CARLEE ADMITS SHE MADE IT AL UP

It was all FAKE! Carlee Russell reveals she made up kidnapping and seeing a toddler on side of Alabama interstate after over a week of lies: Cops weigh up criminal charges for wasting police time

 

Daily Mail 

July 24, 2023

 

A 26-year-old nursing student in Alabama who claimed she was abducted after spotting a toddler along the interstate admitted on Monday she made up the entire story. 

Carlee Russell claimed that she was kidnapped on July 13 after she stopped to check on a toddler at 9:30pm. She turned up at her parents' house 49 hours later and told police she had been abducted, spinning an elaborate story of fighting for freedom. 

Yet on Monday, Hoover police chief Nick Derzis read a statement from Russell's lawyer in which she admitted she had invented the story, and said the hoax was 'a mistake'. 'There was no kidnapping on Thursday, July 13,' he said. 'Carlee again asks for your forgiveness and prayers.' 

Derzis said police are continuing to work on the case and prosecutors are still deciding if criminal charges should be filed. 

There was no indication of any motive for her staging her disappearance, or any information on where she was for 49 hours. She said in the statement she was alone.