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Nancy Grace
New Jailhouse Video of Misty Croslin; Misty Croslin to Take New Lie Detector?
Aired March 01, 2010 - 20:00 ET
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NANCY GRACE, HOST: 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 baby-sitter- turned-stepmom Misty Croslin both handcuffed, arrested, booked. Charges, drug trafficking.
Bombshell tonight. We obtain even more of those secretly recorded jailhouse tapes, hours of Croslin yakking to Mommy, Daddy, Granddaddy, Grandma, to brother. It`s all caught on video.
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HANK CROSLIN, MISTY`S FATHER: The world just wants to know.
MISTY CROSLIN, HALEIGH`S BABY-SITTER: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: Hell, I want to know.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know.
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911 OPERATOR: When did you last see her?
MISTY CROSLIN: We just, like -- you know, it was about 10:00 o`clock. We were -- she was sleeping.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We knew all along that Misty was the last one to see Haleigh, allegedly the last one to see her alive. She knows more than what she`s been telling. So hopefully, hopefully, this will put a little bit more pressure on her to say, OK.
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HANK CROSLIN: They don`t believe you, what you`re telling them, huh?
MISTY CROSLIN: I don`t know what they believe and what they don`t. They don`t tell me anything. When I get out of here, I`ll tell you what they think, OK?
HANK CROSLIN: What, your lawyer don`t want them to give you a lie detector test?
MISTY CROSLIN: No, we were going to do it, but I just didn`t have enough sleep, and the lady that was going to do it didn`t. I don`t know.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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MISTY CROSLIN: I`m trying to do everything to find her, you know, answer any questions I have to. I don`t know where she is!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What does Ronald know in this, too? He married her, right, just a number of months after all this happened, and then they got divorced. There`s something else I think that he knows, too.
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RONALD CUMMINGS, HALEIGH`S FATHER: I don`t (EXPLETIVE DELETED) know! I was at work!
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TOMMY CROSLIN, MISTY`S BROTHER: It sucks, man. They got me with this (EXPLETIVE DELETED) trafficking charge, and I ain`t no damn drug dealer.
HANK CROSLIN: You should have knew better not to get messed up in none of Misty`s deals like that anyway. You knew better.
TOMMY CROSLIN: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: Lately, it seems like Misty`s been getting you in trouble and trouble and trouble.
TOMMY CROSLIN: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: She don`t mean to. She just -- I don`t know what the hell to think about her anymore. I love her so much, but she`s got me worried.
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LISA CROSLIN, MISTY`S MOTHER: And I don`t care if Nancy Grace and news and everybody else knows what we`re talking about because I know my kids are innocent.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How old are you?
MISTY CROSLIN: Just turned 18.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They have her behind bars again, and they do intend on questioning her again about Haleigh`s disappearance.
MISTY CROSLIN: I wish I could talk more (INAUDIBLE) tell you more.
HANK CROSLIN: I don`t want to know no more. It`s got to get over with, Misty.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know, Daddy. I know. Believe me, I want it to be over. I don`t want to live like this. I`m tired of living my life like this.
HANK CROSLIN: So when`s the last time you seen your lawyer?
MISTY CROSLIN: When he brought the detectives in here with him. I just want to get out of here and -- I can`t do anything in here. You know, I can`t do nothing in here. I can`t help anybody. I can`t -- I can`t do nothing in here. I`m, like -- you know? I`m, like, stuck. That`s what I`m saying, if I could get out, it`s a lot better. I can help people. I can do things. I can -- you know? Can`t wait, but I think -- I think I`m going to get out.
HANK CROSLIN: Sit up. I can`t see you.
MISTY CROSLIN: Oh, can you see me now?
HANK CROSLIN: I just don`t want you to lose your -- I don`t want to lose -- you to lose your lawyer.
MISTY CROSLIN: I`m not going to lose him. If I do, he can get me a new one. You know?
HANK CROSLIN: I don`t want you taking a chance, but I want you home.
MISTY CROSLIN: Exactly. And he can get me a new one. It`s going to -- it has to be all written up in the paper.
HANK CROSLIN: Robert Fields is working for you. You can bet you that because it`s is big for him, too.
MISTY CROSLIN: We got to keep praying tonight and every day that I get out.
HANK CROSLIN: I just can`t believe that you`re in there.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know. It sucks. It really does suck, but I`ve been in here 21 days today.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes. Your brother just reminded me. It`s terrible.
MISTY CROSLIN: It don`t feel like it. It feels like I just got here. But I`m just so tired of being locked up in one cell.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes, I can imagine.
MISTY CROSLIN: I hope he does it for me.
HANK CROSLIN: He said he would. He seemed like a man of his word.
MISTY CROSLIN: That`s good.
HANK CROSLIN: Oh, man!
MISTY CROSLIN: I hate this place. I mean, it`s not so bad if I could get out and, like, you know, get out more than one hour, two hours a day. That would be all right. But I`m tired of being cooped up.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes, that`s the whole point about being in jail.
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, but that`s not -- it`s not -- it`s just because I`m in protected custody, like, I can`t come out more. I`m in lockdown. It`s not right. That`s not fair to us.
