yelling "hi, haleigh."nd haleigh looked back and blew us a kiss, and she leaned up against the car, and then she got in the car and they drove away, and i never seen her again. >> chelsea, has the body been found of haleigh cummings? >> not -- not that i know of. no one's told me that. >> i guess the world just wants to know. >> i know. >> hell, i want to know. >> i know. >> i want you and your brother out of this mess. >> me too. i want out of here, dad. ok, maybe it was my fault. she told me to kill the weeds. and you did. along with the grass. i used the wrong stuff. there were dead spots everywhere. this is the right stuff. ortho weed b gon max. it kills weeds down to the root. even the tough ones like dandelion and crabgrass. but unlike that other stuff, it won't kill the grass. ortho guarantees it. kill the weeds, not the lawn. weeds, not lawn. got it? yea. ortho weed b gon max. defend what's yours. i thought you said carl was our best presentation guy. [ worker ] well, he is. last week he told my tea

too and find who did this to haleigh. i don't care who it is. >> i've been the one, the main focus. >> i'm tired of staying in this one cell, man. it's bull crap. >> we are taking your calls live. but first to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer. ellie, what more can you tell us about the search that's going down right now as we go to air for haleigh's body? >> well, nancy, it's been in full swing since about 9:15 this morning. residents in the area even saying there were investigators in the area last night poking around, going door to door, asking questions. our affiliates are reporting that they're seeing large lights brought in like the kind you'd see at a ball diamond or a stadium. so it looks like they're planning to search throughout the night for an information or some kind of evidence, possibly even haleigh's remains. >> out to the lines. mary ann in georgia. hi, mary ann. >> caller: hey, nancy. i so much commend you for your work. listen, i had a question. remember when junior said he saw a dark figure an

haleigh's former stepmom slash babysitter misty croslin, who police say is the key to finding haleigh, in court today facing over 100 years in jail for allegedly trafficking hundreds of illegal narcotics. croslin's ex-husband, haleigh's father, ronald cummings, also appeared before the judge today on similar charges. he has pled not guilty. but what does this mean for the haleigh investigation? police say they continue to follow all leads that come in and will not stop the investigation until haleigh is found. >> first to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer, what more, ellie? >> nancy, art harris is reporting that misty croslin has taken yet another polygraph test. now, apparently, according to art, what misty was polygraphed about is this letter that she wrote. in this letter she claims that the night that haleigh went missing her brother tommy as well as her cousin joe overstreet were at the house. now, law enforcement very interested to know whether or not this latest account of what happened that night is accurate. and art is reporting from his sources that that is why they

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>> i just want to know where she's at. >> where is -- >> haleigh. >> -- haleigh? >> my little girl. >> a murder weapon. >> the cops said there was a whole bunch of bricks. i never seen any bricks. >> we've seen her arrogant. >> i'm serious, oh, my god. >> we've seen her emotionless. >> what do you do for a living, ma'am? >> nothing. >> we've seen her strung out. >> i'm like hell, no. >> we've seen her nasty. >> get me out first. worry about me first. >> and now she may be softening up in terms of breaking and really telling us what really happened. >> i said are you telling the police, too? she said yes, i am. >>> good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. bombshell tonight. after a massive four-day search that spans the country, her baby girl left with no mother, a young church mom and the married mystery man apprehended by cops a thousand miles away. will there be charges against the runaway mom? and will she get the baby back? the baby she abandoned for miami beach and a married man? >> it's been our hope and goal throughout this whol

and i want them to find haleigh too and find out who did this to haleigh. i don't care who it is. well -- >> well, of course but they don't have to do this like this ruining our lives. >> i think we let them. here, kitty. here, kitty. oh! just come snuggle with mama. [ male announcer ] missing something? like 2 pairs of bifocals for $149.99 at sears optical, with progressive lenses for just $25 more per pair. hurry in to sears optical today and don't miss a thing. good choice. only meineke lets you choose the brake service that's right for you. and save 50% on pads and shoes. meineke. >>> 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

