Amy Bradley is Missing - Netflix documentary

Is she the one that fell off the boat and drowned but her family insists that she was kidnapped?

Definately an all time favorite but is there anything new to tell? It's an old case. I think her parents might be dead. Maybe her brother has more to tell.

Just got done watching this. I remember this case from Unsolved Mysteries years and years ago. I long thought that she'd somehow fallen overboard (or been pushed by someone else) as this seemed like the most straightforward explanation, but the photos that surfaced of the unknown woman certainly look a lot like her and does make me wonder if she could have been a sex trafficking victim.

I thought it was interesting that the documentary went into elements of her personal life that were not previously made public, like that she was a lesbian and had a girlfriend (though by the looks of her, it isn't surprising whatsoever—she was very butch). I really felt awful for her parents while watching this. You can tell it destroyed them as well as her brother.

But how would she have been trafficked from a cruise ship in the middle of an ocean?

So boring. She fell over or was pushed. End of story.

Another possibility is that Amy ended her own life, her parents were not supportive of her being gay, her father wrote a three page letter telling how disappointed in Amy he was when she came out, that's a very painful thing when you're young.

Did they go into her sexuality and her parents reaction in the documentary?

They found the Birkenstocks she was wearing that evening on the cabin balcony.

Does U-Haul rent boats?

People love to jump to the sexual trafficking angle.

I suspect Alister Douglas wanted to hook up with her, found she was a lesbian, and raped and killed her. Or just killed her outright.

[R3], I agree there is a resemblance. Is there modern technology that could determine if the two photos are of the same person?

R11 in the Netflix series it was stated that a forensic analyst from the FBI did a comparison of the photo with numerous other photos of Amy, using overlays and taking measurements of all of her features (especially features that don't tend to naturally change over time, such as jawline, brow, ears) and his conclusion was that it was her.

R7 maybe I missed it, but I didn't catch the parents talking much about it. At the end, they did make comments about the prospect of having grandchildren from Amy that they've never met (under the presumption that she could still be alive under an assumed identity and have had children). I found this perverse because A) It is evident just by looking at her that Amy was very butch I find it doubtful she would have ever willingly carried a child and B) If she actually is alive and did give birth, those children would have been born out of circumstances in which their daughter had been prostituted and/or raped.

They did interview the girlfriend she was with at the time she went missing. The two had met in high school and reconnected after college. The way she described their relationship was very much typical of what a lot of gays/lesbians go through when they find each other. The girlfriend seemed like a good person who was very much in love with her. It was sad.

R6 the letter was written to Amy's girlfriend, not Amy, though I'm not sure that matters—I am sure Amy also read it. It did seem like Amy's childhood and college friends were all very supportive of her, at least, which was nice to hear. One of her best friends from college (who was straight) was the first person Amy came out to, and she made the trip back to Amy's house with her when she decided she wanted to tell her parents. That's a good friend.

Sex trafficking is the new fibromyalgia.

Do they go into her parents’ homophobia?

R16 I don't believe the family discussed her sexuality at all unless I missed it

Has there been instances of people hidden in trunks and kidnapped off cruise liners?

There's got to be an easier way if sex trafficking is the endgame.

I don't think gay issues played a part.....

and I don't know that I think any of the witnesses who saw her later in random locations were particularly credible somehow.

the show tried to paint the musician as a sinister figure, the suitcase of pics of white women I found to be very strange..... but I guess he checked out .

it seems some fluke fall overboard makes as much sense as anything.

[quote]I didn't catch the parents talking much about it. At the end, they did make comments about the prospect of having grandchildren from Amy that they've never met (under the presumption that she could still be alive under an assumed identity and have had children). I found this perverse because A) It is evident just by looking at her that Amy was very butch I find it doubtful she would have ever willingly carried a child and B) If she actually is alive and did give birth, those children would have been born out of circumstances in which their daughter had been prostituted and/or raped.

Honestly, many parents like hers wouldn't care how their grandchildren came into this world.

Since she wasn't into men, I think she was hanging out with Alistair because he had drugs, and/or he said he knew where they could get some in Curacao. She went off with him willingly and then he kidnapped her or passed her over to some local traffickers.

