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Art Harris on The Nancy Grace Show, HLN, Aug. 20

From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Schedule Change:

As often happens with breaking news, Haleigh Cummings has now been delayed for breaking news Thursday night, Aug. 26, on HLN’s Nancy Grace Show, which is set to focus on the sad case of the missing cheerleader.

Art just got an e mail from her New York producers to let us know, but in this bidness, last minute change is a given…Hey, if something else breaks in the case, he could be called back…Yep, it’s happened before. One night, show producers called at 7p to see if he could make the 8 p show. Read the rest of this entry »

Art Harris on Jane Velez Mitchell: Tommy Croslin Account of How Haleigh Died

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, © www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

With Tommy Croslin claiming his Tennessee cousin strangled Haleigh Cummings in the trailer where she was staying with his sister, Misty, in Satsuma, Florida, we pressed his defense team to explain, what did he see and when did he see it?

The Bald Truth has now learned that Tommy Croslin elaborated he actually saw Joe Overstreet holding five year old Haleigh Cummings “with his arm around her chest” inside the bedroom of the trailer where his sister Misty Croslin was babysitting Feb. 9, 2009.

At that point, he claims Haleigh wasn’t moving, that she appeared limp as a ragdoll. His lawyer, James Werter, says Croslin came clean with the details in April, when he told investigators he drove to the trailer with Overstreet—who denies any involvement in the missing child —to “borrow” a machine gun Ronald Cummings showed off one night over beer. Read the rest of this entry »

Art Harris on Jane Velez Mitchell HLN show

From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

She’s got a few weeks to think about her looming sentencing day in Putnam County…

But Misty Croslin is hanging tough, claiming she’s told all she knows…

How many times have we heard that?

NYT best-selling author Nancy Grace with journalist Art Harris on HLN set

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, © www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

The Bald Truth has learned Misty Croslin usually slept with a gun under her pillow for protection inside the trailer she shared with Ronald Cummings and his two children while he worked nights outside Satsuma, Florida.

But on Feb. 9, 2009, the day after she returned from a three day party binge, she claims it wasn’t there when Tennessee cousin Joe Overstreet barged in to steal her boyfriend’s prized machine gun, then snatched Haleigh instead.

“She said, ‘I would have shot Joe if I’d had the gun,’” Flora Hollars, her grandmother, tells The Bald Truth exlusively. Misty Cummings lawyer Robert Fields, also confirms she told him she slept with a gun Ronald Cummings gave her –just in case there were intruders. Read the rest of this entry »