HANK CROSLIN: Somebody`ll hurt you if they let you out.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know, and that`s why I`m trying to get out of here.
I hope none of us do a long time. I pray every night and day, when I get up, when I`m laying in my bed and right before I go to bed.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes, me, too. I`ll be glad when all this is over with. Maybe I could sleep again.
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes. Can`t wait.
HANK CROSLIN: It`s bad when you got both of your kids in jail and worried to death about both of them.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know. It sucks. But we`re going to get out, Dad.
I`m frickin` hungry. I couldn`t eat their food today.
HANK CROSLIN: You got to watch your mouth. You`ll get in trouble.
MISTY CROSLIN: Their food was so nasty tonight.
HANK CROSLIN: Well, didn`t you order something, some cakes and stuff?
MISTY CROSLIN: Well, I can`t -- we get it tomorrow.
HANK CROSLIN: Oh.
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.
HANK CROSLIN: How much money did you order?
MISTY CROSLIN: I spent all of the $60 because I had to get, like, socks and T-shirts and stuff.
HANK CROSLIN: But you just got another $100 put on there today. Did you know there was $100 put on there?
MISTY CROSLIN: No, I didn`t know that.
HANK CROSLIN: He just put it on today. You look funny with them braids in your hair.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know. I`m taking them out tonight.
HANK CROSLIN: You`re still beautiful.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know. I try to be beautiful. It`s hard to be beautiful in here. You got to make yourself look beautiful in this place.
HANK CROSLIN: How you been doing?
MISTY CROSLIN: Doing all right.
HANK CROSLIN: Why haven`t you been calling Annie?
MISTY CROSLIN: I slept today. I slept all day. I`m going to call her tomorrow morning.
HANK CROSLIN: You slept all day?
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes. I`ve been sleeping all day. Tomorrow`s canteen, so we get some good food tomorrow night.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes, he put $100 on your account.
MISTY CROSLIN: All right.
HANK CROSLIN: He said he Western Unioned it.
MISTY CROSLIN: Timmy was supposed to.
HANK CROSLIN: Huh?
MISTY CROSLIN: Timmy was supposed to.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes. How much -- Did you have money on it already?
MISTY CROSLIN: I had 60 bucks. I don`t know who put it there.
So how`s Lindsey doing?
HANK CROSLIN: Huh?
MISTY CROSLIN: How`s the kids and Lindsey doing?
HANK CROSLIN: Oh, doing the best they can...
MISTY CROSLIN: That`s good.
HANK CROSLIN: ... without their daddy. Dustin just said just a minute ago, Papa, I tried to get Daddy out. It just ain`t working. They need their daddy.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: Tommy -- Tommy was a good daddy. He just got (EXPLETIVE DELETED) for a minute.
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.
HANK CROSLIN: I`m sorry. I got to watch my mouth. I`ll get in trouble. I already got writ up once.
MISTY CROSLIN: You did?
HANK CROSLIN: Yes.
MISTY CROSLIN: Oh, my God.
HANK CROSLIN: I know. I can`t -- I better -- I got to watch it.
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, Dad, please. I don`t want you to get writ up so you can`t come see me.
HANK CROSLIN: I know.
MISTY CROSLIN: Hopefully, I`m going to be out, though, soon.
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LISA CROSLIN: Did you order you some commissary?
TOMMY CROSLIN: You know it!
(LAUGHTER)
TOMMY CROSLIN: I got me a bunch of stuff coming.
LISA CROSLIN: Do you? Misty said she got her some stuff coming, too.
TOMMY CROSLIN: So they`ve been sending her money, huh? People have been sending her money left and right, I heard.
LISA CROSLIN: Yes. Some guy wrote a letter, and it had your address on Tyler but her inmate number. And it said, I know you`re totally innocent. You`re so beautiful. Hang in there. Keep your head up. I will do whatever I can. I`ll send money every week. So I sent her the letter. I don`t know if she called him or not.
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TOMMY CROSLIN: I`ve been doing a lot of pushups, baby.
LINDSEY CROSLIN, TOMMY`S WIFE: Have you?
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes. I got nothing to do. Shoot, at night, I sit there and I do, like, 10, then do 10 more, and then wait a little white, do 10 more, wait a little while, do 10 more. I`m getting my weight back, though.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Are you getting your weight back on? You are?
TOMMY CROSLIN: Oh, yes.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Good. Good. I want 200 pounds, or you`re not getting out.
(LAUGHTER)
TOMMY CROSLIN: I`m getting out. It`s just a matter of time, baby.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Two hundred pounds, or I ain`t coming to pick you up. You`ll be walking.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Shoot, I`ll be happy to walk from here to you if I could go home today. I`ll walk in blistering cold.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Naked?
TOMMY CROSLIN: Hell, yes!
(LAUGHTER)
TOMMY CROSLIN: I`d do whatever.
All I know is I got out the van at the store, and people come running at me with guns out.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: What...
TOMMY CROSLIN: Threw me down on the ground and handcuffed me, like, I got a warrant for your arrest. I says, For what? They wouldn`t tell me. I didn`t know at first.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: You figured it out?
