
fbi.gov
Jo Ann Bain and her daughters, Adrienne, 14, Alexandria, 12, and Kyliyah, 8, are believed to have been abducted by a family friend, Adam Mayes. Police believe the two younger girls are still with Mayes.
Police have arrested the wife and mother of Adam Mayes, the man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her oldest daughter and kidnapping the woman's two youngest daughters, authorities said Tuesday.
NBC station WMC-TV in Memphis reported that Adam Mayes' wife, Teresa Mayes, is charged with four counts of aggravated kidnapping and his mother, Mary Francis Mayes, is charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping. They were arraigned Tuesday morning, WMC reported.

Miss. Dept. Of Public Safety / AP
This undated photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows Adam Mayes.
In a police affidavit, Teresa Mayes admits that she was involved in taking the Bain family from Hardeman County by driving them to Union County, Miss., WMC said.
The affidavit also said that Mary Francis Mayes knew about the crimes.
Teresa Mayes' bond is set at $500,000; Mary Mayes, $300,000, WMC reported.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation referred to Teresa Mayes as Adam Mayes' ex-wife.
Teresa Mayes' sister, Bobbi Booth, earlier told WMC that Adam Mayes and his wife lived with his parents in Alpine, Miss. Booth said her sister told her she knew about the killings, but Booth thought Teresa Mayes may have been too scared to call the police.
The bodies of Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne Bain were found behind a house in northern Mississippi late last week.
The FBI said it believed the other daughters — 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah — were still with Mayes.
Word of the arrest came as the search for Mayes, 35, continued.
On April 27, Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters disappeared. Their car was found in a field not far from their Whiteville home. Her husband, Gary, reported them missing.
Earlier: FBI: Bodies identified as missing mother, daughter
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I won't be happy until I read that this guy died from severe sodomy while in prison.
I think slowly lowering him into a wood chipper, feet first, would be more fitting....... and then send in the rest if his inbreed family.
Your right and it sounds like the whole family is involved.
What a despicable bunch of sub-human crap. How could a mother and wife subject any one else to this horrible crime? They are truly heartless and they deserve what ever is in store for them once the law catches up with them. I hope those two little girls are still alive, but they will be scarred forever. RIP to the mother and daughter.
Ned Beatty would tell you that these people are the offspring of the rednecks in the movie "Deliverance"
do people really think they'll get away with something like this?!?!?
With an entire family involved, how is it possible that not even one of them could have said, "hey, you know what, this is one of the stupidest things we can do. How about we not do it". Instead, they just went right along with the other idiots.
my prayers go to the family for the safe return of the other children. this is a horrible crime and these are not just criminals, these are evil criminals.
just wanted to point out that this is another heartless crime by an American citizen, and not by a illegal immigrant.
albkik: Did your mother ever teach you about time and place? I do not think so based on your comment. This is not an immigration issue or something to say, see not only blank does this time of horrible crime. Who the phuck cares about the last part of your statement, when you look at the photos of those innocent little girls and their mother and see all the innocence and promises that are lost and potentially will be lost. You should be ashamed of yourself for bring up an irrelevant subject matter.
Disgusting people.
I have driven through Whiteville, i can't tell you how many times, its like 40 minutes from my door. Its the only town on Hwy 64 that isn't a speed trap. Really nice people, quiet and now this insanity. How the freak do you decide to help kidnap a mother and three daughters? How do you decide to just allow someone to kill a mother and daughter and DO NOTHING? HOW DO YOU DECIDE TO END THE WORLD FOR A WHOLE FAMILY, A TOWN, as well as your own worthless lives? This wife and mother deserve as much time as this SCUM bag gets when they finally catch him...use them to plug the next BP oil spill.
I hope they give this family a VH1 reality show!
I hope he is already dead but the other children are ok and will be found soon.
This rampage has to be drug related. I am almost hoping meth is involved because it was at the very least explain this type of human behavior...if not God help us all.
This guys needs to be sodomized with a burning hot metal rod. Along with his wife and mother.
Excellent! I say that all states should adopt that method and reserve it only for the most heinous rapist/murderers, even the states that have abolished the death penalty!
"Your sentence: DEATH BY BOFO!!!!"
I sure hope the other two girls might be found alive.
