Another child, Haliegh Cummings is Missing from her Florida home.
Haleigh is 3 feet tall with blond hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt and underwear.
Haleigh Cummings missing from Florida home
Misty Croslin, now the wife off Ronald Cummings, the father of the missing Florida girl has taken a lie detector test, a local sheriff said. He wouldn’t reveal the results of the test, but the father and his wife said Thursday night during an interview with FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren that they both submitted to polygraphs and both “passed.”
Croslin reported that 5-year-old Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings had vanished from her bed before dawn on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.
Several people have been interviewed by police and the FBI, and all have been offered the chance to take a lie detector test, Putnam County Sheriff’s spokesman Gary Bowling said. Detectives believe Haleigh was abducted — and they aren’t overlooking anyone, including family members, as suspects.
Ground searches continued for a third day on Thursday. Bloodhounds have been used, but haven’t turned up any clear evidence.
“We have nothing definitive to say where the child is based on the bloodhounds,” Hardy told reporters at a Thursday news conference. Evidence has been collected from the mobile home where Haleigh lived with her 3-year-old brother Junior, her father, Cummings, and Croslin — but declined to describe it.
“I can’t discuss what evidence was taken into custody,” Hardy said. “I don’t want to reveal what was found or not found.”
Ronald Cummings, said that Croslin was watching his daughter while he was at work as a crane operator. According to Cummings, Haleigh had gotten up to use the bathroom. When she didn’t return, Croslin went to look for her and noticed the back door was open.
“I locked doors before I left for work. My child cannot unlock the deadbolt, you have to force the door shut all the way … and she doesn’t open the door to strangers,” Cummings said.
In addition to Croslin, Cummings and the child’s mother, Crystal Sheffield, as well as several others have been questioned in the case.
“It is never safe to say that a family member is not a suspect,” Bowling said Wednesday. “However, all the world is a suspect right now.”
Police have ruled out the possibility that the girl ran away.
“This child didn’t voluntarily walk out of her home. If she did, someone took her,” Bowling said.
“I know somebody took her. I know for a fact she didn’t wander off — she’s afraid of the dark,” Cummings told NBC’s “Today” on Thursday.
Police said house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday found no evidence that the child wandered away.
Police had never been called to the home in the past.
“There have been some investigations done through the department of children and family,” Rose told FOX News on Wednesday. He didn’t elaborate.
Sheffield’s mother, Marie, told Van Susteren that the children seemed to be doing well living with their father.
There were still no firm leads in the case. Detectives wouldn’t say whether Croslin, Cummings or anyone else in the family were a focus of the investigation.
Sheffield told Van Susteren that her children loved their father’s girlfriend, whom he’d been dating for 4 to 6 months. “She seemed like a really nice person, but I never sat down and had a conversation with her,” she said.
Appearing on FOX News on Thursday, Sheffield answered “yes” when asked whether it was true that Croslin had given conflicting statements to police.
Cummings said his girlfriend was awake and frantic after she found Haleigh was gone. But in the police report, obtained by FOX News, Cummings reportedly told officers that his “dumb bitch girlfriend” told him Haleigh was gone when he got home from work.
“Ronald said that he did not know what Haleigh was wearing, and that all he knew was that the back door was standing open. Ronald repeatedly said that someone had taken his child and also said ‘When I find him I’ll kill him,’” police wrote in the report.
He referred to a 9mm Beretta handgun he owns and said if authorities found his daughter’s kidnapper, “he would shoot them through the back window of the patrol car,” the police report said.
Deputies said Thursday they’re in the process of questioning 44 registered sex offenders who live within five miles of Haleigh’s home. Not unusual, if you googled your own neighborhood you might find similiar numbers od sex offenders living near you.
Another case of a missing child. This is getting a lot of new coverage. Lets hope it doesn’t turn out to be a repeat of the last missing girl case (Calyee Anthony) that made the headlines.
Misty Croslin, the 17-year-old who was watching her boyfriend’s children the night 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappeared, explained in public what she recalls from Monday night inside the Green Lane mobile home. As hours became days following the disappearance, Croslin has been under scrutiny for being the last one to see her when she put the little girl to bed Monday.
