Haleigh Cummings is Still Missing -Two Years Marked by Vigil

Haleigh Cummings is Still Missing -- Two Years Marked by Vigil
Great-Grandmother Annette Sykes Believes Great-Granddaughter Still Alive~
Feb 11, 2011
Haleigh Cummings went missing two years ago on Feb. 10. She remains missing today. Unfortunately, there is little to be added to the Haleigh Cummings story after two  years of searches, questionings, and investigation. But that does not make the story less important, nor does it stop authorities from continuing to try to find the little girl who would be turning 8 years old this year. And it certainly doesn't stop family members and friends from remembering her and hoping for her safe return...

A vigil was held Thursday evening for the missing girl. Although Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy announced in April last year that the case was being considered a homicide, many still hope for the safe return of the child police originally thought was kidnapped from her home in Satsuma, Fla.. Annette Sykes, Haleigh's great-grandmother and host of the vigil, is one who holds out hope that her great-granddaughter is still somewhere to be found and safely returned her family.

"She's out there somewhere and we're still looking for her," Sykes told the Palatka Daily News.

Putnam County authorities say they haven't given up either. Spokesman Capt. Johnny Greenwood said in a statement: "Investigators will continue to aggressively pursue this case to the end. By no means is this case being considered cold."

Greenwood noted that the Putnam County Sheriff's Office had invested thousands of man-hours and tracked thousands of leads in the case, but they seem to always return to the night Haleigh Cummings went missing and those who misled the investigation from the very beginning. And there are those who still withhold information about the case...

"There are still individuals who hold important information, which if provided to investigators, could solve this case," Greenwood said.

But Annette Sykes believes Haleigh is still alive. She has vowed to hold vigils until she knows otherwise. Last year, a vigil was held on the first anniversary of the date Haleigh went missing and on her birthday.
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Haleigh Cummings: Two years later~
PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - It has now been two years since  Haleigh Cummings went missing. Investigators say she was kidnapped from her Satsuma home in Putnam County the night of February 9, 2009.  She was 5-years-old at the time.

Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings, was dating Misty Croslin at the time.  Croslin says she put Haleigh to bed at around 7:30 at night, but when she went to check on her she says she was gone.

A massive search was conducted by police and an Amber Alert was issued but she was never found.

Two years later, investigators still don't know where Haleigh is, but they do think that Misty Croslin might know more than she's telling.

Both Croslin and Cummings are in prison. In October Croslin was sentenced to 25 years in prison after entering a no-contest plea to a charge of trafficking in oxycodone, to be followed by 5 years of drug offender probation and payment of a $500,000 fine. Croslin was arrested in January 2010 following an undercover operation that resulted in five arrests.

Ronald Cummings was also charged in the same undercover sting and took a plea deal and  agreed to a 15-year sentence. Cummings was also fined $250,000. As part of the plea agreement Cummings also agreed to testify for the state in future litigation involving his missing daughter.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/cummings_case/021011-Haleigh-Cummings