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UPDATED: Amber Alert -- Haleigh's Father Orders Geraldo Rivera To Leave
Monday, February 23, 2009 4:52:00 PM

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SATSUMA -- The reward for information on the whereabouts of 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings has been increased to $20,000 as the search for the missing Putnam County girl enters its third week.
Daily Updates Suspended
Deputies in Putnam County have suspended their daily news conferences about the search for the 5-year-old.
Family members and friends of Haleigh's family came together Sunday night to hold a candlelight vigil and pray for the child's safe return home.
Haleigh has been missing for nearly two weeks since disappearing from her father's Satsuma home Feb. 9

Article:
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/2/23/amber_alert__haleigh_reward_upped_to_20000.html

 

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UPDATED: Police Follow 1,600 Leads In Haleigh Case
Family Says Fake Web Site Created About Girl To Make Money
POSTED: 8:23 pm EST February 21, 2009
UPDATED: 6:31 am EST February 23, 2009
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SATSUMA, Fla. -- Investigators said on Sunday that they're whittling through more than 1,600 leads received since 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappeared two weeks ago. About 140 officers searched two areas on Friday, acting on tips, but found nothing pertinent to the investigation. There was no ground search on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the family said a Web site hoax is putting a wrench in the search for Haleigh.
Her family said someone created a fake Web site in an effort to collect money.
Family members said the Web site is not affiliated with them or the police.
The Web site also has Haleigh's name misspelled.
"We are sickened by anybody that would take something that is heart-sickening for our family and try to profit off of it and then stamp the family's name on it," said Haleigh's step-great grandmother, Barbie Squires.

NEW IMAGE: Haleigh Cummings
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Police Follow Tips In Day 12 Of Haleigh Investigation: Video
http://www.wesh.com/video/18768145/index.html

Article:
http://www.wesh.com/news/18768154/detail.html

 

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1,600 Leads, Family Distractions In Haleigh Case
Putnam Deputies Issue Warning To Fox News' Geraldo Rivera
POSTED: Sunday, February 22, 2009
UPDATED: 10:23 pm EST February 22, 2009
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While the official ground searches were suspended, volunteers spent the weekend looking for the missing kindergartner on horseback around the Satsuma home where Haleigh lived with her father, Ronald Cummings, and his girlfriend, Misty Croslin.
For 13 days, both Cummings and Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield, have pleaded for information or for whoever took the girl to bring her home. Each night, the families have help prayer vigils -- sometimes together and sometimes separately.
Stories and rumors about Croslin's cousin in Tennessee -- who left Satsuma hours before Haleigh disappeared -- and Ronald Cummings' private life had fueled a growing tension among family members.

On Saturday evening, that tension boiled over during an interview between Cummings and Fox News anchor Geraldo Rivera. When the controversial journalist brought up allegations of abuse, Cummings said he "never, ever have I ever hit my child. "I knew it was going to fester and explode," said Marie Griffis, Haleigh's maternal grandmother.

Article:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/18772088/detail.html

 

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Community Support Grows For Haleigh's Family
Created: 2/22/2009 10:11:17 PM
Updated: 2/23/2009 12:17:25 AM
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"You look around and you think people don't care anymore and they don't want to help anymore and you have a tragedy hits you like this and people come out of the woodworks," says Haleigh's grandmother Marie Griffis.
They bring pillows, blankets, tents and chairs, and every day more hot food.
And Sunday night Marie Griffis's coworkers, other Baker County school bus drivers, came to the family vigil to show their support.
Neither Griffis or her daughter, Haleigh's mother Crystal Sheffield, have been able to go home to Baker County now for two weeks.
Griffis says she isn't discouraged that there have been no new developments in the last few days. And she plans to continue on with the vigils every night, for as long as it takes. "We all feel like Haleigh's okay, I guess you could say it's mom's intuition and because she's my maternal grandchild, my close connection with her, I know she's okay. In the pit of my stomach I know she's find, I just don't know where she's at."

