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Speaker 1: and supporting the channel. On May twelfth, nineteen seventy four,
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Speaker 1: Amy Lynn Bradley was born in Petersburg, Virginia, and her
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Speaker 1: mother I have a Bradley, and her father Ronald or
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Speaker 1: Ron Bradley. We're both insurance agents with Illinois Mutual Insurance Company.
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Speaker 1: And her younger brother, Brad would be born a couple
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Speaker 1: years later, and the Bradley kids were raised in Chesterfield County, Virginia,
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Speaker 1: and it would also be where Amy would graduate from
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Speaker 1: el C. Byrd High School and she would receive a
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Speaker 1: full scholarship in basketball and attend Longwood University, where later
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Speaker 1: she would graduate with a degree in sports psychology in
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Speaker 1: December of nineteen ninety six, and growing up, their family
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Speaker 1: had close bonds that made even childhood friends jealous, such
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Speaker 1: as one of Amy's friends named Aaron Cullether, and according
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Speaker 1: to Erin, the dynamics around the house were full of
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Speaker 1: laughter and close family bonds, so much so that she
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Speaker 1: felt like a fifth member of the family. And Amy
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Speaker 1: of course shared this fun, bubbly attitude that the rest
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Speaker 1: of her family shared, and the only awkward feelings in
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Speaker 1: the family were during college when Amy came out to
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Speaker 1: her family as gay. However, the family still loved her
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Speaker 1: and accepted her all the same. And Amy would also
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Speaker 1: enjoy swimming and was known as a very strong swimmer,
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Speaker 1: enough to actually get a job as a lifeguard, and
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Speaker 1: she also worked a full time job at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse,
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Speaker 1: where she would later reduce her hours in anticipation of
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Speaker 1: starting a new job at a computer consulting firm. So
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Speaker 1: she was gearing up to start her new life, and
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Speaker 1: she just bought a new apartment and got a dog
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Speaker 1: to fill the empty space in the timbers, which was
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Speaker 1: a complex off Robius Road in Chesterfield. However, a final
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Speaker 1: send off was in order a timely trip to celebrate
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Speaker 1: her new beginnings, and this trip was an all expenses
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Speaker 1: paid family cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean International Cruise ship
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Speaker 1: Rhapsody of the Seas, and the ship would leave from
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Speaker 1: San Juan, taking them to the islands of Aruba, Kiraso,
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Speaker 1: Saint Martin, and Saint Thomas before returning and stopping in
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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico.
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Speaker 2: And according to.
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Speaker 1: Some sources, the trip was won by Ron for his
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Speaker 1: success in selling paid premiums up to one hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty five thousand dollars and he was one of thirty
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Speaker 1: five agents around the nation who won this vacation, and
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Speaker 1: the vacation was only paid for Ron and his wife. However, hoever,
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Speaker 1: the organizers actually let them bring their children along, but
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Speaker 1: unfortunately they would all have to share the same cabin.
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Speaker 2: So Amy was over the moon about this.
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Speaker 1: Trip, shopping for bathing suits she was going to wear
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Speaker 1: for the beaches, and she was initially nervous and hesitant
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Speaker 1: about the trip, stating her fear of heights and being
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Speaker 1: so high up and the open ocean, and who could
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Speaker 1: blame her? Honestly, the ocean's terrifying, However, she pushed through
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Speaker 1: these emotions despite her fears, excited that her little brother
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Speaker 1: Brad was visiting from college and would be joining along
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Speaker 1: with the whole family, because this.
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Speaker 2: Family was very close and they loved to do stuff together.
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Speaker 1: So finally, on March twenty first, nineteen ninety eight, they
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Speaker 1: would board the ship, the Rhapsody of the Seas. And
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Speaker 1: this ship was massive, so it was fair that Amy
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Speaker 1: had some fears of its height. Sitting at nine hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifteen feet long and one hundred and five feet
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Speaker 1: wide and standing at around twelve decks tall, the ship
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Speaker 1: towered over the sea and with a capacity of around
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Speaker 1: twenty four hundred guests and a crew of over seven hundred,
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Speaker 1: she was an absolute giant beast with a beautiful interior
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Speaker 1: to explore. And before boarding, Amy bought a couple of
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Speaker 1: postcards and the Bradleys brought around a dozen rolls of
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Speaker 1: film to document their trip, and Amy also had a
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Speaker 1: use for it, and that was taking pictures to apply
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Speaker 1: for a photo contest. So finally, with everybody packed up
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Speaker 1: onto the ship with horns blazing, they pulled away from
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Speaker 1: the dock and headed to the open sea, and the
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Speaker 1: mood was up and the cruise was set in motion,
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Speaker 1: and days one and two were supposedly spent getting to
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Speaker 1: know the cruise ship, enjoying the amenities and enjoying each
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Speaker 1: other's company, and by day three, March twenty third, was
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Speaker 1: a stop in Aruba where they rented a vehicle and
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Speaker 1: took tons of pictures and they had conversations with their
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Speaker 1: family about what they were going to do the next
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Speaker 1: day in Kurso. Once they arrived and after finally returning
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Speaker 1: to the boat as the sun began to set, they
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Speaker 1: headed back to their rooms to change for the evening,
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Speaker 1: and that night was a dinner and a formal night
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Speaker 1: where the family would enjoy a nice dinner and a
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Speaker 1: late night band named Blue Orchid, and the crew was
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Speaker 1: very very chummy with Amy, with the photographer even taking
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Speaker 1: a picture with Amy and later with her brother, mistaking
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Speaker 1: them for a couple, and according to Amy's family, the
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Speaker 1: white staff was very attentive to Amy, so much so
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Speaker 1: that they were making jokes about how if anybody needed anything,
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Speaker 1: they should tell the staff that Amy needed something specifically.
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Speaker 1: So after dinner, the family returned to their room and
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Speaker 1: changed back into some normal clothing before heading to the
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Speaker 1: pool deck for a night of activities because there was
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Speaker 1: a whole dancing under the stars event with limbo and
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Speaker 1: music and just good vibes. And at around one am,
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Speaker 1: the parents decided to go back to the room and
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Speaker 1: told Amy and Brad good night, and Amy and Brad
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Speaker 1: just continued to party, listening to music and having drinks
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Speaker 1: for a couple of more hours.
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Speaker 2: So Brad would return to the room first.
