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NANCY GRACE

Misty Croslin Pleads Not Guilty to Drug Charges

Aired March 9, 2010 - 20:00:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight. Satsuma, Florida, a 5- year-old girl taken to bed, five hours later, she`s gone. Daddy comes home from the night shift to find not a trace of little Haleigh. Last person to see her alive, new stepmother Misty Croslin, who takes to the airwaves, claiming she`s innocent. But even in one brief interview, she can`t keep her story straight, including a 180 on a lie detector she flunked. Little Haleigh`s own father, Ronald Cummings, and baby-sitter-turned-stepmother Misty Croslin both handcuffed, arrested, booked. Charges, drug trafficking.

Bombshell tonight. Misty Croslin pleads not guilty, even after being caught on video admitting to repeated drug sales. Tonight, we obtain even more secretly recorded jailhouse tapes, Croslin complaining about everything from food to the TV and the movies piped into the jail to her mattress and all of her ailments. She spent nearly $400 -- $400 in one month alone on snack food. And all the time Haleigh`s been missing, knowing full well the cameras are rolling, Croslin finally asks for a photo of Haleigh, complaining the police "F`d up" everything, her relationship, her life. Croslin obsessed with news coverage of herself.

In a stunning twist, we hear Croslin admitting she, quote, "can`t bring Haleigh home." As police comb these jailhouse tapes for clues as to the girl`s whereabouts, tonight, where is 5-year-old Haleigh?

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LISA CROSLIN, MISTY`S MOTHER: And when I leave here, I`m going to go by Lindsey`s and get them pictures for you.

MISTY CROSLIN, HALEIGH`S BABY-SITTER: Yes.

LISA CROSLIN: Of Haleigh and Junior.

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, I want one of Haleigh and Junior and one of Ronald.

LISA CROSLIN: All right. I`ll get them all to you.

MISTY CROSLIN: I mean, I still love him, Mama.

LISA CROSLIN: Huh?

MISTY CROSLIN: I still love him.

LISA CROSLIN: I know you do, baby.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: I mean, I prayed, and that`s all I can do. And you know, people are saying I`m not -- I don`t think about Haleigh. You can ask everybody in this cellblock right here, right now. Everybody in this block knows that I think about her all the time. I talk about her all the time.

LISA CROSLIN: I know.

MISTY CROSLIN: They may think they got us right now, but we`re going to do our time because we`re not scared to do our time. We`re going to do our time and we`re going to get out and we`re going to prove to them that we`re not these horrible people that they think we are. I`m not no drug dealer, you know? Nothing like that. They can kiss my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) about that (EXPLETIVE DELETED)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: Sorry, $190.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: $190?

RONALD CUMMINGS, HALEIGH`S FATHER: Yes, $7 apiece. It`s actually $189.

MISTY CROSLIN: Well, yes, it`s $189.

RONALD CUMMINGS: For 27 of them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For 27 of them?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. OK. All right.

MISTY CROSLIN: You`re going to have to probably give me your money right here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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LISA CROSLIN: They had me and you talking...

MISTY CROSLIN: And I cry. I cry all the time about Haleigh, pray all the time about Haleigh.

LISA CROSLIN: Yes, I know.

MISTY CROSLIN: So they can all kiss my ass.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. Misty Croslin pleads not guilty even after being caught on video admitting to repeated drug sales. Tonight, we obtain even more of secretly recorded jailhouse tapes.

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MISTY CROSLIN: You know, and it`s, like, you know, what really, like, hurts is, like, we were -- me and him were talking about it -- we were getting back together and stuff. And like, the cops (EXPLETIVE DELETED) everything up.

LISA CROSLIN: Yes. I know. That`s what they were trying to do.

MISTY CROSLIN: You know, I was staying with -- I stayed at his house. He picked me up every day.

LISA CROSLIN: Yes.

MISTY CROSLIN: He told me that if I didn`t love him, the only way I could prove that I loved him was this tattoo, and I got this tattoo because I did really love him. And I don`t regret my tattoo at all. I love my tattoo.

LISA CROSLIN: I think it`s cool, too. I like it.

MISTY CROSLIN: And I will never cover it up because that`s my -- like, Rob was my first love, of course, but Ronald was, like, the one, you know?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: There`s a picture, Mama. I don`t know, I think it`s in my black bag. It`s me and Ronald in New York. And it`s us in our -- me in my pink jacket and him in his black jacket and his hat, and we`re, like, kissing or something.

LISA CROSLIN: No, I don`t know. I haven`t seen it.

MISTY CROSLIN: I know.

LISA CROSLIN: I`ll look for it, though.

MISTY CROSLIN: Well, I really want to see what he looks like, so I got to get a good picture of him and that`s a really good picture.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: I got all my food! Oh, my God! It was like Christmas last night.

LISA CROSLIN: Was it? Did you get a lot of stuff?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes. I got some (EXPLETIVE DELETED) munchies, man.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: Nancy Grace, go eat your chicken nuggets and let us eat our jail food. But she think she eats better than -- we eat better than her. She just to come in here and want to eat our food and see if she -- if we eat better than her.

