Some Shocking Facts About The Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley From the Cruise

The young American girl disappeared from the balcony of a cruise ship, but investigators don’t think she dropped overboard.

Just like there are many disappearance cases like the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Jennifer Kesse, Haruhi Suzumiya and many other unfortunate children and woman, Amy’s case is no different. 

In the early morning hours of March 24, 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley left the stateroom of her family on a Caribbean cruise bound for the Antilles. Somehow, in between just 30 minutes when there was no way to escape from the ship.

The mystery about the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley has not been resolved even after 24 years, but so many strange things happened during these years.

Let’s find out about the unbelievable facts of the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley. 

Amy bradley left her family’s stateroom and never returned

During the late-night on March 23, 1998, Ron and Iva Bradley, 23-year-old daughter, Amy, and their son, Brad, enjoyed their third day on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas. 

As the ship anchored in Curacao after touring Aruba, on the ship’s upper deck, the family visited a dinner party. Amy and Brad rocked on until the early morning, and Amy was witnessed dancing with a member of the band on a ship dance floor. 

Nevertheless, both Brad and Amy went to their stateroom between 3:30 and 4 am.

Ron Bradley would remember noticing his daughter sleeping on a chair outside the room, mainly on the balcony, when he woke up after a nap at approximately 5 am and fell asleep. 

Then he woke up again at about 6 am, until Amy disappeared; the only lost items were her cigarettes and a lighter. 

She planned to leave for a short period of time, as she did not even take her shoes, identification, or any other essential items with her. Her desperate family has nevermore seen her again.   

A band member suspected to be involved in Amy’s kidnap

On the evening of March 23, after dinner, Amy Bradley joined the ship’s disco party and was witnessed dancing continuously with a band member that was playing on the ship. 

The band member, Alister “Yellow” Douglas, and Amy were videotaped frequently by a cameraperson offering a promotional item for the cruise line. 

The photo surfaced when the video producer learned about Amy’s disappearance and believed she must be in some of the videos from the evening in question.

After Amy left her stateroom, she was observed near the disco with Douglas at around 6 am. Consequently, a witness would claim to have noticed Douglas’s hand, Bradley, a dark drink, perhaps coffee. 

Other witnesses noticed Douglas leaving the place by himself, but Amy was never seen again. Police ultimately cleared Douglas after a polygraph but before the FBI got the disco video.

A US serviceman declares to confronted Amy in a Brothel

Another creepy sighting happened in January 1999, when a Navy Petty Officer stated to have met Amy in a hotel brothel in Curacao. 

Seeing him as an American, Amy probably told the individual her name, said that she was being taken against her wish, and begged for help.

Unluckily, the officer kept the message to himself, worrying about the consequences of his solicitation of a sex worker. He only communicated with the Bradleys through their website after his resignation.

A 2005 website image revealed someone alike Amy

 In 1998, after the disappearance of Amy, there were many alleged sightings of Amy Lynn Bradley. 

The most bothersome was a 2005 email forwarded to the Bradley family website containing two-woman images. 

These photographs were seen by a member of an organization that strives to track possible victims on sites that highlight sex workers.

The photos show a scantily clad woman who exactly resembles Amy but seems to be both troubled and sad. One of these images was viewed publicly when the family of Bradleyarrived on the Dr. Phil show.

Amy was also seen on a curacao beach in 1998

A Canadian man identified as David Carmichael found two men and a woman wandering on the beach in August 1998, near Port of Maria, Curacao.

 When he talked loudly in English to a fellow who was a few meters away, the woman quickly turned around and started to step in his way. Just when that suspected woman was about to speak with him, one of the two men asked her to walk away.

She dejectedly joined a small cafe with the two men but continued to look at Carmichael whenever she could get his attention. 

Carmichael had no sense of who Amy was until he saw her picture on the television show Unsolved Mysteries

When he reached the Bradleys, he described Amy’s unique tattoos as he recognized her from only a few feet away. He claims to be “100%” confident that the woman he saw was Amy Bradley.  

By a fake bunch of ‘navy seals’, bradley family was scammed out of over $200,000 

Apparently, the most wicked part of the whole Amy Lynn Bradley event happened in 1999 fall. 

A person identified as Frank Jones reached the Bradleys and claimed that Colombian gangsters were holding Amy Lynn on Curacao island. 

Jones pretended to be a retired member of American Special Forces, and he tried to help set Amy free.

He also insisted he had a witness to Amy’s location, a cook who explained Amy’s tattoos, and even a song she listened to Amy sing (which Mrs. Bradley taught her). 

Two other retired Navy SEALs were sent to Curacao to determine Amy’s location precisely. When Jones asked for more money to help the actual armed rescue, the Bradleys asked for solid proof that their daughter was truly under Jones’s teams’ monitoring. 

He reacted to a photo of a woman who had a similar tattoo (who resembled Amy a lot), and the Bradleys gave him the remaining money. The total of $210,000.

The Bradleys were directed to travel to Florida to wait for a call from Jones as soon as Amy got free. 

They stayed in a hotel for a week before getting a call from one of Jones’s friends (who had also been victimized) and discovered the whole operation was a scam. The cook, the Colombians, the photos, and the house under surveillance were all a scam. 

Jones, who had never been part of the Special Forces, ultimately pled guilty to a mail scam and got a five-year sentence and an order to make payment. 

Human Jawbone Found suspect to be Amy’s remains.

In late 2010, probably due to environmental disturbance caused by Hurricane Tomas, a human jaw bone washed up on a beach in Aruba. 

It was immediately discovered to have no connection to Natalee Holloway, another woman who had vanished around the same time.

Once local police discovered the jawbone was not related to the Holloway case, they ceased any further testing, even though Amy Lynn Bradley and up to as many as nine other Caribbean vacationers were said to have vanished in the 15 years before the Holloway case.

Because dental records could rule out any link to Natalee Holloway, no DNA testing was ever done on the material. However, the examinations performed did discover that the jawbone came from a Caucasian person.

Amy’s desperate family still offered a $250,000 reward for information about amy’s whereabouts.

The last doubted sighting of Amy Bradley happened in 2005. A $250,000 reward is still currently offered on the website of the Bradley family. 

The FBI also offers a $25,000 reward for information leading to her recovery or information about the individuals responsible for her disappearance. Likely to help create interest and keep Amy’s incident alive until Amy is found.

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