Police have filed kidnapping charges against the wife of a man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her oldest daughter and kidnapping the woman's two youngest daughters. Updates on this story from Daily Journal staff and our press services as we get them:

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UPDATE: 10:29 p.m.

By The Associated Press

On Tuesday evening, hundreds of adults, teens and children came from throughout west and central Tennessee and north Mississippi for a prayer vigil at Bolivar Dixie Youth Park, where the two oldest Bain girls played softball.

Mourners sang songs and bowed their heads in prayer as they held red, yellow, orange and purple balloons during the ceremony. Some wept during the vigil and sniffles punctuated the quiet night during a moment of silence for Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters.

Many of the mourners said the kidnappings have shaken their small-town, tight knit communities, from Corinth, Miss., to Whiteville, Tenn.

"This is something you'd expect in a big city," said June Stebbins, 54, whose granddaughters play at the park.

Authorities have said that Adam Mayes was a family friend who was staying with the Bains on April 27, the day the mother and children disappeared.

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UPDATE 6:53 p.m.

From NEMS Daily Journal staff

The Mississippi Highway Patrol set up roadblocks and maintained patrol in rural areas of Guntown and the Alpine community near the home the Mayes family is renting.

Deborah Madden of the FBI said they are will continue to search for Mayes in rural North Mississippi.

Even though Mayes has connections to other states, officials say they don't think he has left the area.

Mayes has been seen previously on surveillance video at a Guntown area store. The TBI released a video of him Tuesday in a Guntown store on April 30.

Click here to see the video.

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UPDATE 3:25 p.m.

By ADRIAN SAINZ,Associated Press

TRAVIS LOLLER,Associated Press

The affidavit released today does not hint at a possible motive for Mary or Teresa Mayes' involvement.

Friends and neighbors of the Bains have said Adam Mayes was like an uncle to the three girls.

Booth said they were "like a big happy family." She said she finds it hard to believe that Adam Mayes could kill a child.

"I have cried until I'm sick," she said. "I was totally shocked. I've known him since I was little. We played together when we were kids. I always thought he was odd, but I never dreamed he'd do this."

Booth said she has not had much contact with her sister for the past 11 years because Adam Mayes didn't want his wife to contact her.

"He was very aggressive with her, abusive," she said. Booth said Teresa Mayes also told her she thought her husband was having an affair with Jo Ann Bain.

TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm said they don't know if Bain and Mayes were romantically involved. They know the families were friends, and early reports from the investigators said they were trying to determine if Jo Ann Bain had willingly gone with the suspect.

FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said on Tuesday investigators believed the two youngest daughters were still with Mayes.

Siskovic said no further details were available on the deaths or the search for Mayes. The FBI has not said how Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain died.

Meanwhile, FBI agents in green camouflage, carrying high-powered rifles joined K-9 units and SWAT teams in a search of the woods and back roads of north Mississippi near Mayes' home.

State troopers stopped vehicles and looked in trunks Monday, and FBI agents continued to search the yard of the house where Adam Mayes and his family were living.

Mayes was last seen a week ago in Guntown, about 80 miles south of the Bain family's home in Whiteville, Tenn.

Siskovic said authorities talked to Mayes early on in the investigation, but he fled when they tried to contact him again.

Mayes is considered armed and dangerous.

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UPDATE 2:33 p.m.

Affidavit of Complaint (transcribed)

On April 27, 2012, Gary Bain notified Hardeman County Sheriff's Department regarding the disappearance of his wife (Jo Ann Bain) and his 3 daughters (Adreienne Bain, 14 yoa, Alexandria Bain, 12 yoa, and Kyliyah Bain, 8 yoa) from their residence on 8590 Whiteville - Newcastle Road, in Hardeman County, Tennessee. Through investigation by Hardeman County Sheriff's Department, TBI, MBI and the FBI, Adam Mayes was developed as a suspect. Mayes, by his own admission, was the last person to see the 4 missing persons prior to their disappearance. When TBI requested an interview with Mayes, Mayes took flight and has not yet been located. In the process of searching for Mayes, it was discovered that Mayes had rented a trailer in Union County, Mississippi. A search of that trailer disclosed property of 2 of the girls that have disappeared (Alexandria and Kyliyah). Interviews with Mayes' mother and wife disclosed that on or about April 27, 2012, Adam Mayes was seen digging in his mothers' backyard at 1373 Hwy 9 N., Guntown, Mississippi. Two bodies were recovered from that address and are thought to be those of Jo Ann Bain and her daughter, Adreienne Bain.