LISA CROSLIN: What all did you order?

MISTY CROSLIN: Chips and honeybuns.

LISA CROSLIN: I knew that was going to be the first thing come out your mouth.

(LAUGHTER)

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, chips and honeybuns and all kinds of stuff.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Are they still talking about food? Today Croslin enters a not guilty plea to drug trafficking, some of the most serious drug charges that one can face. This isn`t possession of drugs. This isn`t a single sale. This is drugs in the amount of drug trafficking.

Straight out to Art Harris, investigative journalist at Artharris.com. What`s the latest, Art?

ART HARRIS, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: Nancy, as you said, her lawyer, Robert Fields, entered a plea of not guilty, a written plea. She did not appear yesterday in St. John`s County court. She is saying she had nothing to do with these drug trafficking charges that we have seen caught on tape, Nancy.

And now in jail, she is full of complaints. Her mother is talking to her -- actually, because her mother has served a little time for another charge -- on how to survive jail with the jail food. They`re talking about how to get salt off pretzels to season certain items.

GRACE: I want to go out to Marlaina Schiavo, our producer on the story. Marlaina, we hear Misty Croslin on these secretly recorded jailhouse tapes, the one we have just obtained today, complaining about everything from her bed mattress to the food behind bars.

I remember one night here on the show, I was talking about the twins had dropped chicken nuggets from Chick-Fil-A in the car and I ate some. They`re still talking about that. They`re still talking about that, versus what they eat behind bars.

Now, is it true that she has spent nearly $400 -- I don`t know who`s sending her this money -- in one month alone, in about 28 days, on junk food?

MARLAINA SCHIAVO, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: She has spent $341 in one month, Nancy, on junk food, hand lotion, pencils, pads, stamps, anything. But also, Nancy, aside from talking about food, she`s also bragging...

GRACE: Not just what they`re eating, what I`m eating! What universe are they living in? They are looking at 130 years behind bars unless somebody talks about what happened to that 5-year-old little girl. That`s what this is about. This isn`t whether she orders plain or barbecue chips. This is about what happened to 5-year-old Haleigh.

She was there in the home. You took us to the home, Marlaina Schiavo. You walked us through the whole thing. Liz, pull me that footage of Marlaina in the home. Misty Croslin says she goes to sleep, wakes up just a couple of hours later, and the girl is gone. Gone. A 5-year-old girl vanishes out of her own bed, and she knows nothing about it? Then this freaky dream sequence she says she has about four men being there in the home that night. Who? What four men? And then trying to blame a cousin, a cousin that left town when Haleigh went missing?

What else do you know, Marlaina?

SCHIAVO: Nancy, she actually knows more than what we`re hearing. I mean, cops have said that she`s had inconsistent statements, but just recently in these newly released videos, we`re hearing, Nancy, that she knows more. She`s telling family members that what she has to say is going to hurt two people. She doesn`t specify who those two people are, but she`s indicating that she knows something and she has something to say.

GRACE: Oh, you know what? Back to -- let me go to Jean Casarez, legal correspondent, In Session. You know what? I don`t think I`ve heard a bigger line of BS. That`s a technical legal term, Jean. I don`t know if they taught you that in your law school. That she`s going to hurt two people? BS! Because she`s already ratted out her own brother on felony burglary for no reason whatsoever.

JEAN CASAREZ, IN SESSION: You know, Nancy, I see a totally different state of mind in these brand-new tapes that you have just gotten. The previous tapes, she never made one mention of Haleigh, not one mention. It wasn`t discussed. Now it`s a focal point of many of these tapes. She`s now saying all she does is think about and cry about...

GRACE: Oh, really, Jean?

CASAREZ: ... and talk about Haleigh to all of her cellmates.

GRACE: Because I`ve never seen her cry one time, including when Ronald Cummings was literally down on his knees, wailing, crying about Haleigh. She was just standing there.

CASAREZ: But now...

GRACE: Like nothing had happened.

CASAREZ: But she realizes that the camera is rolling, and I think now she believes, I`ve really got to talk about Haleigh because this shows I know nothing. And as far as cellmates, those can be jailhouse snitches. We all know that from trials. She may know that because she says all of her cellmates know about her thoughts of Haleigh.

GRACE: We`re taking your calls live. Straight out to the lines. Let`s go to Diane in Florida. Hi, Diane.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy.

GRACE: Hi, dear. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why was Haleigh with the baby-sitter and not her biological mom the night she went missing?

GRACE: Well, I can answer that one. Diane in Florida, the bio mom, Crystal Sheffield, did not have custody, lost custody of Haleigh and Ronald Cummings, Jr., the smaller boy. She`ll tell you it`s because the judge says she didn`t have a job, but I`ve never seen a mother lose custody because she didn`t have a job, all right? Right now, Ronald Cummings, Jr., is back with the mother. And we`ll go and I`ll give you a report on how that`s going.

