The "Misty's new interview" thread has given me reason to go back and look at all that she has said previously compared to what she says now. With that, it is reasonable to want to discuss prior interviews of hers as well as statements made by others. I know we are not supposed to discuss anything in that thread other than the interview so my I thought it best to post this here rather than there.
Everyone in this case has lied about one thing or another. Misty certainly has lied. Tommy has. TN and AS have contradicted themselves at times. So has Ron. Also, I believe Ron lies by omission as well.
I believe Ronald Cummings to be an abusive man. He has, no doubt in my mind, abused Amber, Crystal and Misty, and it is not a stretch to see that he also abused his children. We heard Crystal say that and Crystal also predicted something happening to her kids if they were left in Ronald's custody.
And something has happened to one of Crystal's kids. It happened while in Ronalds' custody. Someone harmed this child and there are a lot of opinions here about who did and who didn't do what.
I do not have a "favorite" perp. Meaning, I am not looking at this case to see who I despise the most and then naming that person the perp based solely on my personal feelings against the person.
I cannot stand Misty Croslin. Why she lies is irrelevant to me in a missing/murdered child case. Misty was a child herself and very immature but even a young child will come to see that they will have to tell the truth eventually...that lies will only get them so far before they are cornered with only the truth setting them free.
I do not like Tommy. To me he was so into his own pleasures that he in certain ways neglected the needs of his family. Pills at the bus stop FGS. He just wasn't a good dad or a good husband, by my standards.
Ronald Cummings was Haleigh's dad. He stole Haleigh from her mom and then when something happened to Haleigh, tried to blame her mom. He strutted around calling himself "the better parent."
A judge gave custody of two vulnerable children to an abusive temperamental dad, all because of his ability to lie and charm people into doing what he wanted. To me, Ron is a sociopath at the very least. Judges are not medical professionals and may not be expected to see personality disorders, but a little bit of background checking in the custody case would have give much important information to the court so that those children would NOT have been left in Ronald's custody...not in a million years.
Ron did not cooperate with the LE investigation into the disappearance of his daughter, at least not for long. Why not? If he cared about his kids his life would have been an open book to LE for as long as it took to find out where Haleigh was and what happened that night in February 2009.
Then, this "better parent" who still had custody of his son goes out dealing drugs left and right until finallly he was caught in a drug sting designed solely for the purpose of bringing in all the players in the Haleigh case. This just shows that even in the face of having lost one child to his disgusting, self-serving lifestyle, this great dad not only ignored LE's pleas for information to find his daughter, but didn't care even a tiny bit about his surviving son.
I do not know if Ronald Cummings directly harmed Haleigh that day, but I do know that he directly harmed her via abuse on other days. And I will see for once and for all, if Ronald Cummings is just a victim of circumstance regarding Haleigh, and he had nothing to do with either her demise or the subsequent cover-up...WTF was he doing cavorting with the person LE had claimed was the last person to see Haleigh, the person with the key to the investigation, and maybe the person who killed his daughter????Who does that? I mean, besides Ronald Cummings?
Good post. Especially the parts that I bolded. People rarely do anything without a reason, and unfortunately reason's that benefit THEMSELVES. Ronald does lie by omission....and so does Misty. What they havent said speaks volumes..there is a reason for this.
You are right lies will only get Misty so far...and she is at the end. The only way she can get further and help herself is to keep lying. WHY? Because she is guilty as can be. To tell the truth now would not help her, it would only make things worse...because she is guilty of causing the death of Haleigh, otherwise she would be singing like a canary. Period. She has tried to implicate many people in this, hoping that something would stick to someone so she could escape being looked at any longer. This points to guilt and also if she was throwing stuff around hoping it would stick, she would certainly point the finger at anyone she knew to be guilty. This is not a LOYAL person who would sacrifice herself by anymeans. Levi is so right.....the fact that she did not take immunity speaks louder and truer than anything else in this case ever has. It has solitified my ever changing views in this case. It has also made me admit that I have been wrong...about Ronald. I believed him for so long, and as the above post pointed out, I was fooled and charmed, like so many others, by him. I should know better. I do believe that he is a sociopath and I do believe that he is at least partly to blame for his child's death. I believe the child was given drugs to sleep, by Ron's permission or order, by phone. I do believe he was at werk when Haleigh actually died. But that Misty had frantically called him when she discovered the child was no longer breathing. I believe that it is possible that someone else was involved in the cover up, but probably not Tommy, as I believe he would have told by now...he is in prison, because he has lied and lied and lied trying to find something that would explain the childs dissapearance and now no one believes anything he says. He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I think if he knew for certain, he would have said by now. The only thing that bothers me about this part is the rat in the mailbox. If Tommy knows nothing, then why the rat? And if he does know, and Ron is safely behind bars, why doesnt Tommy tell the truth? This part bothers me.
Timmy fled...Timmy helped in the cover up. But where was Joe during all this? Due to his silence I believe he really may not know anything or he would have spoke up when fingers were being pointed at him.
I doubt TN and AS were involved, but anything is possible. I think they are more guilty of enjoying the attention, as is FH and LC. I believe HC is completely in the dark about what happened that night, and he really would like to know.
There was no blood found in the MH or any signs of violence, so this is why I feel she was ODed...I just can not bellieve that any of these players are so good that they would have been able to completely cover up any signs of a violent death, or even a sexual assault resulting in a death. I think Haleigh vomitted on the blankets during her death and that was the reason behind them being washed.
As someone so brilliantly pointed out in an earlier post, Ron knew he was going to do a lot of time...yes, he did. He also knew this was connected to Haleigh being missing and since he knew he would be worse off by telling what happened (because he would implicate himself), he would have to do the whole sentence for the drug dealing. I do think he was told upfront and even shown the video evidence right away, so he knew that they had him and his only way out was tellling all he knew about that night...but he didnt because he is to blame, so he knew he was going to face all the time for the drug charges.
Everything, IMO, done in this case is done for a reason...for selfish reasons only. Everyone is out to save their own arses and no one is covering for anybody. All of them would throw one another under the bus if they knew they could to get this over and done with.