The miserable life on the run of teacher and the 'brainwashed' 15-year-old he kidnapped

 Tad Cummins (left) said he was 'glad' that his month-and-a-half flight from justice was over when he was arrested for                                                      allegedly kidnapping Elizabeth Thomas (right) Thursday

A Tennessee teacher who spent over a month hiding in a cabin with his 15-year-old student subsisted on meager items as law enforcement was actively searching for him.

Tad Cummins, 50, was taken into custody Thursday morning by a SWAT team who surrounded the unfinished cabin in Cecilville, California where he was staying with missing teen Elizabeth Thomas.

According to an inventory of items confiscated from the cabin by the FBI, there were four bedrolls, two vacuum filters, coconut oil, and socks.

The FBI also confiscated beer cans and tissues.

The northern California caretaker who helped police arrest Cummins has spoken out to detail how he helped police arrest the fugitive.

Police got a tip about Cummins' whereabouts the previous night from the caretaker of the cabin, 29-year-old Griffin Barry.

Barry, who is originally from Nashville, said he let the couple stay in the cabin in exchange for work and realized who the two were when a neighbor showed him a picture of Thomas' missing person poster.

That's when it all came together for Barry and he called to tip off police. Looking back, he said there was something suspicious about the couple.

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