Florida Police Say Haleigh Cummings Was Abducted

February 12, 2009

The search for Haleigh Ann Marie Cummings, a 5-year-old girl who vanished from her Putnam County, Fla., home early Tuesday morning, has gone on for over 50 hours now, and investigators still have no new leads on her whereabouts.

The search effort, which initially involved over 130 officers from at least 10 county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, was significantly scaled back today to about 60 active searchers. The reason for the scaleback, according to Maj. Gary Bowling with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, is that investigators believe Haleigh was abducted.

"The evidence that it's an abduction is that there's no reason to believe that the child wandered off," Bowling said during a media briefing last night. "She's a 5-year-old child, and she's afraid of the dark."

According to authorities, polygraph tests have been administered to Haleigh's father, 24-year-old Ronald Cummings, and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Misty Croslin. Cummings has told the media that they both passed; officials will not comment on the validity of his claims.

Earlier today, Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy said that investigators have collected evidence from Cummings' mobile home but would not describe the evidence.

"I can't discuss what evidence was taken into custody," Hardy said. "I don't want to reveal what was found or not found."

The evidence has since been sent to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Regional Crime Lab for analysis.

Speaking with Fox News, Putnam County Sheriff's Office Capt. Steve Rose confirmed reports that there have been prior problems with Cummings, Croslin, and the children. He refused to elaborate on what the problems were, saying only, "There have been some investigations done through the Department of Children and Families," Rose said.

On Tuesday, Haleigh's mother, 23-year-old Crystal Sheffield, and her grandmother, Marie Griffis, arrived on the scene from Georgia. Griffis initially told the media that there were no problems between her daughter and Cummings; today, however, she told the media that their relationship had been "rocky."

"If you're in the bed with your child, and you get up and use the bathroom," Sheffield told Firstcoastnews.com, "is there enough time for someone to come to the house and snatch the child out of the bed and disappear without you getting back to the bed in time? No!"

In related news, Joshua Duckett, the father of missing Leesburg toddler Trenton Duckett, and George Anthony, grandfather of child murder victim Caylee Anthony, have both traveled to Putnam County to show their support for Haleigh's family. In addition, celebrity bounty hunter Leonard Padilla is in the area, assisting in the search. Padilla is offering a no-questions-asked $25,000 reward to anyone who returns Haleigh before midnight on Saturday.

Meanwhile, members of the search and recovery group Texas EquuSearch began arriving in Putnam County earlier today. According to Barbie Tarr, a spokesperson for the group, Tim Miller is currently meeting with investigators to determine where his group should begin searching.

"We are planning to start the search tomorrow morning," Tarr told Investigation Discovery. "We are hopeful that Haleigh will be found. No one should have to live the nightmare that this family is going through right now."

According to Tarr, EquuSearch's command center will be located at 194 East Buffalo Bluff in Satsuma, Fla. Anyone interested in helping is asked to arrive at 8:00 a.m. The group is in need of foot searchers and searchers on horseback and ATVs. For more information, visit the organization’s Web site at: Texasequusearch.org.

Haleigh Cummings is described as three feet tall, weighing 39 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt and underwear. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 386-329-0808 or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-277-TIPS

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Comments

[John]

Say what you want about Padilla, but the fact is he's helping to bring this little girl's name out into the media as is Anthony and Duckett. His methods may not always be agreeable but his presence is helping to get Haleigh Cummings' name and picture in the news so others can keep a look out for her

I'm glad George has been able to refocus his energies and will hopefully stay out of depression. He can be very helpful in getting the names of missing persons out into the media as well.

As far as the reaction of the father to kill the abductor if he finds him first doesn't strike me as an over-reaction. It's how I would feel although I'd have the self-control not to carry it out.

[Karen Snyder]

To the family of Haleigh: my heart goes out to you at this time. I've been following the Caylee Marie Anthony, so this is more real to everyone right now! I know Caylee's grandfather George is there with you! What a great thing he is doing considering all he has been through!!!! George you are to be commended!!!!!!Keep the faith family of Haleigh!!! She is being watched over by God, and she will be found! Believe that!!!! Our prayers are with you!

[cb]

This case is already very strange. Something is off. Maybe the parents had nothing to do with it, but are holding back information about life style or nefarious associates/ friends that had access to the home. I hate to be cynical and would like to be proven wrong. I just can't imagine how a deadbolt could be compromised, without the door being broken. Perhaps it's as simple as the girlfriend not wanting to admit that she opened and then neglected to secure the door, or someone else had keys?

