1 year later: Cops aim to find Haleigh
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1 year later: Cops aim to find Haleigh
by FystyAngel Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:00 am
1 year later: Cops aim to find Haleigh
http://www.palatkadailynews.com/articles/2010/02/06/news/news01.txt
On the wall above a desk, a framed photograph features a young girl smiling as she looks at the camera.
It's a constant reminder for the people who work in the office.
This is where investigators, one from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and another from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, work full-time reviewing clues into the disappearance of Haleigh Cummings, the blonde-haired kindergartener from Satsuma who vanished one year ago.
"It's like our child," Capt. Dominic Piscitello, head of the Major Crimes Unit, said. "We feel the emotional ties to this case as well as the investigative ties."
Informally, the workspace is known as the Haleigh Room.
The small rectangular office in the sheriff's detective division complex reflects the task at hand.
A shelf holds 18 large notebooks with CDs, photos and narratives. These catalog the 5,700 leads the investigation has examined - tips, sightings and even psychic.
Inside one book, a photo shows a man and woman with a young girl.
"Somebody thought that was Haleigh," Piscitello said.
An investiator tracked down the people in the photo and confirmed it was not the missing child from Putnam County.
On the opposite wall is an intricate timeline depicting actions and relationships of those at the center of the probe. In between are computers, files and transcripts.
Haleigh was repofted missing early the morning of Feb. 10, 2009, triggering a massive search and a nationwide criminal investigation. However, no trace of the youngster has been found and the case has turned into a soap-opera like saga with a wedding, a divorce, fights and drug arrests.
Through all the distractions, sheriff's office investigators have continued to locate and pull together more pieces of the puzzle.
Piscitello estimates more than 10,000 man hours have gone into the effort.
Pressure from the case has taken a toll on those working the case, including orders from doctors to rest. But that has not lessened their commitment to seeing it through.
"It will break," he said with conviction. We'll solve it eventually."
http://www.palatkadailynews.com/articles/2010/02/06/news/news01.txt
On the wall above a desk, a framed photograph features a young girl smiling as she looks at the camera.
It's a constant reminder for the people who work in the office.
This is where investigators, one from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office and another from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, work full-time reviewing clues into the disappearance of Haleigh Cummings, the blonde-haired kindergartener from Satsuma who vanished one year ago.
"It's like our child," Capt. Dominic Piscitello, head of the Major Crimes Unit, said. "We feel the emotional ties to this case as well as the investigative ties."
Informally, the workspace is known as the Haleigh Room.
The small rectangular office in the sheriff's detective division complex reflects the task at hand.
A shelf holds 18 large notebooks with CDs, photos and narratives. These catalog the 5,700 leads the investigation has examined - tips, sightings and even psychic.
Inside one book, a photo shows a man and woman with a young girl.
"Somebody thought that was Haleigh," Piscitello said.
An investiator tracked down the people in the photo and confirmed it was not the missing child from Putnam County.
On the opposite wall is an intricate timeline depicting actions and relationships of those at the center of the probe. In between are computers, files and transcripts.
Haleigh was repofted missing early the morning of Feb. 10, 2009, triggering a massive search and a nationwide criminal investigation. However, no trace of the youngster has been found and the case has turned into a soap-opera like saga with a wedding, a divorce, fights and drug arrests.
Through all the distractions, sheriff's office investigators have continued to locate and pull together more pieces of the puzzle.
Piscitello estimates more than 10,000 man hours have gone into the effort.
Pressure from the case has taken a toll on those working the case, including orders from doctors to rest. But that has not lessened their commitment to seeing it through.
"It will break," he said with conviction. We'll solve it eventually."
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