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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Is Amy Bradley Alive? Why Her Family Feels Closer Than Ever to Learning What Happened on Cruise Ship (Exclusive)
Following a popular Netflix docuseries, Amy Bradley's family continues to investigate the mystery that has been at the center of their lives for 27 years NEED TO KNOW Amy Bradley vanished while aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas, a cruise ship touring the Caribbean, on March 24, 1998 Amy had been on vacation with her brother, Brad, and her parents, Ron and Iva, who have not given up hope that their daughter is still alive somewhere Theories about her disappearance range from her having fallen from a balcony or having died by suicide to her being abducted by sex traffickers and held against her will It was a fun-filled trip — until the sun came up on March 24, 1998. Hours earlier, on the first stop of a Caribbean cruise with his family, Brad Bradley recalls touring the sunny island of Aruba with his sister, Amy, 23, in a rented convertible SUV. Back aboard Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas, the siblings dressed for that night's formal dinner and spent time with their parents, Ron and Iva Bradley, at a pool deck party before heading to the ship's rooftop club where they briefly parted ways to chat with other passengers. Sometime after 3:30 a.m., they were back together, Brad says, relaxing on the balcony of the family's cabin as their parents slept inside: 'I don't remember looking at a clock but at 4, maybe 4:10, I went to bed.' Today, Brad feels fortunate that he thought to say 'I love you,' because those words may be the last he will ever speak to his sister. At around 5:30 a.m., Ron, 73, stirred in his sleep and glimpsed Amy on a lounge chair outside. But when he woke after dawn some 30 minutes later, she was gone without a trace. Nearly three decades later, Amy Bradley's disappearance — as the cruise ship approached the port of Curaçao — is an enduring mystery debated on TV talk shows and true-crime podcasts and recently spotlighted in Netflix's hit three-part documentary Amy Bradley Is Missing. It has spawned a constellation of theoretical explanations — including an accidental fall from the balcony, death by suicide and abduction aboard the vessel by sex traffickers — and led to more than a half-dozen reported sightings over the years, as well as a still-open investigation by the FBI. Yet to this day, her anguished family, who have become dogged investigators themselves, don't know what really happened to Amy. Still, they firmly believe she is alive. 'People can't understand the level of hope that we've maintained,' says Brad, 48. 'We're still waiting for that call.' Brad, who was 21 at the time and home from college, says he and his sister were excited to embark on the Caribbean cruise with parents they both enjoyed spending time with. The siblings grew up in Chesterfield, Va., where Amy excelled at sports and went on to play basketball at Longwood University. While in college, she came out as gay to her parents, who grew to accept her sexuality and invited the people she was dating — both women and men — to their home and on vacations. But it was just the four members of the tight-knit family aboard the cruise ship the morning Amy disappeared. When Ron woke at around 6 a.m., the door to the balcony was partially open, but Amy wasn't in the cabin. He immediately searched the ship, thinking he'd quickly locate his daughter. But when nothing turned up, the concerned father woke up his wife to tell her the worrisome news: Amy was missing. From the very beginning, the family never considered it possible that Amy accidentally fell overboard — or jumped to her death by suicide. A recent college graduate, she was about to start a new job and had just moved into a new apartment and gotten a bulldog named Bailey. 'She had way too much going for her,' says Brad. Ron and Iva reported their daughter missing to the ship's crew and begged them not to let anyone off the ship, which was now docked in Curaçao. Iva explains that Amy was meticulous about informing her parents of her whereabouts. 'She's not going to leave the room and not come back without leaving a note,' she says. 'My intuition was something is terribly wrong.' Fearful that somebody had harmed Amy or was holding her against her will, Ron and Iva requested that the ship be thoroughly searched before any passengers disembarked. The crew declined to stop people from leaving and eventually paged Amy, who did not respond. Later that day the crew searched the ship. 'Nothing was found,' says cruise director Kirk Detweiler in the Netflix documentary. 