On Thursday night, 25-year-old Carlee Russell from Hoover, Ala., vanished after telling a 911 dispatcher that she found a toddler stranded on the side of an interstate, police said.
Her disappearance and the mysterious circumstances around it horrified her family, stumped the police and captured national attention. Then, around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday, Russell’s family heard a knock coming from the front door, Nicholas Derzis, Hoover’s police chief, told NPR.
To their surprise, it was Russell — alone.
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