[Suzan]

K...Something is hinky here.. In the last article on here..it say's: Croslin further said that she observed a blanket and sheets scattered on the wooden ramp leading from the door.

The kitchen light is on, the locked door is now open. A brick is poised to hold the screen open.

Dogs follow a scent to the dock..a waiting boat perhaps? They should check boats/residents and nearby docks.

The only way this scenario will work is if there is 'another door' that was the entry way for the would be abductor.

If it is an abduction, it's someone they 'knew'..perhaps visited in a short time past. Or a neighbor that would know their routine.

[Bridget]

What I found so interesting on reading/listening to the transcript of the 911 call, is that this 17yo girlfriend didn't even know this precious child's date of birth, how tall she was, how much she weighed (40-60 lbs is a big difference)...But on TV her and the father just parading around smoking...Why is a 24yo man with 2 kids with a 17 yo who should be finishing school herself...I don't know why they were not with their bio-mom, but this living arrangement can not have been much better...My prayers for the safe return of Haleigh

[Bettttt1]

I'm no mother, but i can say with 99.9 percent I would know if there was a stranger im my home, call it a womens tuition, then there is (someone taken enough time to prop a door open,(NOT) that sounds like some one needing both hands to carry this child, I only can hope this child will be found soon.

[Suzan]

It is not too far fetched that someone was observing the comings and goings of this family. And in their plan, pre-propped the back screen door open in preparation of coming out with her. Went around the front (other side) and entered. Turned the kitchen light on and unlocked the back door..entered into the child's room, and picked her up, bedding and all..and left out of the back door. The dogs scenting on the dock, could mean there was a waiting boat. I don't want to speculate on why the child didn't cry out. A substance/object could have been used to render her unconscious, or tape to keep her quiet. (God forbid)

The first thing that came to mind..I will admit, is that the gf had something to do with it. Her body language while speaking isn't right. She could however just be feeling terribly guilty. If it was the gf, Haleigh will be found nearby, perhaps in the lake. Who is to say how this young gal is wired, or what transpired that evening. It is not out of the question that the gf lost her temper and went to far..and is trying to cover her tracks, unfortunately..it happens.

I picked up from the biological mother that Haleigh has missed a lot of school in the past, and perhaps that is why dfs was interested in this family in the past. Also, Haleigh had asthma, which would indicate a medical condition that needed to be monitored. Could she have had a major asthma attack after being overly corrected and succumbed in an attack?
Pretending their was an abduction could have been created to hide such going's on within the home.

Just speculating... :) No offence intended to those that are involved.

[Nahanni]

Yes i agree something is not right with this story.

[Pechepi]

Would someone clear this up for me. Did the babysitter/girlfriend call 911 before the child's father got home or did she wait until he got home. I thought I heard that she waited for him before she called, if so why?

[ada]

There is definitely something not right about this kidnapping. Things do not add up. Something is missing from this story.

[helenhudson]

I'm hoping that the information that LE is holding back will bring Haleigh home alive. (Although I'm not sure that the father's home is a fit residence or her or Junior.)

Godspeed searchers.

[Suzan]

Morning all ;)

Reading jvm and this line popped out at me..

CROSLIN: No. My older brother had come over with my nephews, and the AC guy.

Wonder who this AC guy is..

Perhaps doors were opened, and no one was the wiser.

(Angels all around the searchers today)

[Nahanni]

I just wonder if this is tied in with the ANTHONY case?Could be set up to take suspicion off Casey Anthony IF ANOTHER CHILD GOES MISSING CLOSE BY.This is just a thought??????

[sheller]

agree helen: not much mention after that bit about the older brother, nephews, and the mysterious AC guy. One article said he had been questioned and cleared, but might explain the open door?

[Sonja]

Correct me if I am wrong! There are 44 offenders around this girls home! Was she not living in the house with one?Her father is 24 and his girlfriend is 17!That makes him a sort of pedifile,Right?Can he not find a girlfriend his age?

[Knowbetter]

Is there a chance that Misti could have been involved with another person? If she was distracted by someone else she would not have been paying any attention to the children. She might have been leaving the kids alone while she was stepping outside to see someone?

