Misty on TV, Her Lawyer Quits and Tim Miller Talks

Posted: Saturday, 10 October 2009 6:54AM
Misty on TV, Her Lawyer Quits and Tim Miller Talks

TJ Hart

Haleigh's Stepmom Appears on CBS Early Show Friday--Point Fingers in Child's Disappearance

Misty Cummings, the stepmother of missing Satsuma, FL 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings--and the last person to see her, appeared on the CBS Early Show Friday morning and started pointing fingers at others in the disappearance of the youngster.

She said she feels "someone on the other side of the family has Haleigh."

Misty's Lawyer Quits

The St. Augustine Record reports Misty Cummings' lawyer, who failed to talk her out of going to New York for a nationally televised interview Friday morning, is no longer representing her.

The announcement came the same day his former client suggested someone on her husband's side of the family may know what happened to her missing stepdaughter.

"I can't really speak about the reasons, other than Misty doesn't need me any more," said Robert Fields, with the Palatka firm of Dowda & Fields. "She's an adult now; she's married.

"She can make her own decisions."

Cummings is the stepmother of HaLeigh Cummings, who was 5 years old when she disappeared from her father's Satsuma mobile home the night of Feb. 9.

Cummings, who was Ronald Cummings' live-in girlfriend at the time, was babysitting HaLeigh and her younger brother while their father worked a night shift as a crane operator.

She is the last known person to have seen the child.

Misty and Ronald Cummings were married March 12, one month after the child disappeared.

Ronald Cummings' attorney confirmed Tuesday that he was asking his wife for a divorce.

Fields said he contacted Cummings on Thursday after hearing she was planning to appear on the CBS Morning News on Friday.

She said she would not but flew to New York for the show anyway.

Fields said he texted her, notifying her of his decision, when the program aired. He didn't know if she actually got the message because she hadn't called him back as of Friday night.

Misty Involved in an Alleged Road Rage Incident

Earlier this week, Misty was stopped at gun point along with the driver of the vehicle she was in over a reported "road rage" incident on I-4 near Orlando. The victim says she thought one of the vehicle's occupants had a gun.

The driver has been identified as Donna Brock, a volunteer for Texas EquuSearch which is directed by Tim Miller.

Tim Miller, the man who coordinated some of the ground searches for missing 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings of Satsuma in February and who arranged for the child's stepmother to be polygraphed and hypnotized, spoke up about Misty Cummings and Donna Brock this week.

Miller spoke with 97.3 The Sky's news partner The Florida Radio Network. Rozie Franco conducted the interview and she asked Miller, " Who is Misty Cummings' friend, Donna Brock and what is she doing?"

Miller did not hesitate to answer.

Miller also stated in an earlier interview with FNN's Rozie Franco that he, too, was told early on that Misty wasn't at home the night Haleigh disappeared.

AUDIO: Tim Miller Talks About Misty's Gal Pal Donna Brock

AUDIO: Tim Miller Talks About Misty's Possible Whereabouts the Night of the Abduction


http://www.thesky973.com/pages/5406914.php

It looks like Misty's lawyer decided not to bother with her anymore since she ignored his advice about going on national TV.

Wow, Is about all I can say. The two audio links of what Tim Miller says happened is pretty stunning. We have all heard about Misty sleeping around, etc. but imo, this is just crazy.

Seems it was Tim Miller that was funding Misty's trip to Orlando. Donna, the person with Misty & she was with Misty to "play" Mother to Misty. Donna took Misty to the Mall, get her nails done, to church. Tim really thought she would break & confess. Tim believes that Misty is scared to death to go to jail. He also feels that Misty fears for her life because of the people she hangs out with. Tim states that he lelieves that Misty absolutely knows what happened to HaLeigh. He describes what happened at a small bar down the street. Says a girl came up and told him that Misty was not at home the night HaLeigh disappeared. Said Misty was at a party snorting Oxys & having a threesome with someone.

Where is HaLeigh?

