I am completely confused. The 911 call----who is "caller"?? We have the 911 dispatcher, and "caller" and "father". Is the father the caller?
Where is the girlfriend during all of this?
I tend to go on gut instinct about these things. Something isn't right about this. I am not buying the abduction scenario. I may be wrong, but it just doesn't fit here.

To me, that transcript reads like the words of guilty parties.

Right from stating the back door was open, BEFORE the child is gone. And not gone, but "I can't find." An innocent person would say "Someone took my daughter!! She's gone and the back door is wide open!"

The tone is too subdued when it shouldn't be.. and then when the father picks up, the tone is ridiculously over-the-top.

See, I actually do feel strongly that she was abducted.

The dad was at work, and that would be easily verified. My thoughts there are that the young girlfriend called him at work and he came home right as the young girlfriend was on the phone with 911 - it sounded like he took over the call once he got into the trailer house.

I don't feel that the dad would have hurt his little girl simply because he was sharing weekends with her mom. If he didn't want her, he would have just given her to her mom. If he was hurting her, well, he wasn't hurting her this night because it sounds like he was at work.

I just have a terrible feeling that this is going to turn out just like the Jessica Lundsford case. Her dad was certainly looked at very closely and I actually thought that in that case, her dad probably did something to her.

I was very much sickened to hear that a pedophile that lived just cattycorner had taken her. That SOB. I still can't think about it without mentally kicking the shit out of him.

I have no doubts that with the number of registered (and we're just talking REGISTERED - how many do you suppose are out there that haven't been caught?) sex offenders that live near this little girl, that one of them targeted her. It's happened before.

Actually it is the girlfriend that is suspicious here. She has a child in the house too, but that child is left unharmed and supposedly was in the same room with Hayleigh (OMG--rhymes with, well, you know). If there was foul play, the father may or may not have known. He could be truly devastated or "covering" for the girlfriend.
Just a theory.

Native Texan, Caller is the girlfriend. Apparently the father got home as or right before she called 911.

Steve, I tend to agree that this was probably a bit closer to home as far as the suspects in the abduction, although right now I don't think it's the father. What I'm worried about now is that the girl is dead and that someone chucked her in the river.

Darby, I agree that it isn't out of the realm of possibility that a sex offender broke into the home, and stole the child as she slept. It's happened before. However, it is never my first suspicion, especially when most children are hurt/killed by someone they know. And in this case, there were two people in the room with the child. In addition, the grandfather doesn't believe the girlfriend's story, either.

http://www.wesh.com/news/18681356/detail.html

I do think that it's a little strange that they haven't found any sign of her yet. So maybe there is an SO working here. But again, I'm leaning toward the girlfriend. (Less on the father, if his alibi has checked out.) Has LE verified the last time the child was seen by someone other than those in the house?

I'm with you Darby. I'm seeing flashbacks to Jessie Lunsford all over again... and I never thought Mark Lunsford a suspect in that case, not once. These people may come off as, well, trailer trash... but I'm REALLY doubting they did something to this little girl, or the biological mother from Georgia.

Steve, what about Samantha Runnion? She was just a tiny thing. 5 or 6 years old...

I suspect someone did abduct the child, and that it was a lone individual. What makes me suspect that is the brick used as a door stop. Whoever came in knew they would be leaving with their arms full, so they propped the door open as they entered. I suspect whoever did this has a history of B&E. The doors on more trailer homes are not that hard to jimmy, especially if the deadbolt hasn't been thrown. I wouldn't be surprised if the child had been chloroformed or incapacitated in some way before hand. Whoever did this had been thinking about it/plotting for a long time. I'm afraid I don't expect this to end well.

it could be that she disappeared before 3 in the morning...what if she had been missing before even 10 at night....this is another sad, sad case...

where is the birth mother?

This reminds me of the abduction/murder of Heather Dawn Church by Robert Browne, back in the late 1980's. That case was a crime of opportunity that occurred during what was intended as a routine burglary of her rural home by Browne.

The brick holding open the rear door here makes little sense from the aspect of a little girl wandering off or of a parent staging a crime scene, but does fit in with the scenario of a person intending to exit back out that direction carrying something bulky.

