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Bain Girls Found!

May 11, 2012

The Bain family was reported missing on April 27th. It was mother Jo Ann and her three daughters. On May 4th the bodies of Jo Ann and her eldest daughter Andrienne were found at Guntown, Mississippi. The two young girls that remained missing were Alexandria, 12, and Kyliyah, 8.

Just yesterday, the end of a days-long manhunt seemed within reach. A tip to the FBI led officers to the area. The tip was not that Mayes had been spotted but that there was an old log cabin at the back of a church that might be a good hiding place.

State officers approached the area and noticed the two girls lying on their stomachs. From where they lay they could see Adam Mayes, the man who took them from their home in Tennessee and had them hiding in the Mississippi woods.

As the officers drew near Mayes he pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. The girls watched as it happened. “They were close enough to see what was going on when he killed himself,” FBI spokesman Jason Pack said. The girls were tended to by two agents and taken 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. “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 had said. “There was no shelter or anything. It looks like they were in the open woods. They were dehydrated and dirty, like they were here for several days,” he said.

Alexandria and Kyliyah were released during the night from Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Tennessee, hospital spokeswoman Sara Burnett said.
Adam Mayes’ mother-in-law, Josie Tale, told HLN’s Nancy Grace on Thursday that Mayes may have believed he was the father of the two girls he was accused of kidnapping.

Police said Teresa Mayes told them she was in the Bains’ garage when Adam Mayes killed Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain. In affidavits, investigators said the Mayeses drove the bodies of Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain to Union County in northern Mississippi where they were found in a shallow grave in Guntown. Mayes and Teresa had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping.

Bobbi Booth, Mayes’ sister-in-law, described Adam Mayes as “aggressive, abusive, crazy obviously.” “I never dreamed that he would do this,” she had said.

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