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(Hardeman County, TN) Investigators looking into the case of a missing family want to speak with a man they say lied to them.

They’re looking for Adam Mays of Guntown, Mississippi.

Hardeman County Sheriff John Doolen said he believes Mays did not tell the truth in a statement taken from him and he is a person of interest in the case.

Doolen said he believes Mays could know why the family is missing and/or where they are located.

Jo Ann Bain and three of her daughters, 14-year-old Adrienne, 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kailea were last seen in the Durango last Friday morning on their way to Arizona.

Bain’s SUV was found on a road east of Bolivar, TN three days after the mother and three daughters were reported missing.
http://wreg.com/2012/05/02/man-wanted-in-c...missing-family/
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BOLIVAR, TENN. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says three Hardeman County girls who have not been seen for a week have been with a man in Mississippi.

Kristin Helm, a spokeswoman for the TBI, said late Friday afternoon authorities are trying to locate the three sisters. She said there is no evidence of a crime.

An endangered child alert issued for 14-year-old Adrienne Bain, 12-year-old Alexandria Bain and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain said they may be accompanied by their mother, Jo Ann Bain.

Helm said they have been with Adam Mayes, who was last seen in Guntown, Miss., on Tuesday. He has a warrant on file in Hardeman County for false report stemming from information he gave investigators about the case.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120...;text|Home

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MEMPHIS, TN -
(WMC-TV) – Investigators have issued an endangered child alert for three West Tennessee girls who have been missing since last month.

Adrienne, Alexandria and Kyliyah were last seen with their mother JoAnne Bain on April 27 in Hardeman County, TN.

Investigators believe the family may be with Adam Mayes, who is wanted for filing a false police report. They also think he's carrying a firearm.

Mayes was last seen in Guntown, MS, on Tuesday.

Officials believe the group may be en route to Arizona or Mississippi. However, Mayes also has connections to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.

If you see the family or know anything about their disappearance call the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND

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2 bodies found in MS during search for mom, girls


Posted: May 05, 2012 7:39 PM CDT Updated: May 05, 2012 8:09 PM CDT




This combo image made of undated photos provided by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows, clockwise from top left, Jo Ann Bain and her daughters, Adrienne, 14, Kyliyah 8, and Alexandria,12. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department of Public Safety)


By HOLBROOK MOHR
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Two bodies have been found in Mississippi during the search for a missing Tennessee woman and her three children, but the identities are not known, authorities said Saturday.

The bodies were found late Friday night or early Saturday morning in a residence associated with the man charged with abducting Jo Ann Bain and her children, FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said.

The spokesman said authorities on the scene were not able to positively identify the bodies. He would not say if the bodies were children.

The missing girls are 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain, 12-year-old Alexandria and 14-year-old Adrienne. They were last seen April 27 in Hardeman County, Tenn. The woman's husband reported her missing and her car was found abandoned.

Adam Mayes, 35, is charged in Tennessee with abducting all four, but authorities are still trying to determine if Jo Ann Bain went with Mayes willingly. He was last seen Tuesday in Guntown, Miss. He's been described as a family friend.

The FBI and U.S. Marshals Service are offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information that leads to the location of the missing victims and the arrest of Mayes.

Siskovic said the bodies were found in a residence, but it wasn't clear if it was a house, mobile home or apartment. He also wasn't sure if the residence belonged to Mayes or an acquaintance of his. Siskovic said the bodies were found in Guntown, north of Tupelo. Lee County coroner Carolyn Green said the bodies were found outside Guntown in Union County.

Siskovic said authorities talked to Mayes early on in the investigation, but he fled when they tried to contact him again. The FBI says they were not immediately aware of Mayes having a criminal record.

Authorities had said that Mayes could be in Mississippi but that he has ties to Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert on Saturday morning, and Tennessee authorities had also issued an alert.

Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said in a news release Saturday that Mayes "is considered armed and extremely dangerous,"

Authorities described Adrienne as a white girl with brown hair and eyes. She's 5 feet 4 inches tall and 129 pounds. Alexandria has brown hair and hazel eyes and is 5 feet tall and 105 pounds. Kyliyah has blonde hair and brown eyes and is 4 feet tall and 57 pounds.

Mayes has brown hair and blue eyes and is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds.

However, authorities said Mayes may have cut his hair, as well as cut and dyed the girls' hair to disguise their identities.

Anyone with information is asked to call 601-987-1353 or 1-800-TBI-FIND.
http://www.wistv.com/story/18155798/2-bodi...h-for-mom-girls

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(WMC-TV) – FBI officials say they have found two bodies during the search for three West Tennessee girls who have been missing since last month.

