This is a news update from our good friend TJ Hart. The Sky 97.3 has consistently been the station to break news in the Haleigh Cummings case. Having spent countless hours talking to TJ I know, his commitment, and I share his frustration. This is his latest update. Simon.
Five-year-old Haleigh Cummings has been missing since February 10, 2009, when she was reported taken from her father’s home in Satsuma, Florida in the care of his 17-year-old girlfriend–now teen bride, Misty Croslin-Cummings.
The results of the second roundtable meeting with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and others involved in the search for this missing girl is expected soon. The first roundtable meeting nearly a month ago produced the surprising information that several pieces of evidence previously gathered by techs had not yet been analyzed.
Since then, a search of the Baker County farm where Haleigh’s mom, Crystal Sheffield, lives with her mother, Marie Griffis, took place in late June turning up nothing more than animal bones.
That search– at the request of the family– involving 43 officers, some cadaver dogs and a diver for some ponds on the property did take that area of the list of possible places where Haleigh could be.
Over 4000 leads have come into the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, so they do have a lot of information to go through.
Law enforcement has been very tight-lipped about the Haleigh Cummings case recently other than the information released on that search and the results of the first roundtable discussion of the case.
Putnam County Sheriff’s officials have said repeatedly that no one has been cleared in the investigation. They have also repeated their frustration with Misty Cummings and her inability to provide a consistent timeline for the night Haleigh disappeared.
The only people with anything possibly new on the case are a few bloggers and a private investigator who is embroiled in a legal battle over charges of false imprisonment of an alleged child sexual predator who was out on bail.
Some of private investigator William “Cobra” Staubs’ new leads in the case are very eye-opening and each are very much worth following in detail. The trouble is getting the all-important verification on the validity of some of the claims made by his informants. Nobody wants to give it up.
Just when there is a hot lead to pursue, the trail suddenly stops with either an arrest or the informant(s) gets cold feet.
It is also fair to say that about 95% of these informants are just individuals who looking for a way to interject themself into a national story and wind up having no real evidence.
Some of our other more credible sources tell The Sky that there may have been a change in the lead investigator into the Haleigh case. We shall see if this is true.
TJ Hart
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI am so glad you have stuck with this story. Thank for doing so even though others seem to have given up. We didn’t bring Caylee home but maybe there is still hope for Haleigh.
Simon, I would make the following statement for your viewers, Haleigh will be brought home alive and well ONLY if someone had the forethought to take her as there was some very serious trouble coming to her life due to all we have learned by the cast of characters. If this did not happen, the bad guys got her and it is over. Over in as much as the only thing left is who, why and when they did what they did. Let’s pray someone saw this in advance and took action. as bad as that is or sounds, I would commend them for that act as I know as they did, this was coming someday.
Simon & TJ Thank you for the update. Cobra WTH are you talking about? Speak in plain english please. From the sound of it, are you saying you have no idea if she is alive & you don’t know who, why or when??? Has something changed or does it seem you know less than you did 2 months ago? You hate the circus on the blogs, but if you insist we read between the lines..damn Cobra you are helping create the circus. Say what you mean & explain what you say. Question: If you were in the forums lurking & saw posters wondering where you are & what you’re doing…why didn’t you just speak up & talk ( or write ) instead of letting imaginations run wild? Fill us in please.
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Cobra, we all had high hopes in you. But you have found nothing, said so much, and gotten our hopes up. You have accused many, only for those to be found innocent. You have promised us much, only to be left empty handed each time. It is clear to the world, and to anyone following this case, that you do not know anything about the Haleigh Cummings disappearance. Any funds that you received, you should refund to all of us. What is fair is fair. We are not in the mood for riddles. This is about a missing child, named Haleigh Cummings. This is not about you, Mr. Cobra.
Cobra, we believe the truth is “hiding” in a bungalow in a little bitty town!! We believe the truth is known by the authorities. We ain’t giving up and don’t you. The LE will wait until the right time. As you know, it will be the facts when they release what we believe they know. When the facts and the arrests are made, all of our time will have been worthwhile as we searched for little Haleigh Cummings. Such a small, precious angel went missing——
Dad home at 3am, they say–a wet peed-on blanket–stoned/unfaithful babysitter– angered father for all those reasons! Rage followed-hates peed on bed–short walk/run/drive–plot story with teenager–then comes the 911 call much later–national news (why did you lie? I don’t know!)–(I don’t know. I was at work.)Too many quick stories for both to remember. Lots of inconsistencies-LIES. Get ’em LE, Cobra, and whomever else can force the truth from who we believe is a murderer and accomplice. Little Haleigh didn’t deserve whatever happened to her. We want her to be alive; however, with the amount of time she has been gone—??? We love you Haleigh–your purple bracelets still adorn our arms and your little pictures embrace our hearts as they hang from every fan’s chain in our home, and they will ’til you are found. Rest our baby girl, Haleigh.
