This week has brought a great deal of negative attention to Misty Croslin. She and her story have been dissected and criticized in local and national media. People are calling on Misty to tell the truth about the events of the evening Haleigh disappeared.
For example, Nancy Grace featured the Haleigh case on her show last night. Several items of interest.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/18/ng.01.html
Nancy Grace and her guests discuss the case and Misty’s inconsistencies;
T.J. HART, WSKY 97.3 FM (via telephone): It certainly is. This certainly narrows down the field of suspects from everyone to someone. And as you remember, everyone was a suspect when this began, and all the way up until the last couple of hours, too. Still, the one thing you`ve got, Ronald and Crystal no longer suspects. But Misty`s story, still inconsistent, as it was from day one. And I can tell you, some of that physical evidence that`s not jibing up with the story is the fact that on that back door, there`s no sign of forced entrance whatsoever.
GRACE: Wait a minute, T.J. We knew that from the get-go, that there wasn`t a sign of forced entry. Nobody had taken a device and forced the lock open on that back door. We knew that at the beginning.
HART: That`s true, but it was taken in for further investigation, and it has gone through still some more forensics. And definitively — yes, we did know that at the beginning, but definitively no forced entry. And that, of course, does lead officials to believe that once again, right where they stated, this is not a stranger.
MARC KLAAS, KLAAS KIDS FOUNDATION: … But Misty, who was the last person to see the little girl, whose story continually shifts and who statistics point right to, has not been able to clear herself.
I think that what she needs to do is to tell the truth. And the way to do that is not to bring a lawyer and put her between the truth and finding that little girl.
GRACE: You know what`s interesting to you, Dr. Lillian Glass, psychologist, body language expert, author of “I Know What You`re Thinking” — Lillian, do you notice that she repeatedly refers to “that little girl.” Now…
LILLIAN GLASS, PSYCHOLOGIST: Exactly!
GRACE: … I don`t think in the nearly two years I`ve had the twins, I`ve ever referred to them in that manner. I don`t know what that means. I`m just a lawyer. What does it mean?
GLASS: She`s detaching. And when you look at her body language, she says it all. She`s crying these crocodile or alligator tears. You`re seeing her with a very flat affect. You`re seeing her shoulders shrugging, looking away. She has a lot of tells that show deception.
GRACE: Interesting. You know, you`re bringing something up and you`re jogging my memory, Donna in Massachusetts. Why would you put the children to sleep, then go wash the blankets that you`re going to put over them? Well, why would you do that? Why wouldn`t you put a different blanket over them and wash the others?
DET. LT. STEVEN ROGERS, NUTLEY, NJ, POLICE DEPARTMENT: Well, it doesn`t. And I can tell you, the police have examined every inch of that home, and there`s a lot of evidence there that will now come out.
HART: That just sounds a little odd. At that time in February in Florida, it does — and especially at that area, it does get a little cool at night. But still, when you put your children to bed, you put them to bed, ready for bed, with a blanket on them.
GRACE: Well, T.J., they might as well take out an ad on 3rd Avenue that says Misty Croslin was not at home at the time of the kidnapping. Because if they, the police, are asking the public.
HART: That`s right.
GRACE: Hey, did any of you see the stepmother the night she went missing, the night she says she`s at home washing the blankets and putting them to bed at 8:00? I mean.
HART: That would explain making up some of these stories on the fly, allegedly, in the way of putting together a time line.
GRACE: And let`s go back to the lawyers. Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi in New York, Raymond Giudice, Atlanta, Hugo Rodriguez, Miami.
Raymond, this means that if we`re interpreting what the police are saying correctly, this just puts it out there. Here`s a theory. And again, Misty Croslin is not a suspect. That if they are asking, “where is she?”
RAY GIUDICE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Right.
GRACE: That night. That suggests that everything she said was false. She was not at home. She did not put them to bed at 8:00. She did not put a blanket on them. She didn`t wake up to go to the bathroom and notice the child was missing.
And if you believe that somebody else took the child, you would have to believe in the window, the hours that she`s gone, somebody detected she was gone and knew how to get into the back door and not make a mark on the door and take the child.
Now how likely is it, Raymond Giudice, that all those factors fit together?
