Does Misty Croslin-Cummings Know Where Haleigh Is?
August 31, 2009 by Jaded
Putnam County, FL – It’s been almost 7 months since Haleigh Cummings disappeared off the face of the earth. During that time, police have followed up on more than 4,000 leads – Haleigh’s dad, Ronald Cummings, married his 17-year-old girlfriend, Misty Croslin – Haleigh’s 6th birthday has come and gone. On August 18, Haleigh’s birthday, authorities announced they believe Haleigh was kidnapped by someone she knew. As of right now, Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, and bio-mom, Crystal Sheffield, are not considered suspects. Ronald’s wife, however, is raising suspicion. Why? Because the girl couldn’t pass a polygraph test, or any other test, for that matter, to save her damn life. In an effort to clear her name, Misty contacted EquuSearch founder and director Tim Miller, and asked if he would administer a lie detector test. “She said she did not trust the cops and asked me if she could take a lie detector test or something,” Miller said. “I told her that was out of the realm of what we did, but this was something that she felt would be helpful, and so we arranged it. This is the first time I have ever been put in a position like this. It has ended with Misty not speaking to us. ” On August 19, the wheels were set in motion.
Misty Croslin-Cummings
A polygraph was administered. Misty failed – miserably. In one of the polygraph questions, Misty is asked, “Have you intentionally withheld any information about Haleigh’s disappearance?” Her answer, “No.” According to the polygraph tech, that answer showed a deception rate of 99%. When asked if she knew the whereabouts of Haleigh, she answered, “No.” According to the polygraph tech, that answer indicated a 95% deception rate. You see where this is going? When questioned if she knew who took Haleigh, her answer was, “No.” But, that answer indicated a 46% deception rate. Upon learning the results of the polygraph, Misty asked to be hypnotized. Miller arranged and paid for the hypnosis and a voice analysis to be done. Though she asked for it, Misty was somewhat skeptical of the idea of hypnotism. “All I heard is that you can make someone say something they didn’t,” Misty informed the hypnotist. “They said that I may know the person that did it. I may know the person that did it, but I don’t know whether they came in my home. I never heard that they were coming to take Haleigh.” Private investigator T.J. Ward stated that “the attempt to hypnotize Misty failed because she seemed to be fighting going under.” Two down – one to go!
Moving on to the voice stress test, administered by Ward. “In my opinion, as to the results of the test, she knows something that occurred on the night of Feb. 9 and to Feb. 10 as far as Haleigh going missing,” Ward said. According to Ward, almost as soon as Misty’s lips started moving and sound started coming out, he could tell she was being deceptive. “The system works with involuntary changes of the voice and works off of stress, and I can see from pertinent questions and answers that she’s given me and her responses that not only was she not telling me the truth there was a lot of inaccuracies and there was a lot of things that she didn’t tell me completely that I can detect in the course of the test,” he said. And though the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office will neither confirm nor deny this, Ward stated that Misty had, indeed, failed the polygraph tests given to her at the police department as well. Interesting….
Let’s jump to AugustAugust reviews
28. According to several news sources, while Misty was undergoing and completely failing the battery of tests being administered, she made a comment that indicated she may know where to search for Haleigh. She told investigators they needed to double-check a patch of ground marked by a single plastic rose. “She said there was a place that was not searched very well and that we should look for a red rose, and she gave us the location,” said Steph Watts, who recorded the sessions for EquuSearch. “We went and we looked, and we found it, and the next day we took Putnam County investigators back there,” Watts said. “I don’t think they are going to dig where the rose is and find the body, but the fact that they went with us shows that they are following up on every lead.” EquuSearch is making plans to return to the area in the near future.
Misty’s voice analysis test:
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As always, we will update this story as more information is made available.
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8:59 am on August 31st, 2009
Like I stated back in February, this chick is involved – even if it is just from pure negligence.
9:03 am on August 31st, 2009
I find it kinda funny that the more she tries to prove her innocence, the further into the shit-hole she digs herself.
Her attorney is quite shocked as well…seems Misty initiated all of these tests on her own. Good luck cleaning up that mess, dude.
10:08 am on August 31st, 2009
This is too much to ignore. First there were reports of seeing her out and about when she was supposed to be home, now this? What this could be though, is she may be hiding the fact that she wasnt there, and that is causing her to fail the lie detector tests. Im assuming that that is what you mean Morbid, by pure negligence. It would be awesome if she ended up knowing something that could help, but I have a feeling she is just hiding the fact that she left the kids alone….
10:23 am on August 31st, 2009
“I never heard that they were coming to take Haleigh”
That makes me think more than anything else that she knows who has taken the child.
I have a prediction to make, let’s see if I am right: She knows exactly who has taken Haleigh but is scared of them. She’s been watching Mentalist or Lie To Me or somethng and is hoping that the investigators will magically extract the truth from her and that is why she is volunteering for all of this.
