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Nancy Grace

Misty Hints at Unrevealed Evidence

Aired March 12, 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. 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-stepmother 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 and whining to Mommy and Daddy. And tonight, we have the video. As police comb the jailhouse tapes for clues as to little Haleigh`s whereabouts, tonight, where is 5-year-old Haleigh?

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MISTY CROSLIN, HALEIGH`S BABY-SITTER: I`m so tired of this. Like, I`m just so tired of being locked in one cell. I`m just so tired of it. Like, it drives me crazy. I`m just trying to get (INAUDIBLE) sleeping all day long.

CHELSEA CROSLIN, MISTY`S SISTER-IN-LAW: So what, you have things you need to, like, talk to -- you wanted to talk to him about?

MISTY CROSLIN: Well, yes. I mean, it`s -- it`s -- you know, it`s so hard to talk.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: I know.

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: You know...

MISTY CROSLIN: But it`s going to hurt two people.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: (INAUDIBLE) that I should know, like...

MISTY CROSLIN: It`s going to hurt two people.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: That we care about?

MISTY CROSLIN: Kind of. One yes, and the other kind of.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: That I care about?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: Because I know I don`t give a (EXPLETIVE DELETED) about Ronald, excuse my language.

MISTY CROSLIN: No. No. No. It`s somebody -- yes. No.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: I mean, I prayed and that`s all I can do. People saying I don`t think about Haleigh. You can ask everybody in this cellblock right here, right now. Everybody in this block knows that I think about her all the time and I talk about her all the time.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: Haleigh`s always on my mind 24/7. She`s always on my mind. Just because I`m not talking about her doesn`t mean she`s not, you know? And Nancy Grace can say whatever she wants, that we don`t care about her. Everybody in this jail knows that I talk about Haleigh a lot.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. We obtain even more secretly recorded jailhouse tapes. It`s hours of Croslin yakking, whining to Mommy and Daddy, to everybody. And tonight, we have the video.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MISTY CROSLIN: I hate this place. I`m never, ever, ever coming back to jail ever again when I get out. I`ll never do nothing ever again wrong. I don`t care.

LISA CROSLIN, MISTY`S MOTHER: I know you won`t because I`m going to beat the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of you if you do.

MISTY CROSLIN: You don`t have to beat the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of me because I`m telling you this right here. I`ve been in here 20-something days, 24 days, and I`ve learned my lesson for real. I don`t never want to be back here, man.

I`m not no drug dealer, you know? I`m nothing like that. They can kiss my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) about that (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

I wished they`d give me, like, counseling or probation or something. I`m just sitting here (EXPLETIVE DELETED) around, everybody just talking, telling everybody we want to get out, this jail is so packed, and let us, like -- man, they can come in here and let me out.

I wish I had powers. I`d make a door in my cell and just walk out.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TIMMY CROSLIN, MISTY`S BROTHER: Last night on Nancy Grace, they had me and Tommy on there.

MISTY CROSLIN: (EXPLETIVE DELETED) them. Nancy Grace is a (EXPLETIVE DELETED)!

TIMMY CROSLIN: I know. And she said last night -- or she said -- yes, last night, she`s, like, yes, they don`t ever talk about Haleigh when they talk on the phone. They don`t -- we talk about Haleigh, but they don`t play -- they play what they want everybody in the world to hear.

MISTY CROSLIN: Exactly. We talk about Haleigh all the time. They only take what they want and put it out there.

TIMMY CROSLIN: Yes.

MISTY CROSLIN: They do. I think about Haleigh 24/7, all day long. So Nancy Grace can kiss my (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Straight out to Art Harris, investigative journalist at Artharris.com. I`ve never known her in all this time when we have been watching her -- you have been spending time there in Satsuma. I`ve never once seen her break down in tears, squeeze out one tear. And just lately, now that she`s discovered that cameras are rolling, suddenly, she started praying a lot or at least talking about it.

ART HARRIS, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: She`s scared, Nancy. I`ve talked to her family, talked to her father. And he said that...

GRACE: She`s not scared!

HARRIS: Well...

GRACE: That is -- don`t even!

HARRIS: Nancy, I`m...

GRACE: Don`t even give me that BS!

HARRIS: Nancy, I`m just reporting...

GRACE: Because she has said...

HARRIS: ... what the family is telling me.

GRACE: She just...

HARRIS: They believe that...

GRACE: Art, please stop! S-T-O-P. Because she was just saying, I`ve done 23 days already, and I`m going to get into drug court. She doesn`t get it! She`s not scared!

