Amy Bradley Update

[OwnedByALabrador]

"I have new evidence Amy Bradley is alive."​

Bombshell by private investigator trying to solve Caribbean cruise disappearance. Now he reveals fatal flaws in Netflix documentary, what they DIDN'T show... and new twist.​

Today, speaking publicly for the first time, the Bradley family’s private investigator Jim Carey, 61 – a retired American police officer who has spent four years retracing Amy’s final hours – claims Netflix omitted crucial details. He insists the series has set back his investigation and reveals his leading theory: one involving gangs, corrupt police and failings by the cruise firm Royal Caribbean.

Carey also claims he was told just last year that Amy is still alive.

{Mod Edit too much of the article posted}

Private eye's bombshell evidence in Caribbean cruise disappearance

It was just after 6am on March 24, 1998, when Ron Bradley realised his daughter had gone. Minutes earlier he had glimpsed her through the open balcony door - asleep, alone.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Serononin]

My big issue with the abduction/trafficking theory is that if there's this sophisticated network of people who plotted - and successfully managed - to kidnap a woman and smuggle her off a cruise ship, why has this seemingly never happened before or since? Why would traffickers, who presumably already had a successful 'trade' of victims acquired by the more common methods, choose to deviate from their pattern this one time to take a comparatively high-risk target (traffickers usually go for victims who have already 'fallen through the cracks' and are less likely to be missed, not tourists travelling with their families) from a high-risk location?

 

[OwnedByALabrador]

My big issue with the abduction/trafficking theory is that if there's this sophisticated network of people who plotted - and successfully managed - to kidnap a woman and smuggle her off a cruise ship, why has this seemingly never happened before or since? Why would traffickers, who presumably already had a successful 'trade' of victims acquired by the more common methods, choose to deviate from their pattern this one time to take a comparatively high-risk target (traffickers usually go for victims who have already 'fallen through the cracks' and are less likely to be missed, not tourists travelling with their families) from a high-risk location?

We don't know that it's never happened before or since. Other women have gone missing from cruise ships and we don't know their fate. Meriam Carver and Rebecca Coriam are just two names who come to mind.

I think it's also entirely possible that Amy was restless, so went up to the top part/where the disco had been, to watch the ship docking or get a coffee and have a cigarette. Then, maybe while heading back to her room - she encountered someone who had ill intent.

 

[dotr]

Nov 5, 2025 Untold
In this episode of “Untold – A WTVR Podcast,” Brad Bradley returns to give host Catie Beck an exclusive update on all the recent developments that have occurred concerning the case of his sister, Amy, who vanished aboard a cruise ship in 1998.

Nov 5, 2025 #amybradley #missing #eastidahonews
#eastidahonews #amybradley #missing IDAHO FALLS -- For the first time since Amy Bradley vanished from a cruise ship in 1998, the man who dated her in the months before the trip is speaking out.Tom, who requested his last name not be used for privacy reasons, spoke with EastIdahoNews.com via Zoom to address speculation that Amy was secretly gay and that her family rejected her. ''

 

[cenazoic]

Frank Jones, is that you?

 

[OwnedByALabrador]

A lot of the commentary seems to focus on Amy's coming out having been taken 'badly' by her family. But all of her close friends, and the guy she was dating, contradict this and state unequivocally that the family was on really good terms.

There is no way, to my mind, that Amy left out of choice. She was on the verge of a possible reconciliation with a woman she had loved; she had literally just adopted a new dog; she had a new apartment; a new job.

Friends and family also agree that she was fearful of heights and thus would not have tried perching on the railing, as some have speculated.

Finally - one aspect of this case which to me seems to get downplayed, is the way in which the photos of Amy disappeared. The photographer himself was apparently confused.

Someone took those pictures - did they want to show them to someone? Someone who was 'ordering' a girl...? Or did they take the photos to make it harder for a search for Amy to be organised? Or did someone simply see Amy, develop a fixation, take the photos - and then wait for a chance to get her alone...?

Either way, the removal of the photos suggests, strongly, that whatever happened was premeditated.

 

[dotr]

Frank Jones, is that you?

FJ refresher..
July 2025

Amy Bradley Vanished 27 Years Ago. Her Family Insists She’s Still Alive

Amy Bradley was on a cruise ship with her family when she disappeared in 1998. These are the major theories of her case and key points of the investigation.

www.yahoo.com

''In August 1999, a private investigator named Frank Jones, who said he was a former Green Beret in the U.S. Army, emailed the Bradleys with details of alleged sightings of Amy in Curaçao. He also offered to form a team of ex-Army Rangers and Navy SEALs for a rescue mission, and the family decided to hire him. According to Investigation Discovery, the Bradleys paid Jones a total of $210,000, largely from funds raised by a national missing children’s organization.

However, the entire story was a con: Jones never served in the Special Forces and had no knowledge of Amy’s location. He had staged fake photographs of a man and woman on a beach and claimed they showed Amy and an unknown captor.

In 2002, Jones pleaded guilty to mail fraud. He was sentenced to five years in prison and required to repay the money he received.''

 

[Queen of the Winter Night]

FJ refresher..
July 2025

Amy Bradley Vanished 27 Years Ago. Her Family Insists She’s Still Alive

Amy Bradley was on a cruise ship with her family when she disappeared in 1998. These are the major theories of her case and key points of the investigation.

www.yahoo.com

''In August 1999, a private investigator named Frank Jones, who said he was a former Green Beret in the U.S. Army, emailed the Bradleys with details of alleged sightings of Amy in Curaçao. He also offered to form a team of ex-Army Rangers and Navy SEALs for a rescue mission, and the family decided to hire him. According to Investigation Discovery, the Bradleys paid Jones a total of $210,000, largely from funds raised by a national missing children’s organization.

However, the entire story was a con: Jones never served in the Special Forces and had no knowledge of Amy’s location. He had staged fake photographs of a man and woman on a beach and claimed they showed Amy and an unknown captor.

In 2002, Jones pleaded guilty to mail fraud. He was sentenced to five years in prison and required to repay the money he received.''

And the family did not notice that the woman in the photos was not Amy and was instead some random woman?

 

[OwnedByALabrador]

And the family did not notice that the woman in the photos was not Amy and was instead some random woman?

The photos did not show the woman's face. They showed her back, and the scammers had recreated Amy's tattoos (on shoulder I think). It's not surprising the family believed this could be Amy and that they pursued it as a lead.