A small blonde child peeking over a ridge and spotted by Mississippi state highway troopers led to the rescue of Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain, ages 12 and 8, from kidnapper Adam Mayes on Thursday night, police said in a news conference today.
Moments later, Mayes — kneeling in the grass next to the children — shot himself in what his mother-in-law called the “coward’s way out.”
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“We saw something lying down by the wood line that caught our attention. We took another five steps, and I gazed around and saw one of the children. An officer started hollering, ‘Get your hands up,'” said Master Sgt. Steve Crawford at a news conference today.
The highway patrol and state fish and wildlife officers were searching the wooded area for a cabin that they were told Mayes, 35, may have been hiding in with the two girls he kidnapped two weeks earlier from their home in Tennessee.
Mayes is also suspected of killing the girls’ sister, Adrienne, 14, and mother, JoAnn, 37, in order to kidnap the younger girls, whom he thought were his children, relatives have said. The girls had been living with JoAnn and her husband, Gary Bain, and the family was planning to move to Arizona at the end of the school year.
As police searched for the cabin last night, they caught sight of one girl and then another and, finally Mayes’ head popped up.
“All three were lying face down on the ground trying to take cover,” Crawford said.
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Tate said that her daughter had called police multiple times for domestic violence accusations against Adam Mayes, and that he had been a controlling, violent person that threatened Josie throughout their years together.
Teresa Mayes is charged with murder and especially aggravated kidnapping for her role in assisting Mayes. She is being held in a Tennessee jail.
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During the investigation, police arrested Mayes’ wife, Teresa, and mother, Mary Mayes, in connection with the murder and kidnapping. According to the warrants, Teresa Mayes told police she witnessed Adam kill JoAnn Bain in the garage of the Bain’s home, and then kill Adrienne Bain in the home itself.
Adam and Teresa Mayes then took the dead bodies and two young girls to the Mayes’ home in Mississippi, where Adam Mayes buried the two bodies, the documents state.
The bodies were found earlier this week in the backyard of the home Mayes shares Teresa and his mother and father.