Article:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/amberalerts/news-article.aspx?storyid=131963&catid=295

 

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Missing girl's family maintains vigil outside her home
Published: Monday, February 23, 2009 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 11:53 p.m.
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Haleigh Cummings' immediate and extended family maintained a vigil outside her Satsuma home Sunday although law enforcement have suspended active ground-searches for the missing the 5-year-old.
A used RV was recently donated for Ronald Cummings, Haleigh's father, to stay in while police continue to treat his mobile home in Satsuma - just south of Palatka - as a crime scene.
"The rest of the family is staying in a tent," said Teresa Neves, Haleigh's paternal grandmother.
"The RV gives my son time to play with his son and to be away from the media," she said.
Capt. Dick Schauland with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office said Sunday afternoon that detectives were still working the case but that there were no new developments.
Law enforcement said they believe Haleigh was abducted from her home sometime on the night of Feb. 9 and were called to the family home at 3 a.m. on Feb. 10.
After several days of extensive ground searches in the woods behind the Cummings' house and boat searches in the nearby St. John's River, authorities are focusing on tips and leads. "We're hanging in there. It's just exhaustion setting in," Neves said on Sunday.

IMAGE: Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings
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Article:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/...2?Title=Missing-girl-s-family-maintains-vigil

 

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UPDATED: Geraldo Rivera banned from camp of Haleigh's father
Fox News figure was issued a trespass warning
Story updated at 6:01 AM on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009
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No new information about Haleigh Cummings&#8217; whereabouts materialized on Sunday.
But as the search for the missing Putnam County girl closed out its 13th day, the case took a surreal turn as her family&#8217;s conflict became fodder for national television.
It all started Saturday afternoon, when police responded to a disturbance at the trailer park where Haleigh&#8217;s mother&#8217;s family and father&#8217;s family are camped out at opposite ends of the road.
The disturbance began after Geraldo Rivera, anchor of the Fox News Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Geraldo at Large,&#8221; accosted Ronald Cummings, Haleigh&#8217;s father, at the camper where he has been living. It ended with a trespass warning for Rivera, and shortly thereafter, the broadcast of his contentious interview.

Putnam County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrived on the scene later, and issued Rivera the trespass warning at the request of the two property owners on whose land the Cummings family is camping while their trailer remains closed off as a crime scene. A trespass warning means Rivera would be arrested if he came back onto the property.Rivera told deputies he understood and stated he would not come back to the address, but declined to sign the trespass warning, according to a sheriff&#8217;s office report.

On Sunday, neither parent was speaking to the media. Haleigh&#8217;s paternal grandmother, Teresa Neves, issued yet another plea for people nationwide to keep an eye out for her granddaughter.
Official police searches of that area have stilled, but detectives from the Putnam County Sheriff&#8217;s Office are still tracking down leads, said Capt. Dick Schauland.
Still, groups of volunteers from as far away as Brunswick, Ga. continued to look for the girl in the nearby area. And well-wishers still flowed into the two campgrounds to lend support, bringing everything from breakfast burritos to stuffed animals to hand-penned prayers for Haleigh&#8217;s safe return.

Read the transcript:
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/me...geraldo_interview_that_turned_confrontational

Article:
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/me...chor_banned_from_camp_of_missing_girls_father

 

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1,600 leads in missing Fla. girl case
Last Edited: Monday, 23 Feb 2009, 8:37 AM EST
Created On: Monday, 23 Feb 2009, 8:37 AM EST
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The Putnam County Sheriff's Department questioned a man in Tennessee about the disappearance of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings.
Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy said the man questioned is a relative of Misty Croslin. Croslin is Haleigh's father's 17-year-old girlfriend. She was supposed to be watching Haleigh at the time of the girl's disappearance.
The Sheriff's department would not reveal what kind of relative the man is to Croslin.

Haleigh's paternal grandmother, Teresa Neves, said Croslin's cousin visited Putnam County days before Haleigh's disappearance. Neves said the cousin and Haleigh's dad, Ronald Cummings, got into a fight about a gun during that visit. She also said the cousin left town the same day Haleigh disappeared. Ronald Cummings denies that fight ever happened. "There was no fight with no cousin over a gun," said Ronald Cummings.

