Satsuma Florida- It is well known now that Haleigh Ann Marie Cummings went missing from her fathers Florida home. Investigators are keeping this one out of the media hardly commenting on the investigation at all. There is only one description of the abductor, and that description rests in the mind of a small four year old child. Jr., Haleigh’s brother. Jr. told his and Haleigh’s mother Crystal that “a black man took sissyâ€. It was first reported as a man in black but Crystal has since clarified on that statement by the boy.
There is a lot of speculation going around regarding Misty and her associate and just exactly what he has to do with Haleigh’s disappearance. If anything at all. Its a sad situation when the only description of the “abductor†is from the memory of a four year old boy. This has been hit on by several news media organizations. It is even reported that “the black man†was at Ron’s house a week before with Misty. Whether that true or not has yet to be determined. Ron has stood by his wife when asked if he believed Misty he stated “Yes I do, why?†It has even been reported that Ron knew about the “black man†being in his home with Misty.
I am in shock that this small child has more heart in him to come forward and give somewhat of a description for investigators. If this is true and the man was there in the home with Misty the night Haleigh disappeared what does it have to do with the abduction/disappearance? It all lays on Jr.’s recollection of who took his sissy as he put it. If this man is the abductor why wont Misty come forward with the truth? Or has she already? Its hard to tell with the silence of investigators. What is Ron and Misty hiding? If Jr.’s description of this man is accurate and truthful how come he is still at large? One begins to wonder if this has anything to do with her abduction? I for one know that children are easily coaxed and manipulated. All it takes is one small seed and plenty of repeating ones self to get a child to agree that the sky is purple. Now I am not in any way accusing Crystal or anyone else of coaxing or manipulating Jr. to give up that description of the man he witnessed take his sissy. I am just confused as to why there has been no news regarding the man or any interrogations of him. Investigators have been keeping this one close to home though. They are more likely to say that this is an ongoing investigation and they are not authorized to comment on that. I hope that this description from Jr. leads them closer to finding Haleigh.
If you have any information about Haleigh, her disappearance or her abductor you are encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 1-888-277-TIPS (8477) or Putnam County Sheriffs Office at (386)-329-0800. There is a Haleigh Bug Headquarters open to take tips and leads also, they even accept donations. There phone number is (954)-553-6514.
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Good Article..Stone!
Wooot nice job Mb!! ♥
Thank YOU Mb ♥
My son has that same Mickey Mouse stuffy on the floor next to Haleigh….he has had it for years and years…since he was 2 he is 8 now..he sleeps with him every night! ♥
Great article Stone, as usual.
Do I remember correctly, first Jr. said “It was a man all in black. I want my sissy back.”
Then somewhere, did it change to “It was a black man?”
Wasn’t Misty’s former boyfriend a black man?
Someone said, elsewhere that there is a big young black man in an orange shirt, right behind Misty and Ron in the early videos, (his Grandmother next to him I think – inner circle?), and was that the guy? I think his name was Greg? OR does Crystal know this and set up little Jr.?
They sure are keeping this close to the vest aren’t they … don’t hear anything more about this.
Nice take on a very confusing story! My hopes for a happy ending to this case are diminishing. If this story doesn’t have a happy ending, my hope is that LE’s silence indicates they are building a case. It certainly doesn’t seem they are looking for Haleigh.
The black man in the early videos is reported to be a pastor named Orlando who is a friend of Ron’s.
Junior described to his mom that he saw a “black man dressed in black” who had “squeaky shoes,” and that “the couch was bouncing.” This is now thought to describe Gregory Lewis Page, aka “White Boy Greg,” as revealed by the PI Cobra in an interview with 97.3 Sky FM. In the interview, Cobra says Ron knew that Misty had been sleeping with Greg and had spent the three days preceding Haleigh’s disappearance with Greg.
Why didn’t Junior tell child psychologists what he knew back on Feb. 10th? My guess is he was scared of saying something that might make Daddy mad. But that weekend, when Mommy had him at her house for visitation, he finally felt safe enough to tell what he remembered.
