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crime [Music] I just feel like I need to you know speak my mind there's nothing new I just
want to get my side out there cuz everybody's against me it seems like and I'm not that's not what it should be
like I'm in here prison over some stuff that I shouldn't even be here for she seems like people are forgetting about
her obviously the police aren't doing anything so I just feel like the they're not doing
anything um we put Haley on the bus you know we did everything we supposed to do
Ronald brought Haley home I cooked dinner I gave her bath we played then we lay down and went to sleep and then I
woke up out of I don't know why I woke up I woke up and the kitchen light was on and I ran to
the bathroom I ran to the kitchen to see what was going on I thought maybe Ronald
was home he wasn't there so I run to my room to get my cell phone to call him he
would answer his phone over 20 times turn around and her she's not in her bed so I'm running around the house freaking
out cuz she's not in her bed she's not nowhere in the house and then 5 minutes later Ronald's pulling down the
driveway and he's sitting even really look like he was upset he just looked like he was
more messed up on drugs and when I called him like 20 or 30 times I called him he didn't answer
the phone and then the police come it has nothing to do with me I think they were trying to get it
back at Ronald whoever did this if see what I was told that Ronald used to sell drugs a lot when he was before
we got together and owe people money see one day we're at this bar he was his familyowned bar and I was Sting in the
truck I got out the truck and was Sting started to walk up to Ronald and this black man was talking to him and
Ronald's like I need you to go sit back in the truck I said why why can't I hear
and black man said that he knows where Haley is the Mexicans have her and if Ronald pays this much money back then he
go get her on Friday that was a long time ago I don't know who would have took her
I don't understand why they would have took her it just doesn't make sense to me I guess I can talk about the abuse
that Ronald gave to us um all of us me Haley and Junior went through abuse with him he was always
messed up on pills um it used to beat us all the time if the kids if the kids would get in trouble and I
would tell him to stop like he smacked his son in the face and got mad at him I said don't do that he said B he laughed
about it and I got beat up for it because I stuck up for the kids all the time you know I had them
kids 24/7 I took care of them kids I gave them baths took them to school fed them done everything with them their
family didn't do anything and they're out here putting blame on somebody that they shouldn't be putting blame on and
all I tried to do is be a mother figure to them kids CU they didn't have a mother and it just it hurts me walking
around here every day and and just knowing that the police even think that I found this little girl you could
ever be with she was so sweet I just love being with her you know we used to do go play together ride
four-wheelers do all all kind of stuff together homework she help me cook just all kind of stuff that she done do you
miss her a lot a really a lot that kills me every day to know I was the last one I seen her I walk around
most time cry cuz I ways on my mind it just hurts because Ronald should know me better
than any of them people even his family that I cared about his kids and would do
anything for them I'd give my life for ha come home right now it's been hard it's been real hard but I have to keep
myself strong cuz I'm not going to give up regardless I'm going to fight this and
I'm going to fight to find Haley regardless I'm never going to give up on her and that's the
only reason I'm being strong right now is for her I'll never give up the Hope in fath until they can show
me I'm never going to believe she's dead told me in court that if I could just tell them something they' let me
go there's nothing I can tell them cuz if I knew something they would know it from day
one I care about that little girl more than anybody knows I mean I had an okay childhood I
guess you can say but it wasn't the best mom and dad did try to provide for us but they were strung out on drugs and
alcoholics we living in flaggler county and that's where I got raped and that's when I stopped going to
school you know I felt I felt a shame cuz I couldn't get up and read in front of the class I felt a
shame because I didn't know half the stuff the kids know cuz my family didn't sit with me
and work with me they were too worried about drugs only thing I did when I even got
with was smoke marijuana that's only thing only kind of drugs I ever did he introduced me to the
pills so I thought I was doing better and then when I found out he was doing the pills
and everything I just was like this is the same as when I was at home I tried to leave so many times but
couldn't why couldn't you cuz the kids I just want you know people to see that I'm not what people put me out
there to be cuz I'm not I'm not this bad person what people think I am I'm not not I made mistakes in my life and now
I'm paying my consequences for it but it doesn't mean I'm a bad person they can keep believing what they want to believe
cuz one day the truth will come out and of course that they're going to they're going to people are going to
talk regardless and it don't hurt my feelings that they talk anymore I'm so used to people talking saying you did
this you did this let them because I know and God knows that I didn't do anything wrong
so as long as I know that's all that [Music] matters police initiated the search for
Haley beginning at the trailer's open back door and down a wooden path where they located what appeared to be a small
child footprint in the dirt Ron Cummings told police that Haley's shoes were still inside the home the path led to a
small pond and then to a railroad crossing it then continued past the last residence on Green Lane and ended at a
