we are now unraveling investigators
theories about what happened to this
missing Putnam County girl who
disappeared 10 years ago this Sunday for
those of you who lived here at the time
you remember like we do the exhaustive
search for five year old Hayley Cummings
the Satsuma kindergartner vanished from
bed in the middle of the night on
February 10th 2009 she is still missing
no one has been charged in her
disappearance every day this week on the
morning show we've brought you every
aspect of the case now three of the
investigators have sat down with
Jennifer wah revealing for the first
time publicly what they believe may have
happened to this five year old and why I
want to sleep she was there she was gone
it seemed unfathomable a five-year-old
snatch from bed in the small rural town
of Satsuma this was the last person to
see the little girl her father's
girlfriend misty Crosland tearfully
recounts waking up to find the back door
of their home wide open and Hayley
Cummings gone her father was working a
midnight shift we're asking for the
public's help John merchant was the
detective in charge of the hailey
Cummings case for the Putnam County
Sheriff's Office in 2009 I sit here
today telling you hey that was not
abducted by a stranger he's now retired
he believes misty could solve the
mystery she knows where deliver us I do
believe that so does Robert Mathis who
also worked the case for the State
Attorney's Office because the story
didn't make any sense misty had told
them she was in bed sleeping right next
to hailey and Hailey's little brother
when the kindergartner disappeared this
child is five years old she's verbal
she's active someone's not gonna come in
there in the middle of the night and
grab the child and nobody wake up and
there was something else too there were
no signs anyone had forced their way
into the home and then of course we got
very quickly into mystique Roslin's
background you know Robert Hardwick
worked alongside Mathis and Merchants
all three say they do not believe the
five year old was too
by someone they think she died
accidentally hours after her father left
for work I think that somebody gave the
child some drugs or the child got some
drugs accidentally and she died and
people panicked and had to get rid of
the body
we've learned that hailey was seen at a
party in Palatka miles away from her
Satsuma home hours before she was
reported missing there was some
information that came in that she you
know she got ahold of a pill or some
type of a narcotic at that party and
passed away from it and then you know
the body was dumped but there's no
there's no there's no verification of
that there were so many people with that
that were claimed have been at this
party that claimed to have knowledge of
this party claimed to be involved in the
disappearance to this day none of it is
100% verified we've uh we actually went
into an area just south southwest Apopka
and drained a pond where you know
somebody had said that she left this
party in the trunk of a car and was put
into this pond we drained the pond and
there's no Haley
no body no physical evidence and
unverified information was not enough to
prove in court what these three believe
happened to Haley Cummings they couldn't
charge anyone and the case went cold
until months later a break
Missy Crosland was arrested on drug
trafficking charges I told myself that
day let's get ready today's today we're
gonna recover Haley tonight merchants
thought for sure if she had any
information she would talk the
seventeen-year-old was facing a 25 year
sentence if convicted an interview was
conducted with some FDLE agents and
misting and and she gave some indication
of the involvement of her brother and
Joe Overstreet her cousin Joe Overstreet
and that she had knowledge that Haley
was dumped in the in the water at the
Shell Harbor boat ramp and even
described a back even described a
concrete block even described a rope
hank Crosland Misty's brother and Joe
Overstreet had always denied any
involvement
investigators rushed to that boat ramp
500 yards from where Haley vanished
there was nothing turned up nothing no
sign of Haley as misty was being driven
back to jail that day in April 2010
Hardwick says he'll never forget what
she told them she's like never mind
I'm I'm not telling the truth I mean
just I didn't get it
to this day the investigators believe
mystique Roslyn holds the answers to
this little girl's whereabouts you know
just to say that you're there that you
witness something and and you you know
your original account is you woke up in
the middle of the night and and Haley's
missing and then now you're saying well
I watched my brother and Joe Overstreet
take her out of the house that's that's
confessing that you didn't tell the
truth the first time and that you do
have knowledge of what happened Mystique
Roslyn never gave investigators any more
information about Haley Cummings she is
currently serving a 25-year sentence for
trafficking and prescription medications
at Lowell Correctional Institution in
Ocala Florida I wrote her last month
requesting an interview here's how she
responded in part it reads I want to
know and get to the bottom of this just
as much if not more than the community
I love Haley and wish desperately for
any advancement and safe return of her
back to the family she denied having
anything to do with Haley's
disappearance again to me I have not
heard from her since then but of course
we'll keep everyone posted Jen if as
this detective said mr. Crosland has
given in effect a confession
why no charges so frustrating it's
exactly what I kept asking him as well
and the reality is is that all of the
investigators told me the same thing and
that is that she has told him a
different story so often that just an
alleged confession that she then later
rescinded is simply not enough to prove
that she did anything criminally wrong
and her brother and cousin deny what she
accused them of doing we don't even have
any idea if they even attended the party
that she was reportedly seen at and so
as a result no body no physical evidence
no case so many questions
what about Haley's family
they refuse to believe that this little
girl is not gonna help they refuse
without a body they believe she's alive
and they believe she's gonna come home
one day you know she would be 15 years
old today 15 and we hope she comes home
we hell week soon thank you if you know
anything about Hayley Cummings
disappearance call Crime Stoppers at
this number eight eight eight two seven
seven tips there is still a fifteen
thousand dollar reward for information
called in to the tip line that leads to
somebody being arrested and starting
Monday you can listen to the first
episode of our podcast into thin air it
has extended interviews with
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