Haleigh Marie Cummings #11 4/04/09 - 4/13/09

[mlee]

Was there a predition for today with those astrological charts, I'm hoping they are wrong.  If that's wrong maybe their prediction for Haleigh is wrong......

[JNGA]

Was there a predition for today with those astrological charts, I'm hoping they are wrong.  If that's wrong maybe their prediction for Haleigh is wrong......

Yes if it's wrong and the false orbs, it would be very good.

[Heart]

Haleigh Cummings: One Of The Forgotten?

Posted on April 9th, 2009
by Stone in All News, Op-ed

Satsuma Florida- Everyone knows Haleigh Cummings is the gem of a child who vanished without a trace from her fathers home. Its still not clear what time she disappeared no solid time line has been set for investigators. Somewhere between 7pm February 9th to 3am February 10th. Leaves a lot to the imagination. Haleigh’s step mother Misty Croslin-Cummings is the last “adult” to of had contact with Haleigh before she disappeared.

Misty has been fiercely questioned many times totaling numerous hours. She has been extremely inconsistent with her statements regarding the events leading up to Haleigh’s disappearance. The lead investigator has said time and time again that she is the key to Haleigh’s where abouts. Yet even the smartest, sharpest detectives can’t seem to get a solid time line from her.

Haleigh has been missing for sixty days. Statistics say she is dead. Logic says she is dead. My heart wants to believe that someone somewhere has her alive and well. No one really knows what Misty has told investigators other then she put the children, Haleigh and her younger brother Jr. to bed at 8pm she says she stayed up to wash some laundry then went to bed at 10pm. Awakened to use the toilet at around 3 am she noticed a light on upon further investigation she saw that the back laundry room door leading outside was open with the screen propped open with a brick. She then ran into the bedroom she and the kids were sleeping in to call Ron. She then says she realized Haleigh was missing. Taken from her bed? With Misty in the room no more then three feet away from her. Sleeping?

It was reported that there was some other individuals around Ron’s home during the time Haleigh disappeared. Investigators have yet to disclose any of that information. Its been reported that the individuals have been polygraphed and interrogated. No word on that or confirmation regarding the polygraphs.

It has also been reported that Ron and his wife Misty have moved away from the trailer park that Haleigh disappeared from moving a few miles to the south with his grandmother in  Welaka Florida. Crystal is no longer at “ground zero” either she is staying in St. Johns County. Crystal is still operating the Haleigh Bug Headquarters. Taking calls and donations to aid in the search for little Haleigh Bug as her mother so gently called her. Its even reported that Ron drove past the bright purple building that displayed posters of his smiling daughter. He didn’t stop.

Has the nation forgotten little Haleigh Bug? Have we given up hope on her. I don’t hear any news reports on her anymore. No break in the case. Dead silence. Haleigh is an amazingly beautiful child. So happy, full of life. Always smiling. In every picture I have seen. She looks loved, clean, well fed and cared for. Her family has looks of pain and heartache every time I see them on the television. Which isn’t much lately but when they are they look so hurt and sad. There hearts torn from there chests. Why cant someone come forward with what they know and put this to rest for her family. Give them the information they need to properly grieve there loss. I don’t know if they have a loss to grieve. I just know there is no Haleigh Bug, no one coming forward with what they know. I know sixty days is a long time for a child to be missing. I know the pain I feel in my heart for her. The agony on her families faces.

I for one will not ever let it go or stop writing for Haleigh Bug. Even if there is no news to go on I will continue to keep her in our headlines. She couldn’t of up and vanished like a fart in the wind. Someone knows where her body is. They know where she is if she is alive. Someone knows. I have pleaded in my past articles for whoever has her to just let her go. I don’t know if I believe that to be the case any more. Dead or alive Haleigh Bug needs to come home. Her family needs to put it to rest. They need the closure, to stop wandering in that huge unforgiving desert at that empty cross road of unknowing. They need to have the peace in there hearts at least knowing where she is alive or dead.

Haleigh is a five year old girl she has curly blonde (adorable) hair and big hypnotizing brown eyes. She weighs thirty nine pounds and is three feet tall. She has a small birthmark on her left cheek. She has a medical condition that requires frequent medication. If you or anyone you know has any information regarding Haleigh, her disappearance, or her where abouts. Please make the call to Putnam County Sheriffs office at (386)-329-0800 or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-277-TIPS (8477). Or call Haleigh Bug Headquarters directly at  (954)-553-6514. Haleigh will not be forgotten!

http://www.bloggernews.net/120423

[Heart]

Multiple Charges Filed Against Sexual Assailant
2009-4-9 by: Lt. Johnny Greenwood



McLeod
   

PALATKA – A 31 year-old Palatka man was arrested for attempted sexual battery and false imprisonment. On April 8, 2009 at approximately 8:00 PM, deputies responded to the area of 444 Stokes landing Road, in Palatka, in reference to a battery complaint. Deputy Scott Surrency met with the 29 year-old female victim who reported that an acquaintance, named Jason McLeod, had locked her inside his vehicle and would not let her leave, and while inside the vehicle he attempted to force her to perform sexual acts on him. The victim was able to force her way out of the vehicle, run to a nearby residence, and ask the homeowners to call law enforcement.

The victim told Deputy Surrency that she was afraid Mcleod would return with a firearm because she witness him shooting a rifle earlier in the evening. It was discovered that Jason Mcleod had an active arrest warrant for sexual battery, and Mcleod’s listed address on the warrant was 135 East Satsuma Road, Palatka. Deputies responded to Mcleod’s residence listed on the warrant. A vehicle similar to the vehicle described by the victim was parked in the yard. Deputies attempted to make contact with McLeod, and were able to hear the sounds of someone moving inside the residence, but no one would answer to the door.

Due to the active arrest warrant and information obtained from the victim, deputies forced open the front door and located Jason Mcleod inside. Also found lying on the floor inside the residence was a .22 caliber rifle and .22 caliber ammunition.

Sheriff Jeff Hardy assigned Detective Doug Schwall of the Major Crimes Unit to the investigation. Jason McLeod was arrested on the active arrest warrant, and additionally charged with attempted sexual battery, false imprisonment, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. He was transported and booked into the Putnam County Jail without incident.

http://www.pcso.us/2009-4-9

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[starcat29]

does anybody know were i can find the video were GS said that jr told them about the black man or the the man dress in black i can't seem to find it
thanks

[Heart]

Pill mills: Florida county has become ‘the Colombia’ of pharmaceuticals

MCT

Published Thursday, April 9, 2009

MIAMI (MCT) — Broward County, Fla., has become the painkiller capital of the United States, the notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black market sprawling through the South and New England.

In the past six months of 2008, doctors at Broward's pain clinics handed out more than 6.5 million pills of the potent painkiller oxycodone, almost four pills for every Broward resident, according to federal data compiled by the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Pills flow by the thousands every day through an ever growing number of clinics offering drugs and prescriptions to walk-in patients at strip malls and nondescript office parks, some with armed guards stationed by the clinic doors. One Fort Lauderdale clinic has taken over a defunct drive-through fast-food restaurant.

Many clinics lure patients with the promise of drugs sold on site, and with coupons and discounts advertised in the back pages of alternative weekly newspapers, or on bus benches and billboards.

“Out of State Patients Welcome,” blares a recent ad for A1 Pain in Fort Lauderdale. “No Wait for Walk-Ins,” another clinic's ad says. One doctor offers a $25 gasoline coupon to the weary, pain-afflicted traveler.

And the travelers come, by the thousands, narcotics investigators say, from Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Massachusetts and other states. Prospective pill buyers sometimes camp outside clinics overnight, waiting for the doors to open, said Hollywood police Capt. Allen Siegel, director of a South Broward narcotics task force.

“Broward County has become the Colombia for pharmaceutically diverted drugs,” Siegel said.

“We're supplying everywhere.”

The number of pain clinics in South Florida has ballooned from 60 to 150 in just the past year, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates. Broward alone has 89 clinics, Siegel said.

