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.

I think he was just an arrogant arse hole.

I was convinced she had jumped but that last episode with the photos and the IPs. She’s alive.

So many people saw her. So many people did nothing. Awful.

I watched it last night. I was pretty convinced that she fell overboard, but I just can’t explain those pictures and sightings.

It's easy to cover tattoos.
I think she was alive and tricked or persuaded off the boat and then sold. I can't understand why the man would have randomly targeted a wealthy, well supported American woman who would have been immediately missed, it doesn't make a lot of sense. I don't know if she still is alive but the hits on the website were very interesting.
If she had been forced to give birth to children who were being kept from her that might explain why she didn't try to escape.

Yes, forced pregnancies is a good way to get compliance from victims in this situation. Suddenly, escaping becomes much more difficult.

I found it awful. The taxi driver didn’t offer her a phone, the navy guy who saw her at the beach saw she was being held against her will, was it the marine guy at the bar, she asked for $200, and then the woman at Barbados. I still can’t wrap my head around how all these people saw she was being kept against her will but did nothing about it. I mean, call the local police at bare minimum, alert other passerbys that something is wrong. Maybe that’s how things were done in the 90s, early 2000s

With hindsight yes but at the time maybe they just thought she was trying to con them
The women in the toilets where apparently " Amy" had her backed up to the wall if that was me in a carribean country I would be terrified and just want to get out ,and back to my husband
Maybe these sightings were Amy ,I don't know but how many people think they have spotted Madeleine Mccan for example?

Yes that bit makes no sense Amy was clearly very loved by her parents and brother and they have gone to then ends of the earth trying to find her surely if you were going to pick victims to traffic it would be much easier to pick vulnerable women who wouldn't be missed.

I followed the news about her when it happened, so binge-watched all three episodes yesterday after a very busy week at work. (Spoilers ahead.)

It was such a strange event. No mention then of her being gay. But people were very judgemental in those days, and if they wanted/needed to get financial support from church fundraisers and keep her public profile alive, not have her dismissed by worldwide bigots as a deviant who deserved to vanish, then they had to play up her image as a wholesome all-American sporty girl-next-door.

I very much doubt that she vanished of her own volition. New flat, new job, new dog, recent reconciliation with a woman she loved, clear love and affection from her parents, even if they didn't understand her sexuality.

That cruise manager was creepy - so cold-blooded, as if he had no compassion for what happened to the Bradleys. he seemed almost proud that he kept the show on the road, and his only moment of emotion was that little grin of delight, remembering himself probably spritzing his hair before coming on to deck.

The thing I found most interesting was that her official cruise photos had been removed or sold from the kiosk before the family bought them, and they had to get new copies printed. Who took them and why?

When she's dancing she looks very drunk. The bassist's hands are on her breasts and she is not really even trying to push them away. I think she could have been easy prey.

Also, I get the impression that the navy man is being a bit economical with the truth. he says he just had a drink in a bar with her, but from his shame and reticence in coming forward, I wonder if he actually hired her as a prostitute.

What I just don't understand is: if there is a pattern of someone doing extended viewing of the Bradleys' website at Thanksgiving, Christmas and on family birthdays, always from the same IP address in Bridge Town - why can't the FBI liaise with local police to try and locate the IP address and visit while the site is being viewed? It seems as though there is real resistance to helping find her. Are the police there in the pay of the mafia known to run drugs and people trafficking from the island?

I don't know. I think it sends a message - even the most committed family can't find her. We can take any girl we want, from any place we choose. I bet people traffickers feel invincible. Such a pretty, clean cut teen girl would be very valuable to traffickers.

People didn't have mobile phones in 1990s. I was working for a company in 1995 and only the top people were issued mobile phones. None of us had personal phones.

It was 1998 she went missing but yes mobile phones were only just starting to become more widespread I'm a similar Age to Amy I think she's about a year younger than me it's absolutely horrifying to think what she might have gone through and her family.

The FBI officer pretty much said it was impossible to get that information from the IP address due to legal blocks

People traffickers don’t chose high-risk targets like middle-class white American women travelling with their family while contained on board a cruise ship. It doesn’t make sense.

Unfortunately the most boring explanation is almost certainly the right one. She was intoxicated, perhaps she got up for fresh air and had to be sick, perhaps she went to have a cigarette and just wanted to get a view of coming in to port, and fell in. Her dad waking up when he did was probably because there was a sound or something from the balcony that woke him - her falling in, a thud, her making a sound.

There are countless ‘mysteries’ like this where families totally understandably struggle to accept such a tragic and avoidable situation has taken the life of a loved one, so cling on to something else - in this case the trafficking theory lets them have hope she is alive. The documentary ‘Something’s Wrong with Aunt Diane’ is another classic example of this.

I thought the missing cruise photos might be the same ones that Yellow had a bag full of, that his daughter talked about. I was surprised that she agreed to be on the programme and even phoned him in front of the cameras.

It wouldn't surprise me if you were right about the navy man, he was vile. I also agree about the IP address and no one looking into it. What's that all about?

Also the fact the table had been moved and her shoes remained makes it pretty much a slam dunk IMO. She didn’t have shoes on as she never left the cabin/balcony area. The table was moved so she could stand on it to perhaps throw up over the railings or just to get a better view, but she was impaired and lost her balance.

The sightings stuff is just what happens when someone has a high profile disappearance, loads of cases of missing people who have been seen in all sorts of places then their body turns up and they were dead for all of them. People like to insert themselves into tragedies too, so a passing resemblance or a half-remembered name or conversation suddenly becomes a certainty that it’s this person, either out of a misguided desire to help or because they just want to be involved in something.

We don’t really like the mundane as humans, when it comes to death. Perhaps it’s because it makes us feel uncomfortable about our own mortality that tragic accidents can happen to normal people just like us.

I hope your right for Amy,s sake
the authorities dont think she went overboard though and there has been no sign of her body.

It’s easier for traffickers to target anyone on cruise ships, it seems because you aren’t protected by the same laws that you are at home.

So did I. Not that he did, but if he turned out to have done, I wouldn't be at all surprised. Utterly cold-blooded man.

I think she went overboard. I just don’t think it makes sense for traffickers to go for a random white American woman who would get a lot of press attention.

Sadly they go for vulnerable woman who won’t get as much attention if they go missing.

If she was trafficked I also don’t think they would have kept her alive so long once people started reporting sightings etc that’s surely a massive risk to them.

Ultimately I think she went overboard too, despite the apparent sightings. The sandals left on the balcony was too much of a giveaway.
I feel so incredibly sorry for the parents and they are in NO way to blame, but I was surprised that the room got cleaned after the disappearance. Common sense would dictate that you do not allow that to happen.

The loner in the cabin next to Amy, I felt he had something to do with it. He came across as a lecherous person, my thrust is she climbed over/or went via the door, into his cabin. He tried it on, she panicked, he pushed her over or she tried climbing back over to her balcony.

I haven’t seen this doc but seen others and it’s fascinating and horrific. How easily women can vanish. I so hope they find her, even if it is remains so they can have some peace

Maybe. He definitely came across as strange. I mean, I would go on a solo cruise as a woman without hesitation. But dare I say it, there’s something a bit odd about a man who does (I know, I’m a hypocrite, so shoot me). He admitted himself that he went to the disco in the wee small hours to ‘look at girls’.

Just watching now. The navy man was vile.Saying he had been fed all sorts of stories from 'working girls' all over the world. No of course he had not innocently stumbled into a bar/brothel and left. I worked in Thailand for a few years. Men like him were everywhere. Scum.

Agree - scum like him are the reason women get trafficked into the sex industry in the first place.