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Aniah Blanchard’s mother, Angela Harris, says it’s not her place to judge Carlee Russell

"Don’t let what happened and the details surrounding what happened ... taint your thoughts about searching for people."

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Aniah Blanchard’s mother, Angela Harris, says it’s not her place to judge Carlee Russell​

• Updated: Jul. 21, 2023, 3:56 p.m.|
• Published: Jul. 21, 2023, 3:45 p.m.

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Angela Harris said no matter the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Carlee Russell, she has no regrets in going all out to search for her and would do it all over again.

Harris, who founded nonprofit Aniah’s Heart after her daughter Aniah Blanchard was abducted and murdered nearly four years ago, spoke out Friday about her group’s involvement in the disappearance of Russell.

“Carlee is reunited with her family, no matter how that happened, or what that looks like, or what the circumstances surrounding that are,’’ Harris said in a Facebook Live video. “Our nonprofit is dedicated to helping bring people home.”


Russell seemingly vanished eight days ago after stopping on Interstate 459, reportedly to help a toddler walking alone.


Police and teams of volunteers, including Harris and Aniah’s Heart, spent the next 48 hour searching for the 25-year-old Russell before she showed back up at her family’s home and was taken to UAB Hospital for an overnight evaluation.


Hoover police said earlier this week they don’t believe there is any danger to the community and said their investigation showed that there was no sign of a toddler alone on the interstate. Chief Nick Derzis also said that Russell had searched Amber Alerts and the movie Taken in the hours before her disappearance.


Russell, when interviewed by police the night she returned home, told investigators she was abducted by a white man with orange hair, and held in an 18-wheeler. A woman with the abductor, she said, played with her hair.


Russell said she was eventually able to escape and returned home.


As of Friday, Russell has not agreed to a second interview with police investigators. The probe is still ongoing.


Russell’s parents declined a request from AL.com to comment following the press conference earlier this week.


Many viewed Russell’s disappearance as a hoax, though police have stopped just short of calling it.


Many have expressed outrage that Harris was subjected to emotional turmoil by the memories Russell’s disappearance brought back to the surface for Harris.


“I’ve tried to get my thoughts together and wanted to make sure I represent Aniah’s Heart well,’’ Harris said Friday.


“On behalf of Aniah’s Heart and her family and friends, our nonprofit, I just want to say thank you to everybody who helped and supported while we were searching for Carlee and now after.”


“Aniah’s Heart is dedicated to helping find missing people,’’ she said. “That is what we do.”


“Whether that be boots on the ground or whether that be investigating from where we are and offering support, that is actually what our nonprofit is about as well as teaching safety education and situational awareness and self-defense,’’ Harris said.


“It is not our place with our nonprofit to judge or point fingers about any situation that has to do with information about anybody’s case,’’ she said.


“But we did exactly what we’re supposed to do,’’ she said. “That is what we did Friday morning, that is what we did throughout the entire search for Carlee Russell, and we would do it all over again tomorrow.”


“We want to bring people home to their families,’’ Harris said. “We want to reunite missing loved ones with their families and that is exactly what happened in this case.”


“We do this for Aniah, because of Aniah, and we want to keep it classy,’’ Harris said. “We want to do everything the right way. We’re not about saying anything negative.”


Harris said the response to the call for help in the hours after Russell’s disappearance was much like the respond when Aniah was abducted.


“We were blessed to have so many people come and help search for Aniah,’’ she said. “We need to keep that same energy moving forward.


“Please don’t let what happened and the details surrounding what happened this weekend taint your thoughts about searching for people or missing people in general,’’ she said. “We need you guys. We need the community to come together.”


“It’s been tough,’’ she said, “but we wouldn’t do anything differently.”

 

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Carlee Russell

Carlee Russell fired from spa job, co-workers ‘pissed’ about increasingly suspicious kidnapping story

Carlee Russell has officially disappeared — from the payroll of her Alabama job.