TOMMY CROSLIN: Until the detectives rolled up. It took me a minute, but then I started thinking. I was like, Oh (EXPLETIVE DELETED). But I`m done putting myself in these kinds of situations, honey.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Yes, but it sucks that it took this to do it.
TOMMY CROSLIN: I know. Sometimes, you know, it takes something like this to make you -- you`re right.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes, but you know, it just puts us -- me and the kids in a crazy situation, too.
TOMMY CROSLIN: I know. I know, baby.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: I love you no matter what.
TOMMY CROSLIN: That`s all I need to know. No matter what happens, as long as you do, I`ll be fine.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: I`ll be here waiting, and I`ll come visit you wherever you go.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes, but I`m still going to keep that out of my head because I don`t think it`s going to happen. But it could.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Everyone, when we come back, newly obtained secretly recorded video, Misty Croslin behind bars, Croslin claiming she`s close to taking a brand-new lie detector test.
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HANK CROSLIN: My blood pressure, I just checked it at Wal-Mart. It was, like, 156 over 102.
MISTY CROSLIN: We`re going to get out. It`s going to be all right. We will be -- we will get out of here and we will have our life back.
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GRACE: Law enforcement says Misty Croslin flat-out refuses to reveal what she knows about the night little Haleigh goes missing, Croslin allegedly failing polygraph tests miserably. But in newly obtained video from behind bars, she claims she wants to take a new lie detector. I`ll believe it when I see it, of course. But her excuse? She hasn`t had enough sleep.
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HANK CROSLIN: They don`t believe you, what you`re telling them, huh?
MISTY CROSLIN: I don`t know what they believe and what they don`t. They don`t tell me anything. When I get out of here, I`ll tell you what they think, OK?
HANK CROSLIN: What, your lawyer don`t want them to give you a lie detector test?
MISTY CROSLIN: No, we were going to do it, but I just didn`t have enough sleep, and the lady that was going to do it didn`t. I don`t know. We were going to do it, but -- I don`t know.
HANK CROSLIN: I know because Stephen Brown was trying to get Tommy one, but he didn`t want them guys to do it. He wants somebody that he knows that can run one good.
MISTY CROSLIN: None of them can run them good.
HANK CROSLIN: They say -- I`ve heard a couple people say it just depends on who`s running them.
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.
HANK CROSLIN: I don`t trust them. You know, I don`t trust them either way.
MISTY CROSLIN: I don`t, either.
HANK CROSLIN: I know that -- you know, because we`re all nervous people.
MISTY CROSLIN: Of course you`re going to be nervous.
HANK CROSLIN: Huh?
MISTY CROSLIN: Of course, like, when you`re -- especially when you`re getting hooked up to the machine like that, like, you`re, like, Oh! You know what I mean? We have 3 minutes and 57 seconds.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes, this one`s got it on it over here. I try not to look at it.
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, I know. But I don`t want it to shut off on me before I get to say I love you, you know?
HANK CROSLIN: I know you love me, and I love you.
MISTY CROSLIN: I`m going to call you tonight. I`m going to call you all tonight. It`s only 15 minutes, but it`s better than nothing, you know?
I wish I could talk more to you, tell you more.
HANK CROSLIN: I know. I don`t want to know no more.
MISTY CROSLIN: No, nothing about that, just, like, talk longer, you know?
HANK CROSLIN: All I know is if anybody knows anything, they need to tell the right people.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: Because it`s got to get over with, Misty.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know, Daddy. I know. Believe me, I want it to be over. I don`t want to live like this. I`m tired of living like this.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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HANK CROSLIN: I`m worried about Misty.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Me, too.
HANK CROSLIN: She`s got herself in a mess.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes. Me, too.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes, but not as big a mess as her.
TOMMY CROSLIN: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes, I know you got yourself in a mess. She told me not to worry about you, but that`s why I worried about you. I don`t want to see this (EXPLETIVE DELETED) happen.
TOMMY CROSLIN: I know. I never expected this to happen.
HANK CROSLIN: Play with fire, you get burnt.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes.
HANK CROSLIN: So when did the cops come in to talk to you again?
TOMMY CROSLIN: They ain`t been over here to talk to me. I ain`t talking to them. I got nothing to say to them because they`re a bunch of damn liars.
HANK CROSLIN: I thought Lindsey said that they come in and said something to you to -- or Timmy said that -- what`s that noise?
TOMMY CROSLIN: Lockdown.
HANK CROSLIN: Oh. Everybody?
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes. I ain`t got to, though, because I got a visit.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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LINDSEY CROSLIN: Are you worried about your sister? I mean, she`s going to get...
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes, I am, Lindsey. I`m scared for her, but I don`t know. I don`t know what`s going to happen. She`ll be all right, I guess. That`s all.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Yes. It`s just scary to think for her because, I mean, we know three years, that`s it for you, if the worst. But Misty, I mean, she`s got 25.
TOMMY CROSLIN: I know.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: You know? Can you imagine? She`s 18 years old.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Well, she ain`t got to start her life out.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: She will be 33 years old when she gets out of jail.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Man!
