would one oxycontin kill a 39-pound little girl or two oxycontin pills. >> yeah, actually it could, nancy. ox contin, 7.5 times stronger than codeine. the strongest tablet could cause a child to stop breepgting and die. >> editor of "baby and child help." right now as we go to break, a big welcome to joy behar coming to hln. this is last night's launch parent for joy's show. president ken was there. kickoff, this tuesday september 29. 9:00 p.m., sharp. welcome, friend. as washington continues the debate over health care reform, aarp has chosen a side-- yours. we're fighting to guarantee that you'll never be denied coverage because of your health or age. to prevent anyone from coming between you and your doctor. and to make sure patients don't take a backseat to insurance companies. because at aarp, we believe your health is worth fighting for. learn more at aarp.org. >>> you know the only person who really truly knows the motive in this crime is the suspect. what made him do what he did -- and we may not know till trial, we may never know. >> police began to follow raymond clark iii just

reports that night little haleigh accidentally ingests the heavy-duty painkiller oxycontin and dies. we have the letter. this as new stepmom misty croslin skips town after a bitter fight with haleigh's father ronald cummings. croslin's brother behind bars on a gun charge, leading to another break. in a late-night jailhouse interrogation we learn the brother finally confesses he goes to haleigh's house the night she goes missing, pounds on the door repeatedly, nobody home. phone records confirming ronald cummings tries desperately to reach croslin that night, no answer. where was girlfriend turned stepmother misty croslin during those crucial hours when haleigh goes missing? investigators focusing on a heavily wooded area draining a local pond in connection with haleigh. as girlfriend turned stepmom misty croslin flunks another polygraph, tonight, where is haleigh? >> okay, sir, let me talk to your wife. let me get some information from her. okay. can i talk to her? okay. >> how the [ bleep ] can you let my daughter get stole -- >> was haleigh cummings the vichlt a drug overdose? acco

claims she died after ingesting oxycontin. she claims the little girl disappeared after she put her to bed. the letter claims they were at a party, a party, when this tragedy struck. learned more about the content of the letter on nancy grace last night. >> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is a friend of misty's, who is a party friend of misty's, saying she was with her that night. misty and some other people were together that night and haleigh was with them partying. they were all partying -- haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. and that's when this other friend at the party panicked, put haleigh allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. that's what this letter is saying. >>> okay. a pond. authorities did search a large pond near the cummings home. they did not find a body. i'm sure you remember that. they say the search was based on one of thousands of tips they got but wouldn't confirm whether it had anything to do with this alleged letter. >>> breaking news tonight, watch nancy grace

saying she overdosed on the powerful narcotic oxycontin. could this@@ be true? maybe police can ask misty's own mother, they put out a felony warrant for her arrest. >> a mix up at the fertility clinic, a woman carried the child for nine months and just @ gave birth and now must give him up. today new insights on what caused this mortifying mistake. call us, 1-877-tell-hln or text us at hln tv and start your message with the word prime. this is your chance to be heard. >> welcome to "prime news". i'm in for mike galanos.úú jaw dropping developments in the search for haleigh cummings. stepmom was the last one to see her. now explosive allegations from friend. is it true she was taken to a drug filled party overdosed on oxycontin and then died. we have the friend's letter from behind bars. an arrest warrant is out for misty's mom.@@ are cops putting the squeeze on misty's family. >> deep down in my heart yes i think holding something back. they both are holding something back. that's just in my heart. >> if you know anything else, please tell me. we can work throu

would one oxycontin kill a 39-pound little girl or two oxycontin pills?n, 7.5 times stronger than codeine. even the smallest tablet could cause a child like that to stop breathing and die. >> editor of "baby and child help." right now as we go to break, a big welcome to joy behar coming to hln. this is last night's launch party for joy's show. president ken was there. don't worry, i had already bathed the twins. put on their pjs. they were home asleep with daddy while mommy celebrated with joy and her new show. kickoff, this tuesday september 29. 9:00 p.m., sharp. welcome, friend. with bltsds okay. you were right. these healthy choice fresh mixer thingys, they taste fresh... say it again! say it like, "mmmm, these healthy choice fresh mixers taste freshh!!" they taste fresh... wait. what are you doing? got it. you're secretly taping me? u know, it wasn't a secret to us, we knew. yes, but it was a secret to me. of course, otherwise i would be sitting like this and completely block his shot. so that's why i was like... didn't you notice this was weird? no.

