Art Harris: Haleigh Cummings Case Update
Journalist Art Harris: holes in Haleigh Cummings family stories: updated May 25, 2011
By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
After more than two years after what police are calling the unsolved murder of five year old Haleigh Cummings, The Bald Truth reported new exclusive details like a second Misty Croslin brother who allegedly flunked a polygraph following four flubs by the former 17 year old babysitter and brother Tommy, who also flunked a lie detector test that sparked his wife, Lindsy to file for divorce. That from our sources close to the investigation.
Not much has changed since we first reported it on HLN’s Nancy Grace show in March, but law enforcement sources tell The Bald Truth there are new questions surrounding what, if any role, Misty brother, Timmy, and his wife, Chelsea, may have played the night Haleigh vanished.
Both deny any wrongdoing or knowledge of what happened, but Chelsea Croslin recently retracted her long and vocal belief to us that a Tennessee cousin who spent that night at their home took her van after a call came into her cell phone from Misty about 10 p.m. Feb. 9, 2009.
At the time, she detailed for The Bald Truth how cousin Joe Overstreet took the call, that she and Timmy went to bed–he was groggy from pain pills prescribed after a collision with an uninsured drunk driver — and woke up to find the van parked in a different spot, keys to it moved from the usual spot and Joe asleep fully clothed, when he usually slept in boxers, she told me at the time.
It was only after we exclusively reported sources close to the investigation telling us Tommy Croslin had instructed Misty to make up the cousin Joe Overstreet tossed Haleigh in the St. John’s River story, another Croslin family hoax, and that brother, Timmy had failed a polygraph, that Chelsea retracted her cousin Joe accusation. For months, she and other family members had told us cousin Joe did it…until we found a family member who had talked with Overstreet and reported otherwise.
What Joe purportedly revealed seemed shocking, contradicting Chelsea’s earlier detailed account: that he never took the van, that it was Tommy and Chelsea who responoded to the Misty 911 family call, and that he’d stayed behind. Say what?
That raised new questions whether Chelsea and husband Timmy may have driven the van to the trailer that night, NOT Joe, as she had asserted, or perhaps gone together. Did they assist in a cover-up? Maybe help clean up a crime scene?
Chelsea denies any wrongdoing, and once said she’d take a polygraph –“Strap me up”– and produce husband Timmy to take a folow up poly as well. We offered to arrange it, but it hasn’t happened.
She also said she’d cooperate with police, but would refuse any “interrogations.”
A private investigator Chelsea claimed was working for her, but who denied any professional ties told us she had reached out to out of state police on her behalf, and relayed that Cheshea was willing to participate in an undercover Misty prison sting for Haleigh information, if Florida investigators requested it, and outstanding arrest warrants for her in Virginiai were dropped.
According to Tina Church, a private investigator who told us she’d volunteered briefly to help Chelsea get to the bottom of her legal troubles. said Chelsea never followed up. Fresh to the case, she told us she also offered to check rumors Haleigh had been spotted alive in Kentucky along with the credibility of purported photos of Haleigh strangers sent Misty in prison–that our FBI sources debunked and we exposed as a hoax.
It was Chelsea who sounded what police and the FBI tell artharris.com exclusively were false alarms. She called from Florida to pitch The Bald Truth and other journalists the claim Haleigh was alive, held against her will in Kentucky, that photos sent to Misty in prison proved it. We found no one close to the case, even some family, who felt it looked like Haleigh.
She did however manage to entice one disreputable blogger (who requests donations) into spinning another bogus tale, a Haleigh case groupie dismissed by law enforcement officials as a prevaricator and a nuisance and who profiler Pat Brown describes as an online “terrorist,” paranoid and obsessed like a growing number on the internet fringe drawn to missing child cases. In an on going dispute with the mother of his six year old son, local police in Minnesota report numerous complaints for harrassment and defamation, despite an affadavit he filed with a local judge in a custody dispute claiming none.
Investigators say they have wasted 100s of hours and taxpayer dollars debunking such claims, but are committed to sorting through them all — more than 5,000 tips to date– in their effort to solve what they are calling a tragic child murder, and have not wavered in their claims Misty Croslin and those close to her know more than has been revealed.