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Isn`t that crazy? No babies.
TOMMY CROSLIN: She`ll be older than that.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Twenty -- what -- oh, yes. Yes. You`re right. Eight -- I can`t even count.
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MISTY CROSLIN: You know, we didn`t deserve this.
HANK CROSLIN: I know it. We just need to find Haleigh.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: That`s what we need to do.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: If we could find Haleigh, we`d all -- it would be better for everybody.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know. I`ve been -- I`ve been -- I sit and wonder every day, thinking, just trying to go back and think if I missed anything. I do every day. And I just -- it`s not, Dad -- there`s nothing. I`m telling you. It just -- it`s -- it`s hard.
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MISTY CROSLIN: If they give me 20 years in prison, it would be OK because you guys will come see me. I`ll get out and everything will be fine. I`m not scared. I`m not scared. I`m not.
LISA CROSLIN: You`ll be old and gray like me.
MISTY CROSLIN: I don`t care because, you know, they`re not going to put me away for something I didn`t do, and I didn`t have anything to do with Haleigh. And if I knew who did, I would tell. I`ve told them everything that I can tell them, so they need to leave me alone about this. This -- why I`m in jail has nothing to do with Haleigh.
LISA CROSLIN: That`s right.
MISTY CROSLIN: They need to kiss my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) and leave me alone!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Next, shocking video, stunning video in the Haleigh Cummings investigation. Will Misty Croslin finally crack behind bars?
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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HANK CROSLIN: What was you (INAUDIBLE) getting all these (EXPLETIVE DELETED) pills from?
MISTY CROSLIN: I know, man. It`s sucks. I should have listened to you.
HANK CROSLIN: I told you don`t get getting into that (EXPLETIVE DELETED) game, man. I told you it wasn`t no good.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know.
HANK CROSLIN: And now your brother`s (EXPLETIVE DELETED) and you`re (EXPLETIVE DELETED), and I can`t handle it, man.
MISTY CROSLIN: It`s OK. I`m going to -- Dad, it`s going to be OK. I will get out. They`re not going to keep me forever.
LISA CROSLIN: I don`t want you in there at all!
MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, but you know what? I got to learn the lesson. I`m OK, you guys. I`m really OK. I`m doing fine. I mean, I hate being in here. Of course, I do. Robert Fields is trying to bond me out right now. He`s trying to get me out. But if he doesn`t, then, you know, I`ll be here. There`s nothing I can do about it.
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GRACE: Newly obtained videotape shows us Croslin plotting what she`s going to do when she gets out of jail, even contemplating giving up drugs. But what Croslin doesn`t get is she is facing almost 150 years behind bars.
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MISTY CROSLIN: I`ve been thinking a lot, like, I just want to get my life back to normal, like, go to school, and you know, what I should have done a long time ago. I`ve been sitting, like, really using my head. And when I get out, I`m not smoking weed no more. I don`t want drugs. I don`t want nothing like that. I don`t want alcohol. I don`t want none of it.
HANK CROSLIN: I heard that. I don`t want nothing to do with none of that (EXPLETIVE DELETED), either, alcohol or anything.
MISTY CROSLIN: I`d like a cigarette.
HANK CROSLIN: All it does is destroy lives.
MISTY CROSLIN: I would like a cigarette, but...
HANK CROSLIN: I want to quit smoking cigarettes, too.
MISTY CROSLIN: I know, I might...
HANK CROSLIN: Can`t afford them, for one.
MISTY CROSLIN: I might come out not smoking interest cigarettes, too. I don`t know. Depends.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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HANK CROSLIN: Hope when you get out, you learned your lesson, you`ll never do it again. Just be a good man like you`re supposed to be.
TOMMY CROSLIN: (EXPLETIVE DELETED), when I get out, I`m done with all that stuff.
HANK CROSLIN: I hope so. I can`t handing this (EXPLETIVE DELETED) anymore.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Them damn pills ruined my life.
HANK CROSLIN: Yes, that`s all drugs do to anybody. And you know that. I tried to warn you. But what`s -- ain`t no sense in crying over spilled milk because there ain`t nothing we can do about it. Learn from our mistakes.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes. Well, I know everything`s going to be all right. God won`t give me nothing I can`t bear.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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LINDSEY CROSLIN: You know, you not being in bed with me every night and you missing things that the kids do and...
TOMMY CROSLIN: I know. It sucks.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: ... all to get high.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes. When I get out, you ain`t going to have to worry about that no more because I`m done with it. Don`t even feel the need for it.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: You`re not allowed to have no friends.
TOMMY CROSLIN: I don`t need no friends. I need you and my kids, my family. I`ve got to keep away from them jokers I was hanging out with before.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: All of them.
TOMMY CROSLIN: Yes.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Let me ask you one other thing. What`s your relationship with Misty?
RONALD CUMMINGS, FATHER OF MISSING 5-YR-OLD HALEIGH CUMMINGS: There really isn`t a relationship, you know, just -- I guess ex-wife/friend.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: If convict the on all drug charges Misty could be looking at a 150-year prison sentence. Lawyers say if she knows anything about what happened to Haleigh, now might be a good time to talk.