Pain management with narcotics is recognized as a legitimate medical practice to quell chronic pain for those with injuries or conditions like arthritis.

But investigators and health advocates say many of these clinics are merely pill mills where doctors feed narcotics to 65 patients a day or more.

“This medicine is about profit-making,” said Mark Trouville, special agent in charge of the DEA's Miami office. “I hate to call them doctors. These people are just out to make money.”

A single physician can dispense hundreds of thousands of pills. In the last six months of 2008, Trouville said, just 45 South Florida doctors dispensed nearly 9 million pills of oxycodone _ a favorite among drug addicts and traffickers.

Experts blame these clinics for a startling rise in prescription-drug overdose deaths in Florida, including a 107 percent jump in oxycodone deaths in two years.

“The rate (of overdoses) is just incredible,” said George Hime, assistant director of toxicology for the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office. “It is the new epidemic of drug abuse.”

Yet, regulators and police can't control the problem, handcuffed, they say, by tepid Florida laws that allow these clinics to open in-house pharmacies and sell drugs directly to clients walking in off the street, even from far-away states.

“We are source-supplying many other states. This is literally embarrassing,” Sgt. Lisa McElhaney of the Broward Sheriff's Office told a recent meeting of a county drug task force. “The system has enabled this.”

Indeed, Florida's laws regulating clinics and pain doctors ignore the red flags that would alarm any drug counselor or narcotics detective. Consider:

No state agency regularly monitors many pain clinics where narcotics are dispensed. The state Department of Health regulates health care professionals, not facilities. The Agency for Health Care Administration oversees only the clinics that accept insurance, and many pain clinics take only cash.

Many Florida pain doctors can dispense narcotics directly to patients without a pharmacist, even doctors with disciplinary or criminal records. One Fort Lauderdale doctor can still dispense pills despite his arrest last year on charges that he gave a bogus prescription to an undercover detective. Another doctor is dispensing drugs at a pain clinic although his license is on probation after a criminal conviction in an insurance-fraud scheme.

A Miami Herald review found more than a dozen South Florida doctors with criminal or disciplinary records who are dispensing pills.

Many clinics are not owned by doctors; rather, the doctors work as contractors for owners who may have little or no medical background.

A Miami Herald review found a handful of clinic owners with criminal records, including a Sunrise man who served two prison terms for racketeering and fraud, and a 28-year-old Palm Beach County man with convictions for auto theft and possession of steroids with intent to sell.

Building contractors, a real estate broker and a mortgage broker have all recently joined the pain clinic business, records show. The Miami Herald found several clinics owned by chiropractors, and others owned by an X-ray technician, a massage therapist and an acupuncturist.

While most states allow police and doctors to track patients receiving large quantities of prescription drugs, Florida is one of only 12 states without a prescription monitoring system, making it a magnet for the black-market pill trade and “doctor-shopping.”

“Shame on us for letting it get this far,” said Rep. Kelly Skidmore of Boca Raton, who is pushing in the Legislature for stricter pain clinic regulations. “We don't want every other state to view Florida as the pharmacy for illegal pain medications.”

Police in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Ohio and other states routinely arrest drug suspects who have oxycodone bought or prescribed in Florida, often using bogus medical records to justify the medication.

“Ninety-eight percent of it is coming out of Florida,” said Capt. David Hall, a narcotics detective in Scioto County, Ohio, outside Cincinnati.

More oxycodone is distributed in Florida than in any other state _ 40 percent more than in second-ranked California in 2006, according to DEA data.

Driving this trend are Florida's “dispensing practitioners”, doctors who have special approval to sell drugs directly from their offices. In 2006, they handed out 85 percent of all the oxycodone distributed by doctors nationally.

Broward County is home to 33 of the 50 doctors who dispense the most oxycodone in the United States, according to the DEA. The 17 other doctors on that list are also from Florida.

“Totally suspicious,” said Dr. Charles Grudem, a board member of the Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and a vocal critic of storefront pain clinics. He questions the need for doctors to dispense narcotics from their offices.

“It creates an automatic incentive to dispense medicines that are profitable,” Grudem said.

Many patients go to pain clinics with genuine medical complaints, Grudem said, but the suspect clinics offer only one remedy: powerful drugs. Drugs that can make addicts out of patients.

“They get turned into criminals,” he said.

As oxycodone has spread, so have overdoses. The number of oxycodone deaths in Florida more than doubled from 2005 to 2007, to more than 700, according to the Florida Medical Examiners Commission. Some traces of oxycodone were found in 1,253 overdoses in 2007. Oxycodone-related overdoses continued to climb in the first half of 2008.

Oxycodone is only one factor in the overdose epidemic, experts say. Often, users combine the narcotic with other potentially dangerous drugs, such as methadone, and sedatives such as Xanax and Valium _ all drugs commonly sold at pain clinics.

It was a similar cocktail that killed 41-year-old Jonathan McLaughlin at his Plantation apartment last July 23.

Police found four different prescriptions at McLaughlin's bedside, all filled the day before his death. The most potent: a prescription for 240 oxycodone pills. When police found McLaughlin's body, only 121 of the painkillers remained.

McLaughlin also had anti-depressants, sedatives and a stimulant typically used to treat children for hyperactivity, records show. All four prescriptions were written by Dr. Amy Seinfeld, an osteopathic physician in North Miami Beach, the police report says.

Messages left for Seinfeld were not returned.

McLaughlin's girlfriend told police he had been a heroin addict; only two weeks earlier, he had stopped taking a medication to quiet his addiction. The autopsy, which ruled McLaughlin's death an accident, revealed traces of cocaine in his system.

McLaughlin used illegal drugs for years, bouncing from jail to rehab and back again before turning to prescription pills, said his sister, Alex Amos. She said he found lenient doctors _ “voodoo doctors,” her brother called them _ by word of mouth, or in ads in the back of alternative newspapers.

“He couldn't get away from the temptation that surrounded him,” Amos said. “He wanted so much to be better.”

Amos found pharmacy records showing that her brother had received painkillers from a half-dozen doctors. She said she knew of no injury or ailment that would justify the medications prescribed to him.

The State Board of Medicine has backed proposals for stricter regulation of pain clinics and reforms to prevent doctor-shopping. But the agency says any reforms must not inhibit doctors who are treating people with legitimate ailments.

One of the difficulties for doctors treating pain, and for police and health officials investigating fraudulent prescriptions, is that a patient's pain is often impossible to measure objectively, making fraud that much easier.

The Florida Department of Health disciplined 119 doctors for prescription abuse from 2003 to 2007. But police and health advocates say many complaints don't make it to the medical board, and the pain clinics largely escape scrutiny.

“There are significant black holes of information,” said McElhaney, the Broward sheriff's detective.

In Florida, as in most states _ doctors who dispense pills from their offices need no special training or certification. They need only pay the state a $100 fee, and agree to submit to the same annual inspections required of pharmacists.

Some states are stricter. Montana doesn't allow doctors to dispense pills. Doctors in New Jersey can provide no more than a seven-day supply of drugs. In Maryland, doctors can dispense drugs only when a pharmacy is unavailable.

Several Florida doctors continue to dispense drugs despite past citations by the Department of Health, or even criminal charges.

Last July, Dr. Robert F. Hunt, a Fort Lauderdale family practitioner, was charged with providing illegal prescriptions, after allegedly giving steroids and the painkiller hydrocodone to an undercover Broward sheriff's detective without a medical exam, court records show.

“Just to cover my ass, I'm going to put down that you've got a history of osteoporosis,” Hunt told the detective, according to the arrest report.

Yet, Hunt _ who has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial, still has the power to dispense pills directly from his office.

It was unclear last week whether the state Health Department was aware of Hunt's arrest. Hunt declined to comment for this report.

Regulators have suspended the rights of some doctors to dispense drugs on their own, said Eulinda Smith, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health. But details about those cases were not available late last week.

But in some cases, doctors on probation with the Department of Health have still been allowed to dispense drugs from their offices.

