JOE OVERSTREET, MISTY CROSLINS COUSIN SHOWS MULTIPLE SIGNALS OF DECEPTION WHEN HE SPEAKS ABOUT HALIEGH CUMMINGS
As soon as Misty’s cousin Joe Overstreet opened his mouth at the presser, he says ” I can’t imagine what they’re going through.” On the next breath he says “ I didn’t do it,” as he purses his lips and blinks excessively. Body language wise, these are two major signals of deception. “
LIP PURSING AND LOOKING DOWN
Speech wise when he says “I can’t imagine what they are going through.” He is making a statement of sympathy. But there is no body language or facial language to demonstrate that sympathetic feeling or emotion. That is a huge “tell” as well.
Then a reporter immediately repeats his words in the form of a question “You didn’t do it? Joe, says no and purses his lips and looks down which body-language wise means that he is holding something back and that he is ashamed or embarrassed about something.
PULSATING JAW
You also see the side of his jaw pulsating, which means he has tension there because he is clenching. When people do this, it means they are usually not telling the truth. We saw this a lot with OJ during his first trial where he was accused of killing his wife Nicole.
VOCAL FRY
Vocal fry means there is a creakiness in the voice. When it happens at the end of statements, it is the body’s way of taking over and not wanting to lie. It is the vocal muscle tightening up during he lie and thus closing off the airstream. As he says “ if I knew who did it I would go straight to the cops and say who did it.”His voice is completely raspy and closed off as he says this. His voice completely dies off at the end.
JOE’S ATTORNEY SIGNALS HIS CLIENT AND SHOWS SIGNALS OF DECEPTION
Watching Joe’s attorney was also very telling. Even though he said all of the right words in an attempt to defend and protect his client, his body language said it all. It belied his words.
Attorney Sigro had his hand on his clients leg as you can see in the photo in an attempt to signal to his client not to talk. The attorney, when speaking about his client, also shook his head no when she should have been shaking it yes in the affirmative. When someone does this incongruent head shaking, chances are pretty high they are not telling the truth.
The attorney does this when he says that his client’s alibi can be corroborated. When the attorney says the words “that as his scheduled time to leave, the attorney not only shakes his head no when he should be shaking it yes, he purses his lips which means he is holding back information and like his client Joe Overstreet, the attorney exhibits consistent glottal frying, He speaks in a monotone without passion or conviction for his client. This is also very telling. Perhaps his lack of vocal conviction translates into his knowing that his client may possibly l get a conviction.
REPEATING A QUESTION IS A SIGNAL OF DECEPTION
Then a reporter asks Overstreet, “Do you know who did it?” Overstreet immediately parrots back the question “Do I know who did it?” That is a HUGE signal that he may not be telling us the truth. When a person answers a question with a question, it usually means that they are buying time to make up some response. They are usually trying to formulate a made up answer in their mind.
MISTY’S GRANDMA FLORA HOLLARS SHOWS NO SIGNALS OF DECEPTION
One thing is for sure, there sure is strong family resemblance between Misty’s grandmother, her mother and herself. Her grandmother seemed very sweet and down to earth and extremely politer and cooperative. She also did not appear to show any signals of deception when she spoke with Nancy Grace during her televised interview.
During the interview where Nancy looked absolutely devastated to have to listen to what Misty’s grandmother was saying, she gave three horrific scenarios as to what she heard happened to little Haleigh. She begins saying that one scenario was that Joe and a friend threw a yellow rope around Haleigh’s neck and “throwed her into the river .”
The next scenario us the one that I believe the most and that is that “Misty knocked her in the head and killed her got Joey and Tommy to get rid of her.
Then she told Nancy “ I was told first thing Joe killed her I don’t know if she was dead when she hit the water. May have came from Misty,”
BEGINNING TO MAKE SENSE
Now the pieces seem to be falling into place. There was no question in my mind that Misty knew what happened to little Haleigh. He body language showed us that she wasn’t telling all.
Someone did something to little Haleigh that caused her to not wake up. Was it Ron, who had an alleged history of violence towards his daughter? Did Ron strike the first blow to his daughter? When he went to work, did Misty continue where Ron left off or did not not do anything to the little girl and was it Misty alone as he grandmother reported that Misty may have hurt the girl? Did Haleigh not wake up after allegedly Misty hit her in the head as the grandmother said ? Is that why Tommy and Joe and perhaps someone else came over to get rid of Haleigh to manufacture a story that the little girl was kidnapped?
Was their attempt at stealing Ron’s shotgun designed to make it look like a robbery and kidnapping gone bad? Did they put a yellow rope around a comatose or lifeless Haleigh’s neck, so they could weigh her down so her body wouldn’t float back up in the river? Was she dead all along? Was she alive?
