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On February 21, 2013 the latest development in the HaLeigh Cummings mystery came via a press release from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office (PCSO).

The PCSO wanted to quell a developing rumor HaLeigh's body had been found.

"The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office has received numerous inquiries regarding the recovery of the skeletal remains of missing Haleigh Cummings. A rumor has spread throughout our community that her body has been located. This rumor is false, and this information has been vastly misreported and sensationalized," the release stated.
 
"Today, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office responded to an area in South Putnam County to check an area as a result of one of many tips received during this investigation. In an effort to prevent this false information from impeding our investigation, Sheriff Hardy wants to quell these rumors so we can maintain our focus on the criminal investigation," it said.

Sheriff Hardy's office notes the sensitive nature of the investigation and explains there will be no further interviews by officials.

Indeed - between a kidnapping and homicide investigation, law enforcement needs to be careful what they release.

Kidnapping or Homicide?

HaLeigh's dissapearnce has been classified as both a kidnapping and homicide. I am going to walk you through some of the finer details and developments in the case, to help you understand why the case has appeared to toggle between these two classifications.

Approximately two weeks after HaLeigh's dissapearance, a quasi anomoly appeared in the investigation when cadaver dogs hit on a dumpster near HaLeigh's home; but nothing was found. The dumpster hit was perplexing - if a body had been in the dumpster, where did it go? Why wasn't the dumpster hit on immediately the night HaLeigh was reported missing?

I will get back to that dumpster, but first, let's look at some other searches that followed.

Law enforcement conducted several different searches - focusing primarily on bodies of water. In June, 2009 law enforcement searched property in Baker County, Florida on the property of HaLeigh's maternal grandmother. In September, 2009 a pond was drained after receiving a tip.

It was never clear exactly what law enforcement was searching for during these targeted searches.

By early 2010, several persons of interest in HaLeigh's disaapearnce were in the custody of the PCSO on un-related drug charges. Misty Croslin and her brother, Hank Crolsin Jr., were talking to police.

While the Croslins were discussing various details about an alleged murder of the little girl, they did not confess to murdering HaLeigh. Rather, they provided statements implicating a family cousin from Tennessee named Joe Overstreet.

Law enforcement had long since interviewed Overstreet and cleared him. Polygraph tests adminsisred on Misty Croslin did not confirm the new story she was giving law enforcement.

In April of 2010, based upon information emerging from the jail, an exstensive search of the St. John's River was conducted by multiple agencies and counties including Putnam, Clay, Marion, as well as the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

Amdist this River search, the PCSO announced the misisng person case had been converted into a homicide investigation.

It is at this point you might begin to consider and ponder the idea that a person may have been killed around the time HaLeigh vanished; a person that was NOT HaLeigh Cummings.

Major Gary Bowling, director of law enforcement, PCSO, was asked by the Gainesville Sun how officers reached the decision that the case was now a homicide. Bowling said, "It's a lot of information over the last few weeks. None of us believe we are looking for an alive child anymore."

Fair enough.

Now - what Major Bowling said was very significant - because according to the director, the classification of the case affected the Amber Alert status. "You lose the Amber Alert out of that, but that's the only significant difference between any tool or investigative strategy that changes or diminishes," Bowling told the Paltka Daily News.

They Amber Alert was cancelled by the classification change.

Haleigh's new status will also keep the investigation on the path to her killer rather than the person that abducted her, Bowling said.

Director Bowling's additional ditty may have been a message to those hiding HaLeigh that they were going to be treated as child murderers from that point on - the gloves were coming off.

Timothy Charles Holmseth and HaLeigh's Amber Alert

The idea that HaLeigh was dead was to be an idea short-lived.

The PCSO was about to discover something from me, that would jump start the entire investigation, and will certainly change what you think about HaLeigh's welfare status.

Likewise, it will illumintate what law enforcement contninues to refer to as a homicide investigation.

On April 27, 2009 Putnam County Emergency Managment (PCEM) dispatched an ambulance to a facility called the HaLeigh Bug Center in Satsuma, Florida after receiving a 911 emergency call from Sarah Sheffield - the sister of Crystal Sheffield (HaLeigh's mother).