The trafficking just seems far fetched.

Sad that her family was cold about her being a lesbian

Occam's Razor. She was drunk and went overboard. Some suggest she was vomiting over the side and leaned too far forward.

So multiple witnesses and photos that were forensically confirmed to be a match mean nothing? Creepy bass player collecting white women's photos who was the last person to be seen with her?

Witnesses are notoriously unreliable and forensics from who and where? A vetted source? Crackpot?

There are just too many unlikely and implausible scenarios involved in the trafficking scenario. It’s more likely she jumped. Her family seemed superficially close but also highly controlling. Her father had just written a three page rant to her girlfriend before the cruise, They were homophobic at worst and not thrilled with her being a lesbian at best. At 5’4”, she had drank at least seven beers that night. She was likely drunk and made a fateful decision. They are in denial about their role in this and would rather chase the racist ‘white slavery’ trafficking trope. It made me a bit angry that people think this kind of scenario is typical of trafficking while the plight of the majority of victims goes ignored because they come from less advantaged backgrounds. Couldn’t ignore the major MAGA vibes from the family.

Holy Cow! She was only 5'4"? All these years I pictured her as a girl who played softball.

In the doc, her father and mother say they were disappointed to learn Amy was gay. The dad admits he wrote the 3 page letter to Amy’s girlfriend, but also says they never stopped loving Amy. IMO Dad shows guilt and premature aging, as if he gets that they didn’t know Amy really, whether she jumped or went ashore to get drugs. Actually, I thought the witnesses seemed pretty credible. If Amy went ashore and was drugged and or told they’d murder her parents if she talked, couldn’t the whole sex trafficking thing be plausible? I mean it was the nineties. Dark side of the Caribbean and all. And poor brother whose life just stalled and his hair turned grey.

There is no evidence she went ashore

I don't think you can just leave the ship that easily at night.

R29, that's correct. Which makes the assertion that she was somehow smuggled off the ship that much sillier

I've heard about this case before, but the documentary is really compelling. One thing that stood out to me was about the IP address from Barbados that spends hours on the site looking at family updates particularly at thanksgiving, Christmas and family birthdays.

R8 Yes a pair of her Birkenstocks were on the balcony, but I believe her father said that her regular/walking shoes were gone.

Birkenstocks? Yep, she was a dyke!

That former Cruise Director is a total piece of shit.

This woman was HR on cruise ships for 2 decades. She has a book coming out soon which spills a lot of dirty secrets including sex trafficking.

Here is her substack link. She’s very pro-gay.

I feel like she most likely jumped. She was stuck on a boat with her homophobic family and had too much alcohol leading to impulsive suicide. Also as perverse as it sounds I think a lot of families in these missing person cases cling to the idea that the missing family member was sex trafficked because it gives them hope that the family member might still might be alive.

The family has hidden her sexuality from the beginning, and even on the Reddit true crime and missing persons groups, long time followers are kind of shocked it’s just coming to light. I wonder if the documentary directors went around the family to force the issue. It really does change the theories about what happened based on mental health and stress of being in an unsupportive environment.

With this in mind, it becomes weirder to listen to the family. They really talked a lot about how all the men on the cruise were attracted to her and how magnetic she was (wait staff, Yellow, creepy guy in cabin next door, etc). They seemed almost proud of it. The mother bizarrely goes on about the possibility grandchildren as a result of her theoretical trafficking. Is that better than being a lesbian? The brother has been on X the last couple days insisting Amy was bi because she had a boyfriend not long before. Maybe the boyfriend was a beard for her disapproving family because she told all her girlfriends otherwise. The cumulative effect of all this is they hid the fact for years and still don’t want anyone to think she’s was is ‘fully gay’. I’d like to know if the parents’ comments about her sexuality in the documentary were freely given or because they knew it would come out because they were confronted with the interviews from her former girlfriends.

Anyway, it wasn’t hard to tell unless you are blind.. My radar went off after a handful of photos of her were shown.

