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Speaker 1: Breaking right now. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirms the

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Speaker 1: signing a fifteen year old Elizabeth Thomas and Tach Cummings.

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Speaker 1: Tb I says Cummins use cash to purchase food items,

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Speaker 1: but did not buy anything else of significance. Elizabeth Thomas

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Speaker 1: was brand new to the Coloca School in Murray County.

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Speaker 1: She started as a freshman this year, entering the public

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Speaker 1: This is crime Stories with Nancy Grace to the Austins.

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Speaker 1: The Cummins was a teacher. A student reported seeing Cummins

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Speaker 1: kissing Elizabeth in his classroom in late January. Police arrested

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Speaker 1: five counts of child abuse and neglect. Cummins told two

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Speaker 1: students he's a father figure to Elizabeth. He stole my

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Speaker 1: by her pervy teacher, Tad Cummins. Bob Shell now in

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Speaker 1: brand new court filings, send a strong message from Elizabeth's

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Speaker 1: father claiming the pervy teach Tad Cummins threatened Elizabeth she

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories, thank you for being

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Speaker 1: with us. Anthony Thomas, Elizabeth Thomas's father, has gone to

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Speaker 1: Tad cummins inappropriate relationship with his daughter. This as Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: deputies race to the International airport on a tip that

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Speaker 1: Media showed up. According to a passenger from Louisville, Cassandra Miller,

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Speaker 1: as we all know, fifteen year old Elizabeth Thomas has

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Speaker 1: to you on what's going on at that airport and

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Speaker 1: what went down. But Alan Duc is with us. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about what the father is saying this morning, Alan,

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Speaker 1: real bombshell what he's claiming. What this does is it

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Speaker 1: Repeatedly when we've talked to him, he's made a comments

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Speaker 1: So this is his way of getting a subpoena for

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Speaker 1: witnesses to force them to disclose details that might help

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Speaker 1: find Elizabeth Thomas. What I'm learning in this filing is incredible,

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Speaker 1: including the fact that catch this, Alan, Now this is

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Speaker 1: they Tim was on the trip. Not only that he

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Speaker 1: he learned, Vanity, Vanity. That name is Tad Cummins. Cummins, white, male,

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Speaker 1: Please don't give up on finding Elizabeth Thomas and bringing

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Speaker 1: always Thank you. Friend. Nancy Grace Crime Stories signing off,

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