VA - Amy Bradley, 23, Petersburg, 24 March 1998 - #1

[rosesfromangels]

I am just now reading up on Amy's story. Can you tell us where that sketch comes from? Why is it important? Is it because of the hairstyle? Also, you mentioned you don't think she was taken for prostitution but yet the family believes she was targeted in advance. On the Dr. Phil show they had a photo of a woman alleged to be Amy and it appears the woman is posing in a sexual position (don't know what other phrase to use). It would appear that if it is Amy, then prostitution or sex slavery is a real possibilty (??)

I looked up crimes in Curacao and this is what was on the US Government site:



http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_5430.html

Drug smuggling and human trafficking seem to be the crimes. I understand "out of the box" thinking but if Amy was a young child then kidnapping for illegal adoption would make sense but Amy was 23 (??)

*advertiser censored*, maybe?

I need to read through this entire thread and watch the videos. That said, at first blush, I'm not buying in to this theory. She is far too high profile and would have been discovered by now if she were being pimped out. Don't you think?
I think the reality is much less complicated. I think she was preyed upon (most likely by a cruise worker) and then tossed overboard to avoid detection of the crime.

 

[rosesfromangels]

Wondergirl said a few posts back that she had never heard of some of the sightings and the information about Amy's disappearance. Thank you, Wondergirl for bumping those links to articles, magazines, and programs. I hope the links still work.


I think the reason why so many people don't know the details of Amy's disappearance is because she disappeared in 1998. The Internet forums hadn't really started and missing persons weren't getting the coverage and discussion that they get today. Amy was featured in some major magazines like People and there were several special programs about her disappearance, but she just wasn't covered the way she would be today. Amy was part of America's Most Wanted, but it was years ago.

Most people have forgotten what Amy looks like, although most people do remember her name and that she disappeared from a cruise ship. A lot of the people who are traveling to the Caribbean now, were children when Amy disappeared. This is the reason why it's important to her family to have Amy's face familiar to everyone, again. I have no doubt that many, many people have seen Amy. They just don't recognize her.

You can easily have T-shirts with Amy's image made. (Zazzle or other sites like that). Why not encourage everyone taking a ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE to wear a t-shirt with Amy's picture that says - "ASK ROYAL CARIBBEAN WHAT HAPPENED TO AMY BRADLEY". I would have worn one!
You can also purchase advertising on travelocity and orbitz where they advertise for these cruises. Just a thought....
GO AFTER IT!

 

[~n/t~]

I found where the sketch from. FBI site

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/amy-bradley

It also has sketches of men who were spotted with the woman resembling Amy in Barbados.

 

[SmoothOperator]

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Well if you watch that show the familly's Private investigator that stays down there says he knows who has her .watching that show i got the feeling they were almost ready to beable to solve this and solve it with a happy ending.

Well if you watch the show in its entirety you'd see that their P. I. Was a con man that's now in prison after stealing $250,000 from the parents and it was all a sick con.. The photos of Amy were fake and he was a liar.. You might wanna watch it all before getting people's hopes up that it's about to be solved..

Very very sadly that not the case..

 

[FindAmy]

I am just now reading up on Amy's story. Can you tell us where that sketch comes from? Why is it important? Is it because of the hairstyle? Also, you mentioned you don't think she was taken for prostitution but yet the family believes she was targeted in advance. On the Dr. Phil show they had a photo of a woman alleged to be Amy and it appears the woman is posing in a sexual position (don't know what other phrase to use). It would appear that if it is Amy, then prostitution or sex slavery is a real possibilty (??)

I looked up crimes in Curacao and this is what was on the US Government site:



http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_5430.html

Drug smuggling and human trafficking seem to be the crimes. I understand "out of the box" thinking but if Amy was a young child then kidnapping for illegal adoption would make sense but Amy was 23 (??)

*advertiser censored*, maybe?

It is an artist sketch from the witness who saw Amy in Barbados in 2005. The sketch has also been confirmed as looking like Amy by other witnesses who have seen her. Her hair is long and cut in layers in all of the sightings. It has a wild look.


The photograph appeared on the website of an escort resort in Venezuela. We don't believe she was ever an escort at the resort. The background of the photograph doesn't match the background of the other escort photos. The resort was investigated by the FBI. There was no evidence that Amy was ever there. We don't know why she appeared in that photograph. Amy is a high profile missing American woman. She has made repeated attempts to identify herself in sightings. There is no way that any captor in their right mind would leave her alone with anyone who spoke English. The resort where her photograph appeared catered to American and Canadian men. It was owned by a Canadian.