'Everyone, from at least the employees' side, was just assuming that she jumped or fell overboard.' Two days after Amy disappeared, FBI agents boarded the ship, which had continued the cruise and was now docked in St. Maarten. They interviewed the Bradleys, crew members and solo passenger Wayne Breitag, who had occupied the cabin next to the Bradleys and had shown an interest in Amy, speaking to her several times through the partition that separated their balconies. The FBI also interviewed Alister 'Yellow' Douglas, the bass player in the band Blue Orchid, who was seen on video dancing with Amy at the nightclub before her disappearance. Brad says Amy told him when they were on the balcony early on March 24 that Douglas had made a pass at her. Oddly, Brad says, Douglas approached him and said he was 'sorry to hear about my sister' later that morning but before an announcement had been made that Amy was missing. Two passengers later told the Bradleys that they had seen Amy and Douglas walking into an elevator between 5 and 6 a.m. on March 24, before seeing Douglas return alone 15 minutes later. Although the Bradleys continue to believe Douglas may have been involved in Amy's disappearance, he has repeatedly denied having anything to do with it and agreed to take a lie detector test. (The results were inconclusive.) The FBI has not accused him of a crime. The FBI also spoke to the passengers who say they spotted Douglas with Amy after she was last seen by her family, but Special Agent Erin Sheridan, who works on the case, says in the documentary that investigators couldn't establish a reliable timeline of the events they reported. The FBI has also investigated several of the reported sightings of Amy in the Caribbean region and in the U.S., but to no avail. The Bradley family continues to explore every theory. Since the release of the popular documentary, they say, they have received many new tips and leads on their website, recently learned via social media that the partitions separating the balconies on the cruise ship can be opened, leading to speculation about whether Breitag, their next-door neighbor, may have allowed a third party access to his cabin to abduct Amy and take her off the ship. (Breitag denies any involvement and insists that the wall between balconies could not be opened.) And Douglas remains in the family's crosshairs. Brad wants him, as well as Breitag, to take a new round of lie detector tests using today's updated technology. But since Douglas is not a U.S. citizen and is currently living in Grenada, a country in the Caribbean, that is unlikely to happen. Attempts to reach Douglas for comment were unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Iva says, she told the FBI about the mother of one of the young passengers who reported seeing Amy and Douglas getting into an elevator early on the morning of March 24. According to Iva, the mother can confirm that her daughter returned to her family's cabin just after 6 a.m. But the FBI has yet to speak to the mother, Iva says. After the documentary came out, Iva says, Sheridan contacted her and told her that investigators never found any evidence that Amy had ever left the family's cabin. Iva disputes the finding. 'My response was, 'Nobody interviewed the mother of the two girls that opened the door that morning at 6 a.m.,'" she Bradleys hold on to their faith that eventually Amy will return. They believe she is possibly a mother living overseas against her will and that her children are being used as leverage to prevent her from seeking help. While they are working with the FBI, the family also has a dedicated team of investigators who chase down every tip that comes their way. And they keep Amy's beloved Mazda Miata just as she left it in the hope that she will come back soon. 'We get up in the morning, we say, 'Maybe today,' and we follow leads, and we take calls,' Iva says. 'And then at night we have a special little kiss for Amy, and we say, 'Maybe tomorrow.' ' If you have information about Amy Bradley, contact or the FBI at Read the original article on People
Fox News
5 days ago
- Fox News
Brother of woman who vanished from cruise 27 years ago reveals critical third witness
The brother of the missing woman featured in the hit Netflix docuseries "Amy Bradley is Missing" spoke with Fox News Digital to disclose further information in the case that was not discussed on the show. Amy Bradley has been missing for 27 years since she vanished from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas just before it docked in Curaçao on a March 1998 vacation. The documentary sheds light on Bradley's case - from the circumstances of her disappearance, to witness sightings, to her family's grueling decadeslong quest for answers about what exactly happened to her. The series focuses heavily on Alister "Yellow" Douglas, referred to only as Yellow by those familiar with the case, who was the bassist in the cruise ship's band and is the Bradley family's top suspect in her disappearance. On the night of March 23, 1998, Amy and her brother, Brad Bradley, stayed up late partying aboard the ship. Amy was seen dancing with Yellow, who had taken a keen interest in her, in the Blue Orchid Lounge, a dance club on the ship's upper deck. Around 3:35 a.m. on the morning of March 24, Brad returned to the family's cabin to relax, followed shortly thereafter by Amy, who retired to the room only about five minutes later. The pair spent time on the balcony of their room, smoking cigarettes and talking until Brad went to bed. At 5:30 a.m., Ron Bradley, Amy and Brad's father, woke up and saw Amy asleep in a lounge chair on the balcony. The balcony door was closed. Around a half-hour later, Ron checked on Amy again, but she was gone. The balcony door was slightly ajar and her shoes and the yellow shirt she had been wearing were still inside the room. The Bradley's then started a frantic search for Amy, alerting the ship's crew that she was missing. Royal Caribbean said all the rooms and public spaces on the ship were checked, but Amy was not found. The Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard searched for Amy for four days to no avail, and the FBI was dispatched to investigate. "Let me preface by saying we are forever grateful to Ari Mark