tv Nancy Grace HLN April 23, 2010 8:00pm-9:00pm EDT
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breaking news tonight. satsuma, florida. a 5-year-old girl tucked into bed. five hours later she's gone. daddy comes home from the night shift to find not a trace of little haleigh. the last person to see her alive? new stepmother misty croslin, who takes to the airwaves claiming she's innocent. but even in one brief interview she can't keep her story straight, including a 180 on a lie detector. she flunked. little haleigh's own father, ronald cummings, and babysitter turned stepmother misty croslin both handcuffed, arrested, booked. charges? drug trafficking. bombshell tonight. is croslin set to take a plea deal? misty croslin goes all the way to the florida governor whining
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about her treatment. this as we obtain more secretly recorded jailhouse tapes. hours of croslin yakking to mommy and daddy. you name it. all caught on video. as usual, it's all about misty croslin. whining about life behind bars. croslin breaking down in tears, actually blaming the little girl's kidnap for ruining her life. repeatedly referring to the kidnapper as "he." this while croslin's own brother blames their alleged drug operation for haleigh's disappearance. but why? as police comb those jailhouse tapes for clues tonight, where is 5-year-old haleigh? today's a very bad day for
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me. >> she was taken to the crime scene, to the river. >> tomorrow's going to be a bad day for me, too. >> the detective showed her what they had found. >> i was freaking out p. >> she was shown bones. >> shown bones. >> bones and remains. >> i know that bones have been found in the river. >> she knows something. >> human bone or animal bone? >> she was pointing a spot out on the river. >> it was crazy. >> show her the bones. >> they put her in the car with brother tommy croslin. >> and let's say she has the reaction -- >> i'm serious. i was like oh, my god. >> those three grandkids of mine is involved in this, and i don't know why. >> the cops said there was a whole bunch of bricks -- >> it was brick, like a brick on the floor. >> but i've never seen any bricks at all. >> they have no remorse or something. >> i'm not hiding anything. >> i didn't do it. >> i don't know where she is. >> if i find whoever has my daughter before y'all, do i'm killing him. i don't care. i'll spend the rest of my life in prison. i'm telling you, you can put it on recording, i don't care.
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>> i would do it. i would take it. three years in and four years out. i'd take it. i'll take it and run. it's like but i would be in like a boot camp since i'm so young. if they put me to prison, it'll be like in a boot camp. >> good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. bombshell tonight. is misty croslin, babysitter turned stepmother, the last person to see little haleigh cummings alive, set to take a plea deal? to what? croslin goes all the way to the florida governor complaining about her treatment. this as we obtain even more secretly recorded jailhouse tapes. >> people are starting to talk. >> i don't know where she is. >> people are starting to cooperate. >> there's nothing to break me on. >> i think she's come to realize that, you know, she's in trouble. >> i see a smile. >> there are reports of two cinder blocks retrieved from the river. >> brick on the floor. >> and my sources telling me
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police have obtained yellow rope from tommy croslin's home. sxwli can't help you find her body. i don't know where she is. >> they told the family it's time, they have enough evidence that they can start making funeral arrangements for little haleigh. >> bring her back. >> i know somebody took my little girl. >> just want our baby to come home. >> it brought the family members in to the sheriff's office. >> he's not as strong at home as he is on tv. >> they told him it was now a homicide investigation. >> it was the worst thing i've ever been through in my entire life. >> misty is being very coy about answering the questions. >> she says, "but nanny, i was scared." >> she has not told the truth. >> this is something you should have said a long time ago. >> truth is still within misty. >> people think i have something to do with it. if i had something to do with it, i knew where she was, we wouldn't be sitting here today. >> they ain't never seen us, how we lived before. we always had nice stuff, nice things. >> been up and down all our life, but we've always come out out of it.
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but this time i ain't never -- this time's terrible. >> i never thought, ever thought this would ever be like something to even think about happening. >> me neither. no way. >> seen this [ muted ] on tv, you know, i didn't think it was -- you know, it could ever happen to us. >> they're out to get you, and they got you. >> they can't charge me with stuff that i didn't do. >> accessory, i guess. >> they can't charge me with all these -- yeah, but they can't just charge me for trafficking. >> is she crazy? eleanor. eleanor odom, she is behind bars, suspected in the murder of a 5-year-old little girl, and she's saying she can't go to boot camp, which is a diversion program where you basically go to a youth boot camp for a couple of months and then you get cut loose? >> i know. it's hard to believe. she doesn't even have any offer of that that we know of right now, and that would certainly be a generous offer considering all the drugs she was selling. >> and let me make it clear.