MISTY CROSLIN-CUMMINGS, RONALD CUMMING`S EX-WIFE, LAST SEEN HALEIGH: I`ve been the one, the main focus. They just need to move on and look for the right person.
CUMMINGS: If I find whoever has my daughter before you all do I`m killing them. I don`t care if I have to spend the rest of my life in prison. I`m telling you. You can put it on recording. I don`t care. Same thing I put on the 911 call.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: OK. Well, I just wanted to make sure.
CUMMINGS: I`m telling you, I haven`t changed my mind, not a bit.
CROSLIN: That`s all I know -- is when I woke up -- when I went to sleep she was there. And then when I woke up she was gone.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Well, let me ask, I know we`ve talked about this maybe in the past. I mean, do you think that Misty knows more than everybody says that, you know, you`re trying to find out stuff from her, I mean, is that accurate?
CUMMINGS: That I`m trying to find out stuff from her?
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Right.
CUMMINGS: Well, of course I want to know if she knows anything. What she does know.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you think she knows more?
CUMMINGS: Man, that`s a hard question to answer. It`s hard to believe that she don`t know more, but it`s also hard to believe if she did know more she ain`t already talked, you know?
CROSLIN: I wish that they would have took me instead of her. You know? Because I can -- I could have fought. You know? She`s only 5. She can`t really do anything.
CUMMINGS: How could you (EXPLETIVE DELETED) let my daughter get stolen, bitch?
CROSLIN: I don`t know where she is.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And Ronald, even behind bars, facing a lot of jail time, possibly that he will still only talk about Haleigh. He says to this moment he has not changed his mind. If he finds the person that killed Haleigh he will kill that person.
He doesn`t care what kind of jail time he`ll face. He doesn`t care if it even offers up the death penalty. It`s worth it to him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Undercover police officers with Putnam County Sheriff`s Department heard Misty was dealing. That they could get drugs from her and they called and asked if she could deliver.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How old are you?
CROSLIN: Just turned 18.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: They have her behind bars again and they do intend on questioning her again about Haleigh`s disappearance.
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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Hours of secretly recorded video just released. Misty Croslin behind bars. The girlfriend turned stepmother. New theories emerging from behind the jail cell.
Misty Croslin`s family now blaming police for fishing and even suggesting Mexican drug dealers took little Haleigh.
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LISA CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S MOTHER: Hey, dude. Hey, bubba.
TOMMY CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S BROTHER: Hey, mama, what are you doing?
L. CROSLIN: Nothing. Just got done talking to Misty. And she wants me to talk to Leonard and tell him to get you all out. She`s real upset. You know what today is, don`t you?
T. CROSLIN: Yes, I know what today is.
L. CROSLIN: Yes. She`s real upset up in there.
T. CROSLIN: I wish they`d let me see her, man. I miss my sister. I love her.
L. CROSLIN: But I don`t care if Nancy Grace and the news and everybody else knows what we`re talking about because I know my kids are innocent.
T. CROSLIN: I had nothing to do with none of that crap.
L. CROSLIN: I know you didn`t.
T. CROSLIN: I`m put in the middle of it because of sorry ass detectives.
L. CROSLIN: Yep, that`s all it is. Fishing and fishing. If they`d get off of us, and get doing their job.
T. CROSLIN: They said it doesn`t matter if we have to plant something on your sister. She`s going to be locked up when she`s 18. They told me that out of their own mouth. They said it don`t matter, we`re going to get her for something.
L. CROSLIN: And that`s exactly what they`ve done.
T. CROSLIN: I forgot to tell you, I was talking to a dude who was in here for like a day. And he was Putnam County jail a while back. And remember what Ronald told us about the Mexicans?
L. CROSLIN: Uh-huh.
T. CROSLIN: I didn`t say nothing to him about it. He come out the blue and just said it. That he heard from somebody in the Putnam County jail that the Mexicans out of Crescent City had her.
L. CROSLIN: That`s why I think Misty`s telling, Tom, I swear to god.
T. CROSLIN: Well, I mean I ain`t know this dude from nothing. I ain`t never seen him in my life. He come out of the blue and said it. He was talking.
L. CROSLIN: Did you tell dad?
T. CROSLIN: Yes, I told dad. But I told the cops a long time ago but they don`t want to listen to me.
L. CROSLIN: We told the cops that, too, Tom. They won`t listen to us.
T. CROSLIN: I know.
(CROSSTALK)
L. CROSLIN: Yes. He was tore up just like he was that night when he was on the porch talking about that Larry guy.
T. CROSLIN: Yes, that`s when he said that stuff.
L. CROSLIN: Yes. Yes.
T. CROSLIN: Those Mexicans.
L. CROSLIN: If they get him straight, well, that`s like on NANCY GRACE the other night, Nancy -- granny was talking to him, saying somebody named Pop told Teresa to watch what he`s talking about because there`s a snitch in his cell.