and Phil Lott," Brad Bradley told Fox News Digital, referring to the film's producers and directors. "The producers did an amazing job. We're very happy with the show and how much attention it's garnered around the world. I mean, I've said on many interviews, it has literally single-handedly revitalized [Amy's] name around the word." When asked what he wished to convey that was not seen in the documentary, Brad immediately honed in on the FBI's investigation, or in his view, the lack thereof. "Making people understand, in my opinion, the failure of the FBI in our case to do their due diligence to investigate the case properly and thoroughly," he said when asked what he wishes more people knew about the case. Brad said that the FBI immediately dropped the ball on the investigation, beginning with the most basic investigative procedure: establishing a timeline of the disappearance. Just before 6:00 a.m. on March 24, two women named Lori and Crystal, who were sitting on the deck of the ship, watched Amy and Yellow ride a glass elevator up to the Blue Orchid Lounge. That was around the time Ron noticed Amy was missing from the ship. They reported seeing Amy with a camera, and Yellow handing her a brown drink. Soon after, the women said, Yellow briskly walked past them alone. They were two of the last witnesses to see Amy alive. They returned to their room just a bit later and were let in by one of the girls' mothers. Since they did not use a key to get into the room, there was no certain way to know exactly what time they entered, which is critical to piecing together when exactly Amy disappeared. "On the Netflix series, you'll hear the agent from the FBI say, 'unfortunately, we weren't able to corroborate their timeframe,' essentially in kind of a dismissive way," Brad said. "But we found and have, through even very recent conversations in the past week, my mom has spoken with the mother of one of the two girls who let them into their room just after 6 a.m. … and the FBI never questioned her on the boat, and they never have questioned her to this day. They never interviewed her," he continued. "And again, after speaking with the mother the other day, she remains adamant that she let them in just after 6 a.m., and they were out at the time they said they were," Brad said. Also, Brad continued, there was a third witness, who was not mentioned in the documentary, around the 6:00 a.m. timeframe to see Amy. The third witness, named Elizabeth, later testified before a grand jury that she saw Amy and Yellow in the lounge and watched Yellow make Amy a brown drink. She said she then watched the pair move out of her line of sight, according to Brad. Then, according to Brad, she testified to a shocking detail that has not widely been made public. "And then she says a young girl about 18 or 19 years old, she suspected … comes out of the back yelling 'senorita kidnap,' 'senorita kidnap,' more than one time," Brad said. The Bradleys are currently attempting to locate Elizabeth in hopes of gathering more information. Further, Yellow approached Brad at about 7:30 a.m. as he sat on the deck of the ship. Brad was dejected as the immediate search for Amy was unsuccessful. He says that Yellow apologized to him about his missing sister, before any public announcement had been made about Amy's disappearance. "I don't know, but I think [Yellow] went and handed [Amy] off to somebody who took her down into the crew quarters," Brad said, positing a theory about the disappearance. "The two girls that, on the outside, that saw him go up the elevator with her, said that he came down some minutes later by himself and walked directly past them, never looked at him, when he'd been trying to holler at them previously." Over the years, there have been several sightings of a woman believed to be Amy. Tourist Judy Maurer said in the documentary that she witnessed a woman she believed to be Amy while in a public restroom in Barbados, before three men allegedly escorted the woman away. David Carmichael, a Canadian diver, also said in the docuseries that he may have seen Bradley while visiting Curaçao, adding that she was "flanked by two people," one of whom he suspected was "Yellow." Another Curaçao sighting was reported by Navy veteran Bill Hefner, who believes he saw a distressed Bradley at a taboo local bar, but did not report it because of fear of reprisal from his military superiors. From 2002 until 2008, risqué photos bearing a striking resemblance to Amy surfaced on the website of what appears to be a now-defunct Venezuelan tourist escort resort, according to a blog dedicated to finding Amy. Those photos were featured in the docuseries. Other theories have also been posited about her disappearance, mainly that she either fell off the balcony accidentally or jumped off intentionally. The Bradley family vehemently denies either of those explanations. In his heart of hearts, Brad knows Amy is still alive, and so does the rest of the Bradley family. "My parents and I have shared kind of an unexplainable gut feeling in this sense that she's still out there, and I don't know how to better explain that to people or make it more relatable, because it's an unrelatable kind of thing," Brad said. "People just don't understand how we could possibly feel like that, and I can't really explain it, but we do, we've all shared it, we've never talked about her in the past tense." Royal Caribbean did not return a comment request. Neither did Yellow. The FBI declined to comment.
