CNN.com- Misty Croslin, the last person known to see a 5-year-old Florida girl before she was reported missing in February 2009, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday on an unrelated drug charge.
Circuit Judge Wendy Berger also ordered Croslin to pay $500,000 and to follow her prison time with five years of drug-offender probation.
Croslin had pleaded no contest in the St. Johns County courtroom to a single count of trafficking oxycodone.
She faces sentencing on October 19 in a Palatka, Florida, courtroom for a conviction on similar charges.
At the time Haleigh Cummings went missing, Croslin was 17 and residing in the family's mobile home with her then-husband, Ronald Cummings, Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother.
Croslin and Ronald Cummings were both arrested in January along with three others after allegedly selling about $3,900 worth of drugs to undercover officers, authorities said. The two divorced after Haleigh's disappearance.
Croslin told police she tucked Haleigh and the brother into bed about 8 p.m. February 8, 2009, and went to sleep two hours later.
She said she awoke at 3 a.m. to find Haleigh missing and a cinder block propping open a back door. Ronald Cummings reported Haleigh missing when he returned from work at dawn.
Authorities previously said physical evidence contradicts Croslin's account of events that night. However, police have stopped short of naming Croslin as a suspect.
In televised interviews, Croslin has said she does not know what happened to Haleigh but believes "the other side of the family" knows where she is.
Police have said Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, the girl's mother, are not considered suspects. Authorities believe Haleigh is dead and are treating the case as a homicide investigation.
CNN- The great-grandmother of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings, Annette Sykes, has had enough of Misty Croslin’s grandmother’s tales.
She doesn’t really care what Flora Hollars has to say about her own grandkids, but she does not want her talking about her grandson, Haleigh’s father Ron Cummings.
Hollars has been talking for weeks about how her grandchildren, Misty Croslin, Tommy Croslin and Joe Overstreet, were allegedly all involved in the disappearance of the little Florida girl. She has told the media five different theories about what happened to Haleigh and finally, she implicated the girl’s own father, Ronald Cummings. She claims that Ronald knows more than he is saying and she thinks he was involved to some extent.
Sykes blasted Hollers for her comments. Hollars also claimed that Misty Croslin was still coming down off of drugs when Cummings left his children with her and went to work. Sykes said that is completely false and that she was at the house that night and Croslin was not high. She went on to say that Misty Croslin even made the kids dinner. Sykes says her grandson would have never left his children with Croslin if he thought she was “strung out.”
Sadly, we all knew this is how it would end... R.I.P. Haleigh. You were taken too soon. CNN- Ronald Cummings’ attorney says investigators told the family to make funeral plans for Haleigh.
This on the heels of an announcement by Putnam County’s sheriff that Haleigh is likely dead.
Have investigators found her body? After a massive three-day search at the St. Johns River near Satsuma, Florida, the focus is now shifting to alleged evidence pulled from the waters and sent to a state crime lab for testing.
Among the items retrieved, WJXT is reporting there are 2 cinder blocks.
ArtHarris.com also reporting that investigators took yellow rope from the home of Misty Croslin’s brother, Tommy Croslin. The blocks and yellow rope jell with what Misty Croslin’s grandmother told us on our show last week. That she was told a rope was placed around Haleigh, weighted down with a brick and then the 5-year-old was tossed into the river. It looks like Ronald Cummings is still standing by Misty Croslin, even after she was spotted on video with investigators down on the dock of the St. Johns’ River in prison blues and handcuffs and the sheriff said she knows “she’s in trouble”.
According to Cummings’ attorney, Terry Shoemaker, Cummings believes if Croslin knows something about what really happened to Haleigh, he hopes she was forced or threatened by someone involved to keep her mouth shut. Shoemaker also says investigators previously told Ronald Cummings if he divorced Misty Croslin or if she landed in jail, they could probably get her to crack. Since then, both of those things have happened. Speaking of Ronald Cummings, it looks like Haleigh’s father could be out of jail soon. There’s word that Leonard Padilla is interested in helping Cummings make bail.