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she is not a formal suspect. the police have not named her a person of interest or a suspect. what we do know is she's the last person to see 5-year-old haleigh alive. now with breaking news, investigative journalist art harris. art, what can you tell us? >> i can tell you, nancy, that as i reported on artharris.com last week, she was flunked a polygraph, a police polygraph, and now i know that her brother took one on thursday. no results announced. but this is something that we're all holding our breath about because if tommy croslin passes his test then it's back on misty. if he doesn't, then all bets are off. >> well, it would seem to me, art harris, if she flunked yet another, i think this would be the fourth polygraph. it's not off misty. it's not on anybody else. it's still on misty croslin. >> that's true. but there would be other possibilities beyond misty if tommy croslin knocked on the
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door of the trailer that night, says no one was home. we don't know what the questions were that he was asked. but if there was any deception shown, nancy, his story could be held up to the light of the truth. >> okay. art, with me investigative journalist art harris. what can you tell me about the conditions surrounding her most recent polygraph that we now learn, you've learned she flunked? >> i can tell you, nancy, that she was scheduled to take one a few days before. she was too sick to take it. they set it up again. it was given in the st. johns county jail building, administrative building. several detectives were there who'd been working on the case. an independent polygraph operator, who is a veteran -- >> who? >> a woman named patty knight from a nearby county came over to do it. it was done between 5:30, 8:30 p.m. in the evening. and she showed deception on every question. >> on every question. how did you find that out? >> nancy, i'll just say that i spoke with people who are familiar with the test.
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>> do you have any idea what the questions were? >> well, we know that the question that she had -- that was raised in letters she wrote to her relatives revolved around the scenario she named was that her brother, tommy, and her cousin, joe, the mystery cousin from tennessee were at the trailer that night and she claimed that she saw them with haleigh, that they came over to steal a gun from her husband, ron cummings, and the gun wasn't there. or then boyfriend. and so tommy left, and cousin joe was mad and took haleigh. of course, they are not suspects. cousin joe has denied all involvement. he has a lawyer. he's been interviewed twice by law enforcement. and he is right now in the clear. >> and so she flunked the polygraph, all about that scenario. so that is just a crock of lies, right? >> nancy, we don't know what to believe at this point. >> to jean casarez, legal correspondent in session. jean, after taking a listen to all of these newly obtained jailhouse recordings, what is she talking about a plea deal?
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who has offered her, if anybody, a jail for three years? or is that just something she dreamed up behind bars? >> or is this something her attorney has talked to her about? well, what's interesting, nancy, she's charged with eight felony counts, charged as an adult, with prescription drug trafficking. she's saying that she will enter a plea deal as a youthful offender. that's a juvenile. and that means she would go to a juvenile institution until she is 21, and then she said she'd get out on probation. so that's what she's believing. but with these counts does she really even know what the reality is? >> unleash the lawyers. eleanor odom, prosecutor, atlanta. renee rockwell, veteran defense attorney out of atlanta. peter odom, defense attorney also out of atlanta. to you, peter odom, there is no -- first of all, it sounds to me like her idea that she's getting from a jailhouse lawyer, in other words, someone that's been around the block several times and thinks they know the system, telling her what she can
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hope to get on these drug charges, what do you make of it? >> i think that what she's talking about, a three-year sentence or a boot camp sentence, is probably what's going to happen with her. nancy, keep it in perspective. all the drugs that she sold in their entirety could fit in a ziploc bag, in a quarter-sized ziploc bag at that. it's $4,000 worth of drugs. >> wait. you are misleading the viewers. first of all, elizabeth, please pull up the video of miss croslin doing a drug deal. yeah, it would only fill up a ziploc bag. but it's because it's tiny, tiny oxy ko yycodone and oxycontin p eleanor, so you can fill up a bag with like 1,000 of those. >> right. and remember, it's a trafficking amount. that's a lot of drugs, nancy. >> what about it, renee? >> and not only that, nancy, but eight different counts. now, at the end of the day a three-year sentence in a boot camp is not unreasonable, but she's going to have to come to the table with something, and it's going to have to be something about the
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disappearance of the baby. >> you are seeing video right now, undercover police surveillance from a pinhole camera inside a police undercover car. misty croslin leading the drug sale. and there you go with the first ziploc bag full of illegal drugs. >> hey. i'm in the car with him. where do you want me to meet you? >> i haven't seen him. >> well, he said he didn't -- he wasn't going to leave you, he's going to stick with you to the end. >> okay. >> he just -- he just wishes that you would be straight with him because he's your lawyer and he's not going to do nothing to harm you. >> i know. i am, though. it always happens.
