The following day, he and the two girls were spotted in a heavily wooded area; during the capture attempt, Mayes reportedly shot himself in the head and later died from his wounds.

His mother, Mary Mayes, pleaded guilty to two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping and was sentenced to 13 1/2 years.

[7] Gary Bain had previously been married for 20 years to Adam Mayes' eldest sister, Pamela; they divorced in 2002.

Only when he could not reach his wife by cell phone and his daughters did not return from school the next day did he report them missing.

On April 30, Jo Ann Bain's SUV was found abandoned on a country road in Tennessee.

[11][9] The Union County sheriff said emergency medical technicians transported Mayes via ambulance to Baptist Memorial Hospital, New Albany, Mississippi, in critical condition.

[13][14] On July 30, 2012, the FBI announced that it had paid out reward money to several individuals for information leading to the capture of Mayes.

Her mother claimed that Adam had coerced and brainwashed the intellectually challenged Teresa into abetting his crimes.

[22] The court ordered a psychological evaluation of both Mary and Teresa Mayes and rescheduled their first hearing for June 19.

In the statement, Teresa claimed that Adam had planned the kidnappings and murders a year in advance due to his romantic interest in Alexandria Bain, then age 12.

On the night of April 26, she told officials that Adam attempted to kill the girls' father, Gary Bain, by giving him two Tequila Sunrise cocktails laced with Visine and other prescription drugs.

Teresa and her husband drove the two younger girls and the two corpses to Guntown, where Adam buried the bodies in his mother's backyard.

[3][4] In 2016, both Mary and Teresa Mayes were moved to the Women's Therapeutic Residential Center within West Tennessee State Penitentiary due to good behavior.