Woman missing after reporting seeing a toddler on the highway

[Anonymous]

I’m curious if there are homes or properties behind the trees maybe a child ran down away from an adult who was causing harm to them. Child runs, adult catches them, she returns, and because she saw the child they abduct her but not by vehicle. The gray vehicle then comes later to see why the door is left open on her car. If she’s abducted from the unlit wooded side no one passing sees anything.

[Anonymous]

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[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!

A bear attack, or any other gruesome attack, would leave evidence of a struggle - blood (either victim or culprit), a shoe that may have fallen off while flailing, new scratches on the car upholstery, drag marks in the dirt etc.

I guess police aren't revealing wgat evidence they have

Animal attacks don't always leave lots of blood.

And an attack by a human is going to leave more than a wig.

I think the police are withholding some information

Another piece that nobody is talking about is that she (or her family) is likely quite wealthy. She lives in Hoover (average 4-person family income is over $200,00 per year, which is high for Alabama), and she was driving a Mercedes at 25 years old. She works at The Summit, an "upscale lifestyle center," and she likely would have looked some of the markers of privilege (like driving the Mercedes), even if she was dressed down at the moment.

I think she was relatively wealthy. That raises the likelihood of this being targeted in some way in my mind, whichever direction it would have come from. I wonder much more if there will either be a stated ransom, or if it will end up being more of a stalking/entrapment thing. I know it's unlikely, but she is not your typical 25 yr old woman in many ways.

Hope she is found safe and unharmed, and soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

A bear attack, or any other gruesome attack, would leave evidence of a struggle - blood (either victim or culprit), a shoe that may have fallen off while flailing, new scratches on the car upholstery, drag marks in the dirt etc.

I guess police aren't revealing wgat evidence they have

Animal attacks don't always leave lots of blood.

And an attack by a human is going to leave more than a wig.

I think the police are withholding some information

Yeah, I am sure they are withholding info. I’m the PP who said a bear attack is a reasonable guess. But why did she ask, “Are you OK?” ….unless she was talking to a bear cub. Then, perhaps, the mama bear came out of the woods and dragged her away….?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

A bear attack, or any other gruesome attack, would leave evidence of a struggle - blood (either victim or culprit), a shoe that may have fallen off while flailing, new scratches on the car upholstery, drag marks in the dirt etc.

I guess police aren't revealing wgat evidence they have

Animal attacks don't always leave lots of blood.

And an attack by a human is going to leave more than a wig.

I think the police are withholding some information

Yeah, I am sure they are withholding info. I’m the PP who said a bear attack is a reasonable guess. But why did she ask, “Are you OK?” ….unless she was talking to a bear cub. Then, perhaps, the mama bear came out of the woods and dragged her away….?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

A bear attack, or any other gruesome attack, would leave evidence of a struggle - blood (either victim or culprit), a shoe that may have fallen off while flailing, new scratches on the car upholstery, drag marks in the dirt etc.

I guess police aren't revealing wgat evidence they have

Animal attacks don't always leave lots of blood.

And an attack by a human is going to leave more than a wig.

I think the police are withholding some information

I'm from Mobile and not super familiar with Birmingham, but I do not believe there is a current black bear population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or an elderly woman, or a man lying face down and not moving, or ... not just a child. Not the only thing that would fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

A bear attack, or any other gruesome attack, would leave evidence of a struggle - blood (either victim or culprit), a shoe that may have fallen off while flailing, new scratches on the car upholstery, drag marks in the dirt etc.

I guess police aren't revealing wgat evidence they have

Animal attacks don't always leave lots of blood.

And an attack by a human is going to leave more than a wig.

I think the police are withholding some information

Yeah, I am sure they are withholding info. I’m the PP who said a bear attack is a reasonable guess. But why did she ask, “Are you OK?” ….unless she was talking to a bear cub. Then, perhaps, the mama bear came out of the woods and dragged her away….?

You people are really not to be believed.

Way too much netflix or internet surfing or something!

[Anonymous]

People don't ask bears or moutain lions if they are okay. JFC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People don't ask bears or moutain lions if they are okay. JFC.

Must be the same poster who thought dolphins could rescue the Titan submersible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

A bear attack, or any other gruesome attack, would leave evidence of a struggle - blood (either victim or culprit), a shoe that may have fallen off while flailing, new scratches on the car upholstery, drag marks in the dirt etc.

I guess police aren't revealing wgat evidence they have

Animal attacks don't always leave lots of blood.

And an attack by a human is going to leave more than a wig.

I think the police are withholding some information

Yeah, I am sure they are withholding info. I’m the PP who said a bear attack is a reasonable guess. But why did she ask, “Are you OK?” ….unless she was talking to a bear cub. Then, perhaps, the mama bear came out of the woods and dragged her away….?

You people are really not to be believed.

Way too much netflix or internet surfing or something!

I’m the PP, and you made me laugh. I know it sounds silly, but crazier things have happened!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don't ask bears or moutain lions if they are okay. JFC.

Must be the same poster who thought dolphins could rescue the Titan submersible

Definitely not. ….but, that’s funny as hell. 🤣🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I agree, the drugs/hallucination thing doesn’t make sense. But I saw someone hothead mention it. I don’t think many people pop drugs to bring their mom food while chatting on the phone with their SIL. I think she really did see a child.