paved Road in the neighborhood this was a residential area with actual homes as well as trailers along its streets there
was no sign of Haley meanwhile Ronald Cummings was televised clutching his daughter's photo and making a tearful
plea for the return of Haley television Crews were able to get there quickly because they were assembled for the Kaye
Anthony service that day this not too far away a visibly upset Crystal Sheffield Haley's mom was also present
she had been called by Ron's Mother Teresa at 3:49 a.m. informing her that Haley was missing the family held an
evening vigil that night as well as on several subsequent nights throughout the day more than 130
officers from County state and federal law enforcement agencies commenced a search for Haley Searchers scoured the
area surrounding the neighborhood including miles of surrounding Woods the search included helicopters water units
and blood hounds which searched a 5m radius around the girl's home including the banks of the St John's river which
is about 300 yards from the residents the dogs were given pieces of Haley's clothing to smell one of the dogs hit on
Ascent immediately and led straight to the river along a path that led to the Seven Sisters boat ramp this is about
500 yard away from the home but the scent ended there the next day February 11th the road to the neighborhood was
closed and people coming in and out were both searched and questioned 150 police
cars scoured the neighborhood the retirement community nearby was searched as well where the woods Texas equa
search arrived to Aid in the efforts to find Haley and hundreds of volunteers came out Sheriff Hardy said at the end
of the day that the search would expand further out investigators found several items of interest during a search of the
near area but later stated that nothing came of these items divers and search boats checked the St John's river
following initial signs of Haley scent picked up by the dogs but they found nothing by 400 p.m. on the 11th the
putam County Sheriff's Office publicly declared the case in abduction there was no evidence around the house that led
investigators to think the girl wandered away on her own well that becomes confusing to me because the footprint I
can make sense of she she could have left that footprint at any time but the scent dogs pick up a scent from her that
lead her to these docks right yeah so the way that I I Envision this is it's two ways one the footprint I'm sure that
they probably are leaning towards the probability that it's not even her footprint M and then on top of that
regarding the scent okay so she didn't wander off on her own I'm guessing now we have to keep in mind that that this
like so many other things that we discuss in these cases this scent that's picked up be it
whether she would be walking on her own or somebody carrying her we got to keep in mind this is all
based off of one the quality of the dog that found that scent and two the quality of the Handler for the dog so
I'm guessing if you have a a highquality dog high quality Handler they would detect that scent even if she was
carried from the home right okay now they're not going to have any scent to let's say somebody carried her from the
home placed her in that boat ramp or or used the boat ramp to dump her body somewhere in the water the dogs aren't
going to pick up on the the other sense that they have there because they have nothing to base that off of they're not
going to go okay well a perpetrator then dumped her there and took off in this direction
afterwards but I think the key things too here is also we have Ronald Cummings statements to invest inators he says
there's no way that Haley could have opened the back door by herself he states that it was normal protocol for
the door to be locked this is with a deadbolt and Haley was not very tall she's very young he says she could not
physically reach the deadbolt right and they said it was also very difficult for
adult to lock or unlock this so one I wonder if this is the type of door I had a basement door one time that in order
for the door to be shut the deadbolt had to be locked mhm if that deadbolt wasn't
locked the door wasn't shutting on its own so that's one question but also at time in time when I see these interviews
it's I'm constantly hearing that that a child could not open up this door but I'm only hearing that from him and his
girlfriend I'm not hearing that from law enforcement at least I couldn't find that mhm I find it interesting that they
say she could not reach the the dead bolt mhm I think that could be easily deduced by the
investigators there rather than the statement of she could not physically open it right so furthermore we
have statements from the family saying that Haley wouldn't leave at night she was afraid of the dark she was afraid of
strangers so Sheriff Hardy comes out and says publicly all the world's a suspect
right now okay Captain it's time again for the old pervert Roundup officials from my favorite my
favorite time officials from the Sheriff's Office and investigators from the FBI began the tedious painstaking
process of talking to all of the registered sex offenders within a 5em radius of the house this was 44
individuals that they were going to be checking on Within two days police interviewed all of these registered sex
offenders or confirmed their whereabouts on the night Haley went missing you know
when that you when you interview a a pervert you know how you interview them right no table you want you want to see
them you want to see where their hands are at all time because if you start talking about this stuff and they start
reaching down and a little flicky flicky you know something's up according to detectives on the case all of them
checked out from the time that Haley was last seen up until the time she allegedly disappeared around 3 in the
morning officers did arrest a sexual predator who was living near Haley's home who violated his curfew in the days