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Carlee Russell fired from spa job, co-workers ‘pissed’ about increasingly suspicious kidnapping story​

By
Jared Downing and
Selim Algar
July 21, 2023 6:18pm
Updated

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Carlee Russell has officially disappeared — from the payroll of her Alabama job.
The owner of the Woodhouse spa in Birmingham told The Post that she’s been canned, and that her steaming co-workers are “pissed” about their former colleague’s increasingly suspect kidnapping account.
Owner Stuart Rome said his staffers were stunned after hearing of Russell’s purported disappearance and did everything in their power to help bring her home.
“It was really devastating for them thinking a co-worker was abducted,” he said. “The following day, Saturday, it was the busiest day of the week, and they had to plug along and work and in the off times pass out flyers and other things.”
But since Russell abruptly resurfaced police have revealed she had searched for bus ticket prices and movies about kidnapping on the day she disappeared, drawing mounting skepticism over her account.
Her co-workers’ concern also started to turn to anger.

Carlee Russell’s kidnapping story is drawing scrutiny.
Hoover Police Department
“As the information came out that there were some questionable things, we’ve been a little pissed off, mainly because so many people took so much time out to search,” Rome said.
In addition, the spa has been getting slammed with nasty social media messages and damaging one-star reviews because of its affiliation with Russell.
“Basically, we’ve spent the last day battling to get things deleted,” he said. “Comments. I’ve had to shut down my comment section on Instagram and Facebook page which hurts us because we do a lot of marketing there. We’re just trying to keep the doors open.”

Russell vanished for two days before returning home.
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Russell, 25, called 911 at 9:34 p.m. July 13 and told a dispatcher that she had spotted a child wearing a T-shirt and diaper walking barefoot along busy a Hoover, Alabama highway.
Russell pledged to stay at the scene until police arrived but then vanished for two days before returning home and claiming that she had been kidnapped and held captive.
Police found her red Mercedes-Benz, cellphone, and wig at the scene of her supposed disappearance but found no traces of Russell or a missing tot.

Russell claimed she said a toddler walking on the side of a highway before being kidnapped.
Her mother, Talitha Russell, told NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday that her brave daughter had “fought for her life” to escape her captivity – but Police Chief Nick Derzis said his investigators have been “unable to verify most of Carlee’s initial statement.”
She claimed she was abducted by a man who forced her into a car and then an 18-wheeler truck while she was blindfolded. Russell said she then held at a home where a female captor gave her cheese crackers, according to Dervis.

Russell’s story is being questioned by investigators.
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Russell told detectives she eventually managed to escape and run through woods back to her neighborhood.
Before she vanished, Russell searched for information about Amber Alerts, the Liam Neeson movie “Taken” and bus tickets to Nashville leaving the day she disappeared, officials said.
She also fired off a series of unusual tweets before dialing 911.
“Yeah I want a family now,” she posted about 15 minutes before contacting police.
A few minutes earlier, she wrote: “Today was a GREAT day God be looking out I’m telling you!!” and “someone to tell you ‘I love you’ and don’t got a reason.”
Her former employer fumed that if her story is confirmed as a hoax, locals won’t be as quick to unite the next time a similar scenario emerges.
“I think it erodes faith for the next time, it erodes faith when people see somebody who’s been abducted and they’ve been put through this,” he said. “They’re just not going to respond like they did, which is the worst part.”

 

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Russell, when interviewed by police the night she returned home, told investigators she was abducted by a white man with orange hair, and held in an 18-wheeler. A woman with the abductor, she said, played with her hair.

Before she vanished, Russell searched for information about Amber Alerts, the Liam Neeson movie “Taken” and bus tickets to Nashville leaving the day she disappeared, officials said.

But since Russell abruptly resurfaced police have revealed she had searched for bus ticket prices and movies about kidnapping on the day she disappeared, drawing mounting skepticism over her account.
Her co-workers’ concern also started to turn to anger.

