The disappearance of Carlee Russell

[Della9250]

Hoover police, who live to swarm suspects like ants on a rib roast, give every indication that they don't think there's any bad guy on the loose.

press conference tomorrow gonna be fun I would bet

 

[Scout]

Can this just go away? Can the police just ignore it? If she made this up, is getting mental health help enough to keep her from getting arrested?

Is the media's part in this, traditional and social, what's driving this? Should that matter?

Is she now a public figure? Can her mental health even be reported?

Hey, maybe they made an arrest?

 

[sgreenwell]

Can this just go away? Can the police just ignore it? If she made this up, is getting mental health help enough to keep her from getting arrested?

Is the media's part in this, traditional and social, what's driving this? Should that matter?

Is she now a public figure? Can her mental health even be reported?

Hey, maybe they made an arrest?

Is this still a big story? I didn't see anything about it on my local news or The Today Show this morning, although admittedly, I didn't watch the latter incredibly closely. I think once she was found, the mindset pretty quickly switched to "oh this is probably a mental health issue," and the air has been let out of the balloon. heck, this thread is barely four pages.

 

[dixiehack]

The decent thing would be for this to fade from public view and let her work through whatever psychological issues are in play. But that requires her family to participate in letting it fade, and instead they keep doubling down in the media, insisting she was indeed abducted despite no real evidence pointing to that conclusion. The local PD has (by its standards) been very delicate about not calling bullshirt on the whole thing, but they may be left with no other choice before long.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The decent thing would be for this to fade from public view and let her work through whatever psychological issues are in play. But that requires her family to participate in letting it fade, and instead they keep doubling down in the media, insisting she was indeed abducted despite no real evidence pointing to that conclusion. The local PD has (by its standards) been very delicate about not calling bullshirt on the whole thing, but they may be left with no other choice before long.

The family may be in serious denial about her as well.

 

[Della9250]

Welp thanks for playing. Search history always gets ya

 

[dixiehack]

Welp thanks for playing. Search history always gets ya

To elaborate:

Among the other details Hoover police released at this afternoon's press conference were things they found she had searched for on the internet in the days before she vanished.

At 7:30 a.m. on July 11, two days before Russell disappeared, the term "Do you have to pay for an amber alert" was searched. At 1:03 a.m. on the day of her disappearance, the term "How to take money from register without getting caught Reddit" was searched. At 2:13 a.m. that same day, the term "Birmingham bus station" was searched.

Then, at 2:35 a.m., a search for a one-way bus ticket from Birmingham to Nashville was conducted. At 12:10 p.m., Russell did a search for the movie 'Taken.'

There were also two searches related to Amber Alerts on a computer at that spa, including one regarding the maximum age of an Amber Alert.

https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/car...e-expected-to-release-more-details-today.html

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

bus from birmingham to north korea

 

[SixToe]

Her story is a giant truckload of bullshirt. The police know it and can't say it for fear of being labeled racists and uncaring for the "victim."

No toddler, no abductors.

She clearly needs mental help.

 

[HanSenSE]

Her story is a giant truckload of bullshirt. The police know it and can't say it for fear of being labeled racists and uncaring for the "victim."

No toddler, no abductors.

She clearly needs mental help.

[/jussiesmolett has entered the chat]

 

[Neutral Corner]

Yeah, my local twitter and FB have a lot of people expressing their disbelief and anger in colorful terms. The search history thing blew her up. Lots of rumors being spread, and at this point no one's being rebuked for talking bad about her or her story. People who were very vociferous in her defense have gotten dragged hard.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

She didn't shoot up a school or mall. She didn't harm anybody else. Let her seek mental help and go on with our lives.