10:35 am on August 31st, 2009
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/orange_news/082909_Searchers_look_for_Haleigh_and_Tracy
10:37 am on August 31st, 2009
Her world is starting to fall apart…..it’s all getting closer and closer. You might as well just give up Misty!
10:50 am on August 31st, 2009
I still think my original theory is correct. I don’t think she was in the trailer at all when the girl went missing, and simply returned to find her gone.
11:49 am on August 31st, 2009
I wonder if Misty and Casey can get a room together on death row?
R
2:01 pm on August 31st, 2009
What a circus. I understand that mysterious tragedies put people and families under a great deal of scrutiny, scrutiny that can occasionally break people, but…
Are people really this ridiculous when fully revealed? Ugh.
Anyway, I’m with Morbid on this one. I don’t think she was actively involved in the disappearance, I just don’t think she was around to stop it and made up a story to cover her ass.
2:54 pm on August 31st, 2009
Off topic, but I just clicked on this and had the shit scared out of me in my office as some lady started telling me – very loudly – about her digestive track. Autoplay embedded videos – FTL.
2:56 pm on August 31st, 2009
Mine plays a Duracell commercial, and it won’t let me turn off the sound. Luckily, I have earphones plugged in.
3:02 pm on August 31st, 2009
Like I mentioned before, she’s only 17 and constantly smoking. I would drag her ass into jail for smoking under age.
3:10 pm on August 31st, 2009
DNA: They all live in a trailer. That pretty much sums that situation up.
Also, it’s been painfully obvious that she’s had something to do with this case from the very beginning. The other thing that bothered the shit out of me, and this doesn’t have anything to do with this particular article, is that there were something like 45 registered sex offenders in like a five mile radius from their trailer. What parent puts their child in that kind of environment in the first place?
3:27 pm on August 31st, 2009
I’ve also felt that Misty has had SOMETHING she’s not revealing, or at least not coming clean about, but that it is more than likely not any active part necessarily in Haleigh’s disappearing. She is rock dumb, for one thing. My overall impression/instinct is that she is like a child who still insists that they didn’t do something even when all proof is there. Unfortunately this is hampering any chances of finding Hayleigh and has from the beginning.
I wonder how Ronald feels about all these new developments. He’s not much smarter than Misty, and he reacts on his emotions without any logic to cloud them up.
3:32 pm on August 31st, 2009
And BTW–”They all live in a trailer” sums up nothing except the type of home they live in. What sums up this group of people is the apparently general IQ average of a 3rd grade education and a history of dysfunction.
I understand the whole trailer stereotype, but to say that it sums up a situation where a child has been abducted and possibly murdered is ignorance.
3:59 pm on August 31st, 2009
DNA: They all live in a trailer. That pretty much sums that situation…
this remark is offensive i lived in a trailor and i am not trash nor is my family.
on a side note.. i have to agree with the others misti knows something but she was out and about and doesn’t want to reveal that.
4:34 pm on August 31st, 2009
Yeah… I’ve got to say, Melissa, poor does not equal evil. Sometimes, good people encounter circumstances that place them in less than ideal situations, like living in a trailer park or in a neighborhood with a high concentration of sex offenders. Sometimes, people just don’t have the resources to move themselves out of these areas, and they shouldn’t necessarily be punished for it.
Now, there’s no evidence to incriminate the father or his young wife, so I don’t know that taking shots at them about their lifestyle is particularly appropriate. The girl is suspicious, sure, but let’s also recall that the error margin for polygraphs can vary and the use of polygraphs in court is banned in several jurisdictions due to this fact.
4:48 pm on August 31st, 2009
Thank G-d for dumb, naive and immature individuals such as Misty. It’s only a matter of time before she spills. My guess is she is setting up for some kind of sleep walking self defense.
5:28 pm on August 31st, 2009
ty jaded for writing this up. i wondered if this had been forgotten. i mean by all peeps, law enforcement included. so i guess i should thank misty also for bringing herself back into focus.
i have to agree with Athena on the poor people cant always pick to live in the burbs. also, i live around a high concentration of sex offenders bc hey, its a dating pool. no, seriously, bc i live by the halfway house they go to when they come out of prison. its secure tho. they gotta go somewhere.
i like how she went from 4 possibilities of who could have done it to 3 all of the sudden. like she didnt want to mention the 4th. she mentioned the babymamma, her own brother, and i cant remember who else, her cousin? She did NOT mention any sort of drug debt or other retribution. which leads me to believe that is who she thinks did it. she is not smart enough to be briar rabbit.
5:59 pm on August 31st, 2009
Ha!! My evil plan is working…
6:39 pm on August 31st, 2009
Edited to remove the scary auto-play video.
Will continue to look for a suitable replacement.
7:25 pm on August 31st, 2009
That’s not what I meant… at all… I was referring to DNA’s comment about her being a chain-smoker. Seventeen, living with a thirty-something guy, IN A TRAILER in podunk county, Florida is what I was getting at. C’mon now. All they need is some red-headed, banjo-playing kid in overalls for their front “yard”. I was in no way equating trailer to evil. We all know that evil takes all forms of disgusting human life.
