The case remains under investigation, and many people believe that the woman was taken by human traffickers. There have been sightings all over the Caribbean, yet Amy still hasn't made it home more than 20 years later. One of the weirdest things about the story of Amy's disappearance is how quickly everything happened. Her dad reported seeing her sleeping on the balcony when he woke up sometime between and a.
She was gone when he went to check on her at 6 a. They immediately told the cruise authorities, but the crew was preparing to dock the ship and let people out for an excursion, so they didn't start searching right away.
It's not that weird that Amy, who was a recent college graduate, was out having a good time on a cruise ship. She was doing what young adults do - having a good time on vacation. It only became strange the next day.
Amy's brother Brad spent part of the night out with her, but he went to bed earlier, and it's not really clear what happened that night. Cruise ships act differently these days, but when Amy's parents reported her missing, the response was really slow. The crew was more worried about docking and letting people off and the ship wasn't searched until afterward. That makes some people think that Amy could have been whisked off the ship before anyone even tried to help her.
The first suspect that the authorities questioned about Amy was a man named Yellow. He was part of a band called Blue Orchid that was playing the night before the disappearance, and Amy had been getting to know him after he left the stage. He said that he and Amy split up around 1 a. But it looks like the authority's distraction on a rocker might have meant the real bad guys got overlooked.
As the Bradleys began searching for their daughter, at least one sighting was brought to light. A cab driver in Curacao said that a woman matching Amy's description approached him and asked for a phone.
But he didn't realize something was wrong. That sighting was never confirmed, so it's unclear what happened to the woman.
He responded with a photo of a similarly tattooed woman who resembled Amy and the Bradleys paid him the rest of the money. The Bradleys were instructed to fly to Florida to wait for a call from Jones as soon as Amy was recovered. They waited in a hotel for a week before they got a call from one of Jones's associates who had also been duped and determined the whole operation was a scam.
The cook, the photos, the Colombians, and the house under surveillance were all a fraud. Jones, who had never been in the Special Forces, eventually pled guilty to mail fraud and got a five year sentence and an order to make restitution. In , a woman named Judy Mawer was in a Bridgetown, Barbados , women's restroom stall when she suddenly heard two men loudly enter the bathroom and begin screaming and threatening a woman in a different stall. Mawer waited for a few minutes and then exited the stall to find a very upset woman hunched over the sink area.
The woman allegedly told Judy Mawer her name was Amy and that she was from Virginia. Seconds later, the two men reentered the bathroom and forcibly removed "Amy from Virginia. Even before Amy disappeared, there were a few odd instances around the ship. Three of the waiters on the ship were quite friendly with Amy, almost immediately. While the ship was docked in Aruba, one of them even asked Amy's father about her whereabouts by name. When asked why he was looking for her, he told Mr.
Bradley that "they," presumably members of the wait staff, wanted to take her to Carlos and Charlie's, the same bar that Natalee Holloway disappeared from in Amy subsequently told her father that the waiters "gave her the creeps," and she didn't want anything to do with them. That night, when the ship staff posted photos taken of all of the dinner participants, Amy's mother noticed that all of her daughter's photos were missing , despite the gallery supervisor clearly remembering they were posted earlier.
After the Bradleys determined Amy was missing, they frantically asked the ship's purser to back the ship away from the dock and prevent any guests from leaving. They also requested an announcement be made concerning Amy's disappearance.
By the time a cursory search of the ship began, many of the ship's guests and staff had already left the vessel for the day. The family was subsequently told that no announcement would be made and no photographs would be posted concerning Amy's disappearance, as this would be too disturbing to other passengers. The Bradleys left the ship in Curacao but flew to the next stop to subsequently reboard when they were told by the FBI the search for Amy had only included bathrooms and common areas and ignored staterooms and employee living quarters.
In late , probably as a result of environmental turmoil caused by Hurricane Tomas, a human jaw bone washed up on a beach in Aruba. One lead cropped up in the form of a sighting.
A Canadian tourist said that he saw Amy with two other men on the beach in Curacao in August He mentioned that when she was about to say something, one of the men gestured her away.
She had told him her name and even asked him for help. A third sighting was reported in when a witness stated seeing Amy in a department store restroom in Barbados. In the same year, the family also received an anonymous email that contained images of a woman who bore a striking resemblance to Amy, dressed in a revealing outfit. This led to a possible theory that she might have been forced into prostitution.
Despite these numerous sightings, Amy has stayed missing. In the end, the family still seeks answers. Their plight does put a spotlight on similar incidents that happen on international waters and the roadblocks the ensuing investigations face. What Happened to Amy Lynn