Art Harris’ interview with mystery man Greg, revealed two very plausible motives for somebody doing away with Haleigh Cummings. The interview revealed a dark side to Misty Croslin that the HLN coverage of the Haleigh tragedy has so far failed to convey. Was it possible that Misty was taking notes from Casey Anthony?
I followed Jane Velez-Mitchell’s coverage for two days, before Jane spelled out that the entire Art Harris interview with Gregory Page was available on his blog. Going over Jane Velez-Mitchell’s and Nancy Grace’s coverage of the mystery man Greg, I really cannot understand how so many talk show reporters could have failed to zero in what was really important.
Available both in video as well in text, the interview provided a lot of background information on the important characters in the Haleigh tragedy. But, if you were to jump to the very end of the text you will see that Christina Prevatt, 18, the person who allegedly threw a “a three-day party of sex, cocaine, pot, and pills” during the weekend immediately before Haleigh disappeared from under Misty’s watch; does a very good job of spelling out two possible motives for somebody wanting to do away with Haleigh.
Motives for Doing in Haleigh Cummings
Motive 1: Haleigh had a bad habit of blabbing about Misty’s Vistors
Imagine if you were a rival suitor trying to court Misty while Ronald was at work.
Christina Prevatt: “I just know when she’s with the kids, I can’t hang out with her because Haleigh would tell Ronald Nay Nay was there and he’d get mad.”
In other words, Haleigh was in the way of anybody trying to dally with Misty.
Motive 2-Misty Wanted Her Own Baby With Ronald Cummings
Now, imagine that Misty Croslin was someone obsessed with marrying Ronald Cummings and having her own baby with him. And, had been trying to force Ron into marrying her by claiming that she was pregnant.
Christina Prevatt: “Misty was apparently ambivalent about her breakup with Ronald, couldn’t shake his spell. ‘She told me she loved him because he gave her what she wanted, and she wanted a baby.’”
“Prevatt says Misty can be two-faced, ‘pretending she’s a friend, but now she won’t talk to me.”
“Haleigh was cute, just like any other little kid. Misty said she felt like their Mom, but she wanted her own baby from Ronald”
What if Misty had a dark side, which just like Casey Anthony, saw Haleigh as a threat which stood in the way of Ronald Cummings marrying and giving her a baby? What if Misty was nothing but a two-faced seventeen old that would stop at nothing to get exactly what she wanted?
21 comments
April 10, 2009 at 7:54 am
Kari
Interesting, but I would say the word is suggested, not established…
April 10, 2009 at 9:52 am
John H. Gohde
If Nancy Grace and Jane Velez-Mitchell can say breaking news when there is absolutely nothing new to report, then this blog can proclaim when it has established “motives” for someone taking off with Haleigh, thank you.
As the operator of this blog, I have established a scenario which I am going to stick with until the police finally manage to arrest somebody.
Basically, Misty Croslin is the mastermind behind this crime. She managed to dupe a suitor into conspiring with her to do away with Haleigh and dump her body someplace. Then a few weeks later Misty double-crossed her suitor by marrying Ronald Cummings which was her real game plan all along: Tricking Ron into marrying her, and having his baby.
Misty Croslin might actually be pregnant as we speak.
The most likely suitor who was duped into doing Misty’s dirty work appears to be Greg.
Naturally, none of the parties to the Haleigh tragedy can say anything about it because doing so would open them up to all kinds of criminal prosecution.
Of course, nobody in their right minds would have killed an innocent child, especially not the daughter of the man you are trying to marry. But, we are not dealing with very rational people here. The younger generation definitely believes in treating children as disposable items.
Of course, this is pure speculation on my part as to why Misty’s stories do not add up. And, why I think that she has absolutely no intentions of coming clean.
April 10, 2009 at 9:52 am
Sophie
Anything is possible, and in this case, I wouldn’t be surprised at this point. There’s lots of ‘copycat’ killers in this world, even teenagers can fall into this category.
I do think she knows more than she’s telling, and I do think she thinks she’s fooling everyone. Why, I don’t know. But something is not right with this girl.
Or the father, for that matter. But I don’t really think he’s guilty of anything more than being a jerk, who’d use a teenager for sex and free babysitting. Verbally abusive too, probably. But not a killer.
April 10, 2009 at 10:56 am
Sparkle
There’s something that smells “fishy” with this scenario. I don’t know of any teenager that gets up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I think Misty has more explaining to do.
April 10, 2009 at 12:53 pm
azanna9
I think you are on to something. I had a vague idea that Misty and drugs were at the center of this. When I read about the boyfriend, that also fit too. And remember, LE keep questioning Misty, so I think that they are putting things together. I need to go to the Harris site and read the whole story… I have read only pieces of it on other sites.
I always thought that Misty had to be involved because entry and exit of the kidnapper came through a door that had to have been opened by Misty since it was bolted shut in a way that Haleigh could not have opened it herself.
