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Tiffany Tehan’s Husband Speaks

David Tehan went on the Early Show with his father-in-law and a law enforcement today. It’s a unique video because David grins and continually shows positive emotions until he is asked if he knew the man his wife was seen with on the video surveillance. At that time, his grin dissipates.

Read moreI am unable to draw anything from this video of David. It is possible that David was grinning because he was focused on his daughter and her actions as she is all he has right now. It also could be plausible that he could be grinning because he now believes his wife may have done something she is going to be held accountable for, and he doesn’t believe from what he knows that his wife’s life is in danger. That’s just speculation, of course. He just doesn’t seem to show much concern, which is notable, but by itself doesn’t mean anything because he isn’t contradicting himself in any way.

The correspondent on the Early Show does say to David , “You have understandably been too distraught to talk about it”. It is plausible that David’s emotions have changed from the fear of a random abduction to the potential that maybe his wife ran off with another man she knew and was involved with. It can’t be ruled out. We’d need to talk to him more to know.

The body language between Tiffany Tehan and Tres Hutcherson was friendly. They are turned toward each other, and each are holding a cup — mirroring each other’s body language. There is no tension in them that is discernible from the footage shown in the video. They appear to be friends, if not more.

We just have to hope that Tres Hutcherson didn’t decide to do something erratic last Saturday. That’s the fear. His wife, who was questioned by reporters said Tres drained the family back account and believes he is with Tiffany, however, she said she didn’t believe he would harm her.

Pat Brown’s Speculation on Haleigh

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

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

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.”

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!

Alex Martin is Nick Francisco

A Seattle reporter tracked down missing Nick Francisco in Southern California recently, and did a fascinating interview with him. Watch the interview here.

Nick, who now goes by the new name of Alex Martin, however, doesn’t say much about the details of what happened. He doesn’t even mention Christine’s name once. The reporter has to poke and prod at him to get him to speak the few words he does say.

Nick is clearly upset and despondent, and could even be suicidal, or worse. He portrays a sadness that is hard to explain, and a hopelessness that causes me fear. I think I feel fear because Nick feels like a victim in every aspect of his life that he talks about here. When people feel their life is out of control, and that they are a victim at every turn, their potential to cause others harm grows exponentially. Nick works to stop himself from breaking down. He is extremely detached and is trying to detach more and more, yet he is in a lot of pain. I hope Nick finds help and soon.

Read moreThe reporter asks Nick about making the final decision to disappear in 2008, and Nick says, “Well, it was either doing that, or waking up the next morning with a gun to my mouth. I had one in the shed. It’s pretty cold when you put it in your mouth every day.”

What strikes me so much about this statement by Nick (aka Alex) is how Christine, his wife, portrayed something entirely different (source):

“My husband is missing and he would come home if he could,” Christine Francisco told FOX News [days after his disappearance].

Christine, who is pregnant with the couple’s third child, said her husband would never leave the family and believes he was the victim of foul play.

“He would not run out on his family ever,” she said.

 

 

In Christine’s interview with Greta van Susteren in the days after her husband disappeared, Greta asked Christine, “Did you get the sense that anything unusual was going on in his life?” Christine’s response as she holds back laughter, “Not at all. He sounded so excited to come home, and he was ready to go with the cookies.”

If you live with a man, and are married to him for seven years, and he is suicidal, don’t you think you’d know? Of if you didn’t, once he disappeared, don’t you think you’d look back and at least say that he wasn’t happy? How come Christine portrays something dramatically different? When I look back on my first review of Christine, suddenly her laughter make sense. I suspect she knew what she was saying was ridiculous.

I also found it so strange that Christine Francisco didn’t reveal any details about Nick when she said he was found safe and alive, either. I mean what sane woman, who was violated as she says she was, would protect a deadbeat dad, and not reveal what she found, where he was and what his new name was. Most mom’s would want to hold their husband accountable–especially if people called her suspicious!! Why on earth did she continue to protect him?

Now in this article about this case, KIRO7.com says: “…the state [of Washington] says its hands are tied. For reasons of confidentiality, they cannot talk about this case in particular.”

What the heck? Why this “confidentiality?” What is being kept behind closed doors? If this was just a simply runaway case, there would be no reason for confidentiality. Something is going on that we are not privy to, and for a reason. I have my suspicions, but I will not publicly discuss them, because they are speculative.

We still don’t know what the truth is, and we may never find out the truth, but for the first time, things are making a little bit more sense.

It’s a sad story from every angle…