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Manhunt underway for missing North FL girl

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Marva Hinton
@ February 11, 2009 7:22 AM
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Authorities are still searching for a five-year-old North Florida girl who was reportedly snatched from her bedroom Tuesday morning.

An extensive manhunt has been underway since Haleigh Ann Marie Cummings was reported missing from her Putnam County home.

Authorities released an Amber Alert after the child's father, Ronald Cummings, came home from work around 3:30 Tuesday morning and discovered the girl was not in her bedroom. His girlfriend had put Haleigh to bed hours earlier.

Authorities have released the 911 call the two made to report the child's disappearance.

"If I find whoever has my daughter before y'all do I'm killing them," Cummings is heard telling the dispatcher. "I don't care. I'll spend the rest of my life in prison. I'm telling you, you can put it on report, and I don't care."

Mayor Gary Bowling with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office says officers still have more questions than answers.

"It's truly still a whodunit," said Bowling. "'It' meaning whether it's an abduction or potentially a homicide, or if she just wandered out. We're still having to look at it all right now."

Bowling says deputies are doing all they can.

"We feel good about what we're doing, but we feel really desperate that 24 hours have passed now and we don't have a clue where this child is," said Bowling. "We haven't lost ground, but we haven't gained any ground that we can you know plant a stake in and say yeah we're making progress in this area."

Deputies have questioned the girl's family, but so far no one's been called a suspect.

Haleigh is three feet tall and weighs about 40 pounds. She has blond hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a pink t-shirt.

If you have any information about her whereabouts, you're asked to call 911.

 

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