All of you should shut-up and leave Cobra alone! What gives you the right to judge and jury Cobra? I don’t see any of you going there to find her. You all yak and yak about keeping the focus on Haleigh yet take the focus off her when you bad mouth Cobra. Thanks to Cobra!!
I want to thank TJ, Skye Radio,Cobra and Simon. Like Marie&C said, i don’t see any other people out there doing anything to find this beautiful girl. (and that included her own family) I am truly disgusted with LE and their inability to process VERY important evidence from months ago, what the heck were they doing all this time? i just don’t get it and now b/c of that they won’t get any results back for months. Good Job to those of you that have been out there looking for answers…. Haleigh we love you VERY much and are working very hard to find you!!!!
Thank you so much Simon for sticking so diligently to this story. You, Jan, and few others are keeping this alive and out to the public. There is real ugliness there is Satsuma. I’m praying that good will prevail.
Cobra – well said. OK, just to recap, here’s what you’ve found so far after all of the donations, interviews, and chest pounding…
Point#1 Haleigh may be alive, if someone took her to keep her alive.
Point #2 If #1 did not occur, Haleigh may be deceased, if “bad guys” took her to do her harm.
Point #3 The only things you have left to figure out after 5 months of searching, receiving donations, and accusing just about any individual who has ever lived in and around the Satsuma area, is who took Haleigh, why Haleigh was taken, and when she was taken.
Wow. Bravo Cobra. You are now smack dab at the spot where my 11 year old granddaughter is in solving this mystery from her home in Tennessee. However, she never put a “donate” sign up to receive funds for herself in getting there…
Cobra: most people in the world want you to leave the Haleigh Cummings case alone. In reading up in the case, we are forced everyday to ferret through your meaningless midnight rants to get to news from those who actually know something about the case. Leave, slither away, you are sadly making a mockery of yourself and you can’t even see it.
I don’t know what seems to be the problem with Cobra’s post. I have a high school diploma and have to say it’s not that hard to follow what he is saying. Maybe if you can’t understand what he is saying, keep your mouth shut and don’t be so eager to bash. I will put it in a 3rd grade reading level for those that can’t follow along: If Haleigh is alive, it is because someone saw the danger she was in and took her to safety. If she is dead, then we only need to know who, how and when. And if someone did take her to a safe place, Cobra is saying good job for seeing that she wasn’t safe and taking her to a safe place. GOT IT???
I believe in Cobra. I have been involved from the first week and have seen things that have baffled me. I do believe that Haleigh is alive and I believe that there are leaks.
Cobra, please don’t give up and Gunny and I are rooting for you.
Leslie, your high school diploma doesn’t give you a permit to judge. I have been in Cobra’s corner from day one & my questions are not bashing him, just asking him to clarify. His comment states the obvious, nothing new there. Two months ago Cobra had strong feelings she was alive & safe…my questions are-has that changed? Are you seeing or feeling something different now? Leslie, Maybe you should try that 3rd. grade reading level comprehension & you will find it does NOT ask posters what Cobra is saying & is not directed to anyone other than him. Your third grade manners should tell you not to butt in when you are not addressed. I am not questioning his motives or tactics, I’m not asking he go away, just want COBRA himself to spell it out. GOT IT?
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Cobra, honey, its past time for you to go home.
TJ, thank you for continuing to follow this case. I believe this poor child has been dead since the night she was abducted. I feel for the family, having to go through what they have been subjected to.
TJ, has there been any news on the missing RSO, Chad Reynolds? I would really like to know where he has disappeared to.
I would like to point out that the comment section is for comments about the story. I can see this thread heading down a similar path that caused us to close comments on a number of threads and open up a policed forum.
I will not permit BNN to sink to the level of some other sites in regard to this case. Please chose your words wisely as I will close the comments if I see off topic trouble.
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In my opinion, Cobra knows more than the average bear, and he certainly isn’t the Ring Master of the Circus!
Simon, Jan and Cobra – Thank-you
For the sake of the show and our ears, this looks better!
‘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, Denny Griffin, and Jan and Simon Barrett.”
-BNN
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