Fysty, Tim Miller seems to think very highly of Donna Brock, so why was she and Misty stopped by the police for terrorizing another driver? Is she really that crazy, or was she just doing it because Misty wanted her to do it? I know the police did not charge them with anything, but if this woman is so highly respected by TM, I can't see her doing something like this.

I'm not sure, but I think that maybe Donna just went along with it and thought no harm would come of it. She may have thought it was just a funny prank.

IMO, If she (Donna) was asked to befriend Misty and try to get info, she may have done almost anything to get Misty to open up. Driving fast and flipping off drivers is a childish thing to do but Misty may have thought it was "fun" and Donna went along with it. Who knew somebody would think they seen a gun and call in a report?

I know most don't agree with me, but this was brilliant on TMs part. (IF he set it up and it isn't a coverup) What better way to get a young girl to open up? Make her think you believe her, give her the mother she never had and just enough rope.....

I agree, AJ... I can't help but believe there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Wasn't Donna the one driving the car???

You make some very valid points AJ. I'll give it some more thought! Thanks.

i have 100% believed from the get go that misty WAS NOT home the night haleigh went "missing" ..

her story never made sense.. especially about the waking up at 3 am to pee.. and noticed the door was WIDE open when she walked to the bathroom.. there was a bathroom 4 feet away from her, why walk clear across the trailer to another bathroom.. and the NG producer showed plain as day, that the door misty claimed was wide open, closed on its own .. there was no way..

misty came home JUST before ronald got home from work, noticed haleigh was gone, and panicked.. that explains why 911 wasnt called until after ronald was home.. the phone calls misty made B4 ronald got there were her friends/relatives.. plenty of time to call 911, BUT NO, she had to get her story straight quick fast, and in a hurry before daddy came home to no daughter..

i think they need to prosecute this girl for lying to LE.. put her behind bars, maybe the little birdie will sing then.. something happened to this little girl when no one was paying attention, i think misty prob found her dead, and after that, who knows??

Haleigh Cummings – Step Mom’s Lawyer Files For Divorce!
Posted on October 10th, 2009 by Simon Barrett in Op-ed, crime

Against her lawyer’s advice Misty Croslin decided to take a trip to NYC and appear on the CBS early show. What she felt she had to gain from national coverage is anyones guess, but the result is, Misty once again has no legal representation. Her appearance on the CBS Early Show came as no surprise, it is more a question of motive?

First Coast News reports:

Cummings will no longer be represented by Putnam County attorney Robert Fields. He says he feels he has “navigated her through the most difficult parts of this matter,” and he “wishes her well.”

Fields advised Croslin-Cummings not to go to New York for the nationally televised interview Friday morning.

From this simple statement you can gain much.

Misty Croslin has much to learn, but at 17 years old, who does not?

I was talking to an author yesterday who happens to be an attorney. We were talking about life in general, and the subject of Haleigh Cummings did not come up. He did however say something that hit a chord. Clients that ignore legal advice are destined for a bad result.

Misty Croslin may be too young to realize the severity of the situation she finds herself in. My sources, and they are very strong sources, are still saying that Misty is not the culprit, but she knows way more than she is saying.

The longer this case continues, the stranger it becomes.

A fine example of that statement is Misty’s new ‘well heeled’ friend Donna Brock. She has ties to Tim Miller’s TES organization, and Tim himself admitted that he has given money to Donna to pay for Misty’s vacation.

I thought Tim Miller and Texas EquuSearch were involved with missing people, not trying to beat the Make A Wish Foundation!

No doubt this subject will crop up on tomorrows radio show

In fact we learned quite a lot on last weeks program.

Of equal interest is what Ronald Cummings is doing. I suspect that after his last ‘Miss Nancy’ show he needs to find another outlet. It was pretty clear that even Miss Nancy, his biggest supporter, was getting just a little ticked off.

When talking Atom Bombs, and Atomic Energy in general there is a term ‘Critical Mass’. The search for missing Haleigh Cummings has reached that level.