Back out to the lines. Caroline in Michigan. Hi, Caroline.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy.

GRACE: Hi, dear. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You`re a godsend. And if I ever go missing, I tell my husband, call you.

GRACE: God forbid. Yes, you know what? I will come to Michigan and make a cameo appearance if you ever go missing, Caroline. And I`ll tell you another thing. If you go missing, you can tell your husband he better go hide under the bed because I`m coming!

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right.

GRACE: What`s your question, love.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want to know, are you 100 percent convinced that Ronald knows nothing about this little girl of his? I just don`t understand him running with her and drug dealing.

GRACE: The only thing that I don`t really understand, Caroline, is them fraternizing, and more than fraternizing, after Haleigh goes missing because he told me himself that a lot of her story didn`t fit together.

Let`s go out to Leonard Padilla, bounty hunter, who has offered to bail Misty Croslin out of jail if she`ll shed light on where little Haleigh is. Of course, she hasn`t taken him up on that offer.

You have been behind the scenes in this case, as well as tot mom Casey Anthony`s case. What`s your take on Ronald Cummings? To me, his grief seemed genuine, and he absolutely has an alibi for the time she went missing.

LEONARD PADILLA, BOUNTY HUNTER: I spoke to Ron several times when I was in Satsuma. In fact, there was one time I sat next to him while he was getting ready to go on your show. And he seemed genuine, but there was always something there that bothered me as to whether he had done something that had caused the little girl to be kidnapped because -- possibly actions that he had, you know, taken or a drug deal gone sour, something to that effect. So there`s always been something in the back of my mind, but I can`t -- I can`t really focus on it and say this is where Ron is wrong or lying about...

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LISA CROSLIN: Is everybody in y`all`s block cool?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.

LISA CROSLIN: OK.

MISTY CROSLIN: If they ain`t cool, they get up out of our residence. This is our residence. If they ain`t cool, we be making them -- we get the guards to get them out of here.

(LAUGHTER)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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HANK CROSLIN, MISTY`S FATHER: Has your lawyer called or seen you?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yesterday. I seen him yesterday.

HANK CROSLIN: Any good news?

MISTY CROSLIN: I mean, just, you know, whatever -- Doing the best we can. I take a shower right before...

HANK CROSLIN: Don`t think he`s not -- don`t think he`s not working for you. He`s working for you.

MISTY CROSLIN: Oh, he is. I know he is. And I was just upset the other day because the day it was -- it was the 9th, and I was upset and I just wanted out of here. But now I don`t want him to -- I don`t want nobody to bail me out unless -- I mean, if someone bails me out, that`s fine. I`ll get out, whatever, you know? But no strings attached.

If they`re going to want to talk to me, then no, don`t bail me out because I`m actually right now -- I`m serving time right now, you know? I`ve been here 23 days. I am serving time on my sentence. So I`m going to see if I can try to get, like, drug court or something. I don`t know if I can or not, but I`m going to try.

HANK CROSLIN: You got to have money to do that.

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, I know.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: I asked them not to play the news tonight because it was a hard enough day for me today. So what do they do? Play the news. And they talk (EXPLETIVE DELETED) about me.

TIMMY CROSLIN, MISTY`S BROTHER: (INAUDIBLE) Did you watch Nancy?

MISTY CROSLIN: No. We watched the news, Action News.

TIMMY CROSLIN: What`d they say?

MISTY CROSLIN: That I`m still the key, and yes, they don`t have enough to arrest me on and all that (EXPLETIVE DELETED). So I`m just -- I went to a counselor today because I specifically asked them, Please do not play the news. Today is a very bad day for me. Tomorrow`s going to be a bad day for me, too, OK? So I asked them just please -- OK? I mean, how hard is it to -- you know?

TIMMY CROSLIN: Yes, that`s messed up.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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LISA CROSLIN: They won`t let you under your blankets until 8:00 o`clock?

MISTY CROSLIN: I get under my blankets. I`ve been under them all day and yesterday. It`s only when you have the rude guards. Like, there`s some guards that I think have something against me here sometimes.

LISA CROSLIN: There probably is.

MISTY CROSLIN: And I told my lawyer about it yesterday when he come and seen me. I told him.

LISA CROSLIN: What did he say?

MISTY CROSLIN: He told me to write -- you know, get a thing and write them -- write to the jail, and he was going to stand behind me because it`s not right, you know?

LISA CROSLIN: No, it`s not.

MISTY CROSLIN: Like, they wouldn`t even give me a razor, Mom.

LISA CROSLIN: If one gets one, they all should.

MISTY CROSLIN: Ever since I`ve been here, they`ve been giving me razors, OK? And all of a sudden yesterday, I wasn`t allowed to have a razor? Now, come on. That`s ridiculous.

LISA CROSLIN: Yes. Well, when you get them, after you use them, you have to turn them back in to them, right?

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes. Yes. And it`s not like I`m on suicide watch.

LISA CROSLIN: See, I don`t see what the problem is.

