Adam Mayes Dead: Bain Girls Witnessed Suicide
The two missing Bain sisters have been found, but not before witnessing the suicide of their kidnapper Adam Mayes, according to the FBI.
Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, were discovered Thursday in a wooded area behind a church in Alpine, Miss. FBI special agent Aaron Ford told reporters a special operations team followed a tip locating Adam Mayes, the man accused of abducting the girls, and that Mayes shot himself when ordered to surrender.
When investigators approached the scene, "the girls were on their stomach face down," said FBI spokesman Jason Pack, according to CNN. "They were close enough to see what was going on when he killed himself."
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The two girls were reported missing on Apr. 27. They appeared to be suffering from exposure, dehydration, and poison ivy.
Jo Ann Bain, the girls' mother, as well as their 14-year-old sister Adrienne, were found dead on the property where Mayes lived in Guntown, Miss. on Friday.
Upon their recovery, the Bain sisters were tended to by two female agents who also rode with them in an ambulance to the hospital.
"They were scared and relieved," said Pack. "They were hungry and thirsty. They gave them water and we drove them out right away."
It is uncertain whether Mayes used an old log cabin behind the church, but it is believed that he and the Bain sisters were in the area for a few days.
"There was no shelter or anything," said Pack. "They were dehydrated and dirty, like they were here for several days."
Mayes was pronounced dead at a hospital after a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Union County Deputy Coroner Rob Anderson told Reuters. The kidnapper was charged Tuesday with the first-degree murders of Jo Ann Bain and Adrienne Bain.
Josie Tate, Mayes' mother-in-law, revealed in an interview that Mayes believed the Bain sisters were his own daughters, according to The Associated Press.
Additionally, a friend of Mayes said that the kidnapper was "obsessed" with the young Bain girls, Fox News reported.
