Amy Bradley is missing (Netflix)

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Is anyone watching? I’ve read about this case before so was very interested to see they’ve made a Netflix docu-series, especially since they have her actual family/friends/real witnesses involved in it.

Ive watched one episode so far. It’s such a sad but strange and intriguing case. Her poor mum and dad.

This is a blog. I myself have become close to people who abused me - I think it is a real thing. I also had abusive parents. Psychology is complex. Maybe you are lucky enough to have emotionally healthy parents and therefore had healthy relationships.

If it's not Amy in the infamous photo, why hasn't the real person in that photo or someone who knows her come forward? Maybe the new Netflix documentary will prompt someone.

Someone has identified Jas as a woman they personally knew. They say they have contacted authorities about it.

The 'Jas' photo is so like her at first glance, strikingly so! But having looked at the photos again online, I think first of all that Jas's hairstyle and her makeup is early 1980's. Jas doesn't look to be as tall as Amy, I think her arms are shorter. I think Jas has a sharper jawline, too. There are so very similar but I am not convinced it's her now.

I’m having a laugh with you but you obviously didn’t realise that. I did think the laughing emoji would have been a give away though.

And yes, we know you have relatives who work on cruise ships. You’ve mentioned it a few times now and I think the important thing to remember that it’s your relatives who’ve worked on them - not you.

And yes, I know people hook up on holiday, not that I ever have or even had the offer of a hook up which is why I joked - perhaps I should have asked for my money back.

Last but not least - I think if anyone has a problem it’s you.

Well you also seem to be offended by the idea that some people feel unsafe on cruise ships. I found it interesting that some people have said they feel unsafe out at sea because the sea ‘calls’ to them.

it’s not just my relatives who say this either. I work in an industry where a lot of people have spent time working on cruise ships. They said it was rather a hot bed for drama.

If there are thousands of humans on what amounts to a moving village, you can see why human behaviour might be amplified in some of its aspects. And the phrase ‘cabin fever’ obviously came from somewhere.

@IShouldNotCoco my post above was the last interaction I’ll have with you on the subject of Amy, and if you take exception to anything else I say going forward then so be it.

I’ve always wanted to go on a cruise. I honestly think I’d love it. However I would prefer a slightly smaller ship with fewer passengers. During the show, I was a bit 😱 at seeing all those people!

Is that since the Netflix doc or before it? Surely the people investigating would have followed it up.

Although I have to say that female detective seemed incredibly laissez-faire about it all. Everything was "if it doesn't fall under US law nothing can be done about it". I think that's a bit hopeless.

Small ship cruising is wonderful. We don't want broadway shows, crowds, queues... and we want to go to places big ships can't

I love cruising and prefer a smaller ship though I have been on a few of the big MSC ships where I stayed in the yacht club which was like a very small ship within a ship. I’m a solo traveller for the most part and happy to be back in my cabin after dinner most nights but I like a wee wander some evening and I’ll go to a couple of bars for one drink in each and chat to people around me. I enjoy all of my holidays whether it’s going on a 2 week whale watching cruise to Alaska or going across 3 or 4 European countries by train stopping as many times as a like along the way.

I'm late to the party, just watched all the episodes.

I believe that she was a party girl which is normal for someone her age, she went off the ship on her own will, likely to get drugs with Yellow. Perhaps when she left the room she just did it to wander around and saw Yellow again.

No shoes, she may have taken different shoes, not the ones on the balcony. Now, for some Americans it is normal to go without shoes, especially around the beach. Not taking her wallet, no need it to wander around, then Yellow told her to come with to get drugs or she could have just taken cash from her wallet without taking all her cards.

Once in a lawless town with a drug dealer, they could have easily prevented her from returning. They would have seen her as a "high value asset" due to being a middle class American young woman. Mafia has a lot of power, especially in lawless towns.

I do believe the account of the Canadian that he saw her with Yellow, he didn't know about Yellow and he recognised both of them, many coincidences. To then, dedicate his free time to help build the website and track IP addressed.

Then, those pictures. It's definitely her.

So sad. If what that ex navy said it's true, he should have helped her. If he physio couldn't, at least put an anonymous report with the police.

Although, I hope she fell overboard over the other possibility of trafficking.

I probably missed it, but did they say where her camera was?

I've just watched this. I watch a lot of true crime/unsolved mystery documentaries, so I was aware of the case. Prior to watching the Netflix doc, I was 100% convinced she had fallen overboard and drowned, but the Netflix show has made me question that.

The fact that Yellow's own daughter believes he was involved in her disappearance lends more credence to the witness statements. I'm under no illusions that my own father has always been a nice, law-abiding man. He's not, he is a violent, misogynistic abuser, but if someone told me he'd murdered or kidnapped a woman who wasn't my mother, I'd laugh in their face. There must be something incredibly sinister about Yellow for his own daughter to believe he could be capable of something like kidnapping and rape.

I'd also not heard the theory that she left the ship voluntarily to buy drugs; being held by criminals she met with voluntarily is a lot more plausible than her being smuggled off the ship against her will without any of the passengers seeing something.

