Handcuffed To The Ocean

This is the third installment of what Chuck told me on September 11, 2009. I frankly discounted most of what he said because of the throat slitting/alligator allegations. But later, when allegations about Joe Overstreet threatening both Tommy and Misty with a knife to the throat came out, I reviewed this interview and gave it more credence. In the next installment you’ll see what I did with that information and what the PCSO did with it as well. I’m confident that the PCSO did not find any blood in the mobile home. So I think you’ll find the next installment interesting and it does shed a good light on the PCSO and how they follow up on things.

Chuck stated that Misty was in court the other day and Misty’s brother received a restraining order against Misty because Chuck thinks Misty is crazy.  Chuck feels that she is psychotic because she is into drugs too bad.

Chuck stated that Jerome is the closest person to the girls.  Chuck stated that Danny was living in the apartment with them but Chuck felt that he would not give any information to Steve.

Chuck stated that he did not have any information regarding the back screen door being propped open with a brick.  He felt like it might be a set up.  He stated that the story has changed so many times he is just not sure.

Chuck stated that Greg Paige (White Boy Greg) was actually dating Misty.  Chuck has Greg’s number but was not able to retrieve it from his telephone.  Chuck stated that Greg was questioned extensively by the police after Haleigh went missing.  Chuck stated that Greg was very helpful with the information he provided the police.  Chuck stated that the even the drug dealers are trying to help the police because this is a baby that everyone is looking for.

Greg Page

Chuck stated that White Boy Greg is a drug dealer.  He also stated that Jerome has been a drug dealer for 27 years.  Chuck stated that Greg sells crack, cocaine, pills, weed, everything.  Chuck stated that Greg was dating Misty and that Jerome has actually had sex with Misty.  Chuck stated that at one point Jerome was dating NayNay and at another tine he was dating Amber.  Chuck feels like Jerome will sit down and talk to Steve.

Chuck stated that Amber and NayNay were with another drug dealer and Jerome took them under his care so that he would be able to get information from them so he could find out what happened to the baby.

Jerome Williams

Chuck stated that the police tried to link Jerome to the incident for a while because Ronald owes Jerome about $3,000 to $4,000.  Jerome told the police that it did not matter how much money Ronald or anyone owed him, he would not go after the baby, he would go after the person that owed him the money.

Chuck stated that he does not know who actually carried Haleigh down to the river.  Chuck stated that NayNay keeps saying that Misty is 100 percent behind the crime.  Chuck stated that NayNay cries when she tries to tell the story.

Chuck stated that Cobra, the bounty hunter, has been down there trying to help find the baby, but he has been doing stupid stuff and has gotten in trouble with the police.

Chuck stated that Amber Brooks and Khristina Prevatt are both in the county jail.  Chuck stated that Amber could give Steve a lot of information about Ronald Cummings.

Chuck stated that he was planning to meet with a girl, (redacted), this afternoon and that (redacted) is really good friends with NayNay and Amber.  Chuck stated that he could probably get her drunk and could get some information out of her.  Chuck stated that he would call Steve if she would agree to talk to him.

Chuck stated that he has heard that it is Misty that is responsible for what happened to Haleigh.  Chuck could not get specific information regarding who would have cut Haleigh’s throat.  He stated that everyone is pointing the finger at Misty saying she did it to keep herself from getting in trouble with Ronald.  Chuck stated that they cut her throat so that it would bleed and attract the alligators to the body.  Chuck stated that he got his information from Amber Brooks and Kristina Prevatt.  Chuck stated that Kristina was talking to another individual and he was there listening and that is how he got his information from Kristina.  Chuck stated that she was telling this information to Jerome Williams and a couple of other “brothers”.  Chuck stated that both he and Jerome went to the police with the information. 

Chuck stated again that he was not present at the party but Kristina was and he overheard Kristina say that the baby overdosed on drugs and they cut the baby’s throat and threw her into the creek.  Chuck stated that Jerome was there at the same time.  Chuck feels that Jerome knows more about the incident than he does. 

Chuck stated at the present time Jerome is in the St. Johns County Jail.  Jerome was originally arrested and put in the Putnam County Jail and he requested to be moved to the St. Johns County Jail because he felt like there were too many people that knew him in Putnam County and he was coming forward with his information to help the police to solve the Haleigh Cummings incident.    Chuck stated that Jerome is black.  Chuck stated that Jerome is the one that took care of these girls, specifically the ones on the street with no where to go.  Chuck stated that although Jerome had his faults he was actually a very kind person.  Jerome was the one that would take the girls in and feed them and clothe them when they did not have any place else to go.

