Found Alive AL - Carlethia “Carlee” Russell, 25, 911 call reported toddler walking on side of interstate, car found, she & toddler gone, Birmingham, 13 Jul ‘23 #3

[Jemma]

There was in fact one toddler on the side of the road.

Time now for her to grow up.

JMO

JMO your opinion doesn’t coincide with FACTS, she called six football fields before she actually came to a stop. watch the presser!

 

[cuffem]

If she needed a break from everything she could have asked alone time from everyone and maybe stayed in her room, took off work, stayed off internet except movies and ordered food delivery.

I think it might be possible she wanted more privacy for a possible meet up?

 

[Jemma]

Think about this. Someone could have reserved a room on-line but purchased one of those VISA or Mastercard's from a store and put any fake name and address to it. All the hotel wants the card for (I believe) is any incidentals that may be charged to the room during the person's stay.

Thoughts?

Plus, I think that she had help.

JMO.

facts

 

[Gardenista]

She has bad insomnia and she's up at all hours. I really hope her parents have eyes on her at all times because she has depression and has mentioned suicide. I'd post the suicide tweet, but there is someone else in it and I don't know how not to embed a tweet. You can find it if you scroll thru a few tweets using this search

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40carleeenichole%20forreal&src=typed_query

Replying to myself and am posting the tweet with the other tweeter whited out

 

[Jemma]

Well, she was driving a Mercedes Benz. So, someone was paying for that and the insurance for it!! It doesn't seem like a part-time spa job would be enough to cover it, but what do I know??!!

JMO.

exactly

 

[Ontario Mom]

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My guess is, whoever she was with, paid for the hotel, whether it was the RRI or not.
Because it's a pretty solid bet, she was not alone the whole time, and she wasn't hiding in the bushes.
Someone picked her up from where she was "kidnapped" from.
That was also part of the plan, to have someone there to pick her up.

All of that of course, entirely jmo.

 

[cuffem]

What's in Nashville?

Maybe someone online? Just guessing.

 

[LaborDayRN]

What stood out to me about this call is the complete lack of urgency in her voice.
If I saw a small child on the side of a busy highway at night, I'd be terrified for that child and the tone of my voice would 100% reflect that.

The way she's talking, she sounds like she could be talking about doing laundry or what's on her grocery list.
Zero urgency at all, even without knowing what her "baseline" speaking voice sounds like.

jmo

I would have been out of my car grabbing the toddler to keep him safe before I even called 911............

ETA: about 10 years ago I turned the corner to come down the street I live on. The street I live on has a speed limit of 40 mph. There was a little one in a tshirt and diaper walking down the street a few houses from mine. I did get out of my car and pick up the little boy. I called 911 and LE arrived pretty quickly.
I never put him in my vehicle but instead was walking him towards my home.
By that time the mom realized he had gotten out of the house and was out calling for him. I was able to return him to his mom.
I guess that's why I was so confused that CR was "following" a toddler down a busy interstate. Who would do that "in the real world"?

 

[tmhco]

We finally see a national response for a woman of color and we get this nonsense. What a shame.

 

[CamilleBSP]

JMO your opinion doesn’t coincide with FACTS, she called six football fields before she actually came to a stop. watch the presser!

The person is implying Carlee was the toddler. It’s a joke.

 

[whitelilac]

Police on Wednesday listed some "very strange" online searches that Russell made in the days leading up to her disappearance. The search queries included:

July 11, 7:30 a.m. — "Do you have to pay for an Amber alert"

July 13, 1:03 a.m. — "How to take money from a register without being caught"

July 13, 2:13 a.m. — "Birmingham bus station"

July 13, 2:35 a.m. — "One way bus ticket from Birmingham to Nashville" with a departure date of July 13

July 13, 12:10 p.m. — "The movie 'Taken'"

Before her 911 call​

Thursday, July 13, 8:20 p.m. — Russell left her workplace in Birmingham, about 10 miles from Hoover, at around 8:20 p.m. local time, Hoover police said.

Russell then ordered food from a nearby business at The Colonnade shopping mall and picked it up, police said. She stopped at a Target on Highway 280 to buy some granola bars and Cheez-Its. She stayed in the parking lot until 9:21 p.m., according to police.

Russell calls 911​

Thursday, July 13, 9:34 p.m. — Just after 9:30 p.m., Russell called 911 to report a toddler on the highway, saying she had stopped to check on the boy, police said.

A timeline of the Carlee Russell case: What happened to the Alabama woman who purportedly disappeared for 2 days?

Here's what we know about Alabama nursing student Carlee Russell's 49-hour disappearance, as well as the days leading up to it.

www.cbsnews.com

all premeditated no less, not a spontaneous foolish spur of the moment act.
Scaring her parents half to death, and them supporting her "trauma"...
Awful

 

[Leilei]

Think about this. Someone could have reserved a room on-line but purchased one of those VISA or Mastercard's from a store and put any fake name and address to it. All the hotel wants the card for (I believe) is any incidentals that may be charged to the room during the person's stay.

