Prior to going missing, Carlee Russell conducted online searches connected to abduction.

Prior to going missing, Carlee Russell conducted online searches connected to abduction.

According to officials, the Alabama woman who went missing for two days this week searched for information on Taken, local bus tickets, and Amber Alerts before she fled.

The information was one of many that the authorities provided to the media on Wednesday afternoon at a press conference. They provided the most thorough account of what transpired in the puzzling incident that has garnered a lot of attention.

After calling 911 and her brother's girlfriend on Thursday to report spotting a toddler staggering by the side of the road, Carlee Russell, a 25-year-old nursing student, disappeared.

According to police, there is still no proof of a missing toddler, and no other drivers have reported seeing one along the busy section of the road.

Minutes after the 911 call, first responders spotted Russell's car and her things, including her wig, mobile, and pocketbook, but they couldn't find her.

Russell then went back home on Saturday, some 49 hours after she had first vanished.

Russell allegedly informed authorities after she reappeared that she had been kidnapped and held captive by two individuals until she was able to flee, according to Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis.

Derzis, however, revealed more details that contradicted Russell's story and said that the investigators haven't yet been given permission to speak with her.

There are still many questions that need to be resolved, but only Carlee can do it, according to Derzis. "What we can say is that most of Carlee's initial statement made to investigators has been impossible for us to verify, and we have no reason to believe that there is a threat to the public safety related to this specific case," the statement reads.

Before she vanished, Russell conducted online searches connected to abductions.

On July 11, two days prior to her disappearance, Russell checked into the cost of an Amber Alert.

On the day she vanished, Russell sought information on the Birmingham bus station, which is around 10 miles from Hoover. She also looked for a bus ticket that traveled one way from Birmingham to Nashville.

She looked up the movie Taken and how to steal money from a register secretly on the day she vanished.

The fact that someone is exploring the internet and Googling the movie Taken about an abduction seven to eight hours before they are kidnapped strikes me as quite strange, according to Derzis. "I find that to be very strange."

Derzis asserted that despite the fact that investigators found other web searches that appeared to shed light on Russell's mental state, officials were keeping them secret out of respect for her privacy. A computer at her place of employment was also used to do two online searches related to Amber Alerts.

Investigators also discovered Russell travelled 600 yards along the roadway while speaking with the 911 operator thanks to cell phone records.

She stated that since I've always been one of those men who never says never, and Derzis added, "I'm not saying it can't happen." The speaker stated, "I just find it very difficult to comprehend that a toddler, who in bare feet could be three or four years old, will travel six football fields without getting in the road or sobbing."

Russell had her eyes covered and claimed to have been abducted.

Derzis asserts that when Russell got home on Saturday night, she informed the police that she had been taken by a man who had emerged from the adjacent trees as she went outside to check on the child.

She said the man picked her up and she said he had orange hair and a bald spot. She asserted that he shoved her into a car and over a fence after she screamed. She asserted that an 18-wheeler trailer was the next thing she remembered.

Russell reported hearing a baby sobbing and the voice of an adult female. She was able to escape the 18-wheeler and run away on foot before being apprehended once more.

Russell claimed that she was taken to a residence and had to strip off; she believes that her kidnappers snapped pictures of her, though she has no recollection of any physical or sexual interaction.

Russell informed authorities that when she awoke the following morning, her female kidnapper had fed her cheese crackers and had also toyed with her hair.

She claimed she was put in a car once more but managed to escape, going through the woods till she came out close to her house.

She had a slight lip injury and a tear in her shirt, and detectives found $107 in cash in her right sock.

More information concerning what happened prior to Russell's disappearance was disclosed by the police.

According to a statement issued by authorities late Tuesday night, Russell purchased snacks at Target just before going missing, but they were not discovered with her other things.

Derzis mentioned during the press conference that Russell also left her office with a dark-colored bathrobe, a roll of toilet paper, and other goods before she vanished, none of which were discovered at the spot.

Authorities aired Russell's 911 call, in which she recalls seeing a white male toddler wearing diapers, at the press conference.

According to the police, security footage taken on Saturday in Russell's neighborhood shows her walking down the sidewalk by herself before going home.