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Daily Mirror
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Netflix air heartbreaking call about Amy Bradley's final moments before she disappeared
Amy Bradley went missing without a trace in 1998 while on a Caribbean cruise with her family, and her disappearance is the subject of a new Netflix documentary In 1998, a young woman's disappearance on a cruise ship sparked an enduring mystery, now the focus of a gripping new Netflix documentary aiming to rekindle public intrigue. Amy Bradley Is Missing launched on Netflix delving into the perplexing circumstances surrounding the 23 year old's enigmatic disappearance. The documentary features footage of her last known moments, dancing in the ship's nightclub with a cruise entertainer before returning to her cabin. Her final sighting was by her father on their cabin's balcony in the early morning; he later woke to find her missing, and she has not been found since. Alister 'Yellow' Douglas, a member of the cruise band who was one of the last to see her that night and shared a dance with her, was interviewed by the FBI. Despite no evidence implicating him in Amy's vanishing, and voluntarily taking a lie detector test to prove his innocence, the mystery remains unsolved. His daughter Amica expressed the frustration of the case being a "puzzle you can't put together" and sought clarity on the events. She recounted a significant argument between her parents post-cruise and, in a dramatic moment in the Netflix series, she confronts her father on camera, reports the Mirror US. During the call, she implores, "I would wish that you put yourself in my shoe and understand how I feel about this," seeking empathy for her quest for answers. Alister responds: "Amica, they brought the FBI on immediately. And then he said to me that they're trying to find this girl that I was seen dancing with her. Everybody that had anything to do with cleaning her room, serving her drinks, we were grounded. "When they realised nothing was involved, we continued to work. And I continued to work on the cruise ship until two years later." Following Amy's disappearance, numerous unverified sightings emerged, including allegations she was spotted with someone matching Alister's description. Probing deeper, Amica questioned: "Why am I hearing that you were seen on the beach with her like months later?" Alister replied: "Which beach they saw me on? Because I don't like beaches. Amica, we danced at the club, like I danced with many people at the club. I did nothing... I'm sitting there, my name was called, I'm being questioned about something I don't know." Amica then confessed: "It's hard to hold this conversation with you because you get upset," before putting the question to her father: "If this happened to me, how would you feel?" Alister revealed: "If you were missing I'd do everything in my power to find out where you are. I understand that her family is trying to find her all these years and I'm in sympathy with that but I had nothing to do with that, nothing at all," before ending the call.
Daily Record
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Netflix shows Alister 'Yellow' Douglas' emotional call to daughter over Amy Bradley case
Alister 'Yellow' Douglas was questioned by the FBI in relation to the disappearance of Amy Bradley, who vanished from a cruise ship in 1998 and has never been found In 1998, a young woman disappeared without a trace whilst aboard a cruise ship with her family. The unresolved mystery is now the focus of a fresh Netflix documentary poised to spark renewed public fascination with her vanishing. Amy Bradley Is Missing landed on the streaming service this month and examines the circumstances surrounding the 23-year-old's baffling disappearance. Fragments of her final evening were filmed as she danced in the vessel's nightclub with one of the cruise performers before returning to her cabin. Her father last spotted her unwinding on their family cabin's balcony during the early morning hours, only to discover upon waking later that she had vanished. She continues to remain missing to this very day. As one of the final individuals to encounter her in the nightclub, where they danced together for most of the evening, cruise band member Alister 'Yellow' Douglas faced questioning from the FBI regarding Amy. No evidence was ever uncovered linking him to her disappearance, and he even voluntarily submitted to a polygraph examination to exonerate himself. Despite the absence of proof, his daughter Amica confessed she viewed the case as a "puzzle you can't put together", desperately seeking answers about what transpired. She remembered her parents having a massive argument following his return from the cruise, and in the Netflix documentary she chooses to telephone him whilst being filmed, reports the Mirror US. "I would wish that you put yourself in my shoe and understand how I feel about this," she states during the phone call. Alister responds: "Amica, they brought the FBI on immediately. And then he said to me that they're trying to find this girl that I was seen dancing with her. Everybody that had anything to do with cleaning her room, serving her drinks, we were grounded. "When they realised nothing was involved, we continued to work. And I continued to work on the cruise ship until two years later." Following Amy's vanishing, numerous unverified sightings emerged, including allegations she was spotted with someone resembling Alister. Probing deeper, Amica questioned: "Why am I hearing that you were seen on the beach with her like months later?" Alister answered: "Which beach they saw me on? Because I don't like beaches. Amica, we danced at the club, like I danced with many people at the club. I did nothing... I'm sitting there, my name was called, I'm being questioned about something I don't know." Amica then confessed: "It's hard to hold this conversation with you because you get upset," before posing the question to her father: "If this happened to me, how would you feel?" Alister revealed: "If you were missing I'd do everything in my power to find out where you are. I understand that her family is trying to find her all these years and I'm in sympathy with that but I had nothing to do with that, nothing at all," before ending the call abruptly.
