Woman missing after reporting seeing a toddler on the highway

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Anonymous wrote:IF this was a hoax, it takes a sociopathic person to put their family through this. I hope there is a logical explanation in the end.

To me, a hoax seems totally plausible. Staged abduction to get a payout from the family, and then she had second thoughts and changed her mind. Really f’ed up if IF it turns out that way.

Nobody in a good headspace or who is thinking clearly does something like that, you know? To the person who called it necessarily sociopathic, I don't know.

I remember being in my mid-20s. I remember being in a bad marriage but being unable to figure out how to leave. I went through some pretty crazy scenarios in my head, and I was at a very low point. This woman wasn't married, but there are a lot of situations where you are under intense pressure. She had just started and emotionally and physically draining program training as a nurse, and she is a young woman in her twenties, and she has what appears to be a very close-knit (and potentially quite religious family), and -- that's possibly quite a lot. None of those are bad things, but it can get pretty intense.

If there was a voluntary aspect to this, it still doesn't appear that she tried to hurt anyone. Yes, a lot of resources were spent on the situation, but it's not like she herself went and abducted a little kid, or that she tried to hurt anyone directly at all. I wouldn't call that necessarily sociopathic.

I guess I identify with her mother. Screaming and leaving your car and belongings behind so your family assumes a worst-case scenario? Obviously someone is not in a good head space to do something like that, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s cruel. I truly hope there is another explanation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Theory from Reddit

"Carlee planned to party with some friends over the weekend which included a new guy she met online. Carlee would eventually meet him on the side of the express way, ditched her vehicle as well as her belongings, got into a grey sedan with this mystery guy and ended up at the Red Roof partying with a group of people.

The Red Roof manager noticed Carlee as one of the people in the group and alerted the police. Carlee and the mystery man left the Red Roof soon after and a nearby doorbell camera spotted Carlee getting dropped off around the block from her home shortly before arriving back home. (Allegedly)

An alleged person who was with her posted a comment on a video stating that Carlee is going to state she had a mental breakdown and that she was wandering around for 2 days.

This is just what the streets are saying. Y’all think it’s true?"

Nope. There was never a gray car, as we saw on the video.

And she wouldn’t take off her wig to go to a party. This I stupid. I wish the PP didn’t even bring this dumb theory here because people will believe it.

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Anonymous wrote:IF this was a hoax, it takes a sociopathic person to put their family through this. I hope there is a logical explanation in the end.

To me, a hoax seems totally plausible. Staged abduction to get a payout from the family, and then she had second thoughts and changed her mind. Really f’ed up if IF it turns out that way.

Nobody in a good headspace or who is thinking clearly does something like that, you know? To the person who called it necessarily sociopathic, I don't know.

I remember being in my mid-20s. I remember being in a bad marriage but being unable to figure out how to leave. I went through some pretty crazy scenarios in my head, and I was at a very low point. This woman wasn't married, but there are a lot of situations where you are under intense pressure. She had just started and emotionally and physically draining program training as a nurse, and she is a young woman in her twenties, and she has what appears to be a very close-knit (and potentially quite religious family), and -- that's possibly quite a lot. None of those are bad things, but it can get pretty intense.

If there was a voluntary aspect to this, it still doesn't appear that she tried to hurt anyone. Yes, a lot of resources were spent on the situation, but it's not like she herself went and abducted a little kid, or that she tried to hurt anyone directly at all. I wouldn't call that necessarily sociopathic.

I guess I identify with her mother. Screaming and leaving your car and belongings behind so your family assumes a worst-case scenario? Obviously someone is not in a good head space to do something like that, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s cruel. I truly hope there is another explanation.

I know. But this would also be your daughter, who you've watched grow into this beautiful young woman, and then this bizarre horrible thing happens. She shows back up against almost all hope, and she appears to be in shock (they said). It would have been horrible, but wouldn't you just be overwhelmed with relief? Yes, it was terrible, but -- she's your child, and she's still really young. Wouldn't you find it in your heart to try to help that beloved child get back on track without rejecting her?