Investigators found the bodies while executing a search warrant in Guntown, MS, Friday. The FBI hasn't released the victims' causes of death or their identities.


Adrienne, Alexandria and Kyliyah were last seen with their mother JoAnne Bain on April 27 in Hardeman County, TN.

Investigators say family friend Adam Mayes is responsible for the Bains' disappearance. Mayes is believed to be armed and is wanted for kidnapping and filing a false police report.

"Contact with Mayes was initiated early in the investigation, but he later fled when law enforcement authorities subsequently attempted to contact him," said an FBI spokesman in a written statement.


Mayes, who was last seen in Guntown, MS, on Tuesday, has been added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted List.


Mayes has brown hair, blue eyes and weighs about 175 pounds. However, investigators believe he has altered his appearance by cutting his hair and may have also cut the hair of the children and dyed it an unknown color.

Officials believe the group may be en route to Arizona or Mississippi. However, Mayes also has connections to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.

Adrienne has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5'4" weighs about 129 pounds.

Alexandria has brown hair and hazel eyes. She is 5' tall and weighs 105 pounds.

Kyliyah has blonde hair and brown eyes. She is 4' tall and weighs 57 pounds.

If you see the family or know anything about their disappearance call the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND
http://www.wlbt.com/story/18155442/fbi-bod...sing-tenn-girls

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Authorities try to ID bodies, search for mom, kids

Authorities were working Sunday to identify two bodies found at a Mississippi residence associated with a man suspected of abducting a woman and her three young daughters.

The FBI has said two bodies were found over the weekend at a home connected to 35-year-old Adam Mayes in Guntown, Miss., but agents have released few other details. Authorities believe that Mayes abducted the woman, Jo Ann Bain, and her three daughters, ages 8 to 14.

On Sunday, forensic scientists with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation searched the garage and backyard at the Hardeman County, Tenn. home where Bain, her husband and their children lived.

An Associated Press reporter saw the agents searching before being told to leave the street where the home was located. Bain's husband declined to comment Sunday.

Meanwhile, a Bain family friend said Sunday that the woman and her daughters were moving to Arizona because two of the girls had asthma.

Linda Kirkland, a cook at the Country Cafe in Whiteville, Tenn., said that the Bains and their daughters were back in the Whiteville area taking care of some business after a death in the family.

Tennessee authorities said the family had not yet moved.

Bain had frequented the restaurant and never indicated anything was wrong.

"She seemed so happy," Kirkland said.

"Jo Ann and the kids, everyone loves them. We're just hoping to hear that they're safe."

Bain's daughters are 14-year-old Adrienne, 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah. An Amber Alert has been issued for the girls, and Mayes is charged with kidnapping in Tennessee.

FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said Sunday that efforts to identify the bodies continued on Sunday. He would not say if they were children. They were found late Friday night or early Saturday morning.

The Bains were last seen April 27 in Hardeman County, Tenn., which is about 70 miles east of Memphis. The woman's husband reported her missing, and her vehicle was found abandoned.

Authorities said Mayes was at the family's home on the night that Jo Ann Bain went missing late last month. They were trying to determine if Jo Ann Bain went with Mayes willingly.

Mayes was last seen Tuesday in Guntown, Miss., about 80 miles southeast of the Bains' Tennessee home. He'd been described as a family friend.

The FBI and U.S. Marshals Service announced Saturday a reward of up to $50,000 for information that leads to the location of the missing victims and the arrest of Mayes.

Siskovic said the bodies were found in a residence, but it wasn't clear if it was a house, mobile home or apartment. He also wasn't sure if the residence belonged to Mayes or an acquaintance. Siskovic said the bodies were found in Guntown.

Siskovic said authorities talked to Mayes early on in the investigation, but he fled when they tried to contact him again. The FBI says agents were not immediately aware of Mayes having a criminal record.

Melvin Herron, 42, lives next door to the Bain family in Tennessee. He recalled seeing the girls playing outside, running and going down water slides.

Herron said he had met Mayes on several occasions, and that the man apparently "thought the world of those little girls." Mayes often played softball and kickball with the children, Herron said.

Herron said he hoped the bodies found in Mississippi were not the girls or their mother.

"I'm praying to God it's not those little girls," he said.

Authorities had said that Mayes could be in Mississippi but that he has ties to Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.

Authorities described Adrienne as a white girl with brown hair and eyes. She's 5 feet 4 inches tall and 129 pounds. Alexandria has brown hair and hazel eyes and is 5 feet tall and 105 pounds. Kyliyah has blonde hair and brown eyes and is 4 feet tall and 57 pounds.

Mayes has brown hair and blue eyes and is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds.