I’m midway through the first episode. The cruise director is talking about the initial search of the ship, called a Charlie Drill. 900 crew members search the entire ship and it takes about 45 minutes. He said crew members search their own rooms. If a crew member is hiding something in their room (evidence, a person, a body, etc. ) it’s not going to be found/revealed.

Yellow seems highly suspect. She could’ve walked off the boat with him the next day. I don’t think it’s suicide. I think she met with foul play. The door being open suggests she left the cabin. The two witnesses who said they saw them together around 5:30-6am going up to the club would definitely mean she met with foul play if what they say is true.

Her camera disappeared with her and was never found. She probably climbed onto the table that was near the balcony to take pictures of the sunrise and fell overboard, or maybe coming down from something and made the impulsive decision to jump. Seems to me that her family are guilty for never accepting her and grasping at straws.

It's very possible she fell overboard by mistake or on purpose (the table up against the balcony the front of the balcony is worrying though it could've been moved when the cabin was cleaned after Amy was reported missing).

The thing is, I don't think it was suicide. Yes her family being (and still seemingly) homophobic bastards would've been a source of conflict for her but based on episode three, Amy increasingly seemed like she was moving "away" from her family: she had a new job, a new apartment, a new dog, and she and her girlfriend were in a good place. There was no sign she was depressed, I mean I know not all suicidal people are outwardly depressed, but she did seem to have a friend group that she was comfortable confiding in.

Even if she decided to kill herself, it's very likely she would've survived the fall into the water from her cabin balcony, and the temperature was warm enough that she would've been able to stay alive for some time. Additionally, they were very near the docks of Willemstad, so unless she was unconscious, someone would've seen her or heard her screaming.

It's those photos of the sex worker from the website that is what raises my eyebrows. It looks damn like her, and apparently, she's posed in such a way that hides any identifying marks such as tattoos and birthmarks. It's no secret that the Dutch Antilles (particularly the southern Islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire) have major issues with drug and sex trafficking. If the witnesses who claim to have seen Amy and Yellow together after 5:30 am are correct, it's possible he drugged her and hid her (likely with the help of others onboard) and smuggled her off when the ship docked shortly after in Curacao. Remember this was pre-9/11 security was far less rigorous and having known people who've worked on cruise ships, the crew isn't monitored in the same way passengers are (particularly 3rd party talent that are not actually hired directly through the cruise line like a lot of bands and other entertainment).

RE: the sex trafficking theory. If she was trafficked, how long does sex slavery “last” in situations like this? Amy would be middle-aged now and not likely a viable prostitute as she’s no longer nubile. When trafficking victims age out, what happens to them? Are they killed? Do they resume “normal” lives? If she is still alive and is the person lurking on the family’s website, what’s stopping her from reaching out? Would she still be under the thumb of her traffickers, and if so, would she still be working as a prostitute all these years later?

The Dutch Antilles do NOT have a problem with white women being kidnapped off cruise ships, forced into prostitution, then forced to pose for pics with bad 80s perms

R41 Those are good questions. Maybe she’s a hard core drug addict since a lot of trafficked people are given drugs. Maybe they have blackmail on here of her doing kids. Maybe they threatened to kill her family. There’s a lot of what ifs. Personally, I’d go with a drug addiction. Or she’s just a completely broken person by it all.

Isn’t she kind of… homely to be a sex worker?

R44 She had a great body. A lot of people found her cute. Maybe she was a virgin which would’ve fetched a big price. Sex pests aren’t after sex they’re after power and dominance.

Dat face she need good poosey… maybe tight annus…

There’s no doubt she got off the ship and met with foul play. Too many credible sightings where she said her name, where she was from, she needed help. The photos of her on a sex website 7 years later where the FBI said it was her. She was sex trafficked. It appears she had children from that. I’m not sure if I believe she is alive now. If she is I think she would’ve been recognized by now especially by her tattoos. Even if she had children they would’ve killed her by now. She knew and saw too much. I’m 90% sure she’s dead and 99% sure she was sex trafficked.

