Carlee Russell heard on 911 call along Alabama interstate moments before disappearance

Carlee Russell told a 911 dispatcher that she would stay on the interstate until police officers arrived, new audio of the call released by police shows.

Russell, 25, went missing on July 13 after telling a 911 operator at around 9:24 p.m. that she saw a 3 to 4-year-old toddler in a diaper walking along the side of Interstate 459 South near Birmingham, Alabama, according to the Hoover Police Department.

After calling 911, the 25-year-old called a relative and abruptly stopped talking but the line "remained open," according to police. She returned home at around 10:45 p.m. on July 15 and was taken to a local hospital before being released. Police said there was no evidence that a toddler was on the interstate.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Hoover police released audio from the 911 call Russell made before disappearing.

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"I am on Interstate 459 and there just a kid just walking by their selves," Russell told the 911 operator.

When asked how old the toddler looked, Russell said "maybe like three or four."

"It's a white T-shirt, and it doesn't look like he has any pants on. It looks like a diaper," Russell said of what the toddler was wearing.

She also told the 911 operator that she would stay with the toddler until police officers arrived. When officers arrived, they found a running car with Russell's possessions inside, but she was nowhere to be found.

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Russell told police in an interview that a man came out of the tree to check on the toddler, but picked her up and made her go over a nearby fence.

She said that the man allegedly "forced her into a car" and the last thing she recalls is being inside the trailer of an 18-wheeler.

The man, according to Russell, had orange hair with a bald spot on the back of his head. She said that she was able to escape the truck and fled the area on foot, but was captured again and placed into a car.

Russell then claimed she was blindfolded but "not tied up" since her alleged captor didn't want to leave wrist impressions. She then told police that the individuals took her to a house and forced her to get undressed, and believes that pictures were taken of her.

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The following day, according to Russell's conversation with police, she woke up and was "fed cheese crackers by the female."

"She said the woman also played with her hair but could not remember anything else," Hoover Police Capt. Keith Czeskleba said of the interview with Russell. "At some point, she was put back in a vehicle she claims was able to escape while it was in the West Hoover area. She told detectives she ran through lots of woods, just came out near her residence."

Russell had $107 cash in her right sock, detectives noticed when they interviewed her.

Czeskleba during the press conference that Data from Russell's phone through her Life 360 application shows she traveled 600 yards while on the phone with 911 claiming to be following a toddler.

Russell is accused of taking a "dark-colored bathrobe, a roll of toilet paper" and other items that belonged to her employer, the Woodhouse Spa Birmingham on July 13 at around 8:20 p.m., Czeskleba said.

The police chief also said that Russell searched "do you have to pay for an Amber Alert" on July 11 at 7:30 a.m. On July 13 at 1:03 a.m., Russell searched "how to take money from a register without being caught."

Russell also searched for the movie "Taken" on July 13 at 12:10 p.m., he said. "Taken" is a movie about a retired CIA agent who travels around Europe to save his daughter who was kidnapped while on a trip to Paris, according to IMDB.

Czeskleba said it's "highly unusual" for someone who gets kidnapped to have searched for the movie "Taken" just hours before.

At 2:35 a.m. on July 13, she searched for a one-way bus ticket from Birmingham to Nashville with the departure date being July 13.

She also allegedly used a work computer to search for the "maximum age of an Amber Alert."

Dems at IRS whistleblower hearing couldn't offer counterargument, only invoked Trump, George Floyd: critics

Democrats who grilled IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler could not offer effective counterarguments to their testimony, and only could muster emotional diatribes targeting former President Donald Trump and invoking George Floyd, critics said Wednesday.

During the hearing, Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., invoked George Floyd when speaking about Republicans' claims of a two-tiered justice system favoring the Bidens, while House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin of Maryland made a "Pink Panther" reference in calling the probe an "Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn't exist."

Several other Democrats invoked Trump during their speaking time, including Kweisi Mfume of Baltimore and Gerald Connolly of Northern Virginia.

Mfume quipped that he wanted to thank Republicans for gathering lawmakers and "almost distracting us from the biggest investigation that is going on right now… involving the former president."

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Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., claimed the GOP presented "a lot of allegations, zero proof, no receipts, but apparently some d--- pics," after lurid photos of the first son were presented as exhibits by one Republican.

On "The Five" Wednesday, co-host Kennedy said many of the Democrats' lines of questioning revealed their lack of a rebuttal to the whistleblowers' claims and statements made by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and other Republicans in public.

"What really upsets me is this overly-emotional conflation. And you've got people on the committee who refuse to take apart or question these points, which, you know, it might be convenient if this is a basis for prosecution or investigation for an opposing party when they are back in power, but instead their dismissal of it," she said.

"All that means is Republicans can dismiss anything they want when it is a Republican child of a president who is accused."

She added the lawmakers' invoking of Floyd and Breonna Taylor – a woman killed in a police-involved situation in Kentucky wherein some officers were federally charged – is "offensive because when you don't have facts to go to or you don't have the ability to really question and examine those facts, then you go to something that is so completely emotional, not realizing that, there is no mutual exclusivity here." 

Co-host Jesse Watters reported that Ziegler, the whistleblower formerly only known as "Mr. X." did not actively seek out Hunter Biden as a subject, but that his identity came up during an unrelated investigation.

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"[Ziegler] wasn't told to go look into Hunter," he said. "He stumbled upon Hunter when he was looking into some international porn investigation and noticed that Hunter was buying escorts and Hunter was using his bank as basically an escort slush fund and his corporate bank account as an escort slush fund that sets alarm bells off with tax investigators that something's fishy."

During the hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., held up sexually-explicit images of Biden as well as a United Airlines receipt she claimed was funded by Biden to fly a woman from LAX to Dulles for sex, which she alleged is a federal crime.

Greene cited the Mann Act, a 1910 woman-trafficking law named for former House Minority Leader James Mann, R-Ill., and asked Ziegler about the situation.

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Ziegler testified Biden itemized a $10,000 deduction on his 2018 tax return for a purported golf club membership that was in reality a sex club membership and that he categorized payments to prostitutes as business expenses.

Judge Jeanine Pirro referenced that testimony on "The Five," adding President Biden and the Democrats want to essentially fund 87,000 mostly-armed IRS agents to make sure Americans properly pay and file their taxes, while not scrutinizing the president's own son's filings.

"Let me just say that apparently, Ziegler said between 2014 and 2019, there was $17 million in foreign money that the Bidens got," she said.

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