Authorities said Mayes may have cut his hair, as well as cut and dyed the girls' hair to disguise their identities.

Anyone with information is asked to call 601-987-1353 or 1-800-TBI-FIND.

http://www.theindependent.com/news/nationa...fa8347aaae.html

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UNION COUNTY, Miss. -- Police believe one of the bodies found buried at a home in Mississippi may be that of a missing Tennessee mother.

Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards told FOX News Channel Sunday that the two bodies have not yet been positively identified, but one was believed to be 31-year-old Jo Ann Bain.

Edwards said the bodies had apparently been buried for a few days.

They were discovered Friday at a Union County residence connected to Adam Christopher Mayes, the man suspected of abducting Bain and her daughters Adrienne, 14, Alexandria, 12, and Kyliyah, eight.

Autopsies were performed Sunday but the results have not yet been released, Edwards added.

The FBI and US Marshals joined Union County Sheriff's deputies in their search for Mayes Sunday in a 10-square-mile section of northeastern Union County. Edwards said police had no indications that he had left the area.

Bain and her daughters were last seen leaving their home in Whiteville, about 60 miles east of Memphis, on the morning of April 27.

Bain's husband reported her missing, and her vehicle was later found abandoned.

Mayes, described as a friend of the family, was questioned by police about the disappearances last week. He has not been seen since May 1, when he was spotted in Guntown, Miss.

Police believe Mayes has changed his hairstyle since being questioned and may have also cut and dyed the three girls' hair.

A warrant for Mayes' arrest on kidnapping charges has been issued.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/.../NEWS/120509812

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ALPINE, MS -
(WMC-TV) - State troopers and FBI agents are no longer digging up the yard of the home where two bodies were found in Alpine, Mississippi.




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Highway 9 near the home was shut down while authorities dug for clues. It has since been reopened.

The home where investigators have been searching is associated with the man suspected of kidnapping Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters, Adrienne, Alexandria, and Kyliyah.

"There's a bunch of them [police]. I just hope they do their jobs safely and they catch him, bring him to justice," said Alpine resident Tyler Hutcheson.

He is talking about Adam Mayes, the focus of the manhunt.

The FBI is leading the case. Agents say their main focus is the safety and well-being of the Bain family.

"I hope and pray that they catch this guy and I hope them babies are still alive. I mean, I'm hoping for the best for them babies," said Sarah Stinson, who lives in Alpine.

Mississippi state troopers are stopping motorists and checking inside the trunks of their vehicles.

The manhunt for Mayes has the town of Alpine very concerned.

"So I tell you, it's been scary, scary. For my kids and me, everybody's been scared. It's just awful," said resident Sarah Stinson.

"We're trying to keep our kids locked in the house, trying to keep 'em from going outside because it's just been a real shocker to that kind of neighborhood to have nothing like that to ever go on like that," said Heather Jones, who lives in Alpine.

The sheriff said Mayes may or may not still be in the area.

Action News 5's Janice Broach spoke with Adam Mayes sister in law, Bobbi Booth.

Booth said Mayes' wife, Theresa, is being held in the Hardeman county jail.

We cannot confirm Theresa Mayes is in the jail.

Booth said she knew at some point last week Mayes was in his backyard in Alpine digging a hole.

The sister-in-law also said Mayes dated Jo Ann Bain before she married her current husband, Gary.

A reward of $50,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of Adam Mayes.

Authorities have not yet released the identity of the bodies found near the home but an FBI spokesman told WMC-TV they hope to do that soon.
http://www.wlox.com/story/18166299/investi...dies-were-found

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BI: Bodies of missing Tenn. mom, daughter found
By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press


