Carlee Russell is facing legal repercussions for her kidnapping hoax. During a July 28 press conference in Alabama, Hoover Police Chief Nicholas C. Derzis announced that that the 26-year-old—whose ...

Carlee Russell's parents got the only outcome that mattered to them: Their daughter is alive and came home safely. But the true end result of the 25-year-old nursing student's actions—lying to police ...

Carlee Russell made headlines after she falsely claimed she was abducted on the side of an Alabama road on July 13, but confessed to the hoax after investigators reported they couldn’t confirm any of ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

Carlee Russell could be on the hook for at least part of the cost of the law enforcement investigation into her disappearance which ended up being a hoax, according to a former FBI agent. Russell, 24, ...

Carlee Russell has been found guilty on two misdemeanor charges related to a kidnapping hoax that played out over the past summer. Judge Brad Bishop found the 25-year-old nursing student guilty during ...

“It wasn't nothing to kidnap yourself over," Thomar Latrell Simmons said while discussing his ex, who faked her own abduction in July Thomar Latrell Simmons/Instagram Carlee Russell’s now ex-boyfriend ...

HOOVER, Ala. -- An Alabama woman who lied about her kidnapping was ordered to pay nearly $18,000 in restitution and sentenced to probation during a court appearance on Thursday, ABC News has confirmed ...

Alabama nursing student Carlee Russell was charged with two misdemeanors, including making a false report, after she went missing for two days and told a fake tale about being abducted, authorities ...

Carlee Russell’s ex-boyfriend still has no idea why she faked her own abduction, pointing out that while the couple had a “little argument” leading up to her disappearance, it was “nothing to kidnap ...

The mother of the Alabama nursing student who deceived the nation into believing she was abducted refused on Monday to address her daughter’s lies. “Now is not a good time,” Talitha Robinson-Russell ...