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Post by Admin on Apr 7, 2017 20:14:52 GMT
Police in Nebraska said they had a "possible" sighting of 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas, the missing Tennessee teenager who was allegedly kidnapped by her former high school teacher last month. "It is possible we had a spotting of the victim and suspect of a Columbia, TN Amber Alert in Kearney this evening," the Kearney Police Department said in a Facebook post early Monday.
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2017 20:14:44 GMT
The department shared images that appear to match the description of the teen and her alleged abductor, 50-year-old Tad Cummins, at a McDonald's in Kearney, Nebraska, more than 900 miles west of their home state of Tennessee. After receiving a tip late Thursday, investigators obtained images from surveillance cameras at a Walmart in Oklahoma City showing Elizabeth and Cummins on the afternoon of March 15, two days after she was was allegedly kidnapped by her former high school teacher, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The surveillance images show Cummins "with an altered appearance to darken his hair" and indicated that "Elizabeth may currently have red hair," the investigative bureau said Friday.
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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2017 20:10:26 GMT
The wife and daughters of the teacher accused of kidnapping a student in Tennessee are pleading for him to come home. Tad Cummins, 50, is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas. The pair have been missing for more than month. They were last spotted by a Walmart surveillance camera in Oklahoma City on March 15, two days after they disappeared from Columbia, Tennessee. Jill Cummins reported her husband of more than 30 years missing after finding a note at home. "I think he left because he was so ashamed of what had happened. He couldn't face me or anyone. And he didn't want to face the consequences, and so he thought that was his only choice," she said.
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2017 19:27:21 GMT
A missing teenager and the high-school teacher accused of kidnapping her have been found alive in northern California, over 2,000 miles from the Tennessee town where they disappeared. Tad Cummins, 50, is believed to have taken Elizabeth Thomas, 15 on March 13. Thomas was one of Cummins’s students at her Maury County, Tennessee school, where he was suspended for “inappropriate relations” with her, The Daily Beast previously reported. Two weeks later, Thomas disappeared and Cummins was charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexual contact with a minor. On Thursday, Cummins was arrested in rural Siskiyou County, California, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations announced. Thomas was found safe, investigators said. Late Wednesday night, both the TBI and local authorities received a tip from a local man who believed to have spotted Cummins and Thomas, investigators said Thursday. “We received a call to the TBI tip line around 11 p.m. Central last night from an individual in California who believed he may have encountered Tad Cummins and Elizabeth Thomas,” Josh DeVine, a TBI spokesperson said in a Thursday afternoon press conference. The caller "indicated they had taken up residence in a cabin in a remote area in Cecilville, California within the last week and a half. In turn, we contacted the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s office and learned that they had received the same information from the same individual."
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Post by Admin on May 4, 2017 19:40:30 GMT
Tad Cummins, the teacher accused of abducting his 15-year-old female student and causing an ongoing AMBER Alert for more than a month, is in the process of being extradited from California to Tennessee, his defense attorney tells PEOPLE. “He left at about 7:30 Tuesday evening,” assistant federal defender Ben Galloway tells PEOPLE. “I don’t know how long it will take to get him there.” The U.S. Marshals Service is tasked with bringing 50-year-old Cummins back to Tennessee, where he is facing kidnapping and sex crime charges. Detainees are generally routed through local jails, private correctional facilities and the federal transfer center in Oklahoma City before they reach their final destination, Galloway says.
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