@ Watt77
I smell money here. I'd be looking at the hubby as a possibility. He supposedly hired this man to help move his family. Could be the husband actually paid this man to kidnap and kill his family. That could explain why the kidnapper's mother and wife were involved. If the husband was moving, he might have wanted a clean start with no baggage from his old life.
We are becoming a vicious violent society. Hey, but in the old days we had KKK members lynching people because their skin color was different. We killed as many of the Natives as we could--all for a massive land grab. As a country, we'll be lucky to last another 25 years--and we brought it on ourselves.
This creep looks about as normal as Joe Scarborough.
I always was taught it was death by "unguya"...
Seriously....I would add dull, idling slowly, wood chipper
Psycopath..sociopath and pediphile all in one family. What a bunch!
At the very least, these two women took enabling to the extreme. Unless, like me, you believe that psychopaths band together when they have a use for one another. With such a recognizable face, there is a strong possibility that he is still being assisted.
Sick mother phuckers!
Time to roll out the ol twelve foot bullwhip.
Yea, 'cuz each and every one of us reading your post today, are vicious, violent killers. *rolls eyes*
It certainly reads as if most are . . .
I know, it's pretty horrible to read. Really strange to read people abhorring one piece of violence and then suggesting more violence to 'correct' it. And you wonder why the violence happened to start with.
I hope that these young ones can make it through this and heal. How terrible. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
And did the folks who like to make racists comments about an entire race of people if the latest crime story involves a black criminal miss this story????
They're kinda numb to all that white-on-white crime we tend to ignore looking for black kids in hoodies, Muslim kids with exploding underwear, gay kids in general, and anchor babies.
Please stop pointing out that white people do bad things too; it messes with their confirmation bias.
amen
This comment is reaching a bit painfully far to make a faint point. Your issue is about so much black on black crime goes by without a word, but let a white person kill a black person, boy howdie, get the press cause we're gonna march. No one ever said whites don't commit crimes on whites. It is almost painful to see the reach in your comment.
I agree.
wish the trolling racist trolls would stop generating more hate. I know it's the only excuse you have these days to stay misearable and worthless.
I always said I don't worry about having a colored neighbor to much BUT I DO WORRY about some snagle toothed Southern WHITE TRASH living next to me I mean they are the DUMBest neighbors to have OFF the wall or what Look at the guys picture isn't that a look of sickness INBRED sickness
Why do some people...I mean you and the likes of you...have to group people together under some ignorant title in their nasty little minds just to make themselves feel adequate? Southern does not equal inbred. A$$hole does = A$$hole though.
If, you are going to insult someone R-Sticker, it would be much more effective if you were to learn how to use a little more punctuation.
Clearly, as your post certainly depicts, white trash is not just limited to the southern states
I really hate to say this because I am a huge fan but he does look a little like Tom Petty. Doesn't he. LMFAO
At first I thought his pic was just someone's poor attempt at trying to draw what he looks like. But I guess that was the wrong idea lol.
Colored? Really, that's funny....
Well, North Carolina voters, here's a shining example of why heterosexuals should not be allowed to marry. Imagine the horror if they then cross state lines to the east, instead of to the west. ;-)
@ R-Sticker..........FU U dirt bag MF
Collapsed by the community? What's wrong, truth hurts?
If these 2 women were involved, they deserve the same torture as the main suspect. Drop them off in a male prison yard and let them get stabbed, raped, sodomized and all of the other good things that they have coming to them.
If I were his wife or his mother, I'd want to find him a different family too.
I'm really curious as to the motive for this crime.
Better Gene pool?
Just goes to show you that some people should not be allowed to breed.
What a creepy family.
Frustrated - More than likely, the motive is pedophilia related. I truly hope the two girls are found soon.
I'm really hoping they find the other two girls alive too. It's heartbreaking that someone could do something so horrendous but we read about these things much too often. It's beyond me how a wife and mother could help their husband/son do something so terrible.
steelerfanfl - Although I am a steeler fan and from Florida too, why do so many people wish to have the maniacs in prisons rape, sodomize and kill people? I certainly don't wish the best for them, I am frankly more concerned about the mentality of those that are so vengeful to wish such horrible things on others to make themselves feel better that justice is served.
I don't want to pay for them to live in jail for the rest of their lives, but I also don't think you can rehabilitate these special kind of freaks. A quick bullet to the head when found guilty through due process. No 10 -20 year appeals process, no need to make them suffer or be punished for their crimes, just get them off the earth before they do any more harm. I don't care if they suffer slowly in a wood chipper or die instantly, just get it over with and turn them into worm food.
