You missed my point. Just because we, as non criminals/human traffickers (at least i hope), cannot wrap our heads around why she would’ve been taken or why xyz would’ve happened, doesn’t mean it’s impossible. There are a lot of things that have happened in the world that I would’ve never ever thought possible and still struggle to believe actually occurred. I was on the bus to high school on 9/11/2001 and when it was announced on the radio that a plane hit a tower in NYC I thought it was an accidental crash. When I later saw the footage and found out it was terrorism I couldn’t believe it, and frankly still struggle to truly grasp it. Out of all the flights that happen every single day, crashes are rare, and intentional crashes into buildings even rarer. Does that mean it didn’t happen and we all imagined it? Again, Statistics do not equal actual hard evidence. You can use them to guide your thinking and support your theory, absolutely, but they can’t be used to outright dismiss something. Statistically rare things happen to people all the time.
Right.
The problem is that this sort of convoluted conspiracy, something that the family insists including escorted international trips that would be extraordinarily high risk, is something that has never been demonstrated before or since.
Can anyone point to a single case, before and after, of a cruise ship passenger travelling with her family en route to a stable destination (not yet having arrived there) being abducted and made into a sex slave?
It is not a matter of not being able to get a head around the idea. It is a matter of this sort of high-risk abduction and multi-year detention not being something in the interest of sex traffickers, and frankly not something that they would have to do. There were millions of perfectly average white women living next door to Curaçao in Venezuela at the time, a country that was experiencing times yard enough that plausibly many Amys would have freely presented themselves. Going after a tourist—especially a tourist travelling with her family, and seen as such if this hypothetical gang had hypothetical agents on board—would not make sense. Why seek out trouble?
One thing that could easily have happened is some sort of lethal attack on Amy, whether on the cruise ship or perhaps even on land if she had somehow disembarked. This is something that the Bradleys seem not have explored at all, even though it is imaginable. Why?
Let's go back to Jimmy Hoffa. If Hoffa's family had insisted after he disappeared that he had not been murdered by the Mafia, but rather that he met with people unknown to anyone who helped him relocate to a pleasant life on an obscure Pacific island, we would not recognize this as a serious theory. We would recognize this as an expression of the family's deep grief, their desperate desire to believe that their loved one was still alive even if our of their reach. Compare the Sodder family's insistence that the missing children had not been burned up in that tragic Christmas fire, but were rather being kept alive by a mysterious conspiracy, just outside of rescue.
This might even extend to intentional misrepresentation and false claims. Here on Websleuths, multiple people looked for an article that George Sodder claimed to have seen featuring a child who looked like one of the missing children.
Originally Posted by Shadow205
I need help researching and trying to find an old magazine. You will remember mentioned that George Sodder saw a picture of a young girl in a magazine that he beleived was Betty. He traveled to New York in an attempt to identify the girl but was not allowed to see her. Here is the letter that he wrote to the school;
Walt Whitman School
25 East 78th Street
New York, NY
Attn: Miss Louise Krueger, Director...
The consensus seems to be that the article never existed, or that it did, so many of the particulars were drastically off. We can compare how the Bradleys created a narrative of an Amy who was so obviously attractive to heterosexual men on the cruise that she was a top target for an unprecedented abduction, substantially out of their prior concern about how Amy was out as queer and preferred a butch style.