Yahoo
30-07-2025
- Yahoo
Amy Bradley's Brother Slams 'Toxic' Critics After Netflix Doc Release
Originally appeared on E! Online Amy Bradley's brother is not here for conspiracy theories. After Amy Bradley Is Missing hit Netflix July 16, the subject's brother, Brad Bradley, slammed the public's response to the series, which he says includes 'toxic' accusations thrown at his family after a friend featured in the documentary claimed they did not accept Amy's sexuality. 'Me and my family are getting killed,' Brad told People in a statement July 30. 'Over the years, we've grown some pretty thick skin, because there's always that side, you have the side of prayers, and support, and love, and caring, and all that good stuff. And then you have people just trying to chew us up and spit us out.' Indeed, Brad—who, along with parents Iva Bradley and Ron Bradley, participated in the Netflix miniseries—expressed disappointment that some people online have run with the theory that the now 51-year-old died by suicide. 'The picture that's being painted online is that I'm this [Donald] Trump-supporting, racist homophobe, and of course she killed herself,' he continued. 'Why would, you know, how could she live with a family like that?' More from E! Online Olympian Laura Dahlmeier Dead at 31 After Climbing Accident Left Rescuers Unable to Reach Her Jinger Duggar's Husband Jeremy Vuolo Details 'Deep Betrayal" During Marriage Sharon Osbourne Breaks Down in Tears at Ozzy Osbourne's Funeral Procession Brad, now 47, also shut down those examining Amy's feelings around her sexuality when she isn't around to speak for herself, noting that while the documentary portrayed her as gay, he says she identified as bisexual. 'Again, that's not me trying to argue she didn't like women,' he added. 'My point was she wasn't just gay. She was bisexual, had plenty of guys she dated over the years, and girls too." In fact, Brad claimed that Amy, who was 23 when she went missing, had a boyfriend at the time she vanished in 1998, despite the detail she had written a letter to her ex girlfriend Mollie McClure about a month before the cruise. 'He was an awesome dude, very successful guy, loved our family, spent a lot of time with us,' Brad, who declined to reveal the man's identity to protect his privacy, said. 'I do believe she had some intention of rekindling things with Mollie when she had returned, hence the message in the bottle, a month prior to the cruise.' As for whether Amy's family accepted her sexual identity, Brad noted that his sister had come out to them three years before she vanished, and emphasized that the dust had settled on the subject. As he put it, 'That was well gotten over.' For more on Amy's disappearance, keep reading… When did Amy Bradley's family last see her before she disappeared?What happened after Amy Bradley was reported missing?What happened during the initial search for Amy Bradley?What evidence is there in the Amy Bradley case?What was Amy Bradley doing before she went missing?Were there any suspects in the disappearance of Amy Bradley?What has Alister Douglas said about Amy Bradley?Why does Amy Bradley's family hold out hope she's still alive?Where is Amy Bradley's family now? For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App Solve the daily Crossword
