"The child is in the bedroom, literally next to her," Merchant said. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. They also arrested Cummings, Tommy Croslin and two of Misty Croslin's girlfriends. If she could give us one truthful statement, I think we'd be somewhere.". Several people, including her father Ronald Cummings and his then-girlfriend Misty Croslin who was watching her that night, were charged during the lengthy search and investigation. Croslin, who was 17 and living with Haleigh's father in Putnam County when Haleigh disappeared seven years ago from a Satsuma mobile home, is appearing in a St. Johns County court Tuesday to ask. hitType: 'event', After five or six minutes, the screams stopped. Mark Woods: There's a reason Nancy Grace's 'exclusive' sounded familiar. Thats all there is to it. Among the pieces of evidence shown in the documentary, a video where Ronald is speaking to tearful Croslin in a police interview has also emerged. They were both jailed in late 2010 after being caught with 330 tablets of oxycodone and hydrocodone in their car. "They came up and bought drugs," Griffith said. Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings and his girlfriend Misty Croslin were both at the center of the investigation, but were never charged with Haleigh's disappearance. Investigators continue to believe Croslin is key in Haleigh's disappearance. Aug. 7: Cummings is arrested after fighting with his wifes brother, Hank Tommy Croslin Jr. Sept. 19: A pond south of Palatka is drained as part of the search for Haleigh but nothing is found. When he got back to his trailer home in Satsuma, south of Jacksonville, around 3 am that morning, he was greeted by Croslin, who told him that she had woken up to find Haleigh missing from her bed. Fields said Croslin told authorities she heard the door to the van in which Overstreet came to the house slide open and then shut before he drove off. Legal commentator . pg.acq.push(function() { Last year, in November HLN, came up with a docuseries called 'Real Life Nightmare' which revealed shocking details about the case. No signs of forced entry except, according to Misty, a brick had been used to prop open one of the doors to the trailer. She will have five years of drug-offender probation when she is released. In the video, Croslin can be seen crying after finding the shirt that she said the little girl was wearing when she went to bed the night she vanished. Cummings was at work. On Friday night, Palatka police arrested Lisa Carmen Croslin, 40, and Hank Thomas Croslin Sr., 41, on charges of purchasing cocaine, tampering with evidence and violating their probation in earlier cases. Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Rapidly growing cemetery filled with Vladimir Putin's 'prisoner army', Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. Somebody stole my child out of my bed, Ronald said days after his daughter disappeared. In this case, investigators found she had 155 oxycodone pills, with a weight of 70.7 grams and a value of $800. said Theresa Neves, Haleigh's grandmother and Ronald Cummings' mother. A maximum sentence on each of the counts is 30 years under state law. if(document.querySelector("#adunit")){ if(document.querySelector("#ads")){ }); and a cinder block popping open the back door. "You sure you didn't unlock the door?" Croslin is currently serving 25 years in prison, whileCummings was sentenced to 15 years. Croslin; Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings; brother, Hank Croslin Jr.; and two others were arrested in January 2010 in an undercover sting and charged with selling prescription drugs in January. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. hitType: 'event', ga('ads.send', { Is Ronald Cummings, HaLeigh Cummings father, out of prison? eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), The next day, search teams scoured the neighborhood and divers and boats were in the nearby St. Johns River because two bloodhounds led them there. "The hope was to get her to say something, to reach into that soft spot in someone's heart and we didn't get it," Merchant noted. Emily Crane For Dailymail.com Investigators still believe that Croslin is the key to solving the crime. window.adsContainer = 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Police have said Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, the girl's mother, are not considered suspects. "You didn't wake up", he says, to which she sobs and responds, "I would never let nothing happen to her if I knew something. Croslin was sentenced on counts of dealing in prescription narcotics, including oxcodone and hydrocodone pills, in recorded transactions with an undercover detective working with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), The Croslins' daughter, Misty