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Speaker 1: At three thirty five am, and the ship's computerized door
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Speaker 1: lock system recorded what time as well, and then it
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Speaker 1: recorded Amy returning just five minutes later. So they both
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Speaker 1: hung out on the balcony of their room, finishing their
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Speaker 1: drinks and talking about the next day and that. According
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Speaker 1: to their conversation, Amy stated that a man had actually
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Speaker 1: made a physical pass at her, the bass player in
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Speaker 1: the band named Alistair Yellow Douglas, but it wasn't a
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Speaker 1: big deal to her. So after a few more minutes,
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Speaker 1: Brad headed back into the room to get some sleep
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Speaker 1: for the early day tomorrow, and Amy, feeling slightly sick,
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Speaker 1: decided to spend some more time on the balcony to
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Speaker 1: get some fresh air. So at around five thirty am,
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Speaker 1: her father Ron awoke and saw Brad asleep and then
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Speaker 1: he glanced out the window to see his daughter Amy's
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Speaker 1: legs on the lounge chair on the balcony, so believing
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Speaker 1: she was safe, he drifted back to sleep, so that
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Speaker 1: at six am, Ron woke up again and again he
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Speaker 1: looked outside, but this time Amy was missing, and he
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Speaker 1: noticed the door was cracked open about twelve to fourteen inches,
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Speaker 1: and her cigarettes were now gone, and her shirt was
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Speaker 1: draped over a chair inside the room, so her father,
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Speaker 1: looking at the obvious clues, thought she had changed her
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Speaker 1: clothes and left the room to get coffee or take pictures.
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Speaker 1: As they were pulling into port, and Ron decided to
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Speaker 1: get up and leave the room as well to allow
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Speaker 1: the rest of the family to continue to sleep. So
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Speaker 1: then he would just naturally begin to kind of look
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Speaker 1: around for Amy on the ship, thinking he'd spot her
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Speaker 1: in a few minutes, but he couldn't, so Ron would
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Speaker 1: hurry back to the room to wake up Iva, his wife,
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Speaker 1: stating that he could not find Amy anywhere, so they
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Speaker 1: both got up and left the room and headed to
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Speaker 1: the front desk to get some help. So the family
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Speaker 1: contacted the front desk and had Brent Hunter, the guest
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Speaker 1: relations manager, notified and At this point, the family was
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Speaker 1: very concerned and forceful in their questions about what he
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Speaker 1: could do for them, and one of these demands was
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Speaker 1: a shipwide voice page to inform everyone of their missing daughter,
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Speaker 1: you know, bottom of the barrel type of thing you
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Speaker 1: can do to look for someone that's missing. But the
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Speaker 1: manager would explain that, due to the time being seven
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Speaker 1: in the morning, they would not do that, and his
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Speaker 1: raisoning was that it could be seen as intrusive to
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Speaker 1: the rest of the guests, and he then said that
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Speaker 1: he thinks they've had a good look around and should
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Speaker 1: keep looking for around thirty minutes or more and if
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Speaker 1: they still couldn't find her, to return to him where
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Speaker 1: he would get the security officer, and Amy's family would
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Speaker 1: beg them not to let anyone off of the boat,
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Speaker 1: because if something did happen to Amy, she might potentially
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Speaker 1: disappear under their noses, but the staff said the show
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Speaker 1: must go on and they could not do that. And
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Speaker 1: in the Netflix documentary Kirk and Dettweiler, the ship's cruise
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Speaker 1: director stated that just because a girl was missing doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean he should stop twenty four hundred paying guests from
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Speaker 1: getting off, which is horrible to even fathom that one
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Speaker 1: person's life isn't more important than twenty four hundred other
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Speaker 1: people's brief comfort, so they weren't helping. And at nine am,
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Speaker 1: after she had been missing now for three hours, the
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Speaker 1: ship crew finally did a large search, so they sent
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Speaker 1: the family back to their room to wait until they
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Speaker 1: had searched the entire ship, and after they did search
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Speaker 1: every inch of the ship, the captain arrived at the
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Speaker 1: room informing the family that their daughter was nowhere to
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Speaker 1: be seen, and the crew's beliefs were that she jumped
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Speaker 1: over the railing or had fallen off the boat with
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Speaker 1: no evidence, by the way, that's just what they said,
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Speaker 1: but concerned, the ship contacted the local authorities on Curoso,
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Speaker 1: and one of those people was the chief of the
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Speaker 1: island police at Zir John Mentor, and he and his
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Speaker 1: team stated it was the biggest search they had ever
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Speaker 1: had with helicopters and boats, so marines, navy, and.
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Speaker 2: The Curroso Coast Guard were all searching.
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Speaker 1: A large area near the area where she could have
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Speaker 1: been if she had fallen off or had jumped off,
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Speaker 1: just hoping that something would turn up. So they waited
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Speaker 1: and assumed that Eventually, if she had drowned, her body
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Speaker 1: would wash on shore, even sharks don't fully eat a body,
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Speaker 1: and at the very least they would find a piece
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Speaker 1: of her clothing, hand or a foot, just anything. But
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Speaker 1: nothing turned up, and afterward the cruise director gave the
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Speaker 1: all clear to continue to set sail despite what had occurred,
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Speaker 1: stating the show must go on. In the documentary, it
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Speaker 1: just completely paints him as a villain in all of this,
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Speaker 1: just a complete disregard for human life, and he definitely
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Speaker 1: do not like him in this documentary, But of course
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Speaker 1: he would be on the cruise ships side to save
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Speaker 1: face and keep that sweet paycheck.
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Speaker 2: Going, because that's all that matters.
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Speaker 1: Right wrong, Because what many people forget is that the
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Speaker 1: open seat is lawless. They're open waters without borders, so
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Speaker 1: you are outside of the law technically speaking, and the
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Speaker 1: only semblance of security is the hired cruise paid security team,
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Speaker 1: which fearfully is going to look out for the cruise
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Speaker 1: ship's best interest first and foremost, which is a huge
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Speaker 1: conflict of interest on the waters. So a ship unwilling
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Speaker 1: to stop everything and serve for a missing person with
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Speaker 1: the mindset of keeping things running smoothly, in the interest
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Speaker 1: of money and saving.
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Speaker 2: Face is just awful.
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Speaker 1: So the fact that the cruise line decided not to
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Speaker 1: make a shipwide announcement until a majority of the people
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Speaker 1: had already left the boat is widely considered to be
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Speaker 1: the biggest mistake in her disappearance, and honestly I completely agree.
