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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 Nancy Grace, HLN, August 20, 2010

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

Out of the chute, Nancy Grace quizzed us on Misty Croslin’s brother saying he believes Haleigh was strangled.

GRACE: Bombshell tonight. A lawyer for Misty Croslin`s brother reveals COD — cause of death. He says little Haleigh was strangled.

GRACE: As the public now demanding a public hanging for Misty Croslin, do we finally know the true COD — cause of death? Out to Art Harris, investigative journalist, Artharris.com. Art, what do we know tonight?

ART HARRIS, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: Nancy, for the first time, Tommy Croslin has revealed the cause of death, says that the night he was at the trailer, his cousin Joe strangled Haleigh. That`s what his lawyer says Tommy Croslin, his client, told police in April. Now, it`s just coming out officially by his lawyer, but that raises a whole new — a whole new chapter… 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?

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

Tune in Nancy Grace Friday night (just switched) at 8 and 10 p on HLN when we’ll be discussing the latest revelation in the mystery of missing and presumed murdered Haleigh Cummings: Tommy Croslin’s claim his Tennessee cousin, Joe Overstreet, strangled her in her father’s Satsuma, Florida where he dropped by to steal a prized machine gun Ronald Cummings had showed off a few days earlier.

Overstreet denies any involvement, but Croslin’s lawyer, James Werter, said that’s what his client told law enforcement in April. “He didn’t actually see it,” Werter told The Bald Truth Thursday night, “but that’s what he speculated happened,” based on being there and riding to the river with Overstreet.

He said Overstreet was bossing around his very stoned client, high on Xanax, and because “he held the door for Joe, police threatened him with accessory to murder charges” if he didn’t reveal more information.

Werter believes Tommy might have coughed up other details had that threat not been made–and prosecutors offered his client immunity. But no deal was on the table, so he ordered his client to be silent unless he was present for interviews. Read the rest of this entry »