This just in from TJ Hart. Parts of this story started to break last night, but we wanted to confirm a few things before going to press. It looks like the heat is again being turned up on Misty Cummings. 10 days ago the process started with the interestingly worded Press Release from the PCSO. Are these new developments the next step in bringing this case to a close? – Simon
What did happen the February night leading up to the abduction of 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings from her father’s home in Satsuma, Florida? Police say the last person to see her holds the key to the answer.
Haleigh’s then-babysitter-now-stepmother Misty Croslin-Cummings recently asked for a polygraph to clear her name after the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office asked members of the public to come forward with information on Misty’s whereabouts the night of the abduction. Acording to the director of the group who arranged the test, Misty failed the polygraph “miserably.”
17-year-old Misty Cummings, who married Ronald Cummings a few weeks after little Haleigh disappeared, reportedly went gainst the advice of her Attorney Robert Fields when she requested to take another polygraph, to be hypnotized and submitted herself to voice analysis regarding the events leading up to Haleigh’s disappearance.
Two weeks ago, the family of Haleigh Cummings contacted Tim Miller from Texas Equusearch (TES). A report which appears on the TES website said that independent from law enforcement, Miller arranged for three (3) separate experts to arrive into Florida to conduct the test, the costs paid for by Texas Equusearch. The experts included John Gastar, a former NYPD Detective with 35 years experience in hypnosis, TJ Ward, a voice analysis expert, most notable for his work on the Natalee Holloway case, and D. Craig Harper an independent polygraph expert.
This seemed outside the realm of the kind of work TES traditionally does. Miller stated in the report on his website, “We will go to any lengths at any costs to find this missing child.â€
If what has been reported during the 2 days of intense questioning is true, Misty broke down in tears as she recounted sexual abuse at the hands of family members and attempts to point fingers at people who she thinks may have taken Haleigh in an attempt to defer attention from herself.
97.3 The Sky has learned that detectives from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department were made aware of the findings, and although they are not endorsing the release of the information to the public, they were planning on subpoenaing the tapes and any related information. Miller willingly turned the finding over to investigators.
The results of the taped interviews according to the experts who conducted them and the police who reviewed them are great for the investigation but not great for Misty. She “miserably failed†the polygraph test.
This is the fourth time she has failed a polygraph.
The report appearing on the Texas EquuSearch website claims that during the hypnosis, Misty appeared uncooperative and told yet another version of the story that was inconsistent with previous versions.
The voice analysis was perhaps the most revealing and according to results on the site, “It appears Misty Cummings knows what happened and was directly involved in the disappearance of Haleigh Cummings.â€
Upon their initial viewing of these tapes, investigators uncovered several inconsistencies in Misty’s story. They are particularly interested in her version of the timeline the night of February 9th between 8:00pm and 3:00am. She claims she put Haleigh down at 8:00pm and went to sleep herself at 10:00 and awoke abruptly at 3:00 to find Haleigh gone.
The report on the TES website claims Ronald said “the bed was made†and that police confirmed Ronald’s story.
TJ Hart
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis is not a shock to me! It’s unfortunate that the costs were paid by TES…shouldn’t they have been paid by LE? Or HBC? Or the family (either side)? Now they should perform the same tests on Ron…then maybe we will get to the bottom of it all!
ditto frogs
If Misty truly knows what happened to Haleigh then without a doubt Ronald knows as well. This little girl needs to be interrogated like nobody’s business!
It is about time what most people knew has come out. I hope this will help find Haleigh dead or alive. She deserves that.
I PRAY THIS CASE IS SOLVED SOON.
This doesnt surprise me at all. Both Misty and Ronald are behind it all and their families know as well. It will soon come all out so soon.
I have always thought that Misty was lying, as has the whole Nation, I’m sure! Ronald isn’t innocent either!
We all knew this. Too bad it gets done now 6 mnths later.
Finally, a glimmer of hope. I had not suspected Misty or Ron until they got married. I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. I was wrong. But then I started thinking…how can you focus on getting married, when your child is missing? How can you focus on anything when your child is missing?
But there is a God and He heard my prayers!
“Thank you Lord Jesus for helping to provide substantial leads to this case and hopefully have this child found.”
Isn’t it the law that a spouce cannot testify again a spouce? I’ve wondered this every since the got married?