You can read more and hear the audio of Cobra’s interview here:
http://www.thesky973.com/pages/4091345.php
And also read more here:
http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/03/23/haleigh-cummings-case-exclusive-misty-on-3-day-bender-with-lover-and-drugs/
and here:
http://www.artharris.com
RONALD, HALEIGH, CRYSTY AND MISTY CUMMINGS
I’m so tired about hearing about these trailertards and their sub intelligent drug hazed drama – that the truth of whatever happened to this kid – may eventually surface and with it will put one of these parents or both – behind bars, where they’ll feel just as they do now – at home. Who cares. These “people” should be required to have a breeding permit.
The idea of Misty have any boyfriend is rumor. No one legit ever said this. Same thing with the involvement of a Black man. All you are doing here is taking rumor made up and spread by know-nothings. Much of it seemed to be spread by William Staubs, using the name Cobra. He now seems to be under investigation in the crime. He came onto the scene and injected himself into the crime, as so many child abductors do.
The child seems to have told his mother that a “man in black” took Haleigh. The police said they were looking into that. If you notice who is a man dressed in black, it is Staubs, aka Cobra.
I’m not sure about getting an accurate description from a four year old. When my sons were that age, they had trouble understanding what a “black man” even meant — they didn’t understand why a man with black hair isn’t called a black man, but a man with brown skin is. It takes years for children to learn how adults classify racial features.
I think Crystal needs to quit asking the boy questions because she is likely confusing him.
MOM: “By ‘man in black’ did you mean a black man?”
CHILD: gee, I don’t know but I saw black and Mom knows the right way to say things. “Yes, a black man.”
Zip – Actually this article is nonbiased and well written. The author mentions ‘speculation’ and it is clear that there is no opinion as to any guilty party.
We are hoping that investigators are making progress and we have a safe return of Haleigh.
Hello eveyone, it was my first time to hear the radio broadcast, well done.
I would like to know if anyone found out what van Misty was referring to in one of her first interviews. “my blanket was in the van they took”. Who took what van?
Actually Zip the black man thing has been confirmed by more then one different private investigator and if you dont believe me you can listen to TJ Hart say it on the radio show that we just did when its available to be listened to….its above on the page to the right the little blue radio player…when it says the week in review it will be up soon you can listen to it…TJ Hart says alot things you may find interesting including stuff about the black man Greg!
DianeG,
The police took Misty’s sister-in-law’s van, but have since returned it.
Thanks Deana 🙂
For anyone to say that the mother needs to quit questioning the 4 year old is rediculous. If it were my kid, I would be all over it !!
S. Keesey,
I know the temptation is to be all over it, but questioning small children is a lot different than questioning adults and you can get a lot of wrong information that way.
In the Jessie Davis case, the son, Blake had watched his father kill his mother and remove her body from the home, but the police instructed the grandmother and aunts *not* to ask him about it. Bits and pieces came out, and he talked about it, but they were specifically instructed not to question him.
It’s so hard to get information from someone too young to articulate or understand all that they’ve witnessed.
The whole thing is just too sad. Imagine watching your sister being abducted. And having Misty Croslin for a stepmom — I don’t think she did anything but I’m certain she knows who did.
My fear is that the girl will never be found and the criminal(s) be walk away scott free.
Looking at Ronald Cummings arrests, it appears many of them were dropped. Is this common? What is his connection to the police department? Many rumors about a family member working for the department, but no confirmation. There are no more reports, and it is very quiet. I hope this case isn’t cold. There are no more requests for information. Does this mean the police believe she is no longer alive? So sad.
great article stone!
The initial police report contains family members and employment. Teresa Neves is a dispatcher for the Alachua County SO. Here is the link: http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/02/13/putnam.pdf
I am wondering who has heard what Ron Jr. has actually said other than the police. The interview I saw was with Craig Rivera. Crystal asked RJ questions and seemed as though she had to pry a yes or no nod out of Jr. I never heard him say a word. It is rumored Crystal recieved a lot of money from this interview. Link: http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3755632&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/geraldo/
Any thoughts?
I still think Misty was entertaining a man in the house or maybe out in the yard and the little girl caught her in the act. I think whomever Misty was with took the little girl to keep her quiet.
i think that who ever wrote this article only really cares about amount of readers hitting thier site. You so called journalist take advantage of peoples tragadies. What difference in this situation or in anyones life, for the good are you making.Black,white ,purle, green?
