And he told me no and not to do it ‘cause it’d change who I was.”Īs time progressed, Cummins made it clear he wanted a romantic relationship, according to Elizabeth. “I was feeling real low, and I was wanting to get on anti-depressants and try to go to a therapist. “Whenever I tried to seek mental help, he told me no,” Thomas said. Elizabeth said she had been home schooled most of her life, but once she was removed from her mother’s care after reports of child neglect and abuse, she entered the public school system, where Cummins initially became a mentor.Įlizabeth Thomas and alleged abductor, Tad Cummins Elizabeth said she was depressed and lonely after the abuse endured by her mother and wanted to seek mental health help, but Cummins persuaded her not to, telling her it would “change” her. “He made me feel like I didn’t have anyone else, and no one really cared about me like he did,” Elizabeth explained.Ĭummins met Elizabeth while teaching at the Culleoka Unit School in Maury County, where the teen attended school. The teen’s story gained national attention, but little details were known publicly, until now, about what transpired between the two that prompted Elizabeth to leave her hometown with a man old enough to be her father. A little over a month later, authorities found the pair in a small shack in a secluded, wooded area in northern California. Cummins reportedly drove across state lines with the teen, which sparked a nationwide manhunt and an AMBER Alert.
They think that I like old men and that’s not the case.”Įlizabeth was just 15 when she left her home in Culleoka, Tennessee, with former health sciences teacher, Tad Cummins, 51 at the time. “ think they know what happened,” Elizabeth Thomas said in an exclusive interview with “20/20″ correspondent, Eva Pilgrim. The FBI and National Center for Missing & Exploited Children are involved in the case.The Tennessee girl who vanished earlier this year with former teacher Tad Cummins said that as she feared for her life while with him, the public perception of her became skewed, as people reportedly began forming opinions before truly understanding what happened. The day they went missing, Cummins posted "something beautiful is on the horizon." On March 12th, Thomas wrote the caption #missioncompleted on a post that reads, “one day someone will hug you so tight, that all of your broken pieces will fit back together.” In her bio Thomas describes herself as a wife. The TBI has not confirmed to Fox 17 these accounts belong to Thomas and Cummins but said Cummins may have planned to disappear with Thomas for weeks. Thomas and Cummins both posted to Instagram the day they both went missing. This echoes his wife's plea given in a news conference last week. TBI said to Cummins that he still has the chance to do the right thing because this is not who his church, family or grandkids knows him to be. Your family wants you here and your friends want you here." We're going to do everything in our possibility, everything in our capabilities to bring you home. TBI said Thomas is definitely a victim though she may not know it.ĭeVine gave the following message to Elizabeth:
"If it's possible, we've thought of it and we're trying to use it, and they have not proven successful at this point," DeVine said. TBI is asking people with large business parking lots or parking garages to look around for the vehicle. TBI asked people who live on rural property to drive around their property and look at their land for anything suspicious.Īs for the silver Nissan Rogue TBI believes Cummins is driving, the agency said it's possible they are in a different vehicle. "There have been no credible sitings and that's very rare for an AMBER Alert now almost seven days in to not have at least one credible sighting," DeVine said. Agents have said they have"no idea" where Thomas and Cummins are and have received no credible sightings, although they have received 250 tips from 24 different states. TBI's concerns for Thomas' well-being are growing.
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