If this is indeed an abduction, and it wasn't a planned kidnapping of the girl, it might be worth looking into any convicted thieves or homebreakers living nearby - perhaps this was an intruder who intended theft, but who was discovered by the girl, then panicked and took her with him to avoid being identified?

Just speculation, of course. Hopefully the police find her sleeping in a nearby garage after having wandered off on her own for a late-night adventure, unaware that anyone was worried for her safety.

After watching this story play out on tv this evening, I do not believe the father was in any way involved in his daughter's disappearance. However, there is one unanswered question, and that is, why did the girlfriend not call 911 until after the father got home at 3 am? Unless I am misunderstanding, she had already discovered the child missing at 10 p.m.when she got up to use the bathroom. That is 5 hours lost! The father didn't seem to have an explanation as to why the time lapse before the call was placed. Another thing I did not know is that the two children were asleep in bed WITH the girlfriend. Someone abducted the child right out of the bed the girlfriend was sleeping in.

Just by going on what info i've read on this site my bet is that the fathers teen girlfriend could have done something to her. I'm not saying she did. I'm just saying it's a possibility. She was home with the kids. The father was at work. Something could have happened. Maybe it was an accident. And she cooked up the whole "missing with the back door open" story. She called the father at work and told him this and he came raing home just as she was on the phone with 911.

There are comflicting stories, one says she put her and the boy to bed and the other said she was in the bed with her, which is it? Sounds fishy to me

Other than an abduction by a stalker, the only other scenario I can think of is possibly drugs were involved. The girlfriend seems to be the key piece in this puzzle so far. Cummings, however, stated on tv tonight that he and she passed their polygraphs, yet another media spokesperson stated that the polygraph results had not been released to anyone.
Could the child have been payment in a drug deal? They used some bloodhounds, the dogs were led by a scent trail down to the water.

This is my last two cents on this subject. I pray this child is returned alive, but, as always, the more days go by without her being found, the less likely it is that she will be found alive. I have read alot more news reports on this. I continue to feel that it was not an abduction. I also question the judgement of this father leaving a toddler and 5 year old in the care of a 17 year old. Just not smart, especially while working a night shift. Seventeen year olds rarely have good mothering instincts even with their own biological children. You put this teenager in the charge of two very young children not her own and you have a recipe for disaster. I understand the father is probably a very hard working man, obviously has custody of two children so he must have done something right, but he made a serious error in judgement in this case. I am suspicious also as to why they are putting off volunteers in this search. Doesn't make sense. My guess== they are doing it for a reason, perhaps they are hoping for some kind of confession or to find the child somewhere near the home just like Caylee was found.

Predators who target children as young as 4 or 5 certainly do exist -- but they are relatively rare. Rarer still -- silent snatching in the dead of night.

One quick example - Riley Fox. It does happen.

Apropos of nothing, but why is a seventeen year old girl living with and dating a man who has to be at least 6 years older than her?

Nativetexan, Richard told you that the caller was the girlfriend, yet on Nancy Grace last night the dad himself said that he was the one who called 911. So I am tending to lean toward the dad being the caller. Plus I also think that she discovered the girl missing at 3 am when she got up, not at 10. Mace, I like your idea but I don't think, according to what's been reported, that she called him at work. He was coming home as usual when he said he saw her standing in the front door and he knew something was wrong cause his girlfriend is never up when he comes home. Then they called 911. Judgenot, you are right, no one wants to think this happens but it does. It's one thing for a predator to snatch a child in a yard or something but to break into the home to get her is very brazen. Soobs, I agree that she's too young to date a guy that age but a lot of people do sadly.