[Anonymous]

^^This is from another site:

I’m a mom of daughters, but the convo I had with them last night wasn’t about children used as bait by traffickers. It was about what to do if a situation in life has gone wrong or if they’re worried about how they feel and are functioning, and that there’s very little mom and dad can’t help fix in life and there’s nothing so embarrassing or shameful that they can’t come to us. I guess I hope we have all of the conversations. Agree 1000% on better, safer outcomes.

I'm becoming pretty sure this needs to be the take-home message from this incident. Maybe some details may still unfold, but if this is what it looks like, it will also be the starting point potentially for some pretty important conversations.

Our children don't always have a lot of solid perspective, and life is harder than we may remember. It would be great if this sparks some conversations in families about what to do when you are lost and overwhelmed, and where our priorities are as parents.

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Anonymous wrote:IF this was a hoax, it takes a sociopathic person to put their family through this. I hope there is a logical explanation in the end.

To me, a hoax seems totally plausible. Staged abduction to get a payout from the family, and then she had second thoughts and changed her mind. Really f’ed up if IF it turns out that way.

Nobody in a good headspace or who is thinking clearly does something like that, you know? To the person who called it necessarily sociopathic, I don't know.

I remember being in my mid-20s. I remember being in a bad marriage but being unable to figure out how to leave. I went through some pretty crazy scenarios in my head, and I was at a very low point. This woman wasn't married, but there are a lot of situations where you are under intense pressure. She had just started and emotionally and physically draining program training as a nurse, and she is a young woman in her twenties, and she has what appears to be a very close-knit (and potentially quite religious family), and -- that's possibly quite a lot. None of those are bad things, but it can get pretty intense.

If there was a voluntary aspect to this, it still doesn't appear that she tried to hurt anyone. Yes, a lot of resources were spent on the situation, but it's not like she herself went and abducted a little kid, or that she tried to hurt anyone directly at all. I wouldn't call that necessarily sociopathic.

I guess I identify with her mother. Screaming and leaving your car and belongings behind so your family assumes a worst-case scenario? Obviously someone is not in a good head space to do something like that, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s cruel. I truly hope there is another explanation.

I know. But this would also be your daughter, who you've watched grow into this beautiful young woman, and then this bizarre horrible thing happens. She shows back up against almost all hope, and she appears to be in shock (they said). It would have been horrible, but wouldn't you just be overwhelmed with relief? Yes, it was terrible, but -- she's your child, and she's still really young. Wouldn't you find it in your heart to try to help that beloved child get back on track without rejecting her?

Oh of course but I think I’d need a lot of therapy and support while doing so. It’s hard to imagine this came out of nowhere though and, again, I hope that’s not what happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^This is from another site:

I’m a mom of daughters, but the convo I had with them last night wasn’t about children used as bait by traffickers. It was about what to do if a situation in life has gone wrong or if they’re worried about how they feel and are functioning, and that there’s very little mom and dad can’t help fix in life and there’s nothing so embarrassing or shameful that they can’t come to us. I guess I hope we have all of the conversations. Agree 1000% on better, safer outcomes.

I'm becoming pretty sure this needs to be the take-home message from this incident. Maybe some details may still unfold, but if this is what it looks like, it will also be the starting point potentially for some pretty important conversations.

Our children don't always have a lot of solid perspective, and life is harder than we may remember. It would be great if this sparks some conversations in families about what to do when you are lost and overwhelmed, and where our priorities are as parents.

^Good post, PP. Now that’s a post that should be amplified…..not that trash theory the other PP brought over here.

[Anonymous]

How far away is her family's home, from where she stopped her car?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Theory from Reddit

"Carlee planned to party with some friends over the weekend which included a new guy she met online. Carlee would eventually meet him on the side of the express way, ditched her vehicle as well as her belongings, got into a grey sedan with this mystery guy and ended up at the Red Roof partying with a group of people.