Dr. Enrique Gonzalez-Pujol's license was placed on probation after he pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of filing false medical records for clinics involved in a $7 million insurance-fraud ring.

Under the probation, the 60-year-old doctor is barred from drinking alcohol, and he can't take any medications without a prescription from another doctor, records show. Now he is dispensing drugs to patients at the Affordahealth Pain Relief Center in Davie.

Gonzalez-Pujol has been in trouble before: In 1992, the medical board placed him on five years' probation for his failure to provide patient records to justify Medicaid claims. He also had to repay Medicaid $14,500, records show.

The doctor said his probation does not reflect on his medical practice because the citations were not health-related.

“My probation has never had anything to do with dispensing or how I took care of patients,” he said.

Gonzalez-Pujol said he screens his patients for drugs and does criminal background checks to weed out potential doctor-shoppers. He has called the police on some prospective patients.

“After you've seen the patient two or three times, you can tell whether the patient is faking it or not,” the doctor said. But “you can never tell for sure.”

Gonzalez-Pujol does not own the clinic where he works. Indeed, many doctors work as contractors at pain clinics, rather than own the clinics themselves. Because of this, many clinics fall through the cracks between the state agencies that monitor doctors and healthcare facilities.

The Department of Health can monitor a doctor's practice, but it doesn't oversee clinics. That's the job of the Agency for Health Care Administration. But under state law, the AHCA monitors only clinics that accept insurance _ and many pain clinics are cash-only.

Clinic owners also escape the scrutiny of state health officials. And several of those clinic owners have a criminal past as well.

Michael Zoyes' past includes convictions for racketeering in 1987 in a boiler-room scam, and in 2001 for fraud in a telemarketing scheme involving diet supplements, court records show.

Five years after completing his second prison sentence, Zoyes, 54, opened Davie Pain Management. He placed help-wanted ads on the Internet, seeking a doctor to help open a pharmacy at the clinic, and promising as much as $12,000 a month in pay.

“No adjunct therapy,” one ad reads. “Monitoring and prescribing of meds only.”

Zoyes did not return messages seeking comment.

In some cases, pain doctors are paid on an escalating scale based on how many patients they see in a day, said Siegel, the Hollywood police captain. Patients typically pay $300 to $500 in cash, covering the cost of the visit and the prescriptions _ and then come back 28 days later for more.

Among police in Appalachia, one Fort Lauderdale clinic has earned a notorious reputation for selling pills that end up on the black market: South Florida Pain.

Police in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio say they have made separate arrests of drug suspects carrying pills prescribed by doctors at that clinic, owned by 28-year-old Christopher George of Royal Palm Beach, records show.

George has no formal medical training _ although he does claim a financial stake in an “anti-aging” clinic founded by his twin brother, Jeffrey George, court records show.

Christopher George, a former draftsman with a home builder, pleaded guilty in 2002 to possession of steroids with intent to sell, after postal inspectors tracked a package of pills he ordered on the Internet, court records show. He also pleaded guilty to grand theft for stealing a motorcycle, records show. He served concurrent sentences of five months in jail and three years' probation.

George did not respond to messages left at his home and with his attorney.

George's brother Jeffrey, who has a criminal record of grand theft and resisting arrest _ owns two other South Florida pain clinics, records show. The brothers are now tangled in a court dispute over the profits from South Florida Pain.

The DEA has devoted two new special units to South Florida pain clinics, said Trouville, the Miami special agent. But many detectives and health officials say that what Florida needs is a prescription-drug database, to allow doctors and police to monitor for doctor-shopping.

Thirty-eight states have such a program, and Florida is the largest state without one. “The 38 states that have a program like this, they don't have this problem,” Trouville said.

Efforts to create a monitoring program in Florida have been defeated repeatedly over the past seven years by lawmakers concerned that such a database would infringe on patients' privacy. Two new prescription-monitoring proposals are now gaining momentum in the Legislature, passing through key House and Senate committees last week.

Police and doctors say such a database would protect prescribing physicians, so they could check on whether a patient is getting pills from multiple doctors.

“It liberates the legitimate pain patients and legitimate pain doctors,” Dr. Grudem said.

And while investigators say a prescription database would help them detect prescription fraud, they warn that it would not end it.

“It's simply a tool to help address the problem,” said McElhaney, the Broward sheriff's detective. “It's not going to solve the problem.”

http://www.irontontribune.com/news/2009/apr/09/pill-mills-florida-county-has-become-colombia-phar/

[mlee]

does anybody know were i can find the video were GS said that jr told them about the black man or the the man dress in black i can't seem to find it
thanks

I saw it yesterday, give me a few and I will get it for you..

[mlee]

does anybody know were i can find the video were GS said that jr told them about the black man or the the man dress in black i can't seem to find it
thanks

Here is the address, and the transcribe below.

http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/21942484/haleigh-breakthrough.htm

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, the powder keg custody battle between the parents of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings is exploding with shocking - - and I mean shocking -- new allegations.

Little Haleigh`s estranged parents, Ron Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, are at each other`s throats, fighting tooth and nail over custody of Haleigh`s 4-year-old brother, Ron Jr.

Crystal Sheffield, who does not have custody of the kids, has accused Ron of abusing them and told Geraldo Rivera she fears for little Junior`s safety.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CRYSTAL SHEFFIELD, MOTHER OF HALEIGH: I feel like he`s in danger where he`s at.

GERALDO RIVERA, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Give us another couple of sentences on that. Why?

SHEFFIELD: Well, for one, Haleigh is missing. And there`s a 17-year- old girl watching them. And she`s practically a child herself. And I mean, I just -- I don`t feel safe with them there.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, Ron`s attorneys fire back at Crystal, charging she has put the boy in danger by showing him on television. Ron also says she has documents proving little Haleigh`s injuries were from a schoolyard fall, not abuse.

Ron charges Crystal is the liar. Listen to what he told Meredith Vieira on "The Today Show" earlier this month.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MEREDITH VIEIRA, CO-HOST, NBC`S "THE TODAY SHOW": Your 4-year-old said and the fact that he said that somebody, a man dressed in black, took Haleigh out of the trailer that night she disappeared. Did he tell that to either one of you? Misty, you were there at the time. Did he say anything to you at the time?

MISTY CROSLIN, WIFE OF RON CUMMINGS: Huh-uh.

VIEIRA: Nothing.

CROSLIN: No.

RON CUMMINGS, FATHER OF HALEIGH: Me neither. This is some of the garbage that Crystal, the mother, has made up. But I`m the same way.

VIEIRA: So you don`t even believe that Ronald Jr. said this at all?

CUMMINGS: I don`t know. I wasn`t at home. I was at work.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Ronald`s lawyers just fired a new round of charges. They claim that Crystal has been coaxing little Junior to make false statements about the black man in black who the child allegedly claims took little Haleigh back in February. Some wonder, could Crystal be planting seeds in little Junior`s head about Greg, the mystery man some allege Misty Croslin was with around the time Haleigh Cummings went missing?

Meantime, where is little Haleigh? Are these ferocious battles a distraction from the real issue: finding this precious 5-year-old girl? What do you think? Give me a holler: 1-877-JVM-SAYS. That`s 1-877-586- 7297.

But first, my incredible expert panel: Stacey Honowitz, Florida prosecutor; Brenda Wade, clinical psychologist; Kim Picazio, attorney for Haleigh`s mother, Crystal Sheffield. So glad you`re here tonight, Kim. Mark Eiglarsh, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor; and Jared Alber, reporter for WOKV in Jacksonville.

Jared, what is the very latest?

JARED ALBER, REPORTER, WOKV: Well, the very latest is that nobody in Satsuma in this Putnam County community is giving up any hope at all. In fact, I heard from the principal of little Haleigh`s school today that, in fact, her desk remains empty. Items of the little girl, that kindergartner, remain in her cubby.

