Ron C. #4

[Kat]

Yes, it did. A single switch, so I'm guessing there is another for the hallway? Now, why would you come down a dark hallway but feel the need to turn on the kitchen light?
And didn't Misty say the television was on for Haleigh. Now, if I take it to mean, it stayed on at night because of her fear of the dark, that's a petty big screen and would throw off quite a bit of light.
I'm rambling...

Lancelot I hope you don't mind but I took your link posting over to the Haleigh's home revisited thread. I did make sure to aknowledge that you were the one to find that!

I discussed a bit about it on there. I think the point you make here about that light might should be posted there too? For perspective on my theory about Haleigh turning on the light and your theory about why would someone walk down a dark hallway to turn on a kitchen light.

Yes that screen would throw off a lot of light if it were on during the night. Maybe enough light to illuminate the livingroom so that Haleigh felt safe enough to get up at night by herself and walk into the kitchen to flip on a light?....Not going anywhere with it either, just ramblin' too

 

[tehcloser]

http://www.wesh.com/video/18895945/index.html

Did Ron get a new truck?

Great catch....answer downstairs....:blowkiss: We can't bring stuff up from the pl....lol

 

[Capri]

Is it a white truck...video is loading slow. Big white dodge?

has "God will deliver Daddy's little girl" across the top of the windshield

 

[LancelotLink]

Great catch....answer downstairs....:blowkiss: We can't bring stuff up from the pl....lol

Huh? where downstairs? I need a map, compass and a link? LOL

 

[aprilshowers]

Ronald has done everything asked of him and much more. He went out searching day after day looking for Haleigh. Every time he had access to the media he has begged and pleaded for her return plus sent her the message that he loves her instead of dragging her mother or her family through the mud. He doesn't appear to me to be a parent who threw away his child like garbage as I have seen one of those lately. No comparison.

Can you tell me what he should be doing now besides grieving the fact his daughter is not with him? He is trying to hold out hope, but how difficult is it if others are telling him the realistic stats do not support her being found alive? Rj needs a stable family right now and maybe this is part of his reasoning...we simply don't know.

I would never have stopped looking, talking, asking questions, searching, thinking, trying to come up with 'who, what & when'.

 

[Anais]

I would never have stopped looking, talking, asking questions, searching, thinking, trying to come up with 'who, what & when'.

IMO he hasn't stopped. He's doing what he can, the best that he can and also has to hold it together for RJ.

 

[Anais]

Thank you for that video. As I was watching I came to realize something. No matter how much bashing is being done to Ron he loved those kids and took really good care of them.

All of the rumors about how horrible of a person he is, is just that, rumors. My son is he's age and he wouldn't have done as good of a job as Ron has done.

Does anyone realize that the only people that are saying these things about Ron are posters on here and Crystal's family? The police have said nothing about drugs, nothing about how violent he is.

We have a neighbor who sees Ron with Misty and the children and he says that he has seen nothing like drugs or violence. He has said time in and time out that they appear to be a normal family who love those kids. It makes me wonder who has the agenda and why?

Now we questions that Ron purchased that ring with funds for Haleigh. I read where it has been said this ring has been handed down through the family. It's about half way down in this article.
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/me...leighs_father_to_marry_17-year-old_girlfriend

After Crystal went on National TV and said those things that's when Ron stopped talking to them. He withdrew which I really don't blame him for. The Press want the dirt, he just wants his daughter.

In saying that, as for Ron asking Misty to marry him, it wasn't broadcast like people are saying. He asked on Sat and the press found out on Monday. I think they did do it quietly but because it was Ron people make it out to be something it isn't. IMO Ron is just really lost right now and has to do something, anything to make things right. There is nothing wrong with that.

Littleone your post ROCKS! I want to thank you!

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I would never have stopped looking, talking, asking questions, searching, thinking, trying to come up with 'who, what & when'.

Ronald has stopped all those things?!?! Since when?! And how would we know?! I don't believe he has stopped ANYTHING in respect to finding his daughter.

 

[player]

No, the one one his back isn't new from hearing what Doc, the 'inker' says in the video.

Not unusual to have your 'tat's touched up, filled in with color, dates added, or changed completely.

Just going over posts. The tatoo on Rons' back was there . I 1st saw it in september 08

 

[Law_girl41]

http://www.wesh.com/video/18895945/index.html

Did Ron get a new truck?

