- Joined
- Oct 30, 2005
- Messages
- 3,916
- Reaction score
- 16,009
Perhaps you haven't been reading the threads I have seen in which Ron has been bashed relentlessly for taking Haleigh from her mother using underhanded means, by providing the wrong address so that Crystal couldn't appear. The next move in that argument is usually that had Haleigh been in her mother's custody, she would still be with us (regardless of the fact that Ron would have had visitation, at least and would have been in the same physical location for extended periods of time).
I don't for one minute think that the custody and child support issues are not germane to the case, particularly at the beginning as LE begins to look simultaneously at the family/families and also at the possibility of stranger abduction. Many, if not most, "missing children" cases can be traced back to animosity between the bio parents or attempts to circumvent court-ordered custody arrangements. Sadly, there are parents who kill their children to avoid paying support or to get back at their former partners. And there are grandparents who have killed ex-spouses and kidnapped children. So I am sure LE has looked long and hard at all the families in this case (including the step-parents and their relatives) because as in all crimes, the odds are that someone who knows the child is involved.
Because you believe that Ron "did have something to do with with Haleigh's disappearance," it is not surprising that you don't see Crystal's behavior in regard to custody, or her family's interests in regard to custody and support, as significant. You've already eliminated them from the suspect pool.
I know there are people who hope that Crystal's family is behind the abduction because that would mean that Haleigh is alive; that is less, I think, about her family and more about holding on to hope. The only way I think that would be possible is if they intended to take both kids and couldn't do that because Jr. was asleep in Misty's bed--although I suppose it is possible that someone might have more attachment to Haleigh than her brother. But that seems like a stretch to me.
I don't think that looking at both parents is like "comparing apples to oranges." The fact that Crystal lost custody and her family was upset about that could be a powerful motive for abduction, just as the fact that the kids were living with Ron gave him or Misty more opportunity for something to happen to the kids at their hands. I don't know who took Haleigh. I lean towards a sexual predator in large part because I think LE would have solved the case already if anyone in Crystal's or Ron's family was involved. (I am excluding the Croslin clan here.) I also believe that Ron was at work when Haleigh disappeare, based on what is known at this time. I remain ready to change my mind if the evidence warrants it.
But I will say that those who were wrong about Ron's actions in regard to custody may have misjudged him in other ways as well--and those judgments are important to our discussion. As always, thanks for replying to my post.