(CNN) -- The father of missing child Haleigh Cummings and his ex-wife have been arrested on drug-trafficking charges in Florida, authorities said.
Ronald Cummings, 26, faces three counts of trafficking prescription medication -- including Oxycodone and Hydrocodone. He is being held in jail on $500,000 bond, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said.
Misty Croslin, 18, faces six counts of trafficking prescription medication and is jailed on $950,000 bond.
The former couple was arrested Wednesday along with three others after allegedly selling about $3,900 worth of drugs to undercover officers, sheriff's officials said.
Cummings, Croslin and the others made brief court appearances Thursday morning, said Lt. Johnny Greenwood. But the court clerk's office said it had not yet received information about whether they had been assigned attorneys.
An undercover investigation was launched after authorities received information about suspected drug dealing, Greenwood said. He added that this probe was separate from the investigation into Haleigh's disappearance.
"Even though these are totally separate, they are parallel cases, and there's no doubt in my mind these cases will cross some day," Greenwood said. "I hope that somewhere through this, the investigators in the Haleigh case will find the information they need."
Two of the counts against Croslin are felonies that carry mandatory 25-year sentences if she is convicted, Greenwood added.
Haleigh Cummings, then 5, vanished February 9 from the couple's Satsuma, Florida, mobile home. Misty Croslin was the last person known to have seen Haleigh the night she disappeared.
She said she tucked Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother into bed about 8 p.m. and went to sleep herself two hours later. She awoke at 3 a.m. to find the girl missing and a cinder block propping open a back door.
Ronald Cummings called police and reported his daughter missing when he returned from work at dawn.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said in August that "the evidence and investigatory effort has minimized the likelihood that Haleigh's disappearance is the work of a stranger."
Ronald Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, Haleigh's mother, are not considered suspects, police said.
Investigators said in a statement last August that they believe Croslin "continues to hold important answers in the case" but has not provided "any sort of detailed accounting of the hours during the late evening and early morning of Haleigh's disappearance."
Investigators also said that physical evidence contradicts Croslin's account.
Croslin has not been named a person of interest or suspect in Haleigh's disappearance. In televised interviews, she has said she does not know what happened to the little girl but believes "the other side of the family" knows where she is.
PALATKA -- A published report says Hank Croslin, Jr. told authorities no one was home when he went to Haleigh Cummings' house, just hours before the girl was reported missing.
According to the Palatka Daily News, Croslin, Jr. made the claim during questioning last week at the Putnam County Jail.
His statement contradicts his sister's story.
Misty Cummings said she was babysitting Haleigh that night. She said she went to sleep, but when she woke up, Haleigh was gone.
Croslin, Jr. told investigators he went to the house about 10 p.m. at the request of Ronald Cummings, Haleigh's father.
He said he had been trying to reach Misty by telephone for two hours, but his calls went unanswered.
So Croslin, Jr. went to the house, but no one was home.
PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Misty (Croslin) Cummings was babysitting Haleigh Cummings when she vanished from her father's Putnam County trailer in February.
A man who recently gave Croslin a lie detector test says she “failed miserably.”
In video taken by a freelance photographer at the request of Texas Equusearch founder, Tim Miller, you can't see the administrator of the voice analysis, but he worked with Miller in Aruba on the Natalie Holloway case.
He says Misty is hiding something.
"There's things going on with you about Haleigh going missing that you know about that you're not telling me about," he says. "There's nothing I'm not telling nobody. I told you and everybody everything I know. I don't know what you're trying to get out of me. I'm 17-years-old...come on...how much can a 17-year-old take?" responds Croslin.
During a couple hours of this voice analysis, a polygraph and even hypnosis; misty again and again points the finger at other people. Miller says the polygraph test was not effective, adding that misty was not cooperative, even though she was the one who requested it be conducted.
"If it's her mother's side of the family... they came in and took her because they didn't want to pay child support.... or if it was somebody else.... I keep hearing things about my brother... I have no idea if he took her," said Croslin.
