What happened to Amy Bradley? Netflix doc explores chilling case

One of the cases of the strangest who disappeared in recent decades is being revised in a new Netflix documentation, Amy Bradley is missing.

Amy Lynn Bradley was traveling on the Royal Caribbean Rhapsody of the Seas Cruise ship with her family in March 1998 when she disappeared. The officials of the application of laws and cruises theorized that Amy had fallen over board, but his father, his mother and his brother thought that something more harmful had happened. As they sought to spread the word of his disappearance, the case was dissected on the news and on programs like The most sought after in America.

Now, 27 years later, the Bradleys continue to express themselves Amy Bradley is missingA three -part series of executive directors and producers Ari Mark and Phil Lott.

So what happened to Amy Bradley? Here’s what we know.

Who is Amy Bradley?

At the time of her disappearance, Amy was 23 years old and lived in the county of Chesterfield, Virginia. She was athlete, who attended the University of Longwood with a basketball scholarship and obtained a diploma in physical education.

Amy was on Rhapsody of the Seas With his parents, Iva and Ron, and his younger brother, Brad.

What happened to Amy Bradley?

According to the Richmond Times-DispatchAmy was seen for the last time on March 24, 1998. While the ship was sailing towards Curaçao, Antilles, her father woke up early in the morning to see Amy smoking on the balcony outside their cabin. When he woke up around 6 a.m., she left, just like her cigarettes and lighter. His fate remains unknown.

“Around 6 am, something woke me up again. I got up, I looked at the balcony and the balcony door was open from about 14 to 16 inches and Amy was not on deck,” said later Unresolved mysteries. “And I was a little funny feeling at that time, because it was different from her to be so early in the morning.”

The previous night, Amy and her 21 -year -old brother Brad had been during a party until about 3:30 am Times-Dispatch Brad watch returning to the family’s cabin at 3:40 am and Amy arriving five minutes later.

The ship accosted in Curaçao around 6 a.m., during which Ron began to search for the Amy ship. Unable to find her, he woke up Iva and Brad and alerted the crew of the ship. The Bradleys asked the staff to prohibit passengers from landing, but they refused, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

In the coming days, Royal Caribbean has carried out in -depth research of the ship and called on FBI agents with trained dogs, according to the Miami Herald. The Netherlands Antilles of the Netherlands had a four-day excavation in the region, but found nothing. Cruise officials thought she had fallen over board, but the Bradleys feared being kidnapped.

Unsatisfied, the Bradleys worked to promote the disappearance of Amy, publish websites on her case and appear on programs like Unresolved mysteries And America is the most sought after.

Has anyone saw Amy Bradley after having disappeared?

In the months and years which followed the disappearance of Amy, the Bradleys were informed of several potential observations of her.

THE Times-Dispatch reported that a Curaçao taxi driver told Ron that the passengers had landed from the ship, “urgently” Amy asked her where she could find a phone, but walked in the opposite direction when he informed it of the place where to locate one.

Two women who had met Amy on the cruise would also have spotted her on board a few minutes before 6 am with Alister Douglas, alias Yellow, who played in a group on the cruise. Speak Times-DispatchAmy had spoken with him in the hours preceding his disappearance.

Brad later recalled that he had been approached by Douglas while he and his parents searched the ship Amy. Douglas would have told Brad that he was “sorry for your sister” and that he felt “guilty”, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Douglas was publicly appointed suspect on The most sought after in AmericaHowever, like the Times-Dispatch Reported, a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean said that Douglas had voluntarily submitted to a polygraphic test for the FBI and that he had passed.

His shadow on the case continued to loom, however. A diver named David Carmichael said he saw a woman resembling Amy with two men in Curaçao, one of whom he would say later was a dead ringtone for Douglas, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Carmichael said that when she heard her speaks English, she drew her attention but was quickly jostled in a neighboring bar, where she continued to establish visual contact with Carmichael. He did not establish the connection until months later, after learning the case of Amy on The most sought after in America And Unresolved mysteries.

He and his companion not only recognized his eyes, but also his distinctive tattoos, who included a Tasmanian devil spinning a basketball on his shoulder, according to a FBI report.

“I was amazed,” said Carmichael, who, as reported by people, later went to visit the Bradleys to share his story. “I am haunted by this meeting with Amy. I know it was her. ”

Another notable potential observation involved William Hefner, a veteran of the American navy who admitted to be in an illegal brothel in Curaçao in January 1999. According to the Richmond Times-DispatchHe said that a “desperate” woman he supposed to be a sex worker told him that her name was “Amy Bradley” – although he heard her as “Bratley” – and that she was in “difficulty” and that she was detained against her will.

When he advised her to ask for help in an American ship at the neighboring port, she told him that it was not possible. The conversation ended when one of the men she was with the interrupted.

It was three years later, in May 2002, that he reported the incident after seeing a photo of Bradley magazine in People.

Where can I look Amy Bradley is missing?

Amy Bradley is missing is now available to broadcast on Netflix.

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