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No Kid - No Kidnapping
by Timothy Charles Holmseth
July 18, 2010

On February 10, 2009, an emergency 911 call was made reporting HaLeigh Cummings, 5, as missing from her father’s home at 202 Green Lane, Satsuma, Florida.

When assessing first-day evidence, simple time-lines, and simple facts from the police report, a much different focus of suspicion emerges and it is far from what has been the focus of law enforcement thus far.

From the beginning of the HaLeigh Cummings case investigators have focused nearly all their efforts on developing a time-line for Misty Croslin. Law enforcement and the media refer to Misty Croslin as the ‘last person to see HaLeigh.’

That assumption may be the colossal mistake that has prevented the Haleigh Cummings investigation from reaching a logical conclusion.

Deputies arrived at 3:40 a.m.

Police Report: “D/S (deputy sheriff) Bridges and I arrived on scene at the same time; 3:40 a.m. Upon our arrival, I observed a white male standing in the driveway who was visibly upset. I made contact with the individual who identified himself as Ronald Cummings. Ronald told me that his daughter, Haleigh Cummings, 5, was missing.”

911 called immediately

Police Report: “Misty said that as soon as she told Ronald HaLeigh was missing, Ronald told Misty to call 911, which she did.”

Ronald Cummings, according to himself, did not learn that his daughter HaLeigh was missing until he got home. As soon as Ronald was told by Misty Croslin that Haleigh was missing he told her to call 911. From that moment on, he and Misty Croslin were on the phone with law enforcement until a deputy arrived.

The time of the 911 call was 3:27 a.m.

Ronald Cummings is present and part of that call and can be heard in the background yelling – he also speaks directly to the dispatcher – his whereabouts and activities are known because of that call.

Write Into Action has documented Teresa Neves saying she followed the second deputy into the drive. Neves has stated thismultiple times.

Police Report: “At this time, Teresa Neves arrived on scene. Teresa is Ronald's mother. Teresa told me that she had been called by Ronald shortly after he learned HaLeigh was missing.”

When did that call take place? Ronald Cummings can be heard throughout the 911 call and intermittently speaks with the operator. More importantly, he can be heard far into the call saying, “Where is my fucking phone…we’ve got better people to talk to then some motherfuckers who ain’t coming.”

He couldn’t even find his phone.

How did Neves arrive at the scene faster than a sheriff’s deputy who had been dispatched by radio?

Write Into Action has documented that Neves was in Pomona Park, Florida, which is about 10.5 miles from Ronald Cummings’ trailer in Satsuma. Neves said she was asleep when she received the call. She had to wake up, get out of bed, get dressed, find a portrait photo of HaLeigh and drive to Satsuma (and arrive before a deputy).

Police Report: “Teresa provided a 2008-2009 school photograph of Haleigh.”

Neves explains her immediate arrival on the scene by saying she drove 90 mph.

The speed at which Neves arrived strongly indicates she was actually already in the area lingering about.

The next question is why and what was she doing?

This requires us too look very hard at Teresa Neves.

The star witness

If the HaLeigh Cummings case was ever brought to trial the star witness would certainly be Teresa Neves.

Why?

Because Neves is the person who law enforcement is relying upon when they assume HaLeigh Cummings was in the care and custody of Misty Croslin the night the child disappeared.

In an interview with the Gainesville Sun, PCSO Lt. Johnny Greenwood told the reporter why the PCSO believes HaLeigh Cummings was with Misty Croslin on the night in question. “Around seven o’clock we have a grandmother saying she saw HaLeigh,” Greenwood said, adding that the grandmother was in fact, Neves.

Law enforcement investigating the HaLeigh Cummings disappearance must indeed have a great deal of faith in the word of Neves. By their own accounts of Misty Croslin, the seventeen year-old was not able to provide them any realistic detailed account of what she did in the home that night.

Law enforcement themselves agree that Misty Croslin cannot recount her evening in the trailer home in a believable way – they do not believe she was there.

