We will be running our weekly look at the sad and frustrating mystery surrounding the disappearance of Florida tot Haleigh Cummings. This little girl was ‘snatched’ from the same room that her baby sitter, now step mom, Misty Croslin was sleeping in! I have to admit that this idea makes my mind boggle!
We have now crossed the 5 month mark in this case. Little has been resolved, and Law Enforcement are less than forthcoming with information. For the first three weeks they held daily Press Conferences, those have evaporated into a complete void.
Even respected journalists are starting to grumble at the lack of information. Inquiries are conveniently lost or forgotten, phone calls are not returned. This vacuum of information has created a very unhealthy environment. Speculation runs rampant, and is fueled by this lack of information.
The small group of journalists still covering the story are facing an increasing barrage of nonsense. Rather than being able to move the case forward we find ourselves more in a janitorial mode, cleaning up the absurdity being dished out.
As always, our panel is a bit of an unknown till the show happens. I am hoping that most of the regulars will be around, TJ Hart, Art Harris, Cobra Staubs, Ms. Pickles, Denny Griffin, and Jan and Simon Barrett.
As always we will be welcoming our listeners questions and comments. The link to show is here, or you can just go to www.blogtalkradio.com a few minutes before 3pm on Sunday July/12 3pm Central and click on the front page link.
Much of this weeks action has been behind the scenes. For a variety of reasons, not least sanity, most of us have opted to take a ‘hands off’ approach. It will be interesting to see what happens ‘on air’.
There is one thing that our small group can agree on (and trust me, there are few things), we are dedicated to bringing Haleigh Cummings home. One of those few things we do agree on is that there is someone who knows what happened 5 months ago. Why not come forward? Talk to one of us, call anonymously, but call.
Someone holds the key to the story. That key may not be held by Ron, Misty or Crystal, but someone has it. The ‘stranger abduction’ holds about as much water as a leaky roof. The answer is out there, we just have to find it.
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Please, please, please…leave Cobra off your show this week. We’d all like some actual news from your knowledgeable guests like TJ and Art Harris. Cobra simply breeds a nonsense atmosphere that many are turned off by. And please do better with your callers. It is the same women each week, who say they want to listen over the telephone? Huh? Many of these ladies I think call just to add negativity to the Haleigh case. I love BNN but most I know will no longer listen due to the ridiculousness that has been aired in recent months. Let’s get back to business, the real BNN, and explore the news with us! This should not be the Cobra and bloggers platform to abuse people. Thank you for allowing me to comment. Love you Jan and Simon!!
Can anyone confirm,other than Art Harris,if Ron was paid the back child support? Maybe Cobra would know.
Also could anyone explain about this so called identity theft claim from Picazio?
Methinks Kim might be trying to pull a fast one.
Simon,thanks for keeping Haleigh in the news.
His attorney confirmed it. Ask them!
Please Please Please ……You got to be kiddn’ right? Carly, Have you really been following the case from the beginning? Then you would know I find the information, the real information and call your “friends” and I share.
So let me see, it is ok to risk all and get the information, share with your “friends” and then barre me from the show? Are you working with KIM and PEGGY? Are you a Diddler? Are you a Hater? See I know you as much as you know me…You don’t. You should stay up until then, and get your Crayon and Helmet and hang on! (Let your goat listen in, later you can get the story straight.)
Cobra
Please discuss the relationship, if any, between Kim Picazio and Peggy Cone. Apparently Kim has stated she is “working” the case and investigating. Also that she and Peggy are good friends. If this is the case, Peggy should not be lead investigator. Perhaps that is what TJ Hart meant when he said there may be a new lead investigator? Would love to hear more about this. Would also like to hear Cobra’s thoughts on Kim & Peggy’s relationship, if there is one.
This case is gettig bigger by the day.The truth will come out one way or the other.
Carley….What would we have if we didnt have Cobra??? Now answer that?? we have no LE at all there.imo
And I cant leave out TJ Hart…Hes another good one that lives by the golden rule imo.
Cobra…please don’t listen to the idiots on the blogs that don’t have a clue. They say their focus is on Haleigh but it is actually kissing behind to the moniter and talking about everything but Haleigh. I appreciate everything that you do to try to solve this mystery. I can’t wait for the show on Sunday.
Miss L I cant wait either. Cobra bring that baby home.