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if you could do something to help yourself, man, you'd be home with us. >> daddy, there's nothing i can do. i've told them everything. told them everything i know. if i knew anything else, they would know. really. they would. i don't want to be here, man. i don't want to be at this place. this place is not nowhere i want to be. it's not scary or nothing. it's just i don't want to be here. i want to be able to do my -- have my own freedom and not treated like a dog. of course i do. i just want them to do whatever they're going to do with me and let's get it done and over with because i'm tired of sitting in this [ muted ] jail. i mean, okay, what's the point of me sitting in the jail? i could be at home sitting doing the same thing, waiting for court. you know? i don't understand. now i have to wait another freaking no telling how long for
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court. >> you're head for the long haul, baby. hard road. i just wish you would have listened to me in the beginning. >> i know, i wish i would have too. that first day when you were -- when you said that. i should have just listened and i wouldn't be in this mess. >> that's why i cussed you out and everything. told me to mind my own business. >> i have $1.3 million. >> told me to mind my own business. >> i know. >> you was my business. >> i know. i know. i wish my bond wasn't this high because i could bond out. >> hey, it's your first time ever getting in trouble, you know. >> my first time ever being in trouble they're going to put me in $1.3 million. >> it's because they think you know more than what you're saying. >> i know. >> out to marlaina schiavo, our producer on the story. marlaina, what is she -- why is she contacting the governor? >> she said that she's going to write to the governor because she doesn't like how she's being
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treated in jail. she's in protective custody, and she thinks that that's a punishment. meanwhile, we spoke to the jail, and it's for her protection because if they put her in general population she might get hurt. so -- and she also says that she doesn't like the food, nancy, and she wants him to look into it. >> doesn't like the food and she wants the governor to look into it. okay. renee. renee rockwell, everything she writes to the governor will be admissible in court. >> yes. but i'm pretty sure she's just going to be writing about the food conditions. and nancy, everything that she's writing to anybody's going to be admissible in court. unless she's writing to her attorney. so all these letters she's sending to all these relatives about what's going on, what happened, what didn't happen, those are absolutely fair game for the prosecution. >> to dr. jeff gardere, psychologist, author of "love prescription," dr. jeff, here's the bottom line. when you see her talking to her father, saying "i've told them
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everything i know" and break down crying and talking about wanting to go home, you've got to put that against the backdrop of four failed polygraphs, a failed voice stress test, and either a refusal or inability to go under hypnosis. if she really didn't know anything, she wouldn't be failing four different polygraphs. four polygraphs. >> absolutely. this is a woman who's not only immature, young woman who's not only immature, but also a sociopath. we can just look at the fact that she was involved with haleigh cummings, the way that she was, the way that she didn't really take care of her, and then finally, with the eyes of the world looking at you, nancy, knowing law enforcement is monitoring you, then you get involved in drug deals. this is insanity. >> jean casarez, the reality is looking at her, you want to believe her. you want to believe anyone
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that's talking and take them at face value and believe them. but you can't because we know that she flunked four polygraphs. private polygraphs, police polygraphs. voice stress test. you name it. she flunked it. >> now, let's add more facts to what you just said. she just said in these recently released jailhouse tapes, basically without naming a name, she said she knows who did whatever happened to haleigh, that he, singular, is walking around free while she's in there. you hear her father respond that from the very beginning they've told that to law enforcement. they've done nothing. and we know art harris has clued us in to who "he" is. well, if police have done nothing, that's because they have no probable cause, they have no evidence at all of this lone male person. >> as soon as they get this haleigh case wrapped up, they'll let us alone. i understand. i understand them to an extent,
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just got to get your butt out of there. do whatever you've got to do to get out of there, misty. >> i am, daddy. i want out of here so bad. they can put me on an ankle bracelet, you know. that's even -- that would even -- being in jail, this isn't even a lesson. okay? if i'm outside, out in the open and knowing i can't leave the house, you know, that's even tempting. >> there's somebody when your mom was in court last time there was this girl and guy got caught selling some pills to an undercover cop and they gave them two years' house arrest and two years' probation. >> that's what -- i would love for that, man. give me two years probation and two years house arrest, man. give me six years. i don't care. >> straight out to leonard padilla, bounty hunter who offered to bail croslin out of