Thoughts?

Plus, I think that she had help.

JMO.

Not the RRI, but we went to Pensacola in June and stayed at a Hilton. They had to have an ID along with my card. We stayed at a RRI a few years ago and I *think* they did the same.
BTW, Red Roof Inn? NEVER AGAIN.

 

[Synergizer Bunny]

She has bad insomnia and she's up at all hours. I really hope her parents have eyes on her at all times because she has depression and has mentioned suicide. I'd post the suicide tweet, but there is someone else in it and I don't know how not to embed a tweet. You can find it if you scroll thru a few tweets using this search

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40carleeenichole%20forreal&src=typed_query

I honestly think that they need to get her into therapy. <modsnip - parents are off limits> She is bored, IMO. She needs to get a meaningful, full-time job. She could even get her real estate license and get a job with her Mom (if that interests her).

She just needs to find her passion and go for it. Maybe, it isn't meant to be nursing. There are tons of other career fields. There is a test called the Kuder Occupational Interest Test, which she probably could take at the Counselor's Office at Jeff State.

She just needs to focus and figure out what she wants to do. <modsnip - parents are off limits> It's time for this baby bird to fly from the nest, IMO.

Of course, there probably were red flags along the way <modsnip - parents are off limits> I think that we all ignore various flags, hoping that it is a phase. This is a big red flag with flashing lights, unfortunately. She needs therapy and legal counsel now and church (if they go to church).

JMO.

 

[cuffem]

Replying to myself and am posting the tweet with the other tweeter whited out

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I have a feeling any defense attorney they hire will go the MH route and we will hear no more on it. My opinion.

 

[hparker36]

Everyone wondering why LE doesn't haul her in to the station and question her or force her to answer questions? They can arrest her if they are ready to arrest her for a crime. Otherwise, they can't force her to come to the station. And whether she is arrested or not, she cannot, in no way shape or form, be forced to answer questions. This is the US. We have 5th amendment rights.

She is being treated like a very fragile and naïve young girl. Why?

How does one stay blindfolded without their hands restrained unless it’s by consent?

I've had the bathrobe on my mind, but thought that she wouldn't want to wear the same work uniform for days, especially if she was in a hotel room or someone's house. So, maybe the bathrobe to cover up? Heck, who knows, maybe it's a really, really nice robe and she figured "why not?". What makes sense to her sure doesn't make sense to most of us, that's for sure.

I hope her former employer files charges.
This isn’t the prank of a ten year old who shouldn’t be expected to understand all of the ramifications of such poor choices- this is a degreed woman of 25 who was in nursing school.
It may be that LE runs into her again in the future, and I wonder what she has pulled in the past. No way this was her first act, she is too entitled and dishonest to start at 25.

JMO

I think $500. So...if that was a super nice robe and there are other things not mentioned she may be over the line.


JMO

I wonder if this was her first theft from an employer. They spoke highly of her, wonder how long she had been an employee. Seemed like a very accomplished and level headed person. Not her fault, She just got caught up with the wrong crowd. LOL.

 

[whitelilac]

Where has it been verified she has a psychology degree? I find that rather had to believe?

The Psychology degree was stated a few times in the last threads. The MA however I just read in one of the posts after the PC.

 

[Synergizer Bunny]

Not the RRI, but we went to Pensacola in June and stayed at a Hilton. They had to have an ID along with my card. We stayed at a RRI a few years ago and I *think* they did the same.
BTW, Red Roof Inn? NEVER AGAIN.

I know! I asked my husband if he heard of the RRI; and he said NO. He has never seen one in that area or heard of them, and he stays right there along I-459 because it is centrally located to his clients.

JMO.

 

[Googlebutts]

I wouldn't expect her to be registered under her name, especially, if she were a "kidnap" victim.

I myself would have asked to speak to the manager and explained that my daughter had been kidnapped and that I received a call saying that she was being held in a room there and asked to see the video. I would think that they would be able to pull up the lobby video in real time. I know that I can do that on our surveillance video.

If they didn't cooperate, I would have called 911 to get the police there.

JMO.

I personally would be much worse. But this was the mothers story of how it happened

 

[Jemma]

My guess is, whoever she was with, paid for the hotel, whether it was the RRI or not.
Because it's a pretty solid bet, she was not alone the whole time, and she wasn't hiding in the bushes.
Someone picked her up from where she was "kidnapped" from.
That was also part of the plan, to have someone there to pick her up.

All of that of course, entirely jmo.

agreed, she walked into “darkness” and some one picked her up.

 

[Seattle1]

I would have been out of my car grabbing the toddler before I even called 911............

Exactly -- human instinct!