Netflix on the opening scene of the documentary, Amy Bradley is missing, Several interviewees share allegations of what happened to a 23 -year -old woman who disappeared while traveling with her family in 1998. On the royal Caribbean cruise ship.
“Someone killed her,” says one person. Another says, “I think she jumped or fell,” and the third says, “I think she was considered a sex slave. But I don’t know that.”
Bradley has long been the subject of such theories. 1998 March 24 About 3:40 p.m. Bradley returned to her family cruise cabin after the dance ship in the club space. Her dad, Ron, said he woke up briefly around 5:30 in the morning and saw her on the deck, but when he woke up at 6am, she was gone. The search for a four -day ship and the surrounding waters did not appear in Bradley traces.
The three -part Netflix series, which appeared on July 16, has no specific answers, but it deals with several theories by the police, as well as others, that true crime fans and internet folders fit into what happened that morning.
Theories in the documents
One of the first theories was investigated by the police that Bradley either fell overboard or took his life by jumping off the deck. But the Bradley family never supported neither theory, keeping that she thought she was still alive.
Amy and her brother Brad. (Netflix)
But Victor McCollum, the FBI agent, who was in the case, says in a documentary that immediately after Bradley’s disappeared, “there was no direct evidence that she was jumping.” Other survey authorities added that due to the location of the ship and other conditions in the water, surrounding it early March 24. In the morning, if Bradley were jumping, they would have found something.
“Due to the position of the boat, the wind force, the sea currents, the wave height – the body would be washed,” says Henry Vrutaal, Curaçao Coast Guard Officer. “But she’s not found anywhere. Not even a piece of clothes, nothing.”
Another theory revealed when a former video editor on board Chris Fenwick found the last known Bradley footage of her dances showing one of the cruise ship members Alister Douglas, which is usually indicated by his nickname “Yellow”. Another passenger, Lori Thompson, said she and a friend were sitting on the deck “Once upon a time from 5 to 6 in the morning” on March 24, when she saw Bradley and Douglas in a glass elevator. Thompson said about 15 minutes later, friends saw Douglas walking on the deck.
“I somehow got a bad vibe,” Thompson says in the series. “Immediately, I thought, ‘Where’s AMY?’
FBI agents say Douglas was interviewed and he “strictly denied” walking with Bradley in the early morning hours on board. He passed the polygraph test and had never been charged. Douglas, who was not interviewed by the Netflix series, talked about the case in an interview with Podcast 2024. October
“I told you from about five minutes to 1 in the morning [to Bradley]”Look, I have to go, I have to get out of [the] Passenger zone. “And I went out,” Douglas Podcast said. “That was my last conversation, the last time I saw her.”
Ron, Amy Father and Amy. (Netflix)
After her disappearance, some people said they had seen Bradley Curaçao, the Netherlands in the Caribbean, where the cruise ship was preparing for the dock when it disappeared, creating theories she had been kidnapped or sold in sex. At the end of the first episode, Canadian diver David Carmicheel says in 1998 August He saw Bradley with two men Curaçao, but at that time he didn’t know she was gone at the time.
However, the authorities have not confirmed any reports of Bradley’s observation since its disappearance. The FBI also stated that there was no evidence that Bradley had been kidnapped by someone who was on a cruise ship, and they were not seized or detained by any of the passengers for her case.
Internet slips tried to resolve this case for years
Netflix’s documentary can attract Bradley’s case to a new audience, but the vortexes of the Internet who are people who use online resources to investigate secrets and crimes have been deepened for many years to disappear.
Another indefinite photo of Amy. (Netflix)
These amateur researchers tend to meet in Reddit threads, Facebook groups and other online forums. Although the internet is a bit fortunate (online cheese has been credited to help identify people who have been involved in the US Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021), there are many cases where they have filed inaccurate and potentially harmful accusations.
The most popular theories of these communities are in line with what is discussed in the Netflix series: that Bradley has fallen overboard or has been kidnapped and still alive. However, so far, neither the Internet nor professional researchers have been able to find out what happened to Bradley.