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jail. of course, her attorney would have nothing to do with it because his condition was she helped tell him what happened the night haleigh went missing. leonard padilla joining us out of sacramento via skype. what do you make of the now bombshell that she's flunked a fourth polygraph? there's no way around it. she is lying. >> well, nancy, i don't think she could tell the truth and pass. her mind is so convoluted with what happens in her life, especially that particular evening, that there's people that have many, many doubts as to whether she could pass a lie detector test. even if she told the truth. now, art harris says that tommy took a lie detector test thursday, which obviously hasn't been publicized. if he'd have passed it -- if he took it thursday and he passed it, his attorney would be all over the media with it. >> man, you're not kidding. >> so if he did take one thursday, if he took one thursday, and it ain't been
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publicized for the past week -- >> yeah, it can't be good. >> i can only wonder what happened. >> paul penzone, let's talk about what padilla just said. paul penzone joining us out of phoenix, director of prevention program childhelp.org, former sergeant with the phoenix pd. paul, i think even if you were stoned out of your brain that night you still would be telling the truth this many months later on a polygraph test when you say "i don't remember. i did the laundry-i went to sleep, she was lying four feet away from me." i don't think that being high as a kite the night of the incident would prevent her from passing a polygraph this many months later. >> you're absolutely correct because it's about telling the truth, not so much her ability to remember every detail. as you know, i was a narcotics detective for many years and i've interviewed hundreds if not thousands of people. she lacks any remorse, any conflict whatsoever in what occurred because she's hiding something for herself still.
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at this point i'm comfortable to go ahead and say that i'm going to call it a homicide. >> if somebody had something to do with it, let them fry. so be it. >> what, miss hollars, could be their possible motivation for killing a 5-year-old girl? >> i don't know. those three grandkids of mine is involved in this, and i don't know why. but i sure would like to know why. >> sources telling cnn affiliate wjxt that two cinder blocks have been taken out of the st. johns river. forensic testing now taking place. >> i'm not going to discuss the particular items that i've taken for analysis. >> the cops said there was a whole bunch of bricks about 50 feet away. but i've never seen any bricks
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at all. >> i think she's come to realize that, you know, she's in trouble. >> she said joe overstreet and tommy wrapped the rope around haleigh and carried her to the dock at the st. johns river and put a block around the other end of the rope and throwed her in the river. >> artharris.com reporting law enforcement has found a yellow rope inside brother tommy croslin's home. >> i can't help you find her body. i don't know where she is. >> harris's sources say it could be the possible murder weapon. >> we are like dogs in here in cages. >> yeah, i know. >> i'm serious. they make us -- we're like -- everybody else is allowed to do you know, come out. we are dogs in here. >> well, don't. i might be in there myself here real soon. and your mom. >> they treating us like we're dogs. i really am. i'm starting to go off. i'm serious. is it trafficking when you go state to state or place to
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place? come on. >> no. trafficking i guess is just selling. but you -- it wasn't you selling, anyways. >> exactly. >> i know that, and they know that. but they just -- they've got -- they got you. they picked -- >> they got me, but they ain't got me for all of them. >> they targeted you and they got you. >> i know. >> that's all it was about. >> i know. i'd be all right because when i get done and get out there are -- i'm going to do what i've got to do, but i'm not doing -- i'm not taking the ride for all these charges, dad. i'm not. i'm not taking it. bays didn't do all of it. that's not right. it's not at all. it makes me angry when i think about it. >> okay. that is b.s., art harris. she did do it. we've got it on video. my point is forget about the
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drugs, which we're about to show you her doing the deal. you've got ron cummings in the back seat riding along. liz, do you have the sound that goes with that? yes, no, maybe. liz, do you have the sound? okay. pump it up so we can hear it. she's counting out the drugs. >> i'm not an accountant. >> oh, man. five minutes. >> she looks like she's high as a kite right there. >> hi. i'm in the car with him. where do you want me to meet you? you want me to just go to my house? yeah, i'll go to -- >> oh, lord, please don't let -- >> no, don't do that. >> so this other dude, you -- >> he's got what? >> 20 of them. >> 20 of them.
