A new age photo has been released of Haleigh Cummings, who was 5 when she disappeared from her Satsuma home in Putnam County in 2009.
The photo was on display in Tallahassee on Monday during Florida Missing Children’s Day and is also featured on Haleigh’s poster for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
Haleigh was a kindergartner at Browning-Pearce Elementary School when authorities began a search for her on February 10, 2009.
Misty Croslin, Ronald Cummings’ girlfriend and babysitter at the time, was the last person to see her on Feb. 9, 2009, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. Croslin reported Haleigh missing and launched a manhunt for the little girl.
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Haleigh’s disappearance received national attention, but she has never been found.
Her case remains one of seven unsolved cases in Florida. AMBER Notifications.
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Haleigh would now be 21 years old.
Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida is offering a $15,000 reward for help finding Haleigh.
“We do not forget,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. online in 2022, along with a photo of Haleigh at age 5 and a photo of what she might have looked like at age 12. “… She would be in college, a technical school, or maybe even starting a job. Those opportunities, like graduating from high school surrounded by family and friends, were taken away from her.”
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Croslin and her ex-husband Ronald Cummings — who is Haleigh’s father — have never been charged in connection with Haleigh’s disappearance. However, they both began serving prison sentences for drug trafficking in 2010.
Haleigh’s father was released from prison in October 2022. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Croslin is expected to be released on June 10, 2031.
Two months after his release from prison, in December 2022, Ronald Cummings was arrestedcharged with drug possession and resisting an officer with violence. He has been in the Putnam County Jail since his arrest.
In the years since Haleigh’s disappearance, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has released additional photos of her that reveal her age: one photo of what she would have looked like if she were 8 years old and one photo of what she would have looked like if she were 12 years old.
In 2019, Action News Jax sat down with the lead detective in her caseCaptain Dominic Piscitello of the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, now retired.
“It’s kind of sad because we don’t understand it yet,” Piscitello said. “This is a place where a little girl disappeared, an innocent child who had no control over anything in her life. She was just a mechanism of her family and she may have disappeared because of what her family was or wasn’t, they didn’t keep her safe.”
In 2020, Action News Jax spoke with Haleigh’s great-grandmother Annette Sykes, who was dying of stage 4 cancer, and her final wish was to find out what happened to Haleigh.
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“I don’t have much longer and I want to know where she is and what happened to her before I die. I just want that little bit of peace, that little bit of knowledge. That’s all I ask for,” she said.
Sykes died in May 2023, according to an obituary posted online.
If you have any information that could help locate Haleigh, you are asked to call 911 or the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office at 1-888-277-8477 or 386-329-0800.
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