MISTY CROSLIN: You know, I`m not on no kind of watch or anything.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Gee, I hate it that she`s not getting to watch what she wants to watch on TV.

We are taking your calls live. Let`s unleash the lawyers. Joining us tonight, Anna Sega Nikkolazzi (ph) joining us out of New York, Mark Nejame, renowned defense attorney out of Orlando, a specialist in Florida law, attorney for Texas Equusearch founder Tim Miller, and with us tonight, defense attorney in the Atlanta jurisdiction Raymond Giudice.

Mr. Nejame, did you hear her complaining that she didn`t get to watch what she wanted to watch on TV?

MARK NEJAME, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I heard it. And I don`t know why somebody who knows that they`re being recorded is talking. I just -- it baffles me how she talks and talks and then talks some more. Shut up.

GRACE: And the other thing, Ray Giudice, I wonder if the state`s going to find a way to use this at trial. I think if I thought on it long enough, I could.

RAYMOND GIUDICE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes, I think you could.

GRACE: Now it`s been -- wait. It`s been over a year since little Haleigh went missing, and now, now that she`s figured out the camera`s rolling, or possibly rolling when she`s talking, she suddenly wants a photo of Haleigh after all this time, and tries to convince the relative, I cry, I pray.

GIUDICE: Listen, I think her lawyer is doing a good job. And you`ve seen even she`s understanding he is. But let me just say this much. The videotape where she is doing a drug pill count with the confidential informant is going to be what`s going to convict her, not her cookie count at the jail commissary. So while all this stuff is interesting and I think it makes people upset as to how she`s responding, if I`m in the district attorney`s office...

GRACE: You know what, Ray?

GIUDICE: ... it`s those videotapes that get me a conviction.

GRACE: It may mean nothing to you, but -- to you, Anna Sega -- her attitude behind bars says a lot to me.

ANNA SEGA NIKKOLAZZI, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Oh, it absolutely does. As a prosecutor, I`m going to love having those tapes, and I`m quite sure they`ll be able to use them in some way because it tells a lot about who she is. And it`s as much what she doesn`t say as what she does. She is manipulative. She is playing for the cameras. And I think it`s all going to work against her in the end.

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TOMMY CROSLIN, MISTY`S BROTHER: I love her, but I don`t know why she`s doing all that stupid (EXPLETIVE DELETED) she`s doing.

LINDSEY CROSLIN, TOMMY`S WIFE: It doesn`t matter. The truth -- the truth will set everybody free.

TOMMY CROSLIN: I ain`t worried about it because I ain`t got nothing to do with it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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MISTY CROSLIN: Look at my picture. Did you see this picture?

LISA CROSLIN: Let me see. Yes, I got it. Was you in a black hoodie when they arrested you?

MISTY CROSLIN: No.

LISA CROSLIN: Because in the paper, it looks like you had a black hoodie on.

MISTY CROSLIN: Oh, that was in Putnam County. They just put the blue shirt over me. I look terrible in that picture.

LISA CROSLIN: I know. You look like a zombie there.

(LAUGHTER)

LISA CROSLIN: Because I was so upset. I was crying. I was pale, you know? And then when I got here, I was just, like, over it, you know?

LISA CROSLIN: Yes.

MISTY CROSLIN: I already knew I was going jail, so I was over it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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MISTY CROSLIN: I ordered two -- like, two pairs of socks, and they only gave me one pair. They messed up my order. They got to put my money back on my account.

LISA CROSLIN: Well, make sure they put your money back.

MISTY CROSLIN: They`re going to, believe me.

LISA CROSLIN: Yes. Because that`s not right if they didn`t give you your stuff.

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes.

LISA CROSLIN: What all did you order?

MISTY CROSLIN: Chips and honeybuns.

LISA CROSLIN: I knew that was going to be the first thing to come out your mouth!

(LAUGHTER)

MISTY CROSLIN: Yes, chips and honeybuns and all kinds of stuff.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Four hundred dollars, nearly four hundred dollars on junk food. Remember, breakfast, lunch, dinner paid for, courtesy you and me. Patricia Saunders, Dr. Saunders, clinical psychologist, is this an aftereffect of coming down off drugs or what?

PATRICIA SAUNDERS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Well, it could be an aftereffect of coming down off sugar since she`s eating all this junk food. But you know, on the one hand, Nancy, she knows she`s being recorded. On the other hand, the real person does come through with this kind of inane babbling. The kind of callousness and selfishness that was revealed in comments about what she looked like in the black hoodie are really kind of chilling and say a lot about who she is.

GRACE: But what do you make of her suddenly asking for a photo of Haleigh and going on and on about how she prays and cries, but we`ve never seen her pray or cry or show any emotion about Haleigh`s disappearance.

SAUNDERS: I think her lawyer probably coached her.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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HANK CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S FATHER: I told you, you`d like it there.

MISTY CROSLIN-CUMMINGS, RONALD CUMMING`S EX-WIFE, LAST SEEN HALEIGH: I don`t like it here. And I`ll never come back to jail. One place I`ll never come back to. This is not a joke.