after she was reported missing but his GPS tracking device showed that he was not in the area of her home the night
that she was last seen wait is he wearing something yeah he's wearing a tracking device okay but
I mean not all of them are wearing tracking devices well that's that's what we mean by our statement of they either
spoke to or they were able to confirm their whereabouts on the night in question right detective John Merchant
discovered that another one of these registered sex offenders had left the area but he was very quickly located in
Nebraska and had a solid Alibi now police did say that no no one would be 100% eliminated but authorities
felt okay moving on from this aspect of their investigation right Ronald Cummings made additional TV appearances
pleading with the public for the return of his daughter he stated repeatedly that he had no involvement in his
daughter's disappearance how' that work and that his girlfriend Misty Crossland was not at fault for being the last
known person to see Haley no one from Ron to the police seemed to believe that Haley's disappearance had anything to do
with parental custody any type of disputes between him and Crystal Sheffield yeah now Crystal came out and
said one he was abusive and he's a giant piece of [ __ ] but she also did state that he did love his daughter
mhm by February 15th with nothing having been found officers announced that they
were calling off the ground searches they switched to a different kind kind of search at this time cadaver dogs were
brought in to search the area one of the dogs alerted to a large dumpster near the family's trailer home which was
searched extensively but nothing of note was found inside sheriff's deputies and
crime scene units processed and searched the trailer home and found a couple of puzzling things there were no signs of
forced entry if someone had Pride open the back door of the home there is no evidence
of that investigators wondered if maybe the perpetrator had propped open the door so he could just easily slip out
carrying the child but how did he get in the door in the first place if it was locked from the inside as Misty and
Ronald both stated right some other things that they found that began to raise investigators suspicions one was a
small pink shirt this was found in the washing machine or a laundry pile the reports vary this was the shirt that
Haley was supposedly wearing the night that she went missing per the amber alert but Misty had said on the 911 call
that Haley was dressed in her pajamas so again which is it and the beds in the home you pointed this out earlier but I
purposely waited to go into this the the beds in the home were placed on the floor not on a bed frame m mhm so
Misty's assertion that she searched under the beds this I mean this doesn't add up doesn't make any right godamn
sense there's no room under these beds can you imagine I um I search under the beds really you picked up the beds off
the floor and these weren't the only inconsistencies in Misty's story while she had told the 911 operator and the
initial deputies that she had got up to get a drink she later said that she got up to go to the restroom right so again
I think some of that stuff bothers people more than it bothers me another inconsistency was that Misty initially
told investigators that she had been asleep in the master bed with both kids but later told police that Haley had
been asleep in her own bed which was a little mattress on the floor in the corner of the bedroom police continued
to talked to Misty Ron and others in the extended families of both everyone was described as quote Cooperative but
detectives noted that Misty's story kept changing you know I I just want to bring
this up because you hear a lot of times when they're interviewing family members
that they keep saying she wouldn't have gone with a stranger and you know that that Haley
would have just gone willingly that she would have cried or she would have done something because she was speaking right
so but but my issue with that is how many times have these people picked up a sleeping child sometimes they wake right
up and sometimes they don't wake up at all mhm so I just but I kept finding that in every interview that I heard
that they just kept bringing that up like it was like this big thing and I'm like going okay well first of all she
might have knew the person or possibly she never woke up yeah and both could be going on and
whether you have those statements coming from the family or from police that's always interesting to me because in some
cases it's just the police saying that but these are these are all going to be general questions that they are going to
ask the family in a away if they're releasing those statements they're almost putting some public suspicion on
the parents as well that's leverage that is to leverage against them but at the same time you come forward and you say
everyone that we've spoke to including Misty and Ron and the families they've all been Cooperative right but because
they are even if they are suspicious of anybody in that Circle yeah they want everybody to know that we think that
they're being cooperative because a they are talking to us and B we're going to let that publicly be known because we do
not want to put up any walls any barriers we want to keep open those lines of communication because that's
where they're going to find their clue that's where they're going to find out what's going to lead them to the the
conclusion of this thing now another thing that made police suspicious is that there are no signs of a struggle or
any disruption within the trailer home itself M there was also no blood no signs of any recent cleaning now from
what Misty was telling authorities at some point in the night someone had somehow opened the locked trailer door
propped it open silently entered the room where Misty Ron Jr and Hal were sleeping and carried out the child all
without making a sound or leaving any evidence whatsoever other than the child's blanket there was a blanket that
