Cops haven’t verified most of Carlee Russell’s story but she says nude photos were taken while she was missing
Cops haven’t verified most of Carlee Russell’s story but she says nude photos were taken while she was missing Police said Wednesday they've been unable to verify initial statements made by Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who disappeared last week after she said she saw a toddler walking on the interstate. But officials did say that before she vanished, she made internet searches about paying for Amber Alerts, how to take money from a register without getting caught and the movie "Taken." Police said Russell told them she was forced into an 18-wheeler truck and taken to a home where a man and a woman told her to get undressed and then took photos of her. Police in Hoover, a city about 10 miles south of Birmingham, have been investigating the disappearance of Russell, a 25-year-old nursing student, who returned home two days after she disappeared Thursday night. Hoover Police Chief Nicholas C. Derzis said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that what happened...