1. I think JO and/or Tommy might have been interested in Ron's guns and any drugs he might have had around.
2. I feel confident that both Misty and Tommy were at the mobile home and were involved, in some way, with Haleigh's disappearance.
3. I think that a number of the details that Tommy and Misty have given (in any number of stories) are probably true.
4. However, the context of these details remains a mystery. Who did what, exactly, and why?
5. The "we were terrified of Cousin Joe" story doesn't hold water. According to all the stories, Misty was left in the mobile home by herself, and Tommy went with JO. Now, what that story tells me is that no one was worried at all to leave Misty alone with a cell phone while Haleigh was being taken to some God-forsaken spot. So either Misty was involved directly in Haleigh's death or had a major stake in a cover-up.
6. The only reasons an "innocent" Misty would engage in a cover-up would be to protect Tommy,
and maybe JO or Timmy OR to keep what happened secret because she would face legal or personal consequences for what happened to Haleigh.
7. If JO had gone to the house to steal a gun, it would make far more sense for him to steal some other valuable object (the gun Misty slept with? some other weapon? a TV? Drugs lying around?) than to kidnap and kill a child that your cousin (or sister) was babysitting. Tommy, at least, admits to using some drug. He might have invented that detail (especially the Xanax part) to excuse his inaction. And prescription anti-depressants are not as unsavory as coke or meth or crack. And whoever Tommy was traveling with was no doubt on something as well. So--I think the central circumstance of Haleigh's murder was likely to be drugs, as the only plausible context for the gun story is that people had been and were abusing drugs and--somebody did something that couldn't be taken back.
9. Why are young female children killed by "strangers" or neighbors or family friends? Because the killer is a pedophile and doesn't want to leave a witness.
10. Why would Misty hide under the covers while it was happening? Because she herself may have been an abuse victim, perhaps that night but also perhaps in her childhood.
11. Sexual assault explains why no one wants to tell--because that would probably be a death penalty offense, for the killer(s), and because Misty may not have realized until the attack was over that Haleigh wouldn't survive it--as she herself may have survived abuse or assault in childhood. And however bad a missing Haleigh would be for Ron, that situation would pale in significance to the revelation that she had been assaulted and/or murder.