And as someone else pointed out the internet, smartphones and viral news stories weren't really a thing in the early to mid nineties so it is not beyond the realms of possibility that a trafficking gang would feel comfortable letting her be seen in public, especially not on a small, isolated island where the locals are likely terrified of them.

On the other hand, if she were trafficked and is still alive in Bridge town and watching the blog about her, she is no longer of an age where she would be of interest to traffickers, and any children she has would be of age now, so what is stopping her from reaching out to her family? And why has there not been any recent sighting of her, now that she is an internationally known missing person?

I still think the most likely scenario is that she fell overboard and drowned, but there is a slight chance the trafficking story holds some weight.

People who think it would have been NBD for a young woman to be openly gay in late ‘90s America clearly never lived in late-90s America. This was literally the year after Ellen DeGeneres sparked nationwide controversy by coming out of the closet.

Lots of people who have been on cruise ships have explained that you can’t just stroll off the ship to go and buy drugs with a staff member. The timings are wrong too, her parents noticed she was missing way before the ship docked.

Why would Yellow risk his job by helping Amy to buy drugs, and who is to say he was familiar with the local dealers in Curaçao?

What kind of traffickers let their victim stroll around talking to tourists?

Why would you put her photo (if it is her) on a website when there’s a reward for information on her whereabouts?

It is possible that she came to harm somewhere on the ship and her body was disposed of overboard.

It’s also likely she fell, as it’s more common than the cruise companies would have you believe.

I watched the 3 episodes now, very disturbing and I can’t stop thinking about that poor family.

There are too many things that have happened which to me point to her somehow being up ducted and trafficked.

too many witnesses throughout the years who clearly saw her, especially the diver in port mari and the lady in Barbados. What about the IP address that they’ve traced? The picture of that woman from the online escort agency is her!

If she was kept again her will and then had children I can imagine after several years she felt there was no way out.

it is a truly shocking case!

I agree with this.

I felt that there was a noticeable disconnect between the family and the true side of her life, only her dad briefly mentioned her sexuality and the comments about all the men flirting with her seemed like wishful thinking and supported their belief that her being a lesbian was just a phase she was going through.
There was no mention by them of Molly who we saw evidenced Amy was in love with (wouldn’t you have added photos of her on that website if you were trying to attract Amy), but I don’t think her family acknowledged her.

I am roughly the same age as Amy and also had short hair in that era but I’m pretty confident nobody assumed I was a lesbian, the photos of Amy , her dress etc even as a child left me in no doubt she was even before it was disclosed (I am not sure if that’s weird but I even commented to my partner and then said how could you tell just from photos but you totally could).

We heard her family ‘ loved hard’ and you just have to wonder if that pressure although not intended, to be someone they wanted not who she actually was affected her.
Being so intense on the cruise having to play the perfect daughter/ sister, getting teased about all the men after her- it must have been suffocating.
I have a friend who took their own life for similar reasons and the family still won’t accept who they truly were.

I thought Yellow’s daughter was just enjoying being a part of something and actually had nothing of value to add I also agree that on the phone I thought he sounded genuine in his explanation.

If he was involved in drugs/ people trafficking surely there would be some evidence of this by now and as others have mentioned the risk of smuggling her off would have been ridiculous, she would also have been worth more to hand back and take the reward money or even to ransom than to pimp out.

The fact the brother is now saying she was bi and had a boyfriend (why secret) just supports my theory more.
To me Molly came across as totally believable with her letter as proof.

I found the mum talking about the car and how maybe she had grandchildren a bit tragically naive like they had become fixated on something that was pure fantasy.

lastly the cabin neighbour being a creep was also a weird angle and it seemed a bit created by Netflix to give us another possibility that ultimately went nowhere.

The whole thing was botched from the start. They let the other passengers off without taking any of it seriously ( I can see why, but it seemed callous behavior) and the room was cleaned too before the police have a look at it.
The ones who ( apparently) encountered her afterwards did little , but hard to say if it was her or not I suppose or if to believe them.
The whole thing is bizarre and I do feel sorry for the parents and her brother. The episodes could have been just one, so much filler there for three not really saying much. The photo did look like her, but so many years later it’s hard to say.

Mollie seemed nice. It must be so awful just not knowing if your child is still alive or not.
I think she did fall overboard, but who knows?
A body has never been found.

They couldn't stop over 4,000 passengers disembarking because a girl had been missing for an hour. She could have been in someone's room partying and it would be very embarrassing if she just turned up and they were thousands of passengers not able to do excursions booked on shore or get off the ship.

Agree with your post @Victoriawould24

I think yellow's daughter was just jumping on the bandwagon. She wasn't even born when Amy went missing!

There is a very good interview on YouTube with her brother Brad, very recent, podcast is called “Untold”, it clarifies several things from the documentary. I think Yellow was involved.

Thanks for the link. I thought it was sad that the brother felt he couldn’t have children after seeing what his parents had gone through losing their daughter.

It must be awful not knowing if they are alive or sadly died. I can imagine it’s a living nightmare and their way of dealing with it is to just hope she will show up one day.