This case if totally baffling, for me anyway. As far as I can tell, solid information about all kinds of things is lacking. We also know there is a fair amount of misinformation running around.
But if we look at the suspects, the list is small. At the top of the list would be
Misty: There has been talk that Misty may have accidently killed Haleigh, either by striking her or as a drug overdose. Both are possible, but not likely.
Tommy: This is not a likely crime for an opiate junkie, but was Tommy an opiate junkie in Feb 2009? Also, Tommy could have been using another drug--or no drugs on that particular day. Many of us have assumed that Lindsy filed for divorce after learning that Tommy had been lying about his involvement, but do we know this is actually the reason or does it just seem a likely reason. We also know that Misty, in the voice stress interview, said that Tommy molested her when she was 5.
Joe: I don't know hardly anything about him. I haven't read as much as some people here, but for a month I have been hitting 3 sites a day and have read a lot of archives. We know he had a picture of himself posted on facebook with a gun. We know Granny Hollars says Joe has acted different ever since he came back from Florida.Misty said in the voice stress test interview that Joe molested her when she was 7 and that Joe was a weirdo. And don't we believe he was out in the van on the night Haleigh turned up missing? We have also heard that Joe said the St. John's river would be a great place to commit murder--the problem is our sources for this information are not very reliable.
Joe and Tommy together: Who knows?
Ron Cummings: Not very likely that he was involved unless there was an overdose. Ron is alleged to have put a rat with a cut off head in Tommy's mailbox. In jail, "rats" are people who tell. Do we know of anything Ron did not want Tommy to tell? Of course, with all the shenanigans these people are involved in, it could be unrelated to Haleigh.
Some other points:
Voice Stress Testing: If you look up "Voice Stress Testing" on Google, the first page of links that comes up contains a lot of links with articles that apparently consider voice stress testing to be highly questionable.
Lie Detector Tests: These aren't admissible in court and are not considered reliable. Some sites say that you will fail a polygraph if you are nervious. I don't know much about polygraphs, but I believe they can be useful with some people or in some situations.
The brick at the backdoor. If I were carrying something out that back door with both hands occupied, and I did not want the screen door to slam and make noise, would placing a brink in front of the screen door to keep it open prevent the slamming? It just seems unlikely to me that Misty, who does not appear very bright, would think of putting that brick in front of that door.
The simplest explanation--and I know this is crazy--but the simplest explanation is that Misty really doesn't know anything and that either Tommy or Joe were involved or both Tommy and Joe were involved. The simplest explanation is Joe by himself.
As far as I know, we know very little about Joe.
I haven't been on this board long, and I know I haven't read as much as a lot of people here, so I would very much appreciate corrections regarding my facts or suppositions.
