FL HALEIGH CUMMINGS: Missing from Satsuma, FL - 10 Feb 2009 - Age 5 (1 Viewer)

Haleigh's photo is shown age-progressed to 15 years. She was last known to be sleeping in her home, in the area of Hermit's Cove in Satsuma, Florida, on the evening of February 9, 2009. Haleigh was discovered missing during the early morning hours of February 10, 2009. She may still be in the local area. Haleigh's ears are pierced.
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Haleigh was last known to be sleeping in her family's trailer in the 200 block of Green Lane in the area of Hermit's Cove in Satsuma, Florida, late in the evening on February 9, 2009. She went to bed at 8:00 p.m. Her father's live-in girlfriend of five months, Misty Janette Croslin (sometimes identified in the media by her later married name, Misty Cummings), went to sleep in the same room at 10:00 p.m. Haleigh's three-year-old brother was also sleeping in that room.

Haleigh's father, Ronald Lemyles Cummings, finished working second shift and arrived home sometime after 3:00 a.m. on February 10. Misty told him she'd just discovered Haleigh was missing from her bed. The rear door to the trailer was several inches ajar and the screen door had been propped open with a cinder block. Ronald and Misty called 911 at 3:37 a.m. to report Haleigh's disappearance.

The police found no sign of forced entry to the trailer, but they are uncertain whether the back door was locked. Ronald and Misty have insisted that it was, and Ronald maintains the trailer was broken into.

Haleigh's younger brother told investigators that a man dressed in black had come to their home that night and taken his sister. Authorities aren't sure how much credence to give to his story, given his age. An extensive search of the area turned up no sign of Haleigh. Her father stated she wouldn't have left home by herself at night, as she is afraid of the dark.


In October 2009, six months into the marriage, Ronald filed for divorce. He cited irreconcilable differences as the reason, mainly the stress caused by Haleigh's disappearance and the subsequent police investigation and media attention. The divorce became final within days; since Ronald and Misty had only been married a short time and they didn't share any property or have any children together, there was little to discuss.

Police repeatedly questioned Misty about Haleigh's disappearance and looked into the possibility that she wasn't in fact at home when the child disappeared. Misty describes herself as a devoted caregiver to Haleigh and her brother and said she had been home the entire night and hadn't left the children alone.

Investigators have been publicly skeptical of Misty's story, stating she failed four polygraphs and one voice stress test, and changed her story multiple times; they described her accounts as "consistently inconsistent."

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Have you seen this child? HALEIGH CUMMINGS

Missing From: SATSUMA, FL. Missing Date: 02/10/2009. Haleigh's photo is shown age-progressed to 15 years. She was last known to be sleeping in her home, in the area of Hermit's Cove in Satsuma, Florida, on the evening of February 9, 2009. Haleigh was discovered missing during the early morning...

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Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings – The Charley Project

HALEIGH CUMMINGS is still missing from Satsuma, FL since Feb 2009.

Haleigh was discovered missing during the early morning hours of February 10, 2009. She may still be in the local area.

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[Regina]

How long had they lived there and how long had this 17 year old been with him or around his children I wonder.

The homeowner said they'd lived there since the prior November, having moved there from where they lived next door to her.
I think they met about September of '08.

 

[Regina]

IF someone came in, I too have entertained that they could have come in the front and out the back but it seems a bit unlikely to me. And how did they come, by car into the front or through the yards or something? It seems unlikely because if they came through the front, what did they do then, either before entering or before grabbing Haleigh, they propped the back door? Pretty risky and takes a lot more time in the home, etc. and two different doors and chances of being heard, etc. In this scenario, I'm talking if someone who hadn't been in the home that day, like a stranger. No matter who, if someone took her at all, no matter through which door, one would think they had a car or carried her a long way (doubtful) and then what? And no car was heard either? Or seen?

I'd imagine they'd have propped open the storm door beforehand...
As for having/not having a car, all I can say to that is that to my knowledge, no one either heard or saw one.
It seems to me, though, that in such cases where a perp had/used a car, it was parked somewhere nearby.