[Knowbetter]

The one thing that has peaked my curiousity is the age of Misti(17) and why is she living with a 25-year old man? Have investigators looked into who she has been hanging out with during the time that the childrens' father has been working? Was she in fact alone that night or was someone there distracting her? She is very young and may not realize that she could have let someone in that had bad intentions on her and the children. I would just like for somebody to check out backgrounds of her and the people she has been associating with. Misti has changed her story around a bit, and something there is just not right.

[Nahanni]

MAYBE Haleigh took some drugs she found laying around.And by saying she was abducted gets them off the hook.If she died.

[Chasblack]

So many comments I have seen about this case (on other sites) make a big deal about the father and girlfriend swearing and smoking. It's like people think theses bad habits make these people suspects. Let me say this, if one of my children was missing, I would be swearing too... and having a few smokes to try and clam down. It's been confirmed that the father was at work. I'm still watching the girlfriens though. It must have been overwhelming at times for a 17 year old to have full responsability of a 5 year old and 2 year old while their father was working. She said she was sleeping in the same room with the girl and didn't hear her cry or yell. Makes me ask 2 questions... Was the abductor a person the child knew or is the girlfriend using an abduction story as a coverup for a tragic accident that may have happened? How much did she really care for this child.. she didn't know her height or weight. One last think that strikes odd is that her voice always sounds like she's crying but she never has tears in her eyes. I'm not saying she's guilty but these are just a few things that jumped out at me.

Nahanni - I have to say, that was the first thing I thought too.

[AUDREY WERNER]

Posted by: Audrey/ February 16 2009 at 7:00 PM

I think it's the girlfriend.. Is it not true that the gf
was in the same bed with the little girl? If so how could
she have not known that someone was in the room and took her/

[Linda Reachmaxk]

There are too many things wrong with this case. First is allthe conflicting stories about where the children were sleeping. Second, regardless of the sleeping arrangements who gets up at 3AM to use the bathroom and sees the kitchen light on and the bck door propped open with a cinder block and doesnt call 911?

[Linda Reachmaxk]

Why is everyone starting to pick on Leonard Padilla? He went out of his way to help in the Caylee Anthony case and was the only outsider t have access to the family dynamics behind closed doors. Just because some people (Nancy Grace) doesnt like his answers does not make his information wrong or invalid. He tells it as he sees it. There is no monetary incentive for him so leve him alone.

[J.M. Roberts]

While I feel for the parents, and I pray for a safe return of the child, I have to wonder why the Sheriff's Office has not arrested the father. The law in Florida is pretty clear, if you are 24 or older, the age of consent is 18 years old. Dad is the 45th sex offender in the neighborhood.

[maraylou]

we've got to stop making so many people sex offenders. a 17 year old and 24 year old hardly fit that category, no matter what the "law" SAYS. MY MOTHER-IN-LAW was married at 14 to a 20 year old. this was common for hundreds of years and suddenly in a generation they become sex offenders. lets save that term for the rapists and ones who have sex with 12 year olds etc.

[Honeybee]

Please some one post the age of Ronand C.and the woman at time of both he and each of these three woman met that he has children with .
Ron has a problem not only with this above just read his past records man with a short stem and plenty of other shorts.
Misty is the second coming of Susan 'change the story" Smith .Check just the blanket story.
If the truth is told the first time the story never changes.
What do we see here?
This is my opinion.

[Briana]

I have some questions...why is it still written that haleigh was wearing a pink shirt,and underpants?was'nt the pink shirt found by misty in the laundry basket by the back door?does she not remember what haliegh was wearing or what?I don't understand that at all....Also how many times has misty the girlfriend or ex girlfriend of ron the father been questioned now?6or 7 times does anyone else think this is highly suspect?One more why the heck did she wait for Ron to get home to call the police?If someone goes missing most people would call 911 right away...not wait around...also she said on 911 call she was Halieghs mom?after only dating dad for 5 months?hmmmmmmm

[Briana]

This is to MR.ROBERTS who does not see anything wrong with young impressionable girls sleeping with grown men.During there teen yrs girls go through alot of changes mentally and physically...There is no reason why a grown man needs to be sleeping with someone underage. They have problems,and cannot find someone to date there own age!I say it's so pathetic...grown men know they can manipulate young naive woman and they do daily in this country...It's people like you that make me so happy to live in a state where a grown man can try or sleep with a child BUT he is going to pay severly for his decisions.14 and 20?It might have been accepted back then but today it is'nt and I thank God for that.!!!!!