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Speaker 1: But finally, the FBI field office out of Saint Thomas
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Speaker 1: would be notified about the incident, and a woman by
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Speaker 1: the name of Aaron Sheridan, not to be confused with
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Speaker 1: Amy's best friend, was notified of the situation very vaguely,
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Speaker 1: and another member of the team, Victor mccollin, was also
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Speaker 1: part of the task force. So March twenty sixth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety eight, two days after Amy's disappearance, the FBI team
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Speaker 1: flew from Saint Thomas to Saint Martin. But the problem
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Speaker 1: at Saint Martin is that the cruise ship do not
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Speaker 1: dock on the island and the only way onto the
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Speaker 1: ship is to be brought by a dinghy. So the
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Speaker 1: dinghys picked up the FBI team and drove them over
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Speaker 1: to the boat, and once they had landed on the
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Speaker 1: ship and spoken to the captain, he informed them of
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Speaker 1: the Bay six of what was going on, stating that
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Speaker 1: Amy had disappeared from the balcony, so they made their
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Speaker 1: way to the room that the Bradley slept in. However,
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Speaker 1: the biggest problem they noticed was that the room was
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Speaker 1: not locked down as a potential crime scene. Instead, the
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Speaker 1: room had been cleaned. Are you kidding me? So any
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Speaker 1: evidence that could have been left behind was completely gone
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Speaker 1: since the staff decided to clean the room like nothing
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Speaker 1: had happened, So fingerprints, fibers from the sheets, and any
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Speaker 1: DNA that could have been available were wiped up and
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Speaker 1: vacuumed or thrown out, so the only evidence left behind
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Speaker 1: were her shoes neatly put together on the balcony, and
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Speaker 1: the FBI did notice that the railing to the ship
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Speaker 1: was quite high and for a five to six woman
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Speaker 1: would still be noticeably tall. But unfortunately, now the ship
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Speaker 1: has gone through many makeovers, so this photo was not
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Speaker 1: the actual room of the time or railing, but it
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Speaker 1: is very close, so the only questionable piece of evidence
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Speaker 1: that she could have jumped from the balcony would be
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Speaker 1: from the t pole pushed close against the railings glass. However,
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Speaker 1: the FBI linked that due to the cleaning staff moving
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Speaker 1: things around instead of direct evidence of her actually jumping
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Speaker 1: over the railing, so more questions were left than answered,
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Speaker 1: and the FBI needed to speak to the family to
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Speaker 1: get more information. So the FBI first interviewed the family
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Speaker 1: as a whole and then split them up individually to
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Speaker 1: see if they could draw out any clues or potential suspects. However,
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Speaker 1: after interviews, nothing really stuck, and the family was not
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Speaker 1: on the suspect list for Amy's disappearance. But the FBI
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Speaker 1: weren't just looking for suspects. They were looking to eliminate
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Speaker 1: any possibilities that were unlikely to make this case easier
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Speaker 1: to solve, and the only thing they knew for certain
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Speaker 1: was that Amy entered her room at three forty am
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Speaker 1: and was seen by Ron Bradley at five thirty am,
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Speaker 1: and was gone at six am. So the next step
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Speaker 1: was to talk to anyone else who could have seen
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Speaker 1: Amy that night, and she was partying on the deck,
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Speaker 1: so someone else had to seen her that evening, and
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Speaker 1: if she had left the room between five thirty and
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Speaker 1: six a m. Someone must have seen her. And one
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Speaker 1: passenger by the name of Wayne Britdig a door down
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Speaker 1: from the Bradleys, was questioned, and I've Bradley mentioned that
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Speaker 1: she had seen him on his balcony next to them,
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Speaker 1: frequently leaning over the railing to speak to Amy, and
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Speaker 1: he would talk to her about her schooling and finishing college,
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Speaker 1: just things about her. And they told the FBI that
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Speaker 1: he would go on these cruises himself, never taking anyone
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Speaker 1: with him, And in the Netflix documentary specifically, they do
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Speaker 1: kind of paint him as someone who was very suspicious,
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Speaker 1: and I don't really personally think it was him. I
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Speaker 1: think he was just a lonely guy being nice and
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Speaker 1: talking to strangers as a lot of people did in
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Speaker 1: the nineties when we weren't looking at our phones. But
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Speaker 1: I don't know, watch it for yourself. But another man
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Speaker 1: would speak up by the name of Chris Fenwick, who
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Speaker 1: was another passenger on the ship, and he had heard
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Speaker 1: gossip around the passengers about a woman going missing, jumping
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Speaker 1: from the boat, either accidental or by her own accord. However,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't until he saw a notice taped to his
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Speaker 1: door labeled Amy Bradley missing, so immediately he recognized the girl.
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Speaker 1: And Chris was a video editor working for a computer
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Speaker 1: company in the San Francisco Bay area, and his job
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Speaker 1: was to edit an almost best of or highlight reel
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Speaker 1: of the fun everyone had on the cruise ship. So,
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Speaker 1: recognizing her face, he goes back through the footage his
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Speaker 1: cameraman recorded and finds her dancing the night away, but
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Speaker 1: she's dancing with someone else, a man that Amy had
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Speaker 1: mentioned to her brother, the bass player known as Yellow.
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Speaker 1: So he had footage of this exact man that Amy
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Speaker 1: had mentioned to her brother dancing that night at the party,
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Speaker 1: and according to his claim, he would later get a
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Speaker 1: phone call from the head of security on the ship
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Speaker 1: asking him for the master footage, and shocked, he answered
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Speaker 1: strictly with a no, no one gets his master footage ever. Instead,
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Speaker 1: he made a small copy and sent it directly to
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Speaker 1: the FBI, because why the ship would want that master
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Speaker 1: footage is odd, seems a little fishy. Sorry about that, punt.
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Speaker 1: I didn't mean to make a pun, but anyway, that
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Speaker 1: is the word of mouth from a single man. So
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Speaker 1: another passenger saw the flyer, a woman by the name
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Speaker 1: of Lori Thompson, and according to her, there weren't many
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Speaker 1: young people on the boat, especially at the party. She
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Speaker 1: recognized Amy from so Amy stood out to her and
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Speaker 1: at the time, Laurie was only eighteen, so hearing Amy's
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Speaker 1: success with her apartment and finishing college, entreat her and
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Speaker 1: after the night of fun, she and her friend decided
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Speaker 1: to go back to the room. However, they weren't tired,
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Speaker 1: so instead they went to the top of the deck
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Speaker 1: to hang out. Between five and six am, and Laurie
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Speaker 1: stated that she saw Amy and a staff member together
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Speaker 1: in the glass elevator and she could see clearly.
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Speaker 2: Due to the glass that it was two people.
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Speaker 1: She recognized Amy and the bass player Yellow, and after
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Speaker 1: about ten to fifty ten minutes, she saw Yellow walk
19:02
Speaker 1: right past them, not a glance or a word, and
19:05
Speaker 1: she found that odd since during the time at the
19:08
Speaker 1: nightclub he was way chattier with them. So Douglas was
19:12
Speaker 1: seemingly a suspect, but unfortunately, being in international waters, you
19:16
Speaker 1: can't detain anyone. So the FBI got an interview with
19:20
Speaker 1: him and even a polygraph test, and he admitted to
19:23
Speaker 1: knowing who she was and flirting with her, but her
19:25
Speaker 1: disappearance he wouldn't say. And as the cruise was coming
19:29
Speaker 1: to an end, the FBI was going to lose out
19:31
Speaker 1: on all elements of the crime scene people rooms, et cetera.