Now, we also learned just a couple of hours ago that Crystal Sheffield, Haleigh`s mother, was involved in a minor car accident this afternoon. Initial reports indicate that she may have had some sort of seizure or something. She checked herself into the hospital. We understand she may actually still be in the hospital undergoing some kind of treatment. Again, we understand it was a minor injury. But, again, leads perhaps to the amount of stress that this family is under, now going into the 50th day of this little girl missing.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I can only imagine. And Kim Picazio, you are Crystal`s attorney. Certainly, we hope and pray that she`s OK and this was just a minor little incident. So good wishes to her in that regard.

KIM PICAZIO, ATTORNEY FOR CRYSTAL SHEFFIELD: Thank you.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: What do you have, information-wise, about Greg? I understand you`ve got new information to tell us about this mystery man everybody`s talking about named Greg.

PICAZIO: Yes. I just got off the phone with Greg. So I was here at your studio, and my investigators that are on the case have finally located this person that has been of interest to our team for quite some time. And I`ve just gotten off the phone with him.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, what did he say? Did he say he was with Misty that night? Did he say that he`s having any kind of a relationship, as some claim, insinuate, with Misty?

PICAZIO: He did intimate a lot of details. I asked him as many questions as I could. We`re going to have to -- I`d like to go and check some of his allegations.

It`s my understanding he was with Misty the weekend prior to the disappearance of Haleigh. And with regard to anything with regard to that night that Haleigh went missing, I need to double check his facts. I`d hate to report something...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Of course. We don`t want you to report anything that -- you`re just off the phone. I mean, let`s put this into context for our viewers. Hold on one second, Kim. I`ll get back to you momentarily.

PICAZIO: Thank you.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Two people have come forward, insinuated that Misty Croslin may -- and I say may -- have been having some sort of affair, relationship, something. During a phone call on this show, Crystal Sheffield described what Ron Jr. allegedly told her. Listen very carefully.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SHEFFIELD: And I asked him about it. And I was like, what about the black -- the person dressed in black. He said it was a black man dressed in black and he had squeaky shoes, and the couch was bouncing. And that`s just what he told me. And I`m not lying, and I have no reason to lie.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: OK. "The couch was bouncing." That`s the quote the night Haleigh went missing, according to what Crystal Sheffield says her son told her. Remember, this boy is 4.

Just last week, bounty hunter, this guy named Cobra, claimed that even Ron Cummings knew about an alleged relationship of some sort. Take a listen to this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

WILLIAM "COBRA" STOUBS, BOUNTY HUNTER: Ron was convinced now, beyond any question of doubt, that she was not there. She wasn`t home, bro. She was out (EXPLETIVE DELETED) very possibly with (EXPLETIVE DELETED) again.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I want to emphasize these are just claims. We have reached out to Misty Croslin to get her side of the story. She has not commented. She has an open invitation to come here on ISSUES and tell her side.

However, Ron Cummings` attorneys raised an interesting question in a press release just released a couple of minutes ago. They said, quote, "Picazio," meaning Kim Picazio, the woman you just heard from, "once represented Cobra`s wife in a divorce against Cobra, where Cobra had no attorney, according to Broward County records. Cobra tried to befriend Ron Cummings and stoked his fears about what happened the night Haleigh went missing," end quote.

Kim, Kim Picazio, can you explain to us your relationship with the bounty hunter/investigator who appeared out of nowhere named Cobra?

PICAZIO: Absolutely. I met Cobra, which is William Staubs. I purchased a house from him. And he know I was a divorce attorney. He needed a divorce. I was friendly with both he and his wife at the time and remained friends with them throughout the course, even after the divorce. So we`re all...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Are you working in tandem with Cobra?

PICAZIO: Well, he`s an independent investigator who went to the scene, and he has four -- actually five children himself. This case really struck a nerve with him. He wanted to go crack the case. It was important to him. So I do converse with him all the time regarding the facts he`s learned.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right. Let`s bring Mark Eiglarsh in, criminal defense attorney. You`re listening to all of this. You`ve followed this case. What do you make of it? It`s -- my head is going to explode with all of this stuff.

MARK EIGLARSH, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: First of all, Jane, I`m saddened. I`m going to tell you why. We are missing this child so desperately, and the parties involved, no disrespect to the attorney on your -- on your panel, has turned this into a Jerry Springer-like environment.

There are invaluable resources that should be devoted to finding this child. Instead, what we`re getting is the makings of a book on how to behave or how not to behave when your child goes missing. Including but not limited to chapter one, marry your 17-year-old girlfriend in the middle of a search for your child.

Secondly, how to contaminate a potential eye witness to the crime. That took place either intentionally or unintentionally. And then, during the interview by Craig Rivera, with a child in her arm. That was so unbelievably improper the way that that went down that it has almost no value in court and certainly, almost now value in the court of public opinion.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Stacey, you`re the prosecutor. Do you agree with Mark?

STACEY HONOWITZ, PROSECUTOR: I actually have to agree with him, which is very rare. But in this...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes!

HONOWITZ: I`m going to tell you something very important. The bottom line is all of these leads, all of these potential witnesses, shouldn`t be handled by private investigators working for lawyers. All of these leads of potential witnesses should be spoken to by the lead investigators and the detectives on this case trying to locate this child.

And so it`s not so rare that a 3 or a 4-year-old child would be interviewed by investigators. And they`re trained and they`re seasoned and they know what to look for and what not to look for.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, they may be seasoned, Stacey, but they`re not finding anything. They`re the ones who have said that they`re sort of at wits end, which I think is creating a vacuum that a lot of people are filling with gossip and innuendo and speculation.

Everybody stay right there.

HONOWITZ: But that doesn`t do the case any good.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Right. I agree with you. We`ve got more of the growing list between Haleigh`s parents. Do you think Crystal is manipulating Haleigh`s little brother to get back at Ron? Give me a holler: 1-877-JVM-SAYS. That`s 1-877-586-7297 and let me know.

And outrageous claims in the Casey Anthony case. Is Jose Baez a defective lawyer? That`s what a former client says. He`s in jail right now. I`ll have the details.

But first, attention between Haleigh Cummings parents have something to do with Ron`s new wife, Misty? Here`s a shocking claim for Misty that could have sparked some anger from Crystal.

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CROSLIN: I love Haleigh more than anything in this world. Almost like my baby. They used to call me Stepmom. Now, they know that I`m Mother.

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CUMMINGS: I have been slandered into a sorry father. Obviously, in most cases the fathers don`t get custody of their children. I took good care of my kids the three years I had them by myself. A lot of people are talking like this is a custody battle. It`s not a custody battle. It`s about finding my 5-year-old daughter.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Haleigh Cummings` father, Ron, urging people the keep the focus on finding little Haleigh.

We`re back, taking your calls. The phone lines are lit up. Julia, South Carolina, your question or thought, ma`am?

CALLER: Thank you, Jane. Why did the mother not fight for these children before? And why is it all of a sudden she can get the money now to hire a big lawyer?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Kim?

PICAZIO: OK. First, I`m working for free, which is pro bono. I have three children myself, and it was an issue that I really wanted to take on. So I accepted the case for free.

And also, she did not -- Crystal did not -- was not aware of all of these facts that have now come out as a result of this investigation. And she did fight for custody originally. She lost. And at that point, she was not aware that there was a legal avenue to come back and try again to modify the custody situation.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: She lost, in a nutshell, for what reason?

PICAZIO: Well, it`s my understanding that she was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of Ronald Cummings, as has been every other girlfriend he`s had since then, as has been every other girlfriend...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: I`ve got to jump in and say we want Ronald Cummings` side of the story on this. We went to present a very fair -- and it`s very hard with this case, but give each side an opportunity. We have no independent knowledge of any relationship with other girlfriends and what might have gone down there.

Brenda Wade, weigh in, please. We need a shrink on this one. It`s gotten so ugly.

BRENDA WADE, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: We definitely need some mental health and psychological care for everyone concerned, Jane. I mean, there`s no manual on how to behave if your child goes missing. I think these people are extraordinarily stressed.

