especially aggravated kidnapping. the arrest warrants say teresa mayes helped her ex-husband by, quote, driving the vehicle that contained the victims from the bain family home in tennessee to the mayes trailer home in mississippi where the two bodies were found. court documents charge mayes and his wife teresa with first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping. his wife teresa is now behind bars, and police say she has confessed saying mayes killed jo ann in the bains whiteville, tennessee, garage and adrienne inside the house. the fbi tells abc news mayes motives are still unclear. authorities tell us they are giving those little girls lots of hugs this morning. there s no telling what they ve been through. their mother and their sister are dead. they are recovering, and, thankfully, this manhunt is now over. yunji de nies, abc news, guntown, mississippi. apparently they are saying he believed those two girls were his children. so maybe is that the theory why he didn t kill th
sister, is dead. preliminary reports indicate mayes shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead at an area hospital. reporter: the two murders spurred a desperate race against time to find the elusive mayes and his captives before he could kill again. adam mayes was charged with murdering jo ann bain and her 14-year-old daughter adrienne and kidnapping bains two younger daughters. his motives are unclear. mayes mtougo girls were his daughters. there was two little girls that he was just absolutely obsessed with. he was claiming that those two children were his. he made us all think that that was his kids. reporter: mayes was on the fbi s most wanted list as authorities scoured the country for him and the two girls. mayes and his wife teresa were charged with first-degree murder. tee gand cf cf adrienne inside th larry jacobs, abc news. okay. in other news this morning, the defense gets its turn now in the
police say mayes was found by mississippi highway patrol officers who came upon him in the woods. preliminary reports indicate mayes shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead at an area hospital. reporter: the two girls he kidnapped, alexandria and kyliyah bain, were found alive and appear unharmed. the drama began about two weeks ago when the bains went missing and the hunt for adam mayes began. he was at their home in tennessee the night the family disappeared. mayes was charged with first-degree murder after the bodies of jo ann bain and her daughter adrienne were found buried outside his home. police say mayes kept the younger girls alive, driving them with their mother and sisters bodies to guntown, mississippi, where he lived with his mother, father and wife. 65-year-old mary mayes and his ex-wife, 31-year-old teresa ann mayes, were both arrested monday night and charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping.
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i m on the list in my own mind. you have a tougher schedule than some of those women. you re on my list. our favorite story of the day this morning, you want to talk about a very brave little lady. she is battling cancer, but that is not stopping her from helping others who are battling as well. get your tissues out for this one. this one is going to break your heart. you ll see very quickly why this is our favorite story of the day. just turning her disease into something very, very magical. and i cry easy. i m just waiting for it. your tissues are right there. thank you. before all of that, the sisters were taken to a tennessee hospital to be checked out, but they appear at this point to be unharmed. the man police say kidnapped the girls and killed their mother and older sister is dead. abc s yunji de nies reports on the very latest from mississippi. reporter: it all ended here in the woods behind this church in guntown, mississippi, just a few miles from adam mayes