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.

Thank you! Interesting.

I wonder if she woke up, sun rising and chilly so put her cigarettes in her pocket and slid the patio door open to go inside for more sleep and as she did, she noticed a beautiful sunrise that she wanted to photograph (the programme had mentioned that she was taking photographs for her new flat).

Maybe the photograph called for an awkward angle where she had to kneel up on the little table and lean over a bit or swivel her body to get a good shot (sun rising to the bow or stern of ship for example) and she fell. Such a long way to fall into the sea would probably not be survivable even if she were alive when she entered. This slipping and her crying out briefly woke her father but he wasn’t sure what had woken him because it was a very brief sound.

I wonder if the camera she was using was missing or still in the family’s possession.

The cruise manager did seem very uncaring but I’m not sure anything could have been done differently as she was an adult and had only at that point been missing for an hour.

Maybe the dad did subconsciously know that something tragic had happened because he heard her fall but in his sleep, he’d seen her sleeping there only an hour earlier and why would she have left the cabin as presumably not much would be open at 6am? His bad feeling does make sense but wouldn’t sound especially worrying to an outsider.

I read that too , there was another woman missing off a cruise ship in the area , the bone was tested to see if it matched that woman but it didn't, not sure if it was tested against any other dna profiles though.

I don't think the pp meant that
Amy was a young slim brunette and fairly pretty I'm sure she got male attention
But she wasn't somebody imo,who would stand out in a crowd

But how are her looks relevant in regards to whether or not she’d be a target for trafficking? I don’t necessarily think she was trafficked but I do think that Yellow may have been involved in her disappearance.

Yellow said that was his usual sort of behaviour on board, flirting with young women. He was clearly a sleaze but it seems likely that he was a sleaze with the revolving door of passengers generally, not that there was necessarily something special about Amy or that it was an unusual occurrence for him. He was a musician on a cruise ship, it’s likely he did have his share of on-board liaisons and flirtations on every journey.

Also if it’s true that the cruise didn’t generally have much of a young crowd, presuming it’s the same for that line/route generally, then it seems odd there would be a trafficking operation running there in the first place. Who were they trafficking, retirees?

Surely one of those 18-30 type party cruises would have been a better bet for that kind of thing, young women travelling in groups of other young women, heavy drinking, perhaps more open to sexual partners, etc., not a woman travelling with and sharing a cabin with her mum and dad. Unless there was something so unique about her that it was a spur of the moment decision and worth the immense risk. It seems very unlikely to me.

Her looks were relevant in that the family said she had loads of male attention everyone was flirting with her
If yellow was involved it's more likely he tried it on and she rebuffed him and something untoward happened I think anyway,
She did tell Brad someone ( I assume yellow) had made a pass at her on the dance floor.

the trafficking theory doesn’t add up

perhaps kidnapped and murdered though

has anyone been kidnapped/ trafficked from a cruise ship before or since? Doesn’t seem like a feasible plan

What her family actually said was that certain people on the ship seemed to be more interested in her than they thought was normal in the situation that they were in.

I mean, fair play to Netflix for dragging that out over as many episodes as they did. It’s so clear that she simply went/fell overboard and the mental gymnastics of some people trying to convince themselves she was sex trafficked or whatever, are astounding

Agree that it’s more possible Yellow did something if / when she rebuffed him.

The dragging out of the story was torturous.

I agree with everything you said in your post.

Her family say that she was getting lots of male attention, which they linked to her photos going missing on the cruise where the on board photographer has all the photos on display for purchase with hers conspicuously missing. The logic is that traffickers took them, but this doesn't make sense as there were several photos taken of her, so why take them all rather than just one photo?

Maybe there was flirting, but it seems to me that it was mostly from the service staff? was it more along the lines of being very attentive? I've had that type of service before in restaurants which is over the top service

I just can't see that even if she was trafficked, that she would have been so heavily guarded for so many years without someone calling it out.