T. CROSLIN: I`m sure there is. But I ain`t going to make up no story to get myself out of here.
LINDSEY CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S SISTER: No. There`s -- no, because that -- you know, you need to just --
T. CROSLIN: That`s what they want.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Yes, but you know -- yes, well.
T. CROSLIN: I`m not going to do it.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: No. You just need to tell what you know and that`s it.
T. CROSLIN: I done did that.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Because you`ll get out -- that`s what I`m saying. You`ll get out with a good -- you know, a good conscience. You make stories up and then you`re always going to be looking back wondering who`s going to find out -- you know, the real truth?
T. CROSLIN: Yes. I don`t know nothing. I`m not going to make up a lie to get myself out of here.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: I know I wouldn`t. You`re in enough trouble.
T. CROSLIN: Yes.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: Because isn`t making lies up, isn`t that some type of felony probably?
T. CROSLIN: Yes, I`m sure it is.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: I`m sure it`s major, too.
T. CROSLIN: I ain`t lying about nothing.
LINDSEY CROSLIN: I don`t blame you. I wouldn`t either.
CROSLIN: When Haleigh`s found I will be let out of jail because that`s the only reason they`re keeping me in here, the only reason they set me up. Because of all that stuff. And that`s why my bond is so high and it`s not right. It`s bull.
They`re treating our family like crap. They`re trying to put us all down in the ground. And you know what? I`m not letting them put me down no more. I`m going to start standing up for myself.
I`m tired of being put down, put down, put down, think I`m this horrible person that I`m not. Because I`m not a horrible person, you know? I`m just tired of it. And I`m done with it. I`m not going to let them keep doing this to me.
I`m going to do something. I am going to stand up for myself. And that`s what you guys got to do. Stand up for ourselves. Fight for our family.
L. CROSLIN: I know you had nothing to do with Haleigh. You loved her just like you do Junior. And I`m sending you a picture of Junior.
CROSLIN: OK.
L. CROSLIN: OK? Don`t cry, sis.
CROSLIN: You got one of Haleigh, too?
L. CROSLIN: I don`t know, but I can find one. OK? I`ll send them to you. As soon as they find out what happened to Haleigh everything will be different.
CROSLIN: I know.
L. CROSLIN: I can`t believe they still believe you know. I know. It`s crazy.
CROSLIN: It`s ridiculous because they`ve got my bond set so high just because of that. And that`s not fair. This has nothing to do with it.
L. CROSLIN: I know. That`s exactly what it is.
CROSLIN: What do they think? I`m going to break? There`s nothing to break me on so they need to leave me alone.
I`m going to prison, I`m telling you.
TIMMY CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S BROTHER: For how long?
CROSLIN: Eight trafficking charges. I have eight trafficking charges.
TIMMY CROSLIN: How long you think you`re going to do?
CROSLIN: About 21 years.
TIMMY CROSLIN: No. You`re not going to do 21 years.
CROSLIN: I`m going to prison, too. Donna is going to prison. Ronald is going to prison. We`re all going to prison, Tim. Unless I can come out and tell them something. Unless I come out and tell them something. That`s the only way I`m not going.
TIMMY CROSLIN: Well, what do you know, sis?
CROSLIN: Tim, I don`t.
TIMMY CROSLIN: You don`t know nothing?
CROSLIN: No, bubba. They can all put this on TV and kiss my (EXPLETIVE DELETED).
L. CROSLIN: That`s right. That`s the way I feel, too. Your dad feels so bad. He thinks it`s his fault that you got two more charges.
CROSLIN: Why?
L. CROSLIN: Because you all were talking about the drugs and whatever and then --
CROSLIN: It doesn`t matter. No, I was already getting them. It doesn`t matter. I`m pretty sure I`m not going to have all of them. They`re going to drop some of them because I did not give the guy -- I didn`t sell the whole time. OK?
L. CROSLIN: I know.
CROSLIN: I`m being charged with everybody.
L. CROSLIN: I know. That`s what I don`t understand. I mean, you told the truth. Why do they keep putting charges on you?
CROSLIN: Exactly.
L. CROSLIN: It`s not right.
T. CROSLIN: This (EXPLETIVE DELETED) sucks, dude. I want out of here so bad. I would do anything to get out of here.
TIMMY CROSLIN: Yes.
T. CROSLIN: I wouldn`t sell my soul, but I`d do anything else. I know in the paper it says I`m facing 15 years in prison, but that`s a (EXPLETIVE DELETED) lie.
The damn police said you`re facing three years in prison unless you help us find Haleigh. I said, I can`t help you find nobody. I don`t know where she is. What the (EXPLETIVE DELETED). I`m sick of them, man.
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GRACE: Coming up, stunning evidence. It`s more of baby-sitter turned step mom, misty Croslin`s just released secretly recorded jailhouse tapes.
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CROSLIN: I can`t wait to get out and just, like, give you a hug and stuff.
HANK CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S FATHER: I know. I didn`t get to hug you before you went because you just disappeared.
CROSLIN: I know.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you feel Misty has the key to this investigation?
CUMMINGS: No, I don`t. I think they`re barking up the wrong tree.