reports that night little haleigh accidentally ingests the heavy-duty painkiller oxycontin and dies. we have the letter. this as new stepmom misty croslin skips town after a bitter fight with haleigh's father ronald cummings. croslin's brother behind bars on a gun charge, leading to another break. in a late-night jailhouse interrogation we learned the brother finally confesses he goes to haleigh's house the night she goes missing, pounds on the door repeatedly. nobody home. phone records confirming ronald cummings tries det prattly to to reach misty croslin. no answer. where was she during those crucial hours when haleigh goes missing? investigators focusing o'not a heavily wooded area, draining a local pond in connection with haleigh. as girlfriend turned stepmom misty croslin flunks another polygraph, tonight where is haleigh? >> was haleigh cumming the victim of a drug overdose? according to a letter allegedly from one of stepmom/babysitter misty croslin's friends. >> and tonight live to connecticut and the sudden disappearance of a gorgeous young ivy league doctoral student just

perper, what is oxycontin and how would, for instance, one pill affect a 5-year-old child? a form of oxycodone which is long acting. and it's taken primarily against pain, but people also take it for so-called recreational purposes, for basically addiction, getting a high. obviously, it's not given to children at all, and it's not recommended for children. so if, unfortunately, she died as a result of an oxycontin overdose and there are still soft tissue available, then from the examination of the soft tissue it's going to be possible to make a determination that she died as a result of that. >> but from one pill could a child 39 pounds overdose, doctor? >> probably from one or two pills she could have died, and it's possible that children sometimes think that that's candy. and we see sometimes accidental death in those cases. unless somebody gave her intentionally the pill, which i don't think it will be very likely. want to know how fast it took my stiff joints to feel better? one pack. 6 days. that's elations. new elations. clinically proven to improve joint comfort... i

i mean, they look at me like their mom. >> did haleigh cummings die from an overdose of oxycontin?f misty croslin claims that haleigh got her hands on the powerful narcotic while at a party with misty and her friends the night of the disappearance. >> now that you have been told, whether you accept it or not, that your wife has flunked a poly, have you asked her what happened? >> i asked her, but that -- i don't get any answers from her. >> the letter states that cops were given a sworn affidavit from a friend of misty's, who claims everyone at the party "freaked out" when the toddler overdosed, then put haleigh in a black bag and threw her into a pond nearby. >> look at her body language. there are so many tells that she's not telling the truth. she's saying no when it's supposed to be in the affirmative. a lot of shoulder shrugging. the tears that don't look very genuine. it's very disturbing to watch. >> police are denying any friend has come forward making these allegations and are said to be completely ignoring the letter. all of misty's friends have reportedly been cleared, a

. >> they would come in stuffed animals, drugs like bupe, oxycontin, oxycodone objection co. i'mm -- oxycodone. >> it seemed to be better and easier to help the addict get off of heroin and stay off. >> reporter: and taking bupe as a pill does not produce a high like injecting heroin does, but now addicts have found that if you smash the pill and you either snort it or inject it, you get an opiate, like a heroin kind of high. >> reporter: mike believes that carrie johns' death could be a sign that more people are beginning to use bupe as a recreational drug and that concerns them because the way the drug is made it's difficult for heroin users to overdose on it. it's a much different, potentially deadly story for nonusers. >> if you're not a heroin addict and you use bupe and you inject it you can overdose really quickly as we saw here with this woman. >> reporter: and police also found 25 marijuana plants inside that home. so clinton mccracken faces charges in connection with those plants. he is not expected to be charged in connection with his girlfriend's death. police rea

a letter from a jail inmate says haleigh overdosed on the powerful narcotic oxycontin.nths.@@ she just gave birth and must give him up. new insights on what caused this mortifying mistake. >>> you're an important part of the shoef. call us, 1-877-tell-hln. our e-mail is at cnn.com/primenews. or text us at hlntv, and start your message with the word prime. this is your chance to be heard. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome to "prime news." i'm jim mon ra from "inside edition," in for mike galanos. stepmom misty was the last one to see her. now explosive allegations from misty's friend. is it true that little haleigh was taken to a drug raged fuel party, overdosed on oxycontin and died? we have the friend's letter written from behind bars. an arrest warrant is now out for misty's mom. are the cops putting the squeeze on misty's family.@@ remember, this woman has had doubts about her own daughter from day one. >> yes, i think my heart was holding something back. i think they're both holding something back. that's just in my heart. i'm going to tell her i lov

this is all on the heels of another stunning letter claiming haleigh ingested the painkiller oxycontinetter "a farce." as new stepmother misty croslin flunks another polygraph, where is haleigh? >> i want to let everyone know that i'm not hiding anything for anybody and if somebody has something to do with it let them fry. >> breaking news in the case of missing florida girl haleigh cummings p the mother of stepmom/babysitter misty croslin has been arrested. lisa croslin was taken into custody in tennessee. she was wanted for allegedly stealing and forging checks. >> we save jail beds for child molesters, murderers, rapists, arsonists, drug lords. a forgery? is this a police attempt to get the truth out of misty croslin's mother? >> pressure mounts as police hope new details from misty's brother tommy croslin will lead to the truth about what happened to haleigh. >> i didn't do anything with -- to that little girl. i would never hurt her. they love me. they -- i mean, they look at me like their mom. >> meanwhile, police are investigating a mysterious tip that was left by a woman at a l

