My niece slept through her own bathroom being remodeled when she was 16.
I now know why Misty called Ron first, he wasn't home as he normally would have been when Misty awoke. "Do you have Haleigh?" she asks when he gets to the house. And Ron said, she was normally asleep when he got home, which would have been a bit after midnight if he wasn't working OT. So Misty being up at 3:24a must have been a real schocker too.
What is wrong with stopping off to buy beer and cigarettes after work? Millions of people do this everyday. I fail to see every action taken by this family as some pre-planned and orchestrated event.
Debs - she has no where to go. No where. Her parents can't taek her in because they live with Tommy and the Judge will not lift the restraining order. Her ex-husband's family won't take her in, her brother in Maine is no help. She has no skills and no education. What is she supposed to do to earn a living and support herself? Any ideas? Who is hiring in Satsuma?
Wanted: Illiterate, immature, infamous, chain-smoking, druggie teen girl with LE watching her every move to work full-time with benefits, a 401K, great salary and car allowance. No experience or skills needed and will fill out application for right individual.
I see 'em everyday like that.
Dot....... I feel ya. I would not want the road Misty is on, for my children......hell, even for myself.
Misty herself asserts she would have awoken if she'd have heard Haleigh make a noise regarding her painful leg issue. She didn't awake to Tommy's knocking (sorry....I still hear Stephen King here). People have tried to say that Jr heard it and opened the door...or even that Haleigh heard Tommy knocking and she opened the door. Misty says she would have heard Haleigh crying about her legs. Let's look at that, since we're on the theories page.
The possibility exists now that Misty has opened the door to theorize that Haleigh DID wake up with sore legs, and Misty, being very exhausted (reported by Misty and Teresa and GGM) became enraged.
The possibility exists now that Misty has opened the door to theorize that she wasn't home when Tommy came knocking. She establishes she had a keen sense of hearing for noise, though people in her family later assert she is a hard sleeper (the disparity arises that Misty says that she would wake up months after we learn Misty's family says she is a sound sleeper). So why didn't she wake? People on this board for months have been insisting that a perp could not have knocked on that front door or even come in that front door without the occupants of the bedroom hearing. It was my assertion that someone could not have come in through the back door without awaking the occupants. Either way, we're hosed. How come Misty, who asserts she would have woken up to a child's whimper, did not hear the pounding on the door.....whichever door it was?
As to Misty calling Ron...we have several stories on that. Misty awakes, gets up to pee, sees the light (several iterations of that sequence) and rushes back to the room to get her phone, sees Haleigh gone and Ron comes home (several other iterations of that sequence). All we know is that at 3:27 a.m. a 911 call is placed by Misty. i have not seen the phone records which would show whether she called Ron. He himself says as he was pulling into the yard he saw her standing in the door. He also says he was coming home and ignored a call from Misty. Too many ways to tell one story. The things we didn't know when all this story telling was going on were that Ronald had called Misty 20 times in the hours prior, that he'd called her brother to see if she was there, that her brother says he'd gone over to the MH and knocked to no answer.
There is no shocker involved in stopping off for beer and peanuts and cigs at 3:.......whatever in the morning. Except for adding in the fight around 8:30 p.m., the weekend distress where Misty was out to places unknown, Ronald had thrown her clothes onto the lawn of Amber (or Naynay's) mom, that the children were living with a heightened stressful environment as their daddy dealt with his recalcitrant teenaged girlfriend; and by reports of GGM and TN, and Misty and her mom, Misty was exhausted from her weekend, had spent all Sunday night talking with Ronald, was awakened to more distress to get Haleigh to school on time, and if we have to believe it, driving nearly 40 miles out of their way to ensure she has the outfit she wants to wear to school that day. Then coming home to deal with a 3-year old boy who by their story sleeps most of the time from when Haleigh is at school to when she is picked up.
I feel really really bad that Misty's choices in life have taken her to this place. We naturally want children to make good choices that progressively lead them to better and better opportunities. But I am not blind to the reality that there are children whose choices take them further and further down a road that no one should ever travail. But her (now ex) husband's family not only took her in, but publicly supplied her alibi and support in the early days and weeks and months as Haleigh was missing. It wasn't as though she was thrown out automatically, tossed aside with derision and disgust because of her lies and inconsistencies. No, they waited for nearly 8 months before they threw her out, only doing so after she let loose important information about "Aunt Lisa" coming over with GGM that night. And now suddenly what we once suspected (that the visit by GGM was an emergency call, not a laundry visit) has more validity because Misty couldn't hold the story straight.
And she was abandoned.
She started the process to go home by asking to have the RO rescinded. We'll see how long that takes. Meanwhile, allegedly she's with her grandma in TN. She left school with no fuss or fight that stuck, by her parents. She was on the streets early on. She is no different than many many other "street kids" you can see on any 48 hrs. episode. It is a hardknock life and she learned to exist in it. That doesn't mean she automatically becomes a baby killer.
It just means that everything, rolled together, looks like Misty could have learned a way to get by that allows her to dissociate from what happens to someone else; instead just thinking how this time, it wasn't her.
Misty's life hasn't been pretty. But it doesn't make her less likely to have done something to Haleigh or know what happened to her. It just makes Misty really only care about whether or not Misty gets through this ordeal.