It isn't conclusive but I doubt an AC guy, if a real repairman from an actual company, would show up after 7 and probably not if an independent contractor either, that's pretty late and I doubt Florida in February at 72 degrees had them in high demand/booked schedule to have to work that late or that many would choose to. So not sure what you are thinking but are you thinking one of these people who were there unlocked the door and then came back later?

No, I'm just informing that there was an ac guy there that day, sometime after Ronald went to work (the info is that Misty put him the phone with Ronald...) Anyway, my impression is that he was there either earlier than the brother, or had left before the brother...

I haven't seen when the brother was there nor why. Meaning, just for a visit, did he come to say goodbye as he was leaving town? O did he take them somewhere, bring them something, help with something, do drugs, have a drink or two while there, etc.? No real details on activities it doesn't seem that day.

Well, Misty said that all the children played, and she explained their activities outside, then indoors...but the person who left town is a cousin who didn't leave town as much as went back home. Lol!

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'd imagine they'd have propped open the storm door beforehand...
As for having/not having a car, all I can say to that is that to my knowledge, no one either heard or saw one.
It seems to me, though, that in such cases where a perp had/used a car, it was parked somewhere nearby.


No, I'm just informing that there was an ac guy there that day, sometime after Ronald went to work (the info is that Misty put him the phone with Ronald...) Anyway, my impression is that he was there either earlier than the brother, or had left before the brother...


Well, Misty said that all the children played, and she explained their activities outside, then indoors...but the person who left town is a cousin who didn't leave town as much as went back home. Lol!

I swear I have heard brother and cousin. I thought I had it straight and then saw the other again. Maybe there is both but one was there but the other looked at? I don't know. It was in something the cops said I read yesterday or watched and the timing of leaving was pointed out.

So who do you lean towards? I know not Misty. You don't seem to think Ronald either because you take the fact he locked the door as truth (I'm not saying he didn't). Not the AC guy or grandma. It says they checked out the guy behind the place or whatever someone mentioned and he had an alibi and thoroughly looked at all sex offenders and they had alibis that checked out. They clearly did more than just center on Mindy. They say everything keeps coming back to her and boy that's what I think or see too and again, they know more than we do.

A stranger or acquaintance would be more believable in some cases but not this one for me, due to certain facts in this case. The locked door, that she was taken from the bedroom with two others aleep in it, she wasn't just outside playing and someone snatched her, someone had to know she was even there, where she slept, that they would be asleep and a whole lot more, that dad wasn't home, wouldn't come home any minute, her changing facts and stories... I'm not trying to change yours or anyone's mind either, just pointing out some reasons it doesn't work very well imo.

Who is "all" the children played? Just the brother and Haleigh or there were others there?

 

[Regina]

I swear I have heard brother and cousin. I thought I had it straight and then saw the other again. Maybe there is both but one was there but the other looked at? I don't know. It was in something the cops said I read yesterday or watched and the timing of leaving was pointed out.

All I know about the cousin (or I think I know, lol!) is that he's related to Misty, was visiting from out-of-state and returned home shortly after Haleigh's disappearance, which apparently, are the reasons he was (at least) questioned by LE.

So who do you lean towards?

In any similar case I can think of, it seems it's always been a neighbor, always at night- usually wee hours- as the family sleeps and hears nothing.
In the Jessica Lunsford case, (actually not far away also in Florida, similar community and circumstances) they had a little dog that (apparently) never barked...

Who is "all" the children played? Just the brother and Haleigh or there were others there?

"All" meaning her 2 nephews, her niece, and Haleigh and (I assume) Ronald, Jr.

 

[Kimster]

February 9, 2009 Haleigh goes missing:

Story 1
8:00pm Kids were put to bed per Misty Croslin girlfriend & babysitter.
10:00pm Misty goes to bed per Misty Croslin girlfriend & babysitter

Story 2:
8:00pm Jr put to bed
10:00 Misty and Haleigh go to bed

February 10, 2009:

3:00am Misty wakes and finds out Haleigh gone.