If you consider those the good things I'd sure hate to see what you consider bad things.
Really, out of an entire family, no one thought that this might be a bad thing to do? Just from the photograph of this man, inbreeding appears to be alive and well in some of our southernmost states. I hope now that one of them actually does something right and noble and the other two girls are found before it's too late.
Do you really have to relegate inbreeding to southern states? Really? Think. Really.
By the photograph you can tell this? Are you a doctor?
Careful, lawful1.....your ignorance is showing.
YEA I can tell
Yes. Really. Southern states, and rural areas in the north. Yes.
To read why guys say, you'd think that sexual molestion of children by parents never occurs in the city. Careful, your ignorance is showing.
Hmmmm.....thousands of years have diluted the inbreeding, so what's your point? If you believe that all came from adam and eve. Just sayin.
It just occurs more in the south where the most over heard pickup line is: "Come on Sis! Get in the truck"
Talk about your twists and turns... This has the makings of a hollywood movie written all over it.
Whats next? The Father was in on it too? How many people knew about the murders but were too afraid to come forward? This just gets more bizzare by the day.
Don't worry though. With that dog face he will be spotted soon. Unfortunantely it may already be too late to help the remaining 2 little girls.
I'll bet on that he is what they grew up with
I can tell when it is a constant generation after generation with these southern WHITE trash Ridge runners
So if people aren't up to YOUR standards then they must be beneath you, correct?
I mean, you and your people(meaning family and friends) are the normal we must all strive to be. If we aren't just like you we are horrible and unintelligent.
Get off your pedestal.
We keep getting more and more information. My bet is on the fact that this "friend of the family" thinks that the youngest two are his kids cause he had an affair with the mother. That is why his mom and Wife were in on it. Any takers???
Actually, no.
I just read an article that said the mom and wife saw him dig a grave.The wife also suspected he was having an affair.
@ Okeeboy : It's called Crinimal Minds on CBS and it's a great show...
Dos Locos - If you're like any of the other women I know, you really only like Criminal Minds because of Shemar Moore.
(Although, I doubt that picture is of the person who posted the comment.)
rich in MO Those girls are too pretty to be Adam Maye's children, imo.
@ R-Sticker..........FU U dirt bag MF
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I don't care what race the perpetrator is, PUNISH THEM. The person who did this is SICK. AND scared or not WHAT kind of family knows and does not tell? Obviously, he took off....OK, "he's gone. Call the police!". NO EXCUSE.
exactly!! what does race have to do with this?? a crime has been commited and 2 children are still missing, I hope they capture all who are involved!
Please get back to the problem at hand...there is a man with two young girls. He or someone has killed the mother and oldest sister. Spread this around Facebook so that if someone working in a gas station or drive thru sees him they may call the police and save these little girls. No one yet has said why he took this family.
Race matters here because if they were a different race, there would be 500+ pages of racists remarks, but since whites don't like the truth, they collapse comments. Ridiculous it's a proven fact.
How, why? This story is crazier by the moment. Let's hope the cops get some info from the wife and mother. What horrible people they must be.
We all need to be looking for this guy! Perhaps the girls can be saved.
I am still confused as to the motive behind this crime. I will never understand the disregard for human life and this case just stuns me every time I read about it. Please let them find the remaining two girls safe.
It's CLAN against CLAN just like the islamist like all the conservitave bassakewards cave man mentality
It's tribal christian islamists
As stated above...
We keep getting more and more information. My bet is on the fact that this "friend of the family" thinks that the youngest two are his kids cause he had an affair with the mother. That is why his mom and Wife were in on it. Any takers???
Tribal Christian Islamist ????? Is that supposed to be a reference to Obama ??
Rich....I was thinking the same thing.
@R-Sticker.....If you don't shut your punk a$$ mouth boy, I'm gonna hire a hacker and find out where you are MF.
Rofl @ wereallscrewed. Haaaa, are you mad?
rich - No takers on that theory. Who would want to have sex with that ugly psychopathic freak???? Nobody - that's who.
It'll come out that the guy is a perv and then you will have your motive.
