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Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell was found guilty of faking her own kidnapping in July on Wednesday, October 11. She is facing one year in prison. Russell, 25, was found guilty in Hoover, Alabama, ...

Carlee Russell’s ex-boyfriend still has no idea why she faked her own abduction, pointing out that while the couple had a “little argument” leading up to her disappearance, it was “nothing to kidnap ...

Carlee Russell was found guilty Wednesday of faking her own kidnapping over the summer in a case that baffled the nation. The 26-year-old nursing student was convicted of filing a false police report ...

We should have expected a Carlee Russell film, but we didn’t expect one so soon. AL.com reports that a new film based on Russell’s wild false kidnappings story, The Nurse That Saw the Baby on the ...

“It wasn't nothing to kidnap yourself over," Thomar Latrell Simmons said while discussing his ex, who faked her own abduction in July Thomar Latrell Simmons/Instagram Carlee Russell’s now ex-boyfriend ...

Molly Bohannon has been a Forbes news reporter since 2023. In municipal court, Judge Brad Bishop determined Russell was guilty of false reporting to law enforcement authorities and falsely reporting ...

An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler on Thursday pleaded guilty to charges of giving false information to law enforcement. News outlets ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Carlee Russell, a nursing student who made international news when she faked her own kidnapping in Alabama over the summer, was found guilty of the false report. During a ...

HOOVER, Ala. — Authorities in Alabama said Friday they have filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she ...