Daily Record
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Netflix's terrifying Amy Bradley documentary has made me think twice about cruises
They're my favourite type of holiday but I realise I've been quite naïve, writes Samantha King My inaugural cruise experience was at the tender age of nine, and I had the joy of ringing in my 10th birthday whilst sailing around the Caribbean. It was a dreamy holiday that ignited a lifelong passion in me for maritime adventures. This memorable holiday took place just a few years after the mysterious disappearance of Amy Bradley in 1998, a fact unbeknownst to me at the time. The 23-year-old vanished without leaving any trace while on a family holiday aboard Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas, and she remains missing to this day. A fresh Netflix documentary released this month, titled Amy Bradley Is Missing, delves into the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and the ongoing search efforts that persist. There's no shortage of theories about what transpired, with TikTok also awash with speculation. The two predominant hypotheses suggest that she either fell overboard following a night of heavy drinking and never washed ashore, or she fell prey to sex trafficking and was clandestinely whisked off the ship. Both theories present compelling evidence but also glaring inconsistencies, as detailed in the Netflix documentary, reports the Mirror US. The official synopsis states: "On March 23, 1998, 23-year-old Amy Bradley disappears without a trace from the cruise ship she and her family were vacationing on. "Despite thorough searches of the ship, Amy is nowhere to be found and the cruise has already docked in their next port, Curaçao, opening the door for 2,400 passengers to explore the island and allowing Amy to potentially disappear into the crowd. "As the years pass by, possible sightings of Amy pop up in various locations from multiple people. Is it really her? Was this a tragic accident or a crime? - anything is possible. But for Amy's family - only one thing matters: bringing their daughter home alive." Now at 30, with four cruise holidays to my name, I've always been struck by the sense that a cruise ship is a world unto itself, blissfully detached from the pressures and problems that loom onshore. What had never crossed my mind was the potential peril of this, especially how a floating metropolis in international waters can be somewhat of a lawless realm until docking. As one individual in a documentary put it: "If you ever want to kill somebody, take them on a cruise." The three-part series about Amy Bradley's vanishing act opened my eyes to my own naivety. To me, a cruise was a sanctuary, a haven populated by fellow holidaymakers with good intentions. In my youth, my parents shared this belief, comfortable with letting me roam the vessel solo. But what if there was someone with ill intent aboard? What if, as an adult, I overindulged and accidentally tumbled into the ocean unnoticed? While the truth behind Amy Bradley's fate remains a mystery – and may always be – the various theories that have surfaced underscore the genuine dangers travellers face. Will I set foot on a cruise liner again? I'm beginning to question if I will.
