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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…

If it weren’t for Haleigh, she says she wouldn’t be where she is now, neck deep in Satsuma swamp trouble, caught by an undercover cop who asked her to find him some drugs.

It shouldn’t count, though, because she was ‘only helping out a friend,’ or so she thought, not really dealing.

Behind bars with a jail full of “deniers,” as I comment on Nancy Grace, that she “cannot accept the fact she was caught red-handed, on tape…” and now she’s behind bars, unwittingly confirming and confessing to drug transactions. Where was then 17 year old babysitter Misty Croslin when 5 year old Haleigh Cummings vanished? She could cut a far better deal if she’d just reveal what she does know, if she does know it.

But she’s not giving it up, so we decided to solicit your theories again about where was Misty?

1. At home, conked out from her three day party binge and sleeping like a log, unable to hear her brother, Tommy, bang on the trailer door, or an intruder who takes Haleigh while she is sleeping?

2. At a party, with Haleigh and Junior in tow?

3. At home with an invited, or uninvited guest?

4. At home with Haleigh who may have taken or been given a painkiller to keep her quiet while a party went on and it killed her accidentally?

5. Other?

As Misty Croslin says, “let people think what they want to think…they can kiss my ass…”

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

The Bald Truth reports how investigators in the missing child case of Haleigh Cummings are now using her father, Ronald, as a sort of “undercover Dad,” in an attempt to crack his ex wife, Misty Croslin, who he believes holds the key to finding what happened to Haleigh.

As we receive and edit more jail tapes, check the Ronald Cummings’ story for his jail conversations and the Misty Croslin jail tape story for more of her conversations from behind bars.

It’s fascinating to watch as law enforcement uses the jailhouse visits to make what one calls a “slam dunk” case for drug trafficking that could bring Misty Croslin 114 years behind bars for 8 felony counts, and her co defendants still jail terms, too. For the first time, Putnam County Sheriff’s Department investigators have leverage over the ex 17 year old babysitter who reported Haleigh missing a year ago, then married her father a month later.

So far, Misty has said investigators have recorded interviews with her ex husband, and played them for her. Our sources tell us she broke down and wept “real tears” for the first time when she heard him tell his sob story about losing Haleigh, and now losing Junior, and that he loved her and would stand by her. Of course, we now know that investigators gave Cummings the script they thought would push her buttons, and it worked.

One source close to the case said investigators noted that Misty “doesn’t give a shit about her parents, her brother or anyone else in her family. She just wants what they can give her. The only one she seems to care about is Ronald.”

But whether Cummings is really trying to help investigators crack his ex wife is questionable. On the one hand, he plays along, then talks about the psy-ops they’re using him to run no her on taped jail conversations he knows will be aired on television and that her family will hear and report to Misty…Operation heart-string blown, no?

We also remember when he helped bring her in for the Texas Equusearch polygraph she flunked “miserably,” according to Tim Miller, TES founder, presumably eager to help others pry out whatever information she knew about Haleigh.

But when Miller recruited volunteer Donna Brock to play undercover Mama and get close to Misty, it was Ronald who phoned his then wife, in New York with Brock to do CBS Early Show, their marriage on the rocks, to warn her he’d heard Miller detail Brock’s agenda on a local radio show, and to be careful.

We want to know what you think Ronald Cummings is really up to, and whether you believe he really wants to help crack Croslin…

Do you think Misty will crack? Let us know what you think might work.

Sources tell Art Harris some of our LE fans will read our readers’ excellent ideas right here at The Bald Truth.

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After he’s transferred to Putnam County Jail, the accused drug trafficker who happens to be the father of missing five year old Haleigh Cummings sounds happy about his new social status surrounded by other prisoners as “alot more fun than solitary,” as he describes how his “redneck” jail neighbor bangs on bars all night to mess with fellow African American inmates. “You can hear ‘em yelling, ‘Shut Up, White boy!’”

Cummings receives regular visits from investigators worknig his daughters’ case, and talks about helping them psyche out Misty in hopes the torch she still carries for him can be used to unlock new clues to his missing child.

RONALD CUMMINGS JAIL TAPE 1A

Ron talks to mother, Teresa Neves in jail

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We’re putting up several Misty Croslin phone calls and videotaped visits with her in the St. John’s County Jail so you can listen at your leisure and plug into the world of locals police believe hold the key to finding missing Haleigh Cummings.

On the next tape (inside), her lawyer passes on a warning to Misty: DO NOT let Snakeman bail you out…He cannot be trusted… Duh.

More on the obvious later.

Keep checking back as we add more to this page…and let us know what you think.

MISTY TAPE 2: “WHEN IS COBRA GONNA BAIL ME OUT??”