No one has been arrested or charged with Haleigh’s murder, and Misty Croslin maintains she has no idea what happened that night. Still police say she’s the “key” to unlocking the mystery, along with those close to her, and that they won’t give up until they bring a killer to justice.
May 24th, 2011 at 6:02 am
i doubt if we will ever know the truth about what happen that night
May 24th, 2011 at 6:46 am
well I dont know what to think except I still believe in misty…
May 24th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
I hope they continue to put presser on Chelsea and Timmy. They know something and maybe helped bury Haleigh.
I heard on Levi show that Chelsea and Timmy had a shovel and the police tested it. They said that the dirt was not from their yard. Very interesting!
May 25th, 2011 at 12:55 am
That heartless judge who sent Misty to all that time should let her out. He should have shown mercy due to the fact that Ron was her downfall when she was a MINOR.
July 8th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
You must side with Casey Anthony too… I hope some ppl here posting how they feel for Misty do NOT have children!
May 25th, 2011 at 8:24 am
I think Haleigh is here
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May 25th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
IMO I have found it strange from time to time that soon after Haleigh went missing that Timmy and Chelsea moved to MA. Plus, we always heard from Chelsea, never from Timmy….why is that? My thoughts are that Tommy and Timmy are the ones responsible for Haleigh's death and they all know it. We know from early on in this case that Tommy went to the trailer to smoke pot with Misty that evening. Who knows if they laced it with something or even mixed taking other drugs while smoking it. IMO something happened while they were high, either one of them thought it would be funny to see Haleigh get high, we don't know. Perhaps she picked up some of the drugs and injested it, or got caught touching the drugs and they beat her. We don't know… this is all speculation. Even though Chelsea said she is no longer going to answer police questions, IMO I think LE should buckle down and press Timmy for some info.
May 25th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
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November 23rd, 2011 at 3:04 am
You are such a naive nerd. Don't you remember her taking the detectives down to St. John's River and showing them where 2 male family members tied Haleigh's body to a cinder block and dropped her in the water? They even found the cinder block but there was nothing left of Haleigh. IMO, you offered a bizarre and clueless scenario.
May 25th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Some cop says Misty failed polygraph miserably, yet the lie detector test is not on the internet. I'm not going to believe law enforcement who took the bed sheet and draped it over an outside railing in the elements and days later finally took the trailer door and promptly lost it in evidence. Misty has said she was asleep before being hypnotized and during hypnosis. Her brother came up with Joe Overstreet story. The cops are the ones who are lying. Misty was asleep. Misty's new lawyer is going to talk to the 2 judges who gave her 25 years when they could have given her 6 years even after hearing of her tough childhood. This 30 day drug sting angered me and I hired the lawyer. I have seen Misty interacting with her 5 year old niece and she is wonderful with the child.
May 25th, 2011 at 10:54 pm
What is sad is that she obviously doesn't know what happened concerning Haleigh that night. I read the new interview just put out. I believe Joe knows what happened to Haleigh. I also believe that he could sell her. And I also believe that Haleigh is still alive and being raised as a boy in Tatum, New Mexico. Wonder if her cousin is the sort that would sell Haleigh? I'd like to ask Misty that question.
May 26th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
It is glaringly clear that all the Croslins are involved in some way. i agree with Carla, Timmy needs to stop talking through his wife, and man up and LE needs to do this. They probably already have – again – they have all the pieces, just have to put it together – which I hope they do soon. Timmy may not have gone along with Chelsea, but there is nothing to say that Chelsea didn't go with Tommy to help Misty. And Chelsea did this to herself – with all her rants, and now is backtracking on her stories – CRAP. She knows and is running scared..if you really cared for Haleigh at all Chelsea – do right by her and lead them to her if you know where she is……and stop defending this f'd up disfunctional family. What if it were YOUR kid? And if you stay with this family, IT COULD BE.
May 26th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Art, Could you please tell me why Greg "white boy" Page has a facebook page and is able to post on facebook if he is incarcerated? I have first hand knowledge of this and it is easily verified by looking him up…..How is this possible if he is in Raifird serving time?????? I just don't understand….