HARRIS: Well, that`s what the family is telling me, that off-camera, Nancy, the investigators have had an effect on her. And right now, they are investigating a letter she has sent to a family member telling what she says she knows about that night with Haleigh.

GRACE: OK. Now, there`s some breaking news. Tell me some more about the letter.

HARRIS: Well, the letter has gone to a family member. The family member turned it over to investigators, and they are trying to see what details in the letter they can confirm, what they can`t. They believe, I`m told, some things Misty says. They don`t believe others. The problem with Misty, Nancy, is that if whoever she says or claims did whatever they did, she`s got to have corroboration on the witness stand. She is not a credible witness at this point.

GRACE: To Jean Casarez, legal correspondent In Session. Jean, I notice that in one of the jailhouse tapes, she says, Well, I`m going to tell what I know, and it`s going to hurt two people. Who?

JEAN CASAREZ, IN SESSION: Well, Nancy, that is very important. We don`t know, but we can read between the lines because she`s talking to her sister-in-law and she says she`s going to say what she knows. It`s going to hurt two people. Do we care about these people, the sister-in-law says. She says, one, yes. Do I care about? Yes. She says one yes, the other sort of.

Well, a family member, who are they going to really care about? They`re going to care about another family member, probably. But that`s important, Nancy, coupled with the fact she tells her mother that she`s told her attorney, that he knows. What is it? She won`t say. But she says he`s comfortable.

GRACE: OK. Let`s take a listen to what Jean Casarez is describing in just-obtained secretly recorded jailhouse tapes of baby-sitter-turned- stepmother, the last person to see this little girl alive.

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MISTY CROSLIN: I`m so tired of this. Like, I`m just so tired of being locked in one cell. I`m just so tired of it. Like, it drives me crazy. I`m just trying to get (INAUDIBLE) sleeping all day long.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: So what, you have things you need to, like, talk to -- you wanted to talk to him about?

MISTY CROSLIN: Well, yes. I mean, it`s -- it`s -- you know, it`s so hard to talk.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: I know.

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: You know...

MISTY CROSLIN: But it`s going to hurt two people.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: (INAUDIBLE) that I should know, like...

MISTY CROSLIN: It`s going to hurt two people.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: That we care about?

MISTY CROSLIN: Kind of. One yes, and the other kind of.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: That I care about?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: Because I know I don`t give a (EXPLETIVE DELETED) about Ronald, excuse my language.

MISTY CROSLIN: No. No. No. It`s somebody -- yes. No.

CHELSEA CROSLIN: It`s not him?

MISTY CROSLIN: No. Just -- you think, Chelsea. Use your head and you`ll know.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Let`s unleash the lawyers. Joining us tonight, Eleanor Odom, felony prosecutor out of Atlanta, Renee Rockwell, Peter Odom, also out of Atlanta, both defense attorneys.

You know, Eleanor Odom, don`t you think by now, if she had somebody to pin it on, she would have told cops a long time ago?

ELEANOR ODOM, PROSECUTOR: Yes, especially since she`s in jail now and that could help her get out, maybe give her some credibility with the authorities.

GRACE: Renee, I don`t think she gets it. She was saying on one of these jailhouse -- now, there`s the real Misty Croslin, right there, in her element. There you go. And she is not praying and crying about Haleigh. She`s got a cigarette dangling off her lip, and she`s trying to score a drug deal. She`s not thinking about little Haleigh or helping the search at all.

But do you often deal with clients that just don`t get it? She was saying, Hey, I`ve done 23 days -- 23 days on time served?

RENEE ROCKWELL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: And she`s going to go to drug court.

GRACE: And she`s looking at 130 years behind bars? Explain to us the advantage of so-called drug court.

ROCKWELL: Well, Nancy, drug courts -- while she might be a candidate for drug court because she`s obviously got a drug problem or she`s addicted, et cetera, those are for people...

GRACE: No.

ROCKWELL: Well, I`m just saying -- we`re talking about...

GRACE: She`s charged with trafficking.

ROCKWELL: That`s right. Drug court is reserved for people with drug addictions. They don`t want dealers in drug court. While she may have a drug problem, look at her. They don`t want a drug dealer in drug court to, what, sell to all the other patients that are trying to go through rehab.

GRACE: What`s the vantage to her, Peter Odom, of going to drug court? It`s specially for junkies, addicts, people with a drug problem, not dealers.

PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Lesser sentence. That would be the advantage, a lesser sentence or some kind of probation, rather than prison. And it`s clear that she just doesn`t get it. She`s probably looking at some kind of prison time for these offenses. But you know...

GRACE: Some kind of prison time?