Been on this hoax train before, blaming imaginary White men, niggers out ruining lives just to go out partying.
Why do people believe these black whores?

 

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How to donate to reward fund for missing Alabama woman - CBS 42​

5 days agoUPDATE (7/15): Hoover Police confirm Carlee Russell was located safely around 10:45 p.m. on July 15. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WIAT) — Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama has set up a donation form for those who would like to contribute to the reward fund for information regarding the disappearance of 25-year-old Carlethia "Carlee" Russell.

 

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$63K raised in Carlee Russell case will not be refunded

The more than $63,000 donated to Crime Stoppers in the search for Carlee Russell will not be refunded – even though the 25-year-old nursing student reappeared two days after she reported seeing a w…

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Alabama Woman Admits She Lied About Abduction and Report of Wandering Child

Carlee Russell, 25, said through a lawyer that she was sorry she had fabricated her disappearance, which captured national attention and prompted a flurry of search efforts.

www.nytimes.com

Alabama woman Carlee Russell confesses to fabricating kidnapping

Carlee Russell called 911 on July 13 to report seeing a toddler in a diaper walking along a highway. She said she stopped to help when she was abducted. Russell says she made the entire story up and says she acted alone.

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Alabama woman Carlee Russell confesses to fabricating kidnapping​

Carlee Russell called 911 on July 13 to report seeing a toddler in a diaper walking along a highway. She said she stopped to help when she was abducted. Russell says she made the entire story up and says she acted alone.​

By Associated Press

Jul 25, 2023, 4:55am MST

Nicholas Derzis, police chief of Hoover, Alabama, says he received a statement from an attorney for Carlee Russell in which the woman confesses that a kidnap report she filed was a hoax.
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HOOVER, Ala. — Authorities in Alabama said Monday that a woman has confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of an interstate.
Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis said Carlee Russell’s attorney, Emory Anthony, provided a statement on Monday saying there was no kidnapping.

“There was no kidnapping on Thursday July 13. My client did not see a baby on the side on the road,” the statement read, according to Derzis, who read it at a news conference. She did not leave the city, and acted alone, the statement added.


“My client apologizes for her actions to this community, the volunteers who were searching for her, to the Hoover Police Department and other agencies as well, as to her friends and family,” Anthony said in a statement. “We ask for your prayers for Carlee, as she addresses her issues and attempts to move forward, understanding that she made a mistake in this matter. Carlee again asks for your forgiveness and prayers.”

The Hoover Police Department announced the development five days after casting doubt on Russell’s story. Derzis said it is possible that Russell could face charges. He said they are trying to determine where she was in the two days she was gone.
“This was an elaborate deal. When you talk about calling 911,” the chief said.
Russell, 25, disappeared after calling 911 on July 13 to report a toddler wandering beside a stretch of interstate. She returned home two days later and told police she had been abducted and forced into a vehicle.

Her disappearance became a national news story. Images of the missing 25-year-old were shared broadly on social media.
Russell told detectives she was taken by a man who came out of the trees when she stopped to check on the child, put her in a car and an 18-wheel truck, blindfolded her and held her at a home where a woman fed her cheese crackers, authorities said at a news conference last week. At some point, Carlee Russell said she was put in a vehicle again but managed to escape and run through the woods to her neighborhood.
Investigators cast doubt on her story in a news conference last week. They said in the days before her disappearance, she searched for information on her cellphone about Amber Alerts, a movie about a woman’s abduction and a one-way bus ticket from Birmingham, Alabama, to Nashville, Tennessee, departing the day she disappeared. Her phone also showed she traveled about 600 yards while telling a 911 operator she was following a 3- or 4-year-old child in a diaper on the side of the highway.
Hoover is about 10 miles south of Birmingham.


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Carlee Russell grins in mugshot after being charged in kidnapping hoax, cops still have no clue where she went

The 26-year-old nursing student has been hit with charges after telling police she was abducted by a white man who held her captive for two days before she was able to escape.

