Whatever the outcome maybe it would have been best if the news media had waited until after Mayes is caught to report on this in order to avoid tipping him off.

On the flip side, media coverage could be very beneficial in a case like this. The widespread coverage will serve to keep people on the lookout for this man. The update on his appearance may very well tip him off--but it tips off the rest of us too, and we could help catch him.

lets pray that way.

I hope the law enforcement catches this guy, and those lovely girls go on harm. I am sick and tired of people whom prey on the innocent. How can we continue to be a society that doesn't protect its children like they do their law enforcement, we must make attack on children, a death penalty.

People are kidnapping,rapping, starving to death our childrens, and all we do is sit by and shake our head. I am one if for vigilant justices when it comes to the protection of our children. We must stand up these monster, and implement castrastion whenever plausible.

The reason they don't make molesting or abusing a child a death penalty offense is because the abuser would have nothing to lose by killing them if they might get the death penalty either way and if they kill them they'd have no witness. I think they should get the death penalty as well I just don't think it should be a well known fact that, that's what happens to "people" who do things like this. This one is already accused of murdering two, he's got to be stopped.

What hideous monsters! Prayers going up for the two young girls with the hope that they will survive this nightmare.

They shouldnt have put this info up yet way i see it it informs the public and maybe theyll be more watchful and it tips him off that everyones eyeing for him now and the chances of him making his weekly appearance in that store just went from once a week to probably never again so way to go media and he may feel to much pressure and do another act of violence taking the young girls life i pray that wont happen but the more stress you put on a person the more irrational they will become. lets just pray for the safe return of the 2 children and next time media try and let the authorities do there job before you go blabbing about it to make a buck you may have just hindered the investigation or cost 2 more children there lives but if hes caught before any harm comes to thoughs kids my thoughts will not waiver on the media blabbing to much .

With him being alone in the convenience store video, the outcome does not look good for the other 2 girls. I pray that make it through alive. May God bless and protect them. Please.

I hope they find the girls. Tragic. But I still find it odd the father is strangly quiet.

this whole affair is tragic! i hope the younger girls are still alive, but as the saying goes, after 48 hours missing, their chances are slimmer and slimmer.

That is one of the many downfalls of 24 hr news coverage. It is a double edged sword. Unfortunately when a story brings in high ratings they could probably care less about any harm being done. This story makes me feel ill. I can only imagine what the law enforcement officers are going through trying to find and stop this creep. It would be a great day if these girls were found safe. Let's hope.

Glad they reported on it - the dude looks completely different than he did in the other picture.

It must be weird to drive through towns & interstates & see your face all over the billboards. It would certainly freak me out and lead me to believe that there's nowhere to hide. After all, a man with two little girls does stand out if you go for gas or food.

This guy knows his number is up and a trip to Old Sparky is a sure thing.

We humans are an imperfect species. RockyRoad - you seeem to be more imperfect than most with your one note piano ting ting ting race race race.... change the program would you?

Hey, Law Enforcement Agencies ----- When you catch up with this vermin, PLEASE ..... save the country a lot of grief and needless expense. DO NOT TAKE THS COWARD ALIVE. I am all for you wounding him with thirty or forty bullet wounds and let him bleed out, so he is aware that his life is slipping away S-L-O-W-L-Y !

Rockyroad, you need new material. That "Al Sharpton/Jessie Jackson" bit has gotten old and lame even among the mouth-breathing lizard-brained set.

Should be 50 grand; "Dead or Alive"

RockyRoad...shame on you to think that twisting this into your racist little troll world makes you cute. Your statement "I'll keep looking for them" is doubtful since I find it difficult to believe that you can even leave the house.

Whatever the outcome maybe it would have been best if the news media had waited until after Mayes is caught to report on this in order to avoid tipping him off.

I tend to agree, but at the same time, now probably most of the country has seen his face, might make him easier to find.

Yetanotherfanatic;

Looking for suspects where there are none, are you? If the police haven't named him a suspect and by this time, if there were reason they would have, you know something they don't? Some kind of inside information perhaps? Nancy Grace much? The father is likely following police instruction in remaining quiet. Personally, I'd be in my pickup, locked and loaded hunting his punk azz down. If had lost my wife and oldest daughter to this lunatic and he had my two youngest, Nothing or No one would keep from hunting him down. But hey, that's just me. And you can bet, once I found out from him where the girls were, a trail would only happen if they decided to charge me. No biggie, I'd take my chances with a jury of my peers in a case like this, anytime.

