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Jezel, thanks so much for the info. WOW. Hard to read those posts. Just heartbreaking.
Maybe someone else has a better memory than I, but my recollection is that she did have a steady boyfriend.Has it ever been mentioned if Amy had a significant other prior to going missing?
Thank you.Amy's boyfriend is mentioned on the aforementioned site on a thread called "Porto Marie, Curacao":
"Amy's boyfriend was the manager of a restaurant in Virginia. One of his suppliers gave him a Dos Equis watch, similar to the one above. But Amy's watch was a different color. Amy brought the watch with her on the cruise and she was wearing it when she disappeared. Information about the watch had not been released to the media. David Carmichael accurately described the Dos Equis watch to the FBI, the Bradleys, and the Federal Grand Jury. He has no doubt that he saw Amy in Porto Marie."
<modsnip> but the Bradleys seem to completely buy into the sex trafficking theory, and would support everything the poster said. I have always thought she went overboard and was surprised to see the post saying theres new info.
A personal anecdote, and probably why I believe the overboard theory:
About a decade ago my cousin went on a cruise (a Royal Caribbean, actually) with his immediate family and after a night of drinking with the family jumped overboard from the balcony in their room. His mother saw him just as he was going over. The family and other passengers heard him calling for help after he fell but they didn't find him.
By all accounts my cousin was happy until that moment, close to his parents, and there was no conflict, but the video shows him going over clearly on purpose. You never know how people truly feel inside and suicide can be very impulsive.
I agree with many of your points! <modsnip - quoted post was snipped>I haven't seen a lot of people write that they think she ended her life on purpose. I think most of the overboard theory supporters think it was an accident.
On the surface, that would make sense. But in order to subscribe to the overboard theory, you have to believe the following all at once:
And that's not even getting into the technicalities about the ship's railings, their height, and how it difficult it would've been to fall - I'm not sure there's any verifiable information about that aspect at this point.
- No one heard or saw Amy fall, even though the ship was right off the coast and undergoing docking procedures, with staff outside (although I don't know how many)
- Her body was swept away by a current and never found despite falling into relatively shallow water and there being a four-day search involving three helicopters and a radar plane
- The creepy behavior of the staff meant nothing
- Amy's cruise photos being missing meant nothing
- Alister Douglas telling Brad "sorry about your sister" before Amy's disappearance was public knowledge was either a mistake on Brad's part or meant nothing
- Every single sighting of Amy, including by David Carmichael who testified before a federal grand jury, was either a mistake or made up
- Wesley Neville and everyone else who thought the photos of Jas were actually Amy were completely wrong
- The FBI are totally incompetent fools who put resources toward this case at least as recently as 2018 for absolutely no reason
Personally, I have a problem with writing off all of those items simultaneously, especially #8. I can see some of them being incorrect, but all? That seems to me to be a stretch.
I don't buy it. There's more to this case than Amy accidentally falling overboard.
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This is excellent info. Thank you.Read here the comment from Chris Fenwick who was reporting on board this cruise ship: "Let me fill you in on some details you may not know... Amy was last seen alive and well after she left the room, successfully NOT falling over board and heading up the glass elevator with the Bass player in the very early morning hours. She did not fall overboard, the rails on that ship, in that room, with that short of a girl would have made it impossible to accidentally fall overboard.
2 witnesses reported seeing Amy go up the elevator with Yellow and shortly after Yellow came down the elevator alone. The "handoff", if you will, likely took place in the back of the bar in the disco on the 11th deck and she was almost certainly drugged, and taken off the boat in a garbage bag thru a service entrance before the passengers were allowed to exit the boat in Curacao.
One of the worst parts of this case is the preponderance of people who weren't there, who have NOT spoken to the people involved sharing speculation of what they THINK happened as though it was fact.
I was there. i speak to the family. It is tragic." in Chris Fenwick's Custom Tutorials - Home - Amy Bradley is missing.
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Well, I'll take a stab at why this case holds such "fascination", if that's what it is: How many of these overboards are still active investigations within the FBI many years later? How many happened sans any evidence, such as a witness, someone hearing a scream, scuff marks on rails, etc.personally i never understood the fascination with this case. either someone threw her overboard or she fell overboard, in my opinion (leaning towards the second one). this stuff happens much more than it should. lost at sea is a wild way to go.
Thanks for posting this Dotr.'Mar 26, 2024
It’s been 26 years since a Virginia woman went missing while on a Caribbean cruise. The FBI says it is still investigating the mysterious disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley, 23. She was last seen on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas March 24, 1998. Her family reportedly said they started looking for Amy just as the ship was docking in the island of Curacao and they don’t know if she departed the ship or not. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.'
Mar 23, 2018
The FBI is seeking public tips in the case of Amy Lynn Bradley, a Virginia woman who disappeared 20 years ago this month. More information at https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/amy...
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A reward of up to $25,000 is available for information leading to the resolution of the case of missing Virginia woman Amy Lynn Bradley, who was last seen while on a cruise in 1998. More at https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/amy...
Woah, do you have a link regarding the escort pics? (Obviously asking for just her face)Well, I'll take a stab at why this case holds such "fascination", if that's what it is: How many of these overboards are still active investigations within the FBI many years later? How many happened sans any evidence, such as a witness, someone hearing a scream, scuff marks on rails, etc.
How many happened exactly at the time when a kidnapping would likely occur -when the ship was in docking procedures?
I've read about several cases over the years of people going overboard, but never one like this. Many accounts, from different people, of strange happenings surrounding the disappearance, including missing cruise photos (all photos of Amy missing, but none of anyone else). A record of the missing person complaining about "creepy" people who had expressed interest in her.
Here is the crux of why I find this case so compelling: The patterns. The story. One can lay it all out chronologically: Amy goes on a cruise and meets, dances with, a guy who many end up characterizing as "creepy". Amy is "partying", out having fun and, as such, likely off her normal, day-to-day "guard".
Parents feel that the attention given her is odd. She, herself, complains about them. She's seen very early, as the ship is starting docking procedures, accompanied by the guy from the night before, who "gives her something to drink - a dark liquid". They're both seen going up in the glass elevator to the disco floor, but only one is seen coming down. There is a freight/staff elevator behind the disco which, conveniently, is not glass.
As the boat is docking, Amy becomes missing. Then, there are the sightings. They are mostly in and around the Caribbian, with the exception of the SF sighting. Even that sighting, though, is taken very seriously by the FBI, and seems to involve some of the same "handlers" identified in the other sightings. They are all within a few months to a few years after the disappearance, and witnesses describe details that haven't been released to the public, such as the watch and tattoos. A few years later -again, within months to a few years after the disappearance- a professional analyist determines that she is, indeed, the adult escort pictured on a website. (Except now with long, permed hair.)
Yes, people do go overboard on cruise ships. The chances of it are incredibly low, considering the millions of people who take cruises every year, but it does happen. I can say; however, that I've never followed any of the other cases because they seem to be just what they are: Someone who fell, got pushed, or committed suicide.
Really, is there another story out there like Amy's?