Personally, I'm :fence: While I think there is a good chance that Misty could have done it, I don't think it was cold-blooded murder. I think it was accidental. She was in a drug-induced haze after a weekend of partying, after all. I think Haleigh may have gotten into some of her Oxycontin and ingested it, and she called her brother to help dispose of the body. I think Haleigh was dumped in a nearby swamp.
Then, I think she either told Ron that Joe Overstreet came over about the gun, or confessed about the Oxycontin. The only reason, I think, he didn't tell was because he didn't want to get busted for drug charges. He did, but I think he didn't want the extra time for covering up the truth, either.
MOO, of course.
Thinking of Haleigh always.
I agree partially with this....I think its a good possibility that Haleigh ingested (or was given) drugs and died. Remember the individual in the nurses uniform that dropped the letter off at the station laying out what had happened to Haleigh? The letter stated that the child had ingested drugs and died and was dumped in the water. If she was put in that water, there would not be any remains left due to the alligators. I believe the person who wrote that letter had knowledge of what happened....and so far, its the only plausible story that has surfaced. Its been so long now but there was mail back and forth between Nay Nay and someone else about a letter being written....
All this would explain the lack of blood or any other evidence in the house....it would explain someone carrying Haleigh out (Jr.'s statement of what he saw) the door, it would explain the scream heard from the trailer late that night (Misty screaming when she realizes Haleigh is dead).
It would explain why, if in fact they did, searchers found a cement block in the water with a rope, the same as found in or around the trailer....and why Misty was brought to the river....where she told some other crazy story implicating someone else. The poor child may have been transferred to the water in the van (the one that Tommys wife said had been driven that night), where she was tied with the rope to the cement block and weighted down, where alligators took care of the rest.
I still believe Jr. has the most truthful witness statement....the couch bouncing up and down? Someone trying to revive poor Haleigh, to no avail...and someone with squeaky shoes there who was trying to revive her or who helped to dispose of her. Didn't he say he saw someone carry Haleigh? Put his statement together with all the things that we know and I think it paints a very good possible scenario of what happened.
If the party occurred somewhere other than MC and RC trailer, it would explain why when Tommy supposedly knocked on the door, no one answered. ..it would explain RC saying he couldn't get ahold of Misty.....it would explain Ron's weird comments about alligators and bodies.
It would explain why it seems that RCs mom was there a little too quickly....she knew what happened too. That is something that I was never willing to believe before, but I believe it now.
It MIGHT explain why NO ONE is talking...they all had some part in covering this unfortunate event up. Even Ron. Perhaps he told Misty to give the kids drugs to make them sleep...they were HIS drugs....perhaps. Ron stayed at work and later when he found out what happened he jumped into cover up mode as well.
It might explain why Timmy C and family took off right away. They knew what happened...and wanted to distance themselves as far away as possible-it worked, they are hardly mentioned now days. Same thing with Joe O. He took off too.....he knows and was present...perhaps the cousin of Ron's -the female behind bars on the drug charges along with the rest (I cant remember her name..Crystal?) was at the party too, and LE knows that....
But it still does not make sense to me WHY no one will talk...ok, they all had a hand in the cover up...but if they did NOT give the drugs to the child or have knowledge ahead of time the drugs were given, SURELY they could cut a deal and be released now, with time served while the others stay behind bars...This is the one thing that bothers me about this theory..someone there has got to be less culpable than the others ...and this person has to want OUT....why wont they SAY???. It brings me back again to...some ARE being held that do not know anything.....and the ones who DO know wont talk because they are highly culpable....and others who are highly culpable have taken off long ago and are far away.
Just thinking out loud and trying to keep this thread alive for Haleigh.