Carlee Russell case: 25-year-old searched movie ‘Taken,’ Amber Alerts before vanishing

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many questions left to be answered, but only Carlee can provide those answers,” Derzis told reporters, according to NPR. “What we can say is that we’ve been unable to verify most of Carlee’s initial statement made to investigators, and we have no reason to believe that there is a threat to the public safety related to this particular case.”Police also played the 911 call made by Russell around 9:24 p.m.

on the night of her disappearance, in which she sounds calm as she reports to the dispatcher that the toddler does not seem to be injured.When the operator urges Russell to remain at the scene, saying officers are on their way, she says “OK” before the conversation ends.The information shared by police about Russell’s behaviour in the days leading up to her disappearance further complicates the story.While Russell claimed in her initial report to police that she was forced into an 18-wheeler truck and taken to a home where a man and woman forced her to strip naked while they took photos of her, Derzis said that Russell had conducted online searches for the abduction-themed movie Taken, “how to pay for an Amber Alert” and “how to take money from a register without being caught,” shortly before she disappeared.Police said she had also searched for a one-way bus ticket from Birmingham to Nashville departing the day that she vanished.“I do think it’s highly unusual the day that someone gets kidnapped that seven or eight hours before that, they’re searching the internet, Googling the movie Taken about an abduction,” Derzis said. “I find that very, very strange.”The police revelations came two days after Russell’s family told NBC News in a statement that they believed Russell’s account and called on police to “pursue her