This case is so interesting because it make syou think of many different facets of total sadness. Misty grew up with a drug addicted family. She was probably born adicted to drugs if you really think about it. IMO
I too watched all of the jail tapes and they truly made me cringe to watch. Her father talking to her (yuck) and her Mom acting totally oblivious to what was going on and talking about stupid stuff like hair braids because her Mom could not deal with what was the truth. Misty had two brothers in this drug infested family too. IMO this gives me the total willies. I just picked up on family dynamics that were so abnormal and way out of the range of just dysfunctional. Someone said in a threaad earlier that Misty sold drugs by a school and they could have ended up in the childs hands....well guess what ... Misty was that child and we show incidents where she was raped or claimed to be and this is the only one that she goes public with .... This girl absolutely has no self worth and now has developed a personality disorder to be able to move forward.
I don't even understand how anyone can say she was the ring leader in this drug gang. All she was was a little girl finally feeling important. Feeling a part of something that she was doing really well. She was impressing the Undercover. She was impressing RC. She was getting drugs for her family. She was becoming important. The croslins were the mules for RC. He found a gold mind of drug users that needed his drugs and would do anything for him to get them. I believe RC talked MC into selling herself when times were tough. I think that the relationship became rocky because of this and the week became very bad due to the fact that MC wanted more. She expressed being tired of being used and RC wasn't having any of that bc he could deal his drugs go to work and get MC and the C's to do his work. In adition they probably ate some of the profits which did not make RC too happy.
Yes if I was MC's attorney I would go after the truth which is IMO that Misty suffers from PTSD and Personality Disorder due to her unbelievably rocky family life. Not hard to prove just get medical records when Misty was born. Arrest records and Medical records of thier childhood. ER records.
Does MC know what happened - yes absolutely IMO. Does she have the ability to go into another personality and be another person that does not feel what has happened in her life - absolutely. Could you get this diagnosis? Absolutely! IMO.
My point in the beginning is I am torn becasue HaLeigh was an innocent child but than I ask myself was Misty anymore mentaly available than HaLeigh?
I am sure this is way way too long but I have not wrote in a while and I am in my philisophical mood as my babies are sleeping. I am in no way writing any facts but writing my assumptions by my experiences and my watching these individuals interact amongst each other. I just wanted to make myself clear. However I would bet my last dollar that I am right on the money when I speak of MC.
Curious G
Excellent post! I agree with you on all of it but some points stand out, in particular the part about Misty feeling important. I agree wholeheartedly with this.
Misty grew up in an atmosphere of drugs, lying, cheating, stealing. Her parents had skewed values; life was for getting what you could and if their kids stayed alive from one day to the next they no doubt felt that's all the responsibility they had for those kids. This is not to say that kids never go bad if they have good parents; that does happen, as we all know. And some kids succeed in life in spite of family dysfunction. But...we are talking about the Croslins here, and clearly those kids followed their parents' examples. And Misty and Tommy's parents likely followed the examples of
their parents.
IMO, a lot more than an alleged rape messed with Misty's mind. Her entire existence placed her in some precarious positions mentally, emotionally, and physically. The whole family seems to have had a mission of operating one step in front of the law; whenever things got too messy, they would just relocate.
The family photos of Haleigh with Ron do nothing to lessen any of the hell I believe Haleigh probably saw and heard and experienced first-hand in her short lifetime. I believe that household was chaotic and frightening more often than anything else. But I believe Misty grew up in similar or perhaps worse chaos.
Misty was no drug trafficking ringleader. She was the UC's contact because she was the easy target, and she may have been placed in that position by Ron (as somewhat of a shield for himself). Misty accepted being placed in that position because it made her feel important. She was almost giddy in some of the UC videos and I believe that came from her belief that the UC needed her, but most of all because Ron needed her. Misty even stated to the UC that she believed Ron regretted divorcing her.
Misty did what she felt she had to do to keep Ronald Cummings in her life. Or rather, to keep herself welcome in
his life. And Ron wanted her around because she was useful to him; IMO, Misty was a key figure in the drug deals probably because Ron thought she was dispensable--meaning, he sent her in to feel things out, and as she emerged unscathed from her initial deals, Ron felt comfy enough to become more visibly involved. It may be that Misty initially turned Ron on to dealing with that UC, but not because she was trying to lure him into a life of drugs and crime, as the Cummings would have us believe. If Misty used dealing as a lure, it was because she wanted Ron to need her--Misty wanted Ron to regret having divorced her.
I have no doubt Misty suffers from PTSD. I have that diagnosis from my own childhood trauma, and my childhood was without some of the major issues that Misty had to endure. PTSD tends to rear its ugly head during times of extreme stress so. If Misty is a PTSD sufferer, she could have gone into a sort of fugue state at a very critical moment that night in February, 2009. Misty could, IMO, have been so affected by specific events that played out that night that her mind effectively blocked them out.
If Misty's mind blocked out something horrific, she might remember happenings up to and immediately following--but not the event itself. And if that is the case, Misty could have been in prime position that night/early morning to be easily manipulated into believing she had a hand in something when in fact she did not. Likewise, Misty herself could have actually done the deed and blocked it out.
I think Misty knows what happened. It's all there in her memory, but she might not have ready access to the memory. Misty might access the memory on her own some day; maybe she already has. Or, those memories could remain locked away forever.
To get at the truth Misty might need to undergo a full battery of psych tests. She might have to be forced to "relive" the events of February 9, 2009, under hypnosis. This would not be the same caliber of tests she supposedly had in the field after Haleigh's disappearance--this would be psychiatric testing/hypnosis administered by an expert in the field. In the name of justice and truth, this should be done. However, from a defense standpoint, I do not see it happening.