was found outside of the back door of the home very sneaky yeah well and this just doesn't seem very likely well it's
weird though too because there was there's the statements from the brother of Haley stating that he saw a man with
a black hoodie in the room mhm and and then they have since said that those they can't believe those statements cuz
his statements have changed too but he's he's he's a kid yeah uh I do want to point out that the um you know no one
seems to believe that this door was Pride open there was no evidence of that but we should also note that
investigators did remove the back door and they took this away with them but it's this whole back door being locked
thing with the dad going it's it's always locked or Misty saying that this door is always locked it's like there's
a unless the door does not shut without it being locked there is a possibility that it was just left
unlocked which is so strange to me because of they're not being Prim marks and I say that because you have
the two people who have fallen under the most suspicion as constantly confirming
affirming their belief that that door was locked their story of an abduction is more believable without pry marks on the
door if they would say right we don't know that we lock we can't say for certain that we locked it there were
times that we've left the door unlocked right so that that's a weird that's one of those ones where it kind of it goes
in their favor yeah you put a tally mark on their side of the paper they go yeah
and and they've changed their story it sometimes becomes are you stupid are you a liar right but this one is strange
this comment's strange because they've changed their story I've never seen once in any interview either one of them
saying it's possible is unlocked I mean they're dead set that it's impossible well let's go through where
Ron was that night cuz this is very important to this case in the course of the police interviews it emerged that
Ron had left the afternoon before to start his overnight shift at PDM bridge this is about 20 mil away Ron appears to
have punched in when he said uh when he did this is around 4:15 p.m. and he punched out when he said he did sometime
just before 3:00 a.m. do they have cameras on this I don't believe that there are cameras on this m because we
do have some other video footage that was that police have discussed and this is
that they found video footage of him of Ronald at a convenience store this is after he got off work after he punched
out and drove a bit of his way home he's there buying beer peanuts and cigarettes
after he got off work par day it does not appear from the video that he is in any way agitated upset or anxious or
rushing to return to his home for any reason M but more information also came out in the course of the investigation
according to phone records Ron had attempted to call Misty some 20 times that night and she had not answered her
phone so what was Misty doing while she was supposed to be home with Ron's kids she said she was home doing laundry and
sleeping but we have to question that as weeks went by investigators said Misty constantly changed her story she added
or took out little details she wavered about the time frame she had no explanation for all of the questions
detective John Merchant he spent hours with her and said quote she has never had the same story according to Merchant
Misty tripped up often on the details of that night now there has been a lot of talk of polygraphs and who took them and
the results of those tests rather than spending a lot of time on this we will summarize this by saying the putam
County Sheriff's Office their officers confirmed that all of the people interviewed had been offered the chance
to take lie detector test their statement is some of those persons took test but law enforcement would not
confirm their identities or what the results were right and this is where you're getting different stories because
on The Today Show you have the the parents coming forward and saying hey we took Li detectors and we passed and
that's what the cops are telling us again is that actually what happened or is that them controlling the
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Ron and Misty put on a United front and participated in lots of media interviews
it seemed like Ron refused to throw misty under the bus and one month after Haley disappeared
they got married according to Misty Ron had made a surprise proposal at a Chile's restaurant their Pastor refused
to host the wedding at the church so the couple married in the yard of a friend's
home on March 12 Chile is very romantic moving on real quick here Captain m in the summer of 2009 the putam County
Sheriff's Office made a significant public statement the statement said that whoever took Haley was someone she knew
the evidence had quote minimized the likelihood that a stranger was involved in her disappearance and investigators
considered Misty Crossland to be key in Haley's disappearance saying that her sketchy account of the events that night
was contradicted by the physical evidence finally officials stated that Ronald Cummings and Chris Sheffield were
not considered suspects the feeling among law enforcement was unanimous Misty crosslin knew more than she was
saying and she possibly even knew where Haley was and then we have this a serial
podcast on the case by a local journalist reports that Misty had gone on a three-day drug Bender with another
man known as white boy Greg and cheated on Ron over the week that immediately preceded Haley's disappearance okay
white boy Greg mhm okay I just want to make sure I got that correct she was also hanging out with friends who were
heavy into drugs MH Ron was pissed off about all of this and told Misty that she had to babysit his kids that night
February 9th while he went to work Misty did not want to watch the kids but apparently she was forced into it now we
know on the 9th Ron left for work around 3:30 p.m. we do we know that he tried to
call Misty 20 times that night according to the call records and after 3:00 a.m.