So sick and twisted. People need to be more aware that bad things can and do happen, and be ready to act if such a time ever arises in your life. If this woman was truly just too scared to call police, she is going to live the rest of her life regretting her non-action. In a life-threatening situation, being able to act decisively will often make the difference. You dont need to be 100% composed, you dont need to be GI Joe, just be able to do the right thing despite the fear!!!!!
Have we looked at George Bush for this crime. He gets blamed for everything else by the Left Wing Liberal Socialists Racists
you are an absolute idiot...
Give it a rest Carl. There is absolutely nothing political about this and you know it.
I blame CARL for the dumbing down of America.
I was going to say ass, but idiot is good!
You know Carl.... a generous application of Preparation 'H' would make you disappear.
Yep, I blame Carl, too.
What a nightmare and tragedy for that family. Let's hope law enforcement catches that fiend before he does even more harm to the other little girls. Prayers.
Doesn't he look a lot like the eye witness sketches of aliens from outer space? Although he doesn't look intelligent enough to be an alien.
I was thinking the same thing!! Once I scrolled down to his picture I felt like he was staring through me. Im alone and ready to hide under the desk after seeing that picture!
I thought it was a sketch at first not an actual picture...until i read the caption lol.
Keanu reeves crossed with Mick Mars. Through in some Marilyn Manson.
He looks like steve buscemi that played the crazy guy in con air.
You're a trip Leroy.
His face screams inbred. He has sommer teeth too...sommer here, sommer there...
This story just doesnt make any sense. Too many unanswered questions. Makes my head hurt.
What is the motive behind this low-life, his wife & mother doing this? I haven't seen it reported anywhere why this happened & what the motive for killing the mother, eldest daughter, & then kidnapping the 2 youngest girls is.
I think they took them all at once.
I am going to make yes a stereotypical guess by the looks of these people and say these poor children are part of a meth mess ...
I vote Meth will be at the bottom.. It is the only drug I have seen affect a whole family unit like that.
Husband, wife , mother.. Family friends.. ETC
BTW what is the husband saying?
My guess is that there was an affair going on maybe for a long time (DNA should be done on the children) and her getting ready to leave for Vegas set the whole plan in motion?? Notice how the two missing children do not look like the oldest daughter who was murdered ?? just a guess
RWV very good spin.. I think that too is very good guess..
And the plot thickens. (or sickens)
I totaly agree with RWV. That all made sence to me since reading that the mom and oldest were murdered.
I think what really happened was that the guy used a form of submission( Gun) to lure them into a car, then when the Mom and daughter( both capable of fighting back) tried to stop( he pulled the trigger on both) leaving the two children, which he then took away, out of panic. The 2 other people involved are also in on it, they witnessed what he had done, and knew that they had to keep quiet( possible culture) to save his ass. Now they are in trouble. He's probably hiding in one of the few places he considers "safe". He's from the south so I guess police should ask Neighbors where he would go on a road trip. (or even father who has had a relationship with him.) Also, he's probably either jacked a car or using a friends/family members car to reach his destination.( also check near by sheds).
Good luck finding him, and make sure he gets enough pain to suffer greatly please.
RWV, okay, I can go with some of that, though the whole meth thing might also play a part. Still, an entire family wold have to collectively have the IQ of an animal cracker to think no one would notice a missing mother and 14-year-old ... or that the two younger girls wouldn't talk to the first stranger or convenience store clerk they came in contact with.
I think the two younger children look like their mother. I see zero resemblance to that pos.
There's no motive, this is what whites do.
Mom and Oldest had more ability to fight back... but I'm thinking RWV is onto something...would make sense as to why wife helped him kidnap them. Wife probably found out about two younger girls and affair, he probably manipulated wifey (because she's obviously missing a few brain cells), and said if she helped him, he'd still love her.
Simply an awful crime.
So the wife helped take the family...did she say why they did it? Why they killed the mother and her oldest daughter? I hate articles that don't provide much info
What it is with people in the south?
Seriously? I live in Alabama...but from Illinois...believe me...there are plenty of sick @!$%#s up North...so don't be such a bigot...
SilverCat, you must have your eyes shut and your ears plugged! Personally, I don't have the time to individually point out to you the mass amount of killers from up north. AND, neither am I going to waste my time on trying to educate someone as dumb as you! AND....I'm not from the south.
SilverCat - stupid runs deep, knows no boundaries and is not limited to any particular race or religion
Silver cat. If your gonna say something that stupid at least have the balls to say what state you live in.