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FOX TEAM VIDEO REPORT: Included In Article

Article:
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/022309_missing_girl

 

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Family Holds Vigil for Haleigh Cummings
Created: 2/22/2009 7:19:26 PM
Updated: 2/22/2009 7:20:28 PM
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PUTNAM COUNTY, FL -- On night 13 since Haleigh Cummings'' disappearance family members will hold their nightly candelight vigils. Sunday night school bus drivers from Baker County are caravanning in to be with family at the vigil. Heleigh's grandmother Marie Griffis is herself a Baker County bus driver.

There was no organized searching going on in Satsuma Sunday and investigators did not hold an afternoon news conference update. Family members say they have received reports of websites selling Haleigh t-shirts and other items but that they don't know who's behind the sites and they're not legitimate.

Article:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/amberalerts/news-article.aspx?storyid=131955&catid=295

 

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UPDATED: Geraldo Rivera Banned After Interview With Haleigh's Dad
Investigators Sifting Through 1,600 Leads In Case
POSTED: Monday, February 23, 2009
UPDATED: 11:40 am EST February 23, 2009
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PALATKA, Fla. -- Tension boiled over Saturday night during an interview between the father of a missing 5-year-old north Florida girl and Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera.
Rivera's discussion with Ronald Cummings, the father of missing 5-year-old Haleigh, escalated during questioning about Cummings' private life, including allegations he abused his daughter, WJXT-TV reported.

"Never, ever have I ever hit my child," Cummings said in the interview. "Me and my child have an agreement. Daddy, daughter. She has been spanked on her behind the way DCF (Florida Department of Children and Families) says that you can take care of disciplining your children."
Rivera asked Cummings about allegations he hit Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield, and whether he used illegal drugs. The line of questioning resulted in a disturbance call for Putnam County sheriff's deputies, and Rivera was issued a warning that he would be charged with trespassing if he returned.

Geraldo Rivera Banned After Interview With Haleigh's Dad: Video
http://www.clickorlando.com/video/18775044/index.html

NEW Images: Haleigh Search; Geraldo Banned
http://www.clickorlando.com/slideshow/news/18775101/detail.html

Article:
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/18774448/detail.html

 

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Prayer Vigil Held For Haleigh Cummings
Investigators Pursuing Hundreds Of Leads
POSTED: 10:13 am EST February 23, 2009
UPDATED: 10:21 am EST February 23, 2009
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SATSUMA, Fla. -- Family and friends of Haleigh Cummings gathered in Putnam County on Sunday to hold a prayer vigil for the missing 5-year-old girl.
Investigators said they're following hundreds of leads, but they still haven't found a suspect or sign of Haleigh.
In spite of that, Haleigh's grandmother said the family hasn't given up hope and thank everyone who's helped in the search effort.
"You walk around and you think people don't care anymore. They don't want to help. But then you have a tragedy like this, and people come out of the woodwork," Marie Griffis said.
Griffis said she believes deep down that Haleigh is OK. She said she's anxious to bring her home.

Article:
http://www.wesh.com/news/18775072/detail.html

 

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Haleigh's Father Questioned On Past Drug Use
Monday, February 23, 2009
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PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. -- During a national television interview on the show Crimetime, featuring Geraldo Rivera, Haleigh Cummings' father, Ronald Cummings, was questioned about allegations of abuse and drug use in the past.
However, it was questions about alleged drug use that pushed Cummings over the edge.
"What about allegations of cocaine use, meth use?" asked reported Geraldo Rivera.
"There's nothing, I do not do drugs," Ronald responded.
"You don't do drugs? What about all those arrests?" asked Rivera. "Do you work for the police, are you an informant?"
"No I am not an informant; I do not work for the police," he responded.

