The Alabama woman who went missing for two days last week looked for information about Amber Alerts, local bus tickets, and the action film Taken before she disappeared, according to authorities.
The information was one of many that the authorities released during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. They gave the most comprehensive description of what happened in the mysterious occurrence that has attracted widespread attention.
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Carlee Russell, a 25-year-old nursing student, disappeared last Thursday after she reported seeing a toddler stumbling by the side of the road to 911 and her brother’s girlfriend.
According to police, there is still no proof of a missing toddler, and no other drivers have reported seeing one along the busy section of the road.
Minutes after the 911 call, first responders recovered Russell’s car and her things, including her wig, smartphone, and pocketbook, but they couldn’t find her.
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Russell looked into whether there was a fee for an Amber Alert on July 11, which was two days before she vanished.
Russell looked up information on the Birmingham bus station, which is around 10 miles from Hoover, on the day she vanished. She also looked for a bus ticket that went from Birmingham to Nashville in one direction.
On the day she disappeared, she also looked up the movie Taken and how to steal cash from a register covertly.
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“I do think it’s highly unusual the day that someone gets kidnapped that seven hours, eight hours before that, that they’re searching the internet, Googling the movie Taken about an abduction,” Derzis said. “I find that very strange.”
Derzis claimed that although investigators discovered other online searches that seemed to shed light on Russell’s mental state, authorities were keeping them confidential out of respect for her privacy. Two online searches about Amber Alerts were also made on a computer at her place of employment.