    Crystal’s charged with failing to appear… Whatever works to get
    Ron to tell the entire truth, “Where’s Haleigh?”

  40. NancyS says:

    LOL are you serious? his sister got arrested now? geesh I guess I forgot about her… hehe when did this happen? and I wonder why she thought she would get away with not appearing. hmmm the beat goes on.

  41. Interesting pomona! Lo and behold, I wonder what she knows??

  42. MsEnscene says:

    believeitornot said:

    “oh one more thing, MsEnscene: As for all the MaMa Bears defending Ron, I pray that you are right in viewing him as a Good Daddy, I am not alone when I say that IMO Hes one of the worst! ”

    Ohmygosh, I hope you don’t think I said he was a good daddy. I never have! As a matter of fact, I think both sides of her familily failed her miserably. Her mom took a damm sight long to get herself righted, if she has. Her grandmothers are both something else , again.Don’t mess with me mommas! The men don’t matter in either family. And everybody, it seems, are low level criminals or scam artists. And then we have Ron leaving those kids first with Amber and then with Misty. Both underage druggies with issues.

    About Ron, I have said enough. The Mama Bears with claws out protecting this guy have me so intrigued. I have my theories about most of them and why they are so hostile to anyone who sees flaws in this guy. It’s a bit more, IMO, than their supposed romantic conception of that cuddly Ron with Haleigh and more than the dramatic falling-down on his knees as the bereived dad. IMO, it’s something else for most of them.

    Put it this way, Ron will never be short of any goodies in prison…if he even goes there…he will be amply supplied with everything, including marriage proposals. Lots of Ron fanguurrls out there. lol! Well, he does cut a dashing, figure, no? NO.

  43. MsEnscene says:

    NancyS,

    Ron’s sister did not get arrested. This is a different Crystal Cummings…too young to be his sister. Might be a relative. She looks like a chubby Misty Croslin from her booking photo! Ha! The number of Crystals in Haleigh’s story is confusing, if not weird!

  44. MsEnscene says:

    I am posting too much, but just had to add this. Art Harris has this photo up at his site showing Misty and Ron on their honeymoon NYC trip.

    They’re grief stricken, I tells ya’!

    http://www.artharris.com/2010/09/24/exclusive-kiss-ronald-cummings-bye-bye/

  45. NancyS says:

    MsEnscene,
    You never post too much, I looked up Crystal Cummings last night and realized it wasn’t his sister, not even in looks.. lol

    believeitornot- The reasons why mama bears protect Ron? why do you think that is? why so intreged with them?

    I just feel that everyone chooses to believe what they believe in these cases and some people are just not able to seperate their personal feelings from these cases sometimes. I know people from all walks of life from movie stars to homeless people. I have had a lot of life experience in life as well as an education.
    I would think it would be easier for some to have more of an open mind than others. not so hard.

    Ron got 15 years today and a 250,000 fine?
    that is all I know so far and this is strickly from drug charges?
    I cannot get that little boy out of my mind being without the only familiar person in his life around. so sad.I also heard that his mother had him in court room today and was crying at the sentence? sad stuff for sure. I hope to God that little boy gets the love and guidance he deserves…

    I sure hope the TRUTH comes out for Haleigh, it does nothing but distract from her being found? where are you baby girl?

  46. MsEnscene says:

    NancyS:

    Perhaps some of the sentenced people, Tommy, Misty, Ron, Hope, Donna will utter the truth to one of their cellmates, and that person will tell to get a better “deal” on their sentence! It has happened.

    And Misty likes to blab a lot and has not been sentenced, yet. Maybe she will see the “light” one day. Except of course, if she wasn’t really there or passed out during the time Haleigh went missing. She confessed to her mama in jail that she still loves Ron. “He’s the one, Mama.” Perhaps she will recover from her fatal attraction.

    Right now it looks as if all of them know that it’s better to go to prison for the drug trafficking than own up to what they know about Haleigh. Must be horrendous.

    Why in tarnation has LE not arrested cousin Jo, that big bad dude from Tennessee, who figures so prominently as the perp in so many of the traffickers’ stories? He must have himself one heckuva good lawyer!

  47. Oh no no no MsEnscene! I know you are not a Ron supporter. I was saying that to all the MaMa Bears out there! LOL I need to restate:
    As for all the Mama Bears out there defending Ron: I pray that you are right in viewing him a Good Daddy! I am not alone when I say that IMO he’s one of the worst!!!! and the rest of what I said ^ there :) . Just wanted to clear that up.

    And I continue to Scroll and roll……..with an open mind.

  48. Wow, a good write up by Art Harris. Notice where he says the part about the old gun, could help Misty out. If Sir Ron will just own up to owning it!! The truth shall set you free! We just have to sit back and be patient.

  49. I would answer your question Nancy, but I dont find the word intreged in the dictionary–maybe you mean intrigued? If so, I’m not captivated with any of the Mama Bears.

  50. MsEnscene says:

    beliveitornot:

    Thanks! I’ve got the Mama Bears story straight, now! Sorry. I need a remedial reading course! Yes, they are still maintaining what a wonderful daddy he was. Some are still grinching on Crystal as if Haleigh disappeared under her watch! I just can’t get it through my head! Lot of jealousy from the Mama Bears about Crystal, and claws extended in bitter enmity toward the parent who did NOT lose Haleigh!
    Go figure!

    I’ve already commented on what I feel about Art Harris. In this latest story he cannot keep his own stories straight about what he reported before. Maddening. He is so pathetically eager to be the “go to guy”, the top reporter, on this case.

    At one time Harris reported that either Chelsea or Lindsy told HIM that Theresa needed Misty to baby sit that night while Ron was at work. She asked Misty and then Theresa, according to Art’s first story, told Misty that she (Theresa) would pay Misty.

    Misty in turn supposedly said “You dont have to pay me, I’ll do it, if it is all right with Ron.”

    Remember, according to Misty’s friend Nay-Nay, Ron had beaten Misty up, kicked her out, and threw her clothes on Nay-Nay’s lawn, thus precipitating the binge, drug and sex weekend Misty had just come back from.

    Good heavens, now Art is quoting Theresa, Ron’s mother. Art says she denies to him that Misty asked HER to baby sit, and never offered her(Theresa) any money.

    WELL, OF COURSE NOT! Art! The story you reported at first was the other way around! Good heavens!

    Also, his story today where he recounts Lisa talking to him about Hank’s story of Ronald selling drugs from prison is a dangerous one for him to report. If it is true, Lisa may be in trouble and so, too, Hank.

    I don’t get Art Harris at all…I don’t think he knows his elbows from his toes and I cannot help but think his “sources” are bogus! Are they really connected to LE? Well, one is Chelsea, and as far as I can tell, she is not a paragon of truth! Ithink she is protecting her husband from some involvement that fateful night.

    This is the CRAZIEST case with the nuttiest participants and principles! So many people making up stuff. LE never gives their say. They’ve said so little. When LE says nothing, then all sorts of stories abound. We don’t even know who picked up Haleigh from the bus. We don’t know when what happened to her occurred. We don’t know where. No crime scene, evidently. Many stories by the cast of characters. The truth and Haleigh are lost.

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