IS RON TELLING EVERYTHING ?
First and foremost I am not accusing Ron of doing anything harmful to the girl. I do have some questions. There is no doubt that Haleigh’s father Ron’s body language was a bit odd from the start. While it was obvious that 17 year old girlfriend who later became his wife Misty Croslin’s body language indicated that she was not sharing all that she knew, was ron sharing all tht he knew?
Misty showed multiple signals of deception throughout her various interviews. But there were also many body language signals I was picking up from Ron Cummings that I found disturbing as well
RON’S ODD BEHAVIOR
First off was his hurrying to marry Misty to no doubt to protect him from perhaps being prosecuted as a child molester and being with an underage Misty at the time?
His control over Misty during the Greta van Sustern interview and Today show interview and inconsistent statements were odd as well. Did he didn’t already know what happened to his daughter? Why was he so controlling over Misty in her speakimg?
His ingratiatinging politeness towards Miss Nancy while he as interviewed by her disturbed me as did the time Ronddramatically hurled himself on the ground for what seemed to be the camera’s sake and there were non- tears. It was odd behavior to me.
RON WAS TOO “SURE” HALEIGH WAS TAKEN
What I found most disturbing and odd was that he kept saying he was SURE Haleigh was taken. There was no wavering that his daughter was still alive in his view.
Most people who’s daughter was missing for a year would at least wonder if their daughter was still alive or had been killed, but not Ronald. That struck me as being peculiar.
“I WAS AT WORK ! ”RON’S CONSTANT STATEMENT THROUGHUT HIS INTERVIEWS
Then there was a verbal theme that permeated EVERY interview- his statement that “ I was at work.”
He even had a Chesire cat grin when he spoke on camera about how he was at work. Now that we have recently seen footage of him in the car selling drugs to an undercover officer, you hear the same ”I was at work” theme.
Apparently there was evidence that he was indeed at work, but he sure brings it up a lot.
HALEIGH NOT A VICTIM OF A DOPE BOY ACCORDING TO RON
According to the Urban Dictionary, a Dope Boy is a term mainly used in the South to describe a young male that moves hard drugs (ex. cocaine, crack), as well as the standard marijuana and prescription pills to a specific geographic area or neighborhood .
In the undercover tape, Ron is offering up to the “cop” why his daughter was not the victim of a “dope boy.” He says
“ Dope boys don’t come out to get your kid like that. If you owe the dope boy that much money they come in right here. They come in and kill right there. They kill your daughter your girlfriend and your son and when you come home then you be the one to see it. You know what I mean.”
In his scenario he is no doubt saying that a drug mover would not have taken Haleigh but, instead would have killed her, Misty, and his son so when he got home from work he would have seen what happened.
DID GERALDO RIVERA’S IN YOUR FACE INTERVIEW WITH RON REVEAL ANYTHING ABOUT RON ?
Love him or hate him, no one can do an interview like Geraldo Rivera. Having watched Geraldo up close and personal back in the day when I was a regular on his show in New York for years, I can tell you that he knows how to ruffle feathers, make compelling TV, and get right to the heart of the matter.
Geraldo boldly says to Ron as he interviewed him that he talked to Marcus and Chad during the vigil who said that Ron said he was 75 percent sure who took Haleigh.
RONALD CUMMINGS : There is no way — I do not know who took Haleigh. If I had — if I had, uh, five percent of where Haleigh was at, I would be there now and not here.
RONALD CUMMINGS : Yes, they’re absolutely lying. No, for no reason have I ever told anybody that I have any clue where my child is at. If I had any clue where my child — you know, national TV, they’re a bunch of liars. Chad and whoever told you this are a bunch of liars. I never even spoke with them.
When people speak in fragments it’s often a signal of deception. Ron has told everyone else on national TV that he is SURE Haleigh is alive, so why wouldn’t he say the same thing to Chad and Marcus? That struck me as odd.
GERALDO ASKS IF RON HIT HALEIGH
GERALDO RIVERA : They told — they told me that you hit Haleigh. Is that true?
RONALD CUMMINGS : No. Never, ever have I ever hit my child. Me and my child have an agreement. Daddy, daughter. She has been spanked on her behind the way DCF says that you can take care of disciplining your children.
This fragmented statement with way too much information leads me to question as to whether Ron may have possibly hit Haleigh.
GERALDO RIVERA : You never backhanded her to the face?
RONALD CUMMINGS : [OVERLAP] Never. Never have I ever backhanded my child in the face, ever.
