UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Misty, how are you doing right now?
CROSLIN: Not good! I just want her to come home. I just want to find her!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know you`re 17. I can`t even imagine at my age going through this.
CROSLIN: It`s horrible! It`s very horrible. Very.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know at first, it seems like there`s been a lot of people that have been kind of, like, I don`t understand how this could be the situation, where you don`t hear her. Did you hear anything?
CROSLIN: I didn`t hear anything at all. Nothing. If I heard something, I would have got up and I wouldn`t have let them take her!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So what happened?
CROSLIN: OK. I put her to bed about, you know, 8:00 o`clock because that`s her bedtime. She had school. I put her to bed in her blanket and my blanket. My blanket was in the bed that they took. So we had a blanket hanging on the window and I had to wash that, and her blanket. Her blanket was -- she had peed on her blanket the night before, I guess, and I was going to put it on there, but it smelled like pee. So I washed the blanket and I gave her a little sheet to cover up with. And she fell asleep. And I come in there and put her blanket on her. And then I laid down.
And it was about -- I mean, I`m not positive what time. It was, like, 3:00. You know, it was -- I seen 3:00, 3:00 o`clock in the morning. I got up and -- I got up because I had to use the bathroom, but I didn`t make it to the bathroom. I seen the kitchen light on. And I walked in the kitchen, and the back door`s wide open. I mean, I didn`t notice about Haleigh then until I seen the back door open. And then I go in her room, and she`s gone! And that`s all I know, is when I woke up -- when I went to sleep she was there, and then when I woke up, she was gone.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know you`ve been intensively questioned by police. What has that been like for you?
CROSLIN: It`s been hard, but I`m trying to do everything to find her. You know, I`m -- answer any questions I have to because I know I didn`t do anything to that little girl. I would never hurt her. I mean, they love me. They love -- I mean, they look at me like their mom, you know. You ask little Junior. He`ll tell you, you know. They talk lovely about me, and I`m so good to them kids, real good.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So you woke up, and that was it? You saw the door open? Did you leave the light on or...
CROSLIN: No (INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Somebody turned the light on?
CROSLIN: The lights had to get turned on because I know them lights - - you know, I was in the hallway where the back door is. The dryers are right there. I was washing clothes. And that back door was shut, you know? And I just wake up and it`s open.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you take a polygraph?
CROSLIN: I did. But I`m not supposed to talk about that. They told me not to talk about that.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But you did...
CROSLIN: Yes, I did take a polygraph.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And you passed it?
CROSLIN: I mean, my understanding is that I passed it, you know?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What do you want people to know?
CROSLIN: I just want everyone to know that I didn`t do anything with that little girl! I love her like she`s my own, and I`ll do anything to get her back! And if people think that I had something to do with it -- if I had something to do with it, if I knew where she was, we wouldn`t be sitting here today. We would have her. And I don`t. I don`t know where she is.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She`s a sweet baby. I can tell.
CROSLIN: She is so sweet. She`s a smart little girl. She`s intelligent, you know? She`s a real good girl, a real good girl.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What is your heart -- you say you think of her like your daughter.
CROSLIN: Like my daughter.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What does your heart tell you right now?
CROSLIN: It just tells me I need to find her, you know? (INAUDIBLE) just find her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You believe she`s still out there?
CROSLIN: Yes. I do believe she`s still out there. Someone has her or -- I mean, I don`t want to think of the bad, you know? I mean, it runs through my mind, but I don`t want to think of the bad.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What`s the deal with the brick? There was a brick that was propped up.
CROSLIN: There was a brick, like, a cinderblock, that was holding the screen door open. And that brick -- that door -- that screen door is always closed, you know? That brick -- I`d never seen the brick even around there. The cops said there was a whole bunch of bricks about 50 feet away, but I`ve never seen any bricks at all.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So somebody propped up the screen door with a brick?
CROSLIN: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. So bring her home.
CROSLIN: Exactly.
(CROSSTALK)
CROSLIN: We just want her to come home. That`s it. I just want her to be OK. And whoever has her, I just want them to bring her home!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Safe.
CROSLIN: Just safe and...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Calm down.
CROSLIN: I just want her to come home safe. And I thank everybody out there that`s helping us, you know?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you a really sound sleeper?
CROSLIN: I mean, usually -- like, she usually -- Haleigh will wake up at nighttime. She gets cramps in her legs, you know, and I have to rub her legs to get the cramps out of her legs to get her back to sleep. And you know, she didn`t make no noise that night. I would have woke up if I heard any noise. I mean, I didn`t hear anything at all. I mean, I was really exhausted that day, you know? Really exhausted. And when I laid down, I guess, you know, I just was out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did she -- there`s no way she could have wandered off?
CROSLIN: No. She is scared of the dark. She would not go anywhere by herself. She would not. She would not go out of the house by herself.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So you think that something happened and you just didn`t hear it.
CROSLIN: Yes. I just didn`t hear it. And I wish I did because I wouldn`t have let no one take her!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you blaming yourself?
CROSLIN: I just know, like -- I feel, like, that, you know -- I wish that they would have took me instead of her, you know, because I could have fought. You know, she`s only 5. She can`t really do anything. And I just wish that they would have took me instead of her! What do they want with a little 5-year-old?
BREMNER: Anything else that you want to say, Misty?
911 OPERATOR: I just want her home. Anybody knows where she is, please bring her home safe. And that`s it. I just want her home!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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