Carlee Russell has admitted to lying about seeing a toddler along a highway in Alabama and being abducted earlier this month. - Courtesy Hoover Police Department/TNS/TNS
Count me among those who feel duped by Carlee Russell. The Alabama woman — who claimed she tried to help a toddler on a highway before disappearing, only to resurface two days later saying she had been kidnapped — got me good. The nightmarish account of Russell screaming on the phone with her brother’s girlfriend before disappearing, and police rushing to the scene earlier this month and finding only her cellphone and wig had me shook — that is, before Alabama authorities and armchair investigators alike began poking holes in it. Russell claimed she was abducted by a man with orange hair who e...