Chuck stated that when Kristina is on cocaine you can get any information out of her that you want.  Chuck stated that the day that Kristina was talking to Jerome she was “pretty high”.  Chuck stated that Kristina would only tell someone in her “group” what had happened when she was high, she would not tell just anyone.  Chuck was not sure which other girls were present at the time, but he thought it was Amber Brooks, and (redacted).  Chuck feels that if kept in confidence ….. at this point Chuck named some names of people that he thought might be willing to talk. These names have been redacted as they are not public figures.

Amber Brooks Mug Shot

Chuck stated that the sheriff’s office told him that they are hearing the same story that Chuck has told them but they won’t follow up on anything until they know it is 100% accurate. Misty has failed four polygraphs. We’ve told the police that Misty is 100% behind this.

Chuck feels that it is more than likely that whoever cut Haleigh’s throat did it at the river because there was no blood in the trailer.  Chuck felt that whoever committed this crime did a real good job of planning the crime.  He felt that they did not want the baby found.  Chuck feels like Misty is involved but because she is so young there had to have been someone there helping her. He did not hear anything about weighing the body down with cinder blocks.

More to come from Chuck.

Hank Croslin called me one night and said I had to go out right then and talk to Chuck. Chuck knew everything that happened to Haleigh. I met Chuck the next morning at the Dunkin Donuts in Palaka.

When I first talked to Chuck and he mentioned that Haleigh’s throat was cut. I completely dismissed what he told me. Later, I came to believe that this might have indeed happened. It was too outrageous for me to get my head around it at that time. I did record this conversation with Chuck and later gave a copy of the recording to the PCSO. We’ll talk about that later. I changed Chucks name and deleted some other names of people who have not been publicly associated with the Haleigh Cummings case. Those known to be associated with Misty and the events of that night, I have left their names in. This conversation with Chuck was  in September 2009, well before anything had been said about shell harbor.

Steve Brown

The following investigation was conducted by Steven K. Brown of Millennial Investigative Agency on September 11, 2009.  The following individual was present:  Chuck.

Chuck stated that he had a great desire to help in any way that he could to help solve this case.  Amber Brooks and Kristina Prevatt (aka NayNay) were known prostitutes.  Amber has a baby by Ronald Cummings.

Chuck stated that the rumor that he has heard regarding the three day weekend involved Misty Croslin, Amber Brooks, Kristina Prevatt, Greg Paige (aka, White Boy Greg) and Luckadue (Chuck did not know his real name, he thinks Luckadue is his real last name)  Chuck stated that Luckadue is Black and White Boy Greg is mixed.  Chuck stated that all of them have been questioned by the police.  Chuck stated that he was not with the above mentioned people on the weekend in question.  Chuck got his information about the weekend from the girls because they were very close with him. Chuck said he has known them for quite a while.  He said that they would get together and “party”.  Chuck defined partying as getting together and hanging out and drinking and maybe smoking some marijuana.  Chuck stated that the girls would do more drugs, but he did not but he did drink mostly Jim Bean and Crown Royal which is his favorite.  Chuck stated that Misty is known to have a drug problem.  Chuck said that he was aware that she has smoked crack and takes pain pills, etc.  Pills like Roxies and pain pills etc.

Chuck stated that he has heard that it is Misty that is responsible for what happened to Haleigh.  Chuck could not get specific information regarding who would have cut Haleigh’s throat.  He stated that everyone is pointing the finger at Misty saying she did it to keep herself from getting in trouble with Ronald.  Chuck stated that they cut her throat so that it would bleed and attract the alligators to the body.  Chuck stated that he got his information from Amber Brooks and Kristina Prevatt.  Chuck stated that Kristina was talking to another individual and he was there listening and that is how he got his information from Kristina.  Chuck stated that she was telling this information to Jerome Williams and a couple of other “brothers”.  Chuck stated that both he and Jerome went to the police with the information.

Chuck stated that he has heard the following accounts of the morning in question:  They were all partying, they were high, and they were drunk.  The baby got a hold of some narcotics and overdosed on the narcotics.  Chuck stated that there is also a rumor that stated that the baby’s throat got cut and was thrown into the lake.  Chuck said that the people he has heard that was “there” was:  Kristina Prevatt. Amber Brooks was not there because she and Misty had gotten into an argument (about what he was not sure) and they were no longer friends so she left earlier that evening.  Chuck stated that White Boy Greg, Luckadue and Kristina Prevatt and some other people that Chuck did not know were at Misty’s that evening.  Chuck stated that everyone knew that Ronald Cummings was not at the party and most people agree that he was at work.