Based on these facts, it is believed that Adam Mayes removed or confined Jo Ann Bain and her 3 daughters, Adreienne Bain, 14 yoa, Alexandria Bain, 12 yoa, and Kyliyah Bain, 8 yoa, from Hardeman County, Tennessee, in a manner that substantially interfered with their liberty. Concerning Alexandria Bain, 12 yoa, and Kyliyah Bain, 8 yoa, both of these victims were under the age of 13 at the time of their removal or confinement. Concerning Jo Ann Bain and Adreienne Bain, both victims suffered serious bodily injury as a result of their removal or confinement.

During a non-custodial interview with Teresa Mayes, she did admit to agents from the TBI that she was involved with the removal and/or confinement of these 4 individuals from Hardeman County, Tennessee. In that she assisted by driving a vehicle containing the victims from Hardeman County, Tennessee, to Union County, Mississippi.

Mary Frances Mayes, along with Gary Mayes (named crossed out) and Teresa Mayes did agree, acting for the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of the Especially Aggravated Kidnapping, that Adam Mayes and Teresa Mayes would engaged in the conduct of described above. The commission of the above acts in Hardeman County, Tennessee, constitute overt acts required for the conspiracy.

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UPDATE 2:06 p.m.

From NEMS Daily Journal staff

Teresa and Mary Mayes were arrested without incident late Sunday in Union County and transported to Hardeman County, Tenn., where they were booked early Monday, according to Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards.

Edwards said his deputies made the arrests based on information that the women may have been involved in the case. Deputies then transferred custody of Teresa and Mary Mayes to the Hardeman County Sheriff's Department.

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UPDATE 1:46 p.m.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Teresa Mayes' sister, Bobbi Booth, said her sister told her last week that she knew about the killings, but Booth thinks Teresa Mayes may have been too scared to call the police.

"Teresa started to call, text and Facebook constantly on Thursday," Booth said.

Booth told Teresa Mayes to call the police and was assured that she had, but by Saturday Booth had become suspicious about that claim and called police herself.

"I told them exactly what she had told me: Who the bodies were, where they could be dug from," Booth said.

As it turned out, investigators had begun digging in the Mayes' backyard the previous day.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said she was unaware of Booth calling about the killings but said she might have called a different law enforcement agency.

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UPDATE 1:35 p.m.

From The Associated Press - An affidavit states that Teresa Mayes told investigators she drove the mother and daughters from Hardeman County, where they lived, to Union County, Miss.

The bodies of Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne Bain were found last week behind the home where the Mayes family lived.

Twelve-year-old Alexandria Bain and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain are still missing.

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UPDATE 12:31 p.m. -

From NEMS Daily Journal staff reports ...

According to Hardeman County, Tenn., Circuit Court Clerk Linda Fulghum, Teresa Mayes, 31, of 1373 Highway 9 North in Guntown, Miss., is charged with four counts of especially aggravated kidnapping and is being held on a $500,000 bond. Mary Mayes, 65, of 1373 Highway 9 North in Guntown, Miss., is charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit especially aggravated kidnapping. Her bond was set at $300,000.

Teresa Mayes is the wife of Adam Mayes. Mary Mayes is his mother.

Both women were booked Monday by the Hardeman County Sheriff's Department, which filed the charges. Their court dates are set for 9 a.m. on May 22 at the Hardeman County, Tenn., General Sessions Court.

Both women have been appointed attorneys during their arraignment this morning with General Sessions Judge Charles M. Cary: Attorney Terry Dycus for Mary Mayes; attorney Shana Johnson for Teresa Mayes.

Fulghum didn't know where they were arrested.