GIUDICE: Right. I really believe law enforcement is trying to smoke her out. There`s been no action on this case in six months. And they`re trying to get a reaction from her one way or another. Either a defensive statement or does she go hire counsel and clam up and they interpret that as an indication that as law enforcement would believe she has something to hide.
GRACE: Let`s get a try to get a straight answer out of Nicolazzi. What about it Anna-Sigga? Do you believe — I mean does it make sense in your practice of law that all of these factors would fall together and the stars would align, that she happens to be gone and during those hours that she`s gone this unknown phantom person was watching the home and sneaks in with no forcible entry and takes a child?
ANNA-SIGGA NICOLAZZI, PROSECUTOR: Nancy, your incredulous way that you just went through that is my answer. This would be a miraculous coincidence. That makes no sense. The same woman who is telling different stories, who is evasive, who is not answering the police questions about the time line.
At the same time a stranger comes in and abducts not both children but one with no trace? And a door that we saw she said was open but we know shuts? There`s just too many coincidences that point to her lying. And I think that the police are now trying a different tact to get to the bottom, to get some real answers from her.
GRACE: Melody in Ohio, how I wish, how I have wished it was that easy. Let me go back to Detective Lieutenant Steven Rogers, Nutley, New Jersey Police Department. Former fed with the FBI.
Detective, what can they do?
DET. LT. STEVE ROGERS, NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY, POLICE DEPARTMENT: Nancy, you hit the nail on the head. It`s not that easy. But I`ve got to tell you, I believe — and I`m sure, on your show in the past, from day one, the police had some indication, some belief, that she had something to do with this. That`s ground zero. It started there. It`s going to end there.
In spite of the statement from police, the comments from various experts and the media coverage, it appears that the Cummings/Neves/Sykes family has decided to protect and defend Misty.
Haleigh’s grandmother, Teresa Neves was interviewed by Jacksonville.com on Monday. Her response to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office press release; http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/crime/2009-08-17/story/focus_is_narrowing_in_haleighs_disappearance_police_say
Ronald Cummings’ mother said she does not believe her daughter-in-law has misled investigators. Misty Croslin has a seventh-grade education, Teresa Neves said and should not be able to fool interrogators that have included FBI agents.
“She feels they are not being fair to her,” Neves said Monday.
So Haleigh’s grandmother refutes the words of Lt. Greenwood simply because Misty is not educated beyond the seventh grade.
NEWSFLASH Teresa Neves; how can she fool anybody when she and your son will not talk with investigators? Ms. Neves, why is it that I, a total and complete stranger, someone who has never met your granddaughter see the ignorance of your statement about what is fair to Misty yet you have the audacity to repeat such a statement to the media? What about Haleigh? Remember her? She’s your granddaughter who has been missing for six months. The little girl that was LOST whilst Misty was caring for her. She is the only person out of all of you who deserves the consideration of fairness.
And Sykes on Nancy Grace last night:
GRACE: Got it. To Annette Sykes, the great-grandmother of little Haleigh, joining us from Weelaka, Florida. Ms. Sykes, what do you make of police saying that the girlfriend/baby-sitter has not given them full answers?
SYKES: Nancy, I`m not real sure about that. I`m not exactly sure what Misty has said to them because I`ve never really been told. And I`m not sure what their timeline or whatever it is they are — you know, I`m not aware of all of the exact things, you know? So I don`t know — you know, I don`t know.
Are we really expected to believe that Annette Sykes, Haleigh’s great grandmother and Ronald’s grandmother; the person with whom Ron and Misty have been residing for almost half a year- has never asked Misty what happened the night her own great granddaughter disappeared?
Preposterous? I believe it is.
If I found myself in Mrs. Sykes’ shoes, you better believe that I would relentlessy question the person who lost a child until I understood every hour, every second, every moment of the evening that child disappeared.
The only reason I could imagine not asking would be if I either already knew or were afraid of the answers.
Misty’s response to the renewed and very public focus on her? The woman-child who only five months ago proclaimed “Lawyers are for guilty people, I have nothing to hide,” has hired an attorney. According to the Palatka Daily News
(http://www.palatkadailynews.com/articles/2009/08/19/news/news01.txt)
Misty’s attorney Robert Fields said
Fields said he and Croslin-Cummings would work with investigators if needed.
“I don’t know where it’s going to go,” Fields said. “I think at this point I am going to have to be involved to some degree.”
Mr. Fields, I beg you. Get Misty to talk.
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