Now I don’t personally believe the story that Haleigh overdosed on drugs  that caused  Haleigh’s death. We’ll get more into that in the next post. If there is any doubt about Nay Nay’s chosen profession see the below photos taken from the site BackPage:

I know many of you have been waiting for the next Haleigh Cummings blog post. It has been uploaded and will appear on Sunday, probably in the evening. In the mean time, I’d like you to consider taking a look at my latest book, 5 Things Women Need to Know About the Men They Date.

It is available on Amazon as an e-book for $4.95 and as a paperback for $7.95. Frankly it’s not very long (77 pages) and can be read in one sitting. However, I think you’ll be entertained by the stories as well as learning some things. It’s good for both men and women who are in the dating scene, regardless of your age. For $4.95 don’t take a chance on a new person in your life until you read this book.

This is from the forward in the book:   This book is not a work of fiction. It is based on true cases worked by the author. The names, locations, amounts of money involved, and in some instances other details have been changed to protect the privacy of my clients and also those scumbags who took advantage of my clients.

Frank Green, Jeffrey "Hammerhead" Philips and Me

In my last post my post I mentioned I had the cytomegalovirus. I have been receiving daily infusions (seven days a week) of foscarnet  which is a drug designed to control the virus. If we can get the CMV count down to zero twice then we will discontinue the treatments but monitor the CMV counts. The foscarnet kicks my butt.

Last week two of my good friends paid me a visit. Frank Green, who has taught me more about the craft of writing than anybody. He is truly a master of the Word. He holds a free writer’s workshop in his home every Wednesday night and has for twenty years. Frank has crewed for me on my boat and I have killed him three times but each time he has resurrected. His doctor won’t let him travel with me any more.

The other friend was Jeffrey “Hammerhead” Philips who has also crewed for me. I’ve known Jeffrey for almost 20 years. He is a terrific writer and you can buy his book Murder on Devil Ray Reef by clicking on the book cover to the left of this post. It’s a terrific read and I recommend it.

It is good to have friends who support you when times are tough. They stayed with me while I slept through part of the 3 1/2 hour infusion process and then we made a quick run to the store.

Trying to knock out the CMV

Thank you to all of my friends.

Frozen Towels on Steve trying to reduce fever of 103.6

First I want thank all of you who have donated to the Steve Brown Bone Marrow Transplant  Fund. Your continuing donationas are of tremendous help to me. I have to add a new drug to the plethora drugs they already have me on. They said they had to get “prior authorization” for it. So I suggested I just go ahead and buy it. It is kind of critical that I get it. I asked how much it was and the pharmacist  said a 30 day supply of these pills sells for (are you sitting down?) $6000. The donate button to the left still works. Thank you so much.

Sorry that I have been missing in action latley. These last three weeks have been particularly rough. The good news is that they did the DNA tests on me and the donor grafted in 100% . So that is excellent. Once the donor grafts he begins to reject my body. This called graft vs host disease. He attacks my various organs. So far he has attacked my skin and my eyes. 

 I have not been able to read a computera screen for 3 weeks. But it is better  today. I had to be readmitted to the hospital twice because of fevers in the 103.6 range. I was back in for 8 days. Out for 3 days and then back in for another 8. Now I am out staying in this apartment close to Shands Cancer Hospital in Gainesville Fl with a 24   Hour hour caregiver.

My good writing buddy Jeffrey “hammerhead ” Philips came up and relieved my wife for a few days as my caregiver. That was the second time my fever went off the charts. So we wet towels and put them in the freezer. Then laid them all over my body to reduce the fever. It is really very effective . But once I started vomiting we decided to head for the hospital . Good move  because I was inpatient there for another 8 days.

First I’d like to thank all of you who have have so generously donated to the Steve Brown Bone Marrow Transplant Fund by clicking on the donation button to the left of this post. Next week a choice group of authors have banded together to donate to the fund proceeds of all the books they sell on July 16, 2012 through this website. My good friend and author Jeffrey Philips has organized this event. He’ll post photos of their books with links to Amazon where they can be purchased. Some of these books are paperbacks and there will be separate links to the paperbacks. Most of the the others are e-books so you’ll need an ebook reader, tablet, iPad, or read it as a pdf file on your computer. The prices are very inexpensive you you should consider buying several. You might find a new author that  you’re never read before and fall in love the author.

July 16, it tuns out will be  a very special day for me. On that date they will do some DNA analysis, to see who is in control of my body. My donor or me.

Now on to where I am. The BMT unit here really puts an emphasis on exercise while your in inpatient. They recommend you walk a least a mile. They also offer “chair yoga” on Tuesday’s Thursday’s afternoon.

