Bones found near missing girl's home

SATSUMA, Fla., April 21 (UPI) -- Bones from the St. John's River in Florida may belong to missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings and tests will be conducted to determine that, authorities said.

Cummings disappeared from her father's home in Satsuma, Fla., in February 2009. The last person to see her was her former stepmother, Misty Croslin, who was taken to the river by police and shown the bones last week, The Bald Truth Blog reported Wednesday. Croslin is being held on drug charges.

The part of the river where the bones were found is near the home where Cummings last was seen, The Bald Truth reported.

Detectives are treating the case as a homicide and described the river site, which is infested with alligators, as a possible crime scene, WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, Fla., reported Wednesday. No charges have been brought against anyone.

The missing girl's family has given police items containing her DNA. Those items are to be used for DNA comparisons in tests on the bones, The Bald Truth reported.