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Adam Mayes, briefly the most-wanted fugitive in America, shothimself in the head on Thursday as police approached a spot inthick Mississippi woods where he was hiding with the remaining twodaughters from the abducted Bain family of Tennessee. Police found 12-year-old Alexandria Bain and 8-year-old KyliyahBain alive and unharmed on the ground nearby. The girls were "hungry, thirsty and dehydrated" and suffering fromexposure and poison ivy, said Aaron T. Ford, special agent incharge of the FBI's Memphis division. "They look like they've been in the woods for three days," Fordsaid. The girls were released to unidentified family members early onFriday after spending the night at Le Bonheur Children's Hospitalin Memphis, hospital spokeswoman Anne Glankler said. The discovery of the girls unharmed ended a week-long, multi-agencymanhunt across two states that thrust the rural border area intothe national spotlight. The saga began in the rural western Tennessee town of Whiteville onApril 27 when the husband of Jo Ann Bain, 31, reported his wife andthree girls missing. FAMILY FRIEND? Authorities described Mayes as a friend of the Bain family, butsaid the relationship went wrong when the Bains announced a plan tomove to Arizona. According to criminal affidavits filed in Hardeman County,Tennessee, Mayes and his wife, Teresa, allegedly drove toWhiteville on April 27 to kidnap the girls, and killed their motherand older sister in the process. Teresa Mayes then drove the girls and the corpses to Alpine,Mississippi, some 75 miles away, where Adam Mayes buried thecorpses before disappearing into the woods with his captives. Teresa Mayes has been charged with two counts of first degreemurder and two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping. AdamMayes' mother, Mary, has been charged with four counts of intent tocommit especially aggravated kidnapping. According to court affidavits, Teresa Mayes told investigators thatAdam Mayes had intended to take the two younger girls. The bodies of Jo Ann Bain and her daughter Adrienne Bain, 14, werediscovered on May 4 in shallow graves behind the double-widetrailer Adam Mayes had shared with his parents and wife. The surviving daughters lived for days with their captor in an areaof uneven terrain thick with brush and concealed by towering oakand pine trees. So dense are the woods that search teams had combedthe same area at least twice before the Thursday discovery of AdamMayes and the girls without finding the trio, said Union County,Mississippi, Sheriff Jimmy Edwards. Local residents Ronald and Aileene Roberts witnessed the repeatedsearches from their home near the site of the final confrontation. "It's amazing when someone knocks on your door and you open it tosee someone standing there in head-to-toe camouflage with a helmetstrapped to his head and a gun in his hand," Aileene Roberts saidon Friday. "And then you look out, and your yard is full of them." Ronald Roberts led a small group of reporters to the spot where thecouple said Mayes ended his life. It bore the evidence ofThursday's violence - blood splattered upon fallen leaves, medicalgauze and a tracheotomy tube laying nearby. Police did not say how the four additional people arrested -including a husband and wife and the adult son of the husband -were linked to the Mayes case. The couple were arrested forpossessing a weapon and the son had been wanted previously byMississippi authorities. The FBI had offered a $100,000 reward for Adam Mayes, and onWednesday placed him No. 1 on the bureau's "Ten Most WantedFugitive List." The FBI reward was in addition to $71,000 alreadyoffered by other sources. (Writing by Daniel Trotta; editing by Dan Burns, Doina Chiacu andMohammad Zargham). I am an expert from interactivetouchkiosk.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Digital Signage Kiosk Manufacturer , Wall Mounted Kiosk Manufacturer, Banking Kiosk,and more.
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