he returned home after visiting a convenience store and frankly that's about the last of the actual facts that
we have for the hours before the 911 call mhm the rest is rumor gossip and speculation and Captain I want to take a
big dive into that nasty pool well I hope you you've had your shots well put on your raincoat cuz there's going to be
some [ __ ] so let's let's start with Joe over Street Okay police quickly determined
that Misty's first cousin Joe over Street was visiting from Tennessee when haly vanished yeah he was staying down
the street with Misty's brother Tommy Crossland and his wife Chelsea there were rumors that Tommy and Joe had been
hanging out with Misty in the trailer that night possibly partying Ron Jr told police that a man in Black this is the
little boy that you pointed out earlier M pointed said that a man in Black entered the trailer and took his sister
now no one put much stock in that statement in the statements of a little three-year-old boy but you have to
wonder is that statement in part confusion from seeing Joe over Street and Tommy Crossland there earlier that
night right did he fall asleep earlier according to Misty statements no this they would have put the kids to bed
around 8 now adding fuel to the fire we have Misty she tells investigators that she could not rule out that Joe had been
involved furthermore Joe over Street left Florida for Tennessee on February 10th the day after Haley disappeared now
investigators flew to Tennessee and interviewed Joe he denied any involvement and they didn't have any
record of anything that would indicate culpability in the Abduction of a little girl right next we have Tommy Crossland
Tommy is Misty's brother he's one of the people who Misty says was at the trailer home with her
that night with the kids just so you know what kind of guy he is he was arrested in September of
2009 on a grand theft charge for stealing a gun from a neighbor and he had had multiple drug arrests in the
past officers confirmed that he was questioned in connection with Haley's disappearance but both Tommy and Ron
apparently told police that on the night that Haley disappeared Tommy got a call
a phone call from Ron saying that he could not get in touch with Misty and asking him to head over to the mobile
home to check on her and his kids now their statements are that Tommy went over there but there were no lights on
and no one responded to his knock when he knocked on the trailer door so he left right and we'd have record of that
for the phone records of Ronald McDonald's phone well and if he is telling the truth this is what's
interesting here we both have Ron saying this as well as Tommy now Ron won't be able to confirm if Tommy actually went
to the trailer or not but they were both saying that this phone call happened and
that he was asking Tommy to go to the house so if Tommy is telling the truth then we have to wonder where is Misty
because it appears that no one is present at the trailer if he isn't telling the truth we have to wonder what
he is hiding then in the months after Haley vanished police received a tip saying
that Misty attended a house party on the night that Haley was last seen and that
she brought Haley and Ron Jr with her to this party this would have been about 15
miles away more than one person interviewed by police verified that Misty was there with the
kids un unverified information gathered by police stated that Haley was either given or somehow got into some drugs at
this party in ODed right one witness told investigators that Haley died and left the party in the trunk of a car and
was then dumped in a pond the pond that was referenced was about 2 miles from the party down a dirt road in a thickly
wooded isolated area yeah this is the one that they're going to drain yes yes law enforcement emphasized that none of
the partygoers had the same story though so this is where we we have some this is
I mean this is just there's piles of [ __ ] in this story just piles of [ __ ] mhm so we got a piles piles of [ __ ] got
together and had a party now they're claiming that this this girl ODed and then they dumped her in a
pond and what what kind of pieces of [ __ ] sit around and let this happen well of course this party Theory would
explain a lot it would explain why Ron couldn't get in touch with Misty that night meaning she likely turned off her
phone or or left it behind or or just chose not to answer it it would explain why Tommy found no one at the home when
he went there and knocked on the door mhm okay here's another possibility in this in this whole mess right it is
perhaps Misty wanted to go out and party so she drugged the kids and left them in
the trailer and Haley died because of this Misty arrived back at the home knowing Ron would be home soon and
discover the body and hit it in the dumpster that the cadaver dogs hit on and then thought better of that and
carried it down to the river disposing of the body mhm now law enforcement as you pointed out spent 3 days draining
the pond that we mentioned in that tip but found absolutely nothing I I believe if the second story was true that there
would have the kadav dogs would have hit on more areas so we have this too remember we
stated that there were there were Witnesses hold on and because this is so close to Casey Anthony is it is that the
thing here like we don't want to babyit anybody let's just drug them zany The Nanny this is zany The Nanny number two
well we have at least one person who signed in affidavit stating that Haley ODed on oxycotton at the party okay this
individual is Joe Piko I believe is how you say his name y t KO this is supposedly a friend of misties he said
Tommy was at the party as well and Tommy help dispose of the body and then we also have this other
individual Christina privat I believe is how you say her last name again supposedly another friend of misties who
was arrested for drugs she supposedly wrote a letter from prison saying that Joe Piko had told the police that she
Christina had helped white boy Greg put Haley's body into a black bag and dispose of it in a