3:00 - 3:25am Misty calls Ron on his cell and he says call 911.

3:25ish Misty meets Ron at front door. Has not called police.

3:27am called 911

3:49am Marie Sheffield, Haleigh's maternal grandmother received call from Ron.

3:50ish Marie calls her daughter, Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield who lives in Glen St. Mary Florida.

5:00ish Marie calls Crystal's father who lives in Satsuma or closeby and he drives over to Cummings house, calls his ex-wife back and verifies that Haleigh is missing, that police and search dogs are at the scene. Marie and Crystal head for Satsuma.

I copied this from WS because I was involved in the discussion there at the time and I remember this being a good timeline. I was looking for the two stories that Misty told early on and here they are. One was she put the kids to bed together, and the other she put Jr. to bed earlier. That struck me right then and there.

 

[GrandmaBear]

All I know about the cousin (or I think I know, lol!) is that he's related to Misty, was visiting from out-of-state and returned home shortly after Haleigh's disappearance, which apparently, are the reasons he was (at least) questioned by LE.

In any similar case I can think of, it seems it's always been a neighbor, always at night- usually wee hours- as the family sleeps and hears nothing.
In the Jessica Lunsford case, (actually not far away also in Florida, similar community and circumstances) they had a little dog that (apparently) never barked...

"All" meaning her 2 nephews, her niece, and Haleigh and (I assume) Ronald, Jr.

It makes sense to look at the cousin then if he came in to visit, he went home and the child disappeared around then. I mean I can definitely see the logic there.

There certainly are cases like Jessica Lunsford (horrible), Elizabeth Smart, Polly Klaas and others but well known and not as known so I see and can entertain what you are thinking. And man if the parents here or Misty, etc. or in any case are suspected or talked about, like I am doing here, and they didn't do it, I see how unfair that would feel.

But Elizabeth's parents got right out there, particularly her dad, cleared up all they could, proved it wasn't likely them. It was considered. Polly, the same. Man her dad was suspected but he did what a parent does, that is the hand dealt unfortunately. Jessica it was a bit different but Mark Lunsford too, open book and cooperated.

I don't see the same thing in this case. Not even close. At least not with Misty. Has she polygraphed? Her stories change and don't fit the facts. And if one talks long term, the examples I just gave, the families or the victims went on to try to make a difference. It doesn't make them guilty of Haleigh but Ronald and Misty are in prison. Actually, back to the polygraph, did she take one? Most parents volunteer to do so to get themselves out of the way as quickly as possible so LE can find the child and the perp as quickly as possible.

You may very well be right or I may be, sad thing is we may never know. All one can do is settle on what is most likely and I think they are looking at the right individual or at least one of them.

But I do get why you can consider it is someone else because it does and has happened. I just don't think it is the norm or is as likely in this case at all. But we can agree to disagree. At least discussion kind of puts the case back in thoughts and can't hurt anything.

So there were other children I assume of the brother's or grandma brought them over? That played together that day or evening?

 

[GrandmaBear]

I copied this from WS because I was involved in the discussion there at the time and I remember this being a good timeline. I was looking for the two stories that Misty told early on and here they are. One was she put the kids to bed together, and the other she put Jr. to bed earlier. That struck me right then and there.

You know what is interesting? Is I didn't know this or see anything like this until just now but I read the other day that she said first Misty was with the two children, all in Misty's bed and that she also said another time, Haleigh was in her own bed. That got thoughts going and then I could stop and read a page of the police report... And then someone mentioned wondering what the little boy saw or said and the thought CROSSED my mind that the younger one was put to bed before Haleigh, or Haleigh wouldn't go to bed or something on that order and that this happened and was dealt with while the brother was asleep... It was a thought that kept coming to me and now you post this and in one of her stories, that is what she said in one version...

