VA - Amy Bradley - missing from cruise ship, Curacao - 1998 #3
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<modsnip - quoted post was snipped> The FBI is not releasing what they know or do not know and they are not closing the case because it is not solved.
They may be aggressively investigating and have far more evidence than we know or they may be investigating tips as they come in and otherwise expending little manpower on this case. Someday the FBI may release all the evidence they have, although I suspect we know most of it and none of it has solved the mystery.
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The Search for Amy Lynn Bradley
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I don't think there's a single person here who doesn't want the FBI to make a breakthrough on the case and solve it. I also don't think there's a single person here who would get upset if their theory as to what happened to Amy is proven wrong.
It would be amazing if the FBI was currently one break in the case away from solving it and returning Amy to her family. Unfortunately, that seems extremely unlikely, but I've been wrong many times before.
There's no concrete signs of foul play in Amy's case, either, and the FBI is still supposedly actively investigating it. There was an alleged sighting of Rebecca Coriam about a year after she went missing, too.
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Yes she was supposedly drugged then put in a container and taken off the ship. She was seen
by a taxi driver though she was asked for assistance to find a phone. why? Now I think she realised that she was in a situation hence being drugged and tried to escape though she wasn’t lucid enough to get away.
I don’t remember reading anywhere that she was drugged, put in a shipping container and taken off the ship.
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DO you think she fell overboard and was drowned??And the kidnapping was just a coverup?? There have been reported sightings of her.
Unreliable and unverified in my opinion.
Hi Tower, just curious if you were ever able to read the original thread for Amy that is no longer available here? Many people on this thread do remember following and participating in that thread. There was a wealth of very convincing information contained therein. It's something that you just can't "un-know" if you know what I mean. I'll add that any of us can read anything put forward here and declare it unreliable and unverified but it doesn't mean that it is false. We have seen that happen here many times over.
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I remember reading it. Why such questionability? It was reported.
It’s questionable because the so called sightings lack validity and reliability. IMO traffickers would not target a young woman holidaying with family. I believe this was a death that occurred on that ship, whether accidental or intentional. But that’s just my opinion.
We all have to agree to disagree as the validity and reliability. Just a sidenote and my opinion only, but I think when people ask for a "why" from someone they are really asking for an explanation exactly why it lacks those things, in your opinion. It can make for some good discussion instead of cutting it off bluntly.
Edited to add that I have pondered the whole trafficking thing and it doesn't make sense to me in the way that most of us think of trafficking. I believe that someone did take her and I believe that it is someone very different from that. However, I do admit to not knowing what that criminal enterprise is. I think so many years have passed now and we were unable back then to fully comprehend all of the nefarious and powerful criminal networks that existed. We now know much more and I am sure we still do not know it all. Lots of room for discussion on that front. All my own opinions.
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Yes I know it has been reported.
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How do we know Amy left her sandals and all her shoes in the cabin/room? Does anyone have a link to the family stating this? Just making sure it's confirmed and not something I read that's inaccurate.
If she indeed left that room without her shoes, it could mean one of three things:
1. overboard
2. she exited the front door barefoot intentionally (that hallway carpet is probably yucky but maybe she didn't mind?)
3. she exited the front door barefoot unintentionally (she absent-mindedly walked out having been lounging barefoot on the balcony, only to realized she'd forgotten to put on sandals [I could see myself doing this]. But she didn't want to wake her family by opening the front door again so just left without shoes.)
If she indeed left that room without her shoes, it could mean one of three things:
1. overboard
2. she exited the front door barefoot intentionally (that hallway carpet is probably yucky but maybe she didn't mind?)
3. she exited the front door barefoot unintentionally (she absent-mindedly walked out having been lounging barefoot on the balcony, only to realized she'd forgotten to put on sandals [I could see myself doing this]. But she didn't want to wake her family by opening the front door again so just left without shoes.)
I’ve read everything here and from many other sources essentially from day one. I have a close personal connection to certain aspects of her name, so from the initial media reports of the story, I have been interested and read everything I could. But I’m not a fan of an unsolvable missing persons case, it’s sad for the family and none of us will ever have answers. I believe this case is unsolvable.
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About the accidental overboard theory:
Like Amy, I'm a 5'6" woman with a longish torso. I have measured various objects around my house to see if I could fathom accidentally tumbling over the side of a railing at that height-- even if I was unsteady, drunk, and /or leaning over to vomit.
The cruise line currently mandates balcony railings be a height of 42". This comes up to my lower ribs. I'm not tumbling over that height without someone's help, or catapulting myself.
But maybe the railings were lower in 1998. However, even at 36" which comes to just below my navel, I can't imagine accidentally "falling over" the side of my kitchen island which is 36". Just not gonna happen even if I'm vomiting over the side. I'd have to climb up onto a 36" railing to go over the edge.
And railings lower than 36" do not seem plausible to me. My money is that they were 42" (lower rib level for Amy), and no lower than 38".
Like Amy, I'm a 5'6" woman with a longish torso. I have measured various objects around my house to see if I could fathom accidentally tumbling over the side of a railing at that height-- even if I was unsteady, drunk, and /or leaning over to vomit.
The cruise line currently mandates balcony railings be a height of 42". This comes up to my lower ribs. I'm not tumbling over that height without someone's help, or catapulting myself.
But maybe the railings were lower in 1998. However, even at 36" which comes to just below my navel, I can't imagine accidentally "falling over" the side of my kitchen island which is 36". Just not gonna happen even if I'm vomiting over the side. I'd have to climb up onto a 36" railing to go over the edge.
And railings lower than 36" do not seem plausible to me. My money is that they were 42" (lower rib level for Amy), and no lower than 38".
Railings are confirmed upthread to be much lower in 1998. The international regulations required between 34 and 38 inches at that time, but the exact number is documented earlier in this thread somewhere.
The fact is that a fair number of people go over the railings every year, albeit a small percentage of the total number of passengers. Since her disappearance was unwitnessed, there’s no evidence to confirm how she left the ship.
The Bradleys are adamant that Amy didn’t jump. She wasn’t suicidal and she wasn’t stupid, they say, and she was afraid of the ocean. As for any shoes being left in the room or on the balcony, Amy packed at least 10 pair, they say, and they’re not sure which are missing.
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