19:35
Speaker 1: And on the sixth day at the cruise, and four
19:38
Speaker 1: days into Amy being missing, they finally docked at Saint
19:41
Speaker 1: Thomas and one of the family's close friends told them
19:44
Speaker 1: to not wait until they docked in Puerto Rico, but
19:47
Speaker 1: to go back home. So finally, after landing, they were
19:50
Speaker 1: greeted by their friends and family, and Iva's mother was
19:53
Speaker 1: there and she began to sob uncontrollably. Naturally, their family
19:57
Speaker 1: was in despair, and after around twenty four days of
20:01
Speaker 1: Amy's disappearance, the father and son returned to Curaso for
20:05
Speaker 1: a press conference and the father ron began to tell
20:08
Speaker 1: the story about what Amy was doing that night, what
20:11
Speaker 1: she was wearing, and how intoxicated she was the night
20:14
Speaker 1: of the party, and eventually they had actually raised a
20:17
Speaker 1: reward for two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, with more
20:20
Speaker 1: and more being raised as the days went by, and
20:23
Speaker 1: her brother continually asked that if someone has her to
20:26
Speaker 1: please just let her go. No questions asked, They just
20:30
Speaker 1: wanted her returned home safely, and Iva her mother was destroyed,
20:36
Speaker 1: so she stayed home, manning the phones and tip lines
20:39
Speaker 1: and hotlines contacting embassies the media, anyone and everyone who
20:43
Speaker 1: could help. So as the news was being spread around
20:46
Speaker 1: with phone numbers and Amy's face plastered on newspapers and
20:49
Speaker 1: posters and curaso, and as Ron and his son walked
20:52
Speaker 1: out of the press conference lobby, a man approached them
20:55
Speaker 1: and this man stated he recognized that woman holding a
20:59
Speaker 1: flyer in his hand of Amy. All right, let's take
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21:37
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21:39
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21:43
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21:46
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Speaker 1: video and supporting the channel. So this man was named
22:21
Speaker 1: Deshi and he was a taxi driver, and he asked
22:25
Speaker 1: Ron Bradley if he was the woman's father, and agreeing,
22:28
Speaker 1: he apparently told Ron that despite what everyone was saying,
22:32
Speaker 1: she did not jump, and she did not fall, and
22:35
Speaker 1: she was not pushed off of the boat. She was
22:37
Speaker 1: there on the island and he had seen her, and
22:41
Speaker 1: according to the man, she had approached his taxi acting frantic,
22:44
Speaker 1: and he would tell Ron that she was wearing a
22:46
Speaker 1: white top with the jeans, staring at him with her
22:49
Speaker 1: bright green eyes, and she asked him where she could
22:52
Speaker 1: use a phone, to which he pointed toward the direction
22:55
Speaker 1: of some that she could use and instead of walking
22:58
Speaker 1: towards them, she went the other and according to the
23:01
Speaker 1: Netflix documentary, he also told them places to look, those
23:05
Speaker 1: including the Coral Cliffs, a resort, and Cado Sheet Cliffs.
23:09
Speaker 1: But he warned them, however, that when you go there,
23:12
Speaker 1: do not speak to anyone and instead just observe your surroundings.
23:17
Speaker 1: So with this news, they met up with someone named
23:19
Speaker 1: Adzir John mentor the man I spoke about previously. The
23:22
Speaker 1: man that talked to Amy from his balcony to her
23:25
Speaker 1: balcony had heard the man's story and was moved, and
23:28
Speaker 1: knowing the Bradleys were not familiar with the island, he
23:31
Speaker 1: joined them on their journey, especially with the areas they
23:33
Speaker 1: were going to, they may get attacked.
23:36
Speaker 2: And it was not a shock that the.
23:37
Speaker 1: Areas they were going to were going to be dangerous
23:40
Speaker 1: with close proximity to Venezuela, and it comes as no
23:42
Speaker 1: surprise that there is drug trafficking pros and even sad
23:48
Speaker 1: thing and the areas were beachfronts, so things could be
23:51
Speaker 1: moved from land to sea quickly and be gone without
23:54
Speaker 1: a trace, similar to Amy Lynne Bradley. So after looking
23:58
Speaker 1: around town for a while and the bo of confidence
24:00
Speaker 1: from the taxi driver, they returned home and contacted America's
24:04
Speaker 1: most wanted so six months into her disappearance, in August
24:08
Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety eight, a man decided to go on
24:10
Speaker 1: a diving trip in Curroso. And this man went by
24:14
Speaker 1: the name of David Carmichael, and he was in Porto Marie,
24:17
Speaker 1: a place that was popular with locals more than travelers visiting,
24:21
Speaker 1: at least at the time. According to Carmichael, so it'd
24:24
Speaker 1: be very rare to actually visit this part of Curaso
24:28
Speaker 1: by accident, at least rare to visit for someone who
24:31
Speaker 1: isn't diving. And he knew the reefs were large and
24:34
Speaker 1: beautiful and the water was still warm at this diving depth,
24:37
Speaker 1: so it was a perfect place for a dive with
24:39
Speaker 1: plenty of wildlife to explore. So after a day of diving,
24:43
Speaker 1: he and his team surfaced and returned to the beach,
24:45
Speaker 1: and there they began to wash their equipment. But coming
24:48
Speaker 1: down the beach, Carmichael looked up and saw a group
24:51
Speaker 1: of three people walking towards him. And these three people
24:54
Speaker 1: were a man, a woman, and another man who looked
24:57
Speaker 1: like a local from the island. One closer inspection, he
25:01
Speaker 1: noticed a tattoo of a Tasmanian devil, the cartoonish one, specifically,
25:06
Speaker 1: the actual tattoo is actually Dizzy Devil, which is a
25:09
Speaker 1: younger purple Tasmanian devil from the Warner Brothers cartoon. So
25:14
Speaker 1: as he's standing there, the woman with the tattoo begins
25:17
Speaker 1: to approach him, almost as if she's going to say something.
25:20
Speaker 1: But before she can approach, the man with her cuts
25:23
Speaker 1: in front of her and then stares Carmichael down, and
25:26
Speaker 1: he says, without that stare down, he wouldn't have thought
25:29
Speaker 1: anything of it that day. And there wasn't a word
25:31
Speaker 1: from him, just this really mean stadown before the man
25:35
Speaker 1: ushered the mystery woman away to the beach bar, and
25:38
Speaker 1: after he was slightly confused and thought something was off,
25:42
Speaker 1: but paid no attention to it other than some strange
25:45
Speaker 1: beach goers. And Carmichael states that he only recognized Amy
25:48
Speaker 1: after seeing her photo on America's Most Wanted, but unfortunately,
25:53
Speaker 1: after realizing who he had seen, months had passed and
25:56
Speaker 1: it was already December, and he would later state that
25:59
Speaker 1: he is quote unquote haunted by that encounter with Amy,
26:03
Speaker 1: and I know it was her, and also that wasn't
26:07
Speaker 1: the only fact that he'd recognized. He recognized that the
26:10
Speaker 1: man who took the alleged Amy away also shown on
26:13
Speaker 1: the show Alistair Yellow Douglas, the bass player, and he
26:18
Speaker 1: called and told the FBI his story and what he
26:21
Speaker 1: could remember and all the details, stating that with one
26:24
Speaker 1: hundred percent certainty that was Amy he was on the
26:27
Speaker 1: beach with that day. And later on a man named
26:30
Speaker 1: Bill Hefner full title US Navy Petty Officer William Hefner
26:34
Speaker 1: claimed to have encountered a woman claiming to be Amy Bradley,
26:38
Speaker 1: so the first time someone had a longer conversation with her,
26:41
Speaker 1: and Hefner aboard the USS Chandler stated that his ship
26:45
Speaker 1: had docked in Curaso, supposedly just for the night and
26:49
Speaker 1: to get a feel of the town and have some fun.