they did no not find heroin, but found oxycontin, morphine, and at least a dozen marijuana pipes. police say pills were smuggled in from the philippines, hidden in stuffed animals. neighbor, nicole strickland. >> shocking to me. i mean, this is a very hard- working neighborhood. and some of the students and community members, we all work together to keep this a nice part of the city. >> reporter: after earning their ph.d., doctors were fellows with the department of anatomy. >> not that it excuses anything. but it's easy to imagine becoming so stressed out that it resorts to such thing. >> scientists are jick like -- are just like anybody else. >> reporter: they believe that johns injected herself. but further answers will come when toxicology reports are complete. >> with regards to the death, right now, that matter is under investigation. >> reporter: and the state's attorney's office has not ruled out further charges. but they are awaiting reports from the state's medical examiner's office. for now, we are live in baltimore. weijia jiang, wjz eyewitness news. >> reporter: okay,

this is all on the heels of another stunning letter claiming haleigh ingested the painkiller oxycontinlin flunks another polygraph, where is haleigh? >> i want to let everyone know that i'm not hiding anything for anybody and if somebody has something to do with it let them fry. >> breaking news in the case of missing florida girl haleigh cummings. the mother of step mom/babysitter misty croslin has been arrested. lisa croslin was taken into custody in tennessee. she was wanted for allegedly stealing and forging checks. >> we save jail beds for child molesters, murderers, rapists, arsonists, drug lords. a forgery? is this a police attempt to get the truth out of misty croslin's mother? >> pressure mounts as cops hope new details from misty's brother, tommy croslin, will lead to the truth about what happened to haleigh. >> i didn't do anything with -- to that little girl. i would never hurt her. they love me. they -- i mean, they look at me like their mom. >> meanwhile, police are investigating a mysterious tip that was left by a woman at a local newspaper around 3:00 p.m. wednesday. >>

an affidavit by a witness that she was at this pard i with misd i and halmsgh accidentally ods on oxycontind her body is and iaced in a blawe bag and tossed in a pond. the coincidental nature of the search dlaile tes hling with te les ther perked up a lot of people's interest. >> an't , scund b w it is clear to me from the tone of the authorities that they now belorive what we home belinobed all along almost that the family or friends, the tight cmisskere is the solutdrn the small group. >> clear it the cops don't belinobe her. that is wwh they asked her to take a lie detector test and hee fes hled it miserably and thh checked out the pedophiles in the area. there would have b9/1n questdre about other people and they kept coming back to the family becaou i grow with you, right from the start it don st smell right. >> gerovedo thei don stes,now t is happening with misty or ron but s9/1ms they areman strange. ll9do you antic haate an arrest here or will there never be one as long as they don st find the child? >> there will be an arrest. i thith they arees,9/1ping it kerose to the vest as the

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no one knows that more than joann hodeki from kids escaping drugs. >> a lot of kids on oxycontin and collected and in ken more. when mercy hospital organized the same event. to hold an event like this takes a lot of planning, a lot of permits, and a lot of red tape. but lawmakers are hoping to change things to make it easier for communities to hold drop-offs like this. >> we're hoping that legislation will change, that it will make it -- maybe can be easier. like dropping unused off at a pharmacy, which would make sense. >> for now, health officials say they're going to try to host drop-off days like this one several times a year. michelle mcclintock, news 4. >>> for the next two years social security will be paying out more money than it's taking in. this is the first time it's happened since the 1980s and officials say a spike in retirement claims is a contributor. they say it won't affect payments to retirees because social security has a surplus from previous years but this will add to the overall federal deficit. >>> some scientists are warning that global warming is changing th

. >> there is a report coming out that he had oxycontin in his stomach and mouth when they found him and that's on top of finding the crack pipe. so obviously he had slipped back into his addiction. some people don't know him. he's a huge dj in hollywood world. dated nicole richie, mandy moore. but he was sober for a good 11 years. he was the model, recovering addict and doing ads to help some get off drugs and there was one in production and i think it will be good for addicts to see this, but it's a very sad situation to watch him decline. he was in the huge plane crash what travis barker and i think that was the downfall. he had to go on plane flights again and he was taking prescription drugs to get him through and i think that led him down this path. >> and was he taking any prescription drugs for pain that was a result of the crash? do we know that? >> after the plane flight he was taking painkillers but i don't know if that extended on to after he was off. >> and there have been changes de to michael jackson's death certificate. what are those changes and what do they signify?