Misty Croslin claimed to have done laundry in the home on the night in question, but law enforcement knows she is lying (although someone tried to make it look as if laundry was done). She claimed she slept in the same room with both HaLeigh and her four year-old brother, but, could not get her story straight about the details of who slept where – continuously changing the story. She told investigators that the two children watched a DVD that night, but detectives found the remote control far above HaLeigh’s reach with the wire wrapped around it in a fashion consistent of an adult as if it had not been used at all.

Furthermore, the bed was made – nobody had slept in it.

In reality, Misty Croslin was just winging the details when questioned.

All the evidence that is in front of the investigators is telling them that Misty Croslin was not at Ronald Cummings’ home the night in question. Indeed, that is understandable, because there is no evidence to suggest she was. PCSO Major Gary Bowling told Write Into Action that law enforcement does not know the whereabouts of Misty Croslin on the night in question.

The idea that Misty Croslin was home for a little while watching HaLeigh Cummings and Ronald Cummings Jr., just long enough for her to be culpable in some nefarious actions that resulted in harm to the child, hinges exclusively on the word of ‘little-Janie-on-the-spot’ – Teresa Neves – the star witness.

Because it is commonly accepted that Misty Croslin is lying about everything regarding the night in question, and there is no evidence that she was ever really at 202 Green Lane until the time of the 3:27 a.m. 911 call, at least one investigative path should be leading in the direction of Misty Croslin not really babysitting any children that night (but claiming for some reason that she did).

A mysterious call to police

The PCSO received a call on the night in question that resulted in a deputy being dispatched to search for someone at 202 Green Lane. PCSO Lt. Johnny Greenwood told the Gainesville Sun that they received the call at 2:13 a.m. The problem with that is the 911 call made to report HaLeigh Cummings missing was not until 3:27 a.m.

The 911 transcripts provide the sequence of activities executed by the officer that was dispatched as result of the 2:13 a.m. missing person call. The officer apparently went to 202 Green Lane, found nothing (empty house), then traveled to 112 Tyler – the home of Misty Croslin’s brother, Tommy Croslin. While speaking to someone at Tommy Croslin’s residence, another call came in to law enforcement (Misty Croslin’s 911 call) and the officer advised dispatch she was heading “back to Green.”

It would appear that this deputy was looking for Misty Croslin at the request of a caller who made some kind of a report.

So who placed that 2:13 a.m. call to law enforcement?

To this day, Lt. Greenwood and the PCSO will not talk about who placed that telephone call or release information about that report.

There is a reason the mysterious 2:13 a.m. call is so important.

Misty will you babysit? I’ll pay you

It is widely reported that Neves had approached Misty Croslin the day the child disappeared and asked her to babysit that night – even offering to pay her. Apparently Neves had the child(ren) and wished very much to shed them onto this particular seventeen year-old girl.

It is also a widely reported fact confirmed by law enforcement that Ronald Cummings made a high volume of cell-phone calls as he attempted to reach Misty Croslin on the night in question. He obsessively called her receiving no answer. She was not at 202 Green Lane but he certainly wanted her to be.

It is also an established fact that Ronald Cummings, after making umpteen calls to his children’s babysitter with no success, accepted over-time at work. After leaving work he then traveled out of his way to a convenience store to purchase leisure items including beer and peanuts.

Those three facts are showing us that Ronald Cummings and his mother, Teresa Neves (1) had a strong interest in convincing Misty Croslin to babysit on the night in question (2) wanted Misty Croslin to arrive at 202 Green Lane at some point on the night in question, and (3) needed her to arrive at 202 Green Lane before Ronald Cummings returned home from work.

The next question you will ask yourself may change how you view the HaLeigh Cummings mystery.

Where was HaLeigh Cummings the weekend before her disappearance?

Write Into Action has intensively investigated a matter of paramount importance that has not been reported or discussed by any other media.

What is the question of paramount importance?

Who had immediate physical custody of HaLeigh Cummings in the days leading up to her disappearance?

It is very important to ascertain this fact because Haleigh had to be present at 202 Green Lane, Satsuma, Florida, February 9-10, 2009, in order to be abducted from 202 Green Lane, Satsuma, Florida, February 9-10, 2009.

