I have spent some time going back to earlier interviews to keep me busy and found several that caught my attention. Here is one where Ronald says "HIS" cousin came over that night, TN says that GGMS and Cousin Joe came over, Ron talks about how he changed the three locks in the MH so that something like this wouldn't happen. Speaking of the kidnapping, there is mention of the door in the bedroom being open and the kitchen light being on, that didn't make sense then and still doesn't make sense, and a bit more.
Cummings Girlfriend Not Ruled Out as Suspect in Haleigh Disappearance
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Aired March 16, 2009
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/16/ng.01.html
GRACE:Ronald, as I see it, there are three main inconsistencies in Misty Croslin -- now Cummings -- statement. Number one, when she called police. Number two, why she went to a bathroom far away from where Haleigh was, as opposed to the one right there in the master bedroom. And possibly most significantly, an alleged inconsistency about where she was sleeping and where Haleigh was sleeping the night she was kidnapped.
Let`s take that one off the top. What did Misty tell you that night - - not later, but that night -- about where Haleigh was sleeping?
RONALD CUMMINGS:
She told me that she was sleeping in the -- her and Junior were sleeping in my queen-size bed and that she was sleeping in the tot bed beside her.
RONALD CUMMINGS: Three or four feet from her...
GRACE:
Ronald, how did it get so bassackwards that people construed it as them sleeping together in the same bed, Misty, Junior, your son, and Haleigh? How did that happen? How was that miscommunicated?
RONALD CUMMINGS: Ms. Nancy, I have no -- no answer for you
. I don`t know how it was miscommunicated.
GRACE: Is that what she told police, Ronald? Did she tell police at any time that she was in the bed with little Haleigh?
RONALD CUMMINGS: I wasn`t there when she was questioned by police, Ms. Nancy.
GRACE: OK. Here`s the next question. Why didn`t she call cops immediately when she realized Haleigh was missing? Explain to us the timeline. What happened?
RONALD CUMMINGS: I pulled into the yard. The front door was wide open. She was standing in it. I asked her what she was doing up. She told me that the back door was wide open and Haleigh was gone. I turned the house upside-down and told her to call 911.
GRACE:
has she explained it to you why she didn`t go to the restroom in the middle of night right there in the bedroom`s attached bathroom? It`s kind of all one big, huge master bedroom. Why would she choose to crosses kitchen and go to a different bathroom?
RONALD CUMMINGS:
I don`t know, Ms. Nancy. I`ve never really heard that side of the story, to be honest with you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. Something has been bothering me. If the story`s true that Misty was out partying and left the kids home alone, it`s possible Misty put the cement block by the back door so she could slip quietly back inside the house and not wake up the kids, but someone else could have gotten inside the house and took Haleigh before Misty got home.
GRACE: To Ronald Cummings, has the theory that Misty left the home some time during the night been disproved?
RONALD CUMMINGS: I`m not sure. I believe that it has, Nancy. I`m almost 100 percent sure, but I wouldn`t say that and lie to you. I`m pretty sure it has been disproved.
GRACE:
Do you believe she left the home and left the children alone, Ronald?
RONALD CUMMINGS:
Absolutely not.
GRACE: Ronald, one thing I want to clear up.
I still don`t understand why she didn`t call 911 the minute she realized Haleigh was gone.
RONALD CUMMINGS: I think she was still looking to make sure that Haleigh -- she wasn`t going to make a false 911 call. She was making sure that Haleigh was not, you know, up in the bathroom or in a..... got up and moved up to another room or whatever. You know, I think she was just being sure that...
GRACE:
So when you pull up -- when you pull up, she`s still looking?
RONALD CUMMINGS: Absolutely.
RONALD CUMMINGS: I told her to call 911 while I turned the house upside-down.
MARLAINA SCHIAVO: And you have to remember, that she -- when she got up to go to the bathroom, she saw that the kitchen light was on. The kitchen is over this way. So that means she would have had to have gotten up and gone out this door and then have noticed.
NANCY GRACE: Ronald, I see you shaking your head, no, no, no. Why? Do you disagree?
CUMMINGS: Because we can go in that house right now where they -- we can go in -- yes, absolutely. I disagree. We can go in that house right now with a camera and turn that kitchen that light on. And from the bedroom you can see it. It don`t matter if you go to the bathroom that`s across the house or the one that`s in that bedroom. You can see that the kitchen light is on. It shines. It`s black in the house.
GRACE: You know I`m interested to hear that because when Marlaina was -- and Teresa Neves was giving us access to the home, I asked specifically was the bedroom door open. Do you sleep with the bedroom door open and they responded yes.
CUMMINGS: Always.
CALLER LILI:mine is more of a statement. Have they checked out the person that rented the trailer before? Because they would know where the cinder block is. They might even have a key to the deadbolt. They know where the light is and the switch to the light of the kitchen.
GRACE: To Ronald Cummings. Ronald, isn`t the previous owner the reverend?
CUMMINGS: As I believe it is the reverend`s mother and father
.But I do know that I personally went to Wal-Mart and bought the deadbolts and the locks that were on there so nobody else had a key to this house.
GRACE: the former owner placed a lock on that back door but you also placed locks as well, correct?
CUMMINGS: Yes, ma`am, they were there. I took them off and put my own on.
CUMMINGS:
I don`t want nobody to have keys in my house because I didn`t want this to happen.
GRACE: To Barbara in Massachusetts,.
BARBARA, CALLER FROM MASSACHUSETTS:
Misty said there were three men there that night. I think it was a nephew, cousin, a -- an air-conditioning repairman.
But anyway, any one of them could have unlocked that deadbolt, slipped her a sedative and left the house and come back later and gone in and gotten the child. I think it`s someone that knew them. I think it had to be someone who was there in the house that night.
And I`ve called the tip line and I`ve talked to detectives. This is how disturbed I am for this little girl. :waitasec:
GRACE: Let`s go to the source and find out. To Marlaina Schiavo.
Marlaina, who was in the home that evening?
SCHIAVO:
She had a cousin visiting from out of town earlier. And so he was in the home at some point, but we`re still trying to figure out exactly how that`s all pieced together, Nancy.
GRACE: Miss Neves, are you aware of anyone else in the home that evening? I don`t mean when they all go to bed, I mean earlier that evening.
NEVES:
I heard there was a repairman there. My mother was actually over.
GRACE:
I`m sorry, I couldn`t hear you. There was a repairman there. The cousin was there who police have investigated.
NEVES:
Yes, ma`am.
GRACE: Who else?
NEVES: My mother came by that night.
GRACE: For what reason?
CUMMINGS: My cousin went in there.
NEVES: She brought some clean clothes over.
GRACE: OK.
NEVES: She had some of the kid`s clothes at her house and she had washed them and brought them over. That was sometime between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. that night.
waitasec