yelling "hi, haleigh."nd haleigh looked back and blew us a kiss, and she leaned up against the car, and then she got in the car and they drove away, and i never seen her again. >> chelsea, has the body been found of haleigh cummings? >> not -- not that i know of. no one's told me that. >> i guess the world just wants to know. >> i know. >> hell, i want to know. >> i know. >> i want you and your brother out of this mess. >> me too. i want out of here, dad. [ female announcer ] breathe right asks... [ woman ] could i ask you to strip on the street? absolutely! i have a lot of stuffiness at night. it wakes me up. i have allergies. ♪ you're right. i'm getting more air. -oh, yeah. -oh, wow! [ female announcer ] for two free samples, go to breatheright.com. [ female announcer ] for two free samples, oo, yeah[ male ann with thefast ways to free sts" promotion -- one month, five years after you do retire? ♪ client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize

police announcing 5-year-old haleigh likely dead. evidence including two cinder blocks pulled from the muddy waters of the st. johns river. as the search for little haleigh's entire body and the murder weapon goes on, bombshell tonight -- in a stunning police move, we learn while misty croslin stands on the docks of the st. johns police show her bones recovered in the search, then place croslin and brother tommy together in the back of a squad car, leaving the two, sister and brother, to talk freely. was there a squad car confession? in the last hours police announced they have not found haleigh's body, all they've dredged up are animal bones. did croslin only see animal bones at the dock, then break down? police refusing to confirm human remains found but go inform haleigh's father behind closed doors to plan a funeral. father ronald cummings and bio mom crystal sheffield meet to determine whether to have haleigh officially declared dead. croslin's own grandmother describing scenarios, insisting she believes all three, misty croslin

haleigh. we do have a search going on at this time and we're going to continue this investigation until we can bring to it a logical conclusion. so the information and all the answers that you want right now, i can't provide that for you. >> reporter: is this going from a missing person's case to a homicide investigation? >> that is a decision that will be made later. but right now, again, the reason i'm here speaking to you is because we had the family here today and i had some private conversations between my agency and with the family and i would prefer to keep that private right now and i hope you respect that. >> reporter: was anything found in the water? >> ma'am, can't discuss anything. >> reporter: when you left the jail, were you talking to mystery croslin? >> i just left the jail. >> reporter: can you tell us where misty croslin is right now? >> she has been brought back for an interview and at this moment i can't tell you exactly where she is. >> reporter: what's the thin line for y

>> that she heard haleigh in there crying. >> who was in the room with her?joe or tommy, one. >> or both? >> or both. >> and what if anything did misty croslin do to take her of care? >> according to what she told me when all this was going on, she had already been threatened by joe and she grabbed junior and got in the bed and they covered up their heads and completely and when she took the covers off of her head, haleigh was gone. >> hollers is reportedly the person that tipped off police to search the st. johns river. other relatives dispute the allegations saying the contact with the family is too limited for her to have any useful information. >>> some fascinating fbi evidence in the casey anthony case is released including lab reports and testimony. jean casarez reports results link the home with the crime scene. >> here is what i think is something i hadn't heard before. i heard bits and pieces but the fbi in a memo is asking for a black plastic bag with red handles to be tested for latent fingerprints but i think there could be more of a significance

croslin's grandmother told hln another relative as accused overstreet of taking haleigh from the home. >>> call him the new eyes of the law, some police departments around the country have started attaching cameras to some of their officers while on patrol and the cameras catch some pretty interesting things. >> you better stop or i'm going to taze you! get on the ground! get on the ground! >> they're like dash cams, but the cameras are actually wrapped around the officers' head. the police forces that use them say they're crucial in gathering evidence and say they prevent he said/she said situations. >> had it turned into a deadly force encounter, it would have been harder for me to articulate exactly what happened. the video shows exactly what happened, it shows exactly why we did what we did. >> but the officers wearing them have control over when the cameras start recording and some say that gives them too much leeway in recording questionable incidents. >>> transit police in california's bay area turned in their tasers and they won't get them back until they've received some new

