It's been awhile since I've been in, but thought I would post this here. HELLO everyone! I don't understand why the information that Ron tried to call Misty over 20 times and had "Tommy" go down to the trailer and check, is just coming out. Heck, maybe I missed all of this. What in the heck is going on?
Intimate details released in Haleigh Cummings investigation
Updated: Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 5:58 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 4:44 PM EDT
* By MATT SAFFER | FOX 30 Jacksonville
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/cummings_case/092209_haleigh_cummings
PUTNAM COUTNY, Fla. (WAWS-TV) - Detectives involved with the Haleigh Cummings investigation have been tight lipped about any details involving the case. On Tuesday, for the first time, they released the details of an interview conducted with Hank Croslin Jr., Misty Cummings brother. They say he told them he went by Haleigh Cummings home the night she disappeared, and no one was there.
This is different from the story Misty Cummings has told police. She has said time and time again that she was home the entire evening on the night Haleigh disappeared.
What shes told us is a farce
and the idea that she was doing what she says she was doing and how she was doing it is just not believable
its totally unbelievable in fact, said Major Gary Bowling of the Putnam County Sheriffs Office .
Hank Croslin Jr. is already in jail on an unrelated grand theft charge. On Thursday, he was interviewed by police in regards to the Haleigh Cummings investigation. He told officers on the night Haleigh disappeared; he received a call from Haleighs father Ronald Cummings.
In the interview, Hank tells us something very interesting. Which is that Ronald had attempted, the night of the ninth, the evening before Haleigh went missing, that Ronald had made several calls to Misty that went unanswered. So Ronald ultimately calls her brother Hank, better known as Tommy, asking Tommy to go down the street to the residence to see if he can make contact with Misty. Hank says he does, around 9:45 or 10 oclock, go down the street and he says when he gets there the lights are off in the trailer, he says its dark, and quite, said Major Bowling.
Bowling went on to say that Hank Jr. showed him how hard he banged on the door, and told them he stayed in the area for awhile waiting for Misty to either answer the door or come home. Hank Jr. says after some time passed, he gave up and assumed she wasnt home.
We believe that releasing some of the information weve found out advances the investigation. And particularly the way that we think this will advance it is that Mistys family now knows about this information that Im telling you now about Hank. We hope that the family or maybe Misty by her own conscience, if there is a discrepancy, that if she was indeed not home or she wants to explain why Hank banged on the door, with no response we want to hear Mistys side of that, said Major Bowling.
Major Bowling went on to say that on the Saturday following the interview with Hank Jr., Misty voluntarily came into the Sheriffs Office for questioning. But, he says she did not talk discuss Hank Jr.s interview.
Misty is the type that if you ask her a question that she doesnt want to answer, she reminds us she has a lawyer, said Bowling.
Action News spoke with Mistys lawyer on Tuesday. Robert Fields tells us Misty is out of town and will be for the next few days. He says Misty is sticking to her story that she was home the night Haleigh disappeared. He also says he believes the story Hank Jr. is telling deputies is not true. Fields says as soon as the Sheriffs Office contacts him to do a formal interview with Misty, he will be glad to consider it.
Weve said for some time now, quite unapologetically, that we think that Misty has some information that she needs to tell us, and its information like this just like this that she needs to clarify so we can understand better what she was doing that evening. If Misty, who is represented by attorney Robert Fields, if they want to come down here, we would love to ask her some questions specifically and narrowly about that evening, said Major Bowling.
Major Bowling also talked about Mistys cell phone. Action News asked him if he could use GPS technology to track down exactly where Misty was the night Haleigh disappeared. Major Bowling wouldnt go into details, but says they are investigating those facts.
There are some things we can do with electronics, and there were some problems with the electronics
thats about as far as I can go into that
theres some things were still working on trying to get cleared up in regards to electronic intelligence, said Major Bowling.
Action News asked the Putnam County Sheriffs Office about possible charges it might file against Misty if it turns out that she was lying about where she was the night Haleigh disappeared. The Sheriffs Office said it wasnt at that point yet.
We havent arrived at a place that will allow us to articulate probable cause for arrest yet
the issue is that---we have a lot of little things, but really coming to the point where we can in good faith go to a judge and seek a warrant or simply make a probably cause arrest, were simply not there, said Major Bowling.