Alabama Woman Missing After Stopping to Help a Child on a Highway
A 25-year-old woman in Alabama was last heard from on Thursday night after telling a 911 dispatcher that she saw a toddler walking along the side of an interstate and would pull over to help, prompting a sprawling search for her as investigators raced to find clues about her disappearance.
The woman, Carlee Russell, told the dispatcher about the child around 9:35 p.m., called a family member to report the same details and then pulled over on I-459 South near mile marker 11 to check on the toddler, the Hoover Police Department said.
The family member “lost contact” with Ms. Russell, but the line remained open, the police said.
When officers arrived at the site in Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, they found Ms. Russell’s vehicle and some of her belongings nearby, “but were unable to find her or a child in the area,” the police said in a statement.
The Hoover Police Department said it had not received any calls of someone missing a child.
Talitha Russell, the mother of Carlee Russell, said in an interview on Saturday night that her daughter, who is known as a “kindhearted” soul and is always “the life of the party,” was having a busy and meaningful summer, working a part-time job at the Woodhouse Spa in Birmingham and taking nursing classes at Jefferson State Community College.
Source: The New York Times