For those that actually cover the story rather than slam those that do, I applaud you!

Simon Barrett

http://www.bloggernews.net/122585

In the 911 call on the road incident The caller states that she is being followed by the vehicle Misty is in, but she also has the tag number. This incident was set up to try and spur something. I don't know who did this to Haleigh. I want justice done to the responsible
person. However, after listening to Tim Miller I was surprised to hear him call the people of Florida Hillbillies. I'm very conflicted on this. Misty has not broken down tactic after tactic has been used on her(Such as the lie detector test which we all know is a bunch of bull) and she still holding up and has not broken yet.
I believe she was doing something she wasn't supposed to be doing. She left the kids at home alone sleeping
and someone came in and got haleigh. When she returned home
is when she found Haleigh missing. She knows what happened but like Tim Miller said she is afraid for her life.

I tend to agree with you Coop, I think this was staged.

Welcome to the most fantastic site on the internet. I'm sure you are going to like it here, and will contribute a lot of information for us too.

First, Welcome Coop! So nice to meet new members. I hope you enjoy the site. Please let us know if we can help you with anything.

I always thought that Tim was one of the good guys, BUT...Knowing what I know now about his drinking problem, Cobra talking a while back about "everyone meeting up in a bar" (when things went to hell) and Tim talking about the tip from the bar, I think Tim needs to stay out of the bars & do his job. He shouldn't be allowed to interfere with an investigation. IMO, That is exactly what he did by paying for & setting up Donna Brock to be with Misty.

Misty knows what happened to Haleigh because she is the reason Haleigh went missing. In my opinion, Misty took out her anger at Ron on Haleigh because she couldn't fight back. Ron & Misty had a terrible fight on the night Haleigh went missing. Misty didn't even call 911 until Ron got home and told her to make the call. WHY? Doesn't she want Haleigh found? From all of her actions, and words, I would say that she doesn't want that to happen. She claimed that she was asleep, yet the police said that the beds were made when they arrived. WHY? She said that she had been washing clothes, but, there was no laundry detergent anywhere to be found. How could she NOT hear someone coming into that trailer? A trailer is not big, so you can hear every sound, including creaking & squeaking. Haleigh's bed was right next to her, so how could she NOT hear anything? Her story, and that's exactly what it is, a story, does not make sense. She can't even get the time line of what she was doing that night straight. Innocent people do NOT avoid talking to the police, they cooperate. Misty "claims" that she would do anything to get Haleigh back, but, what has she done to help find her? NOTHING.

To anyone who thinks Misty had nothing to do with Haleigh's disappearance, I can't help but wonder if they would leave their child, or grandchild alone with Misty. Misty is trying to blame everyone else for what happened to Haleigh. What she is really trying to do is take the focus off her, which is right where it belongs.

I don't know if Misty did it or not? There is a very good posibility she did or knows what happened, but There is still that posibility she didn't. There is a lot of evidence that point fingers at her and it looks really bad on her. I still feel uneasy about saying she did it because of the following reasoning:
The time is there for her to have done it but, she would have had to commit a murder dispose of the body to the point where the police and search teams could not find it. Get rid of all evidence. keep the little brother sleeping. Come up with a story that despite some so called inconsistencies has stuck to it. For it to happen this way it would have to been planned.
Over and over the Police have questioned her
People have tried to trick her such as TM having someone befriend her and staging the road rage incident.
Nancy Grace as well as the public applying tremendous pressure on her. She has still not buckled.
I think that someone came in and got Haleigh makes a lot more sense. I think Misty knows something and is involved in someway.

Hi, coop!

Welcome to RC! While I understand what you're saying, I still believe that Misty knows where Haleigh is, and that she's not alive. It's quite possible that something happened to Haleigh before Ron went to work, and that he's involved as well. It sure would explain the fight they had, and why Ron won't say anything against Misty.