These people no longer qualify as human. Vermin, may be. Or slugs. I find it inconceivable how someone can kill a mother and her daughter because they want the other daughters. For what ? That clearly demonstrates the dangers when a family tree does not have enough branches. Get my drift ? I pray that those girls are still alive and that this monster will be found soon - with both kneecaps shot through !

Nicodemus....You sound like a protective Father ,I will do the same (I'm a mother) this piece of @!$%# it's a big waste to society along with his bimbo mother and cow wife .It said the predator was babysitting for the family some time before......Who in the right state of mind lets MAN babysit girls (nothing against man out there they are a good man and fathers out there )but a stranger ......This concept in American Culture it's unclear to me,all I hear tragic consequences after "men used to babysit ".Please God save this little angels for the family ,the father in this case it might be helpless who knows his abilities or involvement for that matter ,lets not rush to judgement .OOH this hurts so much ....

He has probably been molesting the younger two from the get-go...and what the hell is wrong with his wife??? Who could stand by and just watch @!$%# like that????

no way he thinks those girls are his...like someone said. Those girls look nothing like that ugly bastard!

I think he's been molesting at least one of them. I hope they get those girls back alive and well.

I hope they find these girls n time.......

They're already dead I'm sure.... and likely brutally raped. I wish I could be more optimistic, but you can tell what kind of sick @!$%# he is just by looking at him. I know I'll catch flak for suggesting that you can tell a lot about a person by their looks, but it's true.

Wasnt one of the little girls in the latest video tape.? Hope they get found soon alive and well !

I will personally donate a bottle of scotch to who ever rescues them..

@Bambi... one report I heard said that Mayes and the father of the girls were once married to sisiters. So, in my mind they probably were close. He probably considered Mayes like a brother. So, I wouldn't be to quick to judge why they let a man babysit their girls. Yes, you do hear a lot of stories about how some "men" end up molesting and causing harm to the girls they are left unsupervised with.... but a lot of people have the state of mind that something like that will never happen to them..... Due to past experiences of mine.. I would probably NEVER leave my angel unsupervised with a man/boy... well honestly she doesn't stay with anyone except my mother.... there are some sick women out there too.... basically... you don't know their situation... I'm sure the father is already blaming himself enough..... There was no way for him to know what a monster he let into his home

My thoughts and prayers go out for the girls as well as their father. May God be with you

Cutting his hair isn't going to hide all that ugly. If I see him, I am going to damage him pretty good before I turn him in. He will have to have those nasty little bits cut off, because their won't be any need to keep the crushed things. He and his accomplices need to be tortured for a few years, and then dropped into a wood chipper, feet first and slowly.

I hope they find the girls safe.

These girls if they are still alive {and if anyone has watched Criminal Minds/Without a Trace etc) you will know that after the first 24hrs their rate of survival drops by over 50% and as the hours and days go by their chance of survival drops lower until it hits zero....after all, after he has done with raping them what good are they to him? They actually become a burden to him...feeding them, hiding them, moving them around. He has most likely killed them , that's why he's been seen alone, much easier for him to travel alone and not drag 2 kids with him who could give him away at any time. he's most likely gotten rid of them and is now making a break for it on his own maybe trying to hit the Mexican border to try and get out of the country.

This is an extreme case, but shows what is wrong with our society. We have become so self-centered and self-absorbed that we think it is okay to bend and even break the rules to get what we want. We seem to think if we want something it is okay to lie, cheat and now murder to get it.

Gone are the days of "treat others as you want to be treated".

Great work MSNBC (sarcasm).

Why aren't you reporting that the guy claimed to be the father of the two youngest girls... and that that is why he took them(the mom was getting ready to move them to AZ) and why they are alive. Looking at the photographs of the girls you could tell the younger two had a different father.

Try reporting the whole story.

I say a bullet in the head for all three of these inbreds. Hell, I'll supply the bullets , gun and pull the trigger.

Yeppers......this family is one screwed up unit. If he's found I hope they PUT HIM DOWN. The 'wife' and his 'mother' should NEVER be let out of prison. And of course, HE should rot in a jail cell.

The two little girls are most likely alive, and he's living his fantasy. Could be he's tricking them into thinking that he's helping them get to Arizona. They are otherwise TERRORIZED and HORRIFIED and scared out of their minds. I'm sure he's got them in check. They are young and so vulnerable. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they are alive and un-harmed, at least physically.

He no doubt murdered the mother and the oldest daughter because they were a liability, and there is no way he could keep them in check, so he had to get them out of the way so he could live his fantasy, whatever that is.........maybe we'll never know the real story. In any event, I will hope for the very best scenario under the circumstances.

