you weren't talking to me. I have to interject something. Things are different when child custody issues have been disputed, and effects the home. To my understanding, Crystal's Father, Marty Johnny Sheffield claimed Ron stole Haleigh from him and his wife Connie sheffield. So evidentally these families had controversy between them concerning these children.
We see very often, almost everytime when very young children are involved. Knowing the family before the disappearnce, things said by the main immediately family members, then now one can understand Ron's statements. He's had to defend his right in a court of law to have custody of his children, and apparently fought a non biological parent to retain custody and a relationship with his very own children. So this changes my outlook as to what ron said, and how he acted in the first moments of learning Haleigh was gone.