Carlee Russell reflected on her year in a post for her 27th birthday. The Alabama woman who faked her abduction last year has spoken out for the very first time since her sentencing hearing in March.

Alabama woman Carlee Russell will not face jail time after she pleaded guilty Thursday to falsely reporting her kidnapping last summer, multiple outlets reported. Russell initially vanished on July 13 ...

Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who lied to police about seeing a toddler on a busy interstate, then faking her own kidnapping, has avoided jail and was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty ...

An Alabama woman who confessed to lying about being kidnapped has pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to the hoax that set off a national search last summer. Carlee Russell pleaded guilty in ...

Carlee Russell faced two misdemeanors for making false statements to police. An Alabama woman who lied about her kidnapping was ordered to pay nearly $18,000 in restitution and sentenced to probation ...

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 ...

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Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who admitted to faking her own kidnapping, has been found guilty of two misdemeanor charges related to the case, according to CNN affiliates WBMA and WVTM. Russell ...

Carlethia ‘Carlee’ Russell, a woman who admitted that she lied about being kidnapped when she went missing for two days in July, was found guilty of two misdemeanor charges during her court appearance ...

Carlee Russell was found guilty Wednesday of faking her own kidnapping over the summer in a case that baffled the nation. The 26-year-old nursing student was convicted of filing a false police report ...

Carlee Russell, 26, was found guilty by a Hoover municipal judge on Wednesday of faking her own abduction. The ruling came after Russell pleaded not guilty to charges of false reporting to law ...

“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 ...