And we all know that, if you want to see people on their worst behavior, you want to see people who are separated from one another dealing with any kind of issue around their children.

What I`m seeing in terms of the in-fighting is that, when people can`t get at the real target, which is the person who took Haleigh, they turn on anyone who`s close to them. And that`s what we`re seeing with Ron and with Crystal. They`re turning on one another. They`re turning on Misty. And at this point, I don`t think anybody knows any more than we all know about who took Haleigh or where she is.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: You know, Brenda, I think that`s absolutely brilliant analysis, that because they can`t express their frustrations at this mystery person who abducted the child, they`re going at each other. Very good observation.

Ronald Cummings` attorneys are now claiming that Ron Jr.`s statements about the night Haleigh was taken were coaxed by his mother, Crystal Sheffield, and were a product of, quote, "shabby journalism." Let`s look at the interview between Crystal Sheffield, Ron Jr., and Craig Rivera from March 2, 2009, for "Geraldo at Large."

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SHEFFIELD: Did you go back to sleep after the man took sissy or did you stay awake? Was you awake? No? But you heard the squeaky shoes? Sissy didn`t wake up when you took him -- when he took her? No?

CRAIG RIVERA, FOX NEWS: No one told him to say that?

SHEFFIELD: Did anybody tell you to say that? No.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, you know, Mark, it`s hard to tell, because the child`s face is blurred for obvious reasons. We want to protect his identity. But I can`t make heads or tails out of what that child is saying, whether he`s saying that -- I can`t tell.

EIGLARSH: Jane, I watched the...

HONOWITZ: And one thing, Jane...

EIGLARSH: I have seen the full version. I watched the unblurred version. And you don`t need to see the child`s face. You look at the techniques or lack thereof being implemented.

If this was truly an eye witness, and I have no idea, but if the child really saw something, investigators should have been called. They should have immediately taken that child into a room with someone who`s trained to handle this and extracted those facts raw.

This was contaminated. It was poisoned. And you know what? This is just fundamentally wrong. We`re supposed to be finding this girl.

WADE: And Jane, I want to say just from the standpoint of developmental psychology, a 4-year-old is not a reliable witness. A 4- year-old still lives very much in the realm of what is magical.

HONOWITZ: That`s not true. That`s not true. In a criminal case, that`s not true.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: OK, Stacey?

HONOWITZ: There was a case -- I don`t know if you remember this, Jane, but there was a case a couple of years ago where a police officer came into the house, and he killed this 4-year-old`s mother, and he rolled her up in a carpet. Guess what? That was the eye witness. He gave competent testimony, and the man was convicted.

The cops brought him in. He gave his statement. They were able to see in what context he witnessed things. He was able to give them an idea of what happened. And this man was convicted based on this child`s testimony. So you cannot in general say that any 4-year-old...

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WADE: ... doing the interview, but that`s not what we have here. I`m sorry. There`s...

HONOWITZ: Now...

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Kim, what about Ron`s attorney`s claim that your client put the child in danger by putting the child on television? Now he was a potential witness of this crime and he could be targeted.

PICAZIO: Well, I think that what everyone is missing is the police, to my understanding, had already done exactly what everyone had suggested. We`re not tainting him after the fact. We`re -- he`s not being tainted before the police have already even seen him. They`ve already done this. They`ve already interviewed the child...

EIGLARSH: I have a question for Kim, Jane. I have a question for Kim.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: OK. We have ten seconds. Make the point. Thank you.

EIGLARSH: I have one question, Kim. Don`t you think that the feuding back and forth is taking away from the central issue of finding the girl?

PICAZIO: No, no, I don`t. No, I don`t.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: We have to leave it right there. I want to -- we could talk about this all night. Fascinating stuff. Please come back. Thanks to my excellent panel.

There are new reports that claim Rihanna is not cooperating with Chris Brown in the Chris Brown case, with prosecutors. But prosecutors in L.A. just moments ago issued a statement denying that, saying she is cooperating. We`ll have the very latest.

Meantime, Rihanna has got a new gun tattoo. I will speak to a psychologist to try to figure out what the heck that`s all about.

And a shocking story you will not believe till you see it. The famous Sham-Wow spokesman arrested for allegedly beating up a prostitute. I`ll have the details next.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: An astonishing demand from pop superstar Rihanna in the spotlight tonight. Conflicting reports about whether Rihanna is helping or stonewalling prosecutors who want her help in their beating case against singer Chris Brown. The D.A.`s office says her attorney tells them Rihanna is, quote, "a cooperating victim."

But "Look" magazine says Rihanna wants Brown to make a public apology to per on "Oprah." So which is it? Is it both? And what kind of message would it send if she doesn`t fully cooperate?

Still with me, Brenda Wade, fabulous clinical psychologist.

Brenda, help us make sense of all of this. Rihanna is the alleged victim of a brutal beating. I mean, this is not child`s play here. If she doesn`t cooperate with prosecutors, would that send the message that she, in some way, shape, or form, condones this kind of behavior?

WADE: Absolutely, Jane. There`s no question about that. But this is not unusual. This is so typical. I`ve spent years working with battered women. And the hardest thing is for the women to view someone that they love and trusted as someone who is now a dangerous enemy. And it`s a very emotionally conflicted state: "I love you, but you`ve turned on me."

Now one of the things I have to say is that Rihanna is someone who comes from a background, as I understand it, as does Chris, where there was violence. And she`s got that template in her head: love equals pain. And until she changes her thinking, she is not going to be able to stand up and say, "Absolutely no woman should be beaten and I will not go back to a man who has beaten me."

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes, well...

WADE: She can`t do it until she changes her thinking.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: ... that is some stinking thinking right there. Over the weekend, Rihanna revealed a gun tattoo she got on her right rib cage earlier this month. Check out this image from the MySpace page of the artists who call themselves Bang-Bang. There`s the little gun right under her armpit there.

WADE: Oh, God.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Come on. If you ask me, this is -- I mean, come on. This is just violence with more violence.

WADE: This is such a disturbed message. It`s such a disturbed message. And Jane, I want to say to anybody out there who wants to change their life by changing their thinking and getting rid of those patterns, I`ve got a free what I call quantum thinking lesson on my Web site: DocWade.com.

But in Rihanna`s case to have a gun tattoo, doesn`t that tell you how much her background says to her violence is OK?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Absolutely.

WADE: And violence against women is OK? It`s not OK.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Now, if she got a peace sign tattoo, I would have said that`s a wonderful expression of perhaps turning the other cheek and practicing...

WADE: Right, exactly. She has a lot to learn. And she has a lot of growing up to do, because I -- I can tell you right now -- and it`s the saddest thing, I can predict for you that he is going to do it again.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well...

WADE: Or she`s going to find somebody else until she changes her thinking.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: And they`re both destroying their careers, Brenda, in the process. This is not helping her.

WADE: Yes.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: There was just a big story today saying -- actually speculating that she`s going to lose endorsements unless she actually testifies against him.

WADE: Well, I think that`s true. And unfortunately, I think it`s appropriate. I don`t think anyone in the spotlight who has been battered and who is a role model for young women -- there are so many young women still being battered on dates and who think this is OK, that somehow this - - this male patriarchy says that women are less valuable. And a lot of young women are endeared with that idea.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, we`ve got to -- we`ve got to end that, Brenda. Thank you so much. Got to end that.

Casey Anthony, no stranger to the court system. Is her lawyer defective? We`ll answer the question next.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Startling accusations in the Casey Anthony case. Is Jose Baez a defective lawyer? That`s what one former client now claims.

Milton Diaz is serving a 15-year sentence in the death of a toddler and he says it`s Baez`s fault he`s behind bars. Should Casey be worried?

Plus, bizarre twists in the octo-mom saga, Nadya Suleman`s former publicist who said she was nuts now rushes to her defense in the public feud with Angels in Waiting.

And speaking of feuds, you know him as the ShamWow guy. Cops say they know him as the guy who beat up a Miami prostitute. I`ll have the shocking details.