PETER ODOM: Some kind -- some kind of prison time.

GRACE: Now, that was smart, Peter. She`s looking at some kind of prison time. Yes. You went to law school, and that`s your analysis, she`s looking at some jail time?

PETER ODOM: And we just don`t know what yet, Nancy. That`s -- that`s...

GRACE: We don`t know.

PETER ODOM: That`s all we can say. That`s all we can say...

GRACE: I know.

PETER ODOM: ... at this point. No, you don`t.

GRACE: She`s looking at...

PETER ODOM: You do not know!

GRACE: She is looking at 130...

PETER ODOM: That`s her maximum.

GRACE: ... years behind bars.

PETER ODOM: That`s her maximum. She`s never going to do that. She`ll do...

GRACE: OK, pause.

PETER ODOM: She`ll do a few years.

GRACE: Eleanor Dixon, let`s -- Eleanor Odom, let`s give the defense attorneys a little reality check because the prosecutors, if all they ever get her on is this drug offense, you know it`s going to be a stiff penalty.

ELEANOR ODOM: Exactly. It`s not just a drug offense, Nancy. It is trafficking in drugs. We`re talking large quantities. That`s why there`s a large amount of years that she`s facing. And yes, I see her getting some serious prison time.

GRACE: Out to the lines. Michelle, New Hampshire. Hi, Michelle.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my God! What a privilege!

GRACE: You know what, Michelle? The privilege is mine and everybody on my staff. Thank you for calling. What`s your question, dear?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: First I`d like to thank you for everything you do for these victims and their family.

GRACE: Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Second, I want to know how Misty has survived in jail. All she does is cry and whine. Why...

GRACE: I`ll tell you how she`s survived, Michelle. She has not been in general population. They have her special needs. In fact, she was saying -- and we`re going to go back to Jean when we get back, maybe we can find the video out of the hours of video where she says, I`m special, I`m a star here.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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LISA CROSLIN: I`m watching you on TV right now.

MISTY CROSLIN: What am I doing?

LISA CROSLIN: You`re on Nancy Grace, me and you talking on the phone.

MISTY CROSLIN: Today?

LISA CROSLIN: No.

MISTY CROSLIN: Yesterday?

LISA CROSLIN: No, not yesterday, the last time I come see you.

MISTY CROSLIN: OK. It doesn`t say nothing about my lawyer or anything, right?

LISA CROSLIN: Not today, but they will have it on the air.

MISTY CROSLIN: Oh, my God! I`m going to tell him that I was just upset and -- yes.

LISA CROSLIN: Yes. You need to be honest with your lawyer, though, so you don`t lose him.

MISTY CROSLIN: I know. I was upset that day. I just wanted of here that day. It was hard. It was -- you know what day it was.

LISA CROSLIN: Yes, I know.

MISTY CROSLIN: And it was just hard and I wanted out. But now I realize that I need to just sit here and do what I got to do.

LISA CROSLIN: I just hope you`re all right.

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes. I`m going to be all right, Mama. Even if they give me a prison sentence, I`ll still be OK as long as you guys come see me and send me money and stuff...

LISA CROSLIN: I`ll be there.

MISTY CROSLIN: ... and I can call you.

LISA CROSLIN: I will be there, and you know I will.

MISTY CROSLIN: I mean, I`ll be OK. I`m not scared. It`s not that I`m scared. I just -- I want to get out of here and I want to be with my family, you know?

LISA CROSLIN: I wish they`d just tell me what they`re going to do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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TOMMY CROSLIN, MISTY`S BROTHER: I don`t know nothing about it.

LINDSEY CROSLIN, TOMMY`S WIFE: I know. I know. I just want you home with me.

TOMMY CROSLIN: I can`t wait.

LINDSEY CROSLIN: Find Haleigh and let you come home.

TOMMY CROSLIN: I know. But it ain`t got nothing to do with me. I can`t help them out there.

LINDSEY CROSLIN: I know. But if they could find her, then it`s almost like this stuff would go away.

TOMMY CROSLIN: It ain`t going to go away. My charge ain`t going to go away.

LINDSEY CROSLIN: No, but just the -- just the...

TOMMY CROSLIN: All the publicity would go away.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Let`s go out to Marlaina Schiavo, our producer on the story, joining us out of New York. Marlaina, in these secretly recorded jailhouse tapes, we now hear her talking about how much she talks about Haleigh. But she doesn`t talk about her at all in any of these tapes. What she says is, I talk about her all the time, but she never talks about her.

MARLAINA SCHIAVO, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, Nancy, because she`s finding out that people are saying that she`s not talking about her and noticing it...