Authorities are calling the disappearance an abduction.
“I don’t care what people are saying about me because I didn’t do it,” Croslin said Thursday. “I was sleeping,” she said. “I don’t know what happened.”
Misty Croslin, the last person to see Haliegh
i have a question…if Misty woke up at 3am and found Haleigh gone-why did she wait tll dawn-when Ronald came home before they called police?
I think that it is quite odd that the father and girlfriend felt it necessary to marry…could it be that spouses cannot be forced to testify against the other? I just know that if that were my child missing that marriage would be the last thing on my mind…I pray that the child is found alive, but as time passes it seems less likely. I pray for the family that have choosen to put the child first
““I know somebody took her. I know for a fact she didn’t wander off — she’s afraid of the dark,” Cummings told NBC’s “Today” on Thursday.”
If she’s afraid of the dark then why would she walk half way across the house to use the bathroom when there was one right in the room? Lies! No child would go out of their way to use a bathroom when they’re afraid of the dark! These people could have done something to this poor girl days before they even reported it, and are using him being at work as an alibi for him. Who knows, there are so many possibilities. I think with any missing child case if there are any other children in the home they should be temporarily removed until child services investigates. How is it safe for one child to still be at the home when the other was just kidnapped?! It’s not! The mother is doing the right thing by getting an attorney involved to get custody of the little boy. I could tell from the first moment of watching the father and his young girlfriend that something wasn’t right, time will tell! You can see in a person if they are sincerly worried that they’re child is gone and may be gone forever, and in this case the father seemed semi-emotional but that could be from guilt also! I know I may seem like I’m being tough on the father and the young girlfriend but something just doesn’t add up and I’m tired of seeing children go “missing”!!!
The marriage thing bothered me a LOT. Why would you go and marry someone when your daughter is missing? Is your daughter not more important than your underage girlfriend?! Do you not want her to be the flower girl?? Why would you get remarried if she is returned, why not JUST WAIT! Well, my opinion is that ONE or BOTH of them murdered this poor little girl and they’re getting married because they will end up going to jail and not having to testify against each other in court. I also find maybe that the whole getting married thing is a promise to themselves that they will keep quiet of what REALLY happened or is happening to that poor little girl. Why would the girlfriend talk about her in past tense? She’s a liar and just because she ‘passed’ the polygraph does NOT mean she’s innocent and neither is the father! They may be asking her the wrong questions.
I am so comfused about what is going on in this family!! We have a 5 year old who is missing and all they are worried about is getting married and custody battles….Did they forget their child is GONE!! I am outraged with the whole thing. I was watching it all on Nancy Grace last night and the dad seems like he is concerned in some interveiws and not in others. I can not say how I would be acting if I were in their shoes, but I would hope that petti things like marriage and stuff would be the last thing on my mind!!! Priority #1- FINDING THIS MISSING CHILD!! If their is abuse then I agree that the mother needs to get Jr. but they need to find this child. The more time passes the less likely that the outcome will not be good. My prayers are with everyone involved. Somethings just don’t add up though watching it all I just get that gut feeling that there is alot of things that are not being told and hidden, for what reason who knows. Misty looks like she is scared to death about something other than Haleigh being missing. What is she hiding? Haleigh is a beatiful child and it is a tragedy that all of this has happened and I hope and pray that when they find her that she is o.kay. When that happens I hope that child services takes a long hard look at everyone involved and does what is best for these young children!
Yes, Ginny.. The child is or was a very beautiful little girl, and from what the Grandparents have said, she had a great personality and was a happy little girl. Right now, it is very important for the court to decide where the baby boy should live.
There are photos of the children bruises, and cuts. There is a photo of little Haleigh after she had “fallen down at School”??
she has cuts on her forehead, lip and nose, bruises on her cheek.
I have seen the photo. For Haleigh to receive these injuries she would have had to fall sideways on the ground in rough terrain, and primarily on her face, without the ability to try to catch her self to break the fall, she would have struck her head. no marks on her arms, hands, knees or shins.. Only on her face…
Now, think about that. Her father did not take her to the er for medical care for these injuries for 10 days.. 10 days later he took her in for injuries such as this.. Helloooo.. Could this have been new injuries 10 days later? The ones from 10 days prior would have been healed!!!! Also, it was reported these photos will be placed online. Watch for them, look at the babies and then made decisions on what you believe.
