![]() 'I was driving by trying to flush him out. ![]() It was the same car the couple went missing in, and the plate's had been removed.Īfter using the car's vehicle identification number to confirm it belonged to the ex-teacher, SWAT teams formed a perimeter around the cabin and waited for Cummins to walk out around 4am.Īfter a while, they brought in Barry to help speed up the process. ![]() The neighbor reportedly got suspicious about the couple's car, a silver Nissan Rogue. 'So we called 911 last night and we were calling that Tennessee Bureau of Investigation line or whatever so I guess the first sheriff got out here at about 2am.' 'Someone was showing me a picture, I was telling them you know and said 'That's the guy,"' he said. It wasn't until Wednesday night that he finally recognized Cummins and the girl, when a neighbor showed him a missing persons picture. I was like, whatever, they're on hard times or something." I was kind of telling some people, you know, she never really looks at me and she's always talking for her. 'And a couple of times he always kept her in the car and he would be like 'she's asleep,' you know, and I'm like okay. 'He would talk for her a lot and kept her separate, you know,' Barry told WBIR. March 30: Tad Cummins' wife of 31 years, Jill, files for divorceĪpril 19: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is contacted by caretaker Griffin Barry, who says the paid is staying on his property in Cecilville, CaliforniaĪpril 20: Police converge on the remote cabin, arrest Cummins and confirm that Elizabeth is safeīarry said he rarely interacted with Thomas during the couple's 36-hour stay at the property. This is their last sighting for more than a month March 15: Cummins and Thomas are seen buying food at a Walmart. March 13, noon: Cummins and Elizabeth are seen together in Decatur, AL, around 70 miles from Columbia. March 13, 8am: Cummins is seen pumping gas in Columbia March 13, 7:45am: Thomas is dropped off at Shoney's in Columbia by a friend March 12: Cummins buys hair dye from Walmart in Columbia, TN March 9: He takes out a $4,500 loan on his car He denies the claim, saying that they are friends she is taken out of his classesįebruary 3: Cummins is reprimanded by the school principal after Elizabeth is found to have entered his classroom for around 30 minuesĬ. January 23: Tad Cummins is spotted kissing Elizabeth Thomas, his student at Culleoka High School, by another student. He then called 911 and police arrested Cummins in a raid the next morningīy Ashley Collman and Ariel Zilber For.Wednesday night, a neighbor showed Barry a picture of the missing couple and he immediately recognized them.Cabins had no furniture and the teacher and his kidnapped student slept on the floor.Barry says he let the two stay in one of his unfinished cabins in exchange for work.They came back on Tuesday, when the commune turned them down.The caretaker, Griffin Barry, says Cummins and the girl came through the area two weeks ago looking for a commune.A 29-year-old cabin caretaker originally from Tennessee helped police in northern California arrest him. ![]() Tad Cummins, 50, was arrested after he had been on the run for more than a month after kidnapping former student Elizabeth Thomas, 15.The miserable life on the run of teacher and the 'brainwashed' 15-year-old he kidnapped: Pictures show how they holed up in a furnitureless cabin, cooked on a barbecue and slept on the floor
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