[BRIANA]

Everyone who is saying all these things about the father of Haleigh,I do agree that he has a pretty troubled past,drugs,woman,and jail...but,it seems to me for a young father of two children,he is trying to do his best.He has a stable job,a home for his children,family nearby...he seems like he means well towards his kids...I feel for him,even though I don't agree with him having a 17 yr old girlfriend!living in the home with him and his children!The reason why is because ,I don't think most 17 yr old girls are really ready to be SUZIE HOMEMAKER and I don't think they are ready to play house...(so to speak)I don't know what happened to this little girl but I do know that alot of times when there are children involved in a reletionship from another mom or dad,sometimes there is jealousy...maybe things were good when dad was around and not so good when he was gone!Something happened to this girl and stories from the girlfriend Misty have changed over and over,as if she is telling the news,and the police what they want to hear...Also the brother of Haleigh supposedly said first that a MAN IN BLACK came in,now the bio-mom has said on GERALDO that he said a BLACK MAN IN BLACK???WHEN WILL THESE PEOPLE REALIZE THEY NEED TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED,AND GET THIS GIRL BROUGHT HOME SAFE?MAY GOD WATCH OVER HALEIGH CUMMINGS...AND BRING HER HOME SAFE!

[briana]

So,I write again...I'm so confused about something and wonder how others see this situation....Ron Cummings is now engaged to Misty his 17 yr old girlfriend???She is talking to newscasters about Haleigh in the past tense...this is what Haleigh wanted instead of this is what she wants???she is all smiles and giggles and this for so many reasons is really bothering me...anyone else?what kind of greiving family whose child is missing goes to chilis and gets engaged?I think this is so strange...she has only been gone a month!!!
she is out there somewhere and instead they are out buying rings and getting engaged?weird and weirder!

[briana]

why did Crystal’s MySpace refer to her new baby by name, but referred to Haleigh and Jr. as “brats?” I’d like to thank Crystal’s family for providing the pics on their MySpace accounts documenting Crystal’s current lifestyle. She wants everyone to believe Ron has the drug problem and she’s partying with pot leaf posters on the wall, liquor bottle decor, and drinking beer in her car.I just thought I would bring it to everyones attention that ummmmm lets see the bio mom owes alot I mean alot in back child support and she has not raised the children he has worked for those children and provided for them....by the way the bio mom is a big fat liar...her daughter fell off the monkey bars at school not hit by dad it has come out...!!!!!this is defamation at it's finest I hope he sues the pants off of her!

[Gracie]

I thought Misty Croslin was just a kid who either didn't know/use proper English or was committing the ultimate Freudian slip ... but with watching the full interview she had with Art Harris the other day, I think it must be the former. I did believe as briana stated 3/11/09 that it bugged the fool out of me to see the two different occasions (engagement interview & AH interview) of her speaking of Haleigh in the past tense. I've also noticed her "creative" English throughout this whole ordeal but feel it is just her speaking style.

I have seen more tears and pain in her eyes and on her face than anything Sheffield has offered. The on-cue tears that lawyered-up Sheffield offered the other day, in my opinion, were a month overdue. It is unconscionable that a birth parent would purposefully interfere with the search and attention on their missing child. OMG!!

Worse thought for me: three cadaver dogs "hit" on the trash bin 1/4 mi or so from the home. They searched every item in the container. It pains me to think that someone would use that as a "storage point" - for even a half hour or so - until they could get the means to transport to a disposal ground. I think it would be too coincidental for dogs to hit on 'another' human decomposition event from that area at that time. I hope LE can provide an explanation.

Shame, shame, shame...

Gracie

[Julie]

remember Jr saying about the couch bouncing? I just found this and it could have something to do with Jr was still awake when Misty had passed out.

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. -- She is the 17-year-old who hasn't had a lot to say about Haleigh Cummings disappearance until today.

"Thank you to everyone who's tried to help us," said Misty Croslin. Croslin is the girlfriend of Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings. She is also the last person to see Haleigh.

Croslin talked about how tired she was the night Haleigh disappeared. "I was over-exhausted. I was real tired. I had a long weekend," she said.

Croslin and Ronald Cummings reported Haleigh missing around 3:30 a.m. last Tuesday. The little girl's brother was also there.

"I remember him being up...I was half asleep...That was right after I laid down...Got up and walked out of my room...And the next thing I know I was out. I don't remember nothing after that," Croslin said.

