Dispatch traffic on the night Carlee Russell disappeared reveals officers searching for both the reported toddler on the side of Interstate 459 and Russell herself. The dispatcher tells officers who arrived Thursday night that Russell said she would “stand by for police” to arrive, according to a recording obtained by WVTM. The officers reported finding …
Carlee Russell disappeared after calling 911 to report a toddler alongside an Alabama highway. Two days later, she knocked on her parents’ front door. For the latest true crime and justice news, subscribe to the ‘Crime Stories with Nancy Grace’ podcast. [Featured image: Carlee Russell/Hoover Police Department]
Alabama investigators are reviewing traffic camera footage for clues to what happened to Carlee Russell, the 25-year-old nursing student who called 911 Thursday night to report a toddler walking alone on an interstate highway and then disappeared when she stopped to see if she could help. The video shows Russell driving slowly along the shoulder …
An Alabama man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly broke into a relative’s home in Rainbow City last month and tried to drown her. Ryan Tyler Watts, 24, was booked into the Etowah County Detention Center after he was released from the hospital on Friday, AL.com said. Police in Attalla, about eight …
Police in Alabama are looking for a woman who disappeared after calling 911 to report seeing a toddler walking alongside Interstate 459 in Hoover. Hoover Police said Carlethia “Carlee” Russell, 25, stopped her car near mile marker 11 to check on the child and called a family member after she called 911 at about 9:30 …
Update: Nine-month-old Harlow Darby Freeman has been found safe, WBMA reports, and the Amber Alert issued for her has been cancelled. The girl’s aunt, Melinda Hutchison told WBRC she was being taken to Children’s Hospital in Birmingham as precautionary measure. “She’s been found and we couldn’t be any happier,” she said. This is a developing …
A man recently released from a Florida prison is back in jail in Alabama after he confessed to the brutal murders of a 23-year-old mother and her 6-year-old son in 2002. Monica Rollins was 8-months pregnant when she was stabbed to death in her home in Heflin, Law & Crime reported. She and 6-year-old Dalton …
A second suspect has been charged with capital murder in the death of an Alabama mother whose body was found this week in Alabama’s rugged Little River Canyon atop Lookout Mountain. As CrimeOnline reported, Mary Elizabeth Isbell, who also went by Beth Wright, hadn’t been seen since October 2021. On Sunday, DeKalb County investigators charged …
Authorities in south Alabama are looking for suspects in a double homicide that left a 31-year-old man and a 10-year-old boy dead. The Conecuh County Sheriff’s Office said it was called late Friday night to a shooting in the Johnsonville community and found Jatonio Williams dead on the scene. The 10-year-old, whose name hasn’t been …
Investigators in Marshall County, Alabama, in the northwest corner of the state announced this week that DNA had helped identify a body found alongside a creek in the county in 1997. The homicide victim has been identified as Jefferey Douglas Kimzey of Santa Barbara, California, who was 20 at the time of his death. The …
An Alabama mother and her boyfriend have been charged with beating her 2-month-old son to death. Shelby Shyanne Comalander, 24, and Larry William Jackson, 48, have each been charged with murder and aggravated child abuse following an investigation by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and the state Department of Human Resources. They are being held …
A 3-month-old boy died Thursday at Children’s of Alabama from injuries sustained on Monday, and his parents have been charged with murder. Jameela Biggs, 23, and Antonio Martin, 36, were initially charged with aggravated child abuse on Tuesday when they were unable to provide a reasonable explanation for the infants extensive injuries, which included multiple …
