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Suspicious behavior of Haleigh Cummings father

Haleigh and her father Ronald Cummings.
Haleigh and her father Ronald Cummings.
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Haleigh Cummings missing for 1 year.

The mysterious disappearance of Haleigh Cummings has captivated the nation with its twists and turns over the last year. 5-year-old Haleigh, a beautiful blond haired vivacious little girl, vanished from her mobile home in Satsuma Florida last year. Police say that there is no evidence of forced entry into the home, they have ruled out a stranger abduction, and they say that Haleigh's babysitter holds they key to this mystery.

Croslin, the teenage girlfriend of Haleigh's father Ronald, (who is 8 years older than Croslin), says she tucked Haleigh into bed and awoke in the early morning hours of February 10th to find the child missing.

Croslin who was 17-years-old at the time of the disappearance has became the subject of intense nation wide suspicion, especially on HLN's prime time crime show "Nancy Grace." Grace, the former prosecutor who hosts the show has cast doubt on Croslin's story, agreeing with police that her story doesn't add up.

On her latest show Grace covered the drug bust that landed Croslin, and Haleigh's father behind bars after an undercover police officer captured them on video trafficking oxycontin and hydrocodone. Grace also reported on new jailhouse videos released of Croslin, speaking with her family from behind bars. On the show Grace lambasted Croslin for being "self-absorbed to the max", for being concerned only about herself, and for whining.

It was obvious from the genesis of the case that Croslin's story did not add up, after giving multiple versions of what happened that night to the media and police. For instance, Croslin said she did not notice Haleigh was missing until she got up to use the bathroom, then she changed her story and said she was getting a drink of water when she noticed the child was not in her bed. Croslin also waited 25 mins before calling the police, waiting until Haleigh's father arrived home from working the night shift at a bridge building company.

It is also hard to imagine an intruder coming into the home without waking up Croslin, or Haleigh's little brother. In one of Croslin's versions she said Haleigh was in the same bed, then she retracted that and said she was still in the same room, but on another bed 3 feet away from her. Either scenario you would think an intruder coming into the room, and taking a child would be risky with three people in the room. Wouldn't a 5-year-old girl cry? Even if it was someone she knew, wouldn't she speak? How did Croslin sleep through the abduction?

Was Croslin even home that night? In a recent press release the Putnam County Sheriff's Office asked the public for any information they had on Croslin's whereabouts the night Haleigh vanished and the early morning hours before Ronald arrived home from work.

Regardless if Croslin was home, or at a party doing drugs as some have speculated, common sense would dictate that she is involved in Haleigh's disappearance. Croslin has failed a polygraph that Texas Equusearch, a volunteer search group had administered to her. The results showed she was 95% deceptive. Reports also indicate she failed a law enforcement polygraph, those reports contradict earlier statements both Ronald Cummings and Croslin made when they stated they both passed "with flying colors." In addition to failing polygraph's a hypnosis revealed she was hiding something and a layered voice analysis administered by top-notch private investigator T.J. Ward revealed she was deceptive.

Now lets take a closer look and examine Ronald Cummings, who married Croslin after it was obvious she was somehow involved in his 5-year-old daughters disappearance. Cummings married Croslin less than a month after his child vanished from the mobile home, while under the care of his teenage girlfriend. A teenage girlfriend who had just gotten home after a weekend of alcohol, drugs and sex.

The 911 Call:

Says he will kill whoever abducted his daughter. 

- But if he wanted to find his daughter so bad, why did he hang up the phone on the 911 operator, but yet threaten to call 911 after Geraldo Rivera asks him tough questions?

- He even tells Croslin to "hang up the f****** phone, we got better people to talk to." Why not cooperate with the operator who is trying to get crucial information and assist you in finding your missing child?

Ronald's Strange Relationship with Misty:

During an interview with Greta Van Susteren on the Fox News Channel, when Greta was questioning both Cummings and Croslin, Cummings covered his microphone and whispered something to Croslin such as "look at the camera."

- Why is he worried about that? In an NBC Today Show interview he looks away from the camera when asked to give a plea to whoever may have Haleigh.

- During the same interview with Fox News, he says that both he and Croslin passed their polygraphs. It was later revealed that she failed that polygraph. Why would he state she passed if he did not know? Should we also doubt the fact that Ronald passed his polygraph as well?

-Cummings also reveals that the beds that Croslin and the two children sleep in, were made up and it appeared as if nobody went to bed. Yet he continued to defend Misty, despite the fact that she obviously lied about putting Haleigh to bed.

In an NBC Today interview, Ronald is asked about what he thinks happened the night Haleigh vanished. 

- He acts odd,  his shoulders go up and he nonchalantly says that he doesn't know, and he puts an emphasis on the fact that he was at work. It seemed as if he was annoyed and tired of answering that question. He was not acting as if he was concerned about his missing daughter.

- In the same interview he was asked about a statement that his son made, that a man with squeaky shoes abducted Haleigh. He immediately does his infamous shrug, says its "garbage" and then resorts back to the "I was at work" answer and backtracks saying he doesn't know for sure if it is true. Again not concerned about whether it could be true.