May 26th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
according to his status on facebook, he states he is in Raiford serving time..If you would like a link I will try to send it…Go the Facebook, enter his name and his picture and info will appear, click on him and go to his profile and all info is there…also on his wall are postings he has made to others and their reply to him
May 26th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I watched Misty's hypnosis video. She said she was asleep before and during hypnosis.
May 31st, 2011 at 2:08 pm
That is funny, Roger…..I remember the guy from Equisearch who did this hypnosis on her…..for hypnosis to work, you actually have to be open to it….or it doesn't work. I believe she lied, even during hypnosis. She needs truth serum, not hypnosis. Stop grasping at straws and see this for what it really is.
May 27th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Levi Page looks like Chazz Bono. He calls Misty a lier because a cop tells him that. There is a reason that polygraph results are not allowed in court. The cop is lying. There was pot easily accessible to Misty before she met Ronald. No pills. No percoset. No oxycodine. No lie detector results have ever been on the internet. Check your story before you report it.
May 28th, 2011 at 8:42 pm
I wonder if the police are still interested…..really. I think Haleigh is long gone..maybe in the river. But someone other than Misty did this. She was not strong enough to do it all by herself. I still wonder about drug people who Ron owed money to…and he knows it. Wonder when they will have mercy on Misty and let her out…….Ron controlled her every move. Dumb heartless judge.
May 31st, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Hi Art! I have catching up to do. I'm not surprised that possibly T & C have knowledge or even participation in what happened that night. CC has inserted herself into the case, going on many shows to discuss it. She's a "talker", she has to be saying something. I think the reason they haven't figured this out is they haven't ruled enough people out. It's unusual so many know but yet all deny knowing.It's also odd so many bloggers following it haven't narrowed in on the truth more. My belief? Misty can say they need to look at someone else b/c she was there but was a witness, not the one who did it and she's not snitching. JMO
June 1st, 2011 at 1:15 am
Hi Art..i forgot to login. I think i re-registered..lol. Anyway, i'm going to repost my comment. I'm not surprised TC and CC might have some knowledge or involvement in what happened that night. I believed CC when she accused Joe, but once she retracted i had to ask myself what about the call and the van then? Someone had to have used it and that left her and/or Timmy. I am surprised he let her go on shows to even discuss the case, keeping attn on them even if indirectly. MC still sticking to her "it was someone else" theory. If CC had said nothing about the van, LE wouldn't have known anything about it, except she had to explain the cell call if they checked all the phone records. JMO
June 9th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
alright guys, as a close friend of timmy and chelsea, and like all friends of timmy and chelsea, if you knew her, youd know that chelsea JUMPS at the drama. anyhting she hears she will take it and run with it. she WANTS to be in the middle. shes taken advantage of every interview, every paid flight/car ride to get to and from florida. she lived RIGHT next door to me for months! never once was i worried about my children living right next door. it just so happens that chelsea and tim were unlucky enough to be close to this case. misty needs to be taken in the middle of the night from her jail cell by big men and put into a black bag, taken to a river. maybe then she will talk. i HIGHLY doubt chelsea knows anymore than the he said she said her family is into.
June 12th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Haleigh Cummings:
Seems not much has changed but one of those liars in that family has to trip up sometime! I was hoping since they're all locked up and were forced to get sober that someone would talk already! But look at the Casey trial! She never talked, and I do not believe she ever will. I fear we will never truly find out what happened to Haleigh or Caylee. We all speculate but that is not evidennce you can see, touch, hear or prove. It is very sad that these defendants seem to believe they can dispose of children like we take our trash out for pickup each week. They're all playing the blame game! Someone else had to do it! That's so old and tired and I wish we do someday find Haleigh so her father & grandmother can put her to rest with love & dignity and then seek the justice she deserves as we pray Caylee recieves now.
June 29th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Art Harris – You need to clean up your own site before talking about disreputable people. The above poster advocates the kidnapping and murder of Misty Croslin and you have left it on your blog for two weeks. The poster is advocating two felonies and you are publicizing his call for criminal violence.
