Woman missing after reporting seeing a toddler on the highway

[Anonymous]

This is not adding up based on that video. She didn’t see a toddler at all or else she would not have slowly rolled down the shoulder so far. She is having some sort of mental issue. You guys are just too much with your fantastical scenarios about criminals using a toddler to lure a random woman. Get a grip. That is not a thing.

[Anonymous]

https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/carlee-russell-what-we-know-today-about-woman-who-vanished-on-i-459-in-hoover.html

Russell is a Black female, 5-feet, 4-inches tall and weighs between 150 and 160 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black shirt, black pants, and white Nike shoes.

She's about average height for a woman and about 150-160 lbs. That's not someone easy to quickly pick up and just whisk away, especially if she were struggling. I mean, maybe? But that brush is thick, and there were police going through the area with K-9 units. If it was a wild animal that moved that fast, there would be signs of the struggle.

I could see it if she walked down into the woods, but it's pretty tight and dense brush down there. Still, if she were chasing a child? But she was on the phone when she screamed, and the traffic background noise remained loud, from the family's public statement. Like, really loud.

I just don't see how ~42 cars (in less than 4 minutes) with headlights on, passing feet away, could miss a struggling 150-160 lb woman, especially with the flashers drawing their attention to look that way. And even if they did miss it, there is only so far you could go in that dense brush. If she were pulled through to a car waiting in the next road over, that vehicle would be caught on someone's Ring camera or other traffic camera. It's a pretty well-to-do residential area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not adding up based on that video. She didn’t see a toddler at all or else she would not have slowly rolled down the shoulder so far. She is having some sort of mental issue. You guys are just too much with your fantastical scenarios about criminals using a toddler to lure a random woman. Get a grip. That is not a thing.

I don’t think there would be a way to be completely fine at work, grab dinner, call your SIL, and have a breakdown one exit from
Home in a suburban neighborhood and not be found wandering.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think there would be a way to be completely fine at work, grab dinner, call your SIL, and have a breakdown one exit from
Home in a suburban neighborhood and not be found wandering

Maybe if she had some sort of physical issue (e.g., stroke) that caused sudden mental symptoms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I don’t think there would be a way to be completely fine at work, grab dinner, call your SIL, and have a breakdown one exit from
Home in a suburban neighborhood and not be found wandering

Maybe if she had some sort of physical issue (e.g., stroke) that caused sudden mental symptoms?

She’s not in the middle of nowhere. This would be like being lost in Springfield or Reston next to a row of homes.

[Anonymous]

This was posted on LinkedIn today. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7085951521145720832?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

[Anonymous]

Wait - what is the deal with her having interacted with the Harpersville police department the day she disappeared, and the department saying they had a positive impression of her? Was she a potentially a witness or informant to something? Or is it just a coincidence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe from a distance it looked like a child but when she got closer realized it was a petite adult. A person 4’9” - 4”-11” could appear from a distance to be a little kid especially at night.

This is terrible and I hope she is found.

The report says she claims she saw a toddler though. A small adult and a toddler are very different.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she was abducted by a gang using a little person disguised as a toddler - much more manageable than a toddler.

My other theory is that it was a friendly alien abduction. Some aliens are short like toddlers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait - what is the deal with her having interacted with the Harpersville police department the day she disappeared, and the department saying they had a positive impression of her? Was she a potentially a witness or informant to something? Or is it just a coincidence?

Might have been getting fingerprinted, as it says she was in training to become a nurse. That's standard for healthcare trainees being placed into a clinical setting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM armchair detectives have way too much time on their hands (looking up traffic cam videos, aerial views, Reddit, average income of Hoover, AL, etc).

They are getting it all from Websleuths. THOSE people have too much time on their hands. Its clear some of them literally spend hours a day websleuthing.

Allow me to introduce you to the 30 second Google search.

I spent part of my time growing up in Mountain Brook, and I know Hoover. Worked there as a teenager. The actual numbers are easy to find -- you don't have to dust off the card catalogue anymore, you know.

Mountain brook is right next door.
Natalie Halloway?!?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could maybe have been an animal attack?
Maybe she thought she saw a kid and it wasn't. It was a bear or something.

I don't know. It's all very strange and sad
I hope she's found and the child is too if there was one.

Damn, that’s a reasonable guess!

It doesn’t reconcile with the Apple Watch being in her purse.

Is it possible that she had taken off the Apple Watch and put it in her purse while she was at work? And then just hadn’t put it back on yet?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/carlee-russell-what-we-know-today-about-woman-who-vanished-on-i-459-in-hoover.html

Russell is a Black female, 5-feet, 4-inches tall and weighs between 150 and 160 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black shirt, black pants, and white Nike shoes.

She's about average height for a woman and about 150-160 lbs. That's not someone easy to quickly pick up and just whisk away, especially if she were struggling. I mean, maybe? But that brush is thick, and there were police going through the area with K-9 units. If it was a wild animal that moved that fast, there would be signs of the struggle.

I could see it if she walked down into the woods, but it's pretty tight and dense brush down there. Still, if she were chasing a child? But she was on the phone when she screamed, and the traffic background noise remained loud, from the family's public statement. Like, really loud.

I just don't see how ~42 cars (in less than 4 minutes) with headlights on, passing feet away, could miss a struggling 150-160 lb woman, especially with the flashers drawing their attention to look that way. And even if they did miss it, there is only so far you could go in that dense brush. If she were pulled through to a car waiting in the next road over, that vehicle would be caught on someone's Ring camera or other traffic camera. It's a pretty well-to-do residential area.

Reddit is reporting that there is an 8 foot diameter drainage pipe that runs under the freeway at this exact point. She have been dragged through the tunnel to the other side of the highway (or run through by her own volition).

[Anonymous]

Wait - what is the deal with her having interacted with the Harpersville police department the day she disappeared, and the department saying they had a positive impression of her? Was she a potentially a witness or informant to something? Or is it just a coincidence?


Might have been getting fingerprinted, as it says she was in training to become a nurse. That's standard for healthcare trainees being placed into a clinical setting.

Ah, perhaps. That makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/carlee-russell-what-we-know-today-about-woman-who-vanished-on-i-459-in-hoover.html

Russell is a Black female, 5-feet, 4-inches tall and weighs between 150 and 160 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black shirt, black pants, and white Nike shoes.

She's about average height for a woman and about 150-160 lbs. That's not someone easy to quickly pick up and just whisk away, especially if she were struggling. I mean, maybe? But that brush is thick, and there were police going through the area with K-9 units. If it was a wild animal that moved that fast, there would be signs of the struggle.

I could see it if she walked down into the woods, but it's pretty tight and dense brush down there. Still, if she were chasing a child? But she was on the phone when she screamed, and the traffic background noise remained loud, from the family's public statement. Like, really loud.

I just don't see how ~42 cars (in less than 4 minutes) with headlights on, passing feet away, could miss a struggling 150-160 lb woman, especially with the flashers drawing their attention to look that way. And even if they did miss it, there is only so far you could go in that dense brush. If she were pulled through to a car waiting in the next road over, that vehicle would be caught on someone's Ring camera or other traffic camera. It's a pretty well-to-do residential area.

Reddit is reporting that there is an 8 foot diameter drainage pipe that runs under the freeway at this exact point. She have been dragged through the tunnel to the other side of the highway (or run through by her own volition).

Meaning she fell???