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Richard Foster
Style Weekly
Tuesday April 27, 1999
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Style Weekly
Tuesday April 27, 1999
http://web.archive.org/web/20001020191436/http://richmond.com/StyleWeekly/output.cfm?ID=1667
“Un momento. Un momento, por favor,” Iva said quickly, frantically waving to her younger brother Paul Noblin, who was also in the room. “OK, OK,” the man on the other end said in a thick Spanish accent
It was to be the first promising lead in the puzzling disappearance of Amy Bradley, a vivacious, attractive 23-year-old from Chesterfield County, a 1996 graduate of Longwood College, who was a star basketball player there and the only student in the school’s history to receive a full athletic scholarship. The strange nature of the case has attracted national attention, from a front page story in the New York Times to the “Leeza” show, “America’s Most Wanted” and “Unsolved Mysteries,” which is slated to air a segment about Amy on May 28. Cosmopolitan magazine is also planning a piece on Amy.
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Iva’s brother Paul hustled across the street of the Bradleys’ suburban Chesterfield neighborhood to summon a close friend and neighbor of Iva’s who speaks Spanish. Within minutes, the woman was sitting at Iva’s desk, talking to the Spanish-speaking man and hurriedly taking notes. Though her friend was speaking and writing in Spanish, Iva could tell from the excited sound of the woman’s voice that the man must be saying something important.
If true, what the man said was not only important but explosive. According to a lawsuit the Bradleys filed against Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. last month alleging negligent security and other charges, the Spanish-speaking man told Iva’s friend that he saw Amy — four days after her disappearance — being forced into a taxicab at the terminal at San Juan, Puerto Rico shortly after Rhapsody of the Seas docked there on March 28, 1998, the day that should have been the last day of the family’s aborted week-long cruise.
Providing previously unpublished details not mentioned in the lawsuit, Bradley’s lawyers say the witness was a Puerto Rican local who was studying to be a police officer. He called Iva Bradley after seeing a story about Amy on Puerto Rican television and recognizing her photo as the woman he had seen just days before.
Andrew Hall, one of the Miami-based attorneys representing the family in the lawsuit, says the witness claims that Amy was under the control of a man wearing a baseball cap.
“It was a clear day and she passed right by [the witness],” Hall says of the Puerto Rican man’s account. “She was firmly held. Her appearance was not that of a happy person, to say the least. The [witness] thought they were fighting. They didn’t look like they were getting along, like they were disagreeing.”
The witness said the man in the ballcap then guided a disoriented-looking Amy into a taxi, leading her much like a policeman would direct a suspect into the back seat of a squad car, according to Hall.
Hall won’t say more about the alleged abductor or the eyewitness for fear of harming the investigation, he says, though he adds there is a suspect in Amy’s disappearance.