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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Charley Project -

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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[GrandmaBear]

I found a pic!!!! It does have a screen door

Former lead detective opens up about HaLeigh Cummings' disappearance

Ten years after 5-year-old HaLeigh Cummings disappeared from a bedroom in her Putnam County home, the detective who was in charge of her missing persons case is speaking candidly with News4Jax, sharing what investigators were hearing back then, what they thought, and who they were investigating...

www.news4jax.com

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I am watching the video. And then going to read. Hmm. In the meantime, what is on that door in this pic? Tape??

 

[GrandmaBear]

I THOUGHT there was a brother and that confirmed it.

 

[Guess Who]

I am watching the video. And then going to read. Hmm. In the meantime, what is on that door in this pic? Tape??

I'm not seeing anything on the door? I see what appears to be either a door bell or peep hole on the white door is all I see.

 

[GrandmaBear]

So there is skirting off in the back, I wonder if that was to search or it was like that.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'm not seeing anything on the door? I see what appears to be either a door bell or peep hole on the white door is all I see.

I mean what are all the uneven lines across either the screen door or the inner door behind it...?

 

[GrandmaBear]

She states in that video that the back door always stays locked...

 

[Guess Who]

I mean what are all the uneven lines across either the screen door or the inner door behind it...?

It looks like it is one where the screen can be raised and lowered and it is sitting askew in it's frame to me and the sunlight showing through, making shadows on the white door.

 

[Guess Who]

I sure wonder what the story her little brother has to tell is about the last time he saw his sister.

 

[GrandmaBear]

She says she noticed the door open and then noticed Haleigh was gone. If you stop the video in a couple of places and read the police notes, it says she says she noticed Haleigh missing and THEN noticed the door open... At least that is what it seems to say, a person can see most of it.

 

[GrandmaBear]

It looks like it is one where the screen can be raised and lowered and it is sitting askew in it's frame to me and the sunlight showing through, making shadows on the white door.

I guess. To me it looks odd and not like shadows but who knows. If it is shadow, it seems it is casting shadow lines from something else... Meaningless I'm sure.

So apparently it is fit for a wheelchair ramp and it looks like the door is wider than normal too, although it could be the angle, or wide enough for a wheelchair. Not that it means anything, just noting it.

The bedroom is interesting if actual. Not much furniture, no bed frames and Haleigh's bed wouldn't even be seen by someone walking in unless the door swung wide open and someone actually entered, a bit odd it is behind and near the door like that. It seems way too ballsy for an abductor and then to find her and pick her up when Misty is right there and the brother? So someone found their way through the back door, found a light switch in the kitchen, and went and found the exact bedroom and Haleigh? Why are they all in the same room anyhow? Not that it says anything about anyone but the sheets aren't much nor are the beds Haven't seen much of the rest of the trailer but is it furnished this sparsely I wonder.

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

Not asking anyone to look into it for me, just questions that I have coming to mind. Going to look at some more about it...

 

[Guess Who]

She says she noticed the door open and then noticed Haleigh was gone. If you stop the video in a couple of places and read the police notes, it says she says she noticed Haleigh missing and THEN noticed the door open... At least that is what it seems to say, a person can see most of it.

How can one miss a child that is either in your bed or in a bed right next to the door (depending on which version you go by) when you get up? I know any time at night when I had to get up for whatever reason, checking on the little ones was automatic.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I sure wonder what the story her little brother has to tell is about the last time he saw his sister.

Me too.

 

[GrandmaBear]

How can one miss a child that is either in your bed or in a bed right next to the door (depending on which version you go by) when you get up? I know any time at night when I had to get up for whatever reason, checking on the little ones was automatic.

I know right? And if she couldn't see her right there then how could an intruder?

 

[Guess Who]

I know right? And if she couldn't see her right there then how could an intruder?

The only way I can see it being possible is if Haleigh had gotten up for some reason and somebody noticed or she heard some thing and went to check on it and that "something" was the person that got her, but that is not likely IMO. Possible, yes. Probable, I don't think so.
Did H get up to check on some kind of noise or something because she couldn't rouse Misty?


was it ever mentioned what time they all went to bed and in what order? That seems pretty important, too.

 

[GrandmaBear]

The only way I can see it being possible is if Haleigh had gotten up for some reason and somebody noticed or she heard some thing and went to check on it and that "something" was the person that got her, but that is not likely IMO. Possible, yes. Probable, I don't think so.
Did H get up to check on some kind of noise or something because she couldn't rouse Misty?


was it ever mentioned what time they all went to bed and in what order? That seems pretty important, too.

If you stop that top video, you can see the one page, go a few seconds and stop again and you can see more. I think it said she put them to bed at 8 and part can't be seen but it looks like she then either laid with them and got up or later then went to bed herself and they were both there then. I can't see what time that was...

Anything is possible but I don't think probable. It is interesting to me that it seems Misty noticed all this or woke up not long before Ronald came home... Was she conditioned to wake up on hearing him or when he came. The cop says they are pretty certain he had nothing to do with anything...