Cosmopolitan
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
All we know about Alistair 'Yellow' Douglas today, the musician last seen with missing Amy Bradley
Viewers of Netflix's latest true crime drop, Amy Bradley Is Missing, a three-part documentary examining the sad case of a young woman named Amy Lynn Bradley, who disappeared during a cruise ship holiday with her family in March 1998. At the time, she was just 23 years old. More intriguing still, since then there have been multiple rumoured sightings of Bradley, everywhere from the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao to Barbados and California – yet her family are still desperately seeking an answer and concrete evidence as to where she could be. In the Netflix series, one person who was pointed out to be a person of interest in Bradley's case was a musician, Alister 'Yellow' Douglas, whose band was playing on board the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship, Rhapsody of the Seas, when she vanished. Reports were made that Douglas had been seen dancing with Bradley in the early hours of the morning before her family raised the alarm that she was nowhere to be found. Douglas always denied any wrongdoing and that he played any sort of rule in Bradley going missing. Here, we take a deep-dive into who Alister 'Yellow' Douglas is, what he's said about Amy Bradley's case and where he is today. Alister Douglas, better known by his nickname 'Yellow' (a nod to his signature brightly dyed yellow hair), was once a vibrant presence aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas, thanks to his turn at playing bass guitar in the ship's live band, Blue Orchid. When Amy Bradley vanished in the early hours of 24 March 1998, during what should have been a dream family holiday, surveillance footage and eyewitness testimony placed her with Douglas in the ship's nightclub just hours before she disappeared. The two were seen dancing together, and reports suggest they were also spotted on the deck after midnight. As one of the last known people to see Bradley, Douglas became a key figure in the investigation. The FBI grilled him extensively, and he even agreed to take a polygraph test, which he reportedly passed. Despite the scrutiny, no charges were ever filed against him, and he faded from the investigation as authorities pursued other leads. After the intense scrutiny from media and the police, Douglas became relatively anonymous over the following decades with his whereabouts were unknown – until late 2024, when investigative journalist James Renner, who has a YouTube channel dedicated to true crime, uncovered Douglas's surprising new life. Now in his 50s, Douglas has traded his bass guitar for a Bible. He resides in a remote mountain community in Grenada, where he serves as a reverend. His congregation is small—40 to 50 members—and his church is described as a 'humble shack' perched on the mountainside. But what's perhaps most striking about his new life is his practice of exorcism, a dramatic turn from his days as an entertainer. Speaking on Renner's YouTube channel, Douglas recalls Bradley approaching him after his set and telling him that she played saxophone, her dad was an insurance manager who had recently discovered she was gay and forced her to go on the cruise (something her family have denied), and that she was smoking a lot. "About five minutes to one I said 'I have to go, I have to be out of passenger area' and I left. That was my last conversation, last time I saw her," Douglas states, contradicting the three witnesses who claimed to have seen her on the upper deck with Douglas between 5:30 and 5:45am. Later in the interview he adds, "Around 7 o'clock, I was awakened by a call by the hotel manager and he asked me 'Douglas, do you have a woman in your room?'. It was forbidden, it was forbidden dating [...] And I said 'no' and I asked why, he said 'The woman you were talking to last night in the club, we can't find her'." After, as per Douglas' account, the ship was then grounded and nobody could enter or exit. "Everybody was interrogated," he said. "Lie detector tests... At that time, they didn't say anything much to me, they took the [wires] off me." Douglas added that an FBI agent later interviewed him on multiple occasions, telling him again that he was clear. "I've lost so many opportunities because of this," Douglas shared. "Once my name was entered [into Google] they would say I had something to do with this missing girl and I would lose the contract. "The truth, no matter how long it is, always surfaces." Netflix's three-part series, Amy Bradley Is Missing, is available to stream from 16 July Jennifer Savin is Cosmopolitan UK's multiple award-winning Features Editor, who was crowned Digital Journalist of the Year for her work tackling the issues most important to young women. She regularly covers breaking news, cultural trends, health, the