letter allegedly from a friend of haleigh's stepmother claims the little girl died after ingesting oxycontinhappened after haleigh was put to bed. but the letter claims misty and haleigh were at a party when tragedy struck. we learned more about the content of that letter on hln's "nancy grace" last night. >> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is friends with misty who is a party friend of misty's who is saying that misty was with her that night, and where this letter is claiming that misty, this girl and some other people were together that night, and that haleigh was with them, partying -- they were all partying, and misty got -- excuse me, haleigh got her hands on oxycontin, and ingested it, and died. and that's when this other friend at the party panicked, put haleigh, allegedly, in a bag, and threw her in a pond. and that's -- that's what this letter is saying. >> some startling new developments there. authorities searched a large pond near the cummings' home but didn't find any remains. they say the search was based on thousands of tips they have received, but they would not

that letter, about the details about a late-night party at which haleigh was present and swallowed oxycontin. i find it hard to believe that people at a party could all keep their pie holes shut this long and not blab. there's a $70,000 reward. but people do tell us, on the other hand, that they're investigating it and they have actually interrogated people about this. so somebody's taking it seriously. >> someone is taking it seriously. they have investigated her car. they took forensic evidence from her car. this person that wrote this letter. they have talked to her directly. you know, according to some, she's saying there's some sworn affidavit saying that all of this stuff is true. they won't confirm or deny whether this affidavit actually exists, but it's coming from somewhere, because not one but two letters have surfaced, nancy. >> straight to art harris at artharris.com. art, what can you tell me? first of all, aside from the letter, i want to find out where is misty croslin? what are the various stories we've been told? >> we've been told that she was on a foray one to one of the a

it true she was taken to a drug filled party overdosed on oxycontin and then died.holding something back. they both are holding something back. that's just in my heart. >> if you know anything else, please tell me. i me we can work through it. i'll be right there by your side. we'll get through it.úú please tell me whatever you're holding back. >> joining me now, a former police detective and t.j. hart program and news director for wsky in gainesville, florida. thanks to you both for joining us. let's go t.j. hart. bring us up to date with the latest. >> first you heard about that letter and that letter is all it is is a letter from jail. but the letter from jail also reveals something that was in a signed statement and in that signed affidavit that was given to law officers that were led to believe that according to the writer of that affidavit, haleigh was at a party with @@ misty, a party pal and also junior and a couple of other people. now, according to the affidavit mentioned in the letter and this is only according to it that haleigh ate some oxycontin, died,

that's quite a performance is ts oxycontin there or not? she died at a party, wouldn't it have come out already? ? a party. these people in jail that write letters to police wanting to get a benefit, and that's all there is. and they are striking up controversy and i don't believe it, but based on the letter at all. >> but it certainly varies a something had to happen. >> they searched the pond. >> there's a lot of ponds so who knows. >> and the letter and ip don't think i you know what the person is in jail for. what is she looking for? how long has she been in custody? what does she know and why is she talking now? >> i have to say this. i think everybody is using misty as a pawn. to put it on little ole misty. >>> up next, is the man saying that he's jaycee dugard's dad telling the truth? b. ask your doctor about trilipix. if you're at high risk of heart disease and taking a statin to lower bad cholesterol, along with diet, adding trilipix can lower fatty triglycerides and raise good cholesterol to help improve all three cholesterol numb

that letter, about the details about a late-night party at which haleigh was present and swallowed oxycontin. i find it hard to believe that people at a party could all keep their pie holes shut this long and not blab. there's a $70,000 reward. but people do tell us, on the other hand, that they're investigating it and they have actually interrogated people about this. so somebody's taking it seriously. >> someone is taking it seriously. they have investigated her car. they took forensic evidence from her car. this person that wrote this letter. they have talked to her directly. you know, according to some, she's saying there's some sworn affidavit saying that all of this stuff is true. they won't confirm or deny whether this affidavit actually exists, but it's coming from somewhere, because not one but two letters have surfaced, nancy. >> straight to art harris at artharris.com. art, what can you tell me? first of all, aside from the letter, i want to find out where is misty croslin? what are the various stories we've been told? >> we've been told that she was on a foray one to one of the a

he died from a combination of cocaine and at least seven different prescription drugs including oxycontin, vicodin and xanax. his body was found in his apartment late last month. a crack pipe was found nearby and crack cocaine was in the house. an mtv show had been working on a show about addiction that was set to premiere monday. a year ago, he nearly survive add plane crash in south carolina. >>> johnny carson said good-bye to "the tonight show" with bette midler. well she will be the first guest on "the joy behar show" premiering tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on hln. >>> conan o'brien is showing everyone why he had to cancel friday's show. it features him running with administeri hatcher. what happens at the end will have you convinced he has a har hard head. >>> a bombshell in the documents just released in the caylee anthony murder case. in these document, an fbi intelligence analyst says a stain on the trunk liner of her mother's car appears to show a silhouette of a child in the fetal position. the toddler body was found in december near orlando. her mother, casey, is charged with h