A massive double-barreled blow to Casey Anthony`s defense tonight; Attorney Jose Baez is now facing his own troubles. A former client currently behind bars is claiming that Jose Baez was defective in defending him.

Milton Diaz is serving a 15-year sentence for the death of a toddler. He blames the judge, prosecutors and particularly his former attorney, Jose Baez. Diaz says it was a botched defense strategy that led to his false conviction. This, as Baez prepares for what could be explosive question and answer confrontations this week.

Tomorrow, he is set to depose Jim Hoover. Remember him? From last week, that`s the controversial former volunteer security guard for the Anthony family. He`s also set to take on two jail guards. They could reveal more about Casey`s behavior that key day that Caylee`s remains were found.

Will accusations of lousy lawyering throw Baez off his game? Should Casey Anthony be worried about her own defense?

Let`s go back to the experts. We`re delighted to have with us tonight Thomas Luka, the attorney representing Casey`s brother, Lee Anthony -- lots of questions for him; and still here, Brenda Wade, a clinical psychologist; plus Stacey Honowitz, Florida prosecutor.

Stacey, what do you make of this claim by this convict that Baez failed to disclose information to prosecutors which then prevented Baez from showing jurors a video that explained how the child skull fracture could have theoretically been an accident, quote, "Baez wanted to surprise the prosecution and the surprise blew up in the defendant`s face."

STACEY HONOWITZ, FLORIDA PROSECUTOR: Well, Jane, this is very interesting.

It`s a motion for ineffective assistance of counsel. That`s basically what he was trying to say. And these pop up quite often with people that get convicted of the crime. And certainly prosecutors at this point kind of come in and jump to the defense of the defense attorney because they don`t want the conviction to be thrown out.

But certainly Baez at this point has to be embarrassed because most of these times these claims are made and the only people that know are the lawyer, the prosecutor, the defendant and then the judge of the appellate court that looks it over.

And in this case, now the whole world is getting a view that this person thought that Jose Baez did him wrong. But the interesting thing is that the viewers have to know it`s my understanding that this defendant has accused the prosecutor, the judge, of everybody is being unfair to him. It`s like a bitter pill.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes, well, Baez by the way is not embarrassed. He says through his spokesperson that this is a common post-conviction strategy. And he`s not going to let his ego get in the way and he hopes that the strategy works out for this guy.

So there you have that.

Now another big issue, private investigator, Jim Hoover, deposed by lawyers for Zenaida Gonzalez just last week -- we talked it about all last week. Hoover speculated about who Dominic Casey, another private eye working for the Anthony family, was talking to on the phone in that now infamous video of Dominic searching the area where Caylee`s remains were discovered a month later.

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JIM HOOVER, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: I don`t think it was George and Cindy, no.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who?

HOOVER: I don`t think he was talking to Cindy or George.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who do you think he was talking to?

HOOVER: I think it might -- possibly be Lee.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lee Anthony?

HOOVER: Possibly. You know, low probability, possibly.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Thomas Luka, you represent Lee Anthony, Casey`s brother. After that statement came out last week, you seemed angry and threatened possible legal action. Why? And what steps are you planning to take?

THOMAS LUKA, LEE ANTHONY`S ATTORNEY: Well first of all, Jane, these allegations by Mr. Hoover have to be substantiated through phone records or some other objective way. And they`re not being -- they`re not being that.

Even that, Mr. Hoover does say it`s a low probability that he was talking to Mr. Anthony. I`ve spoken to Mr. Anthony and Mr. Anthony steadfastly denied that he ever spoke to Mr. Hoover about that particular incident or on that particular day.

But we hope that the object of phone records are going bear that out and will show that Mr. Hoover was, at the very least, gravely mistaken.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes. It`s a pretty serious thing because obviously the implications are that whoever that gentleman, Dominic Casey, is talking to on the phone knew something, knew, Stacey Honowitz, where the little girl`s body was buried.

HONOWITZ: That`s right Jane. We discussed it last week.

What are the implications, when people hear or they see it replayed over and over again, why are they at the exact spot where this body was found later? And certainly it does give the impression that somebody in that Anthony camp sent them over there.

So certainly we`re going to hear tomorrow some more details. And the attorney`s right. Basically the phone records are going to bear out or substantiate what we`re trying to find out.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, ok he`s got a lot of questions, I`m sure Jose Baez does, for this Jim Hoover as we`ve been talking about. Jose Baez plans to depose the Anthony`s former volunteer security guard, Jim Hoover, this week. Tomorrow, I believe.

But he may not be very happy about what Hoover has to say about a Zanny the nanny abduction. Listen to this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The whole time that you were with the Anthony`s family, you never heard one of them mention the babysitter.

HOOVER: No, sir.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You never heard them mention Zenaida Gonzalez.

HOOVER: No, sir.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did that seem -- I`m probably asking a question I know the answer to because it`s so obvious. Did that seem strange to you that the -- the person who Casey said had taken the baby that that name never came up?

HOOVER: Did it seem strange to me? For the hours I was out there and the times I was out there, no.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Brenda Wade, the Anthonys still publicly claim a Zenaida Gonzalez stole the child. They say it`s a different Zenaida than the woman who is suing Casey, but the point here is wouldn`t the Anthonys be talking about this alleged abductor more if they really believed the story that a Zanny the nanny took the child?

BRENDA WADE, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Of course, I would think so. I would absolutely think so Jane, simply because if it`s the case, you`re going to do everything you can to find that person.

So why wouldn`t they be talking about that person? I don`t think this sounds like something where there is veracity; it doesn`t sound like truth to me. And it looks like another attempt on the part of the family to rally behind Casey.

I don`t blame them. She`s their daughter. They love her. But at the same time, it doesn`t hold water.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right now...

HONOWITZ: Jane, can I say...

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Sure.

HONOWITZ: Can I say one thing?

I think it`s interesting to note that if you look at the very early tapes, the videotapes of George and Cindy Anthony, when the case first came to light, never one time did you ever, ever hear them say in any interview even as they were walking down the street, "We need to find this nanny. We need to find her, this woman." The name was never brought up. And I think that`s very telling.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes, and now it seems like the defense is stuck with this Zanny the nanny defense, which may be a big problem for them.

Let`s talk about somebody else that Baez plans to depose.

This week, Amy Huizenga (ph), now this is a former friend of Casey`s who has said incredibly damaging things. She says that Casey is a liar, stole checks to go on a shopping spree at target to buy push-up bras and beer. That Casey partied hard the whole month little Caylee was first missing before she was reported missing and that even before that, Casey brought Caylee to booze-drenched parties.

Thomas Luka, as an attorney for Lee Anthony and by extension being on the family`s side, this has got to be very difficult for them day in and day out to hear these things about Casey.

LUKA: It certainly is. And just going back a little bit, the whole Zanny the nanny or Zenaida Gonzalez, all of this has come from Casey Anthony herself. So everything has to be taken with a grain of salt and has to be verified through some third party because there have been so many inconsistencies by Miss Anthony herself.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes.

LUKA: And all of these have to be explained.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right Stacey, what do you think is going to happen with Amy Huizenga? I mean, how is Baez going to undo that damage?

HONOWITZ: Well, I think what he`s going to try to do is say that since Casey stole from her, then obviously she`s got a grudge against her. And so she`s going to say anything.

Now, that doesn`t work. I mean, it can be a double-edged sword because do you want the jury to hear that not only did she murder her child -- which is they`re trying to prove -- but that she`s also a thief? That`s a prior bad act that the defense would want to try to keep out.

So now if you go and you use the -- the theory of you don`t like her because she stole from you, now you have the jury hearing that she`s a thief. So that can really play out either way seriously.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: And the last thing, Brenda Wade, he`s also going to depose Kio Marie Cruz, who told the "National Enquirer" that as soon as she heard that Caylee`s remains were found double wrapped with a heart, she was shocked because she claims she and Casey used to bury their pets in the same manner at the same location.

Is that damaging? How damaging is that?

