Bain Family Disappearance Turns Into Wider Police Search (VIDEO)

Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters disappeared last Friday just before she and husband Gary were set to move the family to Arizona. Police now want to question family friend Adam Christopher Mayes.

Investigators in Hardeman County, Tenn., have ramped up the search for a mother who disappeared with her three daughters last Friday and hope a man they are calling a person of interest can shed light on the case.

Jo Ann Bain and daughters Adrienne, 14, Alexandria, 12, and Kyliyah, 8, were last seen leaving their home in Whiteville, located between Jackson and Memphis, on Friday morning. Bain's Dodge Durango was found abandoned on a county road less than three miles from their home on Sunday.

Now the Hardeman County Sheriff's Department is investigating family friend Adam Christopher Mayes, 35, of Guntown, Miss. Officers questioned him on Sunday and issued a warrant for his arrest on Tuesday, charging him with filing a false report based on statements he'd made to investigators about the Bain family, ABC News reported.

"We believe he has information on the whereabouts of this family," Hardeman County Sheriff John Doolan said at a news conference Wednesday, but declined to go into specifics.

"No sign of foul play," Doolen told MyFoxMemphis. "Not ruling it out though."

According to Doolen, the family planned to move to Arizona last weekend and hopes Mayes can help fill in the missing pieces of this strange disappearance.

Bain may have disappeared, but her Facebook page seems to be somewhat active, even accepting a Facebook request on Wednesday.

Sheriff Doolen told MyFoxMemphis that Bain is not the person who accepted the request, but that detectives do know who is doing so and that's part of the investigation.

Meanwhile, Jo Ann's husband, Gary Bain, is avoiding the media until Hardeman County deputies approve, but WREG-TV reports that he did post a message on her Facebook page on Tuesday saying he loved her and the girls, writing, "Please call or just come home. There is nothing we can't work through together. We always have and I hope we always will."

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Comments

[Forever Jung]

05:49 PM on 05/04/2012

"... family friend Adam Christopher Mayes, 35, of Guntown, Miss..." Let's see, this guy has 3 names and is from "Guntown"; sounds suspicious!

[kimcrdr]

03:59 PM on 05/04/2012

so much of this is happening now a days,so sad, It makes me think could the husband and wife been going thru trouble and she found this other man and decided to leave, It just strikes me odd that it was the mom and all three kids, if it was an abduction you would think that one of the four could have gotten away or screamed and ran for help..must stay tuned definately more to this story. I pray they return or are found unharmed!

[Samanthartn]

01:16 PM on 05/08/2012

It has since been reported that he killed the mother and oldest daughter and buried them in a shallow grave behind his mothers home (who is also now in custody, along with his wife).

[yoakaholic]

02:31 PM on 05/04/2012

May...possible....could be......such stupid speculation when there is no reason to defame the husband. Stick with the facts, posters.

[Henk]

03:10 PM on 05/04/2012

Good luck with that. If you come here looking for sane, sensible comments about ANYTHING you will be sorely disappointed.

[guacamolem]

02:22 PM on 05/04/2012

Has anyone else noticed the rash of women & children mysteriously disappearing from their beds or their cars a few miles from their homes without a trace? Conspiracy theorist! Begin.............................now!

[KELLI2L]

02:29 PM on 05/04/2012

What conspiracy?
Just a lot more creeps out there... And don't forget, we keep getting more of them from other countries AND the ones who were in prison, were let out to make space for new criminals!
That's not a conspiracy - that's the facts!

[Henk]

03:12 PM on 05/04/2012

There are no more and maybe even less creeps out there then there have ever been. The difference is we hear about it more. You should hear the stories my 83 year old mother tells about growing up in the North woods of Minnesota. Stuff like this has been going on forever. We just have instant access to it now.

[Carmen Slade]

01:02 PM on 05/04/2012

Arizona is currently in the Moronisphere. Given the choice of moving there or disappearing...

[abann3]

01:18 PM on 05/04/2012

Arizona is just fine.

[whoaDaddy]

01:57 PM on 05/04/2012

agreed, but this story is about tennessee.

[lwallace41]

12:38 PM on 05/04/2012

I read a few other articles about this case and they also say the family was moving because one of the children had severe asthma. They also indicated that the father was the adoptive father of the 2 older girls and the biological father of the youngest. All the other articles pointed out that the police were not looking at the father. This doesnt sound like a wife fleeing abuse situation.

[PLANTSVIEW]

12:11 PM on 05/04/2012

she`s still going to her facebook page ,,,So I believe she is a live and well just living with her new man in another state,,,getting rid of her vehicle is smart

[rlfay]

12:13 PM on 05/04/2012

It Says Bain was not the one accepting........

[lwallace41]

12:43 PM on 05/04/2012

One of the daughters perhaps. Not sure how they would know that though.

[Babaykid]

01:18 PM on 05/04/2012

The husband said that was him going on her facebook

[all im sayin is]

12:09 PM on 05/04/2012

One can only hope for the best.

[savanahrose]

12:05 PM on 05/04/2012

I know it does not state here in the article but I just read that the family was going to move to Arizona because one of the children has asthma. To me it sounds like both the husband and the wife made the choice together to move to Arizona. I hope that they are all safe and sound.

[Dana Marie Arnold]

12:01 PM on 05/04/2012

This sounds a lot like the case of the missing mom from the same general area last year. Her car was found abandoned not far from her home.

[MONTENEGRO1949]

02:20 PM on 05/04/2012

If there was abuse, that person usually stays, and the abused leave as fast as they can. If thats the case, good for her and her children.

[lwallace41]

03:23 PM on 05/04/2012

I don't think that is what happened here. No claims of abuse from anyone that knew these people. I would be more inclined to think there was another relationship that the wife had, OR that she could have gotten herself into some financial trouble OR she could be unbalanced. That happened to my brother. His wife was bi-polar i think and she would occasionally threaten to take their son and disappear. She did once, but fortunately returned after about a week.

[PLANTSVIEW]

12:00 PM on 05/04/2012

Bet Mom took her and her daughters to California to get away from dad

[Sharon Jones Jeanguenat]

11:57 AM on 05/04/2012

My prayers are with the family of these missing people, & hopefully the mom & daughters are alive.

[MONTENEGRO1949]

02:16 PM on 05/04/2012

AMEN

[hpycmpr155]

11:56 AM on 05/04/2012

It just goes on..again and again and again and again.
>>

[lwallace41]

11:52 AM on 05/04/2012

It doesnt look like the police are looking at the husband/father. And no family or friends have come out and said there any kind of abuse. So my guess is that they were indeed having marital problems and that the wife decided that rather go through a divorce and share custody of the girls, she would just take them and disappear.

[noughsaid1]

11:51 AM on 05/04/2012

Please let these children be safe. I really hope that this mom is hiding out with the girls and not dead somewhere

[MONTENEGRO1949]

02:17 PM on 05/04/2012

I hope so to.