- Also in the interview he again brings up the polygraph saying they both passed, defending Misty for walking out of a meeting with the police, where the police accused her of lying. Why the defense of Misty?


The Marriage:

Why marry a teenager, who you've only known for 4 months while your daughter has been missing only a little over a month?

He complained to NBC's "Today" host Meredith Vieira that the attention was on his wedding, and he wanted it back on Haleigh.

- Yet he is the one who choose to get married in the midst of the investigation.

- He even allowed NBC News to film his wedding and film him celebrating while his daughter was missing.

- When asked about the timing he said it was "nobodys business" but yet he let NBC film it and gave Exclusive rights to the Today Show. Was he paid for his "exclusive"?

Ongoing association after divorce:

Cummings and Croslin were both involved in a road rage incident with a man by the name of Charles Jones in late December, 2 months after their divorce. Croslin had been staying with Jones after she divorced Ronald.

Croslin had told Jones that a black male approached Cummings at a gas station and that the black male said he would get Haleigh back for Ronald.

- Jones says what tipped off the road rage incident is the fact that Misty could have told him too much information and Cummings was trying to intimidate him.

- Jones alleges that Cummings pulled a gun on him and tried to run him off the road.

Both Cummings and Croslin were busted selling drugs to an undercover cop in late January.

- Instead of searching for his daughter, or raising money for a search, or trying to spread information about her to help find her, he is dealing drugs with his ex wife who police say holds the key to the case.

 

Ronald's inconsistencies:

Misty says in an interview on NBC's Today, that the night Haleigh went missing that she called Ronald on his cell phone right before he pulled in the driveway to tell him about Haleigh vanishing.

- But Ronald tells police that he was "shocked" that she was still up when he got home, because they are usually in bed. As if he was wondering why she was up.

- Why would he be "shocked" if Misty had called him before he got home? He would have already known why she was up if she had called.

- Ronald even confirmed Misty's story in that same interview on the Today Show.

Ronald wants us to believe that he wants to find his child, and that he will kill whoever abducted her.

- But in an interview with HLN's Nancy Grace, when he was asked about why Misty choose to not go to the bathroom closest to where she was sleeping, but go to one in the hallway. (Because of her story that she got up to use the bathroom the night Haleigh vanished) He said he did not know, and he had not asked Misty about it.

- Why not? If he wanted to find his daughter so bad?

The only time he shows emotion is when the media first arrives on the scene and on the 911 call. But then all the emotion about his missing daughter disappears and he suddenly has a nonchalant attitude.

- The only time he gets emotional is not about the fact that his daughter is missing, but when he learns that his ex girlfriend and the mother of Haleigh could be mounting a custody battle with him. He seems more concerned about himself, and protecting his reputation instead of finding Haleigh.

In an interview on HLN's Nancy Grace he lambasted the mother of Haleigh, saying during their custody fight for Haleigh that she "lawyered up."

- But yet he hires a CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY Terry Shoemaker to represent him, after both he and Misty stated that lawyers were "for guilty people."

Also in an interview with HLN's Nancy Grace when asked about the theory of whether Misty had not been at the mobile home the night Haleigh vanished was true, he says that it has been disproved.

- But on the 1-year-anniversary of Haleigh's disappearance the police ask the public for any information about Misty's whereabouts that night and in the early morning hours.

- If it has been disproved why would police ask the public for information about where she had been? Why would Ronald lie about that? Why defend Misty?

In an interview with Nancy Grace, after he divorced Croslin in October, she introduced Ronald as someone not afraid to answer questions.

- But Ronald said his reasoning for divorcing Croslin was because he and Croslin couldn't go anywhere without "being questioned." Which is it? is he afraid of answering questions or not?

- Grace also said in her introduction to Cummings that he was not afraid of the limelight, but yet he also says he divorced Croslin because people were "staring at them."

Grace tried her best to get Cummings to admit during the interview that the reason he divorced Cummings was because he suspected her of his daughters disappearance.

- But Cummings refused to take the bait. Could it be that if he admits her guilt, he is afraid Misty could spill the beans about his possible involvement?

 

Ronald Cummings Compared to Casey Anthony:

After her daughter Caylee went missing, Casey Anthony got a tattoo. Casey is charged with her daughters murder and is facing the death penalty.

- Ronald Cummings got a tattoo after Haleigh went missing as well.

Ronald proposed to Misty Croslin and made out with her in public while his daughter was missing.

- Photos of Casey Anthony emerged of her making out with another woman while while her daughter was missing.

Casey Anthony was seen partying while her daughter was missing.

- Ronald Cummings took Misty to the race tracks, the fair, and out to eat while his daughter was missing.

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Slideshow: Suspicious Behavior of Ronald Cummings

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Nashville Crime Examiner

Levi Page is the host of the Levi Page Show on BlogTalkRadio.com, an internet radio show focusing on crime stories in the headlines and has...