My next question, what would they have done with that precious child? Where is she? If LE could locate the child’s body, hopefully in a shorter time than Caylee was found, there will be some forensic evidence. Misty does not seem bright enough to have pulled off a perfect crime.
April 10, 2009 at 2:02 pm
punkinpie
From the time Haleigh was reported missing I had a sense that the girlfriend was involved. Her story just does not make sense. I think her pushing to marry the Father is her way of feeling like she is protected in some sick way or another.
The little girl wouldn’t have just gotten up and left on her own.
April 10, 2009 at 7:19 pm
pak31
Misty is not telling the truth about something. We all can sense that. A person who knows what happened and tells the truth will tell the same story the same way every single time. The fact that she has not, speaks volumes. She’s either hiding something wrong that she did or hiding something about Haleigh.
To Sparkle, there are hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the U.S. To say that teens don’t go to the bathroom in the middle of the night is silly. I believe it’s a lie but it could be possible.
April 10, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Kari
My own feelings for Nancy Grace are just lukewarm… She does dig up some good connections, but I wouldn’t say she was a model of journalistic integrity.
What I get from your response is that you have established these motives as part of your personal working hypothesis, not that they have in any way been established as factual? Or did I miss something?
Thanks, any road, for the input.
April 11, 2009 at 9:28 am
John H. Gohde
Yes.
Compared to the Art Harris blog both Jane Velez-Mitchell and Nancy Grace have provided next to no information about the Haleigh tradegy. So clearly both Jane Velez-Mitchell and Nancy Grace are using their viewers, with Nancy Grace by far being the worst offender with her nonstop coverage of the Caylee Anthony tragedy. None of those shows are putting any effort into their investigations. They report only what is handed to them on a silver platter.
I tuned in briefly on Friday night to Nancy Grace only to see Cindy and George Anthony having a Kissie-Fit at the Zanny the Nanny depositions. Sorry, but that kind of non-news puts me to sleep.
As you should know by now, the police are saying absolutely nothing about the Haleigh tradegy, nor have they made an arrest. As a result, Misty has been claiming that she passed their lie detector test when she probably failed it. The police simply wont say one way or the other.
So what do you think? Art Harris has said nothing about possible motives even though he is the one who did all the leg work.
April 11, 2009 at 2:41 am
nina
Maybe Misty isn’t as stupid as she acts and maybe some one she knew or was with that night could have pulled it off. I don’t buy her story at all!
April 11, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Kari
Misty with her somewhat vague and unlikely story are not nearly as sensational as Casey with her too-detailed, flagrant fabrications.
Whereas Casey’s quickly disproved stories and flat emotional affect soon gave rise to sinister alternate theories—Misty’s obvious emotional distress, and vacillating statements lead to more mundane hunches. I feel that she is not being entirely truthful, but I don’t feel she would do a murder or a kidnapping… I suspect she is hiding something a bit more childish. She got up to go to the bathroom and what else? Meet a young boyfriend? Smoke a joint? Rummage through her fiancee’s playboy magazines?
Something like that. And while she was occupied, or maybe next door, someone grabbed the little girl…
That’s as far as I have thought it out, and it’s just conjecture, since as you say there are precious few “breaking news” flashes on this case.
But I do see where you’re coming from. We (the public) don’t really feel we can trust Misty’s word. And then, if it wasn’t her, well, it had to be someone who knew Haleigh, knew the house, knew Misty’s routine, or at least her whereabouts at that time, and that she would not notice the kidnapping… Then, they would’ve needed somewhere to take Haleigh, other than their mom’s trailor–though that has been done before, too.
One of the most horrific stories I’ve ever read was about the mother who was cleaning her young teen-age son’s room and found the body of a little girl under his bed.
That one really gives me nightmares…
April 12, 2009 at 7:35 am
John H. Gohde
A child does not disappear into thin air for no reason. Ron purchased and installed himself new locks for all the doors. There were no signs of forced entry. Therefore the laws of physics say that Misty did it.
You are, also, looking for an innocent explanation for somebody who just experienced “a three-day party of sex, cocaine, pot, and pills.” Let’s say she was stoned on Roxies, or whatever, Misty would still have been knocked out when Ron got home at 3:00 am.
As you yourself say, the only person who would know all that would be one of Misty’s lovers. Then you would still have to answer the question of motives.
April 12, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Kari
Happy Easter, John!
To answer your last point first, I’m afraid I’d go for an uncomplicated motive, sex. One of the supposed 3 or 4 dozen sex offenders in the area…
Since I haven’t been following the story closely, I haven’t heard anything about this 3-day sex and drugs party, also I don’t do any sort of recreational drugs, so I can’t form any opinion as to the results of such an orgy. But I’m perfectly willing to go along with your suggestion that Misty was still zonked out from all that ‘fun’. If that were the case, it seems like just anyone could have done it and she would not have known.
