Carlee Russell Case: Police Share New Details And Search History From Her Phone, Cannot Verify She Was Abducted

New details have emerged in the case of Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who returned home after she disappeared mysteriously. Despite the story Russell told when she called 9l1 on the night of her disappearance, Hoover Police Department chief Nick Derzis said investigators cannot verify several claims, including that she was kidnapped or abducted.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Derzis said police are concerned with the search results they found on Russell’s phone. Her internet history, according to police, included questions about how to pay for an amber alert and “how to take money from a register without getting caught.” She also searched for information on the Birmingham bus station and looked up the movie Taken, the 2008 film in which Liam Neeson’s character tries to save a young woman who’s kidnapped.
“There were other searches on Carlee’s phone that appeared to shed some light on her mindset,” Derzis told reporters according to ABC News. “I do think it’s highly, highly unusual to the day that someone gets kidnapped that several — seven hours or eight hours before that — that they’re searching the internet, googling the movie Taken about an abduction. I find that very, very strange.”