Write Into Action encountered something very interesting during the course of our investigation into the simple question of HaLeigh’s movements on the weekend before she was reported missing.

Both sides of HaLeigh’s family cannot give a straight answer to the question of HaLeigh’s whereabouts, all of them flip-flopping over and over and over – changing their stories. It seems neither side can seem to remember HaLeigh’s parenting-time schedule nor who had her the in the days before she disappeared

It seems that it would be easier for Marie Griffis, Teresa Neves, Crystal Sheffield, and Marty Sheffield to solve the mystery of the Sphinx than to remember who had little HaLeigh the days before she was reported missing.

The entire case relies on the physical whereabouts of Haleigh Cummings on February 9-10 and neither side of the little girl’s family can give a straight story about such a simple fact.

Write Into Action has been able to determine that a parenting-time child exchange of some kind apparently (according to a grandmother) took place on February 6, 2009, at the McDonald’s in Palatka, Florida. The exchange was apparently between Crystal Sheffield and Teresa Neves (her son Ronald Cummings had to work so he could not attend.

What cannot be determined is that HaLeigh was exchanged back over to the physical custody of her father at that time.

Only a few days after this meeting at McDonald’s, HaLeigh Cummings would be reported as kidnapped from her bed in her father’s home – it would be Ronald Cummings who would immediately insist it was a kidnapping.

Was HaLeigh Cummings really at 202 Green Lane on the night in question?

A simple investigative exercise

Write Into Action does not make a practice of engaging in theories, rather, Write Into Action sometimes engages theories as an investigative tool. Therefore, a simple mental exercise is requested by the reader as each reaches their own conclusions.

Keeping all of the afore-mentioned facts and circumstances in mind - imagine the following:

If we can just get her to walk in the door

A seventeen year-old girl is asked by her twenty-six year old boyfriend’s mother if she will babysit his two children later on in the evening.

The teenager is to be at the father’s residence to babysit his two children at a certain time – she is told she will be babysitting a little boy and girl.

However, she doesn’t show up on time for whatever reason (she fell asleep elsewhere perhaps) or was just screwing off as teenage kids do.

During this time a call is made to law enforcement regarding the teenage babysitter’s whereabouts – someone is real worried she is not going to show up for her late night babysitting job.

Law enforcement dispatches a deputy who begins to look for the teenager.

In the meantime, after receiving a telephone call or simply waking up, the teenager makes her way to the address where she is supposed to babysit the two children who were dropped off for her to watch by their grandma.

When the seventeen year-old girl arrives, she finds the back door open – held open by a cinder block – the kitchen light is on.

She enters. She finds only the little boy; he is sleeping. She begins to panic. Where in the world is the little girl!! She becomes frantic and starts looking for the child. She feels horrible! She feels responsible.

A couple minutes later her boyfriend pulls up in his vehicle. She tells him that his daughter is missing and he instructs the teenager to call 911 (he doesn’t do it himself).

She calls 911 and describes the scene. She tells the operator she was there all night. She says they were all sleeping and when she woke up to go to the bathroom the little girl was gone.

The teenager believes she was supposed to be babysitting the kids but wasn’t- she feels guilty and doesn’t want to admit she left them alone.

During the 911 call the boyfriend says, “How could you let my kid stole bitch?”

A few minutes later, grandma shows up with a portrait of the little girl, all ready to release an Amber Alert to the world.

Now, whoever has the little girl is in deep trouble with the law.

And it’s all because of the father’s “dumb bitch girlfriend.”

And there hadn’t even been a little girl there to kidnap in the first place.

Afterward

Who telephoned the PCSO at 2:13 a.m. regarding Misty Croslin’s whereabouts?

Was it Teresa Neves? If it was, she wasn’t home sleeping as she says she was.

If the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office can tell the world they believe HaLeigh Cummings is dead they can certainly tell you who placed the 2:13 a.m. call.

tholmseth@wiktel.com


Why did Teresa Neves wear a law enforcement jacket after HaLeigh disappeared when she was not employed by law enforcement?


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