Sorry about the typos. The word should have been “against”
Hi, Grams! I thought the law was that a person cannot be forced to testify against a spouse. But when I left a comment to that affect long ago I believe someone corrected me saying the law is different in Florida. So maybe someone can tell us for sure. Gosh knows there are a LOT of laws that are different in that state!
Grams:
The law doesn’t apply to something happening to a child, and it wouldn’t apply here, because the crime happened before the marriage.
Ron may have married Misty because he was afraid of charges being brought against him for sleeping with a minor. He, also, may have married her to keep her happy, so she won’t tell LE everything she knows about his illegal activities.
I think the one thing that LE is waiting on is a little more evidence against Ronald Cummings. He has been lying and covering up since day one with that duper’s delight smirk on his face.
let crystal beat it out of her
Well now,did they really think she would pass those test.I agree Ronald should have to go through those same test.I agree with everyone that has made a comment.And the fact is that in this case,the crime was before the marriage so the law about testifying against a spouse can’t apply.Who knows what these nuts are thinking,but I know what they aren’t thinking,and that is about that child,they are only thinking about their selves and how to get out of this mess.That was proven with the wedding.Ronald is trying to place the attention on Misty so he can get out of it,but he is a big player in all of the story,and he even has made his own mother look bad in this with her defending Misty and taking up for her.Well it will come out in the wash real soon,LE will out smart them and very soon,because they know.
considering recent news concerning misty, why so quiet florida? where are all the reporters and public outcries of baby killer outside misty’s home? initially they were all there in the caylee anthony case, doesn’t little haliegh count too? come on florida, get with the program. if enough pressure is applied from the police and public and misty has no place safe to turn, she will crack. perhaps then little haliegh will be found and prosecuters will have a case they can win.
Ok the only reason that the law doesn’t apply is because it concerns a child. During or after their marriage they would not be able to force either to testify against the other if this didn’t concern a child.
I used to believe Haleigh was alive out there somewhere. I thought they had her in hiding with somebody to collect all the donations, but now I just don’t know. Really this took all my hope away of finding Haleigh alive.
Since the reason the law doesn’t apply is because it concerns a child, I believe the law for marital privilege should be changed in ALL States to match Florida’s law.
P.S.: Love you Cobra!
In fla, testifying against each other does not apply, just ask nancy grace. Yep ronald is a superduper big liar.
Agree…NO SHOCKER!
Misty the chain-smoking Hillbilly is GUILTY. She was sleeping with Haleigh’s daddy and most likely HATED Crystal because Crystal would be a part of Ron’s life as long as Haleigh is alive………she killed her or sold her. As far as Ron is concerned….what kind of father has a wedding a month after his daughter goes missing? Were they unable to cancel the Pig Roast? Come on investigators……..and by the way, Haleigh’s bed was made?……a child goes missing and the sitter MAKES the bed before the cops are called???? She was never in it!!! Misty needs to be arrested……..NOW.
maybe ronald was sexually abusing the girl and misty knew about it and ronald told her if she told anyone she would die.so maybe misty gave the little girl to someone or killed her to save her from being abused again and now there both covering up for each other.ronald looks quilty too.
remeber when they hit on a dumster.its possible the body was in there and ron moved it before work.that child was already dead by the time she got home from school!!!!!and ron disposed her body before work.how is it that misty just so happens to get up at 3 and ron is coming home
you mean ron is coming home from disposing hes daughters body in a diff county dumpster one that he knows wouldnt be searched and one that will be dumped the next day
The only way they can find out some infomation is to put some of those ‘bugs” or whatever you call them and eventually someone will say something and lead them to the killer.
I think they are legal in Florida.
Put them in Misty’s cousin’s home also.
I think RON is a pedofile- this girls is 17 years old! She is still a child in most ways- and he MARRIED her irght after his own babyy girl disappeared= obviusly suspicious. Exp with laws that say wives cant testify against husbands (r these still applcable?)
he was rpoabbly molesting his own kid, or usiing her for kiddie porn to make $$ for drugs or worse- when something went wrong – and she iseither dead or Sold for $$. He is obvioulsy – a whack job and on something to leave rats in mailboxes .
and if this girls already has a history of incenst or sexual abuse -she is already so mentally dammaged, hurt and in need of love- she graviated towrds another creep for deep phsyc. reasons-and is easily susceptble to more manipulation and more abuse. now this freak got a hold of her- and she is in way over her head- AND is most likely trying ot protect him- under diress and threat in his – most positively creepy and ‘i love you’ maniluative way.
