Up to this day I'm still confuse why the daughter have to message me and not the family, but I think it's because of one of the thing that I posted in Amy's facebook page about adding Douglas in Facebook. But claims he recognized all of her tattoos. The two chatted before heading to bed. 5", "Con Man Dupes Family in Hunt for Daughter", "Shocking Facts About Amy Lynn Bradley, The Woman Who Disappeared At Sea", "The Disappearance Of Amy Lynn Bradley: Everything We Know", "Wanted by the FBI: Missing Woman Amy Lynn Bradley", "Striking Similarities in Two Disappearances", "Why some say Natalee may still be alive", Casefile True Crime Podcast - Case 59: Amy Lynn Bradley, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley&oldid=1140135889, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 16:59. Over the years, the family has been vigilant in her . Joined by her family - parents, Ron and Iva, and brother, Brad, 21 - she was looking forward to a blissful week sailing around the Caribbean Islands. And today was the first time I had heard the story of Amy, I dont always watch crime stories, because like this story you cant stop thinking of this young girl that went missing since 1998, my heart goes out to the family and of course Amy. The last two people to see Bradley were her father and her brother. Nahtoo far fetched. But they were told it was too early to make a ship-wide announcement, and allowed passengers and staff off when they docked in Curaao regardless. However, this speculation was soon discredited as Amy was known to be a strong swimmer and her body was never found in the waters as well as no evidence of foul play. Why werent the cruise ship members pressed harder during questioning? Interesting. The Bradleys were instructed to fly to Florida to wait for a call from Jones as soon as Amy was recovered. Maurer called authorities and they created composite sketches of three men and the woman based on her account. Ron even remembered an encounter where a waiter asked about Amy because he said the crew wanted to take her to Carlos and Charlies Restaurant when the ship docked in Aruba. That Facebook comment says a lot. PLEASE IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION come forward , Has De Phil ever done a segment on Amy? God Bless Amy's family. I gave up and just started looking at articles and media sources because besides all the deletions, there are so many "facts" in this story that are not substantiated. The 23-year-old college graduate left without her shoes, ID, or any other belongings. It just takes 1 person, the right person to recognize a picture, jog a memory etc. , I went on my first cruise years ago, but it was nothing like that happening. If you are interested if find the earlier stories and go from there. If anyone saw or knows anything, even the smallest detail, the FBI needs to hear from you. What's the latest news in the Ghislaine Maxwell case? Had Amy been taken and sold as a sex slave? The family? There were too many credible sightings after she went missing too so I never bought into the overboard theory and the FBI don't seem to either. 15 talking about this. Partly just playing devil's advocate, but as of late I'm growing more towards the opinion that Amy probably died right at or shortly after her disappearance, rather than the ludicrous idea that her captors kept her working in the sex trade and constantly moving her around and only ever bringing her around with a team of bodyguards. The photographs were observed by a member of an organization that attempts to track victims on sites that feature sex workers. There was another potential sighting in March of 2005 when a witness named Judy Maurer claimed to have seen Bradley in a department store restroom in Barbados. I'm so sick when I read that the Justice Department has more information and even sightings that they NEVER went into, they did not follow them nor did they release it. Unfortunately, the Bradley family was forced to return home without Amy Lynn. If you do a reddit search for "Amy Bradley", you may come across threads where tons of posts have been deleted; Most of those posts were probably from that person. I dont know how long you have followed this case? This family was extorted, miss lead, taken advantage of EVERYTHING YOU COULD IMAGINE. Youre an adult. That same year, seven years after Amys disappearance, came the biggest and most disturbing lead yet. There was no evidence to support the witnesss claim. [10] This theory is supported by various sources of evidence including a key witness from a US Navy Officer[2][3][19] claiming that he heard a worker at a brothel in the Caribbean claiming to be Amy and a 2005 photo that was emailed to Amys family. Alister Douglas was always by far the most likely person to have been involved with Amy's disappearance, in my book. The effort to find her has been a 17-month descent into the abyss of white slavery, full of bizarre twists, false . Paco aka Juan D. de los Santos Perez Frank V. Jones, Jr. served five years in a Virginia prison for the fraud against Amy's family. Dont let anybody off this boat. Tourists in Curaao claimed to have seen a woman resembling her on a beach there with them