Investigators say Croslin insists sometime between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m., the morning of February 9, while she and Haleigh slept in the same room, someone came in and took the child.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office says misty is their person of interest right now adding that her only consistency is her inconsistency.
In one of the polygraph questions, Croslin is asked, “Have you intentionally withheld any information about Haleigh's disappearance?" to which she answered, “No.” According to the polygraph technician, her answer indicated a 99 percent deception rate.
When asked if she knew the whereabouts of Haleigh, again she answered, “No.” According to the polygraph technician, her answer indicated a 95 percent deception rate.
But when asked if she knew who took Haleigh, again the answer was, “No.” This time, according to the polygraph technician, her answer indicated a 46 percent deception rate.
SATSUMA, Fla. -- Investigators in Putnam County marked the sixth birthday of Haleigh Cummings with a news release stating they believe the missing girl was likely kidnapped by someone she knew.
Putnam County Sheriff's Office Lt. Johnny Greenwood said evidence and the work of investigators have minimized the likelihood that Haleigh's disappearance is the work of a stranger.
Greenwood said the missing girl's biological parents, Ronald Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, are not considered suspects in the case, but Cummings' current wife, Misty Croslin-Cummings, has not been cleared.
"Investigators believe that Misty Croslin-Cummings continues to hold important answers in the case," the news release stated. "She has failed to provide any sort of detailed accounting of the hours during the late evening and early morning of Haleigh's disappearance."
Greenwood said physical evidence found at the Cummings' home contradicted Croslin-Cummings' account of her evening activities. Authorities asked anyone with direct knowledge of her activities around the time of Haleigh's disappearance to contact the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 386-329-0800.
Haleigh Remembered On 6th Birthday
The thought of Haleigh's sixth birthday transformed her grandmother's face into a portrait of anguish.
"You can't celebrate a birthday when she's not here," grandmother Teresa Neves said.
Haleigh vanished from her bed on a cold February morning.
"I can definitely say she has not been forgotten," Greenwood said.
The news release from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office stated that investigators don't believe a stranger kidnapped Haleigh, but they are looking for more information from Croslin-Cummings. Haleigh disappeared on her watch.
"All it's going to take is one small piece of information. Like I said, somebody out there knows what happened," Greenwood said.
Countless searches have been completed since Haleigh's disappearance. and 4,000 leads have been received by authorities. Some of them have taken investigators as far away as Tennessee.
And there were the unexpected events like when Haleigh's father proposed to his 16-year-old girlfriend. A recent family feud ended with him being jailed.
On Haleigh's birthday, her father and his new wife were together, but six months have passed, and the girl remains missing.
Investigators said they believe Haleigh could still be alive, and they have no evidence to believe otherwise. Greenwood said they're waiting for new leads and reworking old ones.
"We've actually got an agent with the (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) right now who is assigned to us to go back through tips, just reviewing to see if there's any tip that might not have been investigated," Greenwood said.
Balloons Released With Fliers Inside
On her birthday, Haleigh's family didn't miss the chance to get her face back out in the public. They sponsored a nationwide balloon release, with fliers containing her information.
"When they take it out of the balloon, or when it falls, they'll look at it, and possibly, hopefully, if they've seen Haleigh, they'll recognize her and call law enforcement," great-grandmother Annette Sykes said.
Haleigh's family keeps reminders of her everywhere. Shrines contain pictures, pieces of her little-girl makeup and presents she has never opened.
And there's pain.
"It just hurts, and it's a lot of pain. You get up every day, praying this is the day she comes home, and you go to bed praying," Neves said.
Haleigh's family can't forget, but their biggest fear is that the rest of the world will.
More Searches Planned
Orlando attorney Make NeJame and Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller also announced they're teaming up to search for Haleigh.
Miller said the search will take place in four to six weeks, when he believes weather conditions and vegetation will be more conducive to finding the girl.
The search has spanned thousands of acres of land to date, including all of the area near the Cummings' home. Aerial and underwater searches have also been conducted.
