I've been thinking hard about why CC would claim Ron picked up Haleigh when witnesses say Misty picked her up. I don't think she would protect Ron, but I do think she'd protect Misty. this is a theory I've been working on...Misty picks up the kids, argues with LC & presumably Tommy, slaps Jr across the face, looks worn out and isn't her usual self. She'd had a rough weekend, so looking worn out was to be expected. On the way home, Haleigh acts up, so she pulls over and beats her with some kind of board. She tells Ron, but Haleigh seems ok and is riding her bike, Being more concerned with Misty's weekend than he is with Haleigh, he leaves. At some point that night, Ron and Misty argue because Haleigh's irritable and won't sleep. He tells her to spank her again. She does and this beating on top of the earlier one, is all it takes. Misty puts an even more injured Haleigh to bed with a movie. She turns off her phone and leaves. Hours later, she gets back home, and finds a deceased child. She screams, runs outside & crying, starts making phone calls. Ron, suspecting Misty, sends her packing to her mother's...but realizing that he has also been negligent, he gets back with her, in order to keep custody of Jr. He covers for Misty, Misty covers for him, and IDK what the heck Tommy has to do with anything or why he'd blame JO. I would guess that he callously disposed of Haleigh on his own, but instead of admitting it, he blamed it on being forced at gun point. This is a horrific theory, (as they all are), but it would explain Misty and Ron both being culpable. What got me to really considering that Misty might be the perp, was the supposed offer of immunity...because even with immunity, she would still serve the longest of any of them. It's MOO, that LE MIGHT be willing to trade a future sentence for closure...because she's sitting in the pen for 25 years anyway. It's MOO, that if Misty wasn't the perp, LE would've been inclined to shave off some drug years. IDK, about this theory, but it's something to think about. MOO.