I have a different take on this please bear with my thoughts.
Db: “right from the start the girlfriend stating the door was open BEFORE stating the child is gone”’, would have in my opinion been a clue and an observation I would have wanted on File ASAP! IMO she was letting the emergency people know SOMETHING was not right; that to me states that it was “weird” not per say suspicious. I understand that the back door was NOT wide open it was propped open with a brick. The father IMO has an innate right to be “over the top”.
Darby: I agree with you that I feel the father probably was called home ASAP.
Other posters who portend that she was abducted I also agree with for all reasons you all have stated. Nancy Collins suspicions re affirm my insight.
Where the birth Mother is in this case is irreverent given the circumstance IMO.
It is my understanding that she did Not find the daughter missing at 10 PM but that is the last time she could account for the whereabouts of the child.
Native Texan; I agree with you that drugs would be very well involved with this situation. I do not believe drugs are involved in the sense you are considering and here is my reasoning why: They “passed the polygraph”! AND from Personal Experience I share with you a TRUE story. My first cousin abducted a child from Philomath Oregon after a night of meth use with his “friends”; parents of a child missing in the night. Before he left that house he made sure to unlock doors that allowed him to re-enter in the middle of the night to abduct “their child” for reasons only meth people can comprehend. The parents went to bed by 11 PM and the next morning they found daughter missing and the back door unlocked when it should not have been. He, my cousin, had no previous record of child abuse. Thank God the parents were honest and told authorities about the “drug tryst” and the cops were on cue. They surrounded his home, my cousins, and confronted him with the release of this girl right before he shot his own brains out. The upside, he released the child. The other upside my cousin Killed himself! There is no upside for this child survivor.
This case illustrates that even good parents go bad with bad company. Possibly in this case LE should consider looking to their company?

The way I understand it, the girlfriend put the 2 kids to bed ant around 8 and then got into the same bed at around 10 or 11 and then woke up to go to the bathroom around 3 and discovered Heleigh missing. Seems very strange that someone would break in and take one of 3 people out of the same bed without waking the other 2 But, they say the girlfriend passed a lie detector. So Who knows. I just hope that they find Haleigh alive. I think the Dad is innocent and has no clue what happened, he appears to be totally devistated.

I think the person that took the child knows someone in the family or at least knows their habits. That may explain why the young girl was abducted before the father was due to come home from work. I think it will turn out to be a older male who has had allegations or a conviction in the past. As a another post read...a mobile home door is not that difficult to jimmy and the cinder block by the door probably indicates the person knew he would not have a free hand when he left. Unfortunately, this problem will not turn out well even though I am praying she is found alive and safe.
counselor48

Soobs:
My guess for why a 17 year old is living with a man with 2 young kids from a previous relationship? Because it's rural Florida.

If those 2 children were actually IN the same bed as the girlfriend, I find it hard to believe that she, (the girlfriend) never felt the child being removed from the bed. As a Mom, my instincts were always well tuned to my children and I feel quite sure anyone removing one of my children from my bed would definitely have disturbed me enough to wake up. Something is just not right. And another thing, how old is this father, having a 17 yr old girlfriend? Come on now...

My own daughter was only 6 when she was abducted from my home in the middle of the night while I slept 2 1/2 years ago. And there were 4 other children in that house. As well as a cat and dog. (ok, he was half blind and three quarters deaf-but he was a dog)

P.S. Don't take the news reports as gospel, they sometimes get the details wrong. I remember reading them my daughter's murder and going-"but that isn't the way it happened!!" They truly would rather sell a paper than tell the truth.

I believe it was stated that this home is a rental and they had recently moved there - could the landlord or previous tenants have additional keys? have they been checked out and eliminated? Possibly the previous tenants made someone mad and someone came to get revenge not knowing that they had moved.

at one point in time i had moved into an apartment and random things started to disappear. come to find out, the previous tenant and my current neighbor had switched out my front door lock with his back door lock. so my neighbor would let himself in whenever he wanted to. heck, he had his own key. it took him robbing another unit and getting caught for me to ever know this information. i pray for Haleigh's safe return.

I think the father seems like he could definitely be abusive...to women and children. Just the way he talked to his girlfriend during the 911 calls spoke volumes. She didn't call him at work, he said he came home and she was waiting at the door and told him. What really bothers me though is she said on tv that she got up at 3:00 to use the bathroom and saw the kitchen light on and that's when she noticed the door open and Haleigh gone....well...what kidnapper comes in and turns on the light????

Here are my thoughts. Number one, I'm not taking my kids to Florida until they are 21 and proficient in judo. What a scary place. Second, I think this was an abduction. The father sounds very upset and urgent in the background. I'd be cussing like crazy and threatening to kill people if one of my children were missing. I don't think the girlfriend did anything to the little girl. She couldn't even figure out to call 911 immediately after the girl was missing and then when she did talk to 911 she couldn't even figure out her address. Think about it, if she did kill the child and wanted to cover her tracks, wouldn't calling 911 be the most logical first step?

