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2 dead. 2 girls free. mayes dead. it's over.
(CNN) -- The two young girls were on their stomachs. From where they lay, they could see Adam Mayes, the man who took them from their home in Tennessee two weeks prior and who now had them hiding in the Mississippi woods.

State officers approached.

Mayes was charged with the killings of the girls' mother and older sister. The end of a days-long manhunt seemed within reach. The motive for the kidnappings might be explained.

But as the officers drew nearer, Mayes pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. The girls watched.

New details revealed Friday by the FBI recounted the rescue of Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8.

When investigators came upon Mayes, "the girls were on their stomach face down. They were close enough to see what was going on when he killed himself," FBI spokesman Jason Pack said.

Afterward, the girls were tended to by two female agents who rode with them in an ambulance to a hospital.

"They were scared and relieved," Pack said. "They were hungry and thirsty. They gave them water and we drove them out right away."

A tip to the FBI led officers to the area.

The tip was not that someone had spotted Mayes, but that there was an old log cabin behind a church that might be a good hiding place.

The area had been searched before by agents, but it was searched again.

There is no evidence that Mayes and the girls actually used the cabin, but they were believed to have been in the area for a few days, Pack said.

"There was no shelter or anything. It looks like they were in the open woods," he said. "They were dehydrated and dirty, like they were here for several days."

Mayes, 35, was accused of abducting Alexandria and Kyliyah from their Whiteville, Tennessee, home, in late April, and killing Jo Ann Bain and her eldest daughter, Adrienne, 14.

Officers with the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol and state Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Parks rescued Alexandria and Kyliyah, the FBI said.
Adam Mayes died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the FBI.
Adam Mayes died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the FBI.

Meanwhile, three additional arrests were made in connection with the case, a law enforcement source told CNN. One person was arrested for making a false statement, and two others for illegal possession of a firearm, the source said.

The identities of the individuals were not immediately known, but it included the person who provided Mayes the gun he used to shoot himself, the source said.

Alexandria and Kyliyah were released overnight from Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, hospital spokeswoman Sara Burnett said.

"They were released in the middle of the night, somewhere between 2 and 5 a.m.," Burnett said.

Burnett did not know to whom the children were released.

















































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^^Jesus Christ! Somehow I just don't think this is going to end well for these girls! Wittnessing that POS killing himself, possibly seeing their mother and sister murdered, is Bain their father, if not with whom will they live...... a lot of unanswered question and I'm assuming a lot of unncertainty for these precious little girls. Sad sad story!
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one of the worst i've ever covered Gator. much we don't know and never will. dirty trash people. i wish the best futures for those poor girls.

















































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LC, is it your experience that children's services will keep an eye on them for the foreseeable future? Someone will surely recommend counseling for them, right?
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(05-11-2012, 12:25 PM)Duchess Wrote:

LC, is it your experience that children's services will keep an eye on them for the foreseeable future? Someone will surely recommend counseling for them, right?

their father will have the rights. i know nothing about him.

















































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The situation regarding the "father" is so odd. I really feel for these girls!
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GUNTOWN, Miss. -

Authorities said two girls abducted from their Tennessee home told officers who rescued them that they went three days without food or water.
Master Sgt. Steve Crawford, with the Mississippi Highway Patrol, was among the officers who found the girls. He said Friday during a news conference that the girls were alarmed when authorities found them, but that they did not cry.

Authorities tracked 35-year-old Adam Mayes to a wooded area in Union County, Miss. on Thursday evening, where they said he shot himself in the head. He was wanted for the killing of Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne Bain.

"A lot of prayers were answered when we found these two young ladies to be safe. Unfortunately, the suspect did take his own life," said Lt. Lee Ellington of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. "But at the end of the day, the two young ladies returned home to their father safely."

Crawford said officers were combing the woods behind a church when Mayes, 12-year-old Alexandria Bain and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain were spotted face down on the ground.

Officials said Mayes did not say anything before shooting himself.

"A mother and a 14-year-old child are dead. Two other young girls' lives have been forever changed by the man who saw no other option than to take his own life. It was hardly a happy ending," said Gov. Phil Bryant.

David Livingston, a family friend, said Friday morning that the sisters were are at home in Tennessee and are "doing well."

Livingston said the girls' father, Gary Bain, is ecstatic about their return, but is also distraught over the deaths of his wife and older daughter.

















































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GUNTOWN, Miss. – Days of grueling searches for two young girls and the kidnapper who killed their mother and sister led to the kind of terrain that favors the hunted -- high hardwoods and deep ravines near a red-brick church perched on a hill.

Specially trained officers had come up empty-handed for days but were following another lead Thursday evening after Adam Mayes was put on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. Dozens of tips turned up nothing. This latest lead officers to the woods near Zion Hill Baptist Church, just a couple of miles from Mayes' rented mobile home in Guntown, where 31-year-old Jo Ann Bain and her 14-year-old daughter, Adrienne, had been buried in a shallow grave.

The officers had searched the church and later split up and set out down two old logging roads leading deep into the forest. Just 60 yards down, Mississippi Highway Patrol Master Sgt. Steve Crawford saw a little girl's head in the dirt. Within inches, another child. A few more inches, the man who proved so elusive.

