The Little Girl Who Vanished: HaLeigh Cummings || Part 1

The Little Girl Who Vanished: HaLeigh Cummings || Part 1

Disclaimer: Gina tried to do something new with her audio set up and failed miserably. Please forgive her underwater sound this week.  On February 10, 2009, five-year-old HaLeigh Ann-Marie Cummings vanished from her home in Satsuma, Florida — a small rural community along the St. Johns River in Putnam County. Her disappearance became one of the most heartbreaking and confounding missing child cases in Florida true crime history. In this episode of Weird True Crime, hosts Amber and Gina introduce us to HaLeigh: a curly-haired kindergartner at Browning Pearce Elementary School who loved nail polish, mac and cheese, and taking care of her baby brother. Her family called her "little mama." She was 39 pounds, five years old, and by every account, completely adored. We walk through the family background — the custody battle between her father Ronald Cummings and her mother Crystal Sheffield, the move to rural Satsuma, and the arrival of 17-year-old Misty Croslin, who had been living in the home and watching the children while Ronald worked second shift. On the night of February 9th into the early morning hours of February 10th, Ronald was at work. Misty was the only adult present. When Ronald came home at 3:25am, HaLeigh was gone. Within minutes, a 911 call went out — and within hours, investigators were already questioning whether the scene they found told the true story of what happened that night. This episode covers the initial search, the AMBER Alert, the FBI response, and the deeply troubling physical evidence: no forced entry, an undisturbed pile of laundry in front of the back door, HaLeigh's Hannah Montana shirt found in a place it shouldn't have been, and a crime scene that investigators would later describe as possibly staged. Misty Croslin's first account of the night begins to unravel almost immediately. If you're researching the HaLeigh Cummings case, Florida missing children cases, or true crime cold cases involving child disappearances, this is the episode to start with. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by - @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you enjoy the show Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLC Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].

What Melissa Left || UPDATE & Family Statement

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WTF Wednesday: Weird Facts!

What happens when two true crime podcasters dig through the random facts they've been mentally collecting for months? You get one of the most fascinating, surprising, and downright bizarre episodes we've ever recorded. This week on WTF Wednesdays, Gina and Amber are pulling ten wild true crime adjacent facts out of the depths of their brains and breaking them all down — and trust us, you're going to want to stick around for all of them. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime [https://www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime] Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com [https://www.weirdtruecrime.com] Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime [https://www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime] TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime [https://www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime] YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime [https://www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime] Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by - @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you enjoy the show Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLC Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].

What Melissa Left: The Disappearance of Melissa Casias | Episode 3: Missing Pieces

Melissa Casias has been missing since June 26, 2025. In the final episode of this series, Gina and Amber pull back the lens — examining the full scope of the investigation failures, the documented patterns of abuse and financial control inside the Casias marriage, and the three possible scenarios for what happened to Melissa. They don't tell you what to think. But they lay out everything the evidence supports — and everything it doesn't. This is the episode where it all comes together. 🚨 If You Have Information New Mexico State Police: (505) 425-6771  Crime Stoppers (anonymous): (505) 843-STOP | Text ABQCS to 738477 Find Melissa Mondragon Casias on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/p/Find-Melissa-Mondragon-Casias-61578096118529/] GoFundMe Reward Fund [https://gofund.me/8926478c3] Sources New Mexico State Police Report — on file FBI: No-Body Homicide Cases — A Practical Approach (Special Agent Michael Yoder) Recorded Phone Calls provided by family Interview Transcript with Trudy and Jazmin Weird True Crime is an independent true crime podcast. If this episode moved you, please share it — and share Melissa's face. The more people who know her story, the better the chance that someone comes forward. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by - @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you enjoy the show Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLC Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].

What Melissa Left: The Disappearance of Melissa Casias | Episode 2: 40 Minutes

Melissa Casias dropped lunch off to her daughter Sierra at 12:57 p.m. on June 26, 2025. She sent her last text at 1:33 p.m. At 1:38 p.m., her phone was reset. At 2:18 p.m., surveillance footage from a home on Highway 518 captured a woman with a black backpack walking eastbound. That's 40 minutes — almost exactly the walking distance between the Casias home and that location. A coincidence? Gina and Amber don't think so. In this episode, they pick up where Part One left off: the days and weeks following Melissa's disappearance, the organized searches, Mark Casias's recorded phone calls, the disturbing patterns emerging from inside the marriage, and the surveillance footage that raises more questions than it answers. 🚨 If You Have Information New Mexico State Police: (505) 425-6771  Crime Stoppers (anonymous): (505) 843-STOP | Text ABQCS to 738477 Find Melissa Mondragon Casias on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/p/Find-Melissa-Mondragon-Casias-61578096118529/] GoFundMe Reward Fund [https://gofund.me/8926478c3] Sources New Mexico State Police Report — on file FBI: No-Body Homicide Cases — A Practical Approach (Special Agent Michael Yoder) Recorded Phone Calls provided by family Interview Transcript with Trudy and Jazmin Weird True Crime is an independent true crime podcast. If this episode moved you, please share it — and share Melissa's face. The more people who know her story, the better the chance that someone comes forward. 📢 Follow & Subscribe: Subscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/weirdtruecrime Website: www.weirdtruecrime.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/weirdtruecrime TikTok: www.tiktok.com/weirdtruecrime YouTube: www.youtube.com/@weirdtruecrime Email: weirdtruecrime@gmail.com Music by - @djantonyflower ⭐ Leave a 5-star review if you enjoy the show Proud Member of Fire Eyes Media LLC Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-true-crime--5679751/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss].