New updates about Carlee Russell ,Cops haven’t verified most of Carlee Russell’s story

The Alabama woman who went missing for two days last week searched online for information about Amber Alerts, local bus tickets and the abduction-based action movie Taken before her disappearance, police say.

The insight was one of many details authorities shared during a Wednesday afternoon press conference where they provided the fullest account yet of what occurred in the puzzling incident that's grabbed national attention.

Carlee Russell, a 25-year-old nursing student, disappeared on Thursday after calling 911 and her brother's girlfriend to report seeing a toddler wandering along the side of the road.

Police say they still have no evidence of a missing toddler, nor any reports of such a sighting by other drivers along the busy stretch of road.

Police said Wednesday they've been unable to verify initial statements made by Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who disappeared last week after she said she saw a toddler walking on the interstate.

But officials did say that before she vanished, she made internet searches about paying for Amber Alerts, how to take money from a register without getting caught and the movie "Taken."

Police said Russell told them she was forced into an 18-wheeler truck and taken to a home where a man and a woman told her to get undressed and then took photos of her. 

But Derzis said investigators have been unable to corroborate many of her claims.

“What we can say is we’ve been unable to verify most of Carlee’s initial statements made to investigators. And we have no reason to believe that there is a threat to the public safety related to this particular case,” he said.

Police said in the statement on Tuesday that detectives have obtained surveillance video of Russell that shows her walking alone in her neighborhood before she arrived home on Saturday night.

Medics were dispatched to Russell's residence on Saturday after she returned home to aid an "unresponsive but breathing" person as described in the 911 call, but police said that first responders found Russell "conscious and speaking" when she arrived and she was transported to a local hospital, where she was treated and released.

Asked about concerns that the next time a woman of color goes missing the case may not be taken seriously, Derzis said, "We investigate every crime to the fullest just like we have this one."

Fire department radio traffic revealed that medics were dispatched to her home on a call about an “unresponsive but breathing” person, police said, adding that was the term used by the dispatcher relaying information from what a 911 caller told the emergency communicator.

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 Sarah H

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