Carlee Russell tweeted that she wanted a family 15 minutes before calling 911 and claiming to have seen a child on the side of the highway.
Yesterday, DailyMail.com revealed her lovesick tweets about not feeling “wanted” and that she never cheated, as rumors of her relationship with boyfriend Thomar had been circulating.
He has deleted all mentions of her on his social media, including his desperate pleas to help find her when she went missing.
Hoover police now say there is no evidence for Carlee’s story that she was kidnapped and escaped after being lured to the side of I-459 at 9:34 p.m. on July 13.
She then called 911 and told the operator that she saw a little boy walking by the side of the road.
Fifteen minutes earlier, at 9:20 p.m., she was sitting in the parking lot of a Target superstore tweeting that she wanted a family “now.”
And 30 minutes before that, she tweeted, “Today was an AMAZING day, God watch out, I’m telling you!!”
On the day of her disappearance, just an hour before calling police at 10:34 p.m. EST (9:34 p.m. CT), Carlee tweeted that she wanted a family. She then told the operator that she had seen a child on the road
Carlee’s complaints about her job will probably come as a shock to the spa owner, who said she was nice and got along with everyone she worked with
The 25-year-old is now facing tough questions from Hoover police after she returned to her parents’ home on Saturday, July 15, with a cut on her lip but no other injuries.
She keeps quiet and refuses to sit down with the police after sparking a widespread manhunt, making national headlines and terrifying her loving family after her July 13 disappearance.
She had called 911 and a family member claimed she had pulled over to help a toddler on the side of the road.
After showing up at her parents’ house two days later, Carlee told detectives she had been kidnapped by an orange-haired man who held her captive for two days. Police now say there is no evidence of such a toddler, or the kidnapping story she told them.
She has yet to answer questions from detectives and her parents have not commented since police revealed their doubts about her claims.
And while her social media accounts don’t explain her behavior, they paint a picture of a melancholy young woman who was unlucky in love and tired of work.
Carlee Russell with her boyfriend Thomar Simmons before she disappeared. He has now removed all traces of her from his social media pages as a sign that he doesn’t believe her kidnapping story either.
Carlee’s tweets in the days and weeks leading up to her disappearance paint a picture of a melancholy young woman tired of her job and unlucky in love.
Carlee’s friend Thomar – who has been frantically seeking updates – now seems to have gotten mad at her.
Following the Hoover Police Department press conference yesterday, Thomar deleted all mentions of Carlee from his Instagram and Facebook accounts.
Not only did he delete his posts about her disappearance, but he also deleted all the photos of her and them together that were there before.
The couple recently visited New York City over the July 4th weekend.
When Carlee went missing, her friend Thomar frantically appealed for information on social media
Thomar and Carlee recently visited New York together on July 4. He has since removed her from his photos from the trip
Happier times: Carlee with Thomar. He was one of those who led the search for her
Thomar has now scrubbed Carlee from his Instagram page. He has yet to respond publicly to the police’s revelation that there is no evidence for her abduction story
Thomar has not commented publicly since police started poking holes in his girlfriend’s story.
While making affectionate appeals for information on her whereabouts, Carlee’s Twitter account suggests things weren’t right in the relationship in the weeks leading up to the ordeal.
She complained about men “throwing everything away” for “a h*e or stripper.”
“I always say one thing I WON’T do is stay with someone who cheated on me,” read another of her tweets.
In that case, she was referring to another Twitter user and not Thomar.
But it was clear she was thinking about romance.
“Everyone wants to feel wanted,” she tweeted at 3:08 a.m. on July 8, five days before she disappeared.
Last month, she hinted that she had been betrayed.
“You think you bond with someone until they show you you never have,” she tweeted.
Carlee also complained about her job at The Woodhouse Spa in Birmingham.
On the night of her disappearance, she stole a bathrobe and toilet paper from the store.
“My job is really starting to get on my nerves,” read a tweet posted at 7:20am on July 8.
In another tweet earlier this summer, she talked about calling in sick.
Frustrated: Nick Derzis, Hoover police chief, said detectives want to speak to Carlee again
Carlee is believed to be hiding out in her parents’ $800,000 home in Hoover, Alabama
Carlee’s mother, real estate agent Talitha Robinson Russell, told the TODAY show that she was “fighting for her life.” She insisted her captor was still there after she returned home. Her father, Carlos, an underwriter for a bank, also supported the story
“I just can’t handle life today,” she said.
Carlee’s parents, Talitha and Carlos Russell, would protect her from further questioning.
“We asked to interview Carlee a second time, but that request was denied. As you can see, there are still many questions to be answered, but only Carlee can provide those answers.
“The family doesn’t have us ready to talk at this point, in her mental state, due to trauma. That’s what we’ve been told,” Chief Nick Derzis said yesterday.
Carlee’s parents completely swallowed her story and repeated it on Monday’s TODAY show after Carlee showed up at their house with a busted lip and in “bad shape.”
“She was fighting for her life,” said her father Carlos, a VP of underwriting for BBVA bank.
The “kidnapping” moment: Carlee was filmed at 9:34 p.m. on July 13 as he stopped on I-459. The video, which was taken from a distance, shows nothing like what she described
Now they have gone to the ground.
Questions linger over whether the 25-year-old nursing student and spa worker might be criminally up to speed, as friends and neighbors gathered around the family demand answers.
Filing a false police report in Alabama is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a $6,000 fine.
The owner of the spa where she worked now also wants to know if the $102 cash found in her sock came from his register.
He told Good morning America today Carlee was a pleasant employee who got along well with other staff.
Alabama attorney Eric Guster said he expects Carlee to be charged with filing a false police report, but says police are likely waiting to complete their investigation first.