8:21 pm on August 31st, 2009
I live in a small town in Ky (in a house)and I looked up sex offenders a couple of years ago and there was at least that many. Unless you live on an island I don’t think there’s any way to get away from sex offenders any more. Unless of course we actually give them longer sentences and actually keep them in jail. We just keep letting them out to hurt others.
7:36 am on September 1st, 2009
what i always wonder about– remember how Ron was on the 911 call?
why is he now acting all mellow when it comes to Misty and her playing dumb act?
i’ve always felt it was someone that knew Misty was out of the house that night and went straight to the house to get Haleigh.
if she would just say, ‘ok, i lied, i left the house thinking the kids would be ok’
then that would end all this bullshit so she can then tell them who knew she was out of the house.
1:03 pm on September 1st, 2009
Your kid’s missing, the live in girl friend left in charge that night has a story that keeps going sideways… what do you do?
Why marry the sweet little thing, of course. Why? Dunno, except maybe for the spousal exemption to testifying most states have.
Hello.
I agree.
3:24 pm on September 1st, 2009
He only needs the spousal exemption if he was somehow involved, – or if she might think he might be involved, BriarRose.
Could he be covering up for someone? It did sort of ring true to me, his reasction on that very first night. Maybe he has learnt something since that makes it imperative to him that nobody discover the truth? What might that be?
3:35 pm on September 1st, 2009
Could have been worse — could have been one of those extremely loud “Axe Hair Crisis Relief” commercials that are always assaulting me when I watch South Park online.
8:09 pm on September 1st, 2009
http://www.wesh.com/news/20671827/detail.html
8:12 pm on September 1st, 2009
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=144277&catid=3
8:49 pm on September 1st, 2009
Well, you just did comment on private conversations…but then you know that.
I agree he can take what Miller says to the bank, and draw interest on it.
R
9:34 pm on September 1st, 2009
What’s the A/C repairman saying?? My belief is that Misty decided to pay the repair bill in her own way, if ya catch my drift? Brother and cousin knew this, she’s out, returns home just in time to beat Ronny there. No telling who else knew, depends on where she was during her outing… Could be the A/C guy overheard her say she was leaving after putting the kids to bed. I’m sure the Investigators have looked thoroughly at all theories!
Now, if she admits to being gone, when Haleigh disappeared, will they not charge her with 2 counts of child endangerment? A confession is not gonna happen, she may be dumb as a rock, but she’s not self-sacrificing!
7:40 pm on September 2nd, 2009
I have been saying from day 1 that Misty is guilty.
8:04 pm on September 2nd, 2009
she made a comment that indicated she may know where to search for Haleigh. She told investigators they needed to double-check a patch of ground marked by a single plastic rose. “She said there was a place that was not searched very well and that we should look for a red rose, and she gave us the location,” said Steph Watts
A marked spot….to double check….Hummmmm
Something stinks,I think shes marking the spot for them to dig…
8:23 pm on September 3rd, 2009
OMG. Do you think this is true?
http://www.news4jax.com/news/20709663/detail.html
8:28 pm on September 3rd, 2009
http://www.palatkadailynews.com/articles/2009/09/03/news/news02.txt
Hmmm, so one says Ron said $35K would do it and one says croslin’s father said it.
In the voice mail, Croslin says Cummings had said he could get Haleigh “back” if he had $35,000, Miller said.
10:09 am on September 6th, 2009
http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime-Examiner~y2009m9d5-Cape-Cod-couple-questioned-in-HaLeigh-Cummings-case
3:05 pm on September 6th, 2009
Are they still pretending this is a kidnapping? Honestly…….
1:28 am on September 9th, 2009
Missing Florida 5-Year-Old Spotted in Massachusetts Wal-Mart;;;;;;;;;;;;;;September 8, 2009 Bombshell tonight. To Abington, Massachusetts.
Heres the link,its worth the read,all new updated as of 10 pm sept 8/09.They must feel the sighting is credible to a point if they are wiloling to send so much LE up there since friday until now still being there.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/08/ng.01.html
1:31 am on September 9th, 2009
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/08/ng.01.html
1:08 pm on September 9th, 2009
Why in the world did Ron marry 17 year old Misty???? How old is Ron???? Gross!!!!
1:10 pm on September 9th, 2009
Misty and Ron do not seem like the brightest crayons in the box.
Misty needs to quite her lying and tell the truth and Ron is just as dumb as she is for believing her bull shit! I seriously hope the find poor little Hayleigh alive and send her to live in a better place. These wackos don’t deserve her. Can you imagine living in an area with 45 sex offenders???
7:00 pm on September 10th, 2009
I just remembered something I’m gonna throw out there.
After she went missing, I found Ron’s other baby mama’s myspace. Her only friend on there was misty and misty had left her a message I think in November 08 telling her she was going to take her child from her and called her a cunt or something like that.
9:49 am on September 19th, 2009
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2190839/haleigh_cummings_body_not_found_lake.html?cat=8
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