Saylor Hayes’ now-charged mother was filmed seemingly begging for assist discovering her five-year-old non-verbal daughter earlier than she was discovered lifeless in a South Carolina waterway.
Geordyn Hayes, 31, was seen in an obvious panic “praying” her daughter had simply fallen asleep someplace, days earlier than the mother and her 70-year-old husband, John, had been charged over Saylor’s disappearance and dying.
“She would go into someone’s home,” Hayes instructed volunteers serving to the doomed search Sunday whereas they had been on trip in Pawleys Island, as seen in video obtained by Gab Information
“She loves meals. She’s at all times going to the fridge. She has a behavior of that.”
Hayes instructed the helpers she had checked surveillance video however was unable to trace her daughter’s actions.
“We appeared on the digicam. We didn’t see her,” a panicked Hayes stated.
“I’m simply praying… that she’s someplace and she or he fell asleep, perhaps.”
The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced Saylor was lacking at round 12:31 p.m. Sunday.
It’s not clear how lengthy into the search the newly revealed footage of the mother was filmed.
Saylor’s dad, John Hayes, was heard frantically telling dispatchers he wanted assist as he reported his daughter lacking in 911 audio that instructed he was uncertain precisely how outdated she was.
“My little, 4-year-old or 5-year-old lady who’s very autistic, simply escaped,” he instructed dispatchers round 11 a.m, in keeping with the transcript of the decision seen by WCBD.
He then revealed “she took off” in a “cut up second.”
“We had her buckled within the automotive, and I went inside to get her juice and a few extra stuff and to go away. I got here again out. She’s gone,” he stated.
John Hayes frantically instructed dispatchers, “I must go have a look at the water,” as investigators requested for extra particulars.
“Ma’am, I don’t imply to be disrespectful, however I gotta discover her,” he stated at one level through the name.
In the meantime, Geordyn Hayes screamed Saylor’s identify whereas the decision was being made.
The search concerned “tons of of individuals and a number of companies,” authorities stated, earlier than revealing Saylor was discovered at round 9:45 a.m. Monday within the water behind the Hayes’ rental house.
Saylor was imagined to be sporting a Undertaking Lifesaver transmitter due to her tendency to wander away, however she wasn’t sporting the band when her physique was discovered.
Throughout the search, regulation enforcement deployed helicopters that may’ve been in a position to detect the sign from her bracelet.
However the sign was traced to a automobile outdoors the household house in Virginia, greater than 300 miles away from the place they had been vacationing.
Cops revealed the machine had been eliminated earlier than the household had left the Outdated Dominion state.
It’s unclear who eliminated the machine, or when it was eliminated.
However it will’ve required some drive with a purpose to take away the bracelet, regulation enforcement stated.
“It can’t merely be unclasped or eliminated by the shopper; the band should be bodily lower with a purpose to take away the transmitter,” saide Sheriff Blake Andis of Washington County, Virginia.
John and Geordyn Hayes had been arrested in Tennessee and now face fees of unlawfully inserting a toddler in danger/wilfully abandoning a toddler.
They stand accused of placing the lady “at an unreasonable danger of hurt affecting her life and security by failing to supply supervision and safeguards acceptable for a severely nonverbal, autistic, five-year-old baby with a identified affinity to water and a historical past of elopement,” in keeping with the arrest affidavit seen by The Publish.
Saylor’s reason behind dying hasn’t been revealed, with an post-mortem scheduled for Sept. 4.
