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Police would arrive to find carlee s car, wig, purse, phone, but no sign of her or the toddler. she s not at her vehicle. nicole russell out of birmingham, we re not getting the female to answer. we re trying to call her back, she s not answering. just being honest, her vehicle s unlocked, running, all her personal belongings except for her phone. reporter: police say on saturday night, russell showed up at her parents home. listen to what she told detectives. when she got out of her vehicle to check on the child, a man came out of the trees and mumbled that he was checking on the baby. she claimed that the man then pek picked her up and she screamed. the next thing she remembers is being this the trailer of an 18-wheeler. reporter: hoover detectives describe what surveillance video at her job showed before russell called 911 that thursday. surveillance video from her place of employment shows carlee concealed, a dark colored ....
. on the day a woman in alabama went missing, she looked up the movie taken and one-way bus tickets from birmingham to nashville online. carlee russell vanished after calling 911 to report a toddler on the side of the road. she turned up at her home in hoover, alabama, two days later. reporter: carlee russell s disappearance sent shock waves through the state of alabama. for 49 hours as the search for a missing woman worried many, local police, federal law enforcement, family and community members all trying to find the 25-year-old after this 911 call last thursday. i am on interstate 459, and there is a kid just walking by theirself. reporter: that call coming from interstate 459 south, russell telling a dispatcher a toddler was walking alone on the side of the road. ....