I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,

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The teacher who vanished into thin air with his 15-year-old student composed a creepy love song

and sang it.

But Ted Cummins wasn't crooning to missing ninth-grader Beth Thomas.

Get this, he's actually singing to another student he was close to.

Destiny Parish, now 19, says Cummins became her confinant when she was about the same age as Beth.

We used to be really, really close. I could talk to him just about anything.

Can you imagine you put your child on the school bus or drop them off at school in the morning?

3pm, they're gone.

And that's just half the story. The rest of the story is that

their school teacher took them and you don't hear another word.

Your little girl gone missing with a 50-year-old school teacher and apparently their so-called

flirtation has been going on right under the noses of all the teachers and faculty and administrators

at the school as the days pass by, outrage turns to desperation for the family of Elizabeth Thomas.

She has been kidnapped by her teacher, Ted Cummins, and joining us today, a young lady,

Destiny Parish, but by the grace of God, went she. This is the young lady, that this same

perv teacher sang love songs to O dear Lord in heaven. Before I go to Destiny, I want to thank

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