Article:
http://www.wftv.com/news/18775750/detail.html

 

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2 Weeks Into Hunt For Haleigh, Police Have Nothing To Report
Putnam Deputies Ban Fox News' Geraldo Rivera From Satsuma Scene
POSTED: Monday, February 23, 2009
UPDATED: 1:33 pm EST February 23, 2009
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PALATKA, Fla. -- One of the rituals that has defined life in Putnam County since 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappeared Feb. 10 continues, but another has ended.
For 13 nights, Haleigh's family and friends hold candlelight vigils praying for her return. Some evenings, the whole family has come together. Sunday, like many other nights, Haleigh's mother and father held separate observances.
But another ritual -- a daily new briefing by the Putnam County Sheriff's Office -- didn't happen Sunday, and officials said no briefing is planned for Monday.

Family Prays, Wants To Minimize Distractions In Search For Haleigh: Video
http://www.news4jax.com/video/18777188/index.html

Contentious Interview Gets Geraldo Rivera Thrown Out: Video
http://www.news4jax.com/video/18777041/index.html

Article:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/18776448/detail.html

 

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Trespassing Warning Filed Against Geraldo
Created: 2/23/2009 1:11:27 PM
Updated: 2/23/2009 1:38:51 PM

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SATSUMA, FL -- Fox News anchor Geraldo Rivera could see jail time in Putnam County if he crosses the line again.
In other developments Monday, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office canceled an afternoon news conference regarding the Haleigh's Cummings investigation.
Capt. Dick Schauland says all the information about the case that can be released has already been shared with the media.

6PM Report "Haleigh's Family Angry Over Geraldo's Tactics": Video 2:44
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5PM Report "The Search For Haleigh": Video 2:00
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video...f43367513e061&maven_referralObject=1043537386

6PM Report "Haleigh's Family": Video 2:43
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video...d0b7d36168356&maven_referralObject=1043618437

5PM Report "Haleigh's Family": Video 2:05
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video...d0b7d36168356&maven_referralObject=1043555660

12PM Report Geraldo Rivera Warned About Trespassing: Video 2:42
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video...d0b7d36168356&maven_referralObject=1043289788

Article:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/amberalerts/news-article.aspx?storyid=132013&catid=295

 

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Fox's Rivera banned from Cummings' property
Published: Monday, February 23, 2009 at 2:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 23, 2009 at 2:39 p.m.
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The Putnam County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has suspended its daily news conferences on the status of the search for Haleigh Cummings.
But as official sources of information dry up, the story is spinning into controversy on cable news.
In a news release, Sheriff Jeff Hardy said his office has released all the information that can be released without jeopardizing the investigation. The sheriff also said that his agency, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI will continue following up on the more than 1,600 leads received in the case.
Sheriff&#8217;s spokesman Capt. Dick Schauland said that as new information becomes available that can be released, reporters will be notified by e-mail.

Article:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/...le=Fox-s-Rivera-banned-from-Cummings-property

 

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Sheriff's Office: No New Leads In Search For Haleigh
Investigators Speak With Haleigh's Father Again
POSTED: 10:13 am EST February 23, 2009
UPDATED: 4:50 pm EST February 23, 2009
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Despite the canceled news conference, investigators were still hard at work in Satsuma on Monday.
Investigators spoke with two people related to the case on Monday -- Haleigh's mother's fiancé, Chad Griffis, and Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings.

Haleigh's maternal grandmother, Marie Griffis, said Chad Griffis has nothing to hide. Marie Griffis is also Chad Griffis' stepmother.
"No, no. I know his whereabouts. He lives 500 feet in front of me," Marie Griffis said. Haleigh's paternal grandmother, Teresa Neves, said the focus should be on finding her granddaughter.

Video: Investigator's Continue Search For Haleigh
http://www.wesh.com/video/18778183/index.html

Article:
http://www.wesh.com/news/18775072/detail.html

 

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Geraldo Rivera banned after interview with Haleigh's dad
5:24 PM EST, February 23, 2009
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A television Web site is reporting that tensions boiled over Saturday night during an interview between the father of a missing 5-year-old north Florida girl and Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera.
Rivera's discussion with Ronald Cummings, the father of missing 5-year-old Haleigh, escalated during questioning about Cummings' private life, including allegations he abused his daughter, according to News4Jax.com.