26:51
Speaker 1: Hefner went deep into the island to a brothel he
26:54
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be in, and the place had a
26:56
Speaker 1: hotel above and at the front was supposedly a man
27:00
Speaker 1: with a snub nosed thirty eight on his belt, and
27:03
Speaker 1: walking in he watched two guys and two girls come
27:06
Speaker 1: from upstairs with the men armed with guns, and the
27:09
Speaker 1: men split from the women and approached the bar, and
27:12
Speaker 1: Hefner decides to sit with these girls, and one girl
27:15
Speaker 1: was Hispanic, but the other was a white, petite, tattooed girl.
27:20
Speaker 1: So sitting there, the Hispanic girl stood up and walked
27:22
Speaker 1: towards the bar, and immediately the white woman turned to him,
27:25
Speaker 1: stating that she is being held against her will, and
27:29
Speaker 1: she allegedly told him she owed two hundred dollars and
27:32
Speaker 1: can't get her freedom unless she pays. And Hefner had
27:35
Speaker 1: heard hundreds of these stories before because he was almost
27:38
Speaker 1: eighteen years into his service and in Singapore and Thailand,
27:42
Speaker 1: he had heard it all. But she would tell him
27:44
Speaker 1: her name in a Southern accent, Amy Bradley, and she
27:48
Speaker 1: told him she left on her own and got off
27:50
Speaker 1: the cruise ship to get drugs, but now she's trapped
27:53
Speaker 1: in this place with those men, the men with guns. However,
27:56
Speaker 1: her story was cut short as the other woman returned
27:59
Speaker 1: to the table, showing that she did not want anyone
28:01
Speaker 1: else to hear, so after he quickly got up and left,
28:04
Speaker 1: stating that because of the guns and the establishment, he
28:07
Speaker 1: didn't want to cause any trouble, and he would later
28:10
Speaker 1: read a magazine and would inform the Bradley family that
28:12
Speaker 1: he recognized the woman in the picture. However, he would
28:15
Speaker 1: inform them years later, in two thousand and two, so
28:20
Speaker 1: it's extremely unfortunate that he didn't say anything sooner or
28:24
Speaker 1: report it, because apparently, with his military career and being
28:28
Speaker 1: a couple years from retirement, he could have lost his
28:31
Speaker 1: rank or worse, be kicked out, so he was too
28:34
Speaker 1: afraid to speak up about it. And the FBI took
28:37
Speaker 1: him in and interviewed him, showing him pictures of Yellow Douglas,
28:41
Speaker 1: but he didn't recognize him, and they even put him
28:44
Speaker 1: on a lie detector test, which means nothing nowadays. But
28:47
Speaker 1: it wasn't shown that he was lying, and he had
28:50
Speaker 1: valid conviction that it was indeed Amy Bradley that he
28:53
Speaker 1: saw and spoke to, and he had no reason to
28:56
Speaker 1: lie and no reason for the reward if they didn't
28:59
Speaker 1: find her, so there was nothing to really gain. However,
29:02
Speaker 1: things weren't really adding up because why would Amy want
29:06
Speaker 1: to score a drug deal and then owe people money.
29:09
Speaker 1: It just seemed unlikely, but it was not out of
29:12
Speaker 1: the question for the family. But I don't think it's
29:15
Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibility. That this guy Yellow
29:18
Speaker 1: the bass player, would tell her that he could get
29:20
Speaker 1: her drugs on the island, and then she could have
29:22
Speaker 1: been kidnapped on the island. I don't see how that
29:24
Speaker 1: isn't a valid theory. But another story not mentioned in
29:27
Speaker 1: the Netflix documentary specifically happened in San Francisco, California, and
29:31
Speaker 1: the woman was watching a street musician with two men
29:34
Speaker 1: nearby in April of two thousand and three, and allegedly
29:37
Speaker 1: she walked up and in front of the woman, stating
29:40
Speaker 1: she recognized her, and immediately the two men seized the
29:43
Speaker 1: Bradley looking woman and fled the scene, and supposedly the
29:46
Speaker 1: woman gave a pleading look while being taken away, and later,
29:50
Speaker 1: after informing the FBI, they would provide sketches matching the
29:53
Speaker 1: descriptions of the alleged men for the general public to
29:56
Speaker 1: help spot.
29:57
Speaker 2: And this seems very far.
29:59
Speaker 1: Fetched, but the FBI sketched the men regardless and added
30:02
Speaker 1: them to the database. However, the big reveal of what
30:06
Speaker 1: I think is the most important portion of the story
30:08
Speaker 1: and the most likely outcome was what happened after this.
30:12
Speaker 1: So in two thousand and five, the Bradleys would open
30:15
Speaker 1: their email and open an attachment with a series of photos,
30:19
Speaker 1: and among these photos was someone scantily dressed. It was
30:23
Speaker 1: a woman lying on a bed, and upon closer inspection
30:26
Speaker 1: and to their horror, the woman looked oddly familiar. And
30:30
Speaker 1: these photos supposedly came from a website used for tourists
30:34
Speaker 1: to meet for free sex or engage with problems, and
30:38
Speaker 1: the woman in the photo looked eerily like their daughter, Amy,
30:42
Speaker 1: and the photos were of this woman clearly posed and
30:46
Speaker 1: uncomfortable looking in minimal clothing.
30:48
Speaker 2: So the family.
30:49
Speaker 1: Naturally was horrified, and the FBI would do forensic analysis
30:53
Speaker 1: on this photo and came to the conclusion that it
30:56
Speaker 1: was highly likely that this was Amy Bradley, and their
31:00
Speaker 1: family stated that this was something she would never do
31:03
Speaker 1: unless it was against her will, and that photo made
31:05
Speaker 1: it seem like the case because Amy, as we know,
31:09
Speaker 1: liked women, and these websites were made with men in mind.
31:13
Speaker 1: So with this horrifying knowledge, they went on Doctor Phil
31:16
Speaker 1: with the evidence to spread the news to anyone who
31:18
Speaker 1: would possibly watch the video, and in the episode, Doctor
31:22
Speaker 1: Phil shares the photo of supposedly Amy Bradley from this
31:25
Speaker 1: website and he showed some of the photos provided and
31:28
Speaker 1: compared them to others, specifying that cheekbones, ears, and chin
31:32
Speaker 1: shapes don't change dramatically enough throughout your lifetime. So with
31:36
Speaker 1: that knowledge, you could compare two different photographs to see
31:39
Speaker 1: if they were the same person. But sadly, it almost
31:42
Speaker 1: seemed like she was positioned in a way to hide
31:44
Speaker 1: the areas where she had tattoos because these identifying markers
31:48
Speaker 1: would open the petution operation in half. So it makes
31:52
Speaker 1: sense if this were Amy, they would position her in
31:55
Speaker 1: that way. So after this episode aired, a woman claimed
31:59
Speaker 1: that she remembered the face of the missing woman from
32:02
Speaker 1: a trip just a few months before the air showed.
