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Breaking right now, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirms a sighting a 15-year-old

Elizabeth Thomas and Tad Cummings. TBI says Cummings used cash to purchase food items,

but did not buy anything else of significance.

Elizabeth Thomas was brand new to the Kaleoka School in Murray County.

She started as a freshman this year entering the public school system for the very first time.

This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. TBI says the Cummings was a teacher.

A student reported seeing Cummings kissing Elizabeth in his classroom in late January.

Police arrested Elizabeth's mom Kimberly Thomas last year. They charged her with five counts

of child abuse and neglect. Cummings told two students he's a father figure to Elizabeth.

He stole my daughter from me. As Sheriff's deputies race to Mitchell International Airport

in the search for Elizabeth Thomas' schoolgirl abducted by her pervy teacher, Tad Cummings,

bombshell now in brand new court filings, sent a strong message from Elizabeth's father,

claiming the pervy teach Tad Cummings threatened Elizabeth. She did not want to go with him

and more, more facts coming out in the search for Elizabeth Thomas. I'm Nancy Grace.

This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. Anthony Thomas, Elizabeth Thomas's father,

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