pond this is all very confusing it's it's weird it's like we have a whole bunch of people turning on one another
but none none of these stories are adding up right now the right but then you also wonder because there is a time
that Misty stops cooperating with the police I mean for the most part she's cooperating but then they bring in like
a new detective and he's kind of yelling and telling her that she's lying and blah blah blah and she just says I'm not
going to talk anymore and so you wonder cuz she's a kid and is white boy Greg is this guy is is he a kid are the
people that she's partying with are they 16 17 years old mhm how old are they how
much pressure are they getting from the cops are are the cops getting them to make up stories MH because they feel you
know you see what I mean like we're going to bring these people into question they're they're pieces of [ __ ]
they're losers they're addicted to drugs and and and we can't believe anything that they're saying but are they just
tossing stuff out there you know so they don't get in trouble well on October 14th Lisa Crossland this is Misty's
mother she is arrested on charges of fraud forgery and Larsen and then the next day Misty and Ron divorced misty
misty blamed the stress of Haley's situation or The Disappearance of Haley for the demise of the marriage I blame
the Chile's proposal divorce didn't seem to end things for Ron and Misty uh they
continued to hang out together and we we saw that publicly later Tommy was arrested
Misty's brother after being found with a stash of drugs and Misty's father Hank croslin was arrested in November for
fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs this is all leading up to a major event in this whole case and story in
January 2010 a sting operation netted several people in this case undercover narcotics
agents were able to purchase over 300 prescription pain pills from Misty Crossland in seven different
transactions the whole thing went down on video nailing both Ron Cummings and now 18-year-old Misty and you know what
I think this was what I think that they were very suspicious of them and they couldn't connect the dots and Haley's
disappearance so this was a way to we'll get him but on a on a different level right and it's really a no lose
situation for this type of operation right because you have individuals that you know are dealing in drugs MH and you
suspect them of being guilty of of much worse worser crimes and you can go in this and you can you can go to your
superiors and say we can validate our actions and time spent and money spent and efforts spent on these getting these
people because we think it's a home run we we can't miss on this thing one and then two this might end up solving a
much bigger crime right because with the weight of these charges will somebody come forward and actually confess to the
truth so throughout these seven different transactions uh the whole thing went down on video
this was all recorded for evidence purposes they ended up nailing both Ron Cummings and now 18-year-old Misty but
the other arrestes included Misty's brother Tommy um someone named hope syes this is Ron's cousin and Misty's friend
Donna Brock the group faced multiple counts of trafficking and prescription medications with Misty facing the most
with eight counts the St John's count Sheriff's Office released hours of video captured from jailhouse visits involving
both Misty and Tommy her brother in a visit with his daughter we have Hank Crossland Misty's father he has seen
telling her telling Misty quote Misty don't be lying about nothing because it's all going to all it's going to do
is bury you deeper the Haley stuff has got to come to an end it has to Misty which is so strange there's so many
little similarities in this case to the Casey Anthony case and there remains this one last tale this takes place in
August of 2010 new information emerged Misty and Tommy were talking and they were both pointing the finger at the
same person Misty's attorney issued a statement that on February 9th Misty's cousin Joe over Street had come to the
trailer home and abducted Haley mist and Ron Jr cowered under the covers heard Joe take Haley and heard a van door open
and or close Misty said she saw a black bag placed over the girl M it came out later that Misty told investigators a
similar story back in January of 2010 this is where she even described the black bag rope and blocks that were
used to weigh down the body she now said Haley was dumped at the Shell Harbor boat ramp this is about about 5 miles
from the cumming's home in an area of the river that had not been searched yet right but this is still the area that
the sent dogs tracked no this this was not in in that area Okay so so it's a different dock yeah okay and so through
his attorney in August of 2010 Tommy Crossland also made a statement similar statement that on the night of February
9th the morning of the 10th his cousin Joe over Street had been looking for a machine gun that he believed Ron had so
Joe and Tommy according to this statement given by Tommy white boy Tommy yeah they went to the trailer where
Misty and the kids were this is around midnight now not finding the gun that they were searching for Joe over streak
killed Haley Tommy says he didn't see the killing but said Joe threatened Misty with a knife he said he saw
Haley's quiet and limp body and under duress he accompanied Joe to the Shell Harbor boat ramp where Joe dumped her
body into the St John's river right but they're claiming that that he killed her
in the trailer with a knife no he threatened Misty with a knife and and Tommy says that he did not see the
killing of Haley he only saw the body after she was already dead right so the gist of that is that the two men were
going to steal this machine gun and for whatever reason not finding that gun his
statement Tommy's statement is that Joe over Street put a knife to the throat of
Misty and took Haley and that the body was dumped near into the St John's river right and it's very possible they were
