Haleigh Cummings Update 7 April

The black guy known as "Greg" who may or may not be the same person as the mysterious "man in black" seen by Haleigh Cummings' little brother, Ronald, has talked with investigators, both in law enforcement and with private investigators. William "Cobra" Staubs and investigating authorities say that he is not a person of interest. (Who is William Staubs to say who is and isn't a person of interest. He is just following in the footsteps of Leonard Padilla.) However, he did shed some light on the Haleigh Cummings investigation, especially concerning Misty Croslin Cummings.

According to an interview with Art Harris, Gregory Page, 28, is the black man that many witnesses have referred to as "Greg" in the investigation. He admitted to Harris that he had had a sexual fling with Misty Croslin the weekend before Haleigh went missing (February 9 - 10). They had partied together, doing drugs and consuming copious amounts of alcohol.

Gregory Page also admitted to having an extensive arrest record, but almost all of the charges (many drug related) had been dropped. "I'm light-complected, had a white father and my mother is black, so they call me 'White Boy' on the street," Page said in his interview.

But he insists that he was not with Misty Croslin the night Haleigh Cummings disappeared.

For what it is worth, Art Harris said that police and private investigators believe him.

So if the black person who was the "man in black" was not Gregory Page, and by not being with Misty Croslin on that night could not be the man that made the couch "bounce" in 4-year-old Ronald Cummings' recollection of the events of that night, then who is the African-American that visited that night? Or was there anyone at all, the police chasing down dead leads because the "man in black" never existed in the first place, simply the overly helpful suggestions of an impressionable young boy simply wanting to help his parents and the police find his missing 5-year-old sister.

Harris' sources told him that Misty had also admitted that she and Gregory Page had been together.

Page said that she had wanted to go back and patch up her relationship with Ronald Cummings. And that was the end of it.

So where does that leave the police on the Haleigh Cummings investigation?

Back where it all began, with Misty Croslin and the story she has altered a few times about how she woke in the middle of the night to find little Haleigh Cummings gone from her bed, which was located only a few feet from where she herself was supposedly sleeping. The police have treated the missing girl's case as an abduction almost from the beginning, having investigated the scene and found a back door propped open.

But there is only her word that the events happened the way she said they did. There were no witnesses. Ronald Cummings was at work. Some say that Misty wasn't even home most of the night, that the story was something she dreamed up on the spot when she discovered that Haleigh Cummings was missing.

But what about Ronald Cummings? Does he know more than he's saying? Could something have happened to Haleigh, then he and Misty Croslin cooked up a cover story? Was he part of it or was he simply covering? Or could it be that he just married Misty Croslin to keep her close, as has been suggested, because he suspects her? The 17-year-old was infatuated with Cummings, according to several sources, and it seems that Ronald Cummings may not have been above using her feelings for him if he felt it to be in his best interest.

The Haleigh Cummings investigation is nearly one month old. And every major lead that the police have that has been made public has led back to the 17-year-old Croslin. Yet, unlike the Caylee Anthony case in Orlando, there was no vehicle with decomposing matter or a month of suspicious behaviors and lies to help implicate a suspect. Nor have they found the remains of little Haleigh Cummings. There has been nearly no helpful forensic evidence to lead them in a certain direction.

The worst case scenario, of course, is that Haleigh Cummings is already dead. And the sad truth of the matter may be that Haleigh Cummings may be telling the truth to some degree. She may truly not know where Haleigh Cummings is or how she came to be missing or who might have taken her in the middle of the night. But it is highly doubtful that it happened with her in the same room.

It is more likely that Misty Croslin Cummings was either not at the mobile home at all when the 5-year-old disappeared or she was there but distracted by something she was involved in, such as an activity that would make a couch "bounce."

Or she knows exactly where Haleigh might be, what happened to her, and who took her, all of which makes her culpable, and she is intelligent enough, scared enough, or lucky enough to have said just enough to keep investigators guessing but not enough to get her arrested.

Looks like Ronald Cummings was an idiot to marry Misty. She's not mature enough to be married. She was out cheating with another man just weeks before she married him. Oh, and there is the little fact that she may be covering up what really happened to his daughter. Or even worse, that her irresponsibility may have led to her disappearance.

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