Anytime there are allegations of abuse, they must be worked. There should be a 0 tolerance to Child Abuse. Point Blank.. “0″.
I have set and watched everyone of the interviews with the families. How they respond, eye movements, body actions.. I can tell you from watching the families. Great Grandmother of Ron Cummings, is open and her heart is broken. Misty’s Mother is terrified and confused. Ron’s parents are walking on egg shells around Ron. They behave the same way The Anthony’s do with Casey.
Crystal is guarded, but terrified of Ron. Ron lives on the edge of Blowing up at any given point. He is volatile. I watched how he would repremand Misty, “Look at the camera”, talked about her like she was a million miles away, but yet, setting right next to him. Missy is illusive, childlike, afraid of Ron, secretive, and reaches a point of not knowing what to say, either she forgets her lines or she is a very confused person, her eyes dart down and left when she answers questions. She is afraid to look the reporters in the eyes. They may have decided to marry now, thinking it was protective.. The clause protecting husbands and wives, does not include elements occurring prior to the marriage.
If you wonder, had social services been working on reports about the abuse to the children.. Listen, to the interview with Heraldo Rivera, Ron made a comment: “That he only used the recommended punishment allowed by Childrens Services, spanking on the Butt”, which without doubt means: They have been here, and talked to me, and watching me.. A comment was made last night, about the possibility, that Haleigh was not in the home that night nor had she been for several days.. So, I think the big question right is, Who outside of the immediate group of people, Ron, Missy and little ron, last saw Haleigh.. Did Ron’s Mother see her, when she dropped by that night.. There are two time elements given… Missy claimed she and her son and the ac man, was there between 5:00 and 5:30. Great Grandma stated: that her daughter had gone over to the house with clean clothes to drop off, about 8:00 – 8:30. Hey, thats play of 3 hours. If the Grandmother was there at 8:00, Did Missy put the child to bed while Grandma was there? or was little Haleigh not seen by Grandma.. What was Grandma told?
Now there was one more thing, that I caught. Everyone is lead to believe that Ron works nights, gets off at 3:00. Nooooo.. Ron was working a double that night, and said that is why he came home at 3:00. He did not say, hey I had to go in earlier to work the double.. But, he also made the comment to another reporter, that he was surprised to see Missy awake, because he always finds them asleep when he comes home after work at 3:00. Hello.. This is a round robin. He is not being consistant in his statements.
Missy is not consistant in her statements. And everyone is going to think that Little Ron was coached, if he says anything.
Me, I’m waiting to hear What the Grandma’s finally remember and decided to say.
Has anyone seen any new news relating to Chad Eugene Reynolds? He is a neighborhood sex offender that disappeared 5 days before Kaleigh disappeared but as of 02/15/2009 he had not been located and I have not been able to find any info on him.
Maybe Ron should contact little Ron’s mother and voluntarily give up physical custody for a while till all this is worked out. As long as she can provide a safe place and of course she wants him. Its got to be unbelievably stressfull around the house right now.
There is no spousal privilege in the event that a child is murdered. Spouses MUST testify against the other in a case of child homicide. There is something stinky about Ronald Cummings and the way he talked about his girlfriend calling her ugly names before she was his wife. Why would he marry someone he thought was a “dumb bitch” who wasn’t responsible enough to keep his kids out of danger.
I am with the thought she may have gone missing before that night and the dad coming home from work alibi. Misty and Ronald are the key to this whole matter. Misty was doing a lot more that night than she has let on.
I am a 77 year old Canadian who watches your show almost every night and was wondering why we don’t hear more about the Haleigth Cummings tragety or nwas she found (alive) I hope. I watch NancyGrace , Larry King and and Anderson Cooper 360 and enjoy them all very much. All very well done and very to the point especially Nancy
The biggest question I have is who put the block to hold the screen door open? I would assume someone who knew, what it would take to hold this heavy door open? From looking at the house.
It seems to meet someone had to know the house pretty well.
In looking at video transcripts it wouldn’t take much too snatch this little girl,If they knew their surroundings.