Everyone is assuming that when the girlfriend got up to use the bathroom that all she did was urinate. However, she didn't mention exactly what she did in the bathroom. Some trips take longer than others. Also who is to know if the child was abducted during the time Misty was in the bathroom. It was 3 am and Misty was probably very groggy from sleep and just stumbled to the bathroom and then just happened to notice the girl missing. Think about it, it's dark, you've been asleep, you wake up just enough to realize you need to use the bathroom. You get up in the dark, walk past crumpled covers on a nearby bed. It's easy to see messed up covers and think there is a person in them, especially with a small child. It's something that we've probably all done.

Unfortunately, I don't think this will have a good ending. No one abducts kids to take them to Disney World. This family is going to need a lot of strength in the time ahead.

WVAmom,

Put yourself in the dad's position. He came home to find that his daughter was missing and his girlfriend was simply waiting for him to come home. She hadn't even called emergency services. The girlfriend is lucky the dad didn't beat the daylights out of her. Who is so stupid that they don't know to call 911 when a child is missing? I hope that the dad breaks off the relationship with the girlfriend no matter the outcome. I'd be afraid to have someone that obviously dumb around me.

this isn't about the age difference between the dad and gf... omg ppl.. a little girl is missing. focus on that.

i agree, there isn't a whole lot that makes sense in this disappearance.. i do think the dad could be ruled out as a suspect... he doesn't seem like the brightest individual in the world, but his love for his daughter is apparent. also, the gf seemed too shaken up to be guilty. i feel horrible for her because of all the bad press she's getting because of her age. this is a 17 year old who stays home alone every night to care for 2 kids that aren't even hers. i believe she is devoted to that family.

in my opinion, the birth mother should be looked at a little closer. there's something that seems sketchy about her demeanor. other than her, i'd be willing to bet that it was someone they knew and maybe trusted. or at least someone who knew them, and knew of the dad's work schedule, and how to get in and go around inside the house.

this is the most horrible thing imaginable. it's one thing to have a child abducted from the shopping mall or yard, but something else to have them taken right from their own home and bed. i feel uneasy about leaving my 3 year old in her own room after all of this. this is the last straw. i literally went out and bought motion lights to install outside above her window and an alarm for her window and the back door.

everyone should hug their children and pray that nothing like this happens to them.. when they come into your bedroom in the middle of the night, let them come into your bed instead of sending them back to their own room.

i hope this little girl is found alive and brought back home to her daddy.

this isn't about the age difference between the dad and gf... omg ppl.. a little girl is missing. focus on that.

i agree, there isn't a whole lot that makes sense in this disappearance.. i do think the dad could be ruled out as a suspect... he doesn't seem like the brightest individual in the world, but his love for his daughter is apparent. also, the gf seemed too shaken up to be guilty. i feel horrible for her because of all the bad press she's getting because of her age. this is a 17 year old who stays home alone every night to care for 2 kids that aren't even hers. i believe she is devoted to that family.

in my opinion, the birth mother should be looked at a little closer. there's something that seems sketchy about her demeanor. other than her, i'd be willing to bet that it was someone they knew and maybe trusted. or at least someone who knew them, and knew of the dad's work schedule, and how to get in and go around inside the house.

this is the most horrible thing imaginable. it's one thing to have a child abducted from the shopping mall or yard, but something else to have them taken right from their own home and bed. i feel uneasy about leaving my 3 year old in her own room after all of this. this is the last straw. i literally went out and bought motion lights to install outside above her window and an alarm for her window and the back door.

everyone should hug their children and pray that nothing like this happens to them.. when they come into your bedroom in the middle of the night, let them come into your bed instead of sending them back to their own room.

i hope this little girl is found alive and brought back home to her daddy.

I pray to God they find this little girl safe also. I just have a bad feeling about the whole story tho. And, Renee, if you watched the girlfriends interview last night she said she got up to go to the bathroom but never made it because that's when she noticed the kitchen light on and the door open. That's the part that just doesn't sit well with me..an intruder turning on the light. I know the father said on Greta that he passed the lie detector test with flying colors but I"ll believe that when it comes from law enforcement.