A search that dragged on for days ended in seconds.

"Let's see your hands," the officers shouted.

Mayes pushed himself up to his knees, pulled out a 9 mm pistol and shot himself in the head. He didn't utter a word, and died a couple hours later at hospital.

Twelve-year-old Alexandria Bain and 8-year-old Kyliyah sat up, subdued, within reach of Mayes' body. Crawford said they didn't cry, instead looking almost relieved.

"Now we can go home," Lt. Lee Ellington heard the older girl tell her little sister. Ellington was part of a team from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.

Home was a place the girls hadn't seen since April 27, when Mayes, a friend they considered an uncle, killed Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain in the garage of their home in Whiteville, Tenn., according to police.

Mayes, a friend of Jo Ann's husband, Gary, had gone to the house the night before to help the family pack for a move to Arizona. Instead, police say he killed the mother and daughter, packed their corpses into a car, grabbed the younger girls and headed south with his wife to the mobile home in Guntown. Authorities have not said how they were killed or what time it may have happened.

Police say Gary Bain told them his wife and daughters were asleep when he went to bed at midnight and were gone when he woke the next day, but he figured the girls went to school and Jo Ann had gone somewhere, too. But she didn't answer her phone that day, and the girls never got off the school bus that afternoon.

At 8 p.m., he called the Hardeman County Sherriff's Office to report them missing. Police interviewed Mayes. Even Mayes admits to investigators on April 29 that he was the last one to see Jo Ann and the girls, but police said they had no evidence of a crime. And it first, it wasn't known if Jo Ann had willingly left and taken the kids with her.

On April 30, Jo Ann Bain's SUV was found abandoned on a country road in Tennessee. That same day, Adam Mayes was seen at a market in Mississippi with his usual long hair chopped off. He told another customer it will be cooler in the hot, brutal Southern summer; investigators would later warn he may have cut the girls' hair to disguise them, too.

Hardeman County Sheriff John Doolen said two days later that Mayes is a person of interest in the case but that there are no signs of foul play -- not yet.

On May 4, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an endangered child alert, pleading for the public's help in finding the family. At first, investigators still said they have no evidence of a crime.

However, according to police documents, Mayes' wife, Teresa admitted her involvement around the same time. The documents show Teresa Mayes told investigators she saw Adam Mayes kill the mother and daughter in the garage of their home so he could abduct the younger children. Their bodies were loaded into a car, along with Adam Mayes, Alexandria and Kyliyah, and Teresa Mayes drove everyone some two hours to the mobile home in Guntown. Teresa Mayes also tells authorities she saw her husband digging a hole in the backyard.

On May 5, the Mississippi Highway Patrol issued an amber alert for the children in that state, warning that Mayes is armed and dangerous. That same day, investigators say two bodies are found buried in the Mayes' backyard. They are badly decomposed and are not identified as Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain until two days later.

By May 8, Adam Mayes' wife and his mother have been arraigned on charges of helping with the crimes, but there was still no trace of the two sisters. The girls told their rescuers they had gone three days without any food or water, so it's possible that's about the time they began hiding out in the woods, an area filled with old deer hunting shelters. Some investigators believe they were in the woods even longer before being found late Thursday, exhausted, dehydrated and itching with poison ivy.

Alexandria and Kyliyah's ordeal then came to an abrupt end, just a few miles from where their mother and sister had been buried. They were given water, whisked away in an ambulance, shielded by giant white sheets at the hospital so they could walk into the emergency room without the glare of news cameras.

Adam Mayes spared them. They were alive. Now it will be up to the fragile memories of young, traumatized girls to answer the questions nagging at experienced lawmen who worked long hours to find them: Where had they been? How did they survive in the woods?

And then there are the painful questions that need to be answered. Did Mayes hurt them? Did they watch their mom and big sister die?

But because Adam Mayes put a bullet in his head, people may never solve the biggest mystery: Why did he do all this?

"That was too good for him. He should have suffered just a little bit more," said Beverly Goodman, Jo Ann Bain's aunt. "I was hoping they was gonna take him alive `cause I wanted some answers to some questions that probably will never get answered now."


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I'm not sure that this matters at this point, but I hadn't seen it discussed yet. If Jo Ann's vehicle was found abandoned, but Teresa Mayes "drove everyone" to Guntown, who drove Jo Ann's car? Adam, I assume? I wonder which trunk Jo Ann and Alexandria were in, and which one the younger girls were in. Hopefully they were separate, and maybe the girls didn't see the murders and/or know about them or see the bodies. Again, not that it matters at this point. Glad the girls are safe, but they've got a hurdle ahead of them. Hope they find healing somehow.
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a couple of those motherfuckers arrested took him food out in the woods when he was holding the girls! i hope they die screaming in prison.

















































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(05-12-2012, 11:48 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: a couple of those motherfuckers arrested took him food out in the woods when he was holding the girls! i hope they die screaming in prison.

Unbelievable. What the hell is wrong with people?
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mayes' brother says nobody will miss him. CNN video:

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hiding in woods behind church.