You know its so funny but you americans find people guilty before they are even brought to a trial in front of 12 of there peers wow you want to know something here in canada we give people a chance to clear themselves and dont get me wrong i am not saying this girl yeah little girl herself Misty is innocent but wow you have to let herself prove she isn't guilty.And also you americans and there talk shows this is not a way too prove your innocents especially that wack job Nancy Grace she is the worst one she thinks your diffently guilty before you can prove anything.I feel so bad for you people where are your morals not much in the USA is there. Assman

So i am sure that my last post will piss allot of you Americans off and so be it but i sit back and see what the good old USA does to so many people lets start with your health care system shit your people are dying but if you don't have insurance to bad your pretty much worm food what the hell here in canada guess what the gealth care system is free as long as your a canadian citizen.And how about the wars your army is involved in give me a break thats a money grab lets see oil oil oil oil bush bush bush and all for what all these young men and women getting killed for oil oil oil yeah thats good morals wow wake up USA your being treated like puppets it just scares me to know thatyou people live so close to us wow its very scary stand up for yourselves really and get some morals.Assman

assman2010 wrote:You know its so funny but you americans find people guilty before they are even brought to a trial in front of 12 of there peers wow you want to know something here in canada we give people a chance to clear themselves and dont get me wrong i am not saying this girl yeah little girl herself Misty is innocent but wow you have to let herself prove she isn't guilty.And also you americans and there talk shows this is not a way too prove your innocents especially that wack job Nancy Grace she is the worst one she thinks your diffently guilty before you can prove anything.I feel so bad for you people where are your morals not much in the USA is there. Assman

assman2010 wrote:So i am sure that my last post will piss allot of you Americans off and so be it but i sit back and see what the good old USA does to so many people lets start with your health care system shit your people are dying but if you don't have insurance to bad your pretty much worm food what the hell here in canada guess what the gealth care system is free as long as your a canadian citizen.And how about the wars your army is involved in give me a break thats a money grab lets see oil oil oil oil bush bush bush and all for what all these young men and women getting killed for oil oil oil yeah thats good morals wow wake up USA your being treated like puppets it just scares me to know thatyou people live so close to us wow its very scary stand up for yourselves really and get some morals.Assman

The whole point of the site is to DISCUSS the cases. I think we do that. I also think we all have an idea of what we believe happened that night. Is Misty a "little girl" YES BUT...SHE is the one who wants to play GROWN UP. That was HER choice.

Funny, YOU seem to be begrading "Americans" for jumping to conclusions, for having "No Morals" as you so very kindly put it. Well, as the founder around here, it's MY impression that YOU are jumping to conclusions about ALL AMERICANS as well as (from what I can see in your lovely posts) Where the hell are your "Morals". Would I come into your house and say such things about Canada or Canadians?? I think not!

I don't know who did what to HaLeigh. But the two things I keep hearing people say are:

1) Misty's story has not changed since day one.

2) Misty is only 17 and she's not smart enough to keep up this charade against all of LE or to not crack by now.

My first thought is, I'm not truly sure what has actually come out of Misty's mouth or when, anymore. So, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say, maybe some of the variations were in the reporting of the story and not in what she actually told LE. That is, after all, the only people who matter. However, remember it is LE, that is saying she is lying and has been inconsistent.

And the other thing I keep thinking is something my dad used to tell me. If there is something you don't EVER want anyone to know, then tell NO ONE, EVER! Not your dearest friend, your spouse, your parent or your child, NO ONE! That is the only way, to ensure that NO ONE EVER finds out. And that, my friends, is exactly what I think Misty is doing. She tells her "story" almost like a robot now.

As for TM, I cannot fault the guy AT ALL. Honestly, I think he has seen so much of this and he just can't stand it anymore. I think he has gotten very emotionally attached to this case and Caylee's. It's probably really just wearing on him. Hail, I say try whatever you can to find a missing or deceased child. I agree with Mark NeJames. Tim should be applauded. He's trying something. No one else is getting anywhere with that dysfunctional group of yahoos. And I think he is truly concerned for Misty's safety. He should be and so should she!