Renee80 - you did make me chuckle. I agree. I had thought of taking my kids down to Disneyworld and I thought the same thing. Not until they're skilled in martial arts!

I have to say that for the girlfriend to be involved, she would have to be very skilled in doing something to the girl, disposing of her, and not only that, but in such a way that days of searching have turned up nothing. That is why I think that the girlfriend and the dad are just hapless victims in this.

I think that the girlfriend did lie, initially, though, because she was scared. I think that she wanted to say that Haleigh was in bed with her so that the dad didn't think that she was neglectful. I've read several accounts that talk of Haleigh and her brother being in bed with the girlfriend, or that just Haleigh was in bed with the girlfriend, or that both kids were in their own beds down the hall, or that Haleigh was in her own bed with just the brother in bed with the girlfriend.

Either way you slice it, I just can't see her or the dad cooking something up and carrying it out to this extent without any evidence that they were involved.

FoxNews said that it was Haleigh that had gotten up to use the bathroom, and Croslin went to look for her when she didn't come back:

Croslin discovered Haleigh missing Tuesday morning. According to Ronald Cummings, Haleigh had gotten up to use the bathroom, and when she didn't return, Croslin went to look for her and noticed the back door of the mobile home they shared was open.

"I locked doors before I left for work. My child cannot unlock the deadbolt, you have to force the door shut all the way ... and she doesn’t open the door to strangers," Cummings said.

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First he says that Haleigh CAN'T open the door and then he says that she doesn't open the door to STRANGERS ... so can she open it to non-strangers?

I personally wonder if the girlfriend had a friend or two over.

SOOO.. how does the father know a man took his daughter.. he said " if i find who took my daughter im going to kill HIM" .,,, hmm and he kept saying " like " during the call.. SOUNDS FISHY TO ME..

I am trying to make sense out of the Cinder Block, Door Stop...Does the girlfriend have her own car and does she have her own house keys ??

i soooo agree that the father seems abusive, probably that is why he is with a 17yr old, he can control her and she is scared of him and probably didnt do anything to the little girl but knows more than she is saying, like maybe she did have friends over but is afraid to tell him
and sorry to say, that little girl is not coming back, i just they find her so the family can have some closure

My only concern about this abduction idea, how come they found a child's footprint behind the home, if she was carried? Something does not sit right with that.

Dear Maam/Sir:
Please have the lawyers run a trace of the critical infrastructures, FCC Water Tower, FCC 1033770. This is the cause of the little girl's gnashing teeth and sunken/lazy eye. Thank You.

Very Truly Yours,
Dale Green
Gulf War Veteran
JFK's Lead Twin Orphan
004/52/2564 12/25/62

HUH?? Dale Green, what are you talking about?

Geraldo Rivera stated tonight that the father, Ronald Cummings was an abusive father. He may have killed Haleigh, and threatened the girlfriend, Misty to ' cover ' for him with the premise of the child being abducted. Misty reminds me also of a battered ' wife', by her expressions, half closed eyes and timid demeanor. I don't believe she was kidnapped and I don't believe poor Cousin ' Joe ' is to blame.....

Misty said she was doing laundry prior, did the detective check the washing machine and the dryer lint basket and the water pipes?

Junior (according to reports) said a man dressed in black
took his Sister, what about a woman dressed in black?
A woman could easily put her hair under a baseball cap.
This would explain why the child wasn't carried and
had a footprint on the grounds.

I personally cannot make sense of the entire story. Misty's statements have changed throughout the days that followed. There are so many questions that have not been answered.

1. Has anyone followed up with Haleigh's school to find out how many days she missed from school? If in fact here were many or more than usual, did the school follow up to find out why?

2. When the cadaver dogs were sent out and they picked up something at the dumpster which was near the home, did anyone follow up with the prior contents of the dumpster? They did go through the trash in the dumpster at he time, however that dumpster had been dumped prior to that search.

3. I do not understand with all of the family members around why there was not more concern and help wih these little children.

I never received any response to my inquiry. Is this site still up?

I hope there is a happy ending to this horribe story. I would like to say, until you have axperienced something as horrible as losing a child. You do not know how you will react. Sounds to me like the father was scared, confused and upset. I mean he comes home from work and his daughter is missing. What did you expect him to say?
I pray for the little girl and her famiy....