Where was this orgy held? In Ronald’s trailor or elsewhere? If in that trailor, then a fellow partier might have snatched Haleigh. If elsewhere, well, could Misty have left the door unlocked so she could sneak back in, or so she could hear the children crying from, uh, next door?
What does Ron say the reason was for buying all new locks? Was that recent? Considering the brief glimpse the public has had into Ronald’s relationship with Misty, it’s hard to understand her deep desire to marry him and give birth to his child…
April 12, 2009 at 5:47 pm
John H. Gohde
I would suggest that you should read or listen to the Art Harris interview with Gregory Page (hyperlink above) on the Art Harris blog.
Do not forget Casey Anthony. I do not see why it would be so impossible for Misty to be just like her. I do not buy the random sex predator theory because there was no signs of forced entry into the mobile home.
Reason for locks? Ron said so that this type of thing would never happen. It happens to be on one of the Nancy Grace video tapes.
In case you have not noticed it, a lot of women have a deep desire to have babies. Why? Who knows. Could be as simple being able to sponge off Ron with child support payments. According to the Art Harris interview a lot of Misty’s female friends were competing for Ron’s affections.
April 12, 2009 at 10:04 pm
detwill39
From all the information I have read and viewed, I am leaning more towards Ronald than Misty. I don’t think Ronald would marry a person who may, through any recklessness on her part, be the cause of my child going missing. When Ronald had the quickie wedding is when my focus went to him. His 911 call was a giveaway….he didn’t care it was being taped. Actually he was glad it was taped so his performance would be on record. I doubt if, in his fit of rage, he intended to harm his child and that is why he could show so much remorse after the fact. I think Ronald’s mother knows what happened. Ronald and his mom both need Misty close and closed mouth. This is just my theory and not intended to defame or directly accuse anyone.
April 20, 2009 at 9:46 pm
art harris
John—
Thanks for your insightful thoughts and generous comments–and your readers as well.
I was delighted to be refered to your excellent and thoughtful blog, and wanted to let you know just put up a couple of new pieces, including the first TV interview with Kristina or Christina Prevatt, aka Nay Nay.
Best, Art
April 21, 2009 at 6:51 am
John H. Gohde
Thanks. You are doing a wonderful job on your blog.
April 23, 2009 at 12:13 am
Mary
Has anyone forgotten this all happened the morning after Caylee’s Memorial Service? So help me, when I heard the news, the first thing I thought was this was too close to Caylee not to have been planned as a “copy cat” crime.
The more that goes on the more I think someone had nothing better to do but plan this crime…using all the information that was available from the news. I have never thought it was a spur of the moment thing…because of the timing. (Waiting for the right time).
If what I beleive is true I am sure whoever did this thought once Caylee was laid to rest the news coverage would move on to something else… Haleigh even sounds so much like Caylee. Sick, sick, sick.
I beleive the inconsistances with Misty’s story comes from the drug use just before the crime. Not feeling well, I think she forgot part of the story and couldn’t remember the exact words she had used. Up for water, up to go to the bathroom, in the bed with her, in the other bed. Door proped open, pink shirt, pajamas? Maybe the children slept in their cloths and that is what she thought she was wearing. I am surprised she could remember there was a bed in the house. DUH!
I am years older, many years older than Misty, I can tell you that if I got up to find my door open and a light on that was not that way when I went to bed I would grab a gun and start screaming hoping the neighbors would come to my rescue. How did she know there was not someone still in the house when she was running every where looking for Haleigh. I would have run to the closest people I could find for help, with a gun in my hand. It would scare me to death.
Am I the only person that thinks this way?
April 23, 2009 at 9:06 am
John H. Gohde
Good point! That is another major inconsistency in Misty’s story.
Ronald actually contradicted Misty, himself, in one of the videos with Teresa Neves. For some reason, Ron got mad about the light discussion. Ronald said that kitchen light was always left on and that it could not be seen from the bedroom. That was a direct contradiction of Misty’s statement.
April 29, 2009 at 3:43 am
VIKI
I haven’t seen Misty look awake or put a cigarette down since this whole thing started. You can tell she is a druggie by looking at her and she can barely open her mouth. When she and Ron hang all over each other instead of looking for Haleigh it makes me sick in the stomach. The fact that the police can’t get anymore out of a 100 lb 17 yr old is insane. Even Ron’s attorney won’t touch her. Time to take the gloves off LE. How do you handle the big thugs if this little girl has you beat? How do they go out drinking if she is under 21. Even smoking is illegal for her and yet you do nothing to bust her. Now her girlfriends and ex? Lovers are telling you she does drugs. What more do you need? Book her Dano!
April 29, 2009 at 9:28 am
John H. Gohde
Cool!
Who ever has been supplying Misty with smokes, booze, and/or drugs should be busted!