I don't think Haleigh ever went to bed is what started such thoughts. And it is very likely Misty didn't either. She went on "performance" when she had to. Not long before Ronald got home when she knew she didn't have any longer to start the story and lies...

So she didn't call 911 and who finally did? Has that recording ever been released?

 

[Kimster]

You know what is interesting? Is I didn't know this or see anything like this until just now but I read the other day that she said first Misty was with the two children, all in Misty's bed and that she also said another time, Haleigh was in her own bed. That got thoughts going and then I could stop and read a page of the police report... And then someone mentioned wondering what the little boy saw or said and the thought CROSSED my mind that the younger one was put to bed before Haleigh, or Haleigh wouldn't go to bed or something on that order and that this happened and was dealt with while the brother was asleep... It was a thought that kept coming to me and now you post this and in one of her stories, that is what she said in one version...

I don't think Haleigh ever went to bed is what started such thoughts. And it is very likely Misty didn't either. She went on "performance" when she had to. Not long before Ronald got home when she knew she didn't have any longer to start the story and lies...

So she didn't call 911 and who finally did? Has that recording ever been released?

Ron called 911 and yes, the recording was released.

Here's the transcript:

CNN.com - Transcripts

 

[GrandmaBear]

Ron called 911 and yes, the recording was released.

Here's the transcript:

CNN.com - Transcripts

Wow. I'm not even halfway through the show's transcript yet and I wouldn't even know where to start with the things to notice and question and answers I'd like to even more questions now. So many questions I have and things that bother me... And far from done with it.

A couple of things though, not sure when or if I'll get back to it, we have a houseful here for a few days. So she did take a polygraph and per Nancy more than one and failed yet another, meaning she failed more than one? I assume Nancy got that somewhere so probably true.

And she can't account for crucial hours... And won't or something...

There is a lot more but no time right now... So I'll skip to the last thing I read before I stopped for the moment...

The father tried to call Misty like 20 times with no answer??? Her own brother pounded on the door over and over and no one comes to the door or appeared to be home??? What?? It didn't even wake up one of the kids nor her?? So nobody home or what...?

Now these things come from Nancy in her lead ins and such... And I assume they are true? So gee, why would they look past Misty? And this is without all of the other things I notice in here...

I haven't reached yet if it says WHY they were trying to get a hold of her so badly???

 

[Cousin Dupree]

They can know all of her is lies, but if they don't have a clue what really happened there's nothing to prove. I think the video of her on the pier is her telling cops what happened and where they threw Haleigh's body off the pier. It was probably another BS story.

 

[Regina]

I copied this from WS because I was involved in the discussion there at the time and I remember this being a good timeline. I was looking for the two stories that Misty told early on and here they are. One was she put the kids to bed together, and the other she put Jr. to bed earlier. That struck me right then and there.

February 10, 2009:

3:00am Misty wakes and finds out Haleigh gone.

3:00 - 3:25am Misty calls Ron on his cell and he says call 911.

3:25ish Misty meets Ron at front door. Has not called police.

3:27am called 911

3:49am Marie Sheffield, Haleigh's maternal grandmother received call from Ron.

3:50ish Marie calls her daughter, Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield who lives in Glen St. Mary Florida.

5:00ish Marie calls Crystal's father who lives in Satsuma or closeby and he drives over to Cummings house, calls his ex-wife back and verifies that Haleigh is missing, that police and search dogs are at the scene. Marie and Crystal head for Satsuma.
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I think it should be appreciated that 3AM is the earliest it could possibly have been that Misty woke up. After all, she said she didn't know the time precisely, just that she saw the 3 on the clock.)
Misty said she tried to call Ronald, but he didn't answer.
Ronald said that when he got home, he saw Misty in the doorway and wondered why she was up, since she was usually asleep when he got home.
(Btw, Misty said that when she saw the light on in the kitchen, she thought Ronald was home, which not only makes sense, but I believe rings true.)
It appears to me it was Misty who called 911 at 3:27
Crystal Sheffield said she received a call at 3:49. (I forgot who from, but seems to me it was Ronald's mother.)