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  • Crystal Sheffield 1 year ago
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    Retarded

  • Lulu 1 year ago
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    100% ontop of it Levi. Ronald is at the root of Haleighs disappearance. I am convinced of it, and Misty knows (also Tommy and Timmy I believe)
    Interesting "HALEIGH" tat.. symbolic of his permanant burden he carries on his back.. his being responsible for the reason Haleigh was taken.

  • Linda Brown 1 year ago
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    I have followed this case from day one and Misty's stories have never added up and yet, the police have just rested on their laurels, I feel they could have at least arrested her for child neglect like they did Casey, but at least now, due to her stupidity and greed she is behind bars. And the Misty we all see on those jailhouse and undercover tapes is the REAL ONE! Not the one trying to dig deep to muster out a few tears when the camera pans to her, nope, we see a self-absorbed don't give one crap about Haleigh except to blame HER for the reason she is locked up! She is too dumb to realize just how much trouble she is in, and every time she runs her mouth, potential jurists are listening to her dig her own grave. Even if she never cops to what she did with the child, she will be in prison for a long time and I am more than OK with that. When ya look up in a Webster the meaning of white trash, these losers are the answer. Haleigh never stood a chance, poor baby, now she is an angel.

  • Stone 1 year ago
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    Nice job, Levi! Funny how Misty talked so much about washing blankets that night, yet Ronald admitted they had no detergent in the house. That he found dirty clothes in the dryer. Those scumbags need to tell the truth about Haleigh.

  • Whatever 1 year ago
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    Whatever I believe Crystal said it all

  • Queenie1973 1 year ago
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    Good job, Levi! It shows that you put a lot of work & thought into this. It all makes perfect sense that their actions make no sense. I believe Pat Brown we she said Ronald was a sociopath. Casey is one too. I just think Misty is a pathological liar. All JMO.

  • cheryl 1 year ago
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    another shared trait between Anthony & Cummings is that they both got caught committing crimes AFTER their daughters disappeared-Casey stealing & forging checks, & Ronald selling drugs. just a couple of low life criminals.

  • cheryl 1 year ago
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    & another shared trait between Anthony & Cummings is they both hung out @ scummy places, 'looking for the truth'. Casey @ bars, & Ronald @ dope houses.

  • janie 1 year ago
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    Thanks Levi..all of Rons behavior has been suspicious.He has been sheltered from the media by his mommy since feb 9. It has been so frustrating to watch all the players in this case.
    Thanks for the work you do for Haleigh

  • Brittney 1 year ago
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    I've personally always believed that Ronald Cummings had something to do with this. It's always been a gut feeling. It's amazing what people will do to "prove" that they love someone, or they care about a certain person or thing. However, when the "limelight" is off of them, they do things that they think people won't notice. Take Ron for instance. He thinks that getting a tattoo of his child will prove to the world that he loves her. However, if he loved her, he would have taken that money to help find her, or put it towards the reward. Lok at it for what it is. Misty isn't innocent, but she's covering for someone. I think that someone is Ronald. Even if he didn't do it himself, he could know who did it. Why haven't we heard anything about his poly?

  • bystander 1 year ago
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    I don't know any parties on a personal level. I believe Ron does not know what happened to his daughter. Getting Married to Misty was to keep her close by Just knowing he probably felt she "might" know something. If a person puts every moment into thinking of the loss or a death of a child, ( death like I have), it truly can destroy your inner being. Although Ron can appear to "look" like nothing is wrong, deep down he is hurting. I also believe Ron is in on the drug bust as well but no way authorities will reveal that information due to wanting to find haleigh in the worst way. Ron may have his own addictions and bad past behavioral abuse on woman, but I don't believe for one minute Ron knows or had anything to do with his child going missing. If that were the case, he wouldn't have told Misty to call 911 at all. Far as the tattoo Ron got, I got one as well shortly after my son was murdered. How can you compair the two? casey vs Ron? Ron's tattoo is Haleigh. Casey shows deception!

  • bystander 1 year ago
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    One more thing- Picking apart every emotion or action when your child is MISSING.. who would act in their right mind to begin with?? Ronalds tears of his child abducted were real.. you can't fake that. Ron also has another child he has to be strong for. Question after Question and accusation after the next, I too at times would get fed up. I believe ron is innocent with his daughter without a doubt. Guilty of other things like drug use or abuse in the past, probably but no way should the finger be pointed at the person who's worst fears are coming to light. Until you walk a mile in their shoes, be careful what you think is true.

  • Kentucky 1 year ago
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    I think Ron Cummings is a negligent parent who should never have had custody of those 2 children.
    They would never have been in the care of Misty if Ron and his mother had not forced the children on her that night.
    They would have been much better off in foster care instead of with any part of the family.
    This is another case where the courts have failed a child.

  • Jennifer Townson 1 year ago
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    All I know Is that Crystal by far is the better parent we all have problems in our live she was doing what she thought was a visit with Ron and turned out to be a nightmare for her.. Because she was a kind mother to let the children see there father. It all turned out to be a battle for cousty for her and because of his family being in the system with cps that was ther reason for her not getting the children.. but I know for a fact that Jr is now in the best hands and that is with his mom and not in Foster care ... I love you Crystal and keep the faith we are all behind you

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