Mom, daughter found dead; 2 sisters still missing - The intense search for a man accused of abducting a Tennessee woman and her three daughters continued Tuesday after authorities said the mother and her oldest daughter were found dead in north Mi

Mom, daughter found dead; 2 sisters still missing
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By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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.
Bain and her daughters may be in "extreme danger" after they were
abducted in Tennessee and last seen in Mississippi, but they could be
in another state where their suspected kidnapper has connections,
authorities said Saturday, May 5, 2012. The Mississippi Highway Patrol
issued an Amber Alert on Saturday morning, and Tennessee authorities
also have issued an alert.

(05-08) 05:56 PDT Guntown, Miss. (AP) --

The intense search for a man accused of abducting a Tennessee woman
and her three daughters continued Tuesday after authorities said the
mother and her oldest daughter were found dead in north Mississippi,
behind a house the alleged kidnapper rented.

Authorities are looking for Adam Mayes, a 35-year-old family friend
accused of abducting Jo Ann Bain and her daughters. Mayes was at the
Bains' house helping them pack to move to Arizona when the mother and
her three daughters vanished April 27, authorities said.

The bodies of Bain and her 14-year-old daughter, Adrienne Bain, were
discovered late last week and positively identified. The FBI did not
say how the two died.

The FBI said it believed the other daughters — 12-year-old Alexandria
and 8-year-old Kyliyah — were still with Mayes. The agency did not say
why it thought that, and FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said no further
details were available on the deaths or the search for Mayes.

However, he did tell The Associated Press Tuesday morning that
authorities are optimistic.

"We're still working on the belief that the youngest two daughters are
alive," Siskovic said. "We're still hopeful."

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 searched the yard of a home in rural Union County, seeking
clues.

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.

The search for Mayes, considered to be armed and dangerous, will be a
24-hour effort, said Jimmy Edwards, sheriff of Union County. The area
has a mix of heavy woods and farmland, and is crisscrossed by two-lane
back roads.

"We don't have anything to confirm or deny his whereabouts. We're
still searching," Edwards said.

Fliers with the girls' photos and descriptions were being distributed
in Mississippi and Tennessee. A billboard on a main street in
Nashville, Tenn., featured a picture of Mayes.

Jo Ann Bain's Facebook page showed in the days before she vanished 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.

Mayes and the Bains were 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.

Both Gary Bain and Mayes were once married to sisters, Tennessee
Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said.

Mayes had stayed over at the Bains' house to help the family pack and
load up a U-Haul to drive across the country to Arizona, Helm said.
Gary Bain, who was at the house that night, awoke to find his wife,
daughters and Mayes gone.

He couldn't reach his wife on her cell phone that day, and reported
them missing when the girls didn't get off the school bus.

Linda Kirkland, a family friend and cook at the Country Cafe in
Whiteville, said the woman and her daughters were moving to Arizona
because two of the girls had asthma.

Mayes also has ties to Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina
and Florida.

___

Associated Press writers Lucas Johnson II in Nashville, Tenn., and
Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Miss., contributed to this report.



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