Misty Croslin Calls brother Timmy Croslin in Massachusetts, collect

MISTY TAPE 3A: “They played me a tape of Ronald telling me some stuff.”

MISTY JAIL TAPE 3B: “THIS IS A LESSON!” –Misty Croslin

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Unwittingly, Misty Croslin fingers her ex husband and brother, Tommy, as co-conspirators in her pain pill brokerage business, and gripes it’s unfair she’s getting charged as the so called mastermind, with all eight counts of drug trafficknig.

“I shouldn’t be getting all eight,” she tells her brother, Timmy, on a collect call to his home in Massachussetts. “John Barton (the undercover cop) asked me if I could do it, and I said, ‘Sure,’ I did some of the runs, Ronald did some of the runs and Tommy did some.”

MISTY JAIL TAPE 4: ‘IT SUCKS BAD!”

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In this talk with her brother and sister in law, Chelsea Croslin, Misty Croslin says she’s cold and needs a blanket.

MISTY TAPE 5A: ‘YOU’RE FUCKED…I CAN’T HANDLE IT,” SAYS HANK CROSLIN, SR.

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In this call from St. John’s County Jail, sister in law Chelsea Croslin tells Misty she’s a celebrity. “We talked to some (inmate’s husband) who found out who we were and he said, ‘Oh, God, my wife’s in jail with famous Misty Cummings?’”

To make a call, she alerts guards by hanging a towel on her bars. “I’m cold,” she says, why she asked for an extra blanket.

“Where was you when you got busted?” asks Timmy.

“At Spinners,” a bar, she says, with ex-husband Ronald Cummings.

Tommy clarifies that Misty wasn’t actually transporting pills, “just taking a guy to give him some pills.”

“Yeah,” she says.

“They just wanted to get you,” says Timmy, who asks what it’s like.

“”I’m locked up in a room by myself, like a cage,” she ways, explaining lockdown is a block of 8 cells with one woman in each.

“Why are they keeping you there?”

“Because I’m high profile,” says Misty. “It sucks bad, Tim.”

“I just don’t see why they fucking went after you guys instead of the big guys,” he says.

“I know, that’s what I’m saying,” says Misty.

Then her father, Hank, Sr., takes the phone, frustrated she ignored his warnings growing up, as he told me in several interviews, to stop running with the party crowd, stay away from Nay Nay Prevatt, drugs.

“I know, I should have listened to you,” she says.

“Now you’re fucked and your brother (Tommy’s) fucked,” says her father, as her mother, Lisa breaks down. “I can’t handle it.”

Suddenly, Misty turns tough, positive, reassuring, to parent her parents, as she once told me she had to do growing up, when they had their own on-going substance abuse issues. “It will be ok,” she tells them. “There’s nothing I can do about it. All you all have to do is visit and write me letters and send me pictures.”

Regular visits will be difficult, says her father. “We ain’t got money to buy gas…”

Then he tells her her ex husband’s mother, Teresa Neves, “says you got Ronald into pills.”

“Fuck,” says Misty, “whatever she says.”

She tells her father she got arrested at Spinners, where Tommy was busted, too, “threw me on the ground

MISTY TAPE 5B: MISTY VOWS TO GIVE UP DRUGS, CHANGE
Misty Croslin talks with her brother, sister in law and father…

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Misty vows no more cigarettes, pot, anything, says she plans to get her GED behind bars, and learn to read.

MISTY TAPE 6A: JAIL WON’T LET HER USE A BLANKET DURING THE DAY, WAH, WAH!

MISTY TAPE 6B: I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU…SEND ME SOME MONEY!

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

The Bald Truth has learned investigators have enlisted a new secret weapon in their strategy to get Misty Croslin to tell what they believe she knows about five year old Haleigh Cummings—her ex husband, Ronald Cummings.

In a surprising revelation, Cummings, behind bars on drug trafficking charges, tells his mother that two law enforcement investigators paid him a visit to brief him on the lines they wanted him to feed Misty, who still carries a torch for the now accused drug dealer she was living with when she reported his daughter missing a year ago today.

“They came and told me what to say, and (that) I had to tell Misty that I really, really loved her,” said Cummings in a jailhouse visit with his mother, Teresa Neves, caught on audio tape and released Tuesday.

The two agents have been working together on the Haleigh Cummings case, we’ve learned, leaning on Misty Croslin and her family for months.

Cummings says they instructed him to tell Misty that “I’d stand behind her no matter what,” discuss how much he missed Haleigh and how broken up he was at losing Junior, working up a sob story to touch her heart and try to unlock the truth, when, so far, all else has failed.

“I just don’t want it getting’ out because they asked me not to even say anything about it,” he went on.

Misty Croslin is in jail charged with eight counts of drug trafficking a county away from Cummings who remains in the Putnam County Jail, near detectives working the Cummings case.

