Carlee Russell

Russell first vanished on the night of July 13, shortly after she phoned police to say she was stopping by the side of the road to rescue a baby she could see crawling along the side of Interstate 459. Two days later she reappeared. She claimed that she was abducted by a white man with orange hair.

Those of a certain vintage may remember the case of Tawana Brawley, who was allegedly kidnapped and raped by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan. Curiously, no one saw them riding off into the night clad in white sheets, because that sort of thing seldom happened in New York State, certainly not in […]