saying she had the exact same tattoos. Goes to prove that shit is everywhere!! Although the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley did not initially generate the same media response precipitated by other cruise ship disappearances,over time, the baffling circumstancesof her case and repeated accounts of her being sighted throughout the Caribbean have elevated the mystery surrounding her fate to a high-profile incident. Brothel burns down and no one knows who ran it or where they went? I'm the one who posted that comment, I was the one who was able to talk to Douglas' daughter, I was able to get in touch with Amy's family and I already sent all the screenshot of our conversation, In addition they asked me to go the the FBI's website to also send these screenshots as documents to help in Amy's disappearance. Must have gone overboard.last seen on the deckno evidence she left the room. When he woke up again around 6 am, Amy was gone, the only missing items were her cigarettes and a lighter. Brad reported that he and his sister sat on the suites balcony and talked before he went to sleep while Amy stayed awake for a while longer before she fell asleep shortly after. Can you take a moment and listen to this announcement? I pray that the poor soul will be saved from her torment and her family from their pain. Probably the most credible one was by David Carmichael, who was a Canadian diver, who saw Amy on a beach in Curacao with two handlers. A subreddit dedicated to the unresolved mysteries of the world. A witness would subsequently claim to have seen Douglas hand Bradley a dark drink, possibly coffee. You cant tell me that the FBI/CIA or any other agency couldnt find out who owned the brother and where it relocated after the fire. The Bradley family were sent photos of a woman known as Jas looking dazed and dressed in lingerie. As the ship docked in Curacao after visiting Aruba, the family attended a dinner party on the upper deck of the ship. When Jones demanded more money to underwrite the actual armed rescue,the Bradleys asked for concrete proof that their daughter was actually under Jones's teams' surveillance. Stream your news live & on demand with Flash. David Carmichael was on tv years ago and spoke about the sighting, he did not say it was Alister Douglas. And she was a strong swimmer, so it was unlikely she wouldve drowned so close to the shoreline. He later said, "I left to try and go up and find her. [1] Her whereabouts remain unknown to this day. It is based on details from Amy's disappearance with a few details from Natalee . Still, searches were conducted at sea, but they ceased on March 29, 1998. Based on all the sightings where Amy was reported to have been purposely trying to show people her tattoos and saying her name. The ships computerized door lock system recorded that Brad returned to the cabin at 3:35 am where Amy followed five minutes later. And why would anyone go to all of the trouble and complications of kidnapping a woman off a ship when there are dozens of islands full of girls and young women, partying, letting down their guard, in an unfamiliar place, vulnerable, gullible and open to risky situations? Amy Lynn Bradley [16] Jones had claim that his team had seen Amy being held by heavily armed Colombian personnel in a housing complex surrounded by barbed wire. Around20years after hermysteriousdisappearance, theories about what happened to Amy Lynn Bradley only add to the uncertainty and dread surrounding one of the most disturbing missing personcases in history. In Peoples Magazine, Amys mother stated, I remember watching people watch her admiringly and later goes on to say Amy would have been a trophy. it could explain at least in part why the Bradleys lost their case against the cruise line. Long shots. In 1999, a U.S. Navy member said that he saw a woman claiming to be Amy Lynn at a brothel and she begged him for help. [3][7][8], Between the times of 5:15 am and 5:30 am 24 March 1998, Amys father Ron woke up and got up to check on the status of his children where he saw Amy still sleeping on the lounge chair of their cabins balcony. He claims to be "100%" certain that the woman he saw was Amy Bradley. Based on what I've heard about her I just don't think she would've put herself in that situation even if she had a few drinks or so. And then theres the fact that it was a petri dish for COVID-19 to grow and multiply in. Amy Bradley was an All-American girl. John Daryanani, owner of the Stelaris Hotel I have never heard this particular version anywhere else. [16], Another incident involved the finding of a jawbone that washed ashore in Aruba in 2010. He responded with a photo of a similarly tattooedwoman(who resembled Amy) and the Bradleys paid him the rest of the money. Is Hailey Bieber obsessed with Justin Biebers ex Selena Gomez? I find it scetchy as hell that all these people claimed to have seen her in distress but not one called the police. Amy Robach's relationship with former stepson Nate Shue - the son of Melrose Place actor Andrew Shue - revealed. -, Press J to jump to the feed. Theyd originally been posted on a defunct website advertising adult holidays in the Caribbean. video footage