Some are questioning whether or not Croslin was home the evening Haleigh disappeared. In response to those who question her, Croslin said, "They're lying...Wish they could come to me and tell me I wasn't home that night."

http://www.fox30online.com/content/topstories/story/Misty-Croslin-Speaks-Out/S6tHGGMFp0OZfPGkzJ4_pg.cspx

[lisa]

I agree with the post about the bio mom. I call her that because that is how I see her. I have seen more tears and grief in the dad and this "mom" saying they are fake. She is the one who dabs her eyes with no tears. She never saw abuse, she saw abuse, she is sure quick to point a finger here. She did not show up till 9 am when she new the police were there and everything. This is a woman that at the start seems proud to say she basically new nothing about her daughters life. It was like do not look at me I do not even know about my daughter. Then she gets a publicist and turns it around. I think she really did not like the dad having support and someone setting up a fund to help him out. She is interested in making money off her missing child and making herself look good. She is not any kind of mother at all. Not paying child support or ever working, being on welfare, having a fiance also her stepbrother with an order for violence on children to keep him away from his own kids for two years. Calling her kids except her baby brats. Photos of her doing drugs like she is proud. She has a record also and so does her mother. This family is slime. SLIME.

[brandy]

HONESTLY, I THINK THEY NEED TO LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER AT THE BIO MOM. I THINK MAYBE SHE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. SHE SURE WASN'T IN ANY HURRY TO GET THERE WHEN THEY CALLED AND TOLD HER HALIEGH WAS MISSING. SHE ALSO REFERS TO HER CHILDREN WITH RON AS 'BRATS'. IT SEEMS LIKE SHE IS USING THIS TRAGETY TO HER ADVANTAGE TRYING TO PUT RON AND MISTY IN A BAD LIGHT AND TRYING TO GET CUSTODY OF RON, JR. IF SHE SUSPECTED ABUSE WITH THE KIDS BEFORE HALEIGH CAME UP MISSING WHY IS SHE JUST NOW TRYING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. SOMETHING JUST DOESN'T SIT RIGHT WITH ME WHEN IT COMES TO HER. AS FAR AS THE MARRIAGE THING GOES, I DO THINK IT WOULD BE THE LAST THING ON MY MIND IF MY CHILD WERE MISSING, BUT THEN AGAIN, I'M NOT WEARING THEIR SHOES AND MAYBE THEY NEED SOME SENSE OF NORMALCY IN ORDER JUST TO GET THROUGHT THE DAY. I DUNNO, JUST A SUGESTION. BUT I HONESTLY DON'T THINK RON OR MISTY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HALEIGHS DISAPEARANCE. YOU CAN TELL THEY LOVE THEM KIDS AND WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING TO HURT THEM. AT LEAST THATS WHAT I FEEL ABOUT IT.

[Pam]

I can't help but agree with the suspicion that the story is not complete. My thoughts keep going back to the girlfriend. I think that further investigation on her part will lead to a final chapter. There is definitely a page missing on her part in this story. I hpe that it is found soon.

[Cherub]

Go see the care taker of Trailer park. Look for 7 barrels
4 in front off other 3 in behind please check thes out..

[Someone]

Good evening every one. The evidence is now leading toward that misty croasland cousin Joe allegedly took haleigh to tenesee. I believe this story

[Carol]

Has she been found? I haven't heard anything on TV or read anything in the newspaper about this case in a very long time.

[briana]

it's now focused on misty once again...she was out with greg the weekend haleigh went missing! young and uneducated doesn't always equal criminal but in this case I think it could...I have stuck up for ron the father throughout this case but I have just one question for him!!!!why did you marry misty?when you know she is allegedly sleeping around and when she still cannot seem to get her story straight about the night your beautiful babygirl went missing...??????

[briana]

PAM:do you think you know who hurt HALEIGH?any thoughts?

[Liz Feliciano Olivier]

DID ANYONE SEE THE EARLIER POST?!

Posted by: Pam | April 06, 2009 at 12:28 AM

Go see the care taker of Trailer park. Look for 7 barrels
4 in front off other 3 in behind please check thes out..

IS THERE ANYONE THAT MONITORS THIS SITE?

[Gracie]

Where is more information???