(When someone repeats your exact words ie. “ backhanded child to the face” chances are that this is a signal of deception and that they are not being forthright). Once again I am not aaccusing Ron of doing this, I am merely pointing out a body language tell.
GERALDO RIVERA : Did you hit Crystal when she was pregnant?
RONALD CUMMINGS : No. I did not. Never.
GERALDO RIVERA : You didn’t hit her in the back of the head and kick her?
RONALD CUMMINGS : No. No. I never have.
GERALDO RIVERA : You swear to God you never hit your pregnant woman?
RONALD CUMMINGS : [OVERLAP] Never. Never, never have I ever hit any woman, period. Never. And I’d like to know where all these allegations are coming from because I would like to talk — talk to law enforcement and have these false allegations, um, known that, um, the false allegations against me, somebody needs criminal charges pressed against them.
GERALDO BUSTS RON IN A LIE REGARDING HIS DRUG INVOLVEMENT
GERALDO RIVERA : What about the allegations of cocaine use, methamphetamine use?
RONALD CUMMINGS : There’s nothing. I do not do drugs.
GERALDO RIVERA : You don’t do drugs? All those arrests were all —
RONALD CUMMINGS : No.
GERALDO RIVERA : Do you work for the police? Are you an informant?
RONALD CUMMINGS : No, I am not an informant. I do not work for the police. I work for PDM, which is a, um, bridge building company. That’s who I work for.
GERALDO RIVERA : And you’ve never been involved in the drug trade?
RONALD CUMMINGS : No.
GERALDO RIVERA : And when they tell me they saw bricks of marijuana that you had in the house, plants all around the house, is that a lie?
RONALD CUMMINGS : It is absolutely a lie and I would like to know where the information is coming from so that I can get, um, the proper authorities to take care of this.
GERALDO RIVERA : You’re — put all this stuff aside. If some associate of yours, some associate that had something to do with drugs and this is not about drugs but if these people are on the dark side of life, don’t you think that you should share that information? Share — tell us about — when you told Marcus and Chad that you were 75 percent sure and you had your gun ready and your — and you had your gun ready and you were gonna go get em, didn’t you say that? Isn’t that a fact, Ron?
RONALD CUMMINGS : No, it is not a fact.
GERALDO RIVERA : Why would they make that up? Why would they make that up?
RONALD CUMMINGS : I don’t know why they would make [OVERLAP] for you. But I — I am fixing [OVERLAP] to have the law called right here, right now because you’re making up things or they’re making up things and you’re getting into —
GERALDO RIVERA : I am — I am relating to you what they are saying.
RONALD CUMMINGS : [OVERLAP] My face, man.
MALE : You need to back off, man. That’s my son.
GERALDO RIVERA : Alright. Well I’m sorry — I am sorry for what has happened.
FEMALE : No, you’re not sorry. [OVERLAPPED CONVERSATION]
MALE : You need to go.
FEMALE : We are — [OVERLAPPED CONVERSATION] Listen. You wanna come up here and make [OVERLAP] allegations. Why don’t you go back to —
GERALDO RIVERA : These are not my allegations, maam. These are not my allegations. You have to understand that.
FEMALE : [OVERLAP] Okay. [OVERLAP] All we care about —
GERALDO RIVERA : You have to understand this is not my allegation. Don’t touch him, don’t touch him, please. We’re leaving. Come on, let’s go. Let’s go.
RONALD CUMMINGS : [OVERLAP] I wanted you to see that all this is about is my daughter. I love you, baby. [OVERLAP] If you are out there, I want you to know that I love you and I will find you, baby. I love you. And two, whoever — whoever has you, please bring my daughter home to me. I love my daughter. I love you, baby. I will find you.
GERALDO RIVERA : You believe she’s alive then?
RONALD CUMMINGS : I’m always gonna believe that my daughter’s alive until they find
GERALDO’S INTERVIEW RAISES QUESTIONS
Based OON Gerlado, questions and what we know now about Ron lying that he was involved in the drug trade, if he lied about that did he lie about backhanding or cracking Haleigh across the face? We know that recently in his interview he said he would kill the person who took Haleigh.
RON SAYS HE WILL KIND THE PERSON WHO TOOK HALEIGH
Does he keep saying that Haleigh is alive and that he would kill the person who has her to take the onus off of him?
He says that he picked Haleigh up from school and then went to work but did he? We do know tht he went to to work.Did he pick her up from school , get mad at her and backhand her as Geraldo? Or worse did he hit her and and possibly cause any damage to her which late accidentally kill her? WE have al herd of incidents where a person may have sustained an earlier injuryt and then subsequently died a lot later from tht injury. Once aain I am not accusing Ron, I am merely asking.
