Tag Archive for: Haleigh Cummings

Pat Brown’s Speculation on Haleigh

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Being able to see the truth, one thing is very hard for me: listening to people speculate at what happened. I think it is because a lot of what people speculate about has no evidentuary support. Human behavior is evidence. People behave the way they do for a reason. We can never discount it, which a lot of people do when they speculate. So when cases start to break, I often steer clear because I go loopy listening to speculation that has no basis in reality. You cannot ignore basic facts.

I heard lots of stories about what might have happened to Haleigh Cummings and most don’t even remotely interest me because they are so far off the charts. The idea that Ronald was totally uninvolved is ridiculous, and Pat Brown has offered the first plausible scenario that I have heard of what might have happened to Haleigh. I thought I would share it with you.

Criminal Profiling Topic of the Day: Why Ronald Cummings knows what happened to Haleigh

Thanks, Karon, for the link.

Update on Search for Haleigh

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A blog writer at the Orlando Sentinel wrote the following on this blog:

“Sources close to the investigation tell me that they have a person in custody,” WOFL’s Kelly Joyce said from Putnam County. “That person told them that they could find Haleigh’s body at the bottom of the St. Johns River here today, and I’m told they found something, but the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office isn’t saying what they found.”

Of course, this is one person talking to another, so take it with a grain of salt, but I thought I’d share it.

Breaking News: Search for Haleigh Ongoing

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Investigators in the Haleigh Cummings case have received a tip from inside the jail, and are searching the area near where Ronald Cummings lived when Haleigh disappeared at this moment. They’ve also set up a mobile command center, so it looks like they got a big tip.

News4Jax.com is reporting the following (see their video here):

Channel 4’s Tarik Minor said the search of an area less than 5 miles south of where Haleigh disappeared in February 2008 was prompted by a “credible tip.”
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Minor called the search effort “massive,” and included deputies from Putnam, Clay and Marion counties, as well as the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. He said cadaver dogs were also brought to the scene.

In the FirstCoastNews article, they write something I have never seen before: “After extensive interviews with many people involved in Haleigh’s life, detectives have said Croslin knows more than she’s saying, but is not a suspect. Has anyone seen that before? Is this a new change in status due to information?

I will post more information as it becomes available. If you have breaking news, please email me!

Thanks, Karon, for the breaking news tip!

Misty Croslin Voice Stress Test

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A reader asked me for an opinion on my Feedback page about Misty Croslin. What is fascinating is when I was listening to it, I heard something interesting.

If you go to time marker 7:00 and listen from there, you will hear Misty say, “I didn’t have nothing to do with her. I love that little girl more than anything, would never hurt her, if I knew who hurt her, I wouldn’t tell.”

Did I hear that right? Does she says she wouldn’t tell?

Isn’t that fascinating. She wouldn’t tell?

That’s the truth!

Ronald Cummings Jailhouse Interview: Part 1

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Reading Between the Lines



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What Ronald Cummings says in this jailhouse interview is quite revealing.

Interviewer: Have they asked you about Haleigh yet…What happened?

RC: …They just told me that their main focus is not on putting me in jail, its about finding Haleigh.

Why would the police say that, if they didn’t think Cummings knew something? Does this make any sense? It reveals to us that the police clearly believe Cummings knows more than he is telling us.

If Cummings was being looked at unfairly, you would have expected him to say something like, “Look man, they have the wrong person. The person who took my child is still out there, other children are at risk. I worry about my son!!”

Have you ever noticed he never has worried his son? That’s another huge red flag–two in one sentence.

Cummings goes on to say, “The 911 call, I haven’t changed my mind about the 911 call since the minute it was made.”

What?

What would he change his mind about in the 911 call? The fact that Ronald thinks there is something he could have changed his mind about the 911 call is a concern for me. I wish the reporter would have delved into this more to see what Ronald would have said. I suspect he may have been talking about his threat to kill the abductor (because that is what this segues into, but one can never be sure).

He then babbles on that if he finds out who did it, he’ll go after them. It’s ridiculous babble, if you want my opinion. He says, “That still remains that it don’t matter 40-50 years from now, if I found out whoever done it before they do, you know whatever, might be done whether they took Haleigh because they took because they lost a child, or whatever the case might be, you know, uhm…yeah….”

The word “yeah” here is indicative that Ronald is thinking as he is talking and he is confirming things to himself as if, “Yeah, that’s right. That’s what I want to say.” It’s uncommon for people to do this. When people are deceptive, some have a habit of verbal confirming to themselves that they are saying what they wanted to say. It’s like there is a cognitive overload, and their thoughts of self-censoring slip out unconsciously. I’ve seen it multiple times.

In his ramblings, Cummings talks about how someone “stole” his child. Later on, however, he talks about how if Haleigh is found it will be because someone is reporting a “homicide”. He says:

“They know I won’t be the first ones to know. I wouldn’t call’em or nothing else. They would probably be notified by the news media or…or somebody, you know…report’en a homicide, so that’s how they’ll know I haven’t found anything.”

Ronald is all over in what he believes. One minute he suggests someone may have stolen his daughter to replace their missing child. The next, he talks someone took his daughter and if she is found ,it will be cause it is a homicide. The two are contradictory. He seems to change his position as the wind blows… Then when the interviewer questions if Cummings is talking about him committing a homicide against the abductor, Cummings owns that, too, but that is clearly not what he was saying.

There is little sense to what Cummings says. When people have genuine feelings, their beliefs are consistent one way or another, or they don’t own anything, if they are ambiguous. They don’t blow in the wind like Cummings is here. Deceptive people often do this…

Interviewer: …Do you think she (Misty) know more?

RC: That’s a hard question to answer….It’s hard to believe that she don’t know more, but…It’s also hard to believe that if she did know more, she didn’t already talk, you know…especially if they got her locked up like they got me locked up…

Notice the pauses? They are suggestive that he is thinking as he speaks (hot spot for deception), rather than talking from his heart.

Cummings behavior towards Croslin is just crazy. If he truly was not involved and didn’t know anything, he would be demanding the truth from Croslin. But he never has. Instead, he insanely defends her which makes no sense whatsoever, unless they are both in on this. His reply above is just more senseless ramble, if you want my opinion.

And the idea that Crolin will talk in prison could still happen, but Cummings may have scared her that if she does, she could face the death penalty. That would be enough for Cummings to be confident that Croslin will never talk. Life in prison or the death penalty? I think the choice would be easy for most people: Keep your mouth shut.

Cummings says interestingly, “I want my girlfriend to know I love her.” Did Ron get a new girlfriend or is that a message for Misty (that he is still loyal to her so she stays loyal to him)???

This is plain creepy!

Thanks, KC, for the story lead.