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Carlee Russell update: Before she went missing, police say she searched Amber Alerts and the movie ‘Taken’

Police in Hoover, a city of around 92,000 south of Birmingham, have been investigating the disappearance of the 25-year-old nursing student, who returned home two days after she went missing.

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Police said Wednesday they’ve been unable to verify initial statements made by Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who disappeared last week after saying she saw a toddler walking on the interstate.

But officials did say that before she went missing, she made internet searches about paying for Amber Alerts, how to take money from a register without getting caught and the movie “Taken.”

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Police said Russell told them she was forced into an 18-wheeler truck and taken to a home where a man and woman told her to get undressed, then took photos of her.

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