Tad Cummins' Wife: Alleged Kidnapper Keeps Calling Me From Jail

NASHVILLE, TN — The wife of alleged kidnapper Tad Cummins — the 50-year-old ex-teacher charged with kidnapping his 15-year-old former student Elizabeth Thomas, sparking a six-week nationwide manhunt — told Inside Edition that her husband repeatedly calls her from jail begging for forgiveness and admitted to her that he had sex with the teenager.

"It was very hard to hear his voice after all this time not knowing if I was going to hear it again," she said on the show. "But he told me he was sorry. He told me he loved me and to please forgive him.”

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But Jill Cummins — who filed for divorce shortly after her husband, who taught at Culleoka Unit School, and Thomas disappeared — said she hasn't said "I love you" back and though her husband repeatedly calls her, she no longer picks up the phone.

“I of course went into a rage of, ‘Do you know what you've done to me? Do you know what you've done to your girls and your grandchildren?’ He pretty much just over and over said, ‘I'm sorry,’” she said.

Jill Cummins also told Inside Edition that her husband admitted to sex with the teenaged girl.

"I said, 'Well, did you sleep with her?' And he said, 'Yes I did,'" she said. "And I didn't want any details, but I knew the truth. I just wanted to hear it from him to me."

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