Special Update: Fugitive teacher Tad Cummins & kidnapped student sighted in OKC

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Fugitive teacher Tad Cummins and kidnapped student Elizabeth Thomas shopped for food at a Oklahoma City Walmart two days after they disappeared from Columbia, Tennessee, according to newly-revealed security camera images. Nancy Grace and Alan Duke discuss with Jason Whatley, the lawyer for Elizabeth’s family, what the photos tell us about where Cummins may have taken the 15-year-old girl.

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
0:25.2	the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
0:30.0	This is a special edition of Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:37.5	Breaking right now, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirms a siding of 15-year-old Elizabeth
0:42.9	Thomas and Tad Cummings. TBI says Cummings used cash to purchase food items but did not buy
0:48.8	anything else of significance. Elizabeth Thomas was brand new to the Kalioka School in Murray County,
0:55.0	she started as a freshman this year entering the public school system for the very first time.
1:03.6	This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. TBI says the Cummings was a teacher.
1:08.6	A student reported seeing Cummings kissing Elizabeth in his classroom in late January.
1:13.1	Police arrested Elizabeth's mom Kimberly Thomas last year. They charged her with five counts
1:18.6	of child abuse and neglect. Cummings told two students he's a father figure to Elizabeth.
1:23.8	He stole my daughter from me.
1:27.6	There is breaking news in the search for school girl Elizabeth Thomas. A major break has just
1:35.2	gone down. Believe it or not, the two Elizabeth Thomas, the kidnap girl and the purvy teacher,
1:42.4	Tad Cummings, have been spotted as far away as Oklahoma. Joining me right now, a special guest with us
1:51.7	at Crime Stories, Jason Watley, who has been in this from the beginning representing Elizabeth's
1:58.0	family, I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Also with me, Alan Duke. I want to go straight to Jason,
2:06.4	veteran trial lawyer and Tennessee. Jason, what do we know?
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