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GUNTOWN, Miss. -- Authorities say they have found the bodies of a missing Tennessee mother and her 14-year-old daughter behind a house in north Mississippi.
The FBI said in a news release late Monday that the bodies of Jo Ann Bain and her 14-year-old daughter Adrienne Bain have been positively identified.
The FBI believes Bain's two other daughters are still with alleged kidnapper Adam Mayes. He is accused of abducting the girls from the family's home in Whiteville, Tenn.
GALLERY:Alleged kidnapper of Tenn. mom, 3 girls was friend
The FBI says the bodies were found behind Mayes' residence near Guntown, Miss.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
State troopers stopped vehicles at roadblocks Monday and officers searched the yard of a home in northern Mississippi, seeking to unravel the mysterious disappearance of a Tennessee mother and her three daughters and find the family friend accused of abducting them.
Mississippi state troopers who were stopping vehicles and searching their trunks along State Route 30 near Guntown said they were conducting a manhunt for 35-year-old Adam Mayes. He's being sought in the April 27 disappearance of Jo Ann Bain and her daughters: 14-year-old Adrienne, 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah.
Officers also searched the yard of a home near Guntown that's been linked to Mayes.
Authorities are investigating whether the disappearance of the mother and daughters is related to two bodies found late last week outside Guntown at the house police have connected to Mayes. The effort to identify the bodies continued Monday.
Mayes was last seen a week ago in Guntown, about 80 miles south of the Bain family's home in Whiteville, Tenn.
Kidnapping warrants have been issued for Mayes. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said Saturday it believed "the children may be in extreme danger."
Jo Ann Bain and her daughters were last seen at their home outside Whiteville. Before they disappeared, the Bains had been preparing to move to Arizona.
The mother's Facebook page shows that in the days before the four disappeared she was packing and working on homework. Her last post, dated April 26, said "a good venting always makes you feel better." It didn't say why she was venting.
A web of ties connects Mayes to the missing woman and her family. They were all known around Whiteville, a town of about 4,500 people 60 miles east of Memphis. Mayes was a longtime friend of Bain's husband and had been at their home the evening before they disappeared, police said.

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2012/05/07/393155...l#storylink=cpy

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Alpine, MS) The man at the center of the search for Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters is suspected kidnapper Adam Mayes.

He’s also a man the FBI describes as a close friend of the Bain family.

A look at his Facebook page may give even more insight.

On Facebook, Mayes goes by the name, Paco Rodrigass.

Mayes’ profile photos show him with the Bain girls clinging to him.

In fact, most of his Facebook pictures, show him with Jo Ann Bain’s daughters.

A close family friend said Mayes is the ex-brother in law of Jo Ann`s husband Gary.

He was the family`s handy man and baby sat the three girls.

The Bain family is also friends with Mayes on Facebook, including 8-year-old Kyliyah, 12-year-old Alexandria and 14-year-old Adrienne. Adrienne even listed Mayes on her profile as ‘Brother.’

Jo Ann Bain’s Facebook page has several pictures of her daughters, but there are no pictures of Mayes.

Gary Bain, her husband, has his Facebook page set as private.

Last month, Bain changed her hometown status on Facebook from Whiteville, Tennessee to the family’s new home city of Tucson, Arizona and her daughter, Adrienne, changed her school to one in Tucson.

But the girls and their mother were back in Tennessee when they disappeared Friday, April 27th.

Mayes is charged in Tennessee with abducting the mother and three children, but authorities aren’t sure whether Jo Ann Bain went with Mayes willingly.

Investigators say he was at the family home on the night she disappeared
http://wreg.com/2012/05/07/suspected-kidna...acebook-photos/