GRACE: I don`t believe you. I think you do suspect your ex-wife, soon to be ex-wife`s story. I think you don`t want to discuss it in the midst of a divorce.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: So are you saying you didn`t fail the polygraph like people and law enforcement are kind of claiming that you did?
CROSLIN: No, I did not.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: OK. So bottom line you don`t know where Haleigh is?
CROSLIN: Bottom line.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Misty is just kind of digging herself in a deeper hole.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If this girl keeps doing what she`s doing it`s only a question of time before she`s charged with something having to do with this kid`s disappearance. She just repeatedly, repeatedly contradicts herself.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Deputies say Croslin`s brother told them it looked like no one was home that night.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: He tells police that he banged on the door and he got no answer. He looked inside through the windows, saw no lights, no television, did not hear a sound.
CROSLIN: I would have woke up if I heard any noise. I mean I didn`t hear anything at all.
MARLAINA SCHIAVO, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER, SPENT TIME WITH MISSING HALEIGH`S FAMILY: That front door is all but 10 feet from the bedroom where Misty was sleeping with Haleigh and Junior that night. So if someone was wailing on the door there`s no way she couldn`t have heard that whatsoever.
MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: This family is willing to betray each other over something like getting a get-out-jail free card. What does that say about her and who she`s willing to betray? Is she betraying Ron? Is she betraying Haleigh?
GRACE: Do you believe she left the home and left the children alone, Ronald?
CUMMINGS: Absolutely not. I want to get to the bottom of what happened. One way or another I want my daughter to come home.
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GRACE: What will it ever take for Croslin to finally reveal what she knows about Haleigh`s disappearance? Even her own family tells her the world wants to know. What happened to little Haleigh?
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H. CROSLIN: I guess the world just wants to know.
CROSLIN: I know.
H. CROSLIN: Hell, I want to know.
CROSLIN: I know.
H. CROSLIN: You know, I want you and your brother out of this mess and --
CROSLIN: Me, too. I want out of here, dad.
H. CROSLIN: I know you do, Misty. I wish I could get you out. I`m working on it. I`m trying.
CROSLIN: I know.
T. CROSLIN: It sucks, man. They got me with this bull (EXPLETIVE DELETED) trafficking charge and I ain`t no damn drug dealer.
H. CROSLIN: Yes, you should have knew better not to get messed up in none of Misty`s deals like that anyway. You knew that, didn`t you?
T. CROSLIN: I know.
H. CROSLIN: Misty always -- you know lately it seems like Misty`s been getting you in trouble and trouble and trouble.
T. CROSLIN: I know.
H. CROSLIN: She don`t mean to. She`s just -- I don`t know what the hell to think about her anymore. I love her so much but she`s got me worried.
T. CROSLIN: You get a minimum mandatory sentence you have to do all of it.
H. CROSLIN: What`s that? Three years?
T. CROSLIN: That`s -- yes. But I ain`t worried about anything. That ain`t happening to me. I`m scared for Misty.
H. CROSLIN: Yes, me, too.
H. CROSLIN: I just hope -- I mean, I don`t know if she knows anything or not, but --
T. CROSLIN: If she does she needs to go ahead and tell the truth, man, and don`t be making up stories.
H. CROSLIN: I told her that. To don`t talk to nobody but her lawyer and just tell the truth and get it over with.
T. CROSLIN: And don`t be making up stories on people.
H. CROSLIN: I pray for you every night. I pray for Haleigh, too.
CROSLIN: Yes, I pray for her every day, all day. I`m telling you, I do. Miss her so much.
H. CROSLIN: Poor little girl. I miss her, too.
CROSLIN: God`s going to bring her home.
H. CROSLIN: God`s going to bring her home?
CROSLIN: God`s going to bring her home. That`s all we can do is pray to god because he`s the only one, you know? It`s got to be his time and his time he`ll do it.
H. CROSLIN: You think she can come home?
CROSLIN: Of course, dad.
H. CROSLIN: I hope and pray to god she does.
CROSLIN: Me, too. I mean, I can`t tell you by definitely, because you know, I can`t say, you know, 100 percent, but god hasn`t gave me that sign. That`s all I want to do is get out of this place. I`ll never come back, like for real.
I will never do anything to get in trouble ever again. I will try never to come back. I know I`m not ever doing anything, ever, like god is going to guide me and not let me do anything wrong ever again.
And I`m going to start going to church, get my life straight because I don`t want to be in here no more. This is, like, this really opened my eyes. Really, I really. It opened my eyes big and --
H. CROSLIN: You think Ronald`s going to do a long time?
CROSLIN: Probably. I don`t know.
H. CROSLIN: Just for the -- never mind.
CROSLIN: I don`t know though.
T. CROSLIN: You all ain`t heard from Misty?
TIMMY CROSLIN: Yes, she called us about 1:00.
T. CROSLIN: Did she? I hope she don`t call the house.
TIMMY CROSLIN: No, I told her not to. She said she`s not going to. I said there was only one call left so Tommy needs to talk to Lindsey. She said she`s not, you know, but (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Misty wants to know, are you on the third floor, second floor?