Miller said about 50 EquuSearch members and volunteers will conduct the search. The group has searched for the girl previously and also searched for Caylee Anthony.
In an exclusive interview with The Bald Truth, we watch a party pal of Misty Cummings, Kristina Prevatt, aka Nay Nay, describe Misty's spree of drugs, sex and rock and roll with "White Boy Greg" Page, after running from what she says Misty described as abuse by Ronald Cummings, and her duties babysitting his children, Haleigh and Junior.
"When I picked her up" mid-week before Haleigh vanished, Prevatt tells pro bono private investigator and bounty hunter William Staubs, aka "Cobra" on The Bald Truth at artharris.com, "she said (Cummings) threw her against the mirror and she said her arm was all cut up and stuff because she said she was pregnant, and he said, it wasn't his baby, and he rolled her up and tried to squeeze her into a ball."
Why was Ronald Cummings angry? "She had a pregnancy test, said it was positive," said Prevatt in her first television interview. "(It) might have been her sister's because her sister was pregnant."
Soon, Prevatt says Misty described how Ronald dropped her off at her brother's house, and she began walking, then called for Nay Nay to pick her up-and the three day party began.
To hear Prevatt tell it, she squired Misty (then Croslin) and Page to nearby St. Augustine in her blue Lincoln to party.
In an earlier interview, Prevatt told me that Misty ran into Amber Brooks at one party, and the two women had to be pulled apart. Page said Misty was smoking pot, doing cocaine and taking "Roxies."
According to this new interview with Prevatt on The Bald Truth, she gave a ride to a prostitute she knew named Lindsay, and it was on to Crescent City, and a house full of Hispanic laborers "who were acting real crazy." Prevatt says she wanted to stay in the car with Misty, but Greg insisted they all wait inside while Lindsay went to work.
Prevatt tells Cobra, who Monday night bonded both Prevatt and Amber Brooks out of the Putnam County Jail where they were being held on felony cocaine possession charges, that Lindsay agreed to pay her half her sex for hire proceeds for driving, and disappeared into a back room where "all the Mexicans took turns," paying from $30 to $120 each.
Prevatt says she and Misty were invited to participate. "They said, we were in their house," but they declined. "We sat real close to Greg," she says, and split "when Lindsay got her money."
As for drugs, she said, "Misty does pills and weed, and xanex, Loritab, but smoking weed, that's like her main thing."
Ronald Cummings, through his attorneys, denies any illegal drug use, though he's been arrested numerous times for drug possession and once plead no contest to the charges.
After the two day party, Prevatt says that Saturday night before Haleigh vanished turned to Sunday morning and Misty asked to be dropped at her brother's house. Prevatt says Misty was trying to conceal she was talking "like secretly" to Ronald on the phone.
"I guess he asked her to bring a condom," says Prevatt, "and I didn't have any condoms."
Nay Nay says she dropped Misty at her brother's house. "She was like, ‘Gotta go to my brother's house, gotta watch the kids in the morning....So I said, ‘You're going to Ronald's house, and she said, ‘No, I'm not, no I'm not...Come back in the morning, and help me watch the kids,' but I didn't end up doing that."
For her part, Prevatt says she was so exhausted after dropping off Croslin, she crashed at Lindsay's house in Flagler Estates nearby, and woke up at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9. When she called Misty later that week, Haleigh was missing, and Prevatt says Misty told her "the same thing I'd heard on the news, something about the kitchen light.' Then I heard her sister in the background saying, ‘Don't talk on the phones, the phones are tapped.' Then she hung up." That was the last time they spoke, she says.
Police say both Brooks and Prevatt have spoken to task force detectives and fully cooperated in recounting what they know about details behind Haleigh's disappearance. Misty Cummings has also spoken several times to detectives who say they are struggling to reconcile conflicts in her stories.
But sources on the team tell me they aim to use Monday's arrest of Prevatt and Amber Brooks, mother of a third child, a 20 month old disable son named Jordan, by Ronald Cummings, to try to help the women remember more information.