Now - why is this date so significant? It's significant because HaLeigh had been sighted at approximately 6:30 p.m., April 26 at the Tiger Express gas station in Brunson, South Carolina in the company of a man and woman traveling in the diretion of Florida. The man would later be picked out of a group of pictures by the witness, who said she recognized him to be the man shown in a photo of Jeremiah Regan, administrator, HaLeigh Bug Center.

During multiple interviews I condcuted, I learned about the late night incident at the HaLeigh Bug Center that resulted in a 911 call, and understood its shocking implications.

In the fall of 2010 I contacted Major (then Lieutenant) Johnny Greenwood, public information officer, PCSO, and asked him for the police report generated by the April 27, 2010 law enforcement activity at the HaLeigh Bug Center. Major Greenwood advised me there was no record of any such event - he said no police were at any such scene.

Of course, I knew better, because I had conducted so many interviws with so many people present at the scene, it was a no-brainer. It was even covered by the mainstream media at the time; including a news piece by T.J. Hart, news director, WSKY.

I decided to contact the department that handles records and emergency managment dispatches in Putnam County, Florida.

I called and I was told the computer system did not contain any records of any emeregncy managment personnell being dispatched to that location. The records had all dissapared from the computer. You can listen to the telephone call I made (below).

I contacted Major Greenwood again. I told him I had conducted exstensive recorded interviews that would prove what occurred at the HaLeigh Bug Center that night. I included the Jacksonville FBI in the email exchange. I became very forward with my request.

Major Greenwood then found the police report. He said it had not originally appeared because the right words were not being used in the search.

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Major Greenwood's explanation did not reasonably account for an entire event dissapearing from the mainframe computer system; but that's for another article.

The narrative of the police report did not, in any way, shape, or form match what I had been told about the events of that night. I had been told of multiple people - crying and arguing - cars coming and going, small children being placed in automobiles and quickly taken away. Blood everywhere - fighting, screaming, arguing, phone calls, and wailing babies.

MISSING AND ENDANGERED CHILD

Shortly therefater, HaLeigh's cancelled Amber Alert was re-instated (the first time in American history a cancelled Amber Alert was re-instated).

In this same time-window. Peggy Cone, the former lead detective of the HaLeigh Task Force (quietly) retired from the PCSO.

It is very clear - somebody took measures to hide the entire paper trail regarding the April 26-27, 2009 event. The subsequent administerial activities by the Sheriff's Office regarding Detective Cone provides a pretty good idea of where one might want to place their focus on that matter.

Major Bowling advised me of Cone's departure, and noted a new detective had been assigned to the case and it was very active.

HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION RE-VISITED

When law enforcement re-instated Haleigh's Amber Alert - the message and reality was loud and clear - HaLeigh was not dead. Obviously, this creates questions about the on-going "criminal investigation" being conducted by the PCSO, which they called a "homicide investigation" shortly before I exposed the HaLeigh Bug Center incident and hidden records.

HaLeigh Cummings was the first and only missing child in American history to have her Amber Alert cancelled, and then re-instated. .	F A C T
H A L E I G H		HaLeigh Cummings

Now - when we examine the lanaguage of the February 21, 2013 press release by the PCSO we note they do not refer to the case as a "homicide" investigation, as they did in the past. Now they call it a "criminal investigation."

Okay - now we will now jump back to the bizarre event that took place in February of 2010, when several German Shepherd cadaver dogs hit on a dumpster near Haleigh's home - but no body was found inside the dumpster.

I learned during an interview with a witness, who I am not going to name (but have named to PCSO) that a man was allegedly murdered in the home of Ronald Cummings shortly before HaLeigh was reported missing.

The homicide involved a gun and considerable activity took place with disposing of the body.

I have provided the names of the individuals that were allegdley present during the violent murder to the PCSO and FBI.

As you can see, the dissapearance of Haleigh Cummings can be classified as either a kidnapping investigation, homicide investigation, or criminal investigation.

It's all of them.

The Sheriff's Office knows exactly what time it is - they know exactly who they are looking at - they know exactly what they're dealing with.

They know who did what - to you know who.

Get em' guys.