32:04
Speaker 1: So in March of two thousand and five, in Bridgetown, Barbados,
32:08
Speaker 1: Judy Marr claims she saw a woman whom she believed
32:12
Speaker 1: to be Amy Bradley, and she was on a cruise
32:14
Speaker 1: just as Amy Bradley was with her family. However, one
32:18
Speaker 1: of her stops was in Barbados and she was out
32:21
Speaker 1: shopping with her husband, exploring the town, hoping to bring
32:24
Speaker 1: back some souvenirs for her family back home, and after
32:27
Speaker 1: exploring a shop, she told her husband that she didn't
32:29
Speaker 1: really want anything, so he suggested they head back to
32:32
Speaker 1: the ship, but first she wanted to use the restroom,
32:34
Speaker 1: so not even three or four minutes passed before she
32:36
Speaker 1: hears men at the door talking speaking to someone and saying,
32:41
Speaker 1: the deal's at eleven o'clock and I'm warning you you
32:44
Speaker 1: better be ready to go, and she thought maybe a
32:47
Speaker 1: drug deal possibly, but something definitely illegal. And he also
32:51
Speaker 1: stated that she better be all set to go, and
32:54
Speaker 1: don't try to leave or do anything because we're going
32:57
Speaker 1: to be outside waiting and watching all night. And the
33:00
Speaker 1: woman then asked, quote could we stop and see the
33:03
Speaker 1: children unquote, And then all of a sudden, the men
33:06
Speaker 1: left the breastroom. Outside the stall was a woman still
33:09
Speaker 1: in the bathroom with long dark hair that was a
33:12
Speaker 1: bit messy or quote unquote crazy, and she looked disturbed,
33:16
Speaker 1: almost like she was crying. So walking over to the sink,
33:20
Speaker 1: Mar began washing her hands and saying hello to her,
33:23
Speaker 1: and she asked if she was also on vacation, but
33:26
Speaker 1: the woman shook her head and said no, And she
33:28
Speaker 1: asked if she lived there, and this time there was
33:30
Speaker 1: no response, so she asked what her name was, and
33:34
Speaker 1: she told her Amy, with a southern accent. So Mar
33:38
Speaker 1: kept giving her small talk, talking about how she actually
33:40
Speaker 1: had a daughter with the same name as her, But
33:43
Speaker 1: then the woman seemingly Amy, got in her face and
33:46
Speaker 1: backing her into a wall, So mar realizing that she
33:49
Speaker 1: didn't want to talk anymore, said she hoped she has
33:51
Speaker 1: a good day, and she shuffled out of the door. However,
33:54
Speaker 1: behind the door, a man blocked her exit and she
33:57
Speaker 1: inched past him, telling him to excuse her or before
34:00
Speaker 1: returning to her husband. And this whole time, the woman
34:03
Speaker 1: potentially Amy did not move with her back to the exit,
34:07
Speaker 1: completely motionless, seemingly scared, and after returning, he made a
34:11
Speaker 1: comment saying that she had been gone a while, and
34:14
Speaker 1: Mara tells her husband that there's something going on with
34:17
Speaker 1: a woman in there, and that there is a man
34:19
Speaker 1: forcing her to do something she clearly doesn't want to do,
34:22
Speaker 1: but for some reason, they do nothing about it and
34:25
Speaker 1: head back to the cruise ship and get food. However,
34:27
Speaker 1: that memory stuck a country accent woman named Amy, and
34:32
Speaker 1: it wasn't until the Doctor Phil show aired that she
34:35
Speaker 1: called the FBI, and without any doubt in her mind,
34:38
Speaker 1: the woman from the photo was the girl she saw
34:40
Speaker 1: in the bathroom that day, and the FBI would investigate
34:43
Speaker 1: this claim and visit Barbados. However, the store had no
34:46
Speaker 1: cameras and no one recognized the story. But this begs
34:49
Speaker 1: the question did Amy have children now and is that
34:53
Speaker 1: why she mentioned something about children to the man in
34:56
Speaker 1: the bathroom? Well, no one knows, and they would hit
35:00
Speaker 1: a dead.
35:00
Speaker 2: End yet again.
35:02
Speaker 1: But the FBI would make sketches of the descriptions from
35:05
Speaker 1: more to help anyone else who spotted them, and this
35:08
Speaker 1: would be a common theme with a lot of stories,
35:11
Speaker 1: and over the years the family would receive hundreds of tips,
35:14
Speaker 1: some credible and many not. However, some would be downright
35:18
Speaker 1: evil and cruel, and the biggest and probably the most
35:22
Speaker 1: awful story was a supposedly promising lead that led to
35:25
Speaker 1: a brick wall and just more problems. The Bradley family
35:29
Speaker 1: was familiar with troll emails because they would receive fake
35:33
Speaker 1: tips frequently, with people constantly harassing them with fake coordinates
35:37
Speaker 1: of where she was last seen that she was never
35:39
Speaker 1: going to be found, or even ones as brutal as
35:42
Speaker 1: they'd murdered her with a hatchet. Just horrible, evil human beings.
35:48
Speaker 1: But the most horrifying email they received was from someone
35:52
Speaker 1: named Frank Jones.
35:53
Speaker 2: And this was very early into her disappearance, mind you,
35:57
Speaker 2: all the way back in the fall of nineteen ninety nine.
36:00
Speaker 1: And the man claimed to be a former US Army
36:02
Speaker 1: Special Forces officer with a team of ex Army Rangers
36:05
Speaker 1: and ex Navy Seals, and he and his team claimed
36:08
Speaker 1: that Amy was in danger and they had seen her
36:11
Speaker 1: held hostage in a heavily armed Columbian housing complex that
36:14
Speaker 1: was surrounded in barbed wire like something straight out of
36:17
Speaker 1: a movie.
36:18
Speaker 2: And the team gave.
36:19
Speaker 1: An accurate description of Amy's tattoos and even the lullaby
36:22
Speaker 1: that Ivy used to sing to her down to the line.
36:25
Speaker 1: And this tip came from a cook named Judith Margaritha
36:28
Speaker 1: who claimed to know exactly where she was. So with
36:31
Speaker 1: this knowledge, they had no doubt in their minds that
36:33
Speaker 1: he was telling the truth. But unfortunately, these US Navy
36:37
Speaker 1: Army people weren't gonna stick their necks out on the
36:40
Speaker 1: line to guns some kidnappers down to save the day
36:43
Speaker 1: unless they brought in some inside help. So the Bradleys
36:46
Speaker 1: informed the FBI on the tip, but the team just
36:49
Speaker 1: couldn't wait, so after months of back and forth and hoping,
36:53
Speaker 1: the FBI would respond and find something. Frank Jones said
36:57
Speaker 1: they were out of time and if they wanted to
36:59
Speaker 1: attend to rescue, they would need money stat So at
37:03
Speaker 1: the time, the reward money from the Bradleys had reached
37:05
Speaker 1: over two hundred thousand dollars thanks to the National Missing
37:08
Speaker 1: Children's Organization and lots of donors, and they sent this
37:12
Speaker 1: money to Frank to attempt the mission. But unfortunately, the
37:17
Speaker 1: Bradleys did not receive a callback from Frank because Frank
37:21
Speaker 1: Jones was a scammer and he had stole that over
37:24
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars from the Bradleys during a time
37:28
Speaker 1: in which they were just trying to find their daughter.
