Haleigh Cummings, mother Crystal Sheffield, with brother, Ronald, Jr. aka “Butterbean”
By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
As a member of the Putnam County Child Abduction Response Team, and a lead investigator trying to crack the Haleigh Cummings mystery, Peggy Cone found herself searching the hay farm in nearby Baker County last Friday, when more than three dozen law enforcement officers from the state police and several counties descended on two trailers the missing five year old’s mother, Crystal Sheffield, and her maternal grandmother, Marie Griffis, call home.
It was an invitation only affair, according to Captain Dominic Piscitello of the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department; the mother’s family had invited law enforcement to search the 40 acre property to help remove any suspicion Haleigh might be hidden there, or had been there since she was reported missing Feb. 10 from her father’s trailer in nearby Satsuma, Florida. Read the rest of this entry »
Two months before Friday’s police search, a grieving mother hunting answers requested a parent update from frustrated Putnam County detectives working the Haleigh Cummings mystery, only to learn investigators had no break, but were working hard to follow up some 4,000 tips they’d run down, and remained committed to finding her daughter, and analyzing more forensic evidence.
While sources close to the case told me police did not consider Haleigh a stranger abduction, then or now, theorizing it more likely a child snatch by someone with ties to, or familiar with, the Cummings family, they couldn’t tell Crystal much, says her attorney, Kim Picazio. She joined Crystal for the sheriff’s department briefing in Satsuma that also included Sheffield’s mother, Marie Griffis. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Jackson Unconscious, Man Calls 911 For Help.
By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Listen carefully to the 911 tape: a calm, but nervous voice asking for an ambulance…an unconscious man undergoing CPR (on a bed when SOP is to put a patient on the floor), a toxic drug cocktail reported (but not confirmed by the coronor yet) of Demerol, Xanax and the anti-depressant, Zoloft…known by pharmacologists to dangerously turbo-charge other drugs. I wasn’t surprised it was Michael Jackson.
…Another superstar apparently felled by addiction and too much money–for Yes-men to say, “No!” The King of Pop, Mr. Thriller, Moonwalker extraordinaire…Michael Jackson, dead Thursday at 50. Read the rest of this entry »
By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
“I remember watching Haleigh Cumming’s mother break down in front of the cameras,” says Crystal Sheffield’s mystery benefactor in an exclusive interview with The Bald Truth.
“She was just shaking and sobbing, and talking about how much she missed her daughter, and I kept thinking, ‘This poor lady.’ I couldn’t imagine what she was going through, facing $12,000 in back child support and selling bracelets and t-shirts to raise money to keep people interested in finding her missing child.”
The angel donor asked that her last name not be used, but her first name is Barbara. She’s a Texas oilfield analyst with no children of her own, just a big heart for single, working mothers struggling to get by. She doesn’t tithe to a church, she tells me, but believes in giving back, shunning the big name charities to give 10 per cent of a nice income directly to individuals in need. Crystal Sheffield fit her bill, she says. Read the rest of this entry »