I get the impression that the family prefer to live with the hope, however small, that she may be alive rather than face the reality that there was a terrible accident. The brother seems to have put his life on hold which is so sad.

This isn't the first documentary I have seen abd Netflix missed out the bit where her parents were swindled out of thousands of pounds by unscrupulous private detectives
There have been quite few " sightings " of her ( although not for a number of years) how credible these sightings are I'm not sure I think untill there is definitive proof of what happened to her people are going to have different theories.

Yes I really feel for Brad I don't wether he's married or has a partner but he said he put off having children becsuse of seeing the pain his parents have gone through losing Amy.

internationalcruisevictims.org

Hopefully this link works

On a cruise the staff work passengers very hard in order to be noticed and given a good tip at the end of a cruise - even when passengers have paid the tips at the point of booking the cruise. The staff still hope for more by way of tips though, and I can well imagine people being confused by what the attention means. And Mr Sleazy musician - he’d have homed in on Amy as soon as he could (before other crewman’s did) if she was one of a few young people in the trip but if you look at the images of them facing it’s very clear she wanted to be any other place except dancing with him. There’s no way she was on a different deck alone with him later that night/very early in the morning as people have suggested.

Look under the Missing Persons section of my link. Happens rather too much.

I don’t believe the so called sightings, no disrespect to Amy but she was very generic looking she had no distinctive stand out features that would be etched on your mind, let alone these so called sightings years later, I’ve just watched the documentary and if I passed Amy in the street now I doubt I would think there’s Amy Bradley.

Agreed what I think might have happened is thst people may have encountered a young women who was behaving a bit oddly and they may have had a similar kind of look to Amy,and them months, maybe years later they watch a Documentary about her or read about her Dissappearence and convince themselves it was her
As you say her looks were very generic, there would have been loads of women of a similar age who had at first glance similar looks.

Also people exaggerate so might tell people this women they saw said she was called Amy to make their story more plausible when she said nothing of the sort.

It was not a suicide note but a love letter, so I think you misunderstood it. And surely, in late 1990s USA homosexuality was commonplace, so I doubt she would have killed herself over that. And someone said she was very excited about the cruise and had plans for the future. Even her closest friends dismissed the possibility of suicide.

His daughter was so brave 😢

Yes Amy was around the same age as me i think by the late 90 s in.both the UK and USA most people of my generation were more accepting of homosexuality it wasent taboo any more i worked with end had friends that were openly gay unlike previous generations where it wasn't talked about
Her parents may have struggled with it at first but they were a very close family they would have eventually accepted it they were all on a cruise together so they must have been on good terms.

This is an interview with ‘Yellow’ his story is that Amy confided in him that her dad forced her to come on the cruise and that her parents were angry with her for being gay which is why she was so stressed that she was chain smoking.

The lack of cameras on the ship makes it difficult to know who to believe but I find it suspicious that Alistair Douglas’s daughter thinks so badly of him and that he may have been involved.

I have so many questions.

How come Amy and her brother got back to that tiny cabin they were all sharing, could open and close the door, go through to the balcony and open and close that door, then stay out there smoking and drinking without disturbing their parents? Then Brad comes in and goes to bed, then the Dad sees his daughter's legs and feet on a sunbed on the balcony at 5.30am and goes straight back to sleep? And doesn't wake up when she leaves before 6am?

And the girls who saw her in the glass elevator with Yellow? I believe them. What time was this? Is the suggestion that it was between 5.30am and 6.00am? That would mean Amy left the cabin without her shoes, so could they be wrong about the time?

If it wasn't Amy in the elevator with him, why hasn't the person who WAS with him come forward? What was his specific reply to that question?

The witness who saw her on the remote beach. If he isn't genuine, why has he got himself so involved with the website guy in Sydney? Isn't it all a colossal waste of his time unless he really believes he saw her?

The photo of the sex worker was the absolute spitting image of her ... think of modern facial recognition technology, the FBI must be right about that.