I don't think sex traffickers normally go after young white American women from seemingly normal middle class families much less take them from cruise ships. HOWEVER if this is what happened it was someone operating outside the normal policies and procedures sotospeak. Someone owed someone money or had some kind of large debt to pay. Or they were just crazy.

I think perhaps the intention wasn’t to traffic her until she went to buy drugs. I think this is where she got into trouble.

But Occam’s Razor says she fell overboard likely while puking, dropped her cigs/lighter reached for them and splash.

The picture resembles her but I don't think it's an exact match. For one, the picture shows someone in 80s (early 90s, at the latest) hair and dress style, whereas her vanishing happened in 1998? I think she fell overboard, since she was still drinking when her brother (who I find kind of hot, then and now) went to bed. It might have started to hit her suddenly and she became disoriented and went over the railing. Who knows. Before I was sober I had many falls that I am lucky did not injure me badly, and those are the ones I actually can remember.

Her brother was and is hot.

She was an expert drinker. She had 7 beers in 9 hours. Maybe some shots. She was an expert college girl who knew how to drink. I don’t know if what she drank was over her limit. It doesn’t seem so.

Copycat. 👅

The Navy guy has zero reason to lie. He has every reason to be embarrassed and he waited for years, critical years, to come forward. She explicitly said her name to him and said she had left to get drugs and they were holding her. I find his account and the lady who saw her in the bathroom in Barbados credible. The lady in Barbados reported the incident I believe immediately. So it seems Like there’s a good possibility she met with unfortunate circumstances.

I dunno. I didn’t find the Navy guy or the bathroom lady very credible. They might have encountered a woman who was in those circumstances, but someone other than Amy.

The message in a bottle letter was really interesting with its oceanic imagery. I think she was depressed over the girlfriend ghosting her and planned a dramatic exit jumping off the ship. They’d supposedly made up right before the trip though, so I can’t see her going through with it. I think she accidentally fell overboard for some reason or other.

After the first episode, I assumed that she had died by suicide. I’ve known of several people who suddenly and seemingly without logical reason decided to take their own life. Such impulses have their own logic, entirely unknown to anybody else, and often for those left behind the seeking of an alternative explanation is a strange mechanism to deal with the sad illogicality of it all.

But after the other two episodes? Damn, what a strange and grim story, irrespective of whether those sightings were actually her or not.

And all the that sadness upon sadness without resolution. The stasis of her parents’ lives. I found the girlfriend with the message in a bottle to be so smart and articulate about what happens to those that are left in the wake of another person’s disappearance.

She was dancing with Yellow, she’s a closeted lesbian, he wants to sex her up, she pushes him away because she’s lesbian, he says nasty shit, she gets depressed and makes a rash decision to jump. If she’d ever had suicide ideation, it’s the likeliest possibility even if she seemed happy at the time. Especially if she seemed happy. A lot of people who commit suicide have made a decision to do so and are at peace with it, which is why people never suspect.

The sightings are interesting. I don’t recall ever hearing of first hand sightings of other missing girls described in such great detail by credible witnesses.

Has anyone described how someone could have gotten Amy off the boat without being noticed? People aren’t carrying luggage off the boat when it’s visiting a port. Wouldn’t someone have seen her exiting the ship?

It’s strange to me that she was interested in spending any amount of time with the band’s guitarist. He was older than her and I doubt they had much in common. She’s young, gay, athletic, and attractive. Him? We know very little about him except that he plays guitar, likes to flirt, and has a daughter. The alleged suitcase full of women’s photographs was odd.

Amy could’ve walked off with everyone else when they exited around 7 o’clock, there’s no way the brother by himself search that entire boat, it is extremely possible. She just walked out with the masses.

[quote] It’s strange to me that she was interested in spending any amount of time with the band’s guitarist. He was older than her and I doubt they had much in common. She’s young, gay, athletic, and attractive. Him? We know very little about him except that he plays guitar, likes to flirt, and has a daughter. The alleged suitcase full of women’s photographs was odd.

He could have given her drugs. I don't think she would have had any other reason to be with him at 5:30 am.

Her brother just posted that Amy had a boyfriend and the documentary cut him out.

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Amy had a boyfriend.

