She stated that the male was with a female, however, she never saw the female, only hearing her voice. “The next thing she remembers is being in the trailer of an 18-wheeler. According to the chief, Russell told police the man made her go over a fence and she was forced into a car. “She claimed that the man then picked her up and she screamed,” he said. Police haven’t spoken to Russell since just after she returned home Saturday.ĭerzis told reporters she told investigators she got out of the vehicle Thursday to check on the child and a man came out of the trees and mumbled that he was checking on the baby. Here’s what we know about the investigation:

Russell was driving Thursday to her home in Hoover from her job in Birmingham, about 10 miles to the north, when she called 911 to say she was stopping her car to check on a child and then called a family member who lost contact with her – though the line remained open, according to the Hoover Police Department.

He also spoke about web searches on her cell phone in the lead-up to her disappearance.ĬNN has reached out to her parents for comment. “Carlee has given detectives her statement and hopefully they are pursuing her abductor,” Talitha Robinson-Russell said in a statement to CNN affiliate WBRC.ĭerzis told reporters that investigators have learned Carlee Russell took items from work, stopped at a restaurant to get food and bought snacks at Target before she went missing. Russell’s mother has said she believes her daughter was abducted before she returned home two days later on foot. The chief said detectives spoke briefly to Russell once and they want to interview her again.

Police shared new details Wednesday on the case of Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell, the Alabama woman who went missing for 49 hours last week after calling 911 to report a toddler walking alone on the side of the highway, saying investigators “have been unable to verify” most of Russell’s initial statement.Īt a news conference, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said the investigation continues but authorities do not believe there is a threat to the community, which is just south of Birmingham.ĭerzis told reporters no one has reported a missing child and investigators have found no evidence of one.

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