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That archived page is the KRM lawfirm that represented Royal Caribbean. Do we have a legal government resource for the case?
That archived page is the KRM lawfirm that represented Royal Caribbean. Do we have a legal government resource for the case?
I'm guessing that is due to age, not a conspiracy. A lot of older articles will get taken down. I'll bet we could find them using the Wayback Machine, if we had the original links to start with.
I can't speak for anyone else, but personally, I just want the facts. I'm not interested in discrediting anybody; I just want to theorize what might have happened with Amy. But people need to be willing to look at ALL of the facts, not just the ones that fit the narrative that they like best. And we need to separate the actual facts from speculations and opinions. I mean, I'm sorry, but some guy glaring at Amy from the top deck does not equal "he was planning to kidnap her." I mean, the poor guy could have had the sun in his eyes.
I'm totally open to the idea that Amy could have been abducted and murdered, or abducted and taken off the ship. I'm also open to the idea that she fell overboard, because I believe in being open to every possibility.
Well, let me give you a counter-point.
In terms of falling overboard or drowning, it seems in most articles (and discussions) that possibility was immediately dismissed because Amy was a trained lifeguard.
So that's it? Lifeguards don't drown? It's such an overlooked possibility in my opinion, especially from my point of view as a boater, as I discussed pages ago.
I'm guessing that is due to age, not a conspiracy. A lot of older articles will get taken down. I'll bet we could find them using the Wayback Machine, if we had the original links to start with.
I can't speak for anyone else, but personally, I just want the facts. I'm not interested in discrediting anybody; I just want to theorize what might have happened with Amy. But people need to be willing to look at ALL of the facts, not just the ones that fit the narrative that they like best. And we need to separate the actual facts from speculations and opinions. I mean, I'm sorry, but some guy glaring at Amy from the top deck does not equal "he was planning to kidnap her." I mean, the poor guy could have had the sun in his eyes.
I'm totally open to the idea that Amy could have been abducted and murdered, or abducted and taken off the ship. I'm also open to the idea that she fell overboard, because I believe in being open to every possibility.
I'd love it if anyone can provide a point where it was discovered she changed clothes. I noticed in the early articles, it doesn't mention a change of clothes, but I can't really pin point where it started to be in the reports.
My point about the witnesses and the distressed mother- eyewitness reports are notoriously unreliable (I assume I don't have to provide a link for that since it is common knowledge) and then throw in a frantic and desperate mother (yes, she had every right to be).... All I'm saying is maybe the did see her and maybe they didn't. Or maybe they saw her and the timing was off. I guess it could be another of the hundreds (thousands?) of unsubstantiated eyewitness reports the Bradleys have gotten over the last 17 years.
That is the part that is awful for this family. 17 years later and Amy is still no where to be found.
I don't presume to know how that feels for the Bradleys. I imagine it is the most horrific thing that can happen to a parent, and frankly, I don't know how they are even able to stay upright much less get through a day.
I know they believe she is alive and they want her to be alive, but the sad reality is... That doesn't mean she is alive. She is either alive or she is dead. They are both possible at this point.
Until Amy turns up (IF she ever turns up), anything is possible.
IIRC, it was in the Vanished episode ... her family had noticed that she changed clothes. (Sorry, I can't view again due to my bandwidth overages now costing me $250 per month )
As an aside ... what I don't understand are the insinuations (found elsewhere, paraphrased here) that it is supposedly known what happened to Amy, we will be surprised by the simplicity of it all when we find out, leaking information could endanger her, but that forums will be of no value in finding her. We've sleuthed for years, and without new information, hard as heck to know what to even sleuth on.
Well, let me give you a counter-point.
In terms of falling overboard or drowning, it seems in most articles (and discussions) that possibility was immediately dismissed because Amy was a trained lifeguard.
So that's it? Lifeguards don't drown? It's such an overlooked possibility in my opinion, especially from my point of view as a boater, as I discussed pages ago.
<rsbm>It was in something I quoted a page or two back. Her father was the one who said she had changed clothes. I'm wondering how he knew that. Was there a pile of clothing on the floor? Missing shoes?
Also, people forget that, if she or anyone else went overboard, they fell from a great height. The fall itself could be fatal. At the very least, it probably would have knocked them unconscious. People don't realize that hitting water at a high rate of speed or from a great height is like hitting concrete. It's not like jumping into a swimming pool.
Or have you thought she could have been abducted by AD and taken off the ship? Just throwing that out there for consideration.She could have hit the ship itself going down and sustained a head injury before she hit the water. She could have had the gasp reflex, causing immediate drowning. She could have broken her neck or back hitting the water. She could have gotten sucked under the ship long enough to drown.
People fall off their boats and drown 1/4 mile offshore.
she would have had no personal flotation device. This is critical to survival.
Plenty of possibilities here....
To say that witnesses would tell a parent anything just because they are intimidated by the situation, IMO is ludicrous. If you are aware of this having happened elsewhere, I'd appreciate reading about it.