ten years ago February 10 2009 this
little girl disappeared from bed in the
middle of the night and has not been
seen since then hours earlier it had
been a typical day for five-year-old
hailey Cummings she went to school at
browning Pierce Elementary for dead
picked her up at the bus stop before
leaving for work after she left the
school and this is her little bike that
she used to do wheelies with her friends
after school in the dirt road right
outside her Putnam County home later
that afternoon she ate dinner with her
little brother on the front porch and
then went to sleep but then something
happened
Hayley Cummings disappeared into thin
air
- frantic calls for help coming from
this mobile home in Satsuma a distraught
father's next calls are to relatives
when I picked up the phone he said my
baby's gone my baby's gone get here my
baby's gone
you know for sure they just mr. heighten
this job was last seen last night at her
residence at approximately 10:00 p.m.
her in the rear door of the residence
was found to be open
it's February 10 2009 boats joined the
search using sonar on the st. Johns
River
maybe Haley Cummings wandered away from
home and fell in but they found nothing
hello everyone I'm Mary bier thanks for
joining us I'm Tom wills an all-out
search continues right now for this
missing five-year-old Putnam County girl
hundreds scoured the woods a helicopter
searched by air it's a small town we
have 860 people we probably had that
many people on a daily basis a small
community on edge we were all worried
about our children's you know we just
wanted to make sure that that little
girl was safe we just don't believe that
the the child is is here it soon becomes
apparent Haley did not vanish by herself
the only clue pointing to that this back
door propped open when her father's
girlfriend woke up to find the five year
old gone from her bed Mystique Roslyn
said it was locked when they went to
sleep maybe somebody that wanted a child
real bad had seen her up at the bus
stops or something and just fell in love
with her like everybody else did and
following her home to see where she
lived and that maybe they came in got
her
national media picked up the story and
followed it for months one of the other
issues brought up today was news for Jax
had reporters in Hailey's neighborhood
24 hours a day for weeks
search is expanding hundreds of tips
grew into thousands but ten years later
this child is still missing and no one
has ever been charged in her
disappearance somebody be so evil a
child is tomorrow at 7:00 I say here
today telling you hey that was not
abducted by a stranger the investigator
assigned to the five-year-old's
missing-persons case revealing details
we've never heard before a stranger
comes inside the house and and picks up
the little girl and takes her out and
leaves a little boy there it makes no
sense
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why that retired detective believes what
he and other investigators were being
told made no sense is something we will
explain again tomorrow morning boy the
family's wounds as open and sore today
as they were ten years ago
well it's interesting to pers not even
just them but you know I went to Hills
hardware store which is in Epona Park
the mayor heard that I was in town and
came and spoke with us he heard him
the town clerk came as well everybody
remembers those days because it was so
atypical little children didn't
disappear they did wander off they
certainly even didn't even get lost in
Putnam County and the fact that this has
been unsolved for 10 years it's just so
unusual well it's a town where everybody
knows everybody born and raised most of
them there and have stayed there for
their entire lives
it is heart-wrenching and as we
discussed yesterday one of the reasons
that we are dedicating so much time to
this story is we know someone out there
knows something about what happened to
Hayley Cummings investigators are
confident of that so if you know
anything you are asked to please call
Crimestoppers
the number is eight eight eight two
seven seven tips
remember no information is too small
anything can help these investigators
this case really has gone cold there is
a fifteen thousand dollar reward if your
tip to that hotline leads to an arrest
that's a lot of money folks and that's
what Hayley would look like today that
age progression photo twelve years old
beautiful little girl