Several weeks after Haleigh turned up missing, Prevatt was back partying, and hooked up with Brooks again, even let her borrow her beige Lincoln.
In her exclusive interview here on The Bald Truth, Prevatt says Amber Brooks got her car stuck in the mud and she found a big dent in the trunk. "At first she acted like, ‘I don't' know what happened.' Then I said, what the f-did you do to my trunk?' And she was like, ‘Oh, it must have happened when I paid someone to push the car (out of the mud) when I wasn't there."
When Cobra asked what Amber had related to her about Ronald and parental discipline, Prevatt said, "Amber says he usually smacks the s-out of Haleigh and Junior, and one time he smacked Junior, and he got like a bloody nose...Click here to continue reading.
More news in the Haleigh Cummings missing persons who-bounced-on-who's-couch case. Our friendly cyber-neighbour "nothing but the bald truth", Art Harris, interviewed mystery man white boy (lol), Gregory Page, 28, who denies being the "black man in black" with "squeaky" shoes that "bounced" on Ronald's couch.
"Only a fool would be at another man's house, laying up with his girlfriend...It was a brief little fling, not like no love or anything, no relationship, (just) like ‘how ya doin.' " The Putnam County investigator, John Merchant and bounty hunter, William Staubs, both questioned Page on the last day he saw Misty at about 4 a.m. on Feb 8th. "I asked her, ‘You going to Ronald's? But she didn't answer; she was over in a corner talking quietly to him on the phone. They both kept talking and hanging up." He has not been named a suspect. Page also hitched a ride on the Satsuma, Fla. bandwagon to claim he passed his poly. The senior sheriff's official, Maj. Gary Bowling has not released any results of the poloygraph tests. Bowling said Misty is the key to the investigation.
In his first media interview, Page talks about his weekend long shindig (sex, drugs, alcohol...blah, blah, blah. Just another day for these folks) leading up to the day before Haleigh was reported missing. Click here to listen and/or read interview
SATSUMA - Despite continuing support and concern for missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings, some members of the Satsuma community are not afraid to ask the hard questions.
"Where are the priorities?" Jacob Brey, pastor of Hope Lutheran Church said recently. "It seems like the attentions been diverted off Haleigh. I think some people in our congregation are just not pleased with some of the antics of the individuals."
As a retired police officer of 28 years, Brey, who lives in River Villas, said Haleigh's disappearance has made people "more protective than ever."
"The main thing I've seen is concern for the child, but it makes you think," Brey said. "It takes away the freedom. It takes away the fact that you can't just let your child go a couple blocks down and play ball without feeling like you have to have them in eyesight at all times..."
Paul White, 79, is a Putnam County native retired from Georgia-Pacific. He said the small town has received negative popularity since the incident began.
"I don't mind the news people, I mean everybody's got to do their job," White said, "But there has been a big influx of people."
White said the town's positive reputation changed after authorities began releasing the number of sexual offenders who live in the area.
"Before, it seemed you had nothing but wholesome people," White said. "It makes you wonder. Of course there are still many more good people than bad people..."
Kathie Kellie, a local foster mom, said the community has been very generous despite the family's polarity, which has twisted Haleigh's case in separate directions.
"Maybe they weren't the parents of the year, but the community has overlooked that, and has extended out their hand in every which way," Kellie said. "There's so many questions about the family, and our community has said, 'Yeah, maybe I don't agree with that, but Haleigh needs us.'" (source)
Tonight some interesting things were discussed on Nancy Grace regarding Caylee Anthony and Haleigh Cummings both.
The private investigator James Hoover alleges in his deposition that there was some sort of "romantic relationship" going on between Cindy Anthony (Casey's mom) and the other P.I., Dominic Casey. Crazy!
With Haleigh Cummings, it is alleged that investigators are now considering the idea Misty Cummings was either (a) out partying that night and left Haleigh & Junior alone, or (b) that she had a man over for sex.
