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Misty Cummings Fails Polygraph

FirstCoastNew.com is reporting that Tim Miller, from Texas Equusearch says Misty “miserably” failed a polygraph.

You can read the polygraph questions Misty failed here.

You can read my original thoughts about Ronald and Misty (nee Croslin) Cummings here. To read all of my posts on this subject, you need to search the archives.

Thank you, Karon Cox, for the updated story lead!

Theresa Parker, Sam Parker and Ben Chaffin

Sam Parker is on trial this week for the murder of his wife, Theresa Parker, whose body has never been found. A fellow police officer and friend to Sam at the time, Harbin “Ben” Chaffin, was later arrested for four felonies related to this case, one of which was tampering with evidence and another was making false statements to investigators.

Ben has been given immunity, if he testifies against Sam. You can see some footage of the testimony here.

Read moreBen testified this week that Sam called him on March 22, 2007, and confessed to the murder of Theresa. Ben said:

He [Sam] said, uh…something like he’d really done it this time or he was really going to do it this time. [Voice in court: You are not sure which of them?] No, ma’am. [Voice in court: What else did he say?] He said he that had a place that was hard to find her or that they never would find her. And that he’d shot Theresa through the head.

You then hear a voice question Ben, “You didn’t tell them about this so-called murder confession you heard simply because you forgot about it?” Ben replied, “I forgot about it.” According to reports, Ben didn’t remember this during three interviews with the GBI, until he was offered immunity.

Yet strangely, other news reports are saying that Ben said that he “blubbered like a baby”after Sam called him. If news reports are correct that Ben said he “blubbered like a baby” after the call, it is a complete contradiction to the fact that he supposedly “forgot” about the confession later. If something is traumatic to you, enough to cause you to try like a baby, you do not forget about it later. Period.

Ben’s account of the phone conversation on the night of March 22, 2007, raises many red flags for me. First, do you notice how Ben recounts the conversation in third person and doesn’t give us any first person accounts?

Second, when a person doesn’t hear something correctly, as Ben suggests he didn’t, especially when someone is talking about something as monumental as a murder, most people would ask for clarification, if they didn’t hear things, but obviously Ben didn’t. I find this very odd. I have to wonder was he already privy to something going down? Is that why he didn’t ask for clarification? Or is this exact conversation that Ben is telling us completely false? I don’t know.

We could suppose that Ben was afraid of Sam, if he did in fact help his friend in someway do something illegal, or if Sam threatened him, and hence that is why he didn’t dare question Sam. But then we would have expected Ben to make logical sense out of Sam’s first and second statement, if he did decide to share this confession with people–if he truly believed Sam made a confession to him. It would make sense that he would rationalize that he didn’t hear Sam say “he was really going to do it this time” because he would know that he definitely heard Sam say, “I shot Theresa through the head.”

Or I would have expected Ben to say, I wasn’t sure what Sam said at first. It was muffled etc., but Ben does not do any of this. It’s highly unusual.

When people are deceptive, however, they often make a strong statement and then get scared, and their nerves cause them to hedge or soften their statement. It’s what fear does to people when they are in a high stake lie. Is that what Ben does here?

We know for sure that these two spoke in the middle of the night. That seems well documented. Do you think it is plausible that Sam just called and woke up his friend simply to brag about his conquest that night, or do you think there was something more to it? I suspect it is the later, but that is only speculation. I will say that I personally don’t think Ben is leveling with us about what was actually said. Why that is, I can only speculate. Add to that that Ben is facing four felony charges related to this case and a picture starts to emerge that doesn’t look good for Ben.

I do not believe Sam Parker’s story either. You can read my original post on him here.

The mystery deepens…

Police: Haleigh Likely Not Abducted by Stranger

Haleigh Cummings disappearance in Satsuma, Florida

Putnam County police came out this week and said again that they believe Misty (nee Croslin) Cummings likely holds the key to case of missing 5-year old Haleigh Cummings. They are also saying that Ronald Cummings and Crystal Sheffield are not suspects. What is interesting about this is were they ever officially called suspects?

Read more (Video)I wonder if people (reporters included) are jumping to the conclusion that Ronald and Crystal are now “cleared,” because the police are just reiterating they are not suspects (see Palatka Daily news article). To me, “being cleared” and “not being a suspect” are two very different things.

When I searched Google news for “Ronald Cummings and suspect”, nothing comes up. I don’t believe he ever was an official suspect. I also don’t find any quotes in the media from the police saying the parents were “cleared”. I only see they are saying they are “not suspects”. That means nothing has changed with regard to their status, if you ask me.

What is interesting is that the police are now saying that they don’t believe Haleigh was abducted by a stranger. I believed that from day one. I’ve always believed both Ronald and Misty hold the key to this case and that they know more than they are both letting on. To read my original thoughts on the case, click here. Unfortunately, to read all of my thoughts on this case, you have to go through the archives as searches are only bringing up the last 12 posts (a limitation of blogger).

Putnam Co., Fla. say that, although Haleigh’s mother, Crystal Sheffield, and father, Ronald Cummings, are no longer suspects in their daughter’s disappearance, Croslin-Cummings remains a person of interest. Investigators say they also believe Haleigh was abducted by someone she knew. Click here to read more…

Sam Parker Trial: Update

From the Rome-News Tribune:

A former policeman testified this morning that Sam Parker told him he shot his wife and buried her.

Ben Chaffin, who worked with Parker, said Sam told him in a phone call, “I really did it this time” and that he had shot Theresa Parker through the head.

Sam Parker’s trial began Monday in Walker County Superior Court in downtown LaFayette before Judge Jon ‘Bo’ Wood. It is expected to last three weeks…More

To read my original thoughts of Sam Parker back on December 21, 2007, click here.

Thanks, Pat, for the story tip!!

Annette Sykes: Haleigh Cumming’s Grandmother

Click here to watch Annette Sykes talk about Misty (nee Croslin) Cummings on the night of Haleigh’s alleged disappearance.

Haleigh Cummings disappearance in Satsuma, Florida

Do you believe her?


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