haleigh is in that river.eir cousin joe overstreet in haleigh's disappearance. no one has been charged. hollars claims she gave the tip that led them to search the river. the nfl is suspending pittsburgh steelers quarterback ben roethlisberger. commissioner roger goodell is ordering the star player benched. no pay for the first six games of the 2010 season. a college student accused roethlisberger of sexually assaulting her in a bar in georgia last month. prosecutors did not file criminal charges. goodell and the steelers president informed rozlet berger of the suspension by telephone earlier today. he will not be the allowed to attend any team function until he's completed a behavioral evaluation. if he's cleared after that, goodell says roethlisberger will be allowed to attend pittsburgh steelers training camp and play in the preseason games. he says he'll review the star's conduct later this year and could reduce the suspension to possibly four games. goodell sent roethlisberger a letter that read in part,

about what happened the night haleigh vanished.ight here on hln. >>> an alabama woman is going to spend 97 days in jail because her son skipped school. a judge sentenced teresa mckull low on the same number of days that her eighth grade son missed class during the school year in ' 7. the school board was warned repeatedly about the son missing school and the kids are allowed five unexcused absences a year. under alabama law if the kid fails to attend school the legal guardian can be put in jail. we don't know where mccullough's son is living because she's in jail. is it fair and necessary punishment, do you think? or is there a way to send the same message without locking the mom up for three months? give us a call at 1-877-tell-hln or text the word views, your comment to hlntv. standard rates apply. or go to our facebook pages. you can find me at christi paul hln. i would love to hear from you. chuck roberts and richelle carey have pages, too. >>> today is the big 4-0 for earth day. how green are you? it's earth day and we'll get

. >>> and a grandmother deeply connected with the missing of hal haleigh cummings.he grandmother who says that misty says that she was thrown into the river with cinderblocks. >> people are starting to cooperate. >> misty had been on a drug binge for three days and she and ron had fought that day, and she told him she didn't want to babysit, and he told her, yes, you are going to babysit, and he left the kids there with her, and she was still strung out. >> i didn't notice about haleigh then until i saw the back door open, and she was gone and that is all i know. >> so, you they the conspiracy extends to ron, and you think it is four people involved in the conspiracy? >> yes, ma'am, i do. >> again, haleigh's dad, ron cummings, and you look at him here emotionally distraught, and emotional since day one, and could he have really known more than he is saying about his daughter's disappearance? >> i just want my child back. >> we just want somebody to see her to, find her. >> i want my child back so bad. i would give them everything i own. all i want is my child. >> ag

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >>> is someone connected to haleigh cummings' disappearance keeping secrets?l who disappeared 15 months ago, and now the blame game is out of control. so many shocking theories have been thrown out there. here is a snapshot of the allegations we have heard from day one. >> first thing i was told was that joe had killed her. >> i was told that misty had knocked her in the head and killed her and that joe and tommy got rid of her. >> misty had been out on a drug binge for three days. her and ron had fought that day, and she told him she did want tont babysit and she was still strung out. >> i didn't notice about haleigh then until i seen the back door open and i go into the room, and she is gone. that's all i know. >> so, you also think that the conspiracy extends to ron? you think it is four people involved in the conspiracy? >> yes, ma'am, i do. >> i will give them everything i own, all i want is my child. >> all right. lots to soak in there, we know. but the family appears to be turning on grandma flora hollars and you heard a lot of her in the sound clips. w

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, 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

