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
kill the oldest girl? that s right. and that may have been the motivation behind the entire crime spree. he wanted them. so strange. and fascinating to hear from the wife and the mother who were in on that. have been charged and arrested at this point. they have to have some insight, you would think, into what led them to do this. and this was a family affair. and the wife has been charged with first-degree murder. first it was aggravated kidnapping, then first-degree murder. the mother, i believe, sort of conspiracy charges have been leveled against her. so they knew what was going on. they are singing to the cops, too. they are talking. the wife, teresa mayes, drove the with the bodies and the two children. glad partially happy ending. let s say that. well, moving on. if you are flying this weekend, you may notice that security is a lot tighter than usual. abc news has learned that airports are increasing those full-body scans as well as
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.
and that may have been the motivation behind the entire crime spree. he wanted them. so strange. and fascinating to hear from the wife and the mother who were in on that. have been charged and arrested at this point. they have to have some insight, you would think, into what led them to do this. and this was a family affair. and the wife has been charged with first-degree murder. first it was aggravated kidnapping, then first-degree murder. the mother, i believe, sort of conspiracy charges have been leveled against her. so they knew what was going on. they are singing to the cops, too. they are talking. the wife, teresa mayes, drove the with the bodies and the two children. glad partially happy ending. let s say that. well, moving on. if you are flying this weekend, you may notice that security is a lot tighter than usual. abc news has learned that airports are increasing those full-body scans as well as