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Russell, when interviewed by police the night she returned home, told investigators she was abducted by a white man with orange hair, and held in an 18-wheeler. A woman with the abductor, she said, played with her hair.

Wikipedia forgot to mention that White male Orange hair or the mythical woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlee_Russell_disappearance_hoax

Carlee Russell disappearance hoax​

The story of her disappearance went viral on TikTok and other social media platforms.[2]
Russell appeared at her parents' house 49 hours later, on July 15, and was taken to hospital where she was briefly questioned by police. In that interview, Russell reported having been abducted by a male and placed inside a tractor trailer truck. She said she was able to escape, but was re-captured and placed in a car.[6] She claimed to have been undressed and photographed while blindfolded, though not bound at the wrists to avoid causing ligature marks, and said that she escaped again, eventually returning home.[7]

 

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Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis said Carlee Russell’s attorney, Emory Anthony, provided a statement on Monday saying there was no kidnapping.

Carlee Russell Charged in Kidnapping Hoax, Police Say - Insider​

Carlee Russell has been charged in connection with a kidnapping hoax she has since admitted was not real, Alabama police said. Russell, a 25-year-old nursing student, reportedly went missing on July 13 on the side of a highway after calling 911 and claiming she saw a toddler on the side of the road. When Russell reappeared at home 49 hours ...
She now faces charges including false reporting to law enforcement authorities and falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors, Hoover Alabama police said in a statement on Friday.

 

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Legislative briefs: ‘Carlee Russell law’ targeting false reporting passes committees

The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would increase criminal penalties for those who make false police reports in instances when the report alleges imminent danger to a person or the public.

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Legislative briefs: ‘Carlee Russell law’ targeting false reporting passes committees​

• Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 6:30 a.m.

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• Alabama Daily News
• Alexander Willis | Alabama Daily News

The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would increase criminal penalties for those who make false police reports in instances when the report alleges imminent danger to a person or the public.
Sponsored by Rep. Mike Shaw, R-Hoover, the bill was drafted in response to an incident last summer in which Alabama resident Carlee Russell fabricated a story that she was kidnapped, kicking off a massive search effort and a national frenzy. Russell was ultimately charged with two misdemeanors.

Shaw, along with the sponsor of the Senate version of the bill, Sen. April Weaver, R-Brierfield, say similar incidents in the future should carry more serious criminal charges, something they hope to accomplish with their bills. The Senate version was also approved in a committee Wednesday.

 

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'Extremely remorseful': Fake kidnapping victim Carlee Russell avoids jail time, must pay $17K

Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who set off a frenzy when she tricked the nation into thinking she was the victim of a violent kidnapping, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors on Thursday.

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‘I am extremely remorseful’: Fake kidnapping victim Carlee Russell avoids jail time, must pay $17K​

David Harris Mar 21st, 2024, 5:01 pm

Carlee Russell, left, enters the Jefferson County Courthouse on March 21, 2024, where she plead guilty to two misdemeanors after she faked her own kidnapping last summer. (WVTM/YouTube)

Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who set off a frenzy when she tricked the nation into thinking she was the victim of a violent kidnapping only to later reveal she made the whole thing up, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors on Thursday.

A judge suspended her yearlong prison sentence and gave her a year of probation and a $17,000 fine. Russell, 26, apologized for her actions during the hearing at the Jefferson County Courthouse. She said she was fighting emotional issues at the time.

“I am extremely remorseful for the panic, fear and various range of negative emotions that were experienced across the nation. I want to specifically acknowledge and take accountability for the pain and embarrassment that I inflicted upon my family, my church family, friends, neighbors, community, and all of those who were directly involved in search efforts for me,” Russell said through tears, according to AL.com.

 

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Proverbs 6​

12 A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with crooked speech,
13 winks with his eyes, signals[c] with his feet,
points with his finger,
14 with perverted heart devises evil,
continually sowing discord;
15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.