Re Jr, the only info I'm aware of is that Misty said he'd slept in her bed with her.

 

[Regina]

They can know all of her is lies, but if they don't have a clue what really happened there's nothing to prove. I think the video of her on the pier is her telling cops what happened and where they threw Haleigh's body off the pier. It was probably another BS story.

I think it obviously is, but it's (also) what they get when they pressure the wrong person.

Edit: The homicide detective, Merchant, has recently said they'd taken Misty out there hoping she have a heart something like that, but I think that shows that it actually nothing more than strategy on their part- a police tactic.
(Misty has said that at one point, they'd showed her animal bones and told her they were Haleighs, so again, police tactic.)

 

[Guess Who]

February 10, 2009:

3:00am Misty wakes and finds out Haleigh gone.

3:00 - 3:25am Misty calls Ron on his cell and he says call 911.

3:25ish Misty meets Ron at front door. Has not called police.

3:27am called 911

3:49am Marie Sheffield, Haleigh's maternal grandmother received call from Ron.

3:50ish Marie calls her daughter, Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield who lives in Glen St. Mary Florida.

5:00ish Marie calls Crystal's father who lives in Satsuma or closeby and he drives over to Cummings house, calls his ex-wife back and verifies that Haleigh is missing, that police and search dogs are at the scene. Marie and Crystal head for Satsuma.
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I think it should be appreciated that 3AM is the earliest it could possibly have been that Misty woke up. After all, she said she didn't know the time precisely, just that she saw the 3 on the clock.)
Misty said she tried to call Ronald, but he didn't answer.
Ronald said that when he got home, he saw Misty in the doorway and wondered why she was up, since she was usually asleep when he got home.
(Btw, Misty said that when she saw the light on in the kitchen, she thought Ronald was home, which not only makes sense, but I believe rings true.)
It appears to me it was Misty who called 911 at 3:27
Crystal Sheffield said she received a call at 3:49. (I forgot who from, but seems to me it was Ronald's mother.)

Re Jr, the only info I'm aware of is that Misty said he'd slept in her bed with her.

So he says he saw her in the doorway and thought it was strange, but yet she called him on his way home to tell him that his daughter was missing? Did he expect her to just go back to bed after calling him to tell him that? This makes absolutely no sense.

 

[GrandmaBear]

February 10, 2009:

3:00am Misty wakes and finds out Haleigh gone.

3:00 - 3:25am Misty calls Ron on his cell and he says call 911.

3:25ish Misty meets Ron at front door. Has not called police.

3:27am called 911

3:49am Marie Sheffield, Haleigh's maternal grandmother received call from Ron.

3:50ish Marie calls her daughter, Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield who lives in Glen St. Mary Florida.

5:00ish Marie calls Crystal's father who lives in Satsuma or closeby and he drives over to Cummings house, calls his ex-wife back and verifies that Haleigh is missing, that police and search dogs are at the scene. Marie and Crystal head for Satsuma.
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I think it should be appreciated that 3AM is the earliest it could possibly have been that Misty woke up. After all, she said she didn't know the time precisely, just that she saw the 3 on the clock.)
Misty said she tried to call Ronald, but he didn't answer.
Ronald said that when he got home, he saw Misty in the doorway and wondered why she was up, since she was usually asleep when he got home.
(Btw, Misty said that when she saw the light on in the kitchen, she thought Ronald was home, which not only makes sense, but I believe rings true.)
It appears to me it was Misty who called 911 at 3:27
Crystal Sheffield said she received a call at 3:49. (I forgot who from, but seems to me it was Ronald's mother.)

Re Jr, the only info I'm aware of is that Misty said he'd slept in her bed with her.

Meaning no offense at all, where is there any proof Misty was ever in bed that night? Or for that matter that Haleigh ever was? I don't get assuming someone who is and should be a prime suspect is telling the truth when she can't keep the simplest of stories straight.