GRACE: Obviously!

SCHIAVO: Well, right. And she`s just sort of going in circles, saying she wants pictures. It`s like sort of surface conversations. And she says that everybody in jail knows that she talks about Haleigh. But you`re right, she`s not really talking about Haleigh. I think she`s just sort of trying to cover herself at this point.

GRACE: OK, let me rephrase myself. To you, Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, author of "Deal Breakers." She`s joining us from LA. Thank you, Dr. Bethany.

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST: Yes.

GRACE: Let me rephrase that. When we are catching her, hours of videotape, talking, she never talks about the little girl, never about, I remember when Haleigh did X, and I love her so much, and I feel awful that I was there that night and I can`t remember. Nothing. All she says is -- brags about how much she talks about her. And all this business about, I pray all the time. Don`t drag God into this, all right? Don`t let him be the doormat.

MARSHALL: Nancy, I`ve read all the transcripts and listened to the tapes. She does not talk about Haleigh. There`s no parenting stories. She doesn`t reminisce. She doesn`t say, Do you remember the time I pushed her on the swing? She just kind of says, I prayed, we`ll find her, to rehabilitate her image. But her attempts to rehabilitate her image are so transparent! Remember what she did before? She blamed things on her brother. And what is she doing again? She`s blaming things on her brother.

And you know what makes me even angrier? Her parents have every opportunity to help her and parent her while she`s in jail, to encourage her to take responsibility, to discourage her from whining, to tell her she`s there because of her actions, to encourage her toward sobriety. They don`t parent her. So it`s scary that she wasn`t parented, and then she was supposedly taking care of this little girl that she never talks about. What was going on in that household?

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LISA CROSLIN: I still can`t see you.

MISTY CROSLIN: I`m going to write you tonight, start writing to the lawyer tonight.

LISA CROSLIN: OK. All right. And when I leave here, I`m going to go by Lindsey`s and get some pictures for you of Haleigh and Junior.

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, I want one of Haleigh and one of Junior and one of Ronald.

LISA CROSLIN: All right. I`ll get them all to you.

MISTY CROSLIN: I mean, I still love him, Mama.

LISA CROSLIN: Huh?

MISTY CROSLIN: I still love him.

LISA CROSLIN: I know you do, baby. I`m sure he still loves you

MISTY CROSLIN: I know he does.

LISA CROSLIN: I know. That`s what Teresa was talking about, that she don`t even get to see Junior. That was part of her letter.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MISTY CROSLIN: I`m going to go out to rec when we go -- I mean, when I can because I need some fresh air. It`s in this, like, little gated little, like, thing, like a cage, outside.

LISA CROSLIN: Oh, but it is outside?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes. I`m going to go out there. You don`t have to stay. It`s, like, you could be out there for an hour by yourself, but I`m (INAUDIBLE) get out of this cellblock.

LISA CROSLIN: How -- you`re out there for an hour?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes. You`re by yourself. You don`t have -- you know, there`s no -- they won`t give you a basketball or nothing. If I had a basketball, I`d be all right. But all I`m going to do is just walk around for a little bit because I need some fresh air, you know? And it gets me out there to walk.

LISA CROSLIN: Yes. It gives you a different scene.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Did she just say, They won`t give me a ball to play with? Jean Casarez, did she just say that?

CASAREZ: She did, Nancy, she did, because she`s confined. She wants to go outside. She does get to go outside one hour a day by herself in the yard, but she can`t do anything...

GRACE: I don`t get to go outside an hour a day.

CASAREZ: ... when she gets out there. You know, Nancy, she is...

GRACE: I work.

CASAREZ: ... enjoying this...

GRACE: ... from the time I get up at 5:00 in the morning until I hit the sack. And she`s complaining she can`t go outside and they won`t give her a ball to play with?

CASAREZ: But you know, I think the complaining is actually enjoying it. I think she`s enjoying so many aspects of this. She says on these tapes that she wasn`t able to see television well enough, so they put her on another floor and took the television and pushed it in so she could watch it.

GRACE: Art Harris, is that true?

HARRIS: Nancy, yes. In fact, she is now reveling in the fact that she has the best seat in the house, the top bunk. She can see the TV perfectly. And the television, curiously, has become sort of a law enforcement tool. My sources say it`s keeping pressure on her to hear the reaction people are having on this show, actually.

GRACE: To Sheryl McCollum, crime analyst, director of the cold case squad, Pine Lake PD. Sheryl, at this point, little Haleigh`s been gone a year. I think if she had been alive, she would have been identified by now.