Humbly I thank-those who care and understand what WE who truly love this child feel. Listen, I don’t really know who Loved this child, but I DO and I know some others DO too. Be it here or be it in Heaven, I hope all the Haters have to give an account. I forgive em, but the abductors and the haters are kin. We really should ask just what the Hell is going on in Putnam….I read you know and lately been doing a lot so much in fact I predict a very serious change in the Guard and then the Haters might switch sides. (try I say, don’t let em, remember em)
Cobra
Simon, I’ll give them a little taste. We have brought out the big guns, (the big ones), and son of a gun, it will be fun, if it don’t blow bayou.
Cobra
Please continue to have cobra on your show, I feel he is a great part and to leave him out would do the show a big disservice. Art on the other hand, I feel should either be told not to be rude or not be brought on. It’s enough to have wacko commenters out there being rude to each other, we shouldn’t have to listen to a journalist dishing it out to your guests. I would hope that from now on a upstanding journalist like himself would have some good ethics.
I listen to the show every weekend have followed this case from the beginning. It seems to me that while some things have been taken out of context or people have said they had proof when they didn’t, the worst thing you could do in a case like this is stop people from relaying info on the chance it may not be legit.
Check it out let us know next show, and if you don’t we’ll probably assume there may have been something to it lol! The infighting needs to stop though, I don’t think Art lied for anyone and that writeinaction fellow probably never did either but I have found problems in both of their stories(art not so much). Point is Art didn’t take a direct turn offtrack he followed someone there with the best of intentions. And the writeinaction fellow is just trying to get his name out there, not a sin. I do wish though when he is told by viewers that someone he interviewed is a crazy chick and he continues to leave her statements in the story it makes it hard to swallow the rest which is likely factual.
Lostnthemiddle: I don’t think ARt was rude simply trying to sort the chaff from the wheat. Cobra has been wronged and is keen to bring those who did it to him to their knees, understandable but also might make him a bit quick to bite and to trust.
Gotta say I have no idea bout those photos but don’t really care anyway unless she actually did it because she had NO photos of her and the kids but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Drugs is the prob and Picazio should have snuck her into rehab and avoided the whole mess instead of trying to prove how powerful she is. I don’t like her but comments I make to that effect are generally deleted so I don’t bother anymore.
Cobra;
I have been following this case from the beginning also. I cheered when you arrived in Satsuma, and I was fighting mad when you were to be arrested. I live in Okaloosa county, where our Sheriff has been indicted on kick-back bonus scams along with approx. 25 deputies. I know how corrupt southern small town LE can be. It’s been this way here for more than 90 years and is just recently being brought into the 21st century by ending the “good ol boy” system and mentality. I for one feel that Putnam County LE have simular things to hide or there would be more movement in this case. It seems to me that Putnam LE are afraid of the crimminals in thier area. Why? What differences does this case and the Caylee Anthony case have? Not many.
1.Both children were supposedly “abducted”
2.The female “guardian” of both girls did not take thier role(s) seriously and were at fault.
3. Misty & Casey both have been proven to be liars and untrustworthy.
4. The family members of both of these girls who should have “stood in the gap” for these girls are all non-existant or uninvolved.
5. Casey & Misty BOTH refuse to honestly answer the pertinent questions about the missing/abducted/murdered child.
SO why is Misty Cummings stil wandering around free, to do her cocain/pills/alcohol? If there are witnesses from the bus stop who heard and saw Misty slap/hit/hurt Jr why isn’t she being brought up on charges of neglect/endangerment/abuse? I truely want to know why she is being given such a wide berth around there? What information does she have and on who? I am considering asking the Govenor to send the FBI who are investigating our county to seriously take a look around Putnam.
Wow, one person voices an opinion about “Cobra” and then gets buried under an avalanche of disdain from the “Cobra groupies”. I guess that will teach her not to speak her mind.
Problem is, its not about William Cobra Staubs. Its not about who sounds a little nasty in their comments or responses. Its about a crime that offends all decent people. Its about LE that seems to up to their collective fannies in alligators but refuses to drain the swamp. And most of all, its about an innocent child who (sorry folks) is probably gone forever.
Stop attacking each other and look at the big picture. Ron and Misty are most likely the guilty parties. An episode of “discipline” that went too far or a drug deal that went sour are likely candidates. I think it has been shown that Crystal was nowhere near the house when Haleigh disappeared. Try not to confuse her drug induced stupidity with guilt. Ron’s mama has been covering up for Ron for many years and is probably involved in this sorry episode as well. Outsiders such as Cobra, and attorney Kim P. are probably not going to have enough traction in Putnam county Fl. to solve anything. (I don’t say this with malice or hate, its just my opinion). I’m not ready to blame all of Putnam’s LE but I think enough of them are stained too make it near impossible for the rest to do much. The break will most likely come when Ron finds another sweet young thing and a scorned Misty tells all. Unless she (Misty) disappears mysteriously in the swamps of Satsuma.