Whether Misty was the caller when 911 was called or not, he told her to call before he ever got home and she hadn't. There is sooooo much in this transcript and that show that alerts me but just don't have the time yet and haven't even finished it all but the peed on blanket is another... Oh big red flag... The blanket(s)... Covering her with a sheet because she had to wash a peed on blanket that apparently she did not even find or realize until near bed time... For some reason Haleigh didn't come tell her about the fact she did that and did she pee while in pajamas the night before... And she had to wash it right by that door that was open later... Did she also wash peed on pjs or was Haleigh put back in them?

In the 911 transcript, it sounds like Ronald is having a BIRD they are not there, getting there and looking for Haleigh as fast as can be. But Misty WAITED to call 911?? I would have to guess he was insistent on the phone to her as he was with 911 that she do it and do it FAST. And she didn't?

It is speculation but I could touch on why school age 5 year olds are wetting the bed... Not all cases of it but in many... Or even if the cause isn't that cause, at the most basic level it can stress the best of parents to no end much less a 17 year old... With pee on blankets, sheets, mattresses, pjs and the older the child and more long term the problem the less patience...

That child, logical guess, was never in bed with her and the brother. A child that peed the bed in the adults' bed? I doubt it totally plus her story changed on that too. First in bed all of them and next she was in her own bed.

Just a few things and that isn't the half of it in the half of it I read of that so far...

I don't see how you can assume at all that Misty was in bed until about 3 or ever in bed? Where do you get that? Because she said she was or Ronald said she was usually asleep by that time?? I suppose she was maybe on a normal day but if something happened and she did it, well no, I don't think she was likely ever in bed. She went "on stage" when she had to with her story... Not long before she knew dad would be home...

I'm sorry but it all fits one way better than the other and it just keeps doing so... But again jmo and apparently LE's.

Air conditioning. Humidity. Pee. 17. Taking care of 2 kids. Changing stories. Last and only one with her. And so very much more. Put the kids to bed at the same time, then no, it was then later with Haleigh. All in same bed, then Haleigh in her own. I could go on and on.

With all respect.

 

[Regina]

So he says he saw her in the doorway and thought it was strange, but yet she called him on his way home to tell him that his daughter was missing? Did he expect her to just go back to bed after calling him to tell him that? This makes absolutely no sense.

You're absolutely right, lol!
Sorry for my confusing post. The timeline portion is what I copied and pasted from post #145, and I don't know the source of that info, but my info is directly from Ronald, Misty, and Crystal.

 

[Guess Who]

You're absolutely right, lol!
Sorry for my confusing post. The timeline portion is what I copied and pasted from post #145, and I don't know the source of that info, but my info is directly from Ronald, Misty, and Crystal.

I do believe he most likely said that though and getting his story all messed up. But why? That is my question. That is a pretty big blunder since he should have been expecting her to be up that night with the call she supposedly just made to him. Makes me wonder what was really said on that phone call.

 

[Guess Who]

I do believe he most likely said that though and getting his story all messed up. But why? That is my question. That is a pretty big blunder since he should have been expecting her to be up that night with the call she supposedly just made to him. Makes me wonder what was really said on that phone call.

Then he goes on to marry her!

Something is sooooooo wrong with him.

 

[Regina]

I do believe he most likely said that though and getting his story all messed up. But why? That is my question. That is a pretty big blunder since he should have been expecting her to be up that night with the call she supposedly just made to him. Makes me wonder what was really said on that phone call.

There wasn't anything said; the info is that she'd tried to call him, but he didn't answer, therefore, he didn't know anything had happened until after he got home.

 

[Regina]

Then he goes on to marry her!

Something is sooooooo wrong with him.

I don't think so... I understand that people who are suffering have been known to do things others might find bizarre.

 

[Guess Who]

There wasn't anything said; the info is that she'd tried to call him, but he didn't answer, therefore, he didn't know anything had happened until after he got home.

3:00 - 3:25am Misty calls Ron on his cell and he says call 911.