>> that she heard haleigh in there crying. >> and who was in the room with haleigh?r both? >> or both. >> and what, if anything, did misty croslin do to take care of haleigh? >> according to what she told me when all this was going on she had already been threatened by joe and she grabbed junior and got in the bed and they covered up their heads and -- completely and when she took the covers off of her head, haleigh was gone. >> she is reportedly the person who tipped off police to search the st. john's river. other relatives are disputing the allegations. they say her contact with the family is too limited for her to have any useful information. >>> we asked you earlier about what you think about plans by the post office to cut service on saturday. here's some of what you're saying. allen post this had on facebook. unfortunately we really do not need saturdays. i am more sorry for the men and women of the postal service who will be losing a portion of their wages. karissa says she feels sorry for those without direct deposit. if you don't get your check friday, you

. >>> some unusual developments last week in the search for haleigh cummings.he florida sheriff leading the investigation called a news conference to report investigators had not found the missing girl's body. appearing on hln's "nancy grace" show, the medical examiner talked about haleigh's family preparing for a funeral without haleigh's family. >> i never heard in my quite long career that the police who do such a thing or enforcement would inform the family to prepare for a burial before a body or parts of the body of the deceased were found. so if they did not misspoke, then definitely they have to have some -- recovered some part of the body or some bones, which they should have verified that it belongs to the deceased. otherwise it's totally improper. >> ronald cummings' ex-wife misty croslin was the last person to see the little girl at ronald's home. on friday, a lawyer for misty's brother tommy told jane velez-mitchell that his client took a lie the detector test earlier this month. he also said it was the results of the lie detector test that led inv

>> over the last few weeks information has been obtained by investigators that lead them to leave haleigh cummings is most likely deceased. >> you can understand why ronald would be shocked with that. he's hoping that it ends but still holding hope that maybe they are wrong maybe something else happened this will end up as another false lead. >> the investigative team has identified persons of interest in this case. >> i said tommy, i want you to tell me exactly right now, because i know in my heart exactly what you are particularsing to tell me. joe did this, didn't he? he said yes, maybe he did. >> we talked to joe over in tennessee and we interviewed him and he has an attorney and he's lawyered up. >> i can't say nothing about it. i want to say something but i don't know what to oh say. >> his reaction is different than it was before he went down there. he's not the same kid that he was when he went down there. he has a different attitude toward life and all, he just don't care. >> the lawyer that the cousin mentioned is itching to give his side of the story. he joins us live in a mome

>> over the last few weeks information has been obtained by investigators that lead them to leave haleigh cummings is most likely deceased. >> you can understand why ronald would be shocked with that. he's hoping that it ends but still holding hope that maybe they are wrong maybe something else happened this will end up as another false lead. >> the investigative team has identified persons of interest in this case. >> i said tommy, i want you to tell me exactly right now, because i know in my heart exactly what you are particularsing to tell me. joe did this, didn't he? he said yes, maybe he did. >> we talked to joe over in tennessee and we interviewed him and he has an attorney and he's lawyered up. >> i can't say nothing about it. i want to say something but i don't know what to oh say. >> his reaction is different than it was before he went down there. he's not the same kid that he was when he went down there. he has a different attitude toward life and all, he just don't care. >> the lawyer that the cousin mentioned is itching to give his side of the story. he joins us live in a mome

. >> tonight with jane, cops are digging for answers about what happened to haleigh cummings and they're to misty croslin's grandmother who claimed she tipped off authorities. don't miss issues with jane tonight at 7:00 eastern. >>> the father of murdered teenager amber dubois speaking out about her killer's surprising courtroom confession. the 14-year-old vanished walking to school in her san diego suburb in february 2009. last friday convicted sex offender john albert gardner admitted to kidnapping, raping, and stabbing dubois. gardner also pleaded guilty to killing 17-year-old chelsea king in february. he confessed after prosecutors promised not to seek the death penalty. after waiting more than a year for any news about his daughter, dubois's father is relieved the finally has some maens. >> is he monster? of course. did he ruin my life? yes. did he allow my family to have closure and be able to bury our daughter? yeah, he did, so i would actually thank him for giving us that closure. and i couldn't say anything else to him. >> gardner is set to be sentenced june 1st to life in priso