By HLNtv.com Staff
updated 7:27 PM EDT, Wed May 09, 2012
*Update 9 p.m. ET -- Fugitive Adam Mayes is dead, and the two girls he was suspected of kidnapping are alive and safe, HLN learned Thursday night. The death was confirmed by FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic. There had been conflicting reports about Mayes since he was found after suffering an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday night in Union County, Mississippi.
A manhunt is underway for Adam Mayes who is accused of kidnapping and murder. Mayes allegedly kidnapped Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters and then killed Jo Ann and the oldest girl.