WADE: That is -- yes, I think it`s so disturbing, Jane. It`s hard for me to even hear it. But, yes, I think that that says, again, all the arrows seem to be pointing to Casey Anthony.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Although, when you tell your story or you give your story to the "National Enquirer," and we don`t know if she`s stole it -- sold it that could hurt her credibility.

Thanks to my fantastic panel.

In other news, the famous ShamWow pitchman arrested for allegedly beating up a hooker. You have to see this story to truly believe it.

And more kookiness from octo-mom Nadya Suleman; her former publicist who once called her nuts is now furiously defending her. Do you think she`s kooky? Or is she`s some sort of media mastermind. Call 1-877-JVM- SAYS, that`s 1-877-586-7297 at let me know.

But first, the battle between octo-mom and Angels and Waiting has gotten pretty intense. Take a listen.

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GLORIA ALLRED, ATTY. FOR ANGELS IN WAITING: He was shouting and yelling obscenities to our AIW nannies stating quote, "Get the `F` out of here," he used the word. "All of you are fired."

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: The man who called octo-mom "nuts" now races to her defense. I`ll have the very latest.

But first, "Top of the Block" tonight.

Famous or maybe infamous ShamWow pitchman, Vince Shlomi was arrested for allegedly giving a prostitute a serious beat-down and I mean serious. Shlomi was nabbed on felony battery charges in Miami last month. Cops say he punched a prostitute because she bit his tongue and would not let go. The woman reportedly suffered facial fractures and lacerations.

Prosecutors did not file formal charges but the victim is reportedly considering suing the ShamWow spokesman who also happens to sell a product called the "Slap Shot." That`s right. You cannot make this stuff up.

That`s tonight`s "Top of the Block."

More exquisitely bizarre twists in the octo-mom saga tonight. Nadya Suleman`s former publicist who recently said she was "nuts and greedy" now rushes to her defense. Victor Munoz who blasted Suleman`s behavior when they parted ways is now an ally in her very public feud with Angels in Waiting. Here`s what he told Radaronline.

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VICTOR MUNOZ, NADYA SULEMAN`S FORMER PUBLICIST: I felt from day one that she was being bullied to going into Gloria Allred`s camp. They didn`t understand the way Nadya thought and Nadya obviously didn`t understand what Angels in Waiting`s agenda really was.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: And octo-mom`s ex-PR flak didn`t stop there. He fired a shot at Angels saying they had their own commercial agenda and tried to push it on Nadya and Dr. Phil.

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MUNOZ: Right away, they started getting into, you know, product placement, things like that; a very nice book that they`re trying to have published. And they have also a plush toy that has a little tag that has something special, you know, on it. She just pushed that right in front of us and said, "Dr. Phil, can you please look at this? I want you to see this." You know, gave him a sales spiel.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Isn`t that the pot calling the kettle black, folks? Some have suggested that Angels in Waiting are a little holier than thou. Maybe, but pushing product to make a buck?

Did this feud between octo-mom and Angels just open up another battle front? With six of the eight octuplets home from the hospital, we have to ask when does the all-out war surrounding these babies finally end?

Joining me is psychologist Michele Borba; and we are delighted to have HLN`s very own Brooke Anderson, co-host of "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT;" as well as also delighted to have Jeff Czech, Nadya Suleman`s attorney.

Let`s start with Brooke. This former publicist for Nadya called her nuts, but now he`s vigorously defending her against Angels in Waiting. Why do you think he has done a 180 and come to her defense suddenly?

BROOKE ANDERSON, HLN CO-HOST, "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT": Yes. He`s completely backtracking Jane. And I think it`s because he really regrets the fact that he did call her nuts, that he did call her greedy. And now he is trying to side with her and he`s trying to defend her by saying that, yes, he believes Angels in Waiting acted as a bully and that they were trying to force some sort of financial agenda on Nadya Suleman -- who knows if that is true.

But clearly from the beginning, Jane, both sides Angels in Waiting and Nadya Suleman were very suspicious of one another and very unsure about this -- the whole situation. And it is no surprise that it all came to a head in the way that it did.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Jeff Czech, you are Nadya Suleman`s lawyer. I have so many questions to ask you.

One is, she keeps saying I`m not taking public assistance, but I`ve read reports that say having these babies in the hospital and caring for them to the point where they`re healthy enough to leave is costing an estimated $1.5 million to $3 million. Who is paying for all that?

JEFF CZECH, NADYA SULEMAN`S LAWYER: Well, that`s the first time -- by the way, thanks for having me on, Jane.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Thank you.

CZECH: That`s the first time I`ve heard those numbers.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, let`s say it`s $500,000. Let`s low ball it. Who is paying for it?

CZECH: Okay. Who is paying for it? Well, to my knowledge, Kaiser is still being paid by MediCal, that`s true.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: So that`s California`s health care program; that`s taxpayer dollars, right?

CZECH: That is. But Nadya is doing her best to get off the public dollar and be self-sufficient.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Ok. I`m just making the point that --

CZECH: She`s in the process.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes, I totally understand you. But when somebody says that they`re not taking public assistance, then you have bill, even if it`s $400,000, I mean that`s a lot of money.

Octo-mom`s ex-PR flak also fired a shot at Angels in Waiting on Radaronline, suggested they were not ready for the challenge. Let`s listen.

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MUNOZ: When Angels said Victor, can you go find the nurses, can you call the local places, organizations to bring in some nurses, I was thinking out loud what nurses? You don`t have them? This is not set up already? You mean we`re going to train from the beginning? I thought you guys had been around for a while, had people in place all ready to step in.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Michele Borba, first of all, I`m a big fan of Gloria Allred, but it seems that Angels may have had some problems.

Does water find its own level? Are opportunists looking at this situation, saying, "Hey, how can I benefit from this?"

MICHELE BORBA, PSYCHOLOGIST: You know what, I think absolutely everybody in the case of this is looking for the opportunity and these kids are becoming absolute pawns. These children right now need more than anything else an emotionally available and stable mother. The research is absolutely clear if they don`t get it and she doesn`t tune into those, the writing is on the wall as to what`s going to happen to these kids later on. This is hard-core stuff.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Angels in Waiting has accused Nadya of letting the media get too close to the babies. Nadya has defended herself saying not so, they wash their hands, everything is above board.

But look at this video of Nadya inside her house when the babies first came home -- the first two of them. As she makes her way up the stairs we noticed something very interesting. Let`s take a closer look. There is a media mob inside the home.

Now, you...

BORBA: Yes.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: There it is. There`s the media mob. As her attorney, Jeff, who are these people? They can`t all be working for Radaronline.

CZECH: No, they weren`t. I believe ET was the show at that time.

And Nadya and I were at the hospital when all of them came in, including Gloria. And by the time we got to the house it was filled with brothers and uncles and aunts and family members, et cetera. And we did our best to remove all of the unnecessary people. But once that -- that dam broke, it was very difficult to get the people out of that house.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Yes. When you look at that you`re in the media, Brooke, what do you see? Seeing that mob inside the house.

ANDERSON: I`m appalled. I`m appalled for those newborn babies that were premature. This is no environment for them to be brought home to. It`s clearly unsafe and not sanitary.

And we saw with the chaos surrounding the arrival of the first two octuplets, when they came home it was very, very dangerous. And my question is, if she wasn`t at home, who was letting the people in the house? Who was responsible for that?

VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right. And we`re going to answer that question in a moment.

Stay right there. We`ll have more.

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GLORIA ALLRED, ATTORNEY FOR ANGELS IN WAITING: She and her attorney permitted a dangerous and unhealthy environment inside of the home for the babies` arrival.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: Fireworks never far from octo-mom Nadya Suleman as her ex-publicist who called her nuts recently now leaps to her defense.

Back with my panel, phone lines lighting up. Anne, New Hampshire, question or thought, ma`am?

ANNE, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Hi, Jane.

I just want to say that I think that we`re all being pretty hard on Nadya, you know? Because I mean after al we`re celebrating the birth of these babies and they are medical miracles. And after all she didn`t that she was going to have eight children. So I think she`s just playing it by ear, every day by day, trying to do the best that she can.