SHERYL MCCOLLUM, CRIME ANALYST: No question. No question. Nancy, here`s the bottom line. This woman has talked more about you than she has that baby. The conversation with the sister-in-law? She`s had a year to talk to the sister-in-law about these two people that it`s going to hurt! She`s not going to crack. She`s protecting herself. I`ve said it from the beginning, she`d rather go to jail as a drug dealer than a baby killer.

GRACE: But bottom line, Eleanor Odom, a lot of people have come up with a theory, because I think it`s more comfortable for them, that she passed out on drugs and has no idea what happened and somebody took the baby. Then why did she flunk a polygraph, I mean, miserably, an F-minus- minus, Eleanor?

ELEANOR ODOM: I know. Exactly. And if she`s passed out, then she has no knowledge. So I guess that`s convenient for her to believe or for others to believe, but not the truth.

GRACE: If she passed out, isn`t it true she would not have flunked the polygraph, if she`d been telling the truth?

ELEANOR ODOM: Exactly. If she told the truth, she wouldn`t have flunked. But she can`t -- every time her mouth moves, she`s telling a lie, Nancy.

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MISTY CROSLIN: I`m going to tell the judge that I have a drug problem and try to get drug court because I have smoked pot and -- you know?

LISA CROSLIN: That`s what you need to do, Meme.

MISTY CROSLIN: I`m going to try. I mean, tell my lawyer I don`t -- and you guys are going to be at the court, right?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

MISTY CROSLIN: Man, we had some nasty mystery meat tonight. I didn`t eat it.

LISA CROSLIN: What?

M. CROSLIN: It`s called mystery meat.

L. CROSLIN: Mystery meat. What did it look like?

M. CROSLIN: It`s got, like, little hamburger patty thing, but it`s, like, liver, like all nasty kind of -- in it. I don`t know.

L. CROSLIN: You didn`t eat it?

M. CROSLIN: No.

L. CROSLIN: You might have liked it if you tried it.

M. CROSLIN: I did try it.

L. CROSLIN: Oh. Is that al you had?

M. CROSLIN: I ate the pudding on the plate and drunk my drink and I had green beans. I ain`t eating no green beans without no garlic or no salt.

L. CROSLIN: No, they don`t give you salt there?

M. CROSLIN: No.

L. CROSLIN: Oh, shoot. Well, we`re going to have to get you some crackers or something to make salt out of.

M. CROSLIN: They don`t give you -- in here. I`m ready to get out of this place. Whatever they`re going to do, just do it (INAUDIBLE) time in jail.

L. CROSLIN: I know. I don`t blame you. I know. What are they feeding you all tonight?

M. CROSLIN: We had some meat ball thing and noodles. It wasn`t that bad. I ate it. I ate all my bread. Meals in the morning, I don`t eat their eggs.

L. CROSLIN: Why?

M. CROSLIN: Because they`re nasty. I don`t eat their grits. I don`t eat their oatmeal. I eat their cereal and I eat bread and jelly.

L. CROSLIN: If you try their oatmeal and grits, they`re good.

M. CROSLIN: No, they`re not, mom. They don`t have sugar in them. They`re oatmeal. The grits don`t even have butter on them.

L. CROSLIN: You know what I used to do, I used to take my syrup from my pancakes, you`d get like a waffle with oatmeal and I`d put syrup in my oatmeal.

M. CROSLIN: If I had some syrup to put in my oatmeal, I would. Thinking of all kinds of ideas. For salt I`m going to order some pretzels so I can have salt for my food.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

GRACE: And mommy certainly knows best because she just got out from behind bars. Why was mommy behind bars, Jean Casarez, and here she is talking about the jailhouse cuisine?

JEAN CASAREZ: That was a theft forgery charge, that was in Tennessee. She was extradited back to Florida. She got out on bail but she still has charges pending.

GRACE: Out to Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, author of "Deal Breakers," joining us out of LA. Bethany, menu, spaghetti casserole, glazed carrots, bread, calcium beverage, an iced cake. What`s wrong with that?

DR. BETHANY MARSHALL: Well, a whole lot is wrong with it --

GRACE: I`m not saying it for you to laugh. You know, what is Haleigh having tonight? Where is Haleigh? Is she now just bones with some hair on her skull maybe under water? Is she just squashed down in a trash dump compacted along with everybody`s debris? And she is behind bars whining about she doesn`t like their eggs and their oatmeal?

MARSHALL: Honestly, Misty should have had you for a mom because you would not have let her whine and complain about the food. You would have said to her, what about Haleigh? What you said just now and maybe she would have started to get some insight into her bad behavior. She talks about food because she`s empty, because she has nothing else going on in her life. She has no skills, she has no future. She`s coming down from drugs and because she`s very entitled. So all she thinks about is herself. This was one more teachable moment and her mother didn`t use it.