royals and more, using her esteemed connections to access the best experts along the way. She's grilled everyone from high-profile politicians to A-list celebrities, and has sensitively interviewed hundreds of people about their real life stories. In addition to this, Jennifer is widely known for her own undercover investigations and campaign work, which includes successfully petitioning the government for change around topics like abortion rights and image-based sexual abuse. Jennifer is also a published author, documentary consultant (helping to create BBC's Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?) and a patron for Y.E.S. (a youth services charity). Alongside Cosmopolitan, Jennifer has written for The Times, Women's Health, ELLE and numerous other publications, appeared on podcasts, and spoken on (and hosted) panels for the Women of the World Festival, the University of Manchester and more. In her spare time, Jennifer is a big fan of lipstick, leopard print and over-ordering at dinner. Follow Jennifer on Instagram, X or LinkedIn.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Yahoo
Parents believe daughter who vanished from cruise ship 27 years ago is still alive
It's been 27 years since Amy Bradley went missing, and her father, Ron Bradley, still makes sure to keep her car shiny and filled up with gas, waiting for her return. "We flew down to Virginia and sat with her parents to have a nice meal," filmmaker Ari Mark told Fox News Digital. "Her car is ready to go. The bag that she took with her on that [fateful] cruise is still sitting in her room. You still see the exact change she was carrying. You still see all her belongings. Her photos are everywhere. You get the sense that she's still alive in that house." New Person Of Interest Emerges In Documentary On Decades-old Disappearance Of Iowa News Anchor The Bradleys strongly believe that their daughter could still be alive and a victim of international sex trafficking. They're speaking out in a Netflix documentary, "Amy Bradley Is Missing," in hopes that anyone with leads will come forward. Some who claimed to have seen Bradley over the years also shared their accounts in the film. "It's been 27 years, and in those 27 years, there have been probably 12 twists and turns that occurred that I could think of," Mark explained. "… And it wasn't until I met the Bradley family that it felt urgent. It felt like something needed to be done right now." Read On The Fox News App "The sightings [being shared in the film] are extremely significant," Mark shared. "… The sightings allow viewers, the family and law enforcement to believe that Amy could be out there. It keeps the case fresh, and her story going. It keeps the leads coming, that somebody may have possibly seen something. New questions are raised." In March 1998, Bradley, then 23, went on a Royal Caribbean International cruise with her family. It was supposed to be a seven-day tropical adventure. She had recently graduated and was eager to pursue a master's degree in sports psychology. According to the documentary, she had just adopted a bulldog and had a new apartment. In a celebratory mood, Bradley was seen dancing at the Rhapsody of the Seas nightclub with her brother Brad. In the early morning hours of March 24, the siblings returned to their family suite. There, Ron saw his daughter sleeping on the cabin's balcony. About half an hour later, as the ship was heading towards Curaçao, Bradley went missing. Her shoes were left behind. Follow The Fox True Crime Team On X Despite an extensive search, Bradley wasn't found. The cruise resumed its scheduled stops before returning to Puerto Rico on March 28. Netherlands Antilles Coast Guard Lt. Sjoerd Soethout told reporters that Bradley may have fallen from the balcony, The Associated Press reported. According to the outlet, an FBI spokeswoman said the agency had "no evidence of foul play." Ron and Iva Bradley filed two lawsuits against Royal Caribbean in 1999, claiming the cruise line was negligent in how it handled the disappearance of their daughter. At the time, the cruise line issued a statement, stating they acted "appropriately and responsibly at all times." Both lawsuits were dismissed in 2000. Fox News Digital reached out to a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean for a comment about the documentary. Over the years, there have been numerous theories about what happened to Bradley. Some speculated that Bradley had fallen overboard and drowned. Others wondered whether she took her life. But as shown in the film, the family are adamant that she was possibly taken against her will. Sign Up To Get The True Crime Newsletter In 2005, an anonymous tipster sent the family disturbing images of a woman from an adult website based in the Caribbean. She had long, voluminous hair, appeared aged and wore heavy makeup as she posed provocatively. She appeared to be positioned