They torture -- it`s like torture in this place. I mean, really, it`s not bad but when you`re locked down, like I`m locked down, it sucks. Like you can`t do anything. Like I try to walk around and walk. And back and forth, like, you can take four steps and you`re at the bench. Take four steps back and you`re at the wall.

Like I want to just run.

(LAUGHTER)

M. CROSLIN: Like get out and run. Do some cartwheels and -- that`s why when I`m going to go out to break if -- when we ever have break again, I`m going to go out. I know it`s cold but I`m still going to go out there just for some fresh air.

It`s hard being locked down and they won`t let me out.

LISA CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S MOTHER: We called Leonard last night and he`s going to call us back sometime day.

M. CROSLIN: So what is he saying?

L. CROSLIN: Huh?

M. CROSLIN: What is he saying?

L. CROSLIN: He said the only way he`s going to get you out is if you help him find out what happened to Haleigh?

M. CROSLIN: So how am I going to do that if he don`t help me get out?

L. CROSLIN: Huh?

M. CROSLIN: So how am I going to do that if he don`t help me get out?

L. CROSLIN: I know, baby. He knows that. He`s going to call us back sometime today, he said.

H. CROSLIN: Tried to call him?

L. CROSLIN: Have you tried to call him?

M. CROSLIN: No.

L. CROSLIN: Let me give you his phone number.

M. CROSLIN: I don`t have a pencil.

H. CROSLIN: Misty, I don`t know if it`s a good idea because I don`t want you to lose your lawyer.

M. CROSLIN: All right. What is he saying though?

H. CROSLIN: He just says that --

L. CROSLIN: (INAUDIBLE)

H. CROSLIN: The only way he`s going to get you out is if you tell him where Haleigh is and bring Haleigh home.

M. CROSLIN: I can`t just bring her home, you know?

My back hurts so bad. I`m going to take some ibuprofen.

TIMMY CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S BROTHER: What are you laying on? What kind of bed you got?

M. CROSLIN: Like a -- well, I`m in a room now that has bunk beds but nobody else can go in my room anyways, but because I`m in protective custody but it`s like a mat.

T. CROSLIN: Yes.

M. CROSLIN: Yes.

T. CROSLIN: So you got -- in your room you got bunk beds?

M. CROSLIN: Yes.

T. CROSLIN: But no one -- you sleep on the bottom?

M. CROSLIN: Yes. I sleep on the bottom.

T. CROSLIN: No one is in your room with you? Misty?

M. CROSLIN: What?

T. CROSLIN: No one is in your room with you?

M. CROSLIN: No. Nobody is allowed to. I`m in protective custody. Like I`m special. Like when I go down to the doctor, they call it special needs. I`m a special need person. Nobody can be around me.

H. CROSLIN: Nancy Grace is a bitch one time.

L. CROSLIN: What?

H. CROSLIN: Nancy Grace is a bitch one time.

M. CROSLIN: Nancy Grace is a bitch one time. Nancy Grace can kiss my ass one time.

L. CROSLIN: I know, right?

M. CROSLIN: Nancy Grace, go eat your chicken nuggets and let us eat our jail food but she thinks she eats better -- we eat better than her, she just come in her and let her eat out food and see what we eat is better than hers.

H. CROSLIN: (INAUDIBLE)

M. CROSLIN: I wish I could have three chicken nuggets.

(LAUGHTER)

M. CROSLIN: What?

H. CROSLIN: (INAUDIBLE)

M. CROSLIN: What did he say?

L. CROSLIN: He said her twins must have dropped them.

M. CROSLIN: Yes, her twins must have dropped them.

H. CROSLIN: Because she said she found them in the car. Found three chicken nuggets in the car. That`s all I had for lunch.

M. CROSLIN: Yes, OK.

H. CROSLIN: Probably had steak and potatoes.

M. CROSLIN: That`s what I`m saying. I wish I could have some steak and potatoes.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

NANCY GRACE, HOST: I wish you did, too, so you could quit talking about what you eat.

OK. Out to the lines, Kim in California. Hi, Kim.

KIM, CALLER FROM CALIFORNIA: Hi, Nancy. I`m thankful that I finally got through to you.

GRACE: And thank you for watching and for calling in. What`s your question, dear?

KIM: I think you`re awesome. Well, first of all, I have a question and a comment. My question is that I just wanted to ask you in the beginning of the case I know that they stumbled upon a scent by a lake or a pond, and I wanted to know if they ever followed up with that?

And my comment is that sometimes Misty acts like she`s in denial of where she`s at and that is in jail and that there are rules that she has to obey. It`s not her little world anymore. And I think she`s in denial when it comes to that.

GRACE: You know, that`s a good point. What about it, Dr. Saunders?

PATRICIA SAUNDERS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: I think she certainly sounds like she`s in denial. But it may have more to do with her character because she sure sounds like a nasty, spoiled little adolescent.

