Tennessee kidnapping: Wife, mother of suspect Adam Mayes arrested

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

Mary Mayes, 65, and Teresa Mayes, 30, were arrested Monday. Teresa Mayes was charged with four counts of aggravated kidnapping and Mary Mayes was charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping, according to MSNBC.

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Both women appeared before a judge Tuesday morning and were being held in the Hardeman County jail, Deputy Clerk Pat Kirk told CNN.

The bodies of Jo Ann Bain and 14-year-old Adrienne Bain were found behind a house in North Mississippi late last week. Police told CNN the house is linked to Adam Mayes

Authorities were still searching for the man suspected of the crimes, 35-year-old Adam Mayes, and Bain's two younger daughters, Alexandria Bain, 12; and Kyliyah Bain, 8.

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The family was reported missing on April 27 by Gary Bain, JoAnn's husband and the children's stepfather, according to ABC News.

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

Booth told The Associated Press that 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.

Rick Foster, whose wife was a lifelong friend of Jo Ann Bain and whose daughter was a classmate of Adrienne Bain, told CNN that Adam Mayes had been a friend of the Bain family for years. 

He described Mayes as "a big kid in a grown man's body."