I didnt get the impression that it was a new truck. Its an older model. But not sure if its a different vehicle than he was driving before.

However, thank you for putting that link here, I didnt see that before. :waitasec: hmm? didnt seem like he was toooo upset to me while he was in the house, that he said he wouldnt go into. Just looks like he was handling it so-so as per his usual mono-tone demeanor.

 

[Busylady]

Neves is talking about Misty Croslin’s cousin. Misty is the 17-year-old girlfriend of Haleigh Cumming’s father Ronald Cummings. She said the man came to visit Misty’s family a few weeks before Haleigh disappeared. During that time, Neves said the man stole a gun from Cummings’ home. That gun was taken back when Neves said her son confronted the man about taking the weapon.

“There was no fight. There was an incident between him and a cousin. It happened two weeks before (Haleigh was abducted),” she said.

http://www.cbs47.com/content/topsto...-About-Suspicious/RnLAsZ1TMkauL5S_7_x17A.cspx

 

[Jholi]

Does anyone know offhand how long Ron has held his current job and what he was doing before?

ETA: Same for previous relationships between Crystal and Misty.

 

[Lexington]

Does anyone know offhand how long Ron has held his current job and what he was doing before?

ETA: Same for previous relationships between Crystal and Misty.

I was wondering the same thing regarding work history. Having a job seems to be a new experience for him seeing how he is repeating the phrase "I was at work" over and over again. I know it is his alibi, but if work was the norm I don't think he would feel the need to say it every chance he got and to say it so defiantly.

 

[kidz110]

Does anyone know offhand how long Ron has held his current job and what he was doing before?

ETA: Same for previous relationships between Crystal and Misty.

I think I remember Player answering that question. I really don't remember the answer, but I believe it was only a few months--5-6. I'm sure he wouldn't mind answering it again. He's usually in the basement.

 

[pirate]

October.

 

[enjay]

Littleone your post ROCKS! I want to thank you!

I agree. :clap:

 

[KSH352]

has "God will deliver Daddy's little girl" across the top of the windshield

But what he said 'God will deliver her home to me or him to him???"
ugh

 

[Indigo]

But what he said 'God will deliver her home to me or him to him???"
ugh

Not something you would say if you thought there was any chance your child was out there llistening. JMO

 

[Donjeta]

This was something that was discussed in the closed Misty #2 thread, but I brought it over here since my comment has more to do with Ronald Cummings than Misty. Note the words grieving father in the snippet. Now grieving might be just a mischosen word from the reporter and not something RC might have used to describe his feelings at the moment, but it's interesting nevertheless that they chose this word instead of shocked or something like that.

It was questioned in the other thread whether people who have just that morning found out their child is missing are grieving, or if it requires knowledge that they're dead. I guess I'm on the fence myself. It's not necessary for the body to be found to start the grieving process if it's been a while from the disappearance with no news or if the circumstances are such that death seems the most probable alternative. And you could grieve your loss even if there was a chance that the lost one was alive some place and just didn't want to be in contact with you, or their fate if you believed that they were alive and suffering somewhere. However, in the very beginning of the investigation, among the shock there may be some hope of a positive outcome and the relatives often cling on that and aren't yet ready to accept that their loved one is probably dead.

This is from an early report, some mistakes included:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/18680086/detail.html#-

While deputies and state officers from at least five agencies searched the area and the nearby St. Johns River, Haleigh's grieving father told Channel 4 there is no doubt in his mind that she was abducted and he'll do anything to get her back.

Ronald Cummings said Haleigh is afraid of the dark and there's no way she would have gone out in the middle of the night by herself.

"I came home this morning to find that I didn't have a child," Cummings. "Somebody stole my child."​

What does this last one sound to you? He doesn't say "to find that my child was missing", "that Haleigh was gone", "that there was no trace of Haleigh", "that nobody knew where Haleigh is".

"I came home this morning to find that I didn't have a child."

Does this sound like a comment from a father who still has hope, or the comment of a father who has no hope and has started grieving already? The wording suggests to me that he knows.

 

[drumstick]

Is it possible that he was informed of the statistics in regards to a stranger child abduction? Most children are killed in the first three hours.

Maybe someone told him the facts early on. I don't know.

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