37:31
Speaker 1: Just a purely evil human being. And it wasn't until
37:34
Speaker 1: February of two thousand and two that federal prosecutors would
37:37
Speaker 1: charge him in defrauding the Bradleys of over twenty four
37:40
Speaker 1: thousand dollars of their own money and one hundred and
37:42
Speaker 1: eighty six thousand, four hundred and sixteen dollars from the
37:45
Speaker 1: National Missing Children's Organization. But with many credible sighting spanning years,
37:50
Speaker 1: the disappearance began to form a picture, one that is
37:54
Speaker 1: very disturbing and several theories would emerge, each with its
37:58
Speaker 1: own evidence and its own problems. Let's take a moment
38:02
Speaker 1: to a little break, if you will, to talk about
38:04
Speaker 1: something I adore, and that is my kitty cats. And
38:06
Speaker 1: although I love my cats, they have been absolutely unhinged
38:10
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Speaker 1: One theory is accidental death or falling overboard. The evidence
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Speaker 1: of the room showed a table pressed up against the railing,
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Speaker 1: and although the railing was high, she had a bit
39:34
Speaker 1: to drink and with her intoxication she could have fallen
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Speaker 1: off the railing and also ron Her father last saw
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Speaker 1: her at five thirty am, then at six am she
39:44
Speaker 1: vanished and the last place he saw her was on
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Speaker 1: the balcony, then gone. And lots of people think this
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Speaker 1: is the outcome, but no one reported hearing or seeing
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Speaker 1: her fall, making the scenario improbable at most, especially since
39:57
Speaker 1: the distance to the shore was not far, especially for
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Speaker 1: in experienced swimmer. So this is seen as the most likely,
40:04
Speaker 1: but I don't personally believe this to be the case,
40:08
Speaker 1: especially since the cruise ship immediately believes this is the
40:11
Speaker 1: only possibility that makes me extremely suspicious, and also if
40:16
Speaker 1: it wasn't an accident or by her own hand, no
40:20
Speaker 1: evidence points to her wanting to jump off anything. And
40:24
Speaker 1: I think the worst thing people point to is the
40:27
Speaker 1: jawbone found in twenty ten on the beaches of Aruba,
40:30
Speaker 1: and it was thought to belong to another woman by
40:33
Speaker 1: the name of Natalie Holloway, who had also gone missing,
40:36
Speaker 1: but it didn't belong to her according to testing, and
40:39
Speaker 1: no DNA testing was done to connect her to Bradley,
40:42
Speaker 1: but it most likely belonged to a Caucasian woman. But
40:45
Speaker 1: that is a stretch beyond a stretch. But another belief
40:49
Speaker 1: or possibility was foul play on the ship, because could
40:53
Speaker 1: someone have wanted her gone And one belief was that
40:56
Speaker 1: she was smuggled off of the ship, maybe through a
40:59
Speaker 1: suit case, and she was tiny enough to fit in
41:02
Speaker 1: a bag, but she wouldn't have gone willingly, so could
41:06
Speaker 1: she have been drugged? And some people believe this goes
41:09
Speaker 1: way further than justin Douglas, but the entire staff on
41:13
Speaker 1: the cruise ship and I did state that you are
41:15
Speaker 1: technically on a floating island. You may be a resident
41:18
Speaker 1: of the United States, but the president of the boat
41:21
Speaker 1: is the captain and he makes the final rules, which
41:24
Speaker 1: is terrifying. Won't be catching me on a cruise ship
41:26
Speaker 1: in my entire life. So could the ship and crew
41:29
Speaker 1: have been associated with a criminal gang. They were very
41:33
Speaker 1: chummy with Amy the entire night, only a couple days
41:36
Speaker 1: into the trip, which is odd, and this was to
41:39
Speaker 1: the point where she actually felt a bit uncomfortable. But
41:42
Speaker 1: at minimum, we know the ship and crew is going
41:44
Speaker 1: to take the side of the billion dollar corporation, and
41:48
Speaker 1: the first people a cruise ship calls when something goes
41:50
Speaker 1: wrong are their lawyers. They're lawyers, not the police or
41:55
Speaker 1: FEDS to come and help them. So I feel like
41:58
Speaker 1: this would be the way to get someone off of
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Speaker 1: the boat, especially since someone dragging a suitcase off a
42:03
Speaker 1: boat would seem suspicious. And if this is the case,
42:07
Speaker 1: it falls into the next theory, which is human trafficking.
42:11
Speaker 1: Because Amy was an attractive young woman who was fresh
42:14
Speaker 1: out of university, she was a prime target for human traffickers,
42:18
Speaker 1: especially someone so far away from home. A fact I've
42:22
Speaker 1: stated in the documentary was that before she disappeared in Aruba,
42:26
Speaker 1: the staff wanted to take Amy off the ship to
42:28
Speaker 1: go to a place called Carlos and Charlie's, And creepily enough,
42:33
Speaker 1: this bar was a place where another woman, Natalie Holloway,
42:36
Speaker 1: which I can absolutely cover, also went missing in two
42:40
Speaker 1: thousand and five, and that is a whole other story,
42:42
Speaker 1: and I honestly I will cover that story as well.
42:45
Speaker 1: But to happen at the exact place where she was
42:48
Speaker 1: invited by herself is suspicious. And the statist piece of evidence,
42:53
Speaker 1: as well as the eyewitness accounts, was the pictures of
42:56
Speaker 1: this mysterious woman from the Doctor phil show. Because the
42:59
Speaker 1: FBI even and says that most likely these photos could
43:02
Speaker 1: be photos of Amy, and they saw her in the
43:04
Speaker 1: basic locations from which she disappeared, and they allegedly heard
43:08
Speaker 1: her name from her directly.
43:10
Speaker 2: It's just a weird coincidence.
