Russell reappeared Saturday night, 48 hours after she first went missing alongside an interstate in Alabama Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019.

Harris was put in touch with one of Russell’s closest friends on the phone who was “crying and so hysterical,” recalls Harris, and told her, “miss Angela, we need you.” Carlee Russell ...

Carlee Russell has avoided jail after pleading guilty to faking her own kidnapping last summer. Russell was charged with two counts of misdemeanors, false reporting to law enforcement, and falsely ...

Originally born in Germany and living all around the world before making Alabama his home in 1977, Derzis and his department were put on the world stage in the midst of the Carlee Russell kidnapping ...

Carlee Russell's disappearance was one of the most mysterious in history: the 25-year-old vanished without a trace after calling 911 to report a toddler walking alone on the side of a highway.