Girlfriend's cousin visited Haleigh's home

Girlfriend's cousin visited Haleigh's home

Staff and Wire Reports

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Published: Friday, February 20, 2009 at 1:41 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 20, 2009 at 1:41 p.m.
In a televised press conference Friday afternoon, the paternal grandmother of a missing 5-year-old Putnam County girl discussed a man from Tennessee named "Joe" - a cousin of her son's girlfriend - who had been at the mobile home where the girl lived.

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However, Teresa Neves said she had not met the man and did not know anything about him.

Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy acknowledged Thursday that investigators have been in touch with this relative of Misty Croslin's out of Tennessee who apparently had been visiting her.

"You trust your friends and family to bring in people you can trust," Neves said.

Channel 4 WJXT news reported that family members said the cousin visited the home and on Monday and left hours before Haleigh disappeared.

On Friday morning, Croslin, the 17-year-old girlfriend who was watching over Haleigh Cummings before she went missing, denied reports of not being home at the time.

She told NBC's "Today Show" that she was home and called police when she realized the girl was not there. She said "it was not a long period of time" after she looked around the house and called out for Haleigh when she contacted authorities.

Croslin is the girlfriend of Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings.

Haleigh vanished from her father's mobile home in Satsuma during the night of Monday, Feb. 9.