Today I saw the newspaper statement by Ron's attorneys about his job and why he has an attorney, and assumed the reason the story stopped being reported is because they do feel they are looking for a body, and that everyone involved is "lawyered up". Why can't this one (case) be like the explosion of information coming from LE to the public a la Casey Anthony, and why aren't reporters doing the FOIA or whatever FL statute that allows them to have information made public?

Is it because the public has lost interest in the "trailer trash bashing" over the salacious life of Casey Anthony? No matter the family issues in the Cummings case, Haleigh deserves to be found and Haleigh deserves justice!

... another note on this case: the school bus workers had taken up a cash collection for Haleigh (reward money or for the family), and a part-time janitor "allegedly" took the money... at least he admitted he "found it"... Is there no respect for this little girl and those that want to help her??

David .... we NEED the FEED!!

[Betsy]

Has Heiligh been found? I can't find any information
about her!

[Kel]

Is there anything new going on with this case?Its been a long time since i've heard anything.

[lisa]

The Cousin, that is all I have to say. That is obviously who LE is on as well. If you look at the search.

[Joana]

Can we get an update??

[Betsy]

Is there a site we can go to in order to get an update on Haleigh?

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Edited by David Lohr to add:

http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal_report/2009/04/haleigh-cummings.html

[lisa]

in the mist of a custody battle and a clear motive, the inconsistencies with Crystal Sheffield’s stories are becoming more apparent.

That could be why Ronald Cummings said that: “This is some of the garbage that Crystal, the mother, has made up.”

[Crystal]

I, like everyone else have been following both cases, (anthony & cummings) and I'm shocked, even that Nancy Grace does'nt have anything about her, or atleast that I have seen. It's like, it's a lost cause or something, how sad too know the media reports on the right now, but often forget about those who have contected or like myself, have cried over these children.

I think the whole family is uneducated, and maybe that's just how people live in their small town, however I have been on the fence between the bio mom and the GF. My gut feeling says this young 17 yr old, was stepping out on Ron, and having other men over, or leaving the home with the children unattended while they slept, and being that she's 17 (much closer to a chikd then an adult) I guess thats what they do, even if it was just hanging out, how my daughter refers to me. I don't like the fact that they got married either, why so soon after? I could understand a year after but come on, a month??? Sounds like to me Ron was trying to CYA, from the Flordia Police, and I do think it's wrong to the person who posted about our grandparents did why can't this generation??....well, I'll tell you.. the same reason I can't allow my children to walk to the park with out me because lets face it, we have so many more crazy loons in this world then we did 20 years ago, 40 years ago, etc. I think you get it.
Everyday, not like we did'nt have abductions, but the crime rate has been climbing at unbelievable rates, it's scary to know my children (and I have 7) can't do the things I did as a kids or teenager, because it's more heard of then not abductino, murder, rape, shooting. I pray for Haliegh, I pray for the family, that justice does prevail and God gives someone the strengh to come forward with some solid information that helps seek justice in this case. God Bless this family and all the others that don't make it on the 9 o'clock slot of the news.

[Crystal]

I, like everyone else have been following both cases, (anthony & cummings) and I'm shocked, even that Nancy Grace does'nt have anything about her, or atleast that I have seen. It's like, it's a lost cause or something, how sad too know the media reports on the right now, but often forget about those who have contected or like myself, have cried over these children.

I think the whole family is uneducated, and maybe that's just how people live in their small town, however I have been on the fence between the bio mom and the GF. My gut feeling says this young 17 yr old, was stepping out on Ron, and having other men over, or leaving the home with the children unattended while they slept, and being that she's 17 (much closer to a chikd then an adult) I guess thats what they do, even if it was just hanging out, how my daughter refers to me. I don't like the fact that they got married either, why so soon after? I could understand a year after but come on, a month??? Sounds like to me Ron was trying to CYA, from the Flordia Police, and I do think it's wrong to the person who posted about our grandparents did why can't this generation??....well, I'll tell you.. the same reason I can't allow my children to walk to the park with out me because lets face it, we have so many more crazy loons in this world then we did 20 years ago, 40 years ago, etc. I think you get it.
Everyday, not like we did'nt have abductions, but the crime rate has been climbing at unbelievable rates, it's scary to know my children (and I have 7) can't do the things I did as a kids or teenager, because it's more heard of then not abductino, murder, rape, shooting. I pray for Haliegh, I pray for the family, that justice does prevail and God gives someone the strengh to come forward with some solid information that helps seek justice in this case. God Bless this family and all the others that don't make it on the 9 o'clock slot of the news.