GRACE: To Art Harris, investigative journalist, artharris.com. Art, you have spent so much time down at Satsuma (ph) digging around in this case. Now, listen, I know that knowing you, you want to take the comfortable way out. You don`t want to think of Misty Croslin as a killer, but she didn`t just pass out and wake up and the baby`s gone or she would have passed her lie detector test, all right? It wasn`t inconsistent. She was deceptive, end of story. Her voice stress test, everything. Her story has changed. Does the whole family act like this, whining about they didn`t give me a ball to play with? You think Haleigh can bounce a ball? Do you think Haleigh is somewhere skipping rope right now, Art?

ART HARRIS: Nancy, the family feels totally targeted.

GRACE: Get me a ball to play with.

HARRIS: They`re feeling the heat, Nancy. I can tell you that. I talked to her father. He can`t find work. He`s now living in a mission. He does not know what to do. He`s told Misty, he tells me, to tell what you know. So he feels like he`s done everything he can.

GRACE: OK, Art, let`s cut the sob story and yes, I feel for anybody that doesn`t have a job that can`t make it. There are thousands of people like that in America right now. What I want to find out, Art, is not about her family`s work employment. I want to find out, who were the two people she`s alluding to, that the truth about what happened Haleigh is going to hurt two people?

HARRIS: Nancy, the law enforcement is trying to see if there is any credibility behind the two people she has written family members about. I`ll be reporting more on that on artharris.com as I can confirm it. Right now they are very close to the family.

GRACE: To Dr. Evelyn Minaya, women`s health expert joining us out of New York. Doctor Evelyn, I just heard her say I sleep all day. You know what? That`s a tough life she`s got going on right there. Is that a signal that she is on some type of drug? I know that she has tried to go to sick bay and say she`s sick to get, I think it was Prozac.

DR. EVELYN MINAYA: Right.

GRACE: Or a Prozac derivative.

MINAYA: Right.

GRACE: Does that make you sleepy?

MINAYA: It can. It can make you sleepy, but it depends on when she`s taking it. If she`s only taking it during the morning, then it can make her sleepy at nighttime. Or if she`s taking it at nighttime then it will make her sleepy obviously at nighttime. I really, really think that the reason that she sleeps is to hide her guilt so that she cannot remember, so that she kind of sticks to her stories and so it would make sense only to her. That`s what I think.

GRACE: And right now she has a private cell with two beds in it and of course, complains about both.

Tonight, we ask for your thoughts and prayers for a high school boy, Trey Rude (ph) battling stage-four melanoma. He`s a high school senior football star. Says he will beat cancer. For info, go to prayfortrey.org. Also info on the annual jog for a cause, fighting childhood cancer benefiting Trey Rude fund. Saturday March 13th, Alpharetta, Georgia. Trey, please stay strong.

As we go to break, happy birthday to a special friend of mine, lovely Greer, and to all her friends, hello. Little crime fighters, Cheska (ph), Alexa, Logan, Lily, Tess, Theodora and Rachael, all celebrating Greer`s birthday. It`s a big number 12. The big 1-2. Beautiful Greer is an animal lover. She volunteers at an animal shelter every week. Favorite animal, the walrus, of course. Happy birthday, beautiful Greer.

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L. CROSLIN: I`m praying. I prayed hard last night. Leonard is praying too. He says he`s going to try to get Tommy out too.

M. CROSLIN: Well, so he`s going to bond him out and not me?

L. CROSLIN: Huh?

M. CROSLIN: Going to bond him out and not me?

L. CROSLIN: Tommy don`t even have a bond right now, Misty. That`s what Lindsey said. Lindsey don`t know. Lindsey hasn`t really dealt with this man. I know what he`s telling us. I`m going on what he`s told us.

M. CROSLIN: What is he, is he saying, yeah, he will?

L. CROSLIN: He says he will as long as you can help him find Haleigh.

M. CROSLIN: OK.

L. CROSLIN: If you can help tell him something that will help bring Haleigh home.

M. CROSLIN: Hey, daddy.

HANK CROSLIN: Hey, sissy. How`s it going?

M. CROSLIN: Just got moved upstairs.

H. CROSLIN: Can you see TV now?

M. CROSLIN: I can see the TV now. I can see the TV now because they moved it because I was complaining so much. So they moved it right over here. I`ve been wanting to get moved upstairs anyway because this girl`s up there that`s really nice and we can play cards together. She`s going to help me. I`m going to get a GED book and she`s going to help me with the GED book and stuff. She`s been in here, like, a year.