in a way that notable markings, such as a tattoo of a Tasmanian Devil spinning a basketball, wouldn't be visible. While the woman was listed as "Jas," Iva believed it could have been her daughter. "Just imagine getting a photo like that of your kid," said Mark. "I know that it devastated the Bradley family, but at the same time, it offered a little glimmer of possibility that Amy's alive. I think there is that bittersweet reaction there. "It also deepens the mystery. Is there anything in the background we can focus on to determine the location? Is there even the slightest detail that would give law enforcement something to go on?" "… [Investigators] did check out that escort service," Mark continued. "They did send someone on the ground to see if they could find anything that resembled that photo or find employees of that website. They gave it a good try … [But], do the features match? I think that's up to the audience to decide. Ultimately, it's pretty compelling." Filmmaker Phil Lott told Fox News Digital that the family had a forensic detective to analyze the photos. Jaw lines, ear shapes and eye placement were compared. GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE True Crime Hub "There's a very significant degree of … I'm not going to say certainty, but there's a degree of belief that this photograph does represent a potential version of Amy as an older … lady," he said. There were also alleged sightings. In the documentary, tourist Judy Maurer claimed that she had seen a woman believed to be Bradley in a Barbados restroom. Maurer alleged that three men had escorted the woman in question away. A Canadian named David Carmichael also believed that he may have spotted Bradley "flanked by two people" while visiting Curaçao. Similarly, a Navy veteran, Bill Hefner, claimed he may have seen a distressed Bradley at a bar in Curaçao. "If Judy Maurer hadn't seen Amy in a Barbados bathroom, we wouldn't be asking questions about why the hell Amy was in Barbados," said Mark. "… But the testimony of these witnesses, I think, will convince anybody that what those people saw was real." The documentary also explores how, on specific birthdays and holidays, traffic to the family's tips website appears to spike up in the same geographical area where Bradley supposedly had been spotted, The Hollywood Reporter shared. Still, there isn't enough evidence to detain or charge anyone with kidnapping. In 2017, the FBI shared age-progressing photos of Bradley in hopes it would spark new leads. TJ Ward, a private investigator hired by Natalee Holloway's family in 2005 and again in 2010, told Fox News Digital that it's crucial to go back to the very beginning. "One of the things that needs to be looked at is the employees on the boat," said Ward, who didn't participate in the documentary. "You need to find out about the people who worked on that boat. . . . They would have a lot more flexibility in hiding somebody or taking somebody without anybody knowing it." WATCH: NATALEE HOLLOWAY FAMILY PI DISCUSSES MURDER CASE 20 YEARS LATER "That would be one of the first people that I would look at conducting an investigation," he added. Bradley was spotted hanging out with Alastair "Yellow" Douglas, a member of the ship's band. In the film, he is seen dancing with Bradley hours before her disappearance. While his daughter, Amica Douglas, confronted him in a telephone call, as shown in the film, the FBI found no evidence to charge him. Douglas has also vehemently denied any involvement with Bradley's disappearance. "Amica was initially hesitant to go on camera," said Mark. "… Ultimately, Amica realized that this tragedy had impacted her family in a way that feels almost irreparable. She has been harassed, and her family name has been thrown all around the internet. She wants to get to the bottom of this as much as anyone else. And she has real empathy for the Bradley family." "And look, there's no a-ha moment," he stressed. "I think it does reveal the fraught relationship Amica has with her father. . . We also wanted to give Alastair Douglas a chance to say his piece, which I believe he did. "He feels like, 'I'm a nobody. I'm just a guy from the Caribbean, a hardworking person on a cruise ship. And all of a sudden, I'm being not only questioned by the FBI, but unfairly vilified by the internet.'" 3 Chilling True Crime Cases Of Women Who Went On Vacation And Never Returned The filmmakers hope that a renewed interest in the case will finally bring the family answers. "This is so urgent and pressing for the family," said Mark. "We both felt the urgency of the family that every single minute is a minute that Amy's not home." Anyone with information about Bradley is asked to contact their local FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or article source: Parents believe daughter who vanished from cruise ship 27 years ago is still alive Solve the daily Crossword