So let's even say there was a noise, that would mean someone did this right smack before dad was due home and yet the person knew where the bedroom was, the door, etc. but waited until dad was due...? It doesn't add up.

Her story stinks quite honestly. She went very simple so the many discrepancis some are the little things but she didn't think it out... Thinking simple would make it easy for her and not realizing it just doesn't add up. At all.

 

[Kimster]

Here's the lastest recap of Misty's story that I could find. Or should I say, "stories".

Former lead detective opens up about HaLeigh Cummings' disappearance

Ten years after 5-year-old HaLeigh Cummings disappeared from a bedroom in her Putnam County home, the detective who was in charge of her missing persons case is speaking candidly with News4Jax, sharing what investigators were hearing back then, what they thought, and who they were investigating...

www.news4jax.com

 

[GrandmaBear]

Most double wides are two baths and one generally connects to the master bedroom (may have a door on the other end of it). I'm thinking her changing from using the bathroom to getting a drink to she saw the kitchen light on, etc. came about as she was questioned about why she headed towards the kitchen and then she seems to have changed what she noticed first too, Haleigh missing or the door in the kitchen... This is what I mean about a simple story but not thought out. If I had to guess, I'd also guess that she got tripped up over lights and what could be seen and which were on... (I don't know this but I think it's very likely).

If I got up in our double wide to use the bathroom, it would be the one right there on that end by that bedroom. I would have to go across the trailer and through the kitchen to use the other and then I "might" notice a back door open in our living room. But I would never do that, why would I? So then she makes it getting a drink, so she goes to the kitchen. My guess on the lights is why would a light on in the kitchen get her attention? Were none left on for the dad coming home or if the kids or she got up, even a stove light? And yet she didn't notice Haleigh missing? So the bedroom was dark...? But an intruder saw her...

Just guesses. The most simple of things but not adding up and she trips up as the cop said constantly...

 

[Regina]

The door is definitely a when but it is also a who. The when, if Ronald is telling the truth, had to be after he left for work. And it would take a key from the outside. If someone opened it from the inside it was Misty or if Misty stayed home, then it can only be her or anyone she had there after he left. If it was someone there, she knows or named them and it has been checked out. If she didn't name someone, it is back to her lying. You mentioned her brother, an AC repairman and grandma. The only one I recall for sure you saying was there later was grandma. I don't think grandma opened or left a door open most likely. Most grandparents would be double checking before they left to make sure the 17 year old took care of her granddaughter and all was secure. I also don't know what time Ronald went to work but if he got home at 3, I assume he went at 3 or even later.

Well, I think of the back door as the way out, definitely, but I don't conclude that it was the way in...

Yeah, it's my understanding that Ronald went to work somewhere between 3 and 4PM, but I need to correct my info re Grandma and length of brother's visit...According to LE, the paternal grandmother said she saw Haleigh at about 7PM (no context, just "saw" Haleigh), but according to Misty, the only people who came by were the ac guy (still don't know what time) and the brother, whom she thought was there at most about 45 minutes.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Well, I think of the back door as the way out, definitely, but I don't conclude that it was the way in...

Yeah, it's my understanding that Ronald went to work somewhere between 3 and 4PM, but I need to correct my info re Grandma and length of brother's visit...According to LE, the paternal grandmother said she saw Haleigh at about 7PM (no context, just "saw" Haleigh), but according to Misty, the only people who came by were the ac guy (still don't know what time) and the brother, whom she thought was there at most about 45 minutes.

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?

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? If so, I'd lean towards her brother who I read just recently they suspected too and surveilled for a long time and he left town right away when Haleigh went missing. Now I guess the AC man could have unlocked the door when there earlier and Mindy nor grandma noticed the unlocked door, and then he came back later? I doubt it.

While we hear of stranger abductions, they are fairly rare and even if so, some things in a case make them more unlikely. First off, in this case, the AC man they called or picked would just have to happen to be a pervert... How likely is that? Was he just a one time pervert, never did anything on his other jobs? And then he'd have to be a pervert of little girls, not boys, and be willing to risk his job or company, freedom, etc. over a little girl he just happened to see once? And know where she slept, etc.? I could go on with more reasons but it just isn't likely at all. Imo.

The brother though, now that's a different story. He would know things the AC guy couldn't know, he would know Haleigh, even have a relationship with her perhaps... He also could have done it with and for Mindy or on his own... If on his own though and he goes in his sister's bedroom, she never wakes up and more and her story doesn't add up and she changes it? Nah. But she very well could be covering for him, or him be part of it with her, that I could see. And he left town. The signs are there. So are they with Mindy.

I am going to guess that grandma saw Haleigh okay and awake because Mindy claims to have put the kids to bed at 8 and grandma was there at 7, no mention of kids sleeping before 8.

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.

For me, I remain at the same point. Mindy is at least involved and knows something. The brother may or may not be. Granny and the AC guy are doubtful. Ronald allegedly wasn't home.

 

[GrandmaBear]

And if that AC guy was there before Ronald went to work at 3 or 4, he is ruled out anyhow as Ronald says the door was locked when he left. Just mentioning as unsure the time AC guy would have been there.