afternoon, six days ago our community learned about the disappearance of carlee russell and it sent fear and pandemonium not just through our city but the entire state and the nation as well. the media quickly joined us to get the word out about carlee. our community sprung into action, and they organized search parties, arranged prayer vigils. they took other steps that i m not even aware of to help in this situation. the hoover police department quickly rallied multiple partner agencies stopping at nothing to find carlee. i d like to take this time to say thank you, first, to the hoover police department, our partner agencies, our wonderful community, and to all of those that aided in some way in connection with this situation. as the days have gone on and more information has been shared, we know everyone has
the car. the items she purchased from target as well as the items taken from her place of employment were not in the vehicle, nor were they located anywhere around the scene. hoover police employed all available assets from the point in the search for carlee, additional resources were called in to include our drone unit, crime scene investigators, numerous detectives responded to the scene. throughout the day friday, officers from surrounding local and federal agencies assisted hoover police in the search for russell. officers returned to the scene on 459 to conduct a line search for evidence. nine teams from the jefferson county sheriff s department to check for carlee, the child, and anything else that could be considered evidence in this case. those searches all turned up empty. private citizens, including search parties organized by her family, friends began looking everywhere that they could to find any trace. these searches took place throughout the day friday, and again on satur
larger and larger search parties, scouring the countryside. there was a lot of people from the community that didn t know the family, that had no connection to christina, and they were coming to support. and dozens and dozens of people in these searches just trying to find this girl. days went by with no sign of christina or her belongings. more resources arrived like a mounted search team and drones. christina s family and friends were a constant presence. we were told to look for her items, for a phone, for a ring, for a hat, for a bando, for anything at all because anything could be something. however, one person very close to christina never showed, hunter foster. the only person missing in this entire process was her boyfriend, her live-in boyfriend that she shared a
morning, there was still no sign of beverley carter. her family and friends were out searching. we had beautiful eight by ten color flyers that we were posting everywhere. she had just had some new had shots done. we had hundreds. and hundreds of people joined search parties all over the area. her family, her obvious family came together and we had realtors from all over the state helping us. by that afternoon, we have the search set up and everybody had in the side of. and many realtors felt this was personal. one of their own, while doing her job had gone missing. and agents were already on alert. in recent years there s a across the country, mueller salts and even murder. how often you talk about safety?