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Jumping or falling off a ship at night in the middle of the ocean sounds like a terrifying experience if you survive the fall and know that you are going to drown.

I just can’t see this soft butch bisexual woman allowing herself to be trafficked to men for decades without somehow getting free and contacting family. The family makes it seem like she was a sex kitten that men found irresistible, but the photographic evidence says otherwise. But who knows. Smuggling a woman off a ship in a suitcase seems rather far-fetched. Sorry, I can’t buy the sex trafficking stuff at all. She died that night and they can’t let go.

It was posted on that reddit thread that her brother is a Trumper and an Andrew Tate follower.

The simplest explanation is often the correct one. I highly doubt Amy committed suicide. She had a girlfriend that made her happy and looked forward to reconnecting with after the cruise. Although her homophbic parents were a problem, she apparently had a close relationship with her brother Brad and only agreed to go on the trip because he was going. Amy and Brad got plastered the night she disappeared, but according to the computerized door lock system, they were both back in their family's room by 4 am.

According to Amy's father, he awoke around five thirty am and saw his daughter passed out on a sunlounger. He went back to his room. When he awoke again thirty minutes later, Amy was gone, but so was her lighter and pack of cigarettes. She likely went out on the balcony to have a smoke and accidentally fell into the water. Case closed. Because she was so drunk, she likely sank like a stone as soon as she hit the water. Obviously, there would be no trace of her today after that.

I'm not buying the random sightings. There are lot's of random unrelated people in the world who resemble each other. I personally believe we all have a doppelganger out there somewhere. These sick fantasies of sex trafficking only disparage Amy's memory. I found an article on this case that provides a detailed timeline.

She was fucking GAY. She wasn’t bisexual.

R64, yikes. Feel sorry for this lesbian who was trapped in a horrible, homophobic family

People on Reddit, a place where people love to come up with conspiracies, are all in agreement that she fell overboard and the parents need to accept it and quit wasting everyone’s time. I’ve never seen people on Reddit say that before but they sound sick and tired of hearing about the case and all these ridiculous sightings.

The woman in the doc claiming to have met her in the bathroom is laughably ridiculous. “I think she said West Virginia but she spoke too low.” 5 minutes later, “She stated that she was from West Virginia.” Then she’s saying that she probably had children and the parents think they have grandchildren. They’re probably thrilled about that because perhaps that means she’s not a dyke. People on Reddit also believe that the brother is gay.

The mom wants to be reunited with the imaginary children Amy was forced to bear.

Better to be raped by thousands of men than gay! At least she would have given me grandchildren!

I think the brother is gay, too. “I don’t want children because I’m traumatized” doesn’t cut it.

How ironic that her family are MAGATs. Maybe her brother pushed her off the balcony.

Wait, so her brother's name is Brad Bradley? Seriously?

Let me guess, the boyfriend lived in Canada.

Her family seemed so awful in the doc and online that I’m starting to think she committed suicide (I used to think she just fell overboard).

She was clearly gay and prob made up some boyfriend after her hateful dad’s letter.

People are not trafficking white US women on board with their entire family. She never left the ship.

Her family is grabbing onto trafficking like they do the “boyfriend”. They are a bunch of delusional MAGAts.

I’m starting to think they’re grifting off of this with the gofundme. The family did come off as very homophobic. Her brother said she had a boyfriend she had just gotten with and was planning a trip to see Letterman with him? Maybe he was a beard, and also gay, and the brother was fucking him. They interviewed him for the doc but they didn’t add him in. They probably knew he was a beard and she was gay gay gay gay gay. If she was questioning it, it was because off her homophobic family. They seem like trash.

The doc left out the story of the private investigator who scammed their family. It was covered on other true crime shows. They paid him thousands and he faked photos of AB on a beach - painted a Tasmanian Devil tattoo on a girl to look like Amy.

If the IP address out of the Caribbean is suspicious, can’t the FBI follow up and investigate who owns that IP address? It seems like an easy enough lead to look into.

R76 They cannot.

It's starting to sound like the family has a sick MAGAT fantasy. Their gay daughter being trafficked and turned straight by all that hetero sex.

