Russell also told police her alleged abductors took nude photos of her. Police haven't been able to verify anything.
On July 13, Russell called 911 to report a diaper-clad toddler on the side of the interstate, later telling police she followed the toddler for 600 yards. When police arrived at the location minutes after the 911 call, Russell was gone. Her wig and phone were in the grass nearby and her purse was in the front seat of her carRussell had called her, asked a question to the presumed toddler, and then screamed before she stopped talking.
After about 49 hours, Russell’s family called the police to say she’d returned home. She was taken to a nearby hospital where police interviewed her and where she wasAdvertisementtold police that while helping the “the little boy” mentioned in her 911 call , a man with “orange hair with a big bald spot”
came out of the trees alongside the interstate. He picked her up and she screamed. She said he made her go over a fence and forced her into a car. “The next thing she remembers is being in the trailer of an 18-wheeler,” Derzis said. Russell told police there was a woman there and a baby crying. Russell said she fled on foot but was recaptured and put in a car. She was blindfolded, but not bound. Russell told police
was taken to a house, stripped nude, and then photographed. “She does not remember them having any physical or sexual contact with her,” Derzis said. “She stated that the next day, she woke up and was fed cheese crackers by the female” and that the woman “played with her hair.”Police said Russell cannot remember anything else except that she was put back in a vehicle and escaped on the west side of Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham.
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