For example, the police's statement about how exactly Carlee came to be found in which they said they got a call that she had shown up to her residence on foot fails to mention the fact that dispatchers in the Hoover-Vestavia Hills area were talking about Carlee possibly being at a nearby motel well beforehand … a convo captured around 6:53 PM CT.
As you can hear … the dispatchers describe a caller saying Carlee's family had reached out to say they had gotten a call from Carlee herself – who apparently told them she was at the Red Roof Inn along the Montgomery Highway … only about 5 miles north from where she disappeared. The wording's a little confusing, but it seems the caller was a Red Roof worker.
The first responders also say the front desk staff said they had no one checked in under Carlee's name. It also sounds like Carlee's family was itching to get to the Red Roof Inn to see if she was actually there. It's unclear if they did or not, but cops certainly responded … as heard in the audio, where somebody gets on the radio to say units have arrived.
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