R78 Exactly.

Was her boyfriend George Glass by chance?

R76 No the FBI cannot access IP information without cooperation with permission of the Barbados authorities where the IP is apparently from. The reality is that most police forces in Caribbean countries are corrupt as fuck and heavily involved in all the drug and trafficking in those countries.

Having heard the responses from Amy's brother about her dating life...I'm leaning more and more toward suicide. I am curious if this dude was truly her boyfriend, why they would've cut him totally from the documentary. The only reason I can think of Amy fully coming out as a lesbian to her parents and then allegedly still having a boyfriend was to try "pray the gay away" and that her new life (new job, new apartment, girlfriend) was a life pretty much closed off from her family.

This true crime podcaster is writing a book about the case, he has numerous interviews on his channel including an interview with "Yellow." In this video, he actually goes aboard the Rhapsody of Seas and gets a tour of the Bradley's cabin. Granted the ship has likely been overhauled in 25+ years, but the layout is the same.

R76 from one of the articles I was reading it sounds like it wasn’t the first time that the family had been mislead and scammed either this was just the largest amount of money. I feel like stories like that are imporant to include. So many people who fully buy into the trafficking theory always pull out but why would anyone lie about seeing her? And totally ignore all the times people lie in these missing person cases either for money, attention or delusion.

No one with a shred of brain believes the woman who said she saw Amy in a bathroom. You could smell the crazy through the tv screen.

[quote] I think the brother is gay, too. “I don’t want children because I’m traumatized” doesn’t cut it.

I hate to admit this but the first thing in my head when I heard him say this was, “Okay, fag.” 🤣 Who does he think he’s fooling? He might as well become a priest.

It’s the first time I heard someone named Yellow sound like he was telling the truth. What the fuck is the daughter going on about? Her father had a bag of photos of Caucasian women so that means he killed her!? She made no sense. They took photos on the boat as a matter or routine. I thought the cliffhanger was going to be that Amy was living with her father for a time. The doc had one idiot after the next interviewed.

Sex trafficking is more urban myth than reality in situations like this. It plays into fears of travel, foreign countries, people of color.

There is an entire part of the US that thinks all prostitution is sex trafficking. Like they cannot comprehend adults choosing sex work.

It’s the same crowd that believed Satanic panic, razor blades in Halloween candy and other Karen myths that were and are way overblown.

There is no way Amy Bradley was kidnapped for sex work. She looked like a 40 year old frumpy lesbian.

Very few women are kidnapped for sex work, regardless of what they look like.

Amy’s online looking at pictures of her family according to these weirdos. Then they ask if she has Internet service, why isn’t she contacting them? lol. No answer.

The woman in the photo already debunked.

It’s not sex work, it’s prostitution.

Everyone thinks that white women are being trafficking now. lol. They’ve broadened the term so much now that it basically means whatever the person wants. It’s like autism.

Hey, at least our dyke daughter is taking dick.

[r94] Mom totally giddy about being her rape baby grandkids. At least Amy didn’t do IUI with a woman!

Hi Matt Damon @[R85].

Did anyone think it was weird that Amy and her brother shared a bed together at their age on the ship?

The documentary is heartbreaking and her parents pain was almost unbearable to watch. But I highly doubt she was trafficked. She would have found a way to contact her friends or family. She wasn’t a typical trafficked victim—alone, with no family or resources.

It was late and she was drunk. I could see Yellow coming onto her, getting into a physical altercation and him killing her in a moment of rage. And disposing of her body. That seems like the most likely scenario. Poor girl. Poor family.

Amy parted ways with Yellow and she was in her cabin at 3,30 am. Her dad saw her sleeping on the balcony at 5:30 am and she wasn’t on the balcony at 6 am. Dad started looking for her around 6:30 am.

Regardless, I think we all agree she’s not alive today.

The brother released a statement in the last day ot two saying that Amy had broken it off with the woman she was with before the cruise vacation, and had been dating a man during that time. The man she was dating was not on the cruise, but he was apparently interviewed for the documentary and the filmmakers cut his scenes and even that entire part of the story. He said he isn't sure why. All very strange.