GRACE: OK, Dr. Saunders, does she looked stoned to you? I mean I know that she asked to go to sick bay to get Zoloft or Prozac or something, claiming that she was nervous. I mean I`d be nervous too if I was looking at drug trafficking charges of 130 years behind bars.

I heard she say she`s done 23 days on that 130 years. OK. But her demeanor, she looks stoned.

SAUNDERS: Yes, she looks like she`s got some kind of alteration in consciousness. It`s possible that she was taking a psycho-tropic (ph) med and that she`s coming off with it and getting withdrawal. But there`s something clearly wrong there, Nancy.

GRACE: OK, Art Harris, I did not realize that she has a private room and is treated as special need and goes around saying, I`m special. I just heard her say that. And out of two beds she can`t find one that`s comfortable? She`s got a bunk bed and neither one -- it`s like the "Princess and the Pea."

ART HARRIS, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST, WWW.ARTHARRIS.COM: That`s right, Nancy. And the thing is, though, she is very delighted, though, with the upper bunk because that`s where she watches television from and she says it`s a great seat. Best seat in the house.

GRACE: OK. Good to know. Out to the lines, Denise in Canada. Hi, dear.

DENISE, CALLER FROM CANADA: Hi, Nancy. I just want to say I wish we had someone like you up here. It`d be great.

GRACE: Denise, I appreciate that. I`m going to save that. And when the twins turn 16 and they hate me, I`m going to play that for them.

DENISE: They`re not going to hate you.

(LAUGHTER)

GRACE: What`s your question, love?

DENISE: Well, I have a comment and then a question.

GRACE: OK.

DENISE: My comment is that Misty Croslin -- she`s obviously been into drugs for a while and I really think that the night that that little girl went missing that she was doing drugs, and if she was doing the narcotics that she was doing, she could have been in a state of just completely out of it. Almost comatose.

And I really think it`s possible that somebody could have come into that home and taken that child and she didn`t even know or she`s very, very faint on the memories of it. And I really think that she really doesn`t know what`s happened.

And I`m wondering if she could possibly be regressed because these kind of drugs will do this to you.

GRACE: Out to Mark Nejame, defense attorney. He`s a specialist in Florida law.

Mark, that evening she had been on a three-day drunk and drug binge. But se had come back home to Ronald Cummings. They had had conversations. She said she did laundry that night.

Every -- I mean her explanation for that evening and when she was on the phone with 911 she sounded completely coherent.

MARK NEJAME, DEFENSE ATTORNEY, ATTORNEY FOR TEXAS EQUUSEARCH FOUNDER, TIM MILLER: Yes, I agree. Her statements have been riddled with inconsistencies and the last caller has a very popular theory which has been adopted by many. I just don``t buy it, though. The phone call she sounded sane and sober. When the police responded she appeared to be that way.

There`s nothing to indicate that she was in drug induced haze other than some theories but when you look at her, when you listen to her, there`s a disconnect there. I believe that she knows something and she was conscious and she is just holding back. I`m just not convinced.

GRACE: Well, that`s -- I`m with you. And to you, Art Harris, investigative journalist. The fact that she flunked, outright flunked her polygraph, if she had no memory, I don`t believe she would have flunked the polygraph.

It was deceptive. In other words she was actively lying in the polygraph about that night.

HARRIS: That`s right, Nancy. And I can tell you that my sources say she has told police something about that night but then they believe part of it. They don`t believe all of it. But they still believe she knows something very significant.

GRACE: Well, I find -- to me it`s very persuasive that she wasn`t just -- it wasn`t just inconsistent. Her lie detector, she flunked miserably.

Everyone, we`re taking your calls live. To tonight`s "Case Alert." Amber alert. To little boys missing. Kidnapped. Illinois. In the last hour. J-Marcus Upchurch, 4-year-old Terry Smith, snatched from their Decatur, Illinois home.

The infant boy, black hair, brown eye, last seen with the blue jeans one-piece jumper. Look at this precious child. The 4-year-old, black hair, brown eyes, last seen wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans.

Police on the lookout for two adult males. Dark clothing, silver car, Missouri tags. If you have information, please call Decatur, Illinois police. 217-424-2711.

And tonight we ask for your prayers for high schooler Trey Rude battling stage 4 melanoma. A high school senior be, a football star, says he will beat cancer. For info go to prayfortrey.org.

Also the annual Jog for a Cause fighting childhood cancer benefiting Trey Rude Fund. Saturday, March 13th, Alpharetta, Georgia.

Trey, please stay strong.

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L. CROSLIN: I wish we could get you out of there.

M. CROSLIN: It`s all right. I mean I`m doing time right now. It`s added time.

L. CROSLIN: I bet you got some friends in there.

M. CROSLIN: Yes, it`s like, you know, me being in here, if I could get out, yes, I`d love to get out, of course. But I`m not going to (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Leonard and I`m not doing that because, you know, all he wants is something. And I`m not -- there`s nothing to give him.