Both women remain in jail as of noon Tuesday.

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UPDATE 11:20 a.m. -

The Associated Press

GUNTOWN — Police have arrested the wife and mother of a man suspected of abducting and killing a Tennessee woman and her oldest daughter and kidnapping the woman's two youngest daughters.

A court clerk confirmed that Adam Mayes' wife, Teresa Mayes, and mother, Mary Mayes, are in jail in Hardeman County, Tenn., and will be arraigned Tuesday.

The clerk did not yet know what charges they face.

Teresa Mayes' sister Bobbi Booth said Adam Mayes and his wife lived with his parents.

The bodies of Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne Bain were found behind a house in North Mississippi late last week.

Booth told the AP her sister told her last week she knew about the killings, but she thinks Teresa Mayes may have been too scared to call the police.

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Mom, daughter found dead; 2 sisters still missing

GUNTOWN — The intense search for a man accused of abducting a Tennessee woman and her three daughters continued Tuesday after authorities said the mother and her oldest daughter were found dead in north Mississippi, behind a house the alleged kidnapper and his family rented.

Authorities are looking for Adam Mayes, a 35-year-old family friend accused of abducting Jo Ann Bain and her daughters. Mayes was at the Bains' house helping them pack to move to Arizona when the mother and her three daughters vanished April 27, authorities said.

The bodies of Bain and her 14-year-old daughter, Adrienne Bain, were discovered late last week and positively identified. Union County authorities confirmed he bodies were found at the home in the Alpine community of Union County. The FBI did not say how the two died.

The FBI said it believed the other daughters — 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah — were still with Mayes. The agency did not say why it thought that, and FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said no further details were available on the deaths or the search for Mayes.

However, he did tell The Associated Press Tuesday morning that authorities are optimistic.

"We're still working on the belief that the youngest two daughters are alive," Siskovic said. "We're still hopeful."

FBI agents in green camouflage, carrying high-powered rifles joined K-9 units and SWAT teams in a search of the woods and back roads of north Mississippi near Mayes' home.

State troopers stopped vehicles and looked in trunks Monday, and FBI agents searched the yard of a home in rural Union County, seeking clues.

Mayes was last seen a week ago in Guntown, about 80 miles south of the Bain family's home in Whiteville, Tenn.

Siskovic said authorities talked to Mayes early on in the investigation, but he fled when they tried to contact him again.

The search for Mayes, considered to be armed and dangerous, will be a 24-hour effort, said Jimmy Edwards, sheriff of Union County. The area has a mix of heavy woods and farmland, and is crisscrossed by two-lane back roads.

"We don't have anything to confirm or deny his whereabouts. We're still searching," Edwards said.

Fliers with the girls' photos and descriptions were being distributed in Mississippi and Tennessee. A billboard on a main street in Nashville, Tenn., featured a picture of Mayes, as did several around Northeast Mississippi.

Jo Ann Bain's Facebook page showed in the days before she vanished she was packing and working on homework. Her last post, dated April 26, said "a good venting always makes you feel better." It didn't say why she was venting.

Mayes and the Bains were known around Whiteville, a town of about 4,500 people 60 miles east of Memphis. Mayes was a longtime friend of Bain's husband and had been at their home the evening before they disappeared, police said.

Both Gary Bain and Mayes were once married to sisters, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said.

Mayes had stayed over at the Bains' house to help the family pack and load up a U-Haul to drive across the country to Arizona, Helm said. Gary Bain, who was at the house that night, awoke to find his wife, daughters and Mayes gone.

He couldn't reach his wife on her cell phone that day, and reported them missing when the girls didn't get off the school bus.

Linda Kirkland, a family friend and cook at the Country Cafe in Whiteville, said the woman and her daughters were moving to Arizona because two of the girls had asthma.

Mayes also has ties to Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.

Anyone with information on Mayes or the two girls are asked to contact the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at (800) TBI-FIND, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation at (601) 987-1353 or local law enforcement.

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Associated Press writers Lucas Johnson II in Nashville, Tenn., and Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Miss., contributed to this report.

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