Oh, because nothing like this ever happens in the North. There is never any murder, rape, incest, etc., going on in New York, Michigan, Illinois, etc., etc., etc. You are really stupid if you believe this type of stuff only happens in the south. What an idiot!
Yeah Silver Cat, I'm with Leroy, If you have the balls, tell us what state you live in, hell, we all might want to move there. After all, it must be a real paradise the way you're throwing $hit at the south.
Top 10 states for poverty are all red voting and southern.
Yes- And murderous, sick and twisted people don't live in the blue states? Give me a break- been to Chicago lately?
You got that right
Thew RICH Repuicks take their money and leave them uneducated and numb and use them as slaves to work for them and they think they got it good.
Just look at the Plantations down there and their POOR !!!!!
They don't have HEALTH care either just look at the pictures this the systenm in the south keek them DUMB PREGNANT and no HEALTH care
The Repuick (aka Repubic ) way
Lisa,
Chicago is a city not a state.
R-sticker ... you are a gross piece of s— — — . You just simply need your little ass beat down really good. I read your posts and they are all stupid beyond words. You are a troll. Go away.
Rod_Father,
Do you think it might be because, even though they are poor, they believe in personal responsibility and have a work ethic?
SO why do the blue states hog all the money? Are blue congressmen more adept at burning through taxpayer money? Hoarding it? Does the fact that those states are populated with more African Americans have anything to do with it? Or Maybe Meth hits harder there because it is closer to Mexico.
R-sticker...you don't make any sense with your posts.
leroy, the blue states have long been paying for all the red states, as well as all the substance abuse, domestic violence, teen illegitimate births, drug abuse that goes with the southern reds.
Like California. The great BLUE money pit.
haha Littlechanges
Right because no one does drugs in the North. Or abuse family members. There has never been a teen pregnancy in the North either. All those news stories and serial killers are just made up stories by the rednecks in the south... please you sound like an idiot.
R-Sticker:
I thought with your education you would know it's THEY'RE not THEIR. But maybe then again, I'm just some dumb, uneducated, redneck from Texas.
Oh and R-Sticker, if you know of any "plantations" that have slaves, please call the police. Other than that, if you're talking about "plantations" that EMPLOY people (for whatever rate the employees and the employer agreed upon), then that's not slavery. Again, your "education" has failed you.
Littlechanges: Yeah, because no blue states get way more federal money than they put in? In fact, according to taxfoundation(.)org/press/show/22659(.)html, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Idaho, Vermont, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Indiana, and Nevada (all states who voted democratic in 2008) received more than they put in.
Rod:
Where the hell did you get that information from? North Carolina & West Virginia are on that list and both voted Democratic in 2008...So it would be 8 out of the 10. Also, DC would be #1 if they were technically a state.
I just had to spend my time scrolling past your stupid @!$%#. That is all that you will ever get from me.
leroy with the fake profile picture...METH, kill your kids, METH, kill your wife, METH, kill your mother (after impregnating her), METH, blow up colleges, METH, rob banks, METH, make meth in walmart bathrooms, METH, hold ladies at knife point in front of their kids, demanding her purse, METH...need i go on?
I call Bull sh&t on that Tax typo (yes I called it a typo) I pay a hell of a lot of taxes and I sure don't get anything in the way of Government services. Sorry, no food stamps, no rent help, no utility help. Everything that I have I PAY for and the taxes that go on top of all that.
TiredVoter:
I'm not sure who you were talking to. If you're talking about the source I provided, at least I had a source to back myself up, unlike these people, just making things up and stating straight out lies. What you do as an individual does not make a difference at state level statistics. There are many people in EVERY state who do just as you described, myself included.
Jessica, Pennsylvania for one has a Republican governor.
Rob-
They still voted for Obama in '08, and was considered a safe blue state for the election. Also "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in every election since 1992".
so now more family members are involved!!! the whole family sharing ONE brain --hope they all rot in prison together too!!!
This story's getting a lot of attention because so few crimes like this are committed.
I think the wife and mother should both be taken and be bent over and sodomized by guys who are hung like a horse until this Bastard is caught or killed!!!
They would like that too much. Am I right ladies. ( and liberal men)
Yeh, well, I think we're good with police just arresting and prosecuting them. Seriously, Ranger, you want to prove you can be as misogynist and equally as barbaric as the criminals? Stop reading so much of the Taliban recruitment literature.
