Carlee Russell shared odd tweets minutes before vanishing

Carlee Russell sent a series of odd tweets minutes before she reported seeing a wandering toddler and then disappeared – including: “Today was a GREAT day God be looking out im telling you!!”

About 15 minutes before she made the fateful 911 call at 9:34 p.m. July 13, the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student tweeted: “yeah I want a family now.”

A few minutes earlier, she tweeted: “Today was a GREAT day God be looking out im telling you!!” and “someone to tell you ‘i love you’ and don’t got a reason.”

She then went on to tell a 911 dispatcher that she saw a child dressed in a T-shirt and diaper walking barefoot along busy Interstate 459 in Hoover, Alabama.

Russell promised to remain at the scene until police arrived, but mysteriously disappeared for two days before returning home and claiming that she had been abducted and held captive.

Russell — whose account has been called into question by authorities — also sent several tweets in the days and weeks before her disappearance that appeared to shed light into her emotional state.


Carlee Russell
Carlee Russell sent several cryptic tweets before her mysterious disappearance.
Hoover Police Department

One suggested that she had a troubled relationship.

“I always say one thing i WONT do is stay with someone who cheated on me like you went and had sex with someone else and think it’ll be sweet one day?? hellll no,” she tweeted July 10.

Her boyfriend, Thomar Latrell Simmons, has wiped all traces of her from his social media after he initially asserted that she was “fighting for her life for 48 hours” during the time she was missing. It was unclear whom she was referring to in her tweet.

Russell, who worked at the Woodhouse Spa from which she allegedly stole a robe and toilet paper, tweeted two days earlier that her “job is really starting to get on my dang nerves.”

“Everyone wants to feel wanted,” she wrote on the same day.

“I’m thankful i know how to identify when the enemy coming for me now, makes life a lot easier,” Russell tweeted on June 19.

“The devil be tryna get to me but God fighting back for me,” she wrote on the same day.

In another tweet, she added, “You think you have a bond with someone until they show you you (sic) never did.”

On June 4, Russell tweeted: “You think you close with somebody, whole time they do you worse than your enemies.”

Police found her red Mercedes-Benz, cellphone and wig but were unable to locate her or a small child when they arrived at the scene along the highway.

Russell’s mother, Talitha Russell, told NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday that her daughter had “fought for her life” to escape her kidnappers – but Police Chief Nick Derzis said his investigators have been “unable to verify most of Carlee’s initial statement.”

She claimed she was abducted by a man who forced into a car and then an 18-wheel truck while blindfolded, but not restrained, and held at a home where a woman fed her cheese crackers, Derzis said.

Russell told detectives she managed to escape and run through the woods to her neighborhood.

Days earlier, she searched for information on her phone about Amber Alerts, the Liam Neeson thriller “Taken” — about a woman’s abduction in Paris — and a one-way bus ticket to Nashville departing the day she vanished, the top cop said.

Human trafficking experts have rejected the family’s assertion that the purported toddler was used as “bait” by the supposed kidnappers, saying “this is not a tactic that traffickers use.”

Russell agreed to a single interview with police, but has not cooperated with their requests for another one, officials said Thursday.