The Red Roof manager noticed Carlee as one of the people in the group and alerted the police. Carlee and the mystery man left the Red Roof soon after and a nearby doorbell camera spotted Carlee getting dropped off around the block from her home shortly before arriving back home. (Allegedly)

An alleged person who was with her posted a comment on a video stating that Carlee is going to state she had a mental breakdown and that she was wandering around for 2 days.

This is just what the streets are saying. Y’all think it’s true?"

Nope. There was never a gray car, as we saw on the video.

She’s 25. Reddit theory seems a bit out there. Why would she claim a mental breakdown when just beginning her nursing career? Was she pushed into this career and realized she hates it? Mental breakdown could certainly derail her training. Why would she abandon her car? Leave all of her belongings? Video would have clearly shown a grey car and activity, but didn’t. The Red Roof Inn sighting was discredited by front desk. Apparently, six cars raced to the Inn, and it was allegedly her family/friends. They returned home without her. I dunno. Pretty strange. The scream is sus. I first thought she went searching much further from her car for the alleged toddler, fell, and injured. But she was checked out at the hospital and released. No fractured legs or concussion reported, yet.

[Anonymous]

Sigh. The toddler story never seemed right. Glad she’s home safe and can get the support she clearly needs, regardless of the specifics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I figured it was a hoax. The story was too wild to believe.

Hoax on whose part though?

The article says she left her phone and her wig. She called the police and her sister-in-law. Do people think she planned it?

Or are you saying the hoax Is a decoy that looked like a small child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How far away is her family's home, from where she stopped her car?

10 minute drive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theory from Reddit

"Carlee planned to party with some friends over the weekend which included a new guy she met online. Carlee would eventually meet him on the side of the express way, ditched her vehicle as well as her belongings, got into a grey sedan with this mystery guy and ended up at the Red Roof partying with a group of people.

The Red Roof manager noticed Carlee as one of the people in the group and alerted the police. Carlee and the mystery man left the Red Roof soon after and a nearby doorbell camera spotted Carlee getting dropped off around the block from her home shortly before arriving back home. (Allegedly)

An alleged person who was with her posted a comment on a video stating that Carlee is going to state she had a mental breakdown and that she was wandering around for 2 days.

This is just what the streets are saying. Y’all think it’s true?"

Nope. There was never a gray car, as we saw on the video.

She’s 25. Reddit theory seems a bit out there. Why would she claim a mental breakdown when just beginning her nursing career? Was she pushed into this career and realized she hates it? Mental breakdown could certainly derail her training. Why would she abandon her car? Leave all of her belongings? Video would have clearly shown a grey car and activity, but didn’t. The Red Roof Inn sighting was discredited by front desk. Apparently, six cars raced to the Inn, and it was allegedly her family/friends. They returned home without her. I dunno. Pretty strange. The scream is sus. I first thought she went searching much further from her car for the alleged toddler, fell, and injured. But she was checked out at the hospital and released. No fractured legs or concussion reported, yet.

Yeah…the more I think about it, the more I lean towards this being staged. She said she saw a toddler, calmly pulled over to a specific spot on the side of the highway, pretended to speak to the toddler while on the phone, then screamed. She left anything that could track her in her purse, removed her wig, and walked into the woods. I mean, there has to be a second person involved that she met up with, because she was not just wandering around outside for two days.

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Anonymous wrote:I figured it was a hoax. The story was too wild to believe.

Hoax on whose part though?

The article says she left her phone and her wig. She called the police and her sister-in-law. Do people think she planned it?

Or are you saying the hoax Is a decoy that looked like a small child?

The hoax is that she staged her disappearance, presumably because of some kind of mental break. Nothing about this story makes sense. I’m sure clarifying information will be released at some point soon.