Curacao is on the United Nation's list for countries with human trafficking problems. Drugs from Venezuela are also a major problem. Drugs go through Curacao before they spread out to North America and Europe.

 

[~n/t~]

Did they ever identify the jaw bone that was found in Aruba?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/31/grace.coldcase.bradley/

 

[~n/t~]

It is an artist sketch from the witness who saw Amy in Barbados in 2005. The sketch has also been confirmed as looking like Amy by other witnesses who have seen her. Her hair is long and cut in layers in all of the sightings. It has a wild look.


The photograph appeared on the website of an escort resort in Venezuela. We don't believe she was ever an escort at the resort. The background of the photograph doesn't match the background of the other escort photos. The resort was investigated by the FBI. There was no evidence that Amy was ever there. We don't know why she appeared in that photograph. Amy is a high profile missing American woman. She has made repeated attempts to identify herself in sightings. There is no way that any captor in their right mind would leave her alone with anyone who spoke English. The resort where her photograph appeared catered to American and Canadian men. It was owned by a Canadian.

Curacao is on the United Nation's list for countries with human trafficking problems. Drugs from Venezuela are also a major problem. Drugs go through Curacao before they spread out to North America and Europe.

Using google, I came across Hyscience article on Amy. It has the photos and all the details of her sightings. I will assume the FBI is 100% certain the photos are Amy, is that correct?

I won't post the link because the article has some sexually explicit photos. When was the last sighting and where? Was it Barbados? TIA

 

[FindAmy]

Did they ever identify the jaw bone that was found in Aruba?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/31/grace.coldcase.bradley/

I mentioned that jaw bone several pages back. CNN Justice thought that the jaw bone could belong to Amy or Natalee Holloway. It would have been a stretch for it to belong to Amy because she didn't disappear in Aruba. The Bradleys did send Amy's dental records. When the jaw bone fragment was forensically evaluated it was determined that it was at least fifty years old.

 

[FindAmy]

Using google, I came across Hyscience article on Amy. It has the photos and all the details of her sightings. I will assume the FBI is 100% certain the photos are Amy, is that correct?

I won't post the link because the article has some sexually explicit photos. When was the last sighting and where? Was it Barbados? TIA

The Bradleys and the FBI feel that the photographs are Amy. The family would very much appreciate it if you wouldn't post the full photographs. I mentioned this several pages back. It is very upsetting for the family to see their daughter this way. I have been using cropped portions of Amy's head, only.

As I said a few posts back, the last information about a sighting that has been released to the public is Barbados in 2005.

 

[otto]

Alister Douglas is from Grenada. I can't comment on the accuracy of a documentary.

Amy was with her brother in the disco. They were not drunk. They won a limbo contest, they were having fun in the disco, and they returned to the family suite.

Amy did have problems feeling seasick. She was not "afraid of water". She was a lifeguard and a swimming instructor.

There is a floor plan of the family suite below. I don't know why Ron didn't hear her leave.

If she had fallen overboard, it would be a little difficult for her to have been seen in various places over the years. The railings on the balconies are very high.

In one of the documentaries, it was said that Amy was not comfortable with the water and was reluctant to take the trip, but decided to go anyway. Amy and her brother were at a 24 hour club and her brother won the limbo contest.

Laci Peterson, Cayley Anthony and other missing persons were seen all over the places until the remains were found. None of them were true sightings. I don't think any of the sightings of Amy are real.

 

[EXIA15145]

The FBI did not give an official statement, so there is no link.

So you're saying they did analysis and that's it. They said nothing? Do you have analysis from someone else?

 

[EXIA15145]

I think it would be extremely hard to have gotten her OFF that boat with no one seeing her....anyone agree?

Do you have any idea of the size of that 'boat'? There are probably tons of ways to get a body off one of those. Body, alive or dead.

 

[otto]

The Bradleys and the FBI feel that the photographs are Amy. The family would very much appreciate it if you wouldn't post the full photographs. I mentioned this several pages back. It is very upsetting for the family to see their daughter this way. I have been using cropped portions of Amy's head, only.