@Carl, a real douche bag comment from a real RIGHT WING douche bag, nobody was amused by your sarcasm. By the GWB should be put in front of a firing squad, at least Obama's grandfather ddn't help fund the Nazi regime scumbag, anything else you want to say about the worst President in the HISTORY of this country.
Now, hope they find all of the scum invloved in this crime and hang, shoot, letahl injection, whatever it may be should come all of them
"at least Obama's grandfather ddn't help fund the Nazi regime scumbag,"
Quoted, misspelling and all.
True enough. 0bamas father didn't fund THE Nazi regime, he was the sperm donor for 0bama, who IS a despot and the New Nazi regime.
How is one supposed to control what their grandfather did or didn't do?? This is one of dumbest statements I've heard in awhile..
"at least Obama's grandfather didn't help fund the Nazi regime scumbag"
na na-na boo boo... AT LEAST!
I like it that most posters have enough compassion and concern for this terrible situation than to let political agendas intrude on expressing an opinion on these criminals and their sorrow for the victims. Way to not fall into the "all about me" philosophy of some (including the perps in the Bain kidnappings and murders) People do still make me proud of their humanity every once in awhile.
Yes, it is comforting to know that there are still a lot of people left that are not one dimensional, but it's still early in the posts. Give the butt heads time, I'm sure they'll come out in force.
they are way too dumb to have agendas.
I'd be willing to bet that this whole thing revolves around some sick sex fantasy that the guy has about the young girls.
Hang him by his testicles and use him for a pinata.
Once again the media uses the term kill or killing where they should have used murder, murders, murdered or murdering. These victims were murdered. They were not just killed. You can kill without being a murderer. These victims were MURDERED!
To murder is illegal where to kill isn't necessarily. You can kill without being a murderer, but, you can't murder without killing.
This murder will be caught and there will be idiots out there who say he shouldn't be executed. They will try and quote the Bible by saying "Thou shalt not kill" which is a misquote. The original wording was " Thou shalt not "Murder"! They will want him to live so he can have the opportunity to possibly "MURDER" or injure some one else again.
God told you not to kill period, no exceptions, so what's your point?
Actually, according to the Bible, thou shalt not kill means just that, whether it be murder or state sanctioned execution. The only people who try to argue otherwise are the kind of people who look to the Bible for justification of what they already believe to be true whether it is or isn't and spend more time trying to weasel out of God's commandments than they do trying to follow them. Such dishonesty is at the very core of the spirit of the anti-christ and by trying to promote such dishonesty, you are in fact a tool of satan, not God.
I disagree, but, we are allowed to disagree even if you are wrong.
"Thou shalt not kill" was part of the ten commandments which were part of the Mosaic law, which was done away with when Jesus came to earth. The governements are in place because of Jehovah allowing them to be and if they deem it right to execute murderers to keep the rest of the citizens safe, then that's allowed by God, is it not?
DeeryMay - Mainstream Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians would all disagree with you that Jesus threw out the Ten Commandments. Most Christians believe that Jesus only did away with the 613 mitzvot.
Nothing (including sin) exists without God allowing it to be, hollow statement, no point.
Modern nation-states have the ability to securely detain people who are threats to society, thereby negating the need for state-sanctioned execution.
car31jou
Could you please post a link with a scholarly analysis of the translations from the original Hebrew manuscript?
car31jou---
Triggerman Rule---Accessories and principles in the second degree can be punished as if guilty of 1st degree murder. So, legally, you can murder without killing.
Good post. I still wonder what brought this on. Perhaps it had something to do with the family moving to Vegas. Someone in an earlier post thought that maybe the two younger children belong to the perp. This is one evil man and I hope he is brought to justice quickly. If the children are his then perhaps he won't harm them. I know the court will throw the book at him so I am not concerned about that-just the safety of those poor little girls.
The bible says that you shall not murder. It does not say that you should not kill. There are many battles in the bible where God approves the killing of the enemy and indeed even commands that a murderer be stoned to death. Those of you that disagree need to read your bibles. LOL!
archangel2000
Exodus 20: 13: "You shall not kill"
The original Hebrew verb (רצח) in this sentence is also used at times in the Old Testament to refer to unintentional acts of killing and legally sanctioned killing.
Wow!! Now that is completely unexpected! This story just keeps getting more twisted. I wonder why the mother and wife kidnapped them. This is just bizarre!!