Could be they are priming to make an arrest….
Just to add perspective from another well-known hoax, Papini reappeared on Thanksgiving day, 2016, alleging she was kidnapped weeks earlier, and held captive against her will.
Six years later, in March 2022, she was arrested for making false statements to police about her own hoax, and for engaging in mail fraud, based on her being a kidnapping victim.
A week after her arraignment, she pleaded guilty and was later sentenced to 18 months in prison, to be followed by 36 months of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay more than $300K in restitution.
Like Russell, Papini also didn't talk to law investigators after coming home, insisting she was too traumatized. When she'd feel the heat of the investigation, she'd send her husband to tell detectives 'recollections' that came to her.
Papini was successfully prosecuted because investigators were through building a solid case for prosecutors. The evidence was irrefutable, and she finally acknowledged the kidnapping story was a hoax, but couldn't explain why.
Carlee Russell's case isn't even two weeks old!
She resurfaced at her parents home a week ago Saturday, and other than her initial statement to police citing the olympian baby capable of wide strides, and orange hair dude with a bald spot, she's not talking.
With or without CR's cooperation, Hoover police will eventually determine where she was for 49 hours and that her stay-cation did not involve baby and Blinky (orange dude).
Prosecutors only get one bite at the apple, and they don't want an investigation with unanswered questions, they want a case they can win. More important, an arrest today starts the judicial clock, and no reason to hinder the prosecution with a weak case when CR is safe, and no boogie man in the woods taking women from the Interstate. JMO
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