http://www.drphil.com/slideshows/slideshow/2926/?id=2926&showID=623
Amy's mother, Iva, explains how the cruise came about. "In 1998 my husband, Ron, won a trip and so we went as a family. Our first stop was Aruba, and then after that was Curuçao. When we were on the ship, we noticed immediately there was a tremendous amount of attention toward Amy from the crew members. After dinner, the waiter came out of the dining room and asked me where Amy was, and I asked him why, and he said, 'Well, we want to take her to Carlos 'N Charlie's.'
"When the waiter asked, I thought it was maybe a little forward of him to be asking those types of questions," Ron adds.
"When Amy came back, I said, 'The waiter wants to take you to Carlos 'N Charlie's with his friends.' And then Amy looked at me and said, 'They're creepy. And I'm not going anywhere with them.'"
"There was a dance troupe that was allowed onboard the ship," Iva continues. "There was a bass player who I noticed. And he was a very unsavory looking character. Amy told her brother, Brad, that the bass player had been hitting on her. She said that he was a real jerk."
These are statements made by the Bradleys to Dr. Phil. This information is completely correct. Alister Douglas (Yellow) was not the only member of the crew who was overly attentive to Amy. Alister Douglas was the bass player in the band. Another attentive crew member was a Portuguese waiter. He asked Amy to go with the crew to Carlos and Charlies the night before she disappeared. Amy thought that these crew members were creepy and she didn't go with them. She stayed on the ship with her family. She took part in a limbo contest and then she went to the disco with her brother, Brad. The waiter made some unusual comments to the Bradleys, the following day.
I personally believe that there were at least two crew members who handed Amy over to someone for her removal from the ship. Alister Douglas was the last person seen with Amy in the disco area of the ship. He was carrying a dark liquid (coffee?) for her. A short time later, though, he was found in his room supposedly asleep. I do believe that Amy was passed to someone else where she was kept until she was moved off of the ship. Amy's removal from the ship was probably in a laundry cart, a large box, or a trunk. She could not have walked off of the ship and proceeded through Customs because she did not have her passport. Royal Caribbean made no attempt to stop passengers from leaving the ship and they made no attempt to inspect anything coming off of the ship, after they learned that Amy was missing. I believe that Amy was selected by someone connected to Royal Caribbean and Curacao. I believe that Alister Douglas was not the only crew member paid to deliver Amy.
Amy was taken off of Rhapsody of the Seas in the Curacao cruise terminal. She was probably drugged and in a container. It is very unlikely that the taxi driver saw her running through the parking lot, especially when he never noticed that she wasn't wearing shoes. The Curacao cruise terminal is only blocks from the old Otrobanda hotel where she was seen, less than a year later.