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UPDATE: Associated Press

GUNTOWN, Miss. — Authorities say two girls abducted from their Tennessee home told officers who rescued them that they went three days without food or water.

UPDATE: - Three neighbors of the man suspected of kidnapping and killing members of the Bain family were arrested Thursday in connection to the ongoing investigation.

Ronnie Rich,43, was arrested for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. His wife Tona Prince, 40, was arrested on the same charge and his son Jeffery Karr, 22, was arrested for an outstanding Mississippi Department of Corrections Warrant.

The family lived on Highway 9 near Mayes in the Alpine community.

The agency didn't disclose how the three in custody are related to the Mayes investigation except to confirm they are.

















































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(CNN) -- Two Tennessee women accused of helping Adam Mayes in last month's kidnapping of Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters appeared briefly in court Tuesday, but their preliminary hearing was delayed until next month.

Bain and her oldest daughter were found dead in shallow graves on May 4, but the two youngest children were rescued alive after Mayes killed himself when confronted by law enforcement on May 10. Jo Ann Bain's husband reported her and their daughters missing on April 27.

Two counts of especially aggravating kidnapping were added to the four counts of conspiracy to commit especially aggravating kidnapping against Mary Frances Mayes, the 64-year-old mother of Adam Mayes. Her bond was increased from $300,000 to $500,000.

No efforts are being made to bail her out because the family is "beyond indigent," her lawyer said. 34

"She remains confused," Attorney Terry Dycus said. "She's scared and she doesn't understand why she is being charged." Crying-into-tissue

Still, she is sleeping well in jail because with Adam Mayes dead, she is free "of the terror her son has inflicted upon her," Dycus said. PrisonBed

Her lawyer said he is exploring using evidence of domestic abuse against her by her son as a possible defense.

The preliminary hearing for her and Teresa Ann Mayes, her son's ex-wife, was delayed until June 19, because psychological exam results for the women were not ready, according to District Attorney Michael Dunavant.

Teresa Ann Mayes is charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of especially aggravating kidnapping.


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the county will have to pay $900. to burn his ass.

Mark Golding, the medical examiner in Union County, Miss., told WMC-TV over the weekend that no one from Mayes' family had accepted his body.

"We've had some unusual cases but none like this where the family won't even accept the remains," Golding said.

"I do realize it's a terrible thing that has went on but someone is going to have to step up to the plate and eventually do something with him."



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(CNN) -- The family of accused killer and kidnapper Adam Mayes, who was placed on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list, has sent his body to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where students will use it for research and educational purposes, officials said.

Mayes' body had been with the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office since early May, when he killed himself. The body was picked up from there and delivered to the university's forensic department on Thursday, said Mark Golding, medical examiner in Union County, Mississippi.

















































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(05-09-2012, 08:32 PM)shitstorm Wrote: That was a good article, Nina. Most informative yet. What I still don't get is who are the father or fathers of the three girls? If Mayes has some notion that the younger two are his, I guess that means Jo Ann had a relationship with him. I can't believe this couple, Jo Ann and Bain, allowed those girls around Mayes. That tells me that Jo Ann and her husband were also sketchy people.

Marc Klass on and talking about it. I love Marc Klass and John Walsh. That they've done so much good as a result of such terrible personal tragedy always amazes me.

(05-09-2012, 10:17 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: HEY! my posts have been informative from day 1! ahead of CNN, HLN assholes et al even! i have stayed on this minute by minute all night and day. been up since 0200 last night. i'm exhausted. i hope i wake up later to find this guy has been captured or killed and girls are alive.

'night Bed

(05-09-2012, 10:24 PM)Lady Cop Wrote:
(05-09-2012, 10:22 PM)Adub Wrote: That was a good reply, LC. Most informative.

i don't need your damn sarcasm. i'm tired and working my ass off to stay on this.

(05-09-2012, 11:07 PM)shitstorm Wrote:
(05-09-2012, 10:17 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: HEY! my posts have been informative from day 1! ahead of CNN, HLN assholes et al even! i have stayed on this minute by minute all night and day. been up since 0200 last night. i'm exhausted. i hope i wake up later to find this guy has been captured or killed and girls are alive.

'night Bed

I was talking about the news sites and articles. Sometimes they're about as comprehensive as the Toledo Blade. hah YOU have done a great job.

I just want to know: What vehicle is this guy suspected of driving and who fathered the girls. I can't believe the reporters haven't gotten those questions answered.

(05-09-2012, 11:15 PM)Adub Wrote: SHHHH! LC is sleeping.

hah Adub my new favorite poster hah

On a real I'm glad this scumbag is dead and that the 2 youngest survived, i had little to no hope that they would, I pray for their mother and sister, 1 thing tho in the photo of terresa mayes and the 3 daughters page 3-5ish, how much does adam mayes look like the youngest daughter? or is it just me?

Any how I'm glad the little ones survived this asshole, only they know what they had to endure.
(08-08-2010, 06:37 PM)Maggot Wrote: May your ears turn into arseholes and shit on your shoulders......Smiley_emoticons_smile

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