June 29th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
The poster is so obviously a whacko no one can possibly take him seriously, and certainly readers are smart enough to take it for what it is and know that by our allowing occasional reminders of the fringe element online drawn to these cases, it’s by no means an endorsement of nutcases unlimited. approve
June 13th, 2011 at 9:47 am
Hey Art,
Thanx for keeping us, 'up' on Haleigh's case! Also, am glad to be able to watch the Casey Anthony trial. IMO you do such an excellent job investigating these cases, and others. You rock. Still waiting to hear anything about Holly Bobo, the missing nursing student. Could you let us know any updates about her case?
Thanx
Take Care, Stay Cool, and Catch me on the flipper!
Luv ya
SpikedLemon
June 16th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
I think that they need to hire someone like pyshics to help out in the case. They are out there and also I do believe that everyone in this case needs to be convicted until someone talks until then we need to watch our kids and keep them away from all these sick people I feel very sorry for Haleighs mother to even think that her baby girl is gone. Why do all toddlers in flordia go missing and turn up dead thats very interesting. I do believe that state needs some kind of device to be put in these children to track them faster than the stupid police do they are really not trained to these cases and I just want to send my prayers out to everyone that has or had children missing and hope that all these sick bastards are put where they belong god knows the truth and is watching over them!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2011 at 11:04 am
i believe ronald knows more then he is saying and do you have positive proof that haleigh wasnt gone that weekend…liers breed liers…so..i am thinking(can change) that haleigh died that weekend with her dad..sure he was mad and stressing ..took it out on haleigh…i dont believe his mom or misty grandma for a minute…
July 12th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Hey Art!
Yes, still a lot of mysteries relating to Haleigh. I still believe in Misty, just a gut feeling, I guess. But, there is a need to look deeper into all the ppl/families involved. It's like, it's staring us in the face. I still feel very leery about Haleigh's drugged out mother. And, the scenario about the fringe dope gangs. They have always,been in the fringe! Not much is known.
Doing a fabulous job, as always Art. Shocked by the not guilty at Casey Anthony trial.
Take good Care. Stay Cool. Catch me on the Flipper!
Luv ya
SpikedLemon
oh,ps read from numerous places, that Casey Anthony has already been released!
July 17th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Art…whos to say that Haleigh was there after Misty got back with ROn on her so called drug bing with white boy greg..besides Haleigh wasnt at school on the 9th..so know one took her to school or picked her up…
July 27th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Haleigh did go to school that Monday, and I've got witnesses, parents at the bus stop who saw Ronald driving like a madman to get her to school on time. She rode the bus home and Misty was there to pick her up…Ronald claims he drove her home, and Chelsea and his mother back him up, but in my book that story was shot down from the start with credible parents on the record, telling police, and me what they SAW.
July 26th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
I don't understand how they can live with them selves knowing what happen to that defenseless little girl, along with that monster for a mother Casey Anthony, those heartless bastards have what's coming to them, maybe not today or tomarrow but the lord will prevail, and when he does they will sufferer at the same fate, untill then I'm sure the lord is torturing them mentally!
September 19th, 2011 at 6:39 am
i say Ron has alot more knowledge then ppl think i think these people all needed help from day one being born into sucha effed up family misty knows and shell take it to her grave
September 30th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
I am curious about the cover up with the mother? Could she have her daughter? I think there has been so much put into this story with tales and recants of those tales and noone seems to know anything. I just want her to be found o closure can be brought to all. This case has touched the heart of many, I included, and would like to get a peaceful nights sleep knowing that an ending has finally come.
October 13th, 2011 at 2:18 am
The only way to solve this imo is to search for haleigh again.Learn from the Anthony case……she cant be too far.Quit relying on this dimwit family.
October 17th, 2011 at 8:17 am
I feel for that little girl. I believe that Misty does know what happened. Wasn't it said she was upset because Ron made her babysit? I think she was so upset that she had to watch the kids and Haleigh made her mad maybe not wanting to go to bed or something Mist lost her temper and beat her to death. I don't know just a thought but I believe they all know what happened.