The crazy thing is, he was having an affair with the girl's mother, then why kill her and why kill the oldest, the police think he thought one of the daughters could be his, the whole thing is just insane. Did he get close to the mother just to get to the daughters?, or does he think the two youngest are his and the mom refused to give them to him?...its just not making any damn sense. I just hpe the younger girls are ok and they find him soon.

RwEvans, most likey he was having an affair with the mother because she had two little girls. Sick f*&ker. I can't think of punishment bad enough for him, not in my wildest dreams.

I read that he does believe that the two youngest are his and that he killed the mom and oldest daughter to make it easier to take them. The article I read also said that his wife was incapable of having children of her own.

Is that the motive, he wanted her to leave the two youngest girls with him because she was moving to Arizona? It couldn't be money. But why kill 2 people surely he would have to know that he would never be able to get away with that.

I say this with the utmost respect for the victims, but is this a case of a lower caliber neighborhood, drugs, etc? People tend to get themselves in certain situations, such as having some guy watch your children.

A previous article I read on this say Mayes was a close family friend of JoAnn Bain's husband and had previously lived with them and would watch their girls.

I am betting he is the father of the 2 young girls.. When the mother said she was moving to Vegas they took them did away with oldest girl and mom..

How he talked his wife in on it and in law is beyond me..

Close friend of her husband? Lived with them?

How did he talk his wife into driving them to Miss? Why didn't she stay there with him?

Too many questions.

Hmm, did Mayes owe them money from the time he was living there?

Misstiff704 "A previous article I read on this say Mayes was a close family friend of JoAnn Bain's husband and had previously lived with them and would watch their girls".

For everyone else: JoAnn Bains husband and this Mayes guy were former brother-in-laws. Just because he was an adult male doesn't necessarily mean that he was molesting all the kids. What an assumption everyone is making. He was a friend of the family, and former brother in law to the husband/father. People in this world, and especially on this web site are simply totally sick. I'm not defending this man, because it appears that he murdered two of them so far, but if you are going to be brillant, insightful detectives you have to at least be brillant and insightful. Not just bigoted, angry, irresponsible and educated at the CSI Miami Schhol of Detecting.

Don, his actions completely destroy your argument. Just saying.. there is a reason having an adult male watch your children is sometimes frowned upon. Especially not knowing the back ground of the person. For Mayes to have reached this level, I would guess that he has a convoluted past, and not someone I would want alone with my family. That's what my detective hat is telling me.

he was related to the family by marriage and had been a good friend for years.

a good friend does not equal good person. I have a feeling this entire bunch has a sorted past.

I have had an adult male that is not family watch my child and I completely trust this man. He has 2 children of his own and has always treated my child well. Not all non-family males are untrustworthy. Infact I trust this adult male in our lives more then I do some of my own family members.

I wouldnt even let a male family member watch my daughter. Don't you know most of that stuff is done by close family members or family members themselves.

That is just crazy. Not all male relatives are preditors. My brother before he died recently helped me with both my children. They had stupid fathers that were not there for them. He provided a father figure so they could grow up better. At his funeral in January (he was young and death unexpected) my children cried more than anyone both said they felt they lost a dad.

LadyDiz,

Kinda says alot about your own family that you won't trust the "male" members to watch your daughter.

B from NY and LadyDiz: He supposedly was a close friend of the husband and had previously been married into the family.

B from NY is dissing LadyDiz implying that Lady's family wasn't trustworthy. How would you not trust a family member? As a child, I was molested by a brother-in-law in front of my sister and nothing was done. I also was molested by a male cousin and it was shoved away. No one ever told my parents. This is how you don't trust "male" members. There is a lot of this going on in families that you might not know about. Always question your kids. You never know who is threatening them.

I wonder, where IS the husband/father of the victims now? He was home at the time of the abduction.

don of the rockies, Are you for real? People are just stating their opinions/theories about the situation and here you come with yours about everybody else. I wonder what its like to just be a miserable SOB all of the time for no reason. Maybe some of the armchair detectives can fill me in.

I know we all may have brothers or uncles we care about, and that's fine. But a brother in law? NO. He should not be left with anyone's children. Especially if he likes to drink or do drugs, and I would bet a kidney this group parties.

If you ladies are leaving your kids with male members that are not immediate family, I wish you the best. I played it safe with my kids.

And people wonder why I don't even trust my 'friends'...