The truth will come out- and it wont be pretty……….
What many of you are failing to realize, what it is commonly known among psychologists, is that children who are sexually/emotionally abused by family often fail at such tests because of thier own history.
Sara Jane:
Are you saying that you believe that Misty was sexually/emotionally abused by her OWN family? The Croslins?
I understand that she dropped out of school
in the 7th grade (age 13?) and I have been wondering why? How could her parents let her do that? What did she do everyday for three years before moving in with Ron at age 16?
Seems like there was a lot of opportunity for bad things to happen to/with Misty even before she met/moved in with Ron.
I believe in Misty. Why, because lest we forgot, Gary Leon Ridgway aka The Green River Killer, one of America’s most notorious and prolific serial killers, and he PASSED a polygraph. Likewise, many innocent people failed. Plus, she is what, 17, 18? So, still yet not an adult in her emotional being… give her a break. Nancy Grace on CNN and others, some even on here (see below), are trying to railroad her without a railroad, it’s that ridiculous. It’s almost as if they are hoping she would commit suicide too, as then everyone who is against her could then say, “See, she must’ve been guilty, she killed herself. Likewise, see, she must’ve been guilty she failed a polygraph.” Ummm, no, all she did she failed a man-made machine, and we are putting ‘all our stock’ into a man made machine to tell us ‘how the man’, but in this case, a woman, really ‘a teen girl’ still, is telling us the truth or not. Check out this site: antipolygraph(dot)org/ The truth is never based on emoitons/feelings or for that matter the lack of them too, Grady.
Grady, all of what you say is probably true. And polygraph tests are not admissable in court so there has to be good reason for not being able to count on them to be accurate (in addition to the people who can fool the machine).
But some of us are concerned because Misty has been telling conflicting stories of that night and contradicting herself and no one seems to be able to get a straight answer out of her with or without a machine. That’s what raised my suspicions and LE. If she’d given a straight story to begin with she) would not be in such a deep hole right now.
ccb:
I wouldn’t want people to stand outside Ronald Cummings’ house. They might find their head stuffed in a mailbox.
I hope this was a tragic accident, because I don’t want to believe Haleigh was killed on purpose.
According to reports recently, as well as hints before these recent rounds of tests, Misty WAS sexually abused by a family member or members. She supposedly told this to the men running the tests. I do not doubt it for one minute. She has the perfect profile of a victim of this type of abuse. The most damaging factor would be WHICH family member perpetrated said abuse. From worst case senario to best case senario being: Father, Brother, Grand-pa, Uncle, Cousin….(IMO) The lifestyle she had been living up until Haleigh’s disappearance makes it clear: Living with a 25 yr old man helping to raise his 2 children at 17, barely. Cocaine & sex parties at 17. You have to have a pretty messed up background to be involved in these types of activities at that young age. She was having sex with men, and I do mean plural, in exchange for powder or rock they shared with her during that weekend of partying. I’m 99% certain it was the first time either. One just doesn’t go into a situation like that with “Nay-Nay”, someone whom you had been fighting with just prior to the weekend in question, unless you felt pretty comfortable about it. To me this spells prior activities surrounding these two girls. There will be a lot more revealed in the comming days & weeks.
* I meant “99% sure this was NOT the first time either.
Also, Thanks for the update Simon & assoc.
Thanks for keeping us informed.
Well, we know now who the sexual abuser of Misty was. She claims it was her brother Tommy. This is the link to the interview.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/defaul…ject=1231596480
She states this at 3:04 mark which is 42 seconds into the clip.
Polygraph tests ARE admissable in court IF the defense and prosecutor agree to the terms in the way that it is to be administered-which rarely or never happens-lol.
It’s true-look it up.
Polly Graph – I understand and I’m sure that’s true and as you say it’s pretty rare for both sides to agree to it.
What I was trying to say is that it’s not like a blood test or DNA or fingerprints that are properly taken by the appropriate authorities. The prosecution is not allowed to enter the results of a polygraph into court (without the consent of the defense – as you said).
Do any of you know anything about a search that Tim Miller’s group led in Satsuma, today? I have read that off camera, Misty said something about a fake red rose that promped the search.
Is Tommy Croslin supposed to take a lie detector?
The search was down around the 7 sister’s and Green ln area. nothing was found and it had been search previously. I don’t know if Tommy took a lie detector test or not, last that was reported, he had been inside being interviewed for a 3 hour period. Nothing else was released.
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