L. CROSLIN: That`s what Robert Fields told me, too.

M. CROSLIN: And if -- you know, I get out and someone bails me out, then that`s whatever. That`s fine. But I`m --

L. CROSLIN: As long as there`s no -- no attachments?

M. CROSLIN: Yes.

L. CROSLIN: On it, you know?

M. CROSLIN: And right now I`ve been in here 22 days or, what, 23 days?

L. CROSLIN: Twenty-three.

M. CROSLIN: Twenty-three days. And that`s time on my, you know, on my sentence already.

L. CROSLIN: Yes. So you`re not scared now, right?

M. CROSLIN: No. I`m not scared. It just -- it sucks being in here. And I get bored. I`m tired of just looking at the same thing. You know?

CHELSEA CROSLIN, MISTY CROSLIN`S SISTER-IN-LAW: Tomorrow they`re going to be doing that big thing for Haleigh.

M. CROSLIN: Yes, I know.

C. CROSLIN: I don`t know what it is.

M. CROSLIN: It`s at 6:00. I wonder if I can get out and call my mom and them when they`re there.

C. CROSLIN: I think tomorrow night around --

M. CROSLIN: Six.

C. CROSLIN: Six.

M. CROSLIN: Yes. I wonder if I could call my mom when they`re there when they`re praying.

C. CROSLIN: Yes, you know. I pray for her every day.

M. CROSLIN: I pray for her every day. Day and night. I pray all the time. Like just get this over with, you know?

When I first got here I was on medical watch because when I went to talk to the detectives and I smoked a couple of cigarettes, and I didn`t smoke a cigarette in a couple of days and I come back to room, I passed out, I fell off the toilet and passed out and fell onto ground. They had to put me --

L. CROSLIN: Oh, no.

M. CROSLIN: Yes.

L. CROSLIN: Oh, no. I didn`t know that.

M. CROSLIN: Yes.

(LAUGHTER)

M. CROSLIN: Well, I didn`t really pass out. I just, like, fainted for a minute. And I come right back when I hit the ground.

L. CROSLIN: That fall made you come back to.

M. CROSLIN: It did.

(LAUGHTER)

M. CROSLIN: You know, it`s like, you know, what really hurts is, like, we were -- me and him were talking about, we were getting back together and stuff, and like the cops --

L. CROSLIN: Yes, I know.

M. CROSLIN: (EXPLETIVE DELETED) everything up.

L. CROSLIN: Yes. That`s what they were trying to do.

M. CROSLIN: You know I was staying with -- I stayed at his house. He picked me up every day.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: So here you hear Misty Croslin talking about she and Ronald Cummings, little Haleigh`s father, making plans to get back together and the cops f`d it all up by arresting her.

To Bill Majeski, former NYPD detective, now private detective, Majeski Associates, Inc.

Bill, thank you for being with us. Bill, with a case like this, where can cops go now?

BILL MAJESKI, FMR. NYPD DETECTIVE, MAJESKI ASSOCIATES, INC.: OK, the case is a year old. Usually in cases that are extended to this period of time without a resolution, it`s best to go back to the beginning with a fresh set of eyes.

Go back. There is usually things that occurred, information that came to pass early on in the investigation that was insignificant at that point in time, but now looking back at it, it will probably be an important element in the whole investigative process.

So I think it would be a good thing for them to go back and review the case from day one. And usually in situations like that, they will come up with information that becomes very beneficial.

Now in terms of her talking to her parents or mother and other relatives in anticipation of her giving up some information -- listen, she spent her entire life talking to family members giving them a con job that they bought hook, line and sinker. She`s not going to stop doing that now.

She`s going to tell them whatever she wants and they kind of believe her. I don`t expect any kind of revelation coming out of conversations with family members over the telephone.

If at all, if the parents were willing to cooperate with the police, then clearly the police can create some kind of a dialogue for the mother to ask specific questions relating to a particular area.

GRACE: Good point. With me, Bill Majeski.

To Dr. Marty Makary, physician and professor of public health, Johns Hopkins. She says she passes out from smoking a cigarette? I don`t think so, Dr. Marty. And she looks stoned out of her gourd. All right?

DR. MARTY MAKARY, PHYSICIAN, PROF. OF PUBLIC HEALTH, JOHNS HOPKINS: It really sounds like alcohol abuse, maybe alcohol abuse and narcotic use. I mean it`s not --

GRACE: Behind bars?

MAKARY: Well, there`s no way you can get drugs in any jail in this country, I`m convinced. But there`s no way it`s just from cigarettes. It`s something beyond simple cigarettes. We know there`s a long standing narcotic history and we know these are highly addictive medications.

You know there is a reason why you can get up to 25 years in jail for falsifying a oxycodone or hydrocodone prescription. They kill people. People pass out when they have withdrawal symptoms and they`re very dangerous medications.

GRACE: Let`s unleash the lawyers. We are taking your calls.

To Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi, Mark Nejame, Raymond Giudice. Ray, we also hear her go on to say she`s getting all sorts of mail behind bars and that she may write some of the people back so they`ll send her money. I guess so she can get more junk food.

But my question is, since the state is going to have to pay for her defense attorney, why does she get to spend that money on honey buns and barbecue chips?