on you tube shows her waiting near an elevator alone. Her family hasn't seen from or been contacted by Amy Lynn Bradley in 22 years. I feel she was targeted by crew members into sex trafficking. Sitcoms Online - Main Page / Message Boards - Main Page / News Blog / Photo . The most disturbingwas a 2005 email sent to the Bradley family website, which contained two photographs of a woman. There is a link to more information about Amy Lynn's case at the bottom of that page, including age progressions. Anyways find a real psychic and solve this. In that quick of a scene?He appears like a pretty genuine fella but still might be a long shot. Over 20 years have passed and clues of . Shes long gone unfortunately. if she was drugged though someone would have had to carry her off the boat. , is that she was sold into sexual slavery and has been unable to return home. as for the sightings of her, the ones in the first two years of her disappearance might stand a chance of being authentic, they were pretty fresh at the time but can also be easy cases of mistaken identity. When the FBI announcement "pinged" in my news feed, I also got a surge of hope. I pray Amy will be found along with all the other millions of people and animals that are taken against their will and having something heinous done to them just as I write thisJudgement will come for ALL!!! This is so Heart wrenching. David Carmichael definitely saw her in August of 1998. The later sightings.no way. This sighting was never confirmed by authorities. Amy has multiple tattoos; a Tasmanian devil tattoo on her left shoulder, a Chinese symbol tattoo . [10] Between 12:15 pm and 1:00 pm, the cruise staff searched through the ship but could not find Amy. Yes, I agree with the statement that a couple of real psychics could find out what happened to her. If you ask me Douglas was somehow behind that. In August 1998, tourists saw a woman resembling Bradley on a beach and in 1999 a member of the U.S. Navy claimed a woman in a brothel said she was Bradley and asked him for help. In the fall of 1999, Amys parents received an email from a self-proclaimed Navy Seal Soldier Frank Jones. . Could have went overboard hours before missing. I believe that she was snuck off read a report that said 2 girls saw her with yellow at 6am as ship was docking he handed her a coffee (drugged) I believe the waiters that told her parents they wanted to take her to Carlos and Charlies in aruba helped get her off board thru crew passage adds up with report of man that swears he saw her with yellow in curacao later but no sightings in a long time probably means shes deceased now as she got older replaced with younger, Strange how she is with yellow just before docking, all planned, they probably hid her in a case as she would not of got off the ship without her Id, shame she didnt stay in the cabin, feel so sorry for the family. Chris Watts updates: Why the world is obsessed with the terrible case. This trashy, x rated novel was devastating to Amy's family. While investigators immediately went back to search, they found no trace of Amy. When the navy member saw her at a brothel why didnt he help her? Hes the one that needs to be boxed into a corner. One of these suspicions include the inconsistent story that the band member Yellow presented to the authorities as opposed to what CCTV has captured that night. Ive followed her case for years and keep hoping shell be found or turn up. But even if she is still alive, then shes somehow unable to contact her family, which leads a person down a whole new terrifying thought process. Its so heartbreaking and we do not wish this to happen to anyone else. We noticed immediately there was a tremendous amount of attention toward Amy from the crew members, Iva later told talk-show host Dr Phil. Unfortunately, the officer kept the information to himself, fearing the repercussions that would come with his solicitation of a sex worker. Unsolved Mysteries. In 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley went missing from the Royal Caribbean Cruise liner, Rhapsody of the Seas. Prayers for guidance and wisdom to find Amy and punish those responsible. And to Amys family your in my thoughts and prayers. No DNA testing was done on the material. When someone goes missing the ship should be searched ENTIRELY and no secret rooms. It only takes 1 person to SPEAK and it could go from cold case to blown open! From people going overboard to others just straight up disappearing, there are a lot of cases at sea that will leave you nervous about being on open water without a spot of land in sight. CARACAS was # 1 place to NOT bring American women. well that's not possible because this person didn't know anything about the Amy Bradley disappearance or who she was, he couldn't have claimed anybody looked like Amy because he never heard of her. Amy Lynn Bradley was born on May 12, 1974 in Petersburg, Virginia. Real Name: Amy Lynn Bradley Nicknames: No known nicknames Location: Curacao, Netherland Antilles Date: March 24, 1998 Occupation: College Graduate Date of Birth: May 12, 1974 Height: 5'7' Weight: 120 lbs. This guy should be castrated!! 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