As I said a few posts back, the last information about a sighting that has been released to the public is Barbados in 2005.

Amy would be in her late 30s if she were alive today. Surely, in all these years, if she was a prostitute someone would have cashed in on the $250k reward money. Since there has been no sign of her since she was on the balcony, I think it's quite likely she went into the water. That's where the searches should have started.

 

[otto]

Do you have any idea of the size of that 'boat'? There are probably tons of ways to get a body off one of those. Body, alive or dead.

She disappeared off the balcony in her room while her father was on the other side of the patio door. He claims that he saw her legs at 5:30 but at 6 she had vanished. He wouldn't have been in a deep sleep from 5:30 - 6, so if she got up, opened the patio door, walked through the room, entered the hallway and closed the door, her father should have heard something. He heard nothing. I think it's very hard for the family to accept that she is gone and so they are holding on to the hope that somehow she was the victim of foul play, but the facts suggest that one minute she was on the balcony and the next, she wasn't. The only place to go is over the railing.

 

[FindAmy]

So you're saying they did analysis and that's it. They said nothing? Do you have analysis from someone else?

The Bradleys feel that the photographs are Amy.

The FBI concluded that the photographs were Amy.

Based on the photographs, they sent agents to the resort in Venezuela.

The FBI did not make a public statement regarding the photographs.

The FBI rarely makes public statements regarding anything.

Further discussion between the FBI and the Bradleys is confidential.

 

[neesaki]

She disappeared off the balcony in her room while her father was on the other side of the patio door. He claims that he saw her legs at 5:30 but at 6 she had vanished. He wouldn't have been in a deep sleep from 5:30 - 6, so if she got up, opened the patio door, walked through the room, entered the hallway and closed the door, her father should have heard something. He heard nothing. I think it's very hard for the family to accept that she is gone and so they are holding on to the hope that somehow she was the victim of foul play, but the facts suggest that one minute she was on the balcony and the next, she wasn't. The only place to go is over the railing.

Hello, Otto. You don't seem to be familiar with the confirmed sightings of Amy over the last few years, since her disappearance. You might want to go back and read up on this information. :seeya:

 

[rosesfromangels]

She disappeared off the balcony in her room while her father was on the other side of the patio door. He claims that he saw her legs at 5:30 but at 6 she had vanished. He wouldn't have been in a deep sleep from 5:30 - 6, so if she got up, opened the patio door, walked through the room, entered the hallway and closed the door, her father should have heard something. He heard nothing. I think it's very hard for the family to accept that she is gone and so they are holding on to the hope that somehow she was the victim of foul play, but the facts suggest that one minute she was on the balcony and the next, she wasn't. The only place to go is over the railing.

Agree.
The only other niggling thought I have is that she got talked in to an "adventure" by "yellow" and left with him. Maybe what sounded like a lark became slavery. While everyone is portraying Amy as the girl next door, I find her tattoos inconsistent with that portrayal, especially for 1998. Maybe she was a bit of a wild child looking for fun and it went bad.
That said, I still believe it is highly likely she went overboard.

 

[rosesfromangels]

Hello, Otto. You don't seem to be familiar with the confirmed sightings of Amy over the last few years, since her disappearance. You might want to go back and read up on this information. :seeya:

With respect, define confirmed. By whom? I read the FBI
expert said it could be her, not that is was confirmed to be her.
Set me straight if I'm wrong.

 

[Lera213]

what was Amy's line of work? Was she a CPA or something like that?

 

[Lera213]

In November of 2005, there was an unconfirmed sighting of Amy at a club in the Salinja section of Willemstad. Amy was reportedly seen at a club that was frequented by "underworld types". The club was Cuco's Lounge and it was on Junostraat for many years, next to the Salinja carwash. Salinja is the area of Willemstad with many clubs and night activities.

My husband was in willemstad in 2006, I'll show him the poster to see if it jogs his memory.

Edit to add: Not that my husband visited any of those clubs but he drove around the country side via US Military. I actually have a picture of him standing in front of the "Welcome to Willemstad" sign. I'll show it to him. The strange thing is the first photo of the male sure does look familiar to me. Did I see him on TV or does he just look like a movie character.

Any sightings in Miami? That would be my logical place to search. San Fran was probably one of her handlers meeting someone, and the main person kept her close to his side all the time. Someone was very fixated on her for sure.