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so 20 times five would be -- >> 25. >> let's -- i'll call my brother-in-law, see how much time before they're planning on going. going to do like last time, drop them at -- >> i'm mobile. >> yeah. >> so art harris, her denying this over and over to her father, she's on video. we're about to show you more. my point is if she's so convincing, crying and anguished, that she didn't sell dope, what about her denial she had anything to do with misty's disappearance? excuse me, with haleigh's disappearance. >> nancy, well, she's trying to rewrite the subtitles of what we've actually seen with our own eyes here. 80% of the times, according to statistics, the last person or family members who have seen a child are somehow involved, according to the fbi.
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so she is denying and denying. but you know, deception may just be in her dna, nancy. and no one can tell if she's telling the truth about anything. she grew up this way. her grandmother blames her parents. i've talked to her, flora hollars, in tennessee. for how she was raised. and this is just something that -- >> okay, art, art, art, please, do not start about how it's her mommy and daddy's fault and it's her grandparents and they said this. no, they were not there in the home the night haleigh went missing. so don't throw any psychobabble on me. this is -- you are right. statistically the last person with the child is what responsible for what befell them. and i want to go to paul penzone on that out of phoenix, arizona. she's the last one with her. her story doesn't make sense. she's failed four polygraphs. her story has changed. it has altered. the many times she tells it it changes. what does that say to you, penzone? >> we have to be honest with ourselves and say there are people, as your earlier guest stated, that are sociopaths. they have no moral fiber.
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they don't care about others other than themselves. so she's willing to lie at all costs to save her own soul. if she's not involved in this, i would be amazed. i would put every year of my experience in law enforcement on the fact she is involved in the disappearance of this beautiful baby. >> to dr. michael hunter, forensic pathologist, medical examiner, joining us out of new york tonight, dr. hunter, could there be any evidence left on the body of haleigh cummings even if, worst case scenario, she were left out in the elements? >> well, if she's left out in the elements, then given the time frame, she's going to be skeletal. and i think probably completely skelet skeletal. i think what a medical examiner can do, an anthropologist can do, can define possibly what injuries maybe she sustained. head trauma, penetrating and perforating wounds such as gunshot wounds and stab wounds. other than that you're really left to the circumstances behind her disappearance and her discovery. now, as far as evidence, dna,
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and so forth that may tie someone to it, i really doubt that that's going to be possible. >> and to you, eleanor odom, what do you make of it? >> i completely agree, nancy, you're not going to find that. that doesn't mean a person can't be prosecuted for murder even if there's not as much evidence as we'd like, dna and that kind of thing. you can still hold them accountable. >> plus finding the body out in the elements or perhaps partially buried would indicate of course it was not an accidental death. everybody, as we go to break, happy birthday to south carolina friend kathy evans. she likes classic moves, reading, and the love of her life, great niece abby. happy birthday, kathy. >> i loved haleigh. >> me too. >> and they know i didn't have nothing to do with it. i was in the damn hospital. why you going to treat me like that? >> thaws that's just -- they're
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i'm not taking the ride for all these charges, dad. i didn't do all this. i'm not taking all these charges. i didn't do all that. i'm not doing it. the ones i'm not doing anything with in the video is the one i'm not doing it. i'm not. i'm not. i'm taking that [ muted ] to trial because i'm not going down for something that i didn't do. i should not be -- >> renee rockwell, have you noticed how she keeps referring to "he" as the kidnapper? >> i noticed that. and i like the way she says, nancy, that she's not going to take it, she's not going to take the rap for all that.
