‘This is real bad’: 911 call reveals frantic moments after autistic daughter, 5, vanished in South Carolina

A 911 call made moments after a 5-year-old autistic girl disappeared from a South Carolina rental home captures her father reporting her missing and saying he needed to check the nearby water.

A massive search ended Monday after authorities found Saylor Hayes’ body in waters near Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

Her parents were arrested in Tennessee the following day.

The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office said John Herb Hayes III, 70, and Geordyn Nichole Hayes, 31, were arrested Tuesday evening in Tennessee and booked into the Carter County Jail on fugitive-from-justice charges.

PARENTS ARRESTED AFTER SOUTH CAROLINA SEARCH FOR AUTISTIC DAUGHTER, 5, ENDS IN TRAGEDY NEAR COASTAL GETAWAY The couple is accused of putting their daughter in danger or abandoning her under South Carolina law.

John Hayes called 911 just before 11:40 a.m. on Aug.

30 from a rental home on Old Waccamaw Drive in Pawleys Island.

POLICE DOG FOLLOWS HIS NOSE TO FIND MISSING AUTISTIC TEEN SCREAMING FOR HELP "I need help," Hayes told the dispatcher.

"My little 4-year-old, 5-year-old girl, she’s very autistic, just escaped." Hayes described Saylor as white with brown hair and green eyes and said he thought she was wearing a bluish bathing suit.

The dispatcher asked whether Saylor responded when called by name.

PARENTS SPEAK OUT AFTER SON WITH AUTISM, 6, WAS SUSPENDED FOR BITING SANDWICH INTO SHAPE OF GUN "She doesn’t talk," Hayes said.

"She’s nonverbal." "This is bad," he later said.

"This is real bad." FLORIDA COUPLE ALLEGEDLY HELD FOUR CHILDREN IN TRACTOR-TRAILER CAB FOR NEARLY SIX YEARS Hayes said the family had been preparing to go to the beach and that Saylor had been buckled up in a vehicle.

He said he went inside to get juice and other items before returning to find her gone.