Croslin, was watching Haleigh the night the little girl disappeared. At one point, detectives searched a section of the St. Johns River near Satsuma where Haleigh disappeared. Currently, Cummings is set to be released from Lake Correctional Institute in Clermont on Oct. 17, 2022, and. Croslin has been convicted on unrelated drug charges and is now in prison. Sept. 25: A letter written by Kristina Naynay Prevatt from jail says she was partying with Misty Croslin and that Haleigh took an Oxycontin pill. However, Merchant doubts that. No evidence of Haleigh has ever been found despite these wide-spread searches involving hundreds of volunteers and an investigation involving multiple law enforcement agencies. ", Slideshow: Misty Croslin's jailhouse hairstyles, His daughter, who came teary-eyed into the courtroom, asked Circuit Judge Terry LaRue to be "fair, that's all.". While Croslin has never been charged in connection to the case, both she and Cummings are currently in prison on drug trafficking charges unrelated to Haleigh's disappearance. "She has the answers, not me. Jailhouse interview: Haleigh Cummings' father talks about his arrest. Ronald Cummings and Hank Croslin Jr. both received 15-year sentences. . He was the lead detective with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office but no longer works there. All rights reserved. }); Here is a fax of the actual hand written letter from Nay Nay (Misty's friend).About Haleigh overdoseing on oxycontin and they dumped her body in a pond. "(Lisa) was driving and (Hank Sr.) was the passenger. Croslin and Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings, who divorced shortly after Haleigh disappeared, were arrested along with three others in January following an undercover operation. Fine art from an iPhone? A news helicopter caught images of them on a dock. They were both denied bond on the violation of probation charges. his former girlfriend, Misty Croslin, was the last . Copyright 2023 News4JAX.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings. Both Croslin and Cummings are currently in prison on drug trafficking charges unrelated to Haleigh's disappearance. June 21: The Sheriffs Office says a bone examined by forensic experts after it was found in the April river search is not Haleighs. Circuit Judge Wendy Berger also ordered Croslin to pay $500,000 and to follow her prison time with five years of drug-offender probation. I wouldn't let someone just take her." "I think about it every day," Merchant said. }); eventAction: 'view' She answers, "I didn't even hear anything.". 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Oct. 8: Misty Croslin is sentenced in St. Augustine to 25 years in prison for trafficking in prescription drugs in a St. Johns County case. Croslin told police that she put Haleigh to bed, along with the girl's 4-year-old brother, at around 8 p.m. and that when she woke up at 3 a.m. Haleigh was gone and the back door of the north Florida house she shared with Cummings was propped open by a cement block. ga('ads.send', { In this version Croslin says she did see what happened to Haleigh the night she vanished from her home in Satsuma, Fla. Merchant said Croslin eventually recanted her statement about her brother and cousin taking Haleigh. Croslin had pleaded no contest in the St. Johns County courtroom to a single count of trafficking oxycodone. HLN News : HLN : April 14, 2010 12:00pm-5:00pm EDT : Free Borrow . No one has been arrested in the missing child case, and Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy has said . This is the question that has baffled the American public for four years, and turned little Misty Croslin into the most enigmatic prisoner that falls asleep in a Florida prison each night. Haleigh was 5 years old when she vanished from her home in Satsuma, in southern Putnam County. He went inside and bought $20 worth of cocaine.". ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (CBS/AP) Haleigh Cummings has been missing for over a year and a half, and on Friday her ex-stepmother, who is believed to have been the last person to see Haleigh alive, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for unrelated drug charges. Merchant said the cousin did not talk to investigators and a secondary search of the river turned up nothing. Croslin, the adult with Haleigh that night, first told police someone came into the house and took the child. I was not there.". She said her son has always focused on finding his daughter. PALATKA - In final pleas Monday, Misty Croslin and her father asked for fairness and leniency before she was given 25 years in prison for a series of prescription drug-trafficking cases. With her father, Hank Croslin, looking on, and her mother behind bars for a probation violation, Misty Croslin got good news and bad news Monday