What did Carlee Russell search for on her phone before she disappeared?

What did Carlee Russell search for on her phone before she disappeared?

Police released more details in the case of Carlee Russell, the 25-year-old Alabama woman who went missing last week before returning home by foot.

Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis released Wednesday the details of an analysis of Russell’s cell phone, which was conducted with the help of the United States Secret Service and included the search history on the Internet in the days leading up to the disappearance.

The searches included:

  • On July 11 at 7:30 a.m., the term, “You have to pay for an Amber Alert” was searched.
  • On July 13 at 1:03 a.m., the term, “How to take money from a register without being caught” was searched.
  • On July 13 at 2:13 a.m., the term, “Birmingham bus station” was searched.
  • On July 13 at 2:35 a.m., the term, “One-way bus ticket from Birmingham to Nashville” with a departure date of July 13 was searched.
  • On July 13 at 12:10 p.m., a search was conducted for the movie “Taken,” the Liam Neeson movie which features an abduction of a man’s daughter.

In addition, Derzis added an additional search from a computer at her employment searched “the maximum age of an Amber Alert.”

Other searches were discovered on Russell’s cell phone, Derzis explained, that “shed some light on her mindset.” However, those searches were not disclosed.

Carlee Russell told Hoover police she escaped the clutches of a man and woman who snatched her from the side of Interstate 459 two nights earlier, officials said at a Wednesday press conference.

Officials have said Russell called a 911 operator Thursday night and then a relative and told both of them she saw a toddler in a diaper on the side of I-459 and was stopping to check on him. When officers arrived at the location, they found her car, cell phone and wig but were unable to find her or a child in the area.

Russell’s disappearance last Thursday sparked a frantic search by family and friends. Her return home Saturday prompted intense speculation about where she had been and what had happened to her.

Russell was not in a “good state” when she got back and needed medical care, Talitha Russell told NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday. She said her daughter gave detectives a statement so they could “continue to pursue her abductor.”

Surveillance video from the Russell’s neighborhood showed Carlee Russell walking down the sidewalk alone before arriving at her home. She was conscious and talking when first responders arrived, and later treated and released from a hospital, police said.