NONE, just more trash to fill some loose minds with. Just cutting down others, making up crap.
These people are hurting, even if they made bad choices, niether parent ever expected or wanted this, now the parents are so hurt and are fueled by trash talk like this they only can blame each other for their lack of good choices instead of coming together for the sake of Haleigh. The truth is out there and it always comes to light. They are not evil people they are lost. Just like this so called journalist, putting out the facts…….yeah right, keeping us all imformed.
Keep the focus on the baby.
Who is she, her smile, her antics, favorite food, something that sets her a part, something we might recognize if one of us sees her. Does she skip a lot, curl her hair around her finger? Is she left handed, right handed? Does she have a southern draw to her voice. She seems to smile a lot in all her pictures.Maybe she did not grow up like Cindy Brady but she sure seemed happy. KEEP THE FOCUS ON HER if you really care and want to make a difference.
PLEASE, stop hating and pointing fingers, keep our eyes open. Love the parents through this. Love your kids. They are so prescious.
My heart aches for these people and especially for all the Haleigh’s……… and the Caylee’s. We all could be very helpful, so could THIS journalist who wrote this, it they really wanted to. The parents would welcome any publicity,they want there baby home. Neither parent was with this child, they did not take her away. pain is pain people until you ever loose a child none of us have any right to judge those parents. you don’t know until you are living in that hell.
They have to go to bed wondering if there little baby is alone, being abused, hungry, tortured and instead of getting emotionally supported they are being knocked down harder.
How ever screwed up or bad dicisions made in there lives they did not do this.
God please help us all.
9:49 MISH
Your first link, the Police Report has Haleigh down as a MALE. WHAT???
Looking for a boy?
Notimeforhating 11:37
What are you talking about? NOTIME FOR HATING? You sound very close to that yourself.
I happen to know this author, and know their essence, and what makes them tick. They are a fine parent, and their ONLY PURPOSE, I can assure you is to keep stories like this out in the public and keep them alive – and HOPEFULLY to bring back the child alive! Maybe you should spend 1/20 of the time helping these children, that they do?
You missed the whole purpose here? Do you think writers make up the facts? Like a man in black, or a black man? These are WHAT IS, not a figment of the author’s imagination.
***Do you find errors here? What are they?*** Why do you get upset when the writer states the facts of this case?
Shall we discount their drug habit and having babies too? Terrific combination! “LOST”? “BAD CHOICES”? Please – WE CAN’T clean this up by using hackneyed cliches like yours!! It doesn’t cut it! People who take drugs should NEVER HAVE CHILDREN! GOD HELP THOSE POOR CHILDREN!
Caylee Anthony’s mother took drugs too.
THIS IS DA@N UGLY – NTFH. Sheet found with blood on it? Nice.
The streets to HELL are paved with good intentions – and probably the blood of the children is used for the morter.
** should have been MORTAR. Sorry.
OF COURSE IT HAD TO BE THE BLACK MAN!!!!
GEE! Who else could have done it??? right???
BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!! MISTY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO LIL’ HALEIGH, JUST READ HER NON-VERBAL CUES!!!
To – notimeforhating said,in March 29th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
On the off-chance that you return to read these posts I just wanted to say that a close reading of the above article shows it to be fairer and more objective than many articles on other blogs or even by “real” news organization.
The author clearly states, “if” and clearly distinguishes speculation from fact. Stone is clearly wondering the same things most of us readers are wondering about. For one, we wonder why Jr (the 4 yr old) is the only one who mentioned a black man and we have to wonder if someone coached him. It’s a natural question since it’s kind of odd for a 4 year old and also because it conjures up memories of Sharon Smith who drowned her two sons and blamed it on a black man. Also, we are not positive that Ron was NOT there. Supposedly the then babysitter/mistress WAS there. She said she was. And her story has changed several times.
Nowhere in the above article are Haleigh’s biological parents blamed for the disappearance. But considering who those two individuals are – we cannot totally rule them out.
The people on this blog very much care about the families of children who have disappeared and been murdered – except for those who are clearly involved in the act or cover-up.