Did he place her on the bed? Did Misty try to wake her from a sleep like she and did Haleigh not wake up ? Did she hit Haleigh to try to wake her up? Or was Haliegh Ok and did Misty hit her with a board like her grandmother said? Did she freak out because Haleigh was not breathing? Did she then call her brother Tommy and cousin to make it look like a robbery and dispose of little Haleigh’s body?
Did Ron accidently kill her and leave her on the bed for Misty to deal with? Did he go to work all the while knowing that his daughter was comatose or no longer alive? These are simply questions to this mystery of a missing child and not accusations.
Or did he pick her up from school and take her home. While she was in the house, did she get into some drugs, thinking they were candy and overdose on them? Did Misty discover that Haleigh got into the drugs and try to dispose of her body ?
9ll CALL IS SUSPICIOUS
When the 911 operator talks to Ron, he says “ I JUST GOT HOME FROM WORK, IF I FIND WHO TOOK MY DAUGHTER I WILL KILL THEM.
He then repeats this threat several times
WHAT????????? Most people who were missing a child would go into the woods even in the dark or wonder why she walked off . His behavior was odd.
Also why was then 17 year old Misty calling 911 instead of father Ron? It was after all HIS daughter, As we all saw in the Greta tapes, Ron is a “ take charge kind of guy.” So why didn’t he take charge that night?
GRETA INTERVIEW AND REVELATION
He tells Greta “ Someone stole my child when I was at work.” Ron makes sure to always mention at work as his alibi.
He then says “ I know someone took her I know for sure she didn’t wander off. She’s afraid of the dark.”
RON’S FIRST JAILHOUSE INTERVIEW TO REPORTER DAN TREEN
SS soon as Ron ends up in Jail, and does an interview with journalist Dan Treen, he makes the threat with a lot of bravado that he is going to kill the person who has Haleigh. He is too sure that someone has Haleigh which makes me once again wonder if that is not his way to mislead authorities who so they will take the focus of f of him
TOMMY CROSLIN
Why did Tommy Croslin get a headless rat in the mail allegedly from Ron? A headless rat means “don’t rat me out.”
Also why was he allegedly knocking on Misty’s door at 10 PM Was he aware that Haleigh’s dead body was being displaced by a a man in black? Did he stop by at that late hour to on his sister to see if things were OK ? Was he checking to see if his sister was home from disposing of body with the man in black who may be Cousin Joe?
WAS COUSIN JOE THE MAN IN BLACK?
We KNOW FOR SURE THAT THE MAN IN BLACK WAS NOT Johhny Cash. But who was the man whom the the 4 year old boy said he saw take Haleigh?
When Geraldo confronted Ron about it. Ron said that it was his ex wife’s doing in telling the boy to say that . But 4 year olds are smart and they know and they see and they remember.
Was the man in black cousin Joe? Was the man in black then man who moved the body?
WHAT DOES RON’S MOM KNOW?
Ron’s mom is supporting her son, but there is something about her body language tells with shoulder shrugs that are strange to me. She is over protective of Ron to the point that she gets in Geraldo’s face after he hits Ron with what may possibly be the truth that hurts too close to the bone?
In a Julie Chen interview on CBS she is a monotone and nonchalant as she is by . Misty’s side. Misty looks drugged out of her mind and shrugs her shoulders . a signal of deception, But Ron;s mother shows no emotion whatsoever. It makes me wonder if she already knew her draaddaughter was dead.
MISTY’S INCONSISTENCIES
Misty told Greta Van Sustern she did not sleep with Haleigh.
Misty told Nancy Grace Hailey was not in bed with her, indicating they slept together
Misty also said at one time Hailey was asleep in the same bed with her brother.
Misty said she checked all the bedrooms, but there is only one room in the trailer.
Misty said she was washing the sheets and put a blanket over Haleigh when she was sleeping.
Misty told Meredith Viera she was in her bed.
Misty told Nancy Grace that she and Haleigh were in bed together.
Misty also said she went to bed at 10 PM and woke up at 3. Ron said he called Misty at 3:25 as he was pulling into the driveway.
I want to know a. what happened in those 25 minutes when Misty reported she woke up to the time Ron called her as he pulled into the driveway. And WHY would anyone call anyone as they were pulling into the driveway when they would see the person in a matter of seconds?
BOTTOM LINE
While Cousin Joe looks very suspicious, nothing happens in a vacuum. There is always a cause and an effect. Something caused him to allegedly come over to the Cummings trailer after dark. Did Misty, Ron or both of them or someone else harm this innocent little girl before her body was disposed of? Once again these are not accusations. They are questions concerning the mystery of what happened to this beautiful little girl. www.drlillianglass.com
