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By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

The Bald Truth has learned exclusively that after a month behind bars in the St. John’s County Florida jail, 18 year old Misty Croslin has written a jailhouse letter detailing what she claims happened to the missing five year she reported missing on Feb. 9, 2009 while babysitting Haleigh Cummings at her then boyfriend’s trailer in Satsuma, Florida.

Sources close to the case tell me investigators with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department missing child task force obtained a copy of the letter from a Croslin relative Misty wrote last week and are comparing it to other stories she’s told before. “Part of it they believe, and part of it they don’t,” said a source who has read the letter, and says investigators are going through it with a fine tooth comb.

“The problem with Misty is that they need someone credible to corraborate anything she says because she’s told conflicting stories about that night,” says the source.

We discuss Misty’s letter on The Nancy Grace Show tonight (Friday, March 12, 2010) for the first time, 8 and 10 p.m. est. Read the rest of this entry »

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

To hear her family tell it, Misty Croslin woke up the night Haleigh Cummings vanished to see her Tennessee cousin standing in the doorway with the five year old.

Leonard Padilla dropped that mini-blockbuster on HLN’s Nancy Grace Show Wednesday night, saying he’d heard it from Misty Croslin’s sister in law in Massachussetts; I thought the former prosecutor would fall out of her chair, over what Padilla seemed to report as new, but she knew, was not…

Like the undefeated Fulton County prosecutor she was (130 convictions, no acquittals), Grace probed, then reminded Padilla this angle had been out there for some time, and that cousin Joe had never been arrested or charged with a crime. It was Croslin who was behind bars, charged with trafficking in painkillers and facing more than 100 years in prison… Read the rest of this entry »

Letter Misty Croslin lawyer sent Leonard Padilla Monday

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

The Bald Truth has obtained the above letter Misty Croslin’s lawyer tells me he sent Monday via certified mail to Leonard Padilla, emanding the flamboyant California bounty hunter stay away from his client.

“Your attempts to involve yourself in Misty Croslin’s legal defense are unwarranted,” writes Palatka, Florida lawyer Robert Fields, adding that Padilla’s gift of a Ford Taurus, cell phone time and other items to her parents are “unwanted third party contact intended to convince her parents to influence her to work with you.”

And, despite what we’ve heard Misty demanding on tape–that her mother call Padilla and make a deal to bail her out — THAT just ain’t gonna happen, Fields tells me in an exclusive phone call, explaining Misty’s rant to her mother, Lisa, took place before he’d met with her last week to explain the insanity of jumping into the arms of bounty hunters like Padilla. Read the rest of this entry »

Art Harris on Nancy Grace HLN Friday, Feb. 12, 2010

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

While law enforcement maintains the physical evidence at the trailer where Misty Croslin reported 5 year old Haleigh Cummings missing contradicts what the the babysitter turned step-mama has been saying, Croslin tells her father she keeps wracking her brain, but there’s nothing she hasn’t revealed so far…

She does, however, reveal on taped prison phone calls and visits details of her alleged drug transactions that have the mousey 18 year old facing 8 felony counts of trafficking that could send her to prison for as long as 114 years, or at least until she’s “old and gray like you (her mother),” she told Lisa Croslin, who has yet to turn 40… Read the rest of this entry »