I’b been feeling pretty well and was getting my mile in every day. Then I started with the chair yoga.

I have some more to post on the Haleigh Cummings case but that will be later. Right now here is the breaking news. Ronald Cummings has been moved to the Santa Rosa County Jail. Below is a screen shot of the booking photo. It clearly is “our” Ronald Cummings. Note that no charges are specified so I suspect he’s there for an appeal or maybe a hardship transfer but I don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see. I checked the Clerk of the Courts site in Santa Rosa but didn’t find him listed there.

I’m posting here some of the interview with Jane. I’ve posted two videos below that were taken of the mobile home on Green Lane. These are courtesy of Kim Picazio. If you watch them closely you’ll see that there are other cinder blocks on the property. Also note the vehicle parked behind the mobile home. This vehicle would not have been visible by Jane and Greg Page if they parked in front of the mobile home as was the usual manner then.

Below is the final installment of my interview with Jane. This deals with her time with Misty in the St. Johns County Jail. I wouldn’t put much faith in Lisa Croslin’s theory concerning Haleigh being taken by a Mexican drug cartel. But you evaluate it as you wish.

Steve:            go ahead

Jane:            OK. Then when I went to jail this recent time in St. Augustine.

Steve:            Wait, wait, wait, when you went to where?

Jane:            St. Augustine Jail.

Steve:            St. Augustine Jail.  Uh hun, when Misty was in there.  Why were you in the St. Augustine Jail?

Jane:            I went there for stealing.  A little stealing charge.

Steve:            Stealing?

Jane:            Yeah, they ended up putting me in the same pod as her and I was talking to her and she had told me she was crying and she was going through it and stuff and she was like, “Jane”, he did it, he did it.  And I’m like, who did it?  And then she was like my cousin.  He’s done raped me before, he told me he would put, um would kill me, put a knife to my throat, he told me he took her.  I know he took Haleigh.  And I said, “He took Haleigh? So why didn’t you tell the police that?”  And she said, “I did, I did.”  And that’s when I went and told the police, I said, I need to write an Affidavit because this girl just told me who took that little baby. And like I said my kid died.  I know how it feels to have a baby loss and when she told me about Haleigh that’s when I wrote an Affidavit.

Steve:            And you gave it to?

Jane:            And then the mother.

Steve:            Crystal Shefield?

Jane:            Um, Misty’s mother.

Steve:            Oh, um, Lisa Croslin?

Jane:            Lisa Croslin.  This is something that I didn’t say when I was in here.  She said that she owed a bunch of Mexicans money.  She said it had to have been the Mexicans that take Haleigh.  I said well Misty never mentioned Mexicans to me.  And she said yeah, but her momma owed a bunch of Mexicans and I’m pretty sure that the Mexicans got that little girl because they owed them that for the drugs.  I said I don’t know about that.

Steve:            So how long ago did you share a cell with Misty at St. Johns County?

Jane:            Yes.

Steve:            For how long?

Jane:            Five days.

Steve:            OK.  Alright.  Did you know Misty before that night when you and Greg were over there selling them drugs?

Jane:            No.

Steve:            You didn’t used to run with her or anything?

Jane:            No.  Well her and Nay Nay did.

Steve:            Yeah

Jane:            I met her a couple of times through that.

Steve:            Her and Nay Nay ran with Greg, you mean?

Jane:            Yeah.  Well I never met her through that but I know her through Nay Nay.  Like I’ll see her and say, “Hey, what’s up?” and then leave.

In this video above you’ll see cinderblocks around the mobile home. It was stated by Misty and Ron that they knew of no cinderblocks around the home. But I saw a pile of them behind the mobile home, maybe 10 feet into the woods. The mobile home itself, of course, is raised and supported on cinder blocks.

Below is the signed statement that Jane wrote. I wanted to post the original but I don’t have a scanner hooked up to this computer here in my hospital room so you’ll have to make do with this on that I typed. Misspellings belong to Jane.

12/21/11

I “Jane”, was with Gregory Page the night of Halegh Cummin disappearance. Me and Gred had came  to see Missy Croslin cause Greg was selling her cocaine and extacy. We went to the trailer on green ln 3 times that night. each time Misty, Tommy her brother and Joe Overstreet were there. They were all doing the drugs Gregory sold them. I did not see Hailegh but I never left the cart.

Each time they come out the trailer they come out the side door. This all occurred from 3 pm to 8 pm. Ronald was not thee. I spent 5 days in the St. Johns County jail with Misty and she told me that Joe her cusin use to rape her and put a knife to her throught. That he was the one who killed haliegh.

This was witnessed by myself and by a deputy in the Putnam County Jail on 12/21/11.

