During the October sentencing hearing, Croslin told. We want Haleigh to come home.". Gone like that," Sherrif Hardy added. 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", First Coast News asked Merchant, "What would it take to break this case?" Click here to take a moment and familiarize yourself with our Community Guidelines. Croslin, as it turned out, then became Haleigh and Junior's baby sitter. MEAWW brings you the best content from its global team of Croslin could have faced up seven years on each of seven drug trafficking charges she pleaded guilty to last year. But no trace of the five-year-old was ever found, and authorities continue to be baffled at her disappearance. She's in the bedroom. Haleigh Cummings was last seen at her trailer home inSatsuma, south of Jacksonville, on February 9, 2009. . Haleigh, widely presumed dead, would be 19 today. I wouldn't let someone just take her. Neves said she spoke to her son in prison over the holidays. Detectives repeatedly described Croslin's statements about the night Haleigh disappeared as inconsistent. October 11, 2010 / 1:58 PM He will give me answers.". News/Business. "She just got caught acting stupid. During the October sentencing hearing, Croslin told Judge Wendy Berger that she was raped between the ages of 7 and 14 by two people while she was taking care of her great-grandmother. First published on October 11, 2010 / 1:58 PM. Misty Croslin Shows New Attitude In Jail Call WESH 2 News 169K subscribers Subscribe Like Share 14K views 12 years ago Misty Croslin shows a new attitude about being locked up in a new. Tommy Croslin was sentenced to 15 years. ga('ads.send', { Thats all there is to it. ', Croslin responded: 'I didn't even hear anything.'. The 29-year-old says his mother introduced . 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. "They came up and bought drugs," Griffith said. 2011 Jan. 10: Misty Croslin is sentenced in. Misty Croslin is the last of the five arrested to be sentenced. To which she replied, saying, "I would never let nothing happen to her if I knew something. 1933 What did. "Where is the justice for Haleigh?" The Croslins' daughter, Misty Croslin, was watching Haleigh the night the little girl disappeared. 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. Jan. 20: Misty Croslin, Ronald Cummings, Tommy Croslin, Donna Brock and Hope Sykes are charged with drug trafficking after a monthlong undercover investigation involving the sale of 330 pills of oxycodone and hydrocodone. The river's real close to the back of the house, about 100 yards away.". eventAction: 'load' },false) Croslin, the adult with Haleigh that night, first told police someone came into the house and took the child. Croslin has been convicted on unrelated drug charges and is now in prison. "(Lisa) was driving and (Hank Sr.) was the passenger. Mark Woods: There's a reason Nancy Grace's 'exclusive' sounded familiar. Greg Page says he and Misty Croslin spent time together just days before Haleigh disappeared. That announcement came as investigators were searching a section of St. John's river, about five miles from the Cummings house. window.googletag.cmd.push(function() { He went inside and bought $20 worth of cocaine.". Authorities believe Haleigh is dead and are treating the case as a homicide investigation. Cummings was at work. April 13: A section of the St. Johns River in Satsuma is worked by divers for clues in the case. Haleigh remains missing, and authorities believe the girl is dead. 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. They were all arrested and accused of selling prescription drugs. 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. She covered up and held (Ronald Jr.) while Haleigh screamed. Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera gets into a confrontation with Cummings and was run off the property. document.querySelector("#google_image_div").addEventListener('click',function(){ A woods search is halted and a temporary command post is pulled out. "There's no indication of any violent struggle or crime at the scene," he said, "so it could be an accident, and someone or somebody in the group is covering it up. if(document.querySelector("#ads")){ A maximum sentence on each of the counts is 30 years under state law. Circuit Judge Wendy Berger also ordered Croslin to pay $500,000 and to follow her prison time with five years of drug-offender probation. They were being held Monday at the Putnam County jail. Investigators who have closely investigated the mystery have some theories of what would have happened to Haleigh. "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. Copyright 2011 by News4Jax.com. eventAction: 'click_ads' PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. The Haleigh Cummings case gripped the First Coast in 2009 when the little girl suddenly vanished from her home in the middle of the night. As for where Haleigh is, Merchant believes she is dead. She said her son has always focused on finding his daughter. HLN's Real Life Nightmare premieres November 2 at 8pm ET on HLN. 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. March 9: Cummings, 25, and Croslin, 17, are issued a marriage license at the Putnam County courthouse. For the still-missing little girl's family, the resolution of the drug case that became intertwined with Haleigh's disappearance didn't offer any relief. 