And I have great respect for Gloria Allred as a lawyer and as a person.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Me too.

ANNE: But I believe threatening to take the children away from her and all of this stuff about Angels in Waiting, I mean I think Nadya can take care of her own children.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Let me go back to Jeff on this.

I have no personal animosity against Nadya Suleman. She seems very charming. She seems to love her kids.

CZECH: Thank you.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: In a world where every 5 1/2 seconds a child around the globe dies of malnutrition and starvation, where we only have certain number of resources in this world of ours. To have 14 children strikes many as being a resource hog, have you ever discussed with her the environmental, for example, implications of her having 14 children?

CZECH: No, I have haven`t. And really, I don`t even think that`s relevant quite frankly.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: It is relevant.

CZECH: No.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: It`s relevant because we`re living in the world where there are only so many resources. And the worst environmental decision you could possibly make is to have 14 kids.

CZECH: She`s not taking up any resources by having these children.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Of course she is.

CZECH: That`s really quite ridiculous.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: It`s not ridiculous. We have a finite number of resources and to have 14 kids takes resources away from other people when we only have so many resources on this planet.

CZECH: She`s not taking resources away from anybody. She`s raising a family, she`s striving to be on her own and the interlopers can just go away. She`s trying to be self-sufficient.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, an interesting way of trying to be self- sufficient.

Michele, we`re going to give the psychologist the last word here.

BORBA: Well, you`ve talked about malnutrition in terms of physical.

My concern is right now, emotional malnutrition of those kids. Mom needs to be tuned into those kids and somebody needs to be supporting those children.

CZECH: Mom is tuned into those kids.

BORBA: Well, then, have mom make sure that she`s home, that she`s stable and that she`s getting some kind of support.

CZECH: She is.

BORBA: I`m not seeing that.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: All right.

Well, listen, we have to leave it right there. I respect everyone for engaging in a very healthy debate. And hope you can come back soon. Thanks to my fabulous panel.

I`m Jane Velez-Mitchell and you`re watching ISSUES, a hot-fiery one, on HLN.

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it is the one were gs first stated Jr said something about a guy that was in black and that when they ask him again and he says something different

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Lakeland Doctor, 3 Others Indicted
http://www.theledger.com/article/20090407/NEWS/904075039?Title=Lakeland-Doctor-3-Others-Indicted

Prescription Drug Ring Runs From Florida to Bethel
http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Prescription-Drug-Ring-Runs-From-Florida-to-Bethel/wdgtQlzS7EiVZGDzE4wjAg.cspx

Two Young Callaway Girls Busted after Attempting To Sell Oxycodone to Undercover Agents     
Posted: 2:35 PM Apr 3, 2009
Last Updated: 2:35 PM Apr 3, 2009
Reporter: Bay County Sheriff’s Office


An undercover drug deal worked by the Special Investigations Division of the Bay County Sheriff’s Office landed two women in the Bay County Jail Thursday night.

Jamie Catherine Overstreet, of Callaway, and April Dawn Hamblin, were arrested after they attempted to sell the powerful pain killer oxycodone to undercover narcotics officers Thursday evening in Callaway.

http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/42432152.html

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it is this one but i can't get the video

 Haleigh's Brother Says He Saw the Suspect
Posted By: Jackelyn Barnard Created: 2/24/2009 4:55:05 PM Updated: 2/24/2009 5:55:50 PM
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SATSUMA, FL -- It's those last moments before Haleigh Cummings disappeared that police want to know about.

They are relying on a four-year-old, Haleigh's little brother, Ronald Junior, for help.

"He was asleep. I got there 10 minutes after we noticed she was gone. I had Junior, he said he didn't know anything...said he was asleep," Haleigh's great grandmother, Annette Sykes, told First Coast News on Monday.

Detectives have talked to the child. Relatives on both sides say he told police he saw a man in a ski mask come in their trailer and leave with his big sister.

"They questioned Junior. I asked them (police) about it. They couldn't tell me anything other than he's a little child. He was questioned and the story went from one thing to another and another," says Sykes.

Child psychologist Dr. Lynn Wadelton says the average four-year-old can give an accurate account of what they witness. But there are factors that can sometimes cloud the story.

"The research on four-year-olds in general, says that the amount of time that elapses between when they first see something and the things they see in the interim can affect their memory and can be confused."

Wadelton says interviewing a child has to be done carefully, without suggesting details. "They will try to ask questions that don't lead in a particular way, like was it a car or truck. They might say 'how did they leave.'"

She says police look for key factors in a story, like consistency and is the child telling the same story to several different people.

"It's not just the words a child says, the non-verbals, the emotions that goes with the words they're telling."

Police won't comment about the interview. They say they are following up all information that comes in to investigators.

Haleigh's great grandmother says she doesn't believe Haleigh's little brother really knows what happened in the home.

"We ask him, he'll tell you one thing. You ask another way, he'll tell you something else. He's just a little child."

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/l...132095&catid=3

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does anybody know were i can find the video were GS said that jr told them about the black man or the the man dress in black i can't seem to find it
thanks

starcat, who is GS?

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Grama Sykes lol i should say GGS lol i found it thanks all

[Brandi]

Grama Sykes lol i should say GGS lol i found it thanks all

I was wondering who "GS" was.

And I have a personal request.

Instead of posting a whole program's transcript here, just give a link, please?

My finger that scrolls my mouse thanks you

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Police: Dad's 'How To Party' Lesson Kills Son
Father Charged With Murder

POSTED: Sunday, August 3, 2008
Steven Alfano
Hernando County Sheriff's Office booking photo of Steven Alfano
SPRING HILL, Fla. -- A Gulf Coast man was charged with murder after he said he gave his 15-year-old son powerful prescription drugs because he wanted the boy to know "how to party right."

Steven Alfano was charged with third-degree murder after son Vincent died of an accidental overdose in June.



Witnesses said the 47-year-old Spring Hill man showed his son how to crush and snort pills like the painkiller oxycodone and the heroin substitute methadone.

Alfano was arrested Friday and is being held without bail in the Hernando County Jail.

Officials did not know if he had a lawyer.

The father initially told police he kept the medications locked away so no one else could get them.

Alfano later told two of Vincent's friends that he knowingly gave the drugs to his son to teach him to party. The conversation was recorded by police.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/17082405/detail.html

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snip from article:  Crystal says this about Misty:

SHEFFIELD: Well, for one, Haleigh is missing. And there`s a 17-year- old girl watching them. And she`s practically a child herself. And I mean, I just -- I don`t feel safe with them there.

I understand her misgivings with what has occurred, but wasn't Crystal 17 when she had Haleigh? practically a child herself as well?

I do understand how she must feel about it though...even if Misty was 27 and as flaky as she is, I  would not  feel safe with my kids being left in her care either, especially after what has happened with little Haleigh...

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Heart, Geez, I scrolled up after posting and I go face to face with that mug that you posted!!! my eyes...my eyes...
what a homely goon!

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I hope I don't make anyone mad , been catching up . All ths orbs and astrology
is kind of Xfile . 

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snip from article:  Crystal says this about Misty:

SHEFFIELD: Well, for one, Haleigh is missing. And there`s a 17-year- old girl watching them. And she`s practically a child herself. And I mean, I just -- I don`t feel safe with them there.

I understand her misgivings with what has occurred, but wasn't Crystal 17 when she had Haleigh? practically a child herself as well?

I do understand how she must feel about it though...even if Misty was 27 and as flaky as she is, I  would not  feel safe with my kids being left in her care either, especially after what has happened with little Haleigh...

i understand what you are saying, but if (and I think she was) Crystal was 17 when she started having children she probably grew up with the children. Crystal is no longer 17, so I can (kinda) see her point.

IMO both parents need to grow up, but I do understand her arguments with Misty being the caregiver for her children, Crystal is only like 2 years younger than Ron, they grew up together and then apart, all the while their children were growing up.