She was a fucking lesbian! It was very clear her preference was women. She might have “dated’ a male prior to the cruise for a smooth family experience, but it is very clear she was full on gay. Fuck her maga family.

I'm really surprised they didn't show the Gifford film where you make her out in the background on the conga line.

If the boyfriend wasn’t on the boat, I’m not sure why it’s relevant except to keep up the Bradley’s story that Amy wasn’t gay. They were practically giddy thinking of her taking cock, even when if it’s in a trafficking arrangement.

The filmmakers were way too generous with the Bradleys and let their laughable trafficking fiction dominate the entire series so they can hardly claim a bias against them.

R101 The brother seems to be changing his story. My understanding is that he said prior to this that Amy broke it off with Kat (her college girlfriend who received that three page letter from her father) to return to this boyfriend. At the time of the cruise, however, Amy was with Molly. Yes they did have a falling out when Amy admitted in a drunken moment she had kissed someone else (Molly isn't specific of the gender), but they worked it out and they were very much back together when Amy left for the cruise. According to Amy's friends she referred to herself as gay (aka a lesbian) not bisexual. The boyfriend was probably nothing more than a confused attempt at trying to please her parents. Also I think it's implied either in the documentary or in subsequent interviews by people involved with the documentary, that Amy had girlfriends in high school.

As to why the boyfriend's interview was cut, my feeling is based on a couple interviews I've listened to with Ari Mark and Phil Lott, the executive producers and directors of Amy Bradley Is Missing, they wanted to be faithful to who Amy was as a person. All of her friends seem adamant that Amy identified as gay not bi and I suspect that's why the "bf" was cut from the documentary. I also think it actually may have been an attempt not to make the family look as homophobic as they seem to be.

Maybe the bf was on the cruise with them in another cabin

R106 Why would you say that?

Amy Bradley and the myths of sex trafficking - Pat Brown

This thread is dying out. I thought it would max out.

I'm watching and the brother kinda pings to me, no?

The Netflix documentary states she was a very small person and had drunken nine beers that night. She was likely wasted beyond belief.

R111 She was a drinker. She had a high tolerance. That was established in the documentary.

That's a lot of drinks though and I'm twice her size.

R113 She’s use to it, even her dad said that was nothing for her.

I thought her brother said she was “tipsy” that night.

R115 Of course she was tipsy. She wasn’t near falling down drunk. She was buzzed. She can handle her alcohol.

This case has fascinated me for a while. Regardless of her parents views on her sexuality, you can tell they’re deeply obsssessed with her after all these years and can’t let it go.

Now honestly, as others have mentioned before in this thread, I don’t see why, if amy was still alive, she wouldn’t make any attempt at contacting her family at this point and with how (presumably) easy it is to contact anyone, anywhere and anytime with the internet in 2025.

With that said, yes, accidentally drowning does seem to make the most sense. The only “hole” in that theory mentioned in the documentary was that apparently, multiple authorities (the us coast guard as well as its counterparts in Venezuela and the Dutch Antilles) “combed” the area of the sea she would have drowned in and “couldn’t find any signs” even though “she should have washed ashore” at some point although I’m skeptical in how confident those people were in stating that. Thoughts about this?

R117 The whole she would have washed up on shore thing seemed iffy to me.

Is trafficking kidnapped adults really such a big thing? I assumed it was mostly runaways or very young people lured away and kidnapped minors sometimes

R119, you're correct. Most trafficking involves girls or young women who are already vulnerable, like immigrants and runaways. No one is kidnapping women off cruise ships to traffic them

[120] what about wayward passengers who leave the ship briefly to score drugs?

How close was the ship to shore when she disappeared? Could she have been consumed by sharks, hence no body washing ashore? Was the body of that teenage boy who jumped off his graduation cruise ship into what appeared to be a family of sharks ever found?

She fell overboard and was eaten by a shark or something

They were very close to shore.

Her terrible parents drove her to suicide with their bigotry. The brother is gross and should stfu. I don't know why so many fraus are still believing she was kidnapped.

Rape fantasies @R125