Unfortunately their sightings can't be confirmed (including the time) and they also are the only sightings of Yellow or Amy after (I think), 3:30-ish AM. If she left the room between 5:30 and whenever the father woke (5:50?) - it's hard to believe more wouldn't have seen either or both of them, at some point.
Agreed. I think the one woman interviewed truly believes she saw Amy in the glass elevator, and as of now I'd say it's certainly possible. But
before Amy went back to her cabin. You usually settle into your own go-to routes on a ship, so while she went up in the elevator, she may have then staired it to her cabin on 8. The ROS only has 12 decks, and her cabin was almost dead center, so close to stairs and an elevator. Meanwhile staff/crew cabins are the dungeon decks, so I'd say Yellow (who I'd give the ID benefit of the doubt to the witness as well) was taking her
up to meet a 3rd person who had drugs and not to his own cabin. We can't know, but I'd guess Yellow likely wouldn't have anything on himself if he'd been on a dance floor interacting with passengers and other crew all night. And certainly not an actual transaction with security cameras and cell phones popping up. I don't know his business acumen, but he certainly had a good gig going with his music and lots of women, why risk it all to get someone high for an hour? Better to hook her up afterwards.
I don't recall but I imagine this witness was unsober...but even if not time is fuzzy, vacation time in the wee hours even more so. Do you say "hey there's that chick that was doing the Macarena, what time is it?" and dutifully check your watch or phone? Furthermore, cruises are like casinos...there intentionally is no time keeping outside the customer service desk and main screen in the common area. Regardless, seeing Amy still fits before she enters her cabin. It also makes more sense for Amy to be with Yellow right after the nightlcub than hours later. I'd accept a drug deal between new partier acquaintances (who both knew Amy was gay) over Yellow throwing her overboard (so risky it defies logic unless she pulled a gun out of the ether on him and he acted in self defense, erm). Or worse arranging her kidnapping off a major cruiseline with security (you could argue less than stellar security compared to now) but still a wholly unnecessary risk to A LOT more than just his job as a bass player.
As Devil's Advocate for his involvement in
anything, it'd be far easier to give her bad intel on where to go in port and then get a share on a robbery. But even then, is it worth it? If it's botched, the robber sings. As for the oldest profession, there are thousands of already on-shore girls/teens/women (and men I might add) vacationing who could disappear exponentially faster, let alone more smoothly in terms of planning/risk. Different circumstances, but Natalee Holloway leaving a bar with a local is a lot less "things have to go exactly right" than abducting someone off a ship with thousands of eyes and chances for discovery. To believe Amy was a forced escort, makes it necessary to believe she was taken in some way. To believe it was from port means she didn't tell anyone where she was going (also possible, but if you believe her Dad was such a worrier, it's sticky) - but to believe she was hustled off the ship against her will makes it all too fantastical. Not just the machinations of it, but the reasoning...there's no shortage of trafficking victims and they are refreshed as they age out. Even if she were an escort in 1998, she wouldn't be usable for long, and very likely dead before that. Harsh yes, reality yes.
As for Yellow not acknowledging the witness on his way back, maybe he is a dog and he'd exhausted his effort on them, maybe he was high and was totally unaware of them while looking directly at them. "He's stonefaced because he just killed or stuffed an unconcious Amy into a suitcase and is trying to be invisible" would be my last guess, especially since that
would be potentially medmorable and not playing it cool. Cruise staff, like resort staff, excel at playing it cool, with everyone, not just the ladies - let there be tips. But unless he's a professional hitman or otherwise made of ice, if he'd done something to Amy he'd also probably use staff exits to get back to his cabin, not be strolling along the most passenger prone areas.
I think Yellow is guilty of being a player and unfaithful to his wife. And potentially a bad father, though the segment with his daughter IMO was not only edited out of order, but intentionally made it look like he hung up on her. Plus no earth-shattering takeaways, so who knows. The "Beware of Yellow" posts look to me like pissed conquests, and fair enough, no one accused him of being a saint. Same for his collection of pictures, the guy likes <censored>. In defense of his apparent MO, even if it didn't 'work out' with Amy, he'd have new batch of options in a few days, and every week after that for his months-long tour. I don't think it's the case with Amy, but my point is it wouldn't have been his first rodeo being rejected. He's not likely to cry over spilled milk, and to make the leap to killing her I don't buy.
We also don't know if he gave her anything in the first place. I have always assumed weed, and they smoked it together and/or she took some for the road. But what if he gave her something stronger? She gets back and chats with Brad, they both do it or he goes to bed and she takes it. Instead of being mellow with munchies she's tripping and thinks she can fly and it doesn't end well. It'd be even worse if someone other than Yellow gave it to her. I know, we have no released evidence she did hard drugs. But maybe she'd been drinking and decided to try it for the first time. Because we have no evidence she didn't. For so many what-ifs it's amazing the only fact of those early morning hours is a door key timestamp.