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Wife, mother of kidnap-slaying suspect arrested
By ADRIAN SAINZ and TRAVIS LOLLER
The net widened Tuesday in the case of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls as authorities charged his wife and mother in connection with the abduction.
As an intense manhunt for Adam Mayes and the two young girls continued, his wife, Teresa Mayes, and mother, Mary Mayes, were arraigned in a Hardeman County, Tenn., courtroom. Teresa Mayes, 30, was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and Mary Mayes, 65, was charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
Teresa Mayes told investigators she drove Jo Ann Bain and her daughters from Hardeman County, where they lived, to Union County, Miss., where Adam and Teresa Mayes lived with his parents, according to an affidavit filed in court.
An attorney for Teresa Mayes declined to comment Tuesday afternoon. Calls to the attorney assigned to Mary Mayes were not immediately returned.
Bond was set at $500,000 for Teresa Mayes and $300,000 for Mary Mayes.
The bodies of 31-year-old Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne Bain were found last week behind the mobile home in northern Mississippi where the Mayes family lived. The affidavit provides the first clue that the victims may have been killed soon after they were abducted. It says Adam Mayes' wife and mother saw him digging a hole in the yard on April 27 or soon after.
Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, were still missing, and neighbors were planning a candlelight vigil for the girls Tuesday evening.
The FBI said Tuesday authorities are hopeful the two are still alive, but did not elaborate. The affidavit said that some items belonging to the two younger girls had been found at a trailer rented by Adam Mayes in another part of Union County.
Authorities have said that Adam Mayes, 35, was a family friend who was staying with the Bains on April 27, the day the mother and children disappeared.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Teresa Mayes' sister, Bobbi Booth, said her sister told her last week that she knew about the killings, but Booth said she thought Teresa Mayes may have been too scared to call the police.
"Teresa started to call, text and Facebook constantly on Thursday," said Booth, who gave an earlier interview to WMC-TV.
Booth told Teresa Mayes to call the police and was assured that she had, but by Saturday Booth had become suspicious about that claim and called police herself.
"I told them exactly what she had told me: Who the bodies were, where they could be dug from," Booth said.
As it turned out, investigators had begun digging in the Mayes' backyard the previous day.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said she was unaware of Booth calling about the killings but said she might have called a different law enforcement agency.
Jo Ann Bain's husband, Gary Bain, last saw his wife and daughters when he woke up briefly early April 27. By the time he got up they were gone, but he did not know they were missing until after the girls failed to come home from school.
Adam Mayes and Gary Bain, who had once been married to sisters, had been planning to drive some of the family's belongings to Arizona the next day because the family was moving to that state.
Before he fled, Adam Mayes admitted to authorities that he was the last person to see Jo Ann Bain and her daughters before the disappearance, according to the affidavit.
Police announced Saturday that they had found two bodies at the Mississippi property. They weren't identified as Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain until Monday.
Mary Mayes is accused of agreeing to the kidnapping but not participating in it.
The affidavit does not hint at a possible motive for Mary or Teresa Mayes' involvement.
Friends and neighbors of the Bains have said Adam Mayes was like an uncle to the three girls.
Booth said they were "like a big happy family." She said she finds it hard to believe that Adam Mayes could kill a child.
"I have cried until I'm sick," she said. "I was totally shocked. I've known him since I was little. We played together when we were kids. I always thought he was odd, but I never dreamed he'd do this."
Booth said she has not had much contact with her sister for the past 11 years because Adam Mayes didn't want his wife to contact her.
"He was very aggressive with her, abusive," she said. Booth said Teresa Mayes also told her she thought her husband was having an affair with Jo Ann Bain.
TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm said they don't know if Bain and Mayes were romantically involved. They know the families were friends, and early reports from the investigators said they were trying to determine if Jo Ann Bain had willingly gone with the suspect.
FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said on Tuesday investigators believed the two youngest daughters were still with Mayes.
Siskovic said no further details were available on the deaths or the search for Mayes. The FBI has not said how Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain died.
Meanwhile, FBI agents in green camouflage, carrying high-powered rifles joined K-9 units and SWAT teams in a search of the woods and back roads of north Mississippi near Mayes' home.
State troopers stopped vehicles and looked in trunks Monday, and FBI agents continued to search the yard of the house where Adam Mayes and his family were living.
Mayes was last seen a week ago in Guntown, about 80 miles south of the Bain family's home in Whiteville, Tenn.
Siskovic said authorities talked to Mayes early on in the investigation, but he fled when they tried to contact him again.
Mayes is considered armed and dangerous.
Linda Kirkland, a cook at the Country Cafe in Whiteville who is a Bain family friend, said the family was moving to Arizona because two of the girls had asthma.
Mayes also has ties to Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Booth said she told authorities to look for him in Florida, where he has relatives.
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Bobbi Booth says that Adam has relatives in Florida and they believe he is coming for a visit. Booth says investigators are now in Florida now looking for Mayes.

Mayes may be using the aliases Christopher Zachery Wylde or Paco Rodrigass. He should be considered armed and very dangerous. Call 1-800-TBI-FIND with any information
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(WMC-TV) – An interview between Teresa Mayes and investigators is revealing new details about the kidnapping of a Tennesse family and the murder of the mother and one of her daughters.
Teresa is the wife of Adam Mayes, the man suspected of the kidnapping and murders.
Wednesday, Teresa was charged with two counts of first degree murder in addition to the four previous charges of especially aggravated kidnapping.
In the latest police affidavit, it reveals that Teresa watched her husband kill Jo Ann Bain in a garage in Whiteville. She also told investigators Mayes killed Adrienne in the same town. She admits to driving the vehicle with the bodies inside it to Alpine, MS, where they were found buried in a backyard.
During the interview, Teresa also stated that Adam Mayes' plan was to kidnap the two younger girls. The murders of Jo Ann and Adrienne were directly part of the kidnapping.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will be holding a news conference at 2 p.m. regarding the search for Adam Mayes and Alexandria Bain, 12, and her sister Kyliyah, 8.
Mayes is on the run, and investigators believe he still has the other two girls with him.
Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters, Adrienne, Alexandria, and Kyliyah, went missing April 27 from their home in Hardeman County, TN.
The bodies of Jo Ann Bain and her daughter, Adrienne, 14, were found in the backyard of the Alpine, MS, home Mayes lived in with his wife, Teresa, and his parents, Mary Frances and Johnny Mayes.
Teresa and Mary Frances were arrested Tuesday and charged in connection with the kidnapping.
Teresa is charged with four counts of especially aggravated kidnapping. Mary Frances faces four counts of conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping.
Read more about their arrests and charges here.
Surveillance video surfaced Tuesday of Adam Mayes in a convenience store in Guntown, MS. The video was taken just three days after the family disappeared.
The video shows Mayes cut his hair.
The manhunt for him is still underway, and the reward for information leading to his arrest is on the rise. The reward currently sits at $71,000.
Keep in mind, Mayes is considered armed and extremely dangerous. He may be using the aliases Christopher Zachery Wylde or Paco Rodrigass.
If you have any information on Adam Mayes' whereabouts, you are asked to contact 1-800-TBI-FIND.
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Relative: Suspect thought kidnapped girls were his