I heard someone mentioned junior not only saw "man in black" that night but he said he was in bathroom and saw the "soap shaking"... Crystal (Haleigh's bio mom)'s lawyer alleges that the soap would be "shaking" if someone was having sex in the other room. Bombshell!
On the crimesearchersonline.com poll, 90% of the polled agree that Misty Croslin-(now)Cummings knows who the kidnapper is.
Kim Picazio was already on her way to Satsuma from Miami Wednesday afternoon when she got our phone call. With a few hours left ahead of her on the road, Picazio shared new details about what she says happened the night Haleigh disappeared, and what she's calling bad living conditions inside Haleigh's home.
"Just your typical sex drugs and rock and roll life style that is not conducive to raising children," said Picazio.
"Not one of the things I've heard about what goes on in the home would I even consider letting my child watch on TV, let alone exposing him to it."
Picazio says after sifting through documents, seeing pictures and talking with family and friends, she felt compelled to seek state intervention and ask the DCF to investigate the Cummings household.
"I would be committing malpractice if I chose to hold off on bringing those allegations to the proper authorities," said Picazio.
"Conditions of neglect to outright child abuse and to the conditions in the home which would not be conducive to raising any child."
The Florida Department of Children and Families could not comment on the specifics of the investigation. A spokesman did tell us Picazio met with members of the DCF and presented them with documents alleging abuse and neglect. He also said the Department is reviewing the information she provided very carefully.
"The particular lifestyle that we believe is led by Misty and Ronald Cummings is one that essentially laid out the red carpet to something at some point happening to these children, and something did," said Picazio.
The lawyer also shared with us new details about what she said happened the night Haleigh was taken. She says Ronald Junior, Haleigh's brother, woke up when a man came into the house to see Misty Croslin, Ronald Cummings then girlfriend.
"What he stated to his mother was that he saw a black man in black clothing take Haleigh...she asked him, if you were asleep Junior how could you have seen that if you were asleep? And he said well I woke up because the man had squeaky shoes...and the couch was bouncing," said Picazio.
"A lot of the times we hear things from 8 different people who did not know each other including eyewitnesses. And at this point we have a pretty solid timeline. We think we know what happened in that house up until about 10:30. There's a wide gap in time from 10:30 till three in the morning and somewhere in that timeframe, Haleigh went missing," said Picazio.
Ronald Cummings, Haleigh's father, could not be reached for comment. His Grandmother tells us they have been advised by legal council to not speak with the media. A call to Ronald's lawyer was not returned. (source)
SATSUMA, Fla. -- As investigators began their sixth week of trying to solve the disappearance of Haleigh Cummings, the focus of the case shifted in light of some serious allegations.
The missing girl's 4-year-old brother, Junior, is the subject of an escalated custody fight that includes some claims about the children's father, Ronald Cummings. Their mother, Crystal Sheffield, is alleging abuse.
On Tuesday afternoon, Sheffield's attorney, Kim Picazio, said she met with the Department of Children and Families and urged them to investigate allegations of abuse at the Cummings' home.
She said officials would investigate some claims of possible physical abuse of Junior.
"I don’t believe that anyone knew exactly what was going on in that household until the spotlight was shown upon it. Why now? Well, we're still not going to let Junior just sit there in an unsafe environment just because Haleigh is missing," Picazio said. "Is she supposed to allow her other child, who has not been taken under the nose of a 17-year-old child, to be abducted or to be abused in that household? Is she supposed to sit by and watch when she know what's going in that household? She would be remiss. They would be calling her reckless. They would have the right to take action against her. So no, we are not going to wait. We're not going to allow Junior to sit in an unsafe household."
The attorney said her meeting with DCF was about serious claims of physical abuse and neglect involving Haleigh and Junior.
"When a parent beats a child until the child is bloodied, that is a crime in this county and where I'm from and in New York City. Just because this is a small town, and just because this is Putnam County, there are still laws here that need to be adhered to. It's legally and morally wrong, and he needs to be brought to justice," Picazio said.