Cobra, the show would not be the same without you. You are the only one that puts out the actual events that are going on, anything else we can read elsewhere. Simon without Cobra?? I think not..
Is it a fact? “There is suppose to be a New Detective Taking Over the Haleigh Case…. Hummmm.. Wonder, why that came about??”
Cobra please ignore the naysayers and please, please continue your search for precious Haleigh. God Bless you.
I’m looking forward to this week’s show, hopefully we’ll hear more about what Judy and Gunny had to share with Cobra last week.
I truly hope KP is NOT involved in the investigation and does not have an ‘in’ with Peggy Cone.
I also hope the FBI are seriously involved now and that there will be another roundtable meeting.
Most of all I pray and hope that sweet Haleigh Ann Marie Cummings will be found safe and sound very, very soon.
Thank you Jan and Simon for continuing the radio show and for caring so much about Haleigh.
Thank you Art, Cobra and TJ for caring so much about this beautiful child.
It’s interesting that the Marie twitter for Haleigh has been very active this week,Sarah S and Sherry P,aunt in Ga,both have Haleigh up as thier profile pics since yesterday all of a sudden.Johnny S is moving to Kentucky soon.
There’s a Truthteller poster,is that Jeremiah?There is a truthteller myspace,a male 26 yo last activity in April,he was 26 then,just wondering since he has some records up of Tim’s on AH,how did he get those?
KP is renting a house in San Mateo and has staff there.Who is the staff and who is living in the house?Just been reading on the forums and had some questions.If she lives in Broward County and nothing is going on,why the house?
The reason I’m wondering about the house is, wouldn’t it have been better keeping the HBC open in Putnam for only $500 a month?It seems that would have been cheaper for her husband to keep paying on that and a place for people to go to,instead of a rented house that not many knew about to take info.Unless KP and her husband are seperated and she’s living in that house,it just seems strange.That’s just a question,I know nothing,just found it odd.
I am not sure who anybody talked to about the child support but I spoke with a family member Friday night and I was told Ron has not received the child support. I will check with that family member and find out why Ron’s attorney is giving out that information to anybody in the media when it is not accurate.
That’s odd hangon,it’s saying on AH’s forum,the money was already paid,but on the records it says the money is not there?On the forum someone said there was some type of identity theft in a motel in April,wasn’t that when KP was staying in the motel?But,wouldn’t the money have been sent to the trust fund,cleared and then went to an institution that paid the child support?
Also,this tattoo thing is bothering me,the rumor is Crystal knew the tatoo artist at that parlor.The artist said he had video of a conversation RC and Misty was having and the owner was going to play it.Well,first it’s illegal to tape someone without thier knowledge,second,was someone lying to get people to go to the parlor’s myspace for advertisements?Third,the anonymous donor for the tats I think was bs,who calls in and says they’re donating tatoos,who was it Barbera from Texas?LOL Was that set up so someone could say RC was talking about Haleigh in a nonexistent video,more rumors?Rumors keep popping up,then disappearing,rumor witnesses galore online,but no audio,video,or pics,who is doing this rumor campaign and why?This is all like a very badly laid out plan,except there is really a child missing,who is behind it all?
hangon,
I doubt Ron’s attorneys said any such thing to anyone in the media. Especially if Ron didn’t get the money. For one thing, Ron’s attorneys do not speak to the media, they issue press releases. Second, they don’t seem to concern themselves with “rumors”, and I doubt they consider it anyone’s business (especially a journalist) if Ron has received the back child support that Crystal NEVER paid since she was ordered to do so in February of 2006. I think that whoever it is that stated Ron got the money is spouting rumors – again. Won’t be the first time a rumor about Ron has been started, and I’m sure it won’t be the last, unfortunately.
Jas, I would not be surprised if the people at the tat parlor never had a “tape” to begin with, just talked a lot of “crap” in order to spread word of their business in order to get hits for their website and get people to come in. It worked, didn’t it? Afterall, we never saw the tape they promised, did we? And they collected donations in order to post it. Sounds fraudulent if that is what they did. So many games in this case, which is a dang shame. There is a baby missing and all people want to do is play games, start rumors, etc. Where is HaLeigh Ann-Marie Cummings?