"I Love My Daughter": Video 4:21
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index....67&referralPlaylistId=search|Haleigh Cummings

"Scared To Leave": Video 6:08
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index....63&referralPlaylistId=search|Haleigh Cummings

Article:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...ngs-geraldo-rivera-022309,0,5857843.htmlstory

 

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UPDATED: Investigators: We Are No Closer To Finding Haleigh
POSTED: Monday, February 23, 2009
UPDATED: 12:39 am EST February 24, 2009
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The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said it has five detectives working on the case around the clock. On Monday, one investigator said they are no closer to finding Haleigh than they were when she first disappeared.
Over the past 14 days, detectives have questioned and re-questioned Haleigh's family members and anyone else who had contact with the child before she disappeared.
One person who was questioned on Monday was the fiancé of the missing child's mother. Police questioned Chad Griffis for about 30 minutes but would not say whether the man had been questioned in the past or why they questioned him on Monday.
Officials said they are not planning on scaling back their investigation.
The absence of the news briefing caused some concern for Haleigh's family members, who said they want the media attention on the missing 5-year-old.

Detectives Following 1,600 Leads In Haleigh's Disappearance: Video
http://www.news4jax.com/video/18779756/index.html

Article:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/18778590/detail.html

 

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Investigators Re-interview Haleigh's Relatives
Created: 2/23/2009 7:39:28 PM
Updated: 2/23/2009 7:48:17 PM
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Monday, detectives re-interviewed Haleigh's dad, Ronald Cummings. They also talked to Haleigh's mother's fiance, Chad Griffis, again. Cummings gave police a piece of paper during his interview.
Detectives told First Coast News the paper was notes of information Cummings had been keeping. Haleigh's family made a plea to the public once again asking anyone with information to call police.

Article:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/amberalerts/news-article.aspx?storyid=132046&catid=295

 

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Investigators: We Are No Closer To Finding Haleigh
Tensions Boil Over In Interview Between Geraldo Rivera, Girl's Dad
POSTED: Monday, February 23, 2009
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The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said it has five detectives working on the case around the clock. On Monday, one investigator said they are no closer to finding Haleigh than they were when she first disappeared.
When Rivera continued pressing Cummings with allegations he hit Sheffield when she was pregnant with Haleigh, used illegal drugs and told someone he was "75 percent sure" he knew know took Haleigh, the property owners told Rivera to leave and Putnam County deputies were called.
"I'd have liked to punch him &#8230; It was disgusting. To say the least, it was disgusting --any man to put a man with his child gone like that through what he put him through," said Haleigh's paternal great-grandmother, Annette Sykes after the interview.
While neither of Haleigh's parents would speak to the media after the incident, Haleigh's maternal grandmother wasn't surprised at the confrontation between the family and Rivera.
"It's our word against his. You know, he says no and we say yes," said Haleigh's maternal grandmother, Marie Griffis.

Article:
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/18780164/detail.html

 

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Brother: Man in black grabbed Haleigh
Authorities 'following up on that lead'
Story updated at 10:23 PM on Monday, Feb. 23, 2009
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Did a man dressed in black sneak into the room where 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings was sleeping two weeks ago and steal her from her bed? That&#8217;s what her brother, Ronald Cummings Jr., then 3, told investigators from a child protection team when they interviewed him in the first few days after his sister disappeared.
&#8220;The Sheriff&#8217;s Office is aware of what the little boy said and is following up on that lead,&#8221; Capt. Dick Schauland told the Times-Union Monday night, &#8220;but we are not commenting on any of the interviews.&#8221;
&#8220;Our forces have not scaled back,&#8221; he said. Of the county&#8217;s 17 detectives, five are solely assigned to the Haleigh investigation, he said, and the other dozen work on it as needed. There also are four investigators from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and an undetermined number of FBI agents working the case, he said.
&#8220;They all are still running down the more than 1,600 leads we have received, but nothing has come up that justifies any type of massive ground or water search,&#8221; Schauland said.
Article:
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/crime/2009-02-23/story/brother_man_in_black_grabbed_haleigh