This is the third installment of an interview I did with “Jane” in the Putnam County Jail. The next post will contain a copy of the signed statement she gave me. I have it on good authority that the PCSO has been interviewing “Jane.” What she told them I don’t know, but as I understand from non-LE sources, she has confirmed some of what she told me. The exact details of what she’s confirmed to them I don’t know because the PCSO doesn’t talk to me. As I mentioned before, it is a one-way-street between the PCSO and myself. Nevertheless, I’m heartened to know that “Jane” has confirmed some of this story to them. I don’t know what steps they have taken beyond that. I won’t speculate on the significance of this material. But it appears to me that we have two more witnesses to the fact that Misty was indeed home at the mobile home on Green Lane the night that Haleigh disappeared. 

I believe the photo below of Joe Overstreet below comes from Cranky Crankerson’s photo bucket and I appreciate all of the photos that he and others have archived. This photo was found by one of the loyal posters on this blog. 

Steve:            OK  What else you got, anything else?

Jane:            Hum, no that’s….

Steve:            Where did you and Greg go after, um, where did you spend that night?

Jane:            We went back to Stokes Landing, Chad Elliot’s house.

Steve:            OK.  OK. Now, did you see Joe Overstreet with a knife, like a knife on his belt or anything like that?  A pocket knife?

Jane:            And she kept on saying she knows her cousin did it.  She knows he did it.  She knows so.  And then it’s funny because all of a sudden he just left out of Florida.

Steve:            Yeah, the next day.

Jane:            The next day he left out of Florida.  So I know, I mean it’s obvious.

Steve:            OK.  I find it interesting that you recall them coming out of that side door, but that’s what you saw, right?

Jane:            That night, um, he always carries a knife on his pocket.

Steve:            So you’ve met Joe before?

Jane:            Yeah, like I’ve seen him before.  But yeah, he is always using it to clean his nails out and stuff like that, but yes he always has a knife on him.  That is also in the Affidavit.

Joe Hanging Flyers

Jane:            Yeah, that’s what I saw.

Steve:            But you didn’t see any car or vehicle parked over there?

Jane:            I didn’t recall, I didn’t see no, unless they were parked, unless we were parked some type of way we might not see it.

Steve:            You might not, you may not have been able to have seen it from the driveway, you might have.  I don’t think you can actually see the door, but you could see them coming out of the side there.

Jane:            Yeah.  The way we were parked I’m not sure, but.  Yes.  But it was them three there and we was serving them cocaine and beans.  Well Gregory Page was.

Steve:            Cocaine and beans?

Jane:            Ecstasy pills.

Steve:            That’s what you call ecstasy, beans?

Jane:            Yes, that’s what Gregory Page was serving them.  I never touched it.  That’s what he served.

Steve:             Do you know, now, did Gregory every tell the Sheriff’s Office this stuff you were talking about?

Jane:            Yeah, he has been on the news about it.

Steve:            I know but I’ve never heard before now that…

Jane:            I don’t think he is telling them that he served them.

Steve:            Yeah.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard before, I mean I’ve been working this case for a long time, that, um Tommy and Joe Overstreet were over there at 7 or 8 o’clock at night.

Jane:            Yeah, they were there.  They was there.

Steve:            I wonder where were Tommy’s little kids?

Jane:            Tommy’s little kids are probably inside with Haleigh and them.  The kids were inside probably watching TV or playing.

Steve:            You never went inside so you don’t know.

Jane:            I never went inside.  I always stayed outside in the car watching them.

Mobile Home on Green Lane

Steve:            And you didn’t see Haleigh at all?

Jane:            Just talked to them.

Steve:            Hum?

Jane:            I just said I was just talking to Misty and them.  That was it.

Steve:            Yeah.

Jane:            Seen them all out there.  I was there that night it happened.  That’s why I was so shocked when it happened, I was like, I was just over there.  That’s why Misty, um, Nay Nay was like talk to him because you was there, you know.

Steve:            Yeah.   OK.  Well what I’m going to do is ask them to un-handcuff you because then I want you to write out just a few sentences and sign it, OK?  In case something disappears.  So I’m going to pause this for a minute.  Alright.

Steve:            OK, um, so Jane, just gave me a signed statement as to the things we have talked about.

As you can see from above, Nay Nay encouraged “Jane” to talk to me. I give credit to Kristina Prevatt, aka Nay Nay for doing the right thing and suggesting to “Jane” that she call me, which she did.

In the next installment we’ll talk about “Jane’s” time in the St. Johns County jail when she was in the same Pod as Misty and what Jane says that Misty told her.