Oh,J I remember that,they did take donations to post the video,is that legal?Well,I haven’t heard RC talking bad about Crystal one time.But yet,when you look at the videos and see how close RC and HaLeigh are,it’s so sad to think how heartless to allow all the rumors to go on and on for months.He is just skin and bones,but yet,when we last saw her,she looked pretty good in that vigil her foundation and the Anthony’s foundation held together.
Jas, I don’t know if it’s legal. I think solicitation without authorization is against the law – so if the tat parlor was doing that, they were in the wrong. Would have to double check the laws, though.
As for Crystal, last time I saw her was on the video after her property (her mother’s property) was searched. She looked like she had gained some weight back and she actually looked much better than she had. Much healthier. A stark contrast to how Ron is looking these days, IMO.
Is Debbie and Melissa Huddleston Crystal’s aunt and cousin?I heard Debbie was Johnny S’s sister.So Johnny used to work in DOC,his two brother’s work for DOC,is Bryan Padgett,his step brother,the one that works for the road crew or the dogs?I think one of them works with the dogs.How many brothers and sisters are there,for goodness sakes?Johnny Lauramore,his brother,was put back in jail last month,his daughter Amanda was the one in pics with Crystal at the vigils,she looks just like Crystal.So you have Sheffield/Lauramore and Padgett,all steps to Johnny,but how does Huddleston come in?Oh wait,Debbie got married to a Huddleston,so is she a Lauramore or Padgett or a Ruth?There’s just way too many of these relatives all around to keep up with anyway,it’s confusing.
If I was in a three year child custody battle with so many relatives all around I think I would have moved to a different county.So there are a bunch of Griffis’ in that county,also.
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“Even respected journalists are starting to grumble at the lack of information. Inquiries are conveniently lost or forgotten, phone calls are not returned. This vacuum of information has created a very unhealthy environment. Speculation runs rampant, and is fueled by this lack of information.
The small group of journalists still covering the story are facing an increasing barrage of nonsense. Rather than being able to move the case forward we find ourselves more in a janitorial mode, cleaning up the absurdity being dished out.”
It’s law enforcement (not the media), including the investing team of Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), FBI, and Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, that have the respsonsibility and are trying to move this case forward.
Unfortunately law enforcement has faced an increasing barrage of nonsense throughout their investigation. Rather than being able to move the case forward law enforcement find themselves more in a janitorial mode, cleaning up the absurdity being dished out.
What has Cobra uncovered? Nothing that law enforcement didn’t already know weeks earlier. Just because it wasn’t published doesn’t indicate law enforcement didn’t already know. They do NOT have to release information during an active investigation and one of the reasons could be because law enforcement has/had a person or persons under surveilance. It’s that simple.
I think I would have more respect for Cobra if he had contacted law enforcement initially to advise them he had been retained by the family and that any information would be given confidentially to law enforcement immediately. Cobra chose to get his five minute of fame by going on national TV instead, which possibly could have interferred with the active law enforcement investigation and possibly put Haleigh at further risk.
Cobra chose his own self-serving route (PR for himself) rather than for Haleigh’s safety and return to her family.
I will tell you,when I first heard he was on the case,I had hope.Then the whole KP thing and I was ticked. I think when you have a friend and the friend is there for a certain purpose,to dig up dirt on someone and take it online in this case,a PI should head the other direction.Well,he’s obviously learned that,but today for the first time when I heard he had his people going through videos and such,I got some hope back.LE sure hasn’t found her,it needs a bounty hunter since she could be anywhere,in any state and they’re not tied up with all the bs you have to go through.I want FBI to completely take this over,but PI’s,bounty hunters,whatever,just bring the child home.I know Cobra can do this,just stop talking and do it.
Why keep attacking Cobra? No, he hasn’t found her, but neither has LE
I did have a lot of respect for Art,but now he seems like a mouthpiece for Kim Picazio
to jas debbie and melissa huddleston are crystal’s aunt they are just friends
Thanks,Simon B for asking about the child support on your show today.Still no clear answer if it has been paid or is tied up in the system.I wonder about the identity theft of KP as far as will she use the “theft” to evade anything that may be coming her way.
Good show today.I enjoyed hearing the thoughts of all your guests.
sorry omn the mistake debbie and melissa huddleston are NOT crystal’s aunt or cousin they are just very good friends of the family
I agree with you K, Kim Picazio will go down when all is done, I feel it in my ole bones.
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