“We tried to hug as best we could, but I had to stand back because she was not in a good state,” Talitha Russell said of the moment her daughter Carlee, a 25-year-old nursing student, returned home on foot.
“We tried to hug as best we could, but I had to stand back because she was not in a good state,” Talitha Russell said of the moment she daughter, a 25-year-old nursing student, returned home on foot.Talitha and her husband Carlos Russell have said Carlee was speaking to her sister-in-law on the phone about a child walking on the interstate in Hoover, Alabama, when there was a scream—and the phone went silent.
Police, who had also received a 911 call from Carlee about the child, later found her car abandoned—still running with her belongings inside. Neither the family nor the police have provided any details about what happened to Carlee between the time she disappeared and her return two days later.“There were moments when she physically had to fight for her life, and there were moments when she had to mentally fight for her life,” Talitha Russell said.“She’s having to deal with the trauma of people just making completely false allegations about her,” Talitha Russell said.
The chilling circumstances of Carlee’s sudden vanishing in a Birmingham suburb of nearly 100,000 people made headlines across the nation. Tips flooded in about the case, but Talitha said most of them were fake, called in by people who were “so evil.”
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