in Putnam County, Florida25 years in prison for seven additional drug trafficking counts to run concurrently with the 25 years she's already serving. The comments below have not been moderated, By You have locked doors. window.googletag.cmd.push(function() { In February 2009 Haleigh was reported missing by Cummings' then-girlfriend Misty Croslin, who was watching the children while Cummings worked at his night job. All rights reserved. Either way, Misty is still witholding information. "It's all in her hands," Sheffield said. Misty Croslin appeals drug conviction 18,782 views Apr 5, 2018 154 Dislike Share Save News4JAX 270K subscribers VIDEO: Misty Croslin, the last-known person to see Haleigh Cummings alive,. Still missing: DCF finds no abuse in Haleigh Cummings case. Last summer, Croslin's attorney, Robert Fields, told the judge that a "landslide of evidence," including the undercover video, led to her to plead no contest to the St. Johns County charges. Anyone with information about Haleigh's disappearance should call Crime Stoppers at 888-277-TIPS. All I want is my baby home," Sheffield said. It was a. February 9, 2009, was just another day for Ronald Cummings. During the October sentencing hearing, Croslin told. eventAction: 'click_ads' ', 'You didn't get out of bed,' Cummings said before asking Croslin: 'You sure you didn't unlock the door? At the end of the river search, Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy says he does not believe Haleigh is alive. "I don't care about her or her family. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. She covered up and held (Ronald Jr.) while Haleigh screamed. } It appears there is an answer to this burning question. Another round of drug cases with ties to missing Haleigh Cummings, the 5-year-old who was reported missing from her father's Satsuma home in February 2009, is now working its way through the Putnam County court system. On the night of February 9, 2009, Haleigh was sleeping in bed, next to her brother Ronald Cummings Jr with her father's 17-year-old girlfriend Misty Croslin, who was at home at that night, as Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings, was working an evening shift at his job. Lisa Croslin, the mother of Misty and Tommy, is arrested in September on forgery and petty theft charges. Records say an undercover officer bought drugs from them seven times more than 300 pills. 41-year-old Hank Croslin Sr. swears he doesn't know what happened to Haleigh Cummings."I know my daughter and son didn't hurt Haleigh. "Where is the justice for Haleigh?" 2023 www.gainesville.com. Prosecutors released surveillance videos they said shows undercover drug deals involving Misty Croslin and Ronald Cummings. The case is now the subject of a new HLN docuseries called 'Real Life Nightmare,' which will feature evidence that has never been revealed to the public previously, and which will hopefully result in new tips that could help bring closure. Oct. 8: Misty Croslin is sentenced in St. Augustine to 25 years in prison for trafficking in prescription drugs in a St. Johns County case. What happened to her? 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Nov. 24: Hank Croslin Sr., Mistys father, is arrested on prescription fraud following the arrest earlier in the month of Tommy Croslin on possession of drugs and in September with grand theft of a handgun. Why did Brian Kohberger leave knife sheath at crime scene? Misty Croslin, who was last to see Haleigh Cummings alive, decided to give her story of what happened the night Haleigh disappeared again because she says, "Everyone is against me." She does this interview from prison as she is serving a 25-year sentence for drug trafficking. God will remember one day. She said she awoke at 3 a.m. to find Haleigh missing and a cinder block propping open a back door. No trace of Haleigh has ever been found despite a wide-spread search involving hundreds of volunteers and an investigation involving multiple law enforcement agencies. },false) "Ronald wants to know where his daughter is," she said. I mean, a lot of things in the investigation that kind of said, 'Hey, let's take a look at what's going on with Misty,'She had taken a shower before we got there so that was kind of strange,' Putnam County Sheriff's Department Captain Dominic Piscitello said. reporters on a platform technologically tailored to meet the needs of the modern reader. March 9: Cummings, 25, and Croslin, 17, are issued a marriage license at the Putnam County courthouse. Although he can't prove it, Merchant indicates the river is where the mystery of Haleigh lies. The father of missing Florida girl Haleigh Cummings is set to be released from prison Wednesday. Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield, was in the courtroom and said afterward that she believes Croslin knows more about what happened to the little girl. Fresh evidence on Haleigh Cummings, five-year-old girl who disappeared from home without trace 10 years ago. Croslin, 24, is the brother of Misty Croslin, who was with 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings when the girl disappeared from her Putnam County home in February 2009. Click here to take a moment and familiarize yourself with our Community Guidelines. , updated eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), The department said he qualified for incentive gain time after serving 85% of his prison sentence under state law. Example video title will go here for this video. She will get credit for the year she has spent in jail and the time will also run concurrent with a 25-year sentence in a separate case in St. Johns County. He replied, "Misty. Even with little to no physical evidence, deputies are treating Haleigh's disappearance as a homicide, and investigators have continued questioning the Croslins while in jail hoping to learn new information. At the time Haleigh Cummings went missing, Croslin was 17 and residing in the family's mobile home with her then-husband, Ronald Cummings, Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother. They marry March 12. According to her attorney, Misty heard Haleigh being attacked by her. The plea entered on one count in St. Augustine Tuesday morning mirrors the no contest pleas entered on several drug-trafficking charges in Putnam County on Monday. When Ronald returned home at about 3 am, Croslin told him that she had just woken up to find Haleigh missing from her bed and that a cinder block was propping open the back door. he saw Joseph Overstreet, theTennessee cousin, take Haleigh to the river, DCF finds no abuse in Haleigh Cummings case, Misty Croslin is sentenced in Putnam County to 25 years, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. At one point in the jailhouse conversations, Hank and Misty talk of those charges. (CNN) -- Misty Croslin, the last person known to see a 5-year-old Florida girl before she was reported missing in February 2009, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday on an unrelated. I wouldn't let someone just take her. Please call the Putnam . ", In related news: A 'tragedy all around' leads judge to sentence Brianna Williams to life term for daughter's death, 10 years later: Disappearance of Haleigh Cummings still a mystery, From 2017: Newborn Kamiyah Mobley, stolen from Jacksonville hospital 18 years ago, found safe; arrest made and reunion coming. "She just got caught up in something stupid. Her father, Hank Croslin Sr., made the same plea to the judge. Jan. 10: Misty Croslin is sentenced in Putnam County to 25 years in prison on drug-trafficking charges. 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First published on October 11, 2010 / 1:58 PM. 1. Photo Gallery:View images based on the Haleigh Cummings case, "The only thing I would really like to say is she wasn't a drug dealer, she never was," he said. Misty Croslin: "Yes" 911: "OK when did you last see her?" Misty Croslin: "Um, we like just, you knowit was about 10 o'clock- she was sleeping- I was cleaning 911: "OK- how old is your. Aug. 20: Cummings pleads guilty to three charges of trafficking in hydrocodone, two are dropped. Ronald Cummings tentatively reached a plea agreement with the state on drug-trafficking charges earlier this month and likely will be sentenced to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced in late August. In Augustthe attorney for Tommy Croslin says his client said he saw Joseph Overstreet, theTennessee cousin, take Haleigh to the riverin a bag, an accusation relatives said were made in April. The #FLAMBER Alert is still active! As for where Haleigh is, Merchant believes she is dead. I just don't believe that happened.". They were all arrested and accused of selling prescription drugs. "That has always been his main objective. eventAction: 'click_adunit' She was scared, Fields said of Croslin. Croslin has changed her story a few times since, pointing fingers at "the other side of the family," referring to Cummings' family. Haleigh would be turning 17 years old in August, and she would be in the 11th grade. The time will be served concurrently with the 25-year sentence she is already serving on a St. Johns County conviction of trafficking in oxycodone. I come home from work and my child was not there. hitType: 'event', Other evidence included in the documentary is footage of Croslin walking through the crime scene just days after Haleigh vanished. Haleigh Cummings was last seen at her trailer home in Satsuma, south of Jacksonville, on February 9, 2009 Her father Ronald Cummings' 17-year-old girlfriend Misty Croslin was the last person. 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