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here's the deal. you've got eight trafficking counts against you. the prosecutor, if she wants to go to trial, is going to get the strongest one. there's not going to be a trial. nancy, what these law enforcement want and are begging for is just for one straight story. right? >> well, she's -- >> and then she can bargain her way out of there. maybe. but they just can't get it from her. >> and i imagine the reason they're not getting it from her, peter odom, is because it implicates her. >> she's scared of something more than she's scared of the prosecutors and jail. and i can't speculate as to what. but she clearly knows something that she's not saying, and something very powerful is keeping her from saying it. >> i would think that something may be, eleanor odom, the florida death penalty. >> well, very well, because clearly she knows something about haleigh, as we've all said she was the last one to see haleigh alive.
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>> and statistically, eleanor, what is the likelihood that somebody else came into that home and took the child with nobody waking up, nobody hearing anything, when the child was about three feet away from her? >> highly unlikely. she knows something. she can't open her mouth without lying. it's just disgusting, nancy. >> marlaina, what do you know? >> well, i do know that her attorney says he's going to stick with her, but he is begging her to give her -- give him a straight story. and we also know that tommy, her brother, his lawyer dropped him as of yesterday because he doesn't want to deal with this haleigh thing anymore, he's just going to represent him on the drug charges. >> jean casarez? >> dplaelz right now. you know, nancy, at the last hearing i listened very closely, and i heard the judge say to ronald's attorney, now, you're discussing something right now with the prosecutor, right? and he said, yes, we are. we're not hearing that from misty. that's why they're giving her the lie detector test. they want her to pass because they want information to be
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credible so they can help solve this case and give her probably a plea deal. >> what is your point about the prosecutor discussing what, a plea deal with ronald cummings? >> yes. i think that -- i mean, we -- i think this is the time that something could happen if they could give -- if she could give them information, if misty could. that's the whole point that they're trying to -- >> but art harris, jean is correct. you do hear that. but art harris, if she keeps flunking polys, they can't take anything she says to the bank, nothing. >> that's right, nancy. they need someone to corroborate a shred of what she's staying for her information to be useful to anybody. no prosecutor can rely on anything she says right now. >> and to dr. michael hunter out of new york, forensic pathologist, medical examiner. dr. hunter, just finding the body alone, depending on where it's found and the condition in which it's found, would likely be enough to support a murder charge. >> well, certainly you'd look at
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that. and given the circumstances you would definitely classify a case like that as a homicide. maybe by unspecified means if you're unable to identify the particular cause. but i think anyone would be able to be comfortable with a homicide ruling. >> to dr. jeff gardere, psychologist. we've talked about lie detector tests and the ability to lie. it would be very tough, in my opinion, for this girl, misty croslin, to beat a lie detector test. in fact, she's flunked four of them. what does that say to you in when you take a look at her on these secretly recorded jailhouse tapes crying and crying about how she wasn't involved. >> to me this is a very typical example, and nancy, you said this early, you were right on it. if she can tell this boldfaced or baldfaced lie about what happened with this drug deal, then what does that tell you as to what she knows with haleigh cummings? she knows something, but she just does not have the ability to tell the truth. >> it's stupid.
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it's just because who -- it's just because of who we are. i mean, they're messing with me about my grandkids. there's no sense in that. i never hurt no kid, never would. i love my grandkids. >> that's ridiculous. >> if i found out somebody did hurt haleigh, i'd be the first one to put a bullet in them. i don't give a [ muted ] if it's my son or who. >> i know. >> but i know my son had nothing to do with it. i know for a fact. >> they're probably going to have us all in jail before it's all over. >> you've got to stop saying that. no, they're not. >> well, that's what they want. >> you did nothing wrong. mom did not do nothing wrong. i didn't even do anything wrong. and they got me in here. i didn't do nothing wrong. look at all the murderers and killers out here, they're getting seven years in jail and [ muted ] like that. they shouldn't be worried about [ muted ] like this. they should be worried about [ muted ] other [ muted ]. >> drugs are bad business. >> yeah, it is. but i'm not what they say i am,
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man. >> i know you're not. and they know you're rngs tonot. >> i know. >> that i just -- let a little young girl fall into some stupid game that they had. >> i know. >> that's how they work. >> can't wait just to get out of jail and just be home with y'all. >> they're there to brake, misty. that's what they're there to do. and they ain't going to be easy on you. >> they can't -- >> when it comes to an innocent child, that's how they are. they just want to know where she's at and what happened. >> well, i can't tell them that. if i could, i would. >> the only charge they got on me is the only charge they're ever going to get on me. >> exactly. these are the only charges
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they're going to have on me too because when i'm done, get out of here, i ain't never doing nothing wrong again. >> i ain't no thief. i ain't never been no thief. >> i know. i can't believe they won't let mom come see me. >> because of this other charge. >> i know. >> that's a [ muted ] charge too. >> i know. >> but they're going to find out. they got cameras there. they can find out what happened. walmart should have cameras. >> oh, they do. >> lady, the lady said oh, they're croslins. that's the reason why she was saying that [ muted ]. your mom didn't steal no [ muted ] purse. i'm sorry. i got to watch my mouth. >> and now cnn heroes. >> i entered the e.r. from a severe cold. i was 24 weeks pregnant. had h1n1. they put me in a coma to stabilize me. i was in a coma for roughly six weeks. when i woke up, my husband said we had to take out the baby.
