“Terrible behavior and acting on wrong impulse and a perverted instinct I would say.” “He brought that into our secret space,” Showers said. However, the residents at the commune didn’t take well to Cummins, who introduced himself as “John,” and introduced Elizabeth as “Joanna.”Ī resident who goes by the “April Showers” said others at the commune became uncomfortable after Cummins lost his temper. Hardly any contact exists with the outside world and Cummins purportedly felt it would be the safest place to hide. The commune is hidden deep inside the woods of northern California with no televisions, computers, radios, tablets, or phones. They ended up at the Black Bear commune where Cummins reportedly thought no one would recognize them. According to Elizabeth, he announced they were going to a California commune. I was terrified.”Īfter the water nearly killed the pair, Cummins decided on a new destination. Whichever way you tried to go it would pull you the other direction. “The waves were getting really bad to where to like, once I hit the bottom of the boat, the boat would nearly go under. The incident terrified Elizabeth, who sat in the kayak with Cummins as he clumsily tried to make his way through waters he was unfamiliar with. So he got a kayak and he wanted to kayak all the way to Panama.”Ĭummins, who reportedly has no previous experience or skills navigating through rough waters, purchased a man-powered kayak with plans to paddle over 3,000 nautical miles from San Diego to Panama. “And he wanted to go Panama because that’s where he was before on mission trips. “He wanted to go to Mexico because apparently that’s free land,” Elizabeth said. They continued traveling through numerous states and eventually ended up in California, where Cummins had plans to either get them to Mexico or Panama. During the majority of the trip, Cummins demanded that the teen stay inside the car or by his side with her sunglasses on and her head down. They stayed three nights in Colorado, then headed to Utah, where Cummins started buying alcohol for her. Read PART ONE: ‘He said if he couldn’t have me, he’d kill himself’: Tad Cummins’ kidnap victim Elizabeth Thomas explains how she feared former teacher Elizabeth Thomas & Tad Cummins Įlizabeth feared Cummins, which escalated once she started traveling with him, leaving the only hometown she knew, headed west. A little over a month later, authorities found the pair in a small shack in a secluded, wooded area in northern California. Cummins abducted Elizabeth in March 2018 and drove across state lines with the teen, which sparked a nationwide manhunt and an AMBER Alert. “I saw it on FOX News one time in a hotel,” Elizabeth said, explaining the first time she learned the nation was searching for her.Īt just 15 years old, Elizabeth left her Culleoka, Tennessee, home and fled with former health sciences teacher, Cummins, 51 at the time. After kidnapped teen Elizabeth Thomas left Tennessee with her former teacher, Tad Cummins, she started losing hope that she would see or talk to any of her family again.
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