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

Here’s the Putnam County Sheriff Department’s Media release we just received updating the public on the status of the Haleigh Cummings investigation:

“As many of you know, February 10, 2010 marks the one year anniversary of Haleigh Cummings’ disappearance from her home in Satsuma, Florida. Sheriff Jeff Hardy understands the public’s interest in this investigation, and everyone’s desire for the return of Haleigh to her family. Sheriff Hardy has asked that the following information be released to the public in an effort to provide insight into the investigative efforts being taken to bring this case to a logical conclusion.

The disappearance of Haleigh Cummings is still being considered an “active” investigation, and a team of detectives are currently assigned to this case. Investigators from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and investigators from agencies throughout the country have invested thousands of man-hours into this investigation thus far.

Here are some of the facts:

We have received 5,768 leads, all of which have been followed up on by investigators.

Approximately 600 of the leads received have come from psychics or individuals claiming to have special abilities. All of these leads have been reviewed by investigators, and leads containing specific information that can be verified have been followed up on.

The majority of the leads received are suggestions or opinions from citizens stating who they believe is responsible for Haleigh’s disappearance, and/or how the investigation should be conducted. These types of leads are reviewed by the investigative team, but many of these require little or no follow up investigation.

We have conducted formal interviews with 76 different individuals who were identified as having possible information in the Haleigh investigation. DNA samples were collected from many of those interviewed and compared to evidence collected in the case.

218 separate interviews have been either audio or video recorded by investigators.

When situations have dictated, investigators have traveled out of state to conduct these interviews.

We have received 644 reported Haleigh sightings from various cities and locations throughout the United States.

Investigators have either personally determined that these were false sightings, or asked for assistance from local law enforcement agencies where the alleged sightings took place to follow up on the information. To date, none of the reported sightings have been determined to be credible.

FDLE processed the crime scene. Many items of potential evidentiary value were collected and sent to FDLE’s crime lab for analysis (i.e. for fingerprints and DNA). All of evidence has been examined and/or processed, but none of it has identified any suspect or additional leads as to who the suspect(s) may be.

We have searched thousands of acres, including all property south of Highway 17 near the Cummings residence.

We have had numerous underwater recovery and search teams search all of the water near the area of the disappearance.
Aviation assets have conducted several airborne searches. K9 assets have searched the area on several occasions.

Volunteer civilian searchers on foot and horseback searched the wooded areas near the residence.

As previously released, it is very unlikely that Haleigh’s disappearance is the work of a stranger.

Evidence and information obtained during this investigation indicate a strong likelihood that Haleigh’s disappearance is the result of foul play by someone known to Misty Croslin and/or Ronald Cummings.

There is no specific individual whom investigators have identified as a person of interest. Investigators still believe that Misty Croslin holds important answers in this case. She still refuses to provide any sort of detailed accounting of the hours during the late evening and early morning of Haleigh’s disappearance.

Furthermore, physical evidence at the scene contradicts Misty’s sketchy account of her evening activities.

Investigators ask that anyone with direct knowledge of Misty’s activities during that evening of February 9, 2009, or into the early morning of February 10, 2009, is encouraged to report that information to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.

Information may be submitted by calling Northeast Crime Stoppers at (888) 277-TIPS (8477), or e-mailing the information to haleigh@putnamsheriff.org.

The recent arrests of Misty Croslin, Ronald Cummings, Hank Thomas Croslin Jr., Hope Sykes, and Donna Brock, on drug trafficking charges have caused some media outlets to question the intentions behind these arrests. Sheriff Hardy wants to assure the public that these narcotic cases were not a result of the Haleigh investigation. Independent information was received by narcotics detectives that these individuals were unlawfully selling prescription medications. The State Attorney’s Office was consulted at the onset of the narcotics investigation, and it was recommended that the missing person case and the narcotics cases remain totally separate to avoid legal conflicts in both cases. The Haleigh investigative team was not made aware of the narcotics cases until January 20, 2010, just prior to all five individuals being arrested.

Investigators assigned to Haleigh Cummings’ disappearance have interviewed these five (5) individuals in the past, some on multiple occasions. However, investigators will take advantage of every opportunity given to speak with any individual who possibly holds information regarding Haleigh’s disappearance.

Sheriff Hardy realizes the importance of keeping Haleigh in the spotlight and the public involved in this case.

He appreciates all of the leads and tips that have been provided, and wants to assure everyone that each lead and tip is acted on by investigators. Sheriff Hardy wants to reassure the public, but mainly Haleigh’s family, that we will continue to aggressively pursue this case until Haleigh is found.

Lieutenant Johnny Greenwood

Putnam County Sheriff’s Office