re: Nursing student disappears after reporting toddler walking on interstate UPDATE: ARRESTED

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Makes zero sense that you are not going to hug your daughter who has been missing for two days until the medical folks arrive.

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Makes perfect sense if it’s all a hoax

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The mom releases another statement...

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Wonder what alias they use here? Seems they keep talking about social media a lot, then get off it because that won’t change. Its the world we live in now. And her comments have holes in them.

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“Where exactly is that call coming from?”
“The call is pinging from that location.”
“We’re at .... Atkins Trimm Lane checking the back yard....Do you want to see if we can start getting her (Russell’s) phone pinged?”

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Does that mean Russell’s phone was pinging that location or the SIL’s phone? Or both?

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I thought it meant SIL (brother’s girlfriend) as other comments seem to be about still attempting to ping Carlee’s phone and dealing with T-Mobile to get that done.

Right after this one person mentions sister still has line open. Not sure if still open at the time as it’s confusing to read without labeling different speakers, and someone earlier mentioned caller said call disconnected after scream.

As far as SIL involvement it could change if she lives on that street. Also, if line open and wanting to continue to listen she may have used landline or another cellphone to call police.

It also mentions not finding Carlee’s phone initially, but later the BOLO sent out said, “personal belongings including cell phone were just located around Exit 1 on 459.” I don’t know area but that seems off if car closer to mile marker 11.

Refresh my memory. Didn’t someone say that they went looking for her at the wrong Red Roof Inn? Not sure how many there are in that area or if that was correct information

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Shouldn’t she be asking for help finding the abductor?

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"Carlee has given her statement to police and hopefully they are pursuing her abductor" is not something I believe I'd ever write if someone took my daughter and returned her in an "unresponsive" state two days later.

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I received a text at some point from someone claiming to be Carlee and that she was at the Red Roof Inn. However, when my family went there and knocked doors and looked for her and there was no indication Carlee was there nor that she had ever been there.

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I have more questions. If you honedtly thought your daughter was kidnapped and got a tip - wouldn’t you want to call the police who are trained and in case they have weapons? But instead she sends an army of family/friends there to loudly knock on doors? If it was a kidnapper you would not send family as you have no idea what they are capable of.

The sister in law (whatever is the one that reported scream)

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Russell then called a family member to tell them she was stopping to check on the child, police said. “The family member lost contact with the caller, but the line remained open,” Lt. Daniel Lowe of the Hoover Police said at a news conference on Friday.

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Local Fox affiliate

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Makes zero sense that you are not going to hug your daughter who has been missing for two days until the medical folks arrive.



Makes perfect sense if it’s all a hoax

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I have a hard time believing the parents were in on this. In the present, however, I'm wondering how they don't see holes in this story. I think they are just believing what she told them, whatever that was.

If they're going to release statements, I would expect them to be more demanding about the police looking for the abductor(s) and I'd be worried they might be coming after Carlee since she can probably ID them. Don't take this as me believing her story. It's just what I would expect from the parents right now.

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Yeah, they're between a rock and a hard place. BUT....they aren't helping themselves or the situation by talking so much.

Also, we still have not even a hint of a description of the abductor(s) from the police who have already talked to Carlee and have her story. That speaks volumes.

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I agree on both of your points. The family just can't help themselves. They keep digging a bigger hole.

I doubt the parents are/were in on it.

They just unconditionally love their daughter.

The most recent statement seems to be about them specifically saying they only solicited prayers, not money. IMHO, they are trying to get out in front of fraud charges her daughter might receive.