this morning we continue our special
report Hayley Cummings into thin air ten
years ago yesterday this five year old
vanished from bed in Putnam County she
is still missing and we know based on my
extensive interviews with investigators
assigned to that case back in February
of 2009 that someone knows where the
little girl is in fact the detective who
worked it says that he believes several
people were likely involved in what
happened to Hayley but no one has been
charged no tip has led to any arrests
and we hope that will change
Alison lens is the executive director of
Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida good
morning thank you for being here all
last week we gave our viewers the phone
number to call for tips there may be
some as you and I have discussed though
who are hesitant to do that because
they're worried somehow that
Crimestoppers or Lauren law enforcement
going to show up knocking on their door
and are going to reveal their identity
what does Crimestoppers do to prevent
that from happening to allow people to
stay anonymous
so Crimestoppers the whole hallmark of
the Crimestoppers program is the
anonymity that's what makes us different
from just calling law enforcement we
guarantee that the entire process is
remains anonymous from when you make
that first phone call until you pick up
your cash reward our tips are protected
from public record in Florida so we go
to great lengths to make sure that our
callers remain anonymous so that means
for example if an attorney somehow gets
involved it's representing the person
who's arrested that attorney can't
somehow subpoena Crimestoppers and get
the tipsters information and identity
exactly okay so let's say I'm a tipster
and I call in do I have to give my
number do you have caller ID do you
record the conversation absolutely not
never we never record a conversation
there is no caller ID involved and the
call taker will never ask for any
identification or any identification or
any anything like sometimes for example
a caller will call in and say I think
this about my next-door neighbor
they'll always leave that part out of
the tip because that could identify that
person I guess technically so then the
Crimestoppers then reports that tip but
excludes that information if the tipster
somehow in
information that could reveal their
identity exactly so then if that's the
case you don't really know you don't
take the caller's name then how does the
caller end up getting their money so
when you call CrimeStoppers or you can
also go through our website or our
mobile app so when you first contact us
and you give your tip you're given a
code name or a code number and then
you're asked to follow up in about 30
days and at that point if your tip
resulted in an arrest then you're given
a second identifier so a second code
name or number so then once our board of
directors votes to approve that reward
and it's ready for you to pick up then
you're given instructions on where to go
to pick up your cash reward and all you
need is that code name and number no ID
nothing and if for some reason you call
back and that tip hasn't led to an
arrest for example after a month you
just keep calling right and as
originally I wanted to direct our
viewers also to the reason that we've
invited you on here and that is Hayley
Cummings disappeared 10 years ago
yesterday people know where she is they
can bring her home investigators have
said that they do not believe that she
is alive but this is not just about if
somebody calls with a tip about Hayley
because it's a murse missing-persons
case this isn't about necessarily an
arrest would they get money if they can
lead investigators to her whereabouts
and perhaps general body absolutely
absolutely the we have a reward of 15
thousand dollars and that's for
information that could lead to an arrest
or the recovery of Hayley and I want to
mention very quickly normally the reward
is not that high but you had an
anonymous donor yet back when this
happened to donated ten thousand dollars
ten years ago at the time people from
all over Putnam County and Oliver North
and Central Florida were sending in
money that they wanted to donate towards
the case and a lot of it we've sent back
over time but we had ten thousand
dollars sent to us anonymously they
didn't want it back they just want to
wanted it there for Haley so it is there
and it is available to anyone with
information remember no tip is too small
it is a cold case and they need your
help Allison thank you for being here I
do appreciate it and we have given you
the phone numbers the text the way for
you to text there's also a website as
well north east
lorda dot crimestoppers web.com which
will be included in this interview which
will post on the morning show page later
today if you missed any of our stories
also last week including our special
report about what investigators believe
happened to the five year old you can
watch them right now by searching news
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first episode of my news for Jax podcast
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and has extended interviews that you
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