October 27th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
well I'm pretty sure misty conscience wont leave her along she's as guilty as the others cause that little girl was under her care it was her responsibility to take care of her offer the family huge amount of money and watch somebody talk and even say where the body is money talks bull sh***t walks
October 31st, 2011 at 1:37 pm
I have followed this case as a resident in Florida not far from where this occurred…..however at one point in my life I was addicted to painkillers also and it's sad to see that so many in this family were also…..I don't believe Misty Croslin remembers what happened…..folks these are not just strong painkillers she was on along with the rest of her family and Ronald…….these are painkillers that were meant to be prescribed to people dying of a chronic illness….and far too much prescribed in the state of Florida….it's a sick disease that most deny….I live up to my truth and my past now and I pray for Haleigh Cummings at church that at least the righteous family members of hers that are not drug addicts will find closure in this case and peace of mind someday in the near future…I hope you are still alive Haleigh…..I remain hopeful on that note until the investigators tell me otherwise and the news reporters that point fingers so quickly….make sure you spell what you judge about other people on web posts…..it makes YOU ALSO LOOK DISTURBING…..since you're so quick to point out other's faults….Just saying
October 31st, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Stephanie…assume you are referring to other “news reporters.” Thanks. Art approve
November 14th, 2011 at 1:56 am
its too bad you can't have her put under hypnotism in a past regression and see what we find out..
February 7th, 2012 at 2:14 am
The truth will come out. The police dropped the ball, making that deal with Tommy. There was no need after the video with Tommy on the deck. That video screams it out, cut and dry he was there. Read the writing on the wall, it tells you everything, how he is with Misty or was, how he really is, and that he was there, so was Joe. Know the behaviors of these families,how they flip, turn, and spin, it's right there. The good thing is their not strong, smart, or that capable. Their not normal enough to get by in a normal world, as result they will crumble and with that will their walls of deceit and lies, then the truth will come to light. Art it's not who is involved that's hard to find, turn that around there, it's who isn't that will be hard to find. When the truth comes to light it will be found that on one level or another nearly all are involved.
February 7th, 2012 at 9:46 am
You are on the right trail…Ever since Misty’s Mom told me exclusively that SHE was the one Misty called first, then their Joe did it lies began to crumble, and Chelsea emerged as the Croslin clan spin-mistress, the white hot truth light has become harder for them to dodge…Any other theories or notes, feel free to e mail me at art@artharris.com. Tx much. Art accept
March 21st, 2012 at 2:07 am
IMO Mom doesn't know that much Art, there isn't the trust or relationship on that level, it was never established in the first place, she is the last one to tell things to. Everything she is told is BS and what she is told does not matter. There s a lot of leverage on Misty, not all gained and or pertaining solely to the night this happened to this child. Tommy's and Joe's arrogant certainty of guaranteed silence clarify's that. Break the Leverage find the answer.
February 21st, 2012 at 9:02 am
Does anyone know about Haleigh's brother who was sleeping in the room with her? Didn't he hear or see anything? I haven't heard a thing about him. It seems to me that he would hold answers to a lot of questions.
March 25th, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Wow I just happened to be thinking I hadn't been here in a while, and thought I'd check in! Glad I did! Hi Art – I MISS YOU! Has anything new come to light? Anyway, I agree with J or A, the police I do believe took the wrong approach with Tommy as well as the sentences for the others; What they thought would break them, in fact, seems to have clammed them up. I also agree that everyone played some part in the cover up of it. They have been covering for eachother for years. There have just been too many crazy theories, stories, retractions, to think that they are doing anything other than covering for eachother.
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September 10th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
I believe it was Joe. they are all afraid of him. Misty is not innocent. She was the one telling everyone what to do in the sting.These people are all sick including Haleigh'd Dad. Hanging with the people he thought caused his child's disappearance. I had a cousin like Joe and no one ever crossed him. He is gone now, but no one still talks about the things he did. That family will stick to him because they know all those years in prison are better than facing him if they cross him. I hope they all stay away for a long time. They will just get out and start again.