An officer combing through the area spotted Alexandria Bain on Thursday evening

Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had already killed their louis vuitton sunglasses mother and sister, and he was armed with a rifle, sawed-off shotgun and pistol as officers closed in. Adam Mayes could have killed them days ago, could have left them in the woods as he fled for another hideout, could have shot them in desperation as he was surrounded by officers. Yet 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah Bain went home to their father Friday alive, with no apparent injuries other than being tired, scared and itchy from poison ivy. Beverly Goodman, the aunt of their slain mother, Jo Ann Bain, said she was relieved the girls were home but saddened by the killings of Bain and Bain's 14-year-old daughter, Adrienne. "He's been missing for so long. How do you hide out from 350 million people?" she said. "I thought they were going to find them dead -- the girls and him -- so I am very, very relieved." At one point, Mayes claimed to be the girls' father. That may be why he spared them. He also was close to the family, described as an uncle-like figure who smiled louis vuitton hair pins cheek-to-cheek with the girls in Facebook photos. Authorities said Mayes, 35, killed Jo Ann Bain and Adrienne on April 27 in Whiteville, Tenn. Mayes' wife, Teresa Mayes, is charged with murder in the killings. She told investigators she saw her husband kill the mother and oldest girl, then drove him, the younger girls and the bodies to Mississippi, court documents say. His mother, Mary Mayes, also is charged in the kidnapping but says she is innocent. Adam Mayes and the girls were holed up in a structure in the woods in Mississippi, 90 miles from where the girls were kidnapped in Tennessee, said a law cheap burberry bags enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. An officer combing through the area spotted Alexandria Bain on Thursday evening. Officers ordered Mayes to show his hands, but he pulled a pistol from his waistband and shot himself, said Aaron Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis, Tenn., office. Many questions remain about what happened: Investigators have not said whether Mayes spoke before killing himself, nor disclosed what the girls told them. Authorities also have not said why Mayes kidnapped the girls and killed their mother and sister. It also wasn't known how they burberry sunglasses 2012 survived in the woods, nor how long they were there. The girls were released from a hospital, officials said Friday, and reunited with relatives in Tennessee.