on drugs at the Shell Harbor boat ramp so Joe over street is questioned several times and was the subject of
lengthy surveillance and investigation he has never been named a suspect or charged in Haley's disappearance he has
denied any involvement he was arrested in August of 2010 on drug charges but there has never been any connection to
Haley other than that alleged by both Misty and Tommy Crossland and it makes you wonder also was she you know she
threaded with a knife before Haley is taken would she threaten more to keep you know keep your mouth shut and maybe
that's why her story kept changing and changing and changing because she's making up as she went along mhm well in
one interview with the media Joe broke down he broke down into tears uh when he was asked if there he
had any possible connection to Haley's disappearance he said quote if I knew who did it I would go straight and call
the cops and tell them who did it and quote his attorney said Joe is being targeted by family members I do want to
point out he's the same guy that left the next day the day after The Disappearance but in all fairness to to
Joe over Street we need to point out that Joe and Ron together were passing out Haley's missing flyer before Joe
left for Tennessee on the 10th of February MH now with these statements a search of the water near the shell
Harbor boat ramp began police brought Misty and handcuffs to the boat ramp and she is seen on video footage pointing to
certain areas of the river M caber dogs were used divers spent days searching the waters around the boat ramp but came
up empty-handed they found according to the sheriff only alligator toenails according to St Augustine Beach
police chief Robert Hardwick who was the assistant chief investigator for the State's Attorney's office at the time in
the squad car on the way back to jail Misty Crossland said quote never mind I'm not telling the
truth so basically had she made up the whole thing you have to wonder again again it's another story by very Misty
yeah and very similar to the Casey Anthony it's also possible where things sit today that that Misty May never talk
or never tell the truth about what happened to Haley or that the truth about what happened to Haley is even
worse than the rumors that we have heard now in April of 2011 sentences were handed down for
Misty Tommy and Ron on the drug trafficking charges after they pled no contest Ron and Tommy each got 15 years
their scheduled release date is May 16th 2024 now they threw the book at Misty who had the most counts against her
giving her 25 years she will get out on March 29th 2013 34 right but they were hoping that she would
break yeah and that's what's very difficult about this this whole thing since 2013 Crystal Sheffield has been arrested
for petty theft disorderly intoxication and possession of drug paraphernalia this is especially tragic because she
had custody of little Ron Jr as his father remains in prison I do do not know who has custody of the boy
currently well it seemed like all their parents were not doing so well either so
I mean it's a sad situation for any of any children involved and in 2010 the putam county sheriff Jeff Hardy
conducted a news conference in which he stated quote over the past few weeks information has been obtained by
investigators that led them to believe Haley Cummings is most likely deceased the information they had uncovered
has quote minimized the likelihood that Haley's disappearance is the work of a stranger Hardy reiterated that Misty
crosslin is still the key to the case he did say they have some Persons of Interest but would not elaborate a year
after Haley vanished remember the case was officially declared a homicide so primary the primary
investigators on this case seem to all agree that Misty Crossland knows what happened to Haley they they don't
necessarily believe that Haley is murdered or was murdered per their statements but States attorney Robert
matthys and detective John Merchant believe Haley died accidentally although they aren't sure where or how saying
quote I think that somebody gave the child some drugs or the child got some drugs accidentally and she died and
people panicked and had to get rid of the body and most people agree that it's very unlikely that Misty was able to
pull this off by herself so we have other people that are likely involved and it is very probable that she had
some help and that others know exactly where Haley is it's unclear exactly what Ron Tommy Joe and perhaps others might
know about the little girl's fate and that's where a lot of people sit now is the idea that it's a four-person
[Music] conspiracy of this missing girl yeah because I mean those are the the four that are often most mentioned
but on top of that within those four you have those people turning on one another
yeah so Haley's case did just observe an unwelcome Milestone this was in February
of 2019 it was the 10year anniversary of the little girl's disappearance my thoughts Captain I this
one really is tough to sift through I know we dropped the s bomb a bazillion times in these two episodes but it's
because we can't get a straight answer from who I believe and it seems like law enforcement have publicly stated believe
are key is key to the case right that being Misty her story changing also her pointing the finger at other
individuals but where I where I really go to this is if you could sift through all that and if you could weed out the
lies the [ __ ] from the truth there there could be some truths in here and I find it difficult
logistically for Ron to have been involved in whatever caused the death of Haley that doesn't mean that he didn't
know after the fact and has chosen for whatever weird reason to cover up for somebody else right but his his time
unlike a lot of the other people's time is accounted for for that night right and that makes it very difficult for me
I I actually lean towards the side of of Ronald's tears and frustration and sadness being
real uh and not a put on well his11 yeah right his ex claims that any time that you've seen him be emotional this is