Posted: May 10, 2012 2:56 AM CDT Updated: May 10, 2012 4:56 AM CDT


By ADRIAN SAINZ and SHEILA BURKE
Associated Press
GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi man on the run from a double-slaying thought he might be the father of the two girls he's now accused of kidnapping, his mother-in-law said.

Authorities said they think the missing girls, Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, are still with Adam Mayes, nearly two weeks after he fled with them.

In a Wednesday interview with The Associated Press, Mayes' mother-in-law, Josie Tate, said he thought the missing sisters might actually have been his daughters and that it caused problems in his marriage to her daughter, Teresa Mayes, who is jailed in the case.

"She was tired of him doting on those two little girls that he claimed were his," Tate said.

Authorities have put Mayes on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List and urged him to surrender.

"Turn the girls in, and then peaceably and safely turn yourself in to law enforcement," FBI Special Agent Aaron Ford said at a Wednesday news conference. "We believe Mayes could be anywhere in the United States, and we are extremely concerned for the safety of the girls."

Mayes and his wife, Teresa, were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the deaths of Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her daughter, Adrienne, 14. Their bodies were found buried outside the Mayes' home near Guntown, Miss., a week after they were reported missing by Jo Ann Bain's husband, Gary.

The reward for information leading to Mayes' arrest is now at more than $100,000.

Mayes' wife told investigators he killed Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain at their Whiteville, Tenn., home on April 27 so he could abduct the two young sisters who remain missing, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Authorities refused to comment on the motive for the April 27 slayings and abductions at the news conference.

Teresa Mayes told investigators that after she saw her husband kill the two in the garage at the Bain home near Whiteville, Tenn., she drove him, the younger girls and the bodies to Mississippi, according to affidavits filed in court.

Since the manhunt began for Mayes, people who knew him and the Bains have described him as unusually close to the family and the girls. He was described as a friend of Gary Bain, and the children considered him an uncle.

In an earlier interview, Tate's daughter, Bobbi Booth, said Teresa Mayes suspected her husband was having an affair with Jo Ann Bain.

Mayes was often at the Bain home. Authorities said he was spending the night there before the mother and daughters were reported missing so he could help the family to pack for a planned move to Tucson, Ariz., and then drive their belongings west.

A Facebook page Adam Mayes was using under an alias that was confirmed by law enforcement showed several photos of him and the Bain girls. One picture depicts Mayes and two of the girls smiling, all leaning next to one another cheek to cheek. The page has since been taken down.

Authorities said Alexandria has brown hair and hazel eyes and is 5 feet tall and 105 pounds. Kyliyah has blonde hair and brown eyes and is 4 feet tall and 57 pounds.

Mayes' mother-in-law, who lives in Chatsworth, Ga., said she's known him for 25 years but didn't approve of him because his family never seemed to stay in one place and he couldn't hold down a job.

"Teresa's father and I begged her: 'Do not marry him, do not go off with him, do not live with him,'" she said.

Tate described her daughter as a slow learner who spent her school life in special education. Teresa Mayes was also incapable of having her own children, she said.

The mother said she believed Mayes had threatened her daughter and perhaps his own mother, Mary Frances Mayes, who has also been charged with conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping.

Mary Mayes' attorney, Somerville attorney Terry Dycus, said his client maintains she is not guilty. Dycus said it was too early to discuss what the mother's defense would be.

"She agrees with the authorities that he's possibly dangerous, but her main concern is that the children be returned immediately and safely," Dycus said.

Teresa Mayes faces six felony counts in the case: two first-degree murder charges and four especially aggravated kidnapping charges.

"The feelings I have for Adam are as close to hate as I'll ever come because he's destroyed not only the Bain family but he's destroyed my family too," Tate said.

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Burke reported from Nashville, Tenn.
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Adam Mayes Captured; 2 Missing Bain Girls are safe
Adam Mayes has been captured. And the two missing girls, presumed to be with Adam Mayes, 12-year-old Alexandria, and 8-year-old Kyliyah are safe, with authorities at this time.
Mayes was recently added to the FBI's Most Wanted list for the murder of Jo Ann Bain, and her 14 year old daughter Adrienne.
According to Union County Sheriff Dept., Mayes was found with what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
At this time, Adam Mayes is alive, but is close to death according to the Union County Sheriff's Department.