43:12
Speaker 1: If there are other Amys at these places with a
43:15
Speaker 1: country accent, and lastly, the photos that look remarkably similar
43:19
Speaker 1: to her, because I feel like, of all these theories,
43:21
Speaker 1: this is the most likely because lots of people go
43:24
Speaker 1: missing in these areas for these exact reasons, and the
43:28
Speaker 1: island is outside of jurisdiction, and since most people don't
43:32
Speaker 1: know the island very well, it's easy to smuggle people out,
43:35
Speaker 1: which is horrifying to think about, not to mention, if
43:39
Speaker 1: she actually had children now, she would probably be less
43:43
Speaker 1: likely to leave them behind. This theory, I personally think
43:47
Speaker 1: is the most plausible, but let me know what you
43:50
Speaker 1: guys think down below. And some people also think that
43:52
Speaker 1: if she is still alive and out there, they believe
43:55
Speaker 1: that she might be suffering from Stockholm syndrome and this
43:59
Speaker 1: would explain why after so many years, if she is
44:01
Speaker 1: still alive she doesn't want to come home, or again,
44:04
Speaker 1: if she has children, she wouldn't want to leave them
44:07
Speaker 1: because maybe they have threatened to hurt the children if
44:09
Speaker 1: she leaves, or just It's all heartbreaking, but at the
44:12
Speaker 1: end of the day, every theory is devastating, and we
44:16
Speaker 1: are still left with an open case and a woman
44:20
Speaker 1: is still missing and the official case is open. However,
44:23
Speaker 1: Amuln Bradley was declared legally dead on March twenty fourth,
44:28
Speaker 1: twenty ten, and this would be twelve years after she
44:31
Speaker 1: had disappeared, with no witnesses and nobody found. However, with
44:36
Speaker 1: the Netflix documentary being released in twenty twenty five, lots
44:39
Speaker 1: of talks, websites and forums have begun to pop up
44:43
Speaker 1: again talking about her, and the case is still being
44:45
Speaker 1: investigated again all over the world with people interested in
44:50
Speaker 1: her story. And I think the Netflix documentary helped her
44:53
Speaker 1: get her name back out there to the next generation
44:56
Speaker 1: of curious people. And at the very least, her family
44:58
Speaker 1: is still looking and open to any information to this day,
45:02
Speaker 1: so if you have any information, please contact the FBI.
45:06
Speaker 1: And one man by the name of Anthony Willis in
45:08
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen created a website for all information about Amy
45:12
Speaker 1: to be posted to called Amy Bradley is Missing dot com.
45:16
Speaker 1: And an interesting development happened with this website that they
45:19
Speaker 1: found out as well, and according to Willis, he could
45:22
Speaker 1: scrub through all the IP addresses of people who visited
45:25
Speaker 1: the site, so they decided to weaponize it and the
45:28
Speaker 1: Bradley family would post pictures of Amy's dog, old photos,
45:32
Speaker 1: new photos, and more, all in the hope of catching
45:34
Speaker 1: the attention of whoever was going to the website. And
45:37
Speaker 1: in their findings on holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and
45:41
Speaker 1: Iva's birthday, they found IP addresses popping up in Barbados
45:46
Speaker 1: and Curasou and all across that area. And even weirder,
45:50
Speaker 1: someone was staring at the web pages for up to
45:53
Speaker 1: forty five minutes at a time, and this led them
45:56
Speaker 1: to believe that either someone who had kidnapped Amy was
45:59
Speaker 1: watching to see if they'd get caught, or the other reason.
46:03
Speaker 1: Amy was still alive and wasn't coming home. But the
46:06
Speaker 1: family is still looking, hoping for a small tidbit of
46:10
Speaker 1: information to come out and something as small as a
46:13
Speaker 1: single clue would help turn over rocks to find Amy.
46:16
Speaker 1: And her brother went on YouTube livestream Q and AD
46:19
Speaker 1: days after the Netflix documentary came out in twenty twenty five,
46:22
Speaker 1: answering any questions and hoping for any more information people
46:26
Speaker 1: could provide, just raising awareness about his sister who is
46:29
Speaker 1: still missing. And he still posts frequently on x formerly
46:33
Speaker 1: Twitter on his account constantly talking and thinking about his
46:37
Speaker 1: sister Amy, and on the website Amy Bradley is Missing
46:40
Speaker 1: dot com there is a twenty five thousand dollars reward
46:43
Speaker 1: that leads to any information about her. To this day,
46:47
Speaker 1: and according to the Netflix documentary, new information had come
46:51
Speaker 1: out about Amy. And in April of twenty seventeen, nineteen
46:54
Speaker 1: years after Amy disappeared, a message was left at the
46:57
Speaker 1: Bradley household phone. The message was from Amica Douglas, the
47:01
Speaker 1: daughter of Alistair Yellow Douglas, the bass player who were
47:05
Speaker 1: very suspicious about and Amica was born in Saint George's,
47:08
Speaker 1: Granada and she was a daddy's girl who was taken
47:12
Speaker 1: to lots of fun places growing up by her dad,
47:14
Speaker 1: like beaches, his bands, on cruise ships, et cetera. And
47:18
Speaker 1: Amica states that her mother divorced him when she was two,
47:21
Speaker 1: and the reasoning she would tell her was that he
47:23
Speaker 1: did something on a cruise ship. He was on suspicious,
47:28
Speaker 1: something unforgivable, and she should do her own research. But
47:33
Speaker 1: the story goes from her memory that after Yellow had
47:36
Speaker 1: been gone for a while at work on the cruise ship,
47:39
Speaker 1: he came home different, almost cold. He was upset and
47:43
Speaker 1: saying rude things to her, and he apparently returned home
47:46
Speaker 1: with a suitcase, a suitcase full of pictures of women
47:50
Speaker 1: and was all Caucasian women. And when she got older
47:53
Speaker 1: and brought up the question about amy, his reactions were weird,
47:56
Speaker 1: getting upset that she would bring it up. The documentary
48:00
Speaker 1: Alistair Yellow confirms he took pictures and had pictures, but
48:04
Speaker 1: it was with everyone. Yes, there was Caucasian women, but
48:09
Speaker 1: he danced with everyone, took pictures with everyone, but Amica
48:13
Speaker 1: cries and thinks there's something missing in his stories. And
48:16
Speaker 1: the FBI had questioned Alistair Yellow Douglas and voluntarily he
48:20
Speaker 1: took a polygraph test and the FBI released him and
48:23
Speaker 1: didn't charge him with the disappearance of Amy as there
48:26
Speaker 1: was no evidence to hold against him, and sadly enough too,
48:30
Speaker 1: all the way back in nineteen ninety nine, the Bradleys
48:32
Speaker 1: sued Royal Caribbean. However, the lawsuit was dismissed as they
48:37
Speaker 1: stated they acted accordingly and appropriately to the situation. You,
48:42
Speaker 1: Royal Caribbean, you will never get my business. But Amy's
48:45
Speaker 1: family will keep looking and they have not stopped, and
48:48
Speaker 1: they're so hopeful that they still have her car in
48:51
Speaker 1: their garage, shined and primed for when she returns. It
48:55
Speaker 1: just breaks your heart. And I really think talking about
48:58
Speaker 1: these cases constantly and bringing them to light breathes a
49:03
Speaker 1: chance that someone might see it and recognize something. And
49:06
Speaker 1: the most popular Reddit thread on her disappearance is still
49:09
Speaker 1: being discussed within days, weeks, and months, so people are
49:13
Speaker 1: still interested in her case, including myself, So there's always
49:16
Speaker 1: that hope for their families that they'll return home and
49:20
Speaker 1: hopefully that's the case for amy Lynn Bradley. But that
49:23
Speaker 1: is the end of the case of amy Lynn Bradley. Again,
49:26
Speaker 1: if you have any sort of information or tip, please
49:29
Speaker 1: contact the FBI and let me know what other cases
49:32
Speaker 1: you would like me to deep dive into and I
49:34
Speaker 1: will see your beautiful face and the next one. Okay,
49:36
Speaker 1: stay safe, Bye,