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When HaLeigh Cummings, 5, was reported missing from her bed in February of 2009 an Amber Alert was issued to get the public involved in the search.

Amidst the investigation and search for HaLeigh, prisoners in the custody of the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) began offering flimsy stories to authorities that included claims HaLeigh had been murdered in her home on the night she was reported missing.

The ‘confessions’ that directed blame at others, were made by bargaining prisoners that were failing polygraphs tests no matter what story they gave. Law enforcement refused to endorse or accept the new stories.

Amidst the ongoing controversy of HaLeigh’s ultimate fate, law enforcement cancelled the Amber Alert for the kindergartner.

In the fall of 2010, Timothy Charles Holmseth made a document request to the public information officer (PIO) at the PCSO. He requested all 911 records and police reports regarding an incident that occurred on April 26-27, 2009 at a facility called the HaLeigh Bug Center in Satsuma, Florida.

The PIO advised Holmseth there was no police officers dispatched to the Center that night, and advised he had no police report to give him.

Holmseth contacted the records department at Emergency Management in Palatka, and was advised by the clerk there was no record whatsoever of an ambulance or police officers being dispatched to the Center in Satsuma on April 26-27, 2009.

Holmseth contacted the PIO at the PCSO and reiterated his request for records. He provided information from interviews he conducted that proved witnesses told him a violent and bloody event that involved several children had occurred at that location on April 26-27, 2009.

Holmseth began to include detailed quotes and factual information in his email exchange with the PIO. When the PIO refused to admit any event had taken place, Holmseth began to include the FBI.

The PIO then ‘found’ the missing police report and provided it to Holmseth.

The police report had been hidden - the recordings to 911 and records of the from had vanished – but Holmseth won the battle.

Shortly thereafter, quiet personnel changes occurred at the PCSO, including an untimely ‘retirement’ of the former lead detective of the HaLeigh Task Force.

The Amber Alert was re-instated!