fake because when he's actually emotional it's different than that but again that's a x so you know how can we
believe her hand she's you know piece of [ __ ] herself but Ronald McDonald is that
he's the weirdest one I mean cuz one he's a ass clown so if anybody's wondering why I'm calling him Ronald
McDonald is cuz he's ass clown but that's weird because this four-person conspiracy I
agree with you you know at first it's like well I'm at work I'm at work I'm at work so I couldn't be involved I wonder
if the reason why white boy Tommy and white boy Joe are at the trailer that night and the reason you know if there's
some truth to uh them threatening her and and then taking Haley is he the reason why they're there and
that's why he's gone along with it but according to that story The only reason why he would be there is for this
machine gun that they wanted to steal right but we don't know if that is the truth or not is what I'm saying is we
don't know which parts of the story are true or which are not I just doesn't make any
sense why he wouldd go along with it well I don't know that he has gone along with it it may just be simply that he is
innocent and doesn't know what happened right because the only people offering up that statement is Tommy and Misty and
it's it's bizarre that she would come up with this whole story I understand the Threat Level that she's claiming there
but it's it's bizarre that she would cover up this story for so long and then we have the the sheriff
statement that says you know when I'm when we didn't find anything in that River in that area of the river and I'm
driving her back to jail she says never mind I made the whole thing up so how many get it because there's when she's
talking in In that clip that you hear earlier from when she's in prison she says she doesn't care what
people say about her what they think but she knows and God knows it's like but tell the truth and and there could be
some closure for this little girl that you claim that you cared about and and there's really no proof that you cared
about her but you can you can put some proof out to the world to say hey this is what
happened and and give some closure to her well one thing that's very different in regards to Misty and Ron Misty story
has always change and it's varied greatly varied greatly Ron's story has always been very simple I went to work I
came home my daughter was gone and then on top of that we have his phone records
M if those pings are putting him at work that's why I think that we have police publicly saying Ron is not a suspect but
Misty is the key to the case no because if they can say all right he punched in we know that he punched out we know that
we have other people at work saying he was there that night we have his cell phone who's being I don't know how much
work he got done during that night because he's calling Misty constantly some people have speculated that was so
he could orchestrate everything and give himself an alibi the problem with that is most of his calls 20s something of
them have not they've gone unanswered so if we believe if we can believe anything out of all these
different stories there's very there's very little that we need to believe to exclude Ron from being involved in the
demise of this little girl that's not to say that he didn't know after the fact but I couldn't see any other reason for
him to have known at any time what happened and to hold on to it but if we can believe two things if we believe his
statement and Tommy's statement that they had a phone call that they shared a phone call together where Ron is asking
Tommy to go over to the trailer mhm that there puts that that puts points in Ron
side where he's less likely to have been involved in whatever happened to this to
the death of this little girl be accidental or otherwise and then on top of that we have a statement where we
have a witness now it is Ron's mother but Ron's mother saying you know I saw the kids I saw Haley I saw Ron Jr eating
dinner on the front porch at this time this is after Ron went to work and there's just not enough time
for him to leave work go to the convenience store and then get all the way home to have much involvement at all
before that 911 call is placed but again I I I I question because of his actions
when he's answering questions and he looks like he's going to smile where he's concerned about a stupid little
chain a stupid little haircut stupid little mustache and he's almost cracking a smile on the Today's Show when he's
answering question about his missing daughter we have proof that he made a phone call to somebody but we don't have
any proof on on what that call was about and why they were going over there if that part of the story is true and the
sad thing is here's this girl that could have grown up and she would had a lot of
adversity to get through to have a a better life because she was surrounded by awful people and then the sad thing
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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the disappearance of Haley Cummings, focusing on the investigation and the roles of Misty Crossland and Ronald Cummings.

Key points

Emotional Toll of Loss. The heart-wrenching pain of a mother searching for her child.
A Mother's Fight. A mother vows to never give up on finding her missing daughter, Haley.
Confusion in the Investigation. Conflicting evidence raises questions about Haley's disappearance.
Police Find No Evidence of Abduction. Investigators discover no signs of struggle or forced entry in the trailer.
Misty's Suspicious Behavior. Misty's changing stories raise questions about her involvement in Haley's disappearance.
The Party Theory. Rumors suggest Misty may have been at a party the night Haley disappeared, raising suspicions.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It just hurts me walking around here every day.

The emotional toll of losing a child.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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