TFNJ-

I would hands down leave my kids with my brother in law. He has 3 little boys of his own and they are being raised in a good loving home. In fact, if something happens to me or my husband, our will states that our children will be left to my sister and her husband (that would be my brother-in-law.) Sucks that people have family members they can't trust, but I would trust anyone in my family to care for my children, just as they would trust me and my husband to care for theirs. Not everyone in this world is a sexual predator. In fact, I think a majority of people aren't. But stories about people who aren't murderers or sex predators don't sell, so that's who we hear about.

PEOPLE ....Trust you men out there anyway you want ,but I would not trust a men (other than the father ) to change diaper on my girls ....................Do not put a man in that situation .

If you ladies are leaving your kids with male members that are not immediate family, I wish you the best.

A brother in law is the brother of one of the parents of those kids, and a brother is typically considered immediate family, is it not?

Behind every criminal is an enabler, and this sick piece of garbage had two enablers, his wife and his mother. One enabler is bad enough, two is a recipe for disaster. If there were any such thing as real justice all three of them would be put down like stray dogs. All three are responsible.

Zip2, my sister married. What does that make her husband to me?

Yeah, sometimes the news media needs to STFU. Seriously? Wait until after the guy is arrested and the case is closed to put out these details! What if putting out these details makes msnbc responsible for this guy staying one step ahead of the cops? What if, in his effort to cut and run upon reading the story he kills the other two girls?

Sometimes the managers of these news programs show a serious lack of discretion in determining what stories to report on and, in this case, when they put out a story. Shouldn't there be some common sense in the news room that tells reporters and their managers that when reporting on a crime they should wait until such time that certain details of the report will not hinder the case before publishing those details?

Many years ago there was a famous satanic serial killer on the loose in California whose shoes had a distinctive pattern on the soles. The cops were using this pattern to track him. The news media reported it and this guy tossed his shoes into a river and got new ones, thus delaying his aprehension.

Is Mayes going to go to another town now that his whereabouts have been made public?

its important for the public to see him with his hair cut short, and to also know the areas he may be in. I would assume the public is helpful when it comes to locating people on the run, police can only be in some many places at once. I am sure the cops have not released information that would jepordize the girls safety.

No, if he read MSNBC he'd have been arrested two weeks ago, because all the information he would have gotten would have been totally wrong!

And yet, Don, here you are. Says more about you than it does about MSNBC.

I doubt this guy even reads !

@Don THAT was funny! :)

@ManFromNantucket you are stupid all the media coverage is getting his picture out for not only small town cops to see but so all of the public to see and report on.

Coolz 2350...can you communicate without calling people stupid.....? or that is your nature.

And yet, Don, here you are.

I lol'd. That was funny um... I'm just gonna call you C-23 ok? That was funny C-23.

Yeah, how close was this guy to the family?

The wife of Mayes has said that she believed at one time her husband was having an affair with JoAnn Bains. If that's true, that would shed some light on why this guy was living with them. But the husband was good friends with Mayes before JoAnn - he and Mayes used to be married to sisters.

There's a LOT to this weird situation we don't know about.

No, it has not been reported.

The only thing they've said really is that the mom and 14 year old sustained critical injuries due to the way they were crammed into the abduction vehicle - or from the way they were taken out of it.

Really? They released that much?

Why the interest in how they were killed? Does that add to the "value" of the story. Bottom line, people were killed for no reason. And no, I don't think they printed the cause of death. Not sure what THX is talking about but that's how rumors are started.

I read the same thing THX said earlier as well...

B from NY, if you have to ask, then you have no interest in discussing crimes. I guess just stick to pouring your religious beliefs out if that is good enough for you.

So then it could be they were suffocated. Kind of hard to understand how injured you can get otherwise by being transported, and only the older members.

Search the web for local newscasts. A lot of your questions are answered there.

It is hard to pinpoint a motive. With the wife and mother involved, it almost seems like ransom was the motive. Maybe the father owed Mayes drug money.

Being that the wife has confessed, I imagine they have already asked her "why". But I guess they are not releasing that.

they have also now charged mays' wife with 2 counts of murder (or something do with with the actual murder) its on websites for news stations in miss... anyways there is supposed to be a conference with the FBI at 2

Ever think they are not releasing this information yet?

all are excellent question. we are not getting enough detail to figure out why this guy would do this.

@Kisldb Makes sense since she witnessed the one murder, knew of the other and then helped transport the bodies to MS.

Hair's easy. But what's he going to do about those downward sloping eyes? Those are a lot more distinguishing than his hair color.

yeah but why take the chance..

A crime free past doesn't mean you aren't capable of crime. just saying...

2Sense, that goes either way, male or female. So what is your point exactly?

2sense cannot make one..

There used to be a day someone would trust a priest or preacher, cop or teacher with you children. Now you have to trust in I don't know what..

