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Missing Tenn. mother, children had moved to Arizona

A woman and her three young daughters who authorities say were abducted from Tennessee had recently moved to Arizona because two of the girls had asthma, a family friend said Sunday. Linda Kirkland a cook at the Country Cafe in Whiteville, Tenn., said that Jo Ann Bain, her husband and three daughters had been back in the Whiteville area to take care of some business after a death in the family.

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