H. CROSLIN: That`s cool. She`s been in lockdown by herself for a year?

M. CROSLIN: Yeah. Her -- she`s on here for armed -- like murder. She didn`t murder nobody. It was just someone murdered somebody and she picked them up and she didn`t know it, though. There`s some serious people in here, like, crazy people in here. I didn`t even know I was talking to a murderer over in the other block. She told me she was in here for trafficking and she`s really killed somebody. I`m serious. I was like, oh my God. Then they have me in a cell block, dad, somebody died in that one cell block that I was in. I didn`t know that. Last night they were telling me. I was freaking out. I was like, man, they got me in here with somebody that died. It was crazy.

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GRACE: No grasp on reality at all. You`re seeing baby-sitter turned stepmother Misty Croslin go on and on and on about herself, her roommates, her mattresses. She couldn`t see the TV well enough so they moved her so she could get a bird`s-eye view. Art Harris, what`s your explanation of why they want her to be able to see TV? In another recording she complains about the movies they watch. They get to watch movies.

HARRIS: Well, Nancy, that`s jail for you. As far as television she`s watching the news that`s reported locally about her in this case and her parents relay what you say on this show. My sources say it`s keeping the pressure on and they want her to watch as much television about herself and what Bethany Marshall and Nancy Grace have to say about her psyche, as possible. They feel it`s working.

GRACE: To Leonard Padilla, special guest joining us via Skype out of Sacramento. The bounty hunter that has offered to bail her out of jail if she helps find Haleigh. She says, no way, she`s not going to talk to anybody about the night Haleigh goes missing. I find that highly unusual. To you, Leonard, thank you for being with us. Now it sounds like you`ve gotten a good alternative. You`re working on bonding Tommy Croslin out. What do you hope to gain, if anything?

LEONARD PADILLA: Well, we`re hoping is that Tommy will come forward and tell us what he knows about the situation. First of all, let me explain something. Her lie detector tests by Tim Miller, yes, she flunked, but the others that were given to her were inconclusive.

GRACE: Actually she flunked two polygraphs. She got an inconsistent on a voice stress test and they tried to do hypnosis. For whatever reason that didn`t work.

PADILLA: As far as Tommy and Joe Overstreet (ph), they`re the two people that she keeps talking about having been at the trailer that night. It seems as though what she`s trying to get them to do is to corroborate her story and yet my understanding is the baby wasn`t even there, assuming that they did return to the trailer. The baby never was there when they were there. She just trying to get them there. If there was any bit of truth to that I`m telling you Tommy and Joe Overstreet would have been charged by law enforcement by now had they had had any part --

GRACE: What`s the theory of their involvement?

PADILLA: She wants to involve them in the situation so that they will corroborate her story regarding the baby. And the baby wasn`t even there when they came over to the trailer that night.

GRACE: Out to the lines. Stephanie, Oklahoma. Hi, Stephanie.

CALLER: Hello, Nancy.

GRACE: Hi, dear, what`s your question?

CALLER: First of all I`d like to tell you I think you`re a great person with a great big heart.

GRACE: Thank you.

CALLER: My question is, has she owned up to any responsibility at all to anyone? If she only gets charged for these drug charges, can she be retried in the future for this case with Haleigh?

GRACE: OK. First of all, Stephanie, thank you for your kind words. I really appreciate that and for calling in. Here`s the bottom line. I`m going to throw it to Eleanor. Eleanor Odom, she could be tried for trafficking now. Get her behind bars on a stiff sentence and then continue to develop the murder case.

S. ODOM: Exactly. If they get enough on her or anyone else they can try that whenever they find the body if they find the body.

GRACE: Bottom line, to Peter Odom and Renee Rockwell, she can`t be retried on a murder if she is acquitted the first time. You can`t be retried even if you make a confession.

ROCKWELL: No, that`s double jeopardy. What`s interesting is she gets tried on the trafficking. She can get convicted. While sitting there thinking about it, she could buy her way out of jail even after conviction, Nancy, if she wants to come forward with some information that would put a killer behind bars.

GRACE: What about it, Peter?

P. ODOM: I think that the pressure is starting to work, frankly, Nancy.

GRACE: Really? She`s talking about what she had for dinner and you think she`s cracking?

P. ODOM: I think some of the pressure is starting to show.

GRACE: Really, how?

P. ODOM: I think by some of the -- she`s becoming more emotional. She`s starting to talk more about implicating people and maybe coming forward with something.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s true, Peter.