Either way no point to be made I do not think being male makes you more untrustworthy

davidhoffman ~~ I do agree with you about male babysitters. Not all are bad or evil. Sadly, it so happens that there are 'men' who have abused children while they babysat, or while they held a trusted position in a family (whether they be a family member or friend). As a result of some of those instances coming to light, most people now days would not choose a male babysitter.

Somehow, this CREEPY man ingratiated himself into this family and won a position as a 'trusted' friend. It's beyond me that there weren't some big red flags. Sometimes, people are very trusting, and are completely CLUELESS. Seems that this might be the case here.

My wish is that these little girls are found alive, and are physically OK. It will take lots of love and therapy for them to get beyond this horrifying experience.

That's exactly why his current appearance needs to be broadcast...to assist in catching him. Most of these types of cases are solved through public tips!

Have they ever said what kind of car he is driving, people could be on the look out for that as well.

Lol, thanks for noting the time zone. I would have asked, I am time zone challenged when it comes to anything beyond the east or west coast.

I think that video is from before this story was made public, and I will bet he no longer goes there once a week.

How hard is it to catch this guy???? Really??? Have you found him yet?? Not as easy as you thought, is it? Here's your sign!

Just saying he doesn’t look like a slick/intelligent criminal. Annnnnnd the fact he's casually showing up in little stores to chit chat :/

I don’t live anywhere close, so no.. I haven’t caught or sighted him to alert authorities.

Calm down.

you are in criminal justice? Oh my Gawd....if it is not as a defendent then please have a good reson not to sit on a jury

Raven then your class didn't show you to read a case entirely before analyzing details. The police have said the wife and mother confessed to abducting the girls and driving them to Mississippi. The guy being looked for is on the run, otherwise he would have turned himself in knowing he hasn't done anything.

And biggest of all, the police involved in the case have ALREADY passed their criminal justice studies. You shouldn't take what is posted here as all the police know or believe.

Raven - they found the two bodies buried in Mayes' backyard.....so if he or his wife or mother isn't guilty...who buried them there??? plus the mother admitted she knew about it all.....

@ Raven: WTF? The wife confessed. Were you in the criminal justice system?

I hope you did not graduate at the top of your class. Or, are you speaking of "in Criminal Justice" as in sweeping the floors?

Just gotta reply to some of the questions asked in your theory statement . By all accounts she was married to another man when she had the middle daughter, and did not know Mayes until she met her husband. Do you know many women who would help their husband kill 2 so they could get their children with a woman they were cheating on you with when they were born? The health of a child is not reason enough to move in your opinion? By all accounts the Bains had a good relationship. She had a husband who cared enough to adopt and take on the responsibility of her 2 children from a first failed marriage. Mr. Mayes who apparently scrapes together a little pocket money by doing odd jobs does not strike me as so dam*sexy that I'd risk that to be having an affair with the hopes of someday living with his parents in their trailer. Geesh

@auntikk - Amen!! Bless their sweet little souls!

No, No, No, No, Most people who have moved to Arizona have probably not done so because of allergies, He didn't step out of the house with a bullhorn and announce his actions.

You seem desperate to justify his actions by blaming the victims and drugs as if he needed a "good reason". He did it because he wanted to.

www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iWQoTB_dA1BgWV3YXZjsolpNZjcg?docId=be266570438c46c3ac09a153303639a0

Update from AP.

I have a funny suspicion he is not the computer type, nor finds himself logging in to check his Facebook page. His activities don't involve computers.

I have a funny suspicion that one convenience store is not the only place that law enforcement and the public are looking.

This isn't the only place this information is being spread you know, WATCH TV, it's all over EVERY NETWORK...I'd GUESS it would be so if SOMEONE sees this piece of trash, they can alert authorities.

Damn, I didn't even have to THINK hard to figure that out.

Oh I would alert the authorities, after I challenged him about his identity and hope that he would give me a reason to test the stand your ground law.

To everyone praying that God will take care of everything to keep the remaining two alive keep this in mind; God had nothing to do with this to begin with so why should He interfere with mankind's free will now? Instead of praying for things, just give thanks to Him for the life you have been given instead of being selfish to your own wants and desires, God is NOT a magical genie!!!

Shame on you Nick.

Right on Nick!

God may or may not intervene. We were instructed to pray by God. Praying that these 2 innocent children are found alive is more worthy than thanking God for MY life. Praying for a life to be spared is not a THING. How many times in the Bible did the outcome change because of prayer ? My GOD can do ANYTHING because HE is in charge of it all.

Shame on you Jennifer