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. 'You didn't wake up,' Cummings could be heard saying to Croslin after an investigator let him into the interview room when she was being questioned. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), 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. 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. Last year, in November HLN, came up with a docuseries called 'Real Life Nightmare' which revealed shocking details about the case. There is no forced entry and Misty hears nothing. Feb. 21: Investigators say a cousin of Croslins who was visiting from Tennessee the night of the disappearance is not a suspect. 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. Ronald and Misty say they are getting divorced. Sheffield said there are no answers to Haleigh's disappearance, and she believes Croslin knows where he daughter is. I come home from work and my child was not there. 1. if(document.querySelector("#google_image_div")){ 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. Meanwhile Croslin, 30, is servingher25-year drug sentence and with ascheduled release date of June 17, 2031, according to the Department of Corrections. I don't believe she took too many of them. According to a report by WJXT, Haleigh's name has remained on the sign outside Hills Hardware store in Pomona Park. Croslin was the last person to see Haleigh Cummings before she disappeared from her father's Satsuma, Fla., home in February 2009, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Sunday. Furthermore, detectives have described her statements about the night as inconsistent and said that she has changed her story multiple times over the past decade. Investigators still believe that Croslin is the key to solving the crime. Copyright 2023 News4JAX.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings. 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. February 9, 2009, was just another day for Ronald Cummings. 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. Both Croslin and Cummings are currently in prison on drug trafficking charges unrelated to Haleigh's disappearance. They marry March 12. In this case, investigators found she had 155 oxycodone pills, with a weight of 70.7 grams and a value of $800. }); She said she awoke at 3 a.m. to find Haleigh missing and a cinder block propping open a back door. News4Jax anchor Jennifer Waugh introduced the 'Into Thin Air' podcast on the 10th year of the girls disappearance. Merchant took Croslin to the river. 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. No one has been arrested in the missing child case, and Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy has said . Advertisement Flora. He replied, "Misty. The little girl's father, Ronald Cummings, had left his 17-year-old girlfriend, Misty Croslin, in charge of caring for Haleigh and her four-year-old brother while he was working a night shift. In footage from the interview room where she was being questioned by the detective that features in 'Real Life Nightmare,' Cummings can be seen confronting her about the disappearance. 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Anyone who witnessed or knows anything about the disappearance of the kindergartner is urged to call Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida at 888-277-TIPS. "When these indicators start popping up that her story to us, as far as the clothing is not adding up, that's when everything starts going from the outside and starts focusing right back on Misty again," said John Merchant, a former lead detective on the case. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { MEAWW is an initialism for Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide. "She was not a drug dealer. He was the lead detective with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office but no longer works there. "We investigators who worked on the case feel like we know what may have happened, but we can't prove it," he said. 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. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), 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. Legal commentator In this version Croslin says she did see what happened to Haleigh the night she vanished from her home in Satsuma, Fla. 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. 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. eventAction: 'view' }) Both Croslin and Ronald Cummings are currently in state prison on drug charges. Previous undercover drug operations in Putnam and St. Johns counties have resulted in drug charges being filed against Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings, 26; his ex-wife, Misty Croslin, 19; his cousin Hope Sykes, 19; Misty's brother, Hank "Tommy" Croslin Jr., 23; and Misty's friend Donna Brock, 44. Associated Press Investigators continue to believe Croslin is key in Haleigh's disappearance. Both cases stem from an undercover investigation. The rear door of the residence was found to be open, then-Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy said hours after the search began. It is been more than 11 years since five-year-old Haleigh Cummings vanished from her home in Satsuma, Alabama. 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