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Anonymous wrote:it really makes no sense that a bad person would use a child to trap a random female passerbye. The odds are overwhelming that a man or even an police officer would have been the one to stop help the kid. What would the bad person do then? Ah, "nothing going on here officer. Just lost my toddler in the woods adjacent to a freeway"

I've read elsewhere that maybe she just unfortunately stumbled upon a trafficked child or some other criminal activity and thus had to be "removed" because she was a witness.

This is such a freaky case.

I was buying the trap theory, but you’re right, PP. It doesn’t seem logical.

I guess she ran into something bad and was attacked as a result. I still think she saw a child, so was a child being abused or something?

I agree this makes more sense.

Eh but no other motorists reported a child. No traffic cams picked up movement other than cars and, allegedly, her car on the shoulder. (and not the perpetrators car either).

So no perpetrator's car? Are there houses nearby? A deep culvert or drainage area for someone creepy to hide/live in?

No other motorists reported a child, but her family member on the phone said they heard Carlee ask “are you okay?” Assuming she wasn’t on drugs/hallucinating, it seems like there really was a child she was talking to.

It’s possible a child escaped a trafficking endeavor and she came across it. That would be my best guess. It’s not completely unbelievable that no one else saw the child since it was a highway at night. I know I’m not always paying attention to the side of the roadway. Other drivers could have been paying attention to all the cars around them, their passengers, the radio, etc. and at night a small child on the side of the road isn’t necessarily going to be super easy to spot. Ugh my stomach is in knots over this, I cannot imagine what her friends and family are going through. She looks like a sweet girl. Nursing student willing to stop for a child, so she’s likely a caring person. This is so unfair.

I can’t figure drugs into the timeline she’s leaving work, getting dinner, doing hallucinatory drugs and driving home one exit away from her own? It wouldn’t make sense to do the drugs before getting home. Are people thinking she was doing hallucinogenic drugs at work? It was in her food?

Her being one exit away, with her exit visible makes me think she was that close to home.

Not PP, but when I first heard the details I thought one possible explanation could be that she was having a mental break and imagined/hallucinated that she saw a child, then went off into the woods on her own. I think the only other possibilities are that she stumbled onto a dangerous situation and was abducted, or that this is staged. Of those three possibilities it seems most likely she was abducted.

I didn't see that anyone else has been this blunt, but I've wondered this, too. The items she usually wore being neatly tucked away in her purse, even moreso than the happenstance of being on the phone. I don't know. I actually hope it was staged, because that would mean she was safe.

Why would anyone stage this? Not saying it’s out of the question (and it would make sense as to how she was able to pull over vs. driving past and needing to turn around). But I don’t know why anyone would do this? Fake abduction to get money? Attention? Maybe. But it seems so out there. This whole thing is weird.

I don't know. I also don't want to speculate about why the person making the police statement refused to comment on her mental and physical health status, not even a passing comment that she was "perfectly healthy" or something.

But a lot of this doesn't make sense. The tight timeline with police arrival just 3 minutes later but with the wig off, the watch in the purse, no visible signs of her present, etc., doesn't make sense. The timeline but with the trucker eyewitness story doesn't make sense. It's all extraordinarily shocking to hear about at first, but the details don't add up in any parsable way.

I don't know. People will have to wait and see. I hope she's okay, apart from how it happened. Whatever happened, if she is safe somewhere, then the rest can be sorted out with whatever justice to anyone that harmed her.

I don’t understand you people who think she staged this. How in the hell would she have gotten away? On foot? No one’s seen her since?

This was not staged, FFS.

Still so sure, PP?

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I think the brother's gf made up the story about talking with Carlee and her allegedly saying she say a kid wandering at the time of the incident. I bet cell phone records verified there was no call ever made.

If Carlee wanted to hookup and meet this online dude or make a drug deal with him or whatever, why not drive to the Red Roof Inn directly instad of doing a meet & greet on the shoulder of a highway?