The Alabama nursing student vanished for 49 hours and told police she was kidnapped, though investigators say they've been "unable to verify" her claims
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00:00 Carly Russell, the Alabama woman who mysteriously vanished after telling 911 that she saw a toddler walking alone along a highway,
00:08 sent three tweets within the hour before she disappeared.
00:11 The 25-year-old first tweeted at 8.55 p.m., less than an hour before she called 911, writing,
00:17 "Today was a great day. God be looking out, I'm telling you."
00:20 One minute later, she tweeted, "Someone to tell you I love you and don't gotta reason."
00:25 Then at 9.19 p.m., she tweeted, "Yeah, I want a family now."
00:29 About 15 minutes later, she mysteriously vanished,
00:32 which sparked a search that lasted 49 hours until Russell reappeared at her parents' house Saturday night.
00:38 Russell described a harrowing situation to police the night she returned home,
00:42 telling detectives that she was kidnapped by a man and a woman after checking on the child she said she saw.
00:47 She alleged that she was blinded by a man who she described as white with orange hair.
00:52 She also told police that she was never bound or tied because her abductors said they, quote,
00:56 "did not want to leave impressions on her wrist."
00:59 Detectives also took note of a small wound to her lip and a torn T-shirt,
01:03 as well as $107 stuffed into her right sock.
01:06 Police say there are many questions left to be answered and allege that on the day Russell went missing,
01:11 she researched online Amber Alerts, how to steal money from a cash register,
01:16 a one-way bus ticket scheduled to depart the day she went missing,
01:19 and also the movie Taken, which is about kidnapping.
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