Right now we just don’t know – and neither do the police – what role if any they played in this.
If you want to know more about Haleigh in order to help look for her, many photos have been provided in other BNN articles, elsewhere on the net, and descriptions of physical characteristics (including her medical condition) have been published. Look for them.
No one article can have it all.
notimeforhating, I also am confused by your post. You are so upset at whoever wrote they article yet your post is all one sided and you state your opinions like they are fact. How is that fair?? You don’t know any more about what happened in that home than any of us. The person who wrote the article is just trying to get to the bottom of this sad situation. They are not making accusations at all. The focus IS on Haleigh, and we as people are allowed to discuss this case. There is no law that says we can’t talk about the issues surrounding this girl’s disappearance. Maybe if Misty would be honest with the police there would be more progress with this case. We are posting here because we too are sick of all these missing and abused and murdered children.
Actually notimeforhate I also wrote in this article that the possibility of Jr. being coaxed or manipulated into saying this and asked if this description even has anything to do with her disappearance…
notimeforhating,
How is it that you know for fact that neither of the bio-parents wanted or was involved in Haleigh’s dissappearance. The cops have ruled out no one. Where are you getting your information?
You do ask a lot of good questions about Haleigh herself…however, no one on this blog can help you with those answers because the family has never taken the time to release those kind of details to the press. If they had, I guarantee that Stone (the author of the above article that you seem to have such issue with) would include those details with each follow-up article. Although I cannot speak for Stone, I have been reading Stone’s articles for some time, as well as all other press releases concerning Haleigh, and can attest that this author does care deeply about this story and this little girl. However, Stone can only print the “facts” that have been released.
And you may want to review the statements released by Cummings and crew…consistency and the Cummings are strangers…which would lead the average person to believe that TRUTH and the Cummings may be unknown to each other as well…
Zip Dezooda said,in March 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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I am not a fan of the “Cobra” bounty hunter / PI type of guys getting into these kind of cases, just like Padilla in the Caylee case.
However, Cobra did not “interject” himself into this case. The bio-mom’s attorney brought him into it.
Just setting the facts straight…Cobra is not an independent operator, he is an employee of one of the family factions.
actually the black man has been ruled out he has given a poly graph or so it says.
Spacely its ok that person obviously didnt read the article with open eyes…I am no way accusing or taking any side by reporting this..I am simply reporting on it…thats all…
I won’t believe a thing that this “now she’s a Mother” Crystal or her attorney have to say.
Has anyone noticed that the authorities aren’t saying this ?
12:54 PICKS that’s exactly what T.J. Heart said he is supposed to do too.
Just REPORT, not give an opinion.
You are in good company!
C@Q saying what about the “black/white dude” I dont know….Like I said in my article is this even going to help bring Haleigh home…does it even have anything to do with her abduction? I mean…cripes
The only thing people should be concerned about right now is the truth!!!
Misty and Ron should rethink their stand and start telling this truth.
I myself think ‘the black man’ story is just another rumor being passed out by locals their and that biomom is using for a great reason to this loss. The very first interview she gave about this was only ‘man in black’ not black man. I have a young child and at four years old she NEVER would say black person, she still doesn’t. Kids don’t say black and white like us older people who have heard it our whole lives. Unless the person who took her was ‘as black as night’, please excuse that phrase but the is ONLY way I believe a four year old would say ‘black man’
Why has Misty Croslin, excuse me, Mrs. Ronald Cummings not been jailed like Casey Anthony? Casey didn’t report Caylee missing for 31 days and was the last person to see her alive. What differs with the Mrs. Misty Cummings being the last one to see Little Haleigh alive? It has been longer than 31 days since Haleigh went missing in Misty’s care. What’s the difference? I just don’t believe the Judicial System is working in the small town Satsuma. Put Misty in handcuffs, “handcuffs wouldn’t scare Ronald after wearing them several times in his past,” lock her up, throw away the key until she and Ronald confess as to what really happened to the precious Haleigh! Any thoughts on this?
By the way, assure Misty that she won’t be killed by Mr. Cummings after she tells the truth! She would definitely need protection; it is likely that she could go missing, too.
If you dont believe junior google search;(hernan e. enriquez/fun at riverfront park)
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