T. CROSLIN: I`m on the same floor as her. I`m on the third floor.
TIMMY CROSLIN: She`s on the third floor, too.
T. CROSLIN: All I know is she keeps making up these lies I`m not going to have nothing to do with her. It`s (EXPLETIVE DELETED) she`s trying to (EXPLETIVE DELETED) to put me in the middle of something I don`t know nothing about. Misty`s the one that told them about all that craziness anyway. You hear me?
TIMMY CROSLIN: About what?
T. CROSLIN: About me supposedly doing some "B" and E`s. Exactly what they told me. They kept me because -- when they took me up to the -- when they first arrested me they took me to Bunnell, to the state`s attorneys building or the courthouse, wherever it is.
They said, your sister got arrested she started squealing. Said you`ve been burglarizing houses in your neighborhood. She`s out of her mind.
H. CROSLIN: I know it`s hard. It`s hard for me to have you both locked up. But, Misty, don`t be lying about nothing. Because all it`s going to do is bury you deeper. What did your Ma say to you?
Somebody suggested they was trying to come up with some money or something. But Art Harris is just looking for a story. Don`t worry. I mean if somebody will bond you out, that`s fine. I`m all for it, but -- all I know, Misty is you guys need to get to the truth and get this (EXPLETIVE DELETED) over with.
CROSLIN: It`s OK, though, because I will prove to the world that I didn`t have nothing to do with it.
L. CROSLIN: Exactly.
CROSLIN: And when I get out of jail everybody can kiss my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) and I`m going to get on TV and I`m going to tell them all to (EXPLETIVE DELETED) off.
L. CROSLIN: That`s right. I don`t blame you at all. They need to give you a nationwide apology.
CROSLIN: They`re not going to put me down no more. I`m tired of it. I`m going to stand up for myself.
L. CROSLIN: That`s what you need to do. Right there. Let them know that.
CROSLIN: I am, because I don`t care what people think about me. They can think what I want to think.
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GRACE: Coming up, newly released secretly recorded jailhouse video of baby-sitter turned stepmother Misty Croslin.
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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
H. CROSLIN: I love you.
CROSLIN: I love you and -- muah. Muah.
H. CROSLIN: I caught it.
CROSLIN: Did you catch it?
H. CROSLIN: Yes, I caught it, baby.
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GRACE: As Croslin and her family yak away behind bars, will investigators finally get the breakthrough they need to bring Haleigh home?
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CROSLIN: Please try to get me out of here.
CHELSEA CROSLIN: I know. We`re going to work on it. I promise.
CROSLIN: Get Cobra. You know he`ll get me out. I got some information that I`ll give him if he gets me out.
CHELSEA CROSLIN: I know but that`s why your lawyer`s scared. He doesn`t want -- he called me last night. And he said, Chelsea, I don`t want Cobra to get ahold of Misty because all he`s going to do is interrogate the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of her like he did Nene and throw her back in jail. He`s like so I`m working on it.
CROSLIN: My lawyer is trying to get me out?
CHELSEA CROSLIN: Yes, he`s like, I`m going to -- I want to get her out before Cobra can get her out. He`s like, because I don`t want Cobra to get her.
H. CROSLIN: You should have left when I told you to. You should have went up there to Michigan. But I -- you know, the Haleigh stuff has got to come to an end. It`s got to, Misty.
Whatever the truth is, it`s got to come out. And you don`t -- you still -- I mean you don`t be talking without your lawyer. He gets pissed off. He`s the only hope that you got. Promise, man, that you didn`t have -- never mind. Never mind. Never mind.
CROSLIN: I just want out of here and I`m telling you he will be happy -- he will be happy if he gets me out, I`m telling you, I`m telling you, I`m telling you. He`ll make the cops look stupid.
H. CROSLIN: The cops ain`t stupid. They`re only going on like nobody. No one knows. Only one that knows is the people that were there.
TERESA NEVES, GRANDMOTHER OF MISSING 5-YR-OLD, HALEIGH CUMMINGS: Think she`s going to talk? Do you think she`s going to talk?
CUMMINGS: Well, this is between me and you and whoever is listening to our recording but they shouldn`t -- the cops are not just going run out and tell nobody they do, then they`re going to have (EXPLETIVE DELETED) have me to deal with.
Anyway, so, after that maybe they do that recording the reason why they done is because they went to the jail, was talking to her and Jason said, man, I never seen her cry real tears.
You know she always have to jerk a tear out, Jason said, no man, this (EXPLETIVE DELETED) was like pouring, and you know when it started? And I said when, he said when we started talking about you, being locked up and losing Junior.
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GRACE: Let`s stop and remember Army Staff Sergeant Michael Bechert, 24, New Castle, Indiana. On a second tour, awarded two Purple Hearts, the Bronze Tar. Loved fishing, hunting, cars, traveling, time with his little boy. Leaves behind grieving father Michael, the grandparents who raised him, George and Doris, widow, Donela, and son Brandon.
Michael Bechert, American hero.
Thanks to our guests but our biggest thank you is to you for being with us. I`ll see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend.
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