Haleigh's great-grandmother, Annette Sykes, told Channel 4 any claims of abuse are lies.
"It's ridiculous. Ronald spanked his children just like children's services says you can spank them -- on the rear end. I'm from old school, I believe in correcting a child if they don’t mind. That's the way Ronald is, and that's the way he was raised," Sykes said. "It enrages me. It really does. I've been around the children all of their lives, and they're happy and loved. Anybody that sees them -- you can't fool everybody."
She said on her grandson's behalf that the DCF investigation is welcomed because she said he has nothing to hide.
DCF said it was reviewing the allegations. The sheriff's office said it was aware of the allegations of abuse, but it did not yet have the paperwork needed to begin an investigation.
Captain Dick Schauland said the 30 hrs of interviews with Misty Cummings has not cleared-up inconsistencies between 7 am - 3am on the day Haleigh vanished.
No search is planned for this afternoon. Today, the Putnam County investigators will once again meet with Misty.
In other news, Crystal Sheffield has set up an information booth for members of the community to approach the family of possible leads to find Haleigh.
The headquarters is located at 1185 U.S. 17 in Satsuma Everyone is welcome to paint and help set-up.
Ronald and Misty Cummings on NBC's 'Today' show both said they are not suspects and passed a polygraph.
According to Putnam County investigators, Misty, 17, has not been cleared as a suspect in Haleigh Cummings disappearance.
Maj. Gary Bowling said "We've confronted her with her inconsistencies and America got a sample of our interviews with her," he went on to say, "Our interviews with her have been pretty much like what you saw on the "Today Show."
The senior sheriff's official says Croslin walked out of the room while being questioned by investigators on Wednesday.
"Misty is the key to the investigation and we are trying to work through inconsistencies in her account of the critical time period," Bowling said.
The authorities have not released results of the poloygraph tests.
--What I found strange was her answering of Katie's questioning on why she had given inconsistent statements in the past.. She should've known the question would be asked and she gave a horrible reply that leaves much up to the imagination. I will look for a clip of this.
SATSUMA, Fla. - The father of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings has married his 17-year-old girl friend. The wedding cake was decorated with blue flowers and the wedding dedicated to Haleigh.
"When she comes home, Misty will be 'Mommy.' It's what she wanted," said Teresa Cummings, Haliegh's grandmother. "It's what she wanted when she was here and when she comes home it's what she'll have."
Meanwhile, Putnum County Sheriff's deputies and other law enforcement agents conducted a ground search for Haleigh Cummings who has been missing since February 9.
Crews searched about 10 miles along U.S. Highway 17 from Satsuma to Lake Como, near Crescent City. After several hours, searches said they came up empty-handed.
As for Haleigh's father Ron, and his new wife Misty, getting married was the thing to do today, according to family members.
"There were things we couldn't do. A wedding was not something we could do, because 'Daddy' always had to go to work and there's no time for that," said Teresa Cummings.
When asked if the wedding had anything to do with possibly protecting Croslin, she responded, "that's absurd!" adding, "it is what it is ... somebody came in and took Haleigh. That has nothing to do with Misty or my son." (source)
Today was supposed to be the wedding day for Misty and Ron, however no one appears to be available to perform the ceremony...i.e. the funeral home, where the director declined because his notary had expired.
Statement from Dunns Creek Baptist Church: To Whom It May Concern: There is no wedding scheduled to take place at Dunns Creek Baptist Church on Thursday, March 12, 2009. Pastor Terry Wright is out of town and the other full time pastors (David Dixon & Chad Perry) are not performing a wedding today. Please retract any announcements you have made regarding the Cummings / Croslin wedding taking place at Dunns Creek Baptist Church. Thank you, David Dixon Assoc. Pastor Dunns Creek Baptist Church Ron Cummings and Misty will be in New York City tomorrow for a morning appearance on The Today Show.
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CNN.com- Misty Croslin, the last person known to see a 5-year-old Florida girl before she was reported missing in February 2009, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday on an unrelated drug charge.
