Thomar Simmons, the now ex-boyfriend of Carlee Russell, said he is 'disgusted' and 'blindsided' that she lied about her kidnapping in Alabama.
to report a toddler wandering beside a stretch of interstate. She told detectives she was taken by a man who came out of the trees when she stopped to check on the child, put her in a car and an 18-wheeler, blindfolded her and held her at a home where a woman fed her cheese crackers, authorities said at a news conference last week.
Russell claimed she had been kidnapped and held at a home. Investigators are still working to determine where she was during the two days she was gone. Russell said she was put in a vehicle again but managed to escape and run through the woods to her neighborhood.how he desperately helped search for Russell.
"I have been going nonstop since I received the call that she was missing on Thursday night," Simmons wrote at the time."I know she would’ve done the same for me, so I wasn’t going to give up until I saw her face again!" Investigators, however, cast doubt on Russell's story. Detectives determined that in the days before her disappearance, Russell had searched for information on her cellphone about Amber Alerts and the movie"Taken," which is about a woman’s abduction.
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