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UNION COUNTY, MS --
Mississippi authorities say a fugitive accused of a double-slaying and kidnapping has been killed, but the two girls he fled with are safe.

Guntown Police Chief Michael Hall says 35-year-old Adam Mayes was killed Thursday evening. He says 12-year-old Alexandria Bain and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain are safe.

Hall says Mayes died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The chief says a SWAT team located Mayes and when they moved in to apprehend him, he shot himself.

He says the girls are being taken to a hospital for observation. It was not immediately clear if the girls were with Mayes.

Mayes' wife told investigators her husband killed Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain on April 27 at their home inWhiteville,Tenn., so he could abduct the two young sisters.
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Kidnap-slaying suspect kills himself; 2 girls OK
By ADRIAN SAINZ and HOLBROOK MOHR - Associated Press


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GUNTOWN, Miss. -- Authorities who tracked down a fugitive accused of kidnapping two girls and killing their mother and older sister said they repeatedly ordered him to surrender, but he instead pulled out a pistol and shot himself in the head.
Adam Mayes, 35, was later pronounced dead and the two sisters, Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, were rescued Thursday, ending a nearly two-week search that began when Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters disappeared from their Tennessee home April 27.
After getting a tip, law enforcement officers were sent to search a densely wooded area west of Mayes' home in Guntown, Miss., said Aaron T. Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis, Tenn., office.

At 6:50 p.m. Thursday, an officer saw Alexandria Bain in an area about 100 yards behind a church, Ford said. Officers shouted commands for Mayes to show his hands, Ford said. But Mayes pulled a semiautomatic pistol from his waistband and shot himself in the head, Ford said.
Law enforcement officers moved in to rescue the two girls, who were lying on the ground nearby. Ford said they looked like they had been in the woods for two or three days and were suffering from exposure, dehydration and poison ivy, but were otherwise safe.
"They were immediately given water as they were escorted to safety," Ford said. The girls were hospitalized "as a precaution," he said.
"We are very relieved at this event tonight," Ford said at an early Friday news conference. "We have two little girls that we can return to Tennessee to their family."
Mayes had been charged with first-degree murder in the April 27 deaths of Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her daughter, Adrienne Bain, 14. Their bodies were found buried outside Mayes' home a week after they were reported missing by Jo Ann Bain's husband.
Mayes' wife, Teresa, also is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths. She told investigators he killed Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain at their Whiteville, Tenn., home so he could abduct the two young sisters, according to court documents.
Ford and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn said authorities still had many unanswered questions and were continuing their investigation. They did not say how the girls and Mayes were able to survive in the woods.
Gwyn did not say whether there was specific evidence of people helping Mayes in Tennessee and Mississippi but added that investigators were still looking into that possibility and anyone found to have helped Mayes would be held responsible.
"Thank God it's over and the babies are safe," said Teresa Mayes' sister, Bobbi Booth. "That's all that mattered. I'm just glad it turned out the way it did."
Teresa Mayes told investigators that after she saw her husband kill the two in the garage at the Bain home, she drove him, the younger girls and the bodies to Mississippi, according to affidavits filed in court. She faces six felony counts in the case: two first-degree murder charges and four especially aggravated kidnapping charges.
Authorities refused to comment on the motive for the slayings and abductions.
Mayes' mother-in-law, Josie Tate, had told The Associated Press that Mayes thought the missing sisters might actually be his daughters and it caused problems in his marriage to her daughter, Teresa.
"She was tired of him doting on those two little girls that he claimed were his," Tate said.
Adam Mayes' mother, Mary Mayes, also has been charged with conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping. Mary Mayes' attorney, Somerville attorney Terry Dycus, said his client maintains she is not guilty.
The hunt for Adam Mayes and the two young sisters encompassed parts of at least three counties in northern Mississippi.
Dee Hart, who organized a Tuesday night vigil for the girls in Bolivar, Tenn., said their prayers were answered.
"No words can express our elation," she said by phone. "We know prayers brought those babies home. I can't wait to see them.

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(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.

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.

The FBI on Wednesday put Mayes on its list of 10 most wanted fugitives.

Mayes and his wife, Teresa, had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping. He faced an additional count of making a false report, according to arrest affidavits filed in Tennessee.

Adam Mayes’ mother-in-law told HLN’s Nancy Grace on Thursday that he may have believed he was the father of the two girls he was accused of abducting.

“He believes they are his children,” Josie Tate told Grace.