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and i immediately clutched my stomach. but he settled me down and was like no, no, he's okay, he's down in the nicu. >> my daughter was born prematurely. and to see people hearing there's something wrong with their baby and have to worry about everything else around them -- i mean, life doesn't stop. i'm dr. sean daneshmond. i started an organization that provides families assistance in the nicu. i wanted to take some of the suffering away from them so they can really focus on their baby. it's emotionally draining. and the way the economy now is, people are suffering. >> i didn't think this was going to be as hard. she's going to be okay. >> they need extra money for clothing, diapers, medical expenses, rent. these are families that all of a sudden in a time of crisis now need extra help. and that's what we're about. >> they helped us with our mortgage, with gas. >> something as simple as gas cards to be able to make it to the nicu every day just helped tremendously. >> i can't think of any other time in one's life where you need someone to be there for
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what a week in america's courtrooms. take a look at the stories and, more important, the people who touched our lives. >> has been recovered at the search site. >> cinder blocks. >> cinder blocks. >> not going to discuss the particular items i've taken for analysis. >> i didn't do anything with that little girl. >> i will not be mentioning any names at this time. >> i was told by misty -- >> misty. >> misty, she was the last one to see our daughter. >> she said i've told you everything i know. >> this is a huge river. >> tied haleigh up with a yellow rope and tied a brick of block to the rope. >> yes it was a brick. >> and dropped her into the st. jo john's river. >> i've never seen any bricks at all. >> haleigh cummings is most
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likely deceased. searching for missing ohio mom tiffany tehan. >> the man in these photos are being a person of interest. >> tiffany went shopping around 9:00 to look for clothes for her 1-year-old daughter. around 11:00 am, tiffany vanishes. >> it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. >> tad, there's nothing. >> we were willing to go ahead and take the effort and time to go look for that needle. >> who was with her, the last person with her? she was. >> i woke up, she was gone. the back door was wide open. >> she is the one that holds the key information to finding out what happened. >> tiffany has been found safely in miami, florida. >> now, after days of tension and frantic searching, missing church mom, tiffany tehan has been found. >> she may have made some mistakes, but everyone does.
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>> haleigh's great grandmother and misty croslin's grandmother take side. >> ron wasn't being responsible because he left the children with her and she was all strung out, but i was there and she was not strung out. >> i have a question for you. why didn't theresa take those kids home with her when misty offer eed to to pay for her to take them home. >> i didn't know she did. >> she most certainly did. >> why would she want to implicate three of her grandchildren? >> does she have any contracts with any newspaper or tabloid? >> i have not made a penny off this story. i have told exactly what those two kids have told me and if none of them down there don't like it, they can kiss where the sun don't shine. >> let's stop and remember army private first class o mar torres, 20, chicago, illinois, killed iraq.
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accepted as ohio state university, would give you the shirt off his back with a smile that lit up the room. sports, chicago bears, trained to be a politician. sister, brother, oscar. omar torres, american hero. thank you to our guests but especially to you for being with us tonight. special good night for the new york control room. good night brett, liz, squeaky, evil. everyone, i'll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp eastern. until then, good night, friend.
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