P. ODOM: I think the long-term strategy that the police came up with is going to work.

GRACE: Out to the lines. Sue in Georgia. Hi, Sue.

CALLER: Hey, Nancy.

GRACE: Hi, dear, what`s your question?

CALLER: Oh, is there any chance she could get a bond reduction?

GRACE: Good question. What about it, Eleanor?

E. ODOM: She might be able to get a bond reduction --

GRACE: Why?

E. ODOM: It would probably be very high. Well, as of right now, and I`m not saying I`m agreeing with this, but as of right now she doesn`t really have a criminal history and there`s not necessarily a chance of flight. I wouldn`t give her one.

GRACE: Sheryl McCollum, what can police do now?

McCOLLUM: They`re going to wait. I mean, time is on their side. They`re going to wait. They`re going to listen to these tapes and they`re going to stay on to her. Again, I`m going to keep saying it. Tommy is a key player in this whole thing.

GRACE: Because?

McCOLLUM: He`s the one that interjected himself the first time they went to jail.

GRACE: Agree or disagree, Jean Casarez?

CASAREZ: Tommy, you know, Tommy has said repeatedly on the tapes, I don`t know anything and he speaks from the heart. I question whether he does know anything.

GRACE: Jean Casarez joining us from "In Session."

Everyone, right now, "CNN Heroes."

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Baghdad ended up being a hell of a ride. I sustained a very severe blast injury. My life just came to a complete halt.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you doing? How`s everything? You look sharp today.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Congratulations.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Giving these folks a new home means the world.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just thank you. That`s all I can say.

DAN WALLRATH, COMMUNITY CRUSADER: My name is Dan Wallrath. Five years ago I had a friend of mine call me, a friend of his, his son had been injured in Iraq.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the day after he graduated from boot camp.

WALLRATH: He showed me some pictures. His son was a big strapping Marine. Then he showed me pictures of Steven in the hospital. It just broke my heart.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Steven was wheelchair-bound. We were going to have to remodel. I had no idea how I was going to pay for it. Dan just said, we`re going to take care of it.

WALLRATH: We remodeled that home. I realized this is not an isolated case. So went back to my builder buddies and said, we have got to do something. We build homes for returning heroes from Iraq and the houses are mortgage free. It changes the whole family`s life. Welcome home. It gives them just a new start so that they can move forward. These young men and women are doing this for you and me. How can I not help them?

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GRACE: What a week in America`s courtrooms. Take a look at the stories and more important, the people who touched our lives.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Human skeletal remains have been positively identified as being those of our missing 14-year-old Amber.

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GRACE: I want to go back to Amber`s grandmother joining us tonight, Sheila Welsh (ph). Could you tell us about Amber in life?

SHEILA WELSH: She had a fantastic sense of humor. She was very loving. She -- it`s terrible to (INAUDIBLE) I don`t want anybody else to ever have to hear that description of their grandchild.

GRACE: Kathy, I`ve got all the motions right here. There`s over 200 pieces of evidence that they want banned from the jury`s eyesight. They don`t want the jury to hear any of this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s right, they don`t. You saw those pictures, they don`t want the jury to see the pictures either before or after Caylee (ph) disappeared.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A 43-year old Long Island mother of four has been arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband. With striking long, dark black hair, 43-year old Susan Williams keeps her head bowed low as she leaves the (INAUDIBLE) County police headquarters. This Garden City mother of four has been charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill her soon-to-be ex-husband, Peter Williams.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Serial killer Rodney Alcala (ph) is facing the death penalty, the jury recommending Alcala receive the ultimate sentence for the kidnap and murder of a 12-year-old girl and raping and murdering four other women. Now law enforcement releasing over 100 photos of women and children they found in a storage locker that Alcala rented, hoping to determine if any of these people were victims of the mass murderer.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 125 photographs, dozens of women and children photographed in strange positions. Half aware, police say, that they`re being photographed. Some of them half dressed, some of them in sexual acts with Rodney. Many of them prepubescent boys and girls, many of them women. And police are trying to identify some of these women and children to make sure that there aren`t more victims out there.

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GRACE: Let`s stop and remember Army private first class Jacob Tracy, 20, Palestine, Illinois, killed Iraq, awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, loved outdoors, riding Harleys with his father, basketball, playing with Iraqi children. Never met a stranger, dreamed of college, buying his own Harley. Leaves behind parents Don and Sheila, sisters Christina and Nicole. Jacob Tracy, American hero. Thanks for our guests but especially for being with us and a special good night to the New York control room. Good night, Bret, Liz, Squeaky, Eva, everyone, I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend.

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