Police said Teresa Mayes told them she was in the Bains’ garage when Adam Mayes killed Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain. According to the law enforcement source, the two were strangled.

Teresa Mayes’ attorney, Shana Johnson, said Thursday that her client last saw Mayes and the Bain girls in Mississippi on April 27.

The Mayes and Bain families are connected through Adam Mayes’ sister Pamela, who used to be married to Jo Ann’s husband, Gary Bain, the lawyer said.

In affidavits, investigators said the Mayeses drove the bodies of Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain to Union County in northern Mississippi, where they were discovered Saturday in a shallow grave behind the house of Adam Mayes’ mother in Guntown.

Bobbi Booth, Mayes’ sister-in-law, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday night that she’s “overwhelmed right now.”

“All I’m (thinking) about now is that the children are safe,” Booth said. “Thank you, God, for letting those children come home.”

Booth described Adam Mayes as “aggressive, abusive, crazy obviously.”

But Booth said she never had an inkling Mayes would be accused of kidnapping and murder.

“I never dreamed that he would do this,” she said.
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Authorities: Kidnapped girls didn't eat for days
By ADRIAN SAINZ and HOLBROOK MOHR - Associated Press


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GUNTOWN, Miss. -- Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had already killed their mother and sister, and he was armed with a pistol as officers closed in.
Yet 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain went home to their father Friday alive, with no apparent injuries other than being tired, scared and itchy from poison ivy. They told the officers who found them that they had not had food or water for three days, said Mississippi Highway Patrol Master Sgt. Steve Crawford.
Beverly Goodman, the aunt of the slain mother, Jo Ann Bain, said she was relieved the girls were home but still saddened by the killings of Bain and Bain's 14-year-old daughter Adrienne.

Alex Gilbert / AP Photo - Aaron T. Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis, Tenn office, speaks during a news conference concerning the ongoing investigation of Adam Mayes and the four individuals he allegedly kidnapped in the Alpine community near Guntown Mississippi Friday May 10, 2012.
"He's been missing for so long. How do you hide out from 350 million people?" Goodman said. "I thought they were going to find them dead - the girls and him - so I am very, very relieved that those girls are home and they're not dead, like I figured they were gonna be."
At one point, Mayes had claimed to be the girls' father. That may be why he spared them, one criminologist said. It also may be that while he wanted to escape prosecution, he didn't believe the girls were better off dead. And he was close to the family, described as an uncle-like figure who smiled cheek-to-cheek with the girls in Facebook photos.
"He probably developed an attachment to them, and even the most vicious of killers can separate the world into people they care about, people they detest and people they don't care about," said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.
Authorities said Mayes, 35, killed Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne on April 27 in Whiteville, Tenn. Mayes' wife, Teresa Mayes, is charged with murder in the killings. She told investigators she saw her husband kill the mother and oldest girl, then drove him, the younger children and the bodies to Mississippi, according to court documents. His mother, Mary Mayes, also is charged in the kidnapping but maintains she is not guilty.
Adam Mayes was hiding out with the girls in the woods just miles from his home in Mississippi, and some 90 miles from where the sisters were kidnapped in Tennessee. The area is frequented by hunters and dotted with deer hunting stands and other wood structures that one law enforcement official said may have been used for shelter.
An officer combing through the area spotted Alexandria Bain face down on the ground Thursday evening about 100 yards behind a church. They also saw the younger girl and Mayes prone on the ground. Officers yelled for Mayes to show his hands, but he got to his knees, pulled a 9mm pistol from his waistband and shot himself in the head, said Aaron T. Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis, Tenn., office. Mayes did not say anything before shooting himself, and he did not brandish the gun toward the girls or officer

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Adam Mayes, a suspected killer and kidnapper who was on the the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list, will now be a research cadaver, CNN reports.

After Mayes' family refused to accept his remains, the body was sent to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where students will use it for research and educational purposes.

Officials allege that Mayes, 35, killed Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her daughter Adrienne, 14, on April 27 at their home in Whiteville, Tenn. He is then accused of kidnapping Bain's younger daughters, Alexandria, 12, and Kyliyah,8.

Mayes and the girls were missing for two weeks before authorities cornered the accused man in Mississippi, CNN reports. Mayes then shot himself in the head and died. The girls survived.

The body had been with the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office since early May. It was picked up from there and delivered to the university's forensic department this week.

Mayes' mother and ex-wife are both accused of helping him and face charges for their alleged roles in his crimes.

"We've had some unusual cases but none like this where the family won't even accept the remains," Mark Golding, medical examiner in Union County, Mississippi, told WMC-TV.

Golding later added: "He can go on for research and education and maybe a bad thing, after a bad thing has happened maybe something good can come of it."
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