RAY GIUDICE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: She`s being treated exactly as every prisoner in that jail in prison --

GRACE: No, then why does anybody get to spend that money from the public?

GIUDICE: You should ask -- you should ask the jailer and the sheriff that runs it. I don`t. She`s got a certain amount of --

GRACE: That`s your answer.

GIUDICE: Yes. I mean don`t run the jail. Ask the jailer. He`s elected. Or she`s elected.

GRACE: OK, what about it, Mark Nejame.

GIUDICE: That`s the rules.

NEJAME: He`s right. She`s being treated the same as everybody else in jail right now. And I think it`s important --

(CROSSTALK)

GRACE: I didn`t ask that.

NEJAME: And I think it`s important that she does be treated that way.

GRACE: To me it doesn`t seem right that she cons money out of people she writes. She gets money and spends it on $400 worth of snack food in one month, Anna-Sigga, when we`re having to pay her bill.

ANNA-SIGGA NICOLAZZI, PROSECUTOR: Exactly. And why if she has all of this extra money, do -- maybe giving it to a fund that can go look for Haleigh. Maybe do something productive with that money rather than getting honey buns and chips all day long.

GRACE: OK, tonight secretly recorded jailhouse video and we learn Misty Croslin pleads not guilty to charges.

As we go to break, happy birthday to one of our stars, newly wed, Eunah. Here she is on her recent wedding.

Happy birthday, Eunah.

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GRACE: Straight out to Florida attorney, Mark Nejame.

Mark, did you hear her talking about tried to get into drug court? What does that mean?

NEJAME: She has no chance whatsoever of getting into drug court. Unless those roads are cut off and she starts to understand that, drug court is not an option, probation is not an option, and she`s looking at a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison. She`s holding on to hope. And I don`t think there`s any chance of breaking her or cracking her or getting the truth until she realizes that 25 is where it starts, not where it ends.

GRACE: Art Harris, final thought?

HARRIS: Final thought is, Nancy, the hammer has yet to fall on her. And you`re going to see some big fireworks between the district attorney and the judge and then she will face the truth.

GRACE: What do you mean the hammer hasn`t fallen yet -- that she doesn`t get it? She thinks she`s going to go to drug court.

HARRIS: She doesn`t get it -- yes.

GRACE: Which is typically for addicts or users or one-time sale. You get probation, treatment and you`re out of there. That`s not going to happen.

HARRIS: Experts think that it`s not going to -- she`s not going to have a wakeup call until she gets the sentence that you`ve been discussing.

GRACE: To Jean Casarez with "In Session." Jean, we`ve all listened to the newly released jailhouse recordings. What strikes you the most, Jean?

JEAN CASAREZ, CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": What strikes me is the difference in demeanor. I agree with what Art Harris just said. I think she is enjoying jail at the moment, primarily because of all the things she`s buying at the commissary.

She says she`s a star in the jail. She`s the star Misty Croslin. Art is right, I think the hammer will fall but she right now is enjoying her time.

GRACE: You know we have so much to play, Jean. We didn`t get to play that tonight, where she goes on about how she is a star.

CASAREZ: That is right. That is exactly right. She is loving this. But she also is saying that she has nothing to say about anything, but I think that she`s not facing the reality and the reality is -- she`s a star.

GRACE: And to California bounty hunter, Leonard Padilla, joining us out of Sacramento.

So you heard it yourself, Leonard, where she has a few choice words for you and says, absolutely, I`m not going to take bond from somebody who has strings attached, in other words, wants me to tell the truth about Haleigh. No way. That really struck a nerve with me.

LEONARD PADILLA, BOUNTY HUNTER, OFFERED TO BAIL MISTY CROSLIN OUT OF JAIL: Well, it`s a situation where her attorney has obviously told her, look, anything you give up could turn and bite you, you know, so don`t say anything to him. And if that`s what the deal is, don`t go for it. She`s only been --

GRACE: It`s not like people are beating her door down to bond her out, Leonard.

PADILLA: No, they`re not. No, they`re not. There`s nobody else can handle a big bond like that except our company. And --

(CROSSTALK)

GRACE: Leonard Padilla, joining me --

PADILLA: -- that right now she`s only been in there a year. It`s a new thing for her. She`s the star of the jail. But eventually it`s going to start getting to her and if she`s not guilty or culpable of anything, then she`s going to be able to --

GRACE: She`s been in 23 days.

PADILLA: -- come to her sense and OK, get me out of here. Here`s what you need.

GRACE: Leonard Padilla, joining us from Sacramento.

Let`s stop and remember, Army Sergeant Casey Nash, 22, Baltimore Maryland, killed Iraq. On a second tour, awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army commendation, National Defense Service Medal. Loved football, baseball, Baltimore Ravens, tinkering with high-tech gadgets, restoring cars. Leaves behind parents Sandy and Lou, sister Sara.

Casey Nash, American hero.

Thanks to our guests but especially to you for being with us. I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend.

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