Child abuse killed Haleigh Cummings, imo. It was not a a gun with messy blood splatter, this was a classic case of a druggie having a kid, and killing it with his hands or fist, and we all know from Annette that Haleigh was "hard to handle" at times. Ron Cummings is not the compassionate loving tender nurturing father that his family has tried to make him out to be, there is not one indication on that, I mean this guy was trying to get Crystals sister to physically hit a woman carrying his child, that is disgusting, and how anyone defends that is beyond me.
I think I am one of the only ones who think LE have done their jobs here, they can only do so much with people who wont talk. And even if he gets out, he will be right back in, because they will have his eye on him. This guy was caught in a cemetery with a very young Hope Sykes...... this case is probably more twisted than meets the eye.... I bet its very dark.
I think Hope would be able to separate herself from the extremity of Haleigh being dead based on the fact that she isn't a mother herself. If its going to hurt two people, Misty could have been talking about Ron and Hope.