Dispatch traffic on the night Carlee Russell disappeared reveals officers searching for both the reported toddler on the side of Interstate 459 and Russell herself.

The dispatcher tells officers who arrived Thursday night that Russell said she would “stand by for police” to arrive, according to a recording obtained by WVTM.

The officers reported finding her personal belongings — except for her phone — found inside the vehicle. The phone was later found on the side of the road.

“Call the RP (reporting party) back,” an officer asks, and the dispatcher reports that “she’s not answering.”

Officers say they’re going to check with nearby houses to see if the toddler might have wandered from there, and accepted an offer from the dispatcher to send a drone to the area.

By that time, the 911 call from Russell’s boyfriend’s sister has come in, and the dispatcher relays the information that the caller heard Russell scream and the line disconnected. The line did not, in fact disconnect, as an officer later comments — the caller could hear cars on the highway after the scream.

In a separate recording, officers respond to a Red Roof Inn in Vestavia at about 7 p.m. Saturday — several hours before Russell showed up at her family home in Hoover. The dispatcher tells officers that the front desk of the hotel said “car loads” of family members arrived because they’d gotten a call from Russell saying she was at the Red Roof Inn.

The front desk said it had no one by that name registered and said that the family members said the caller did not specify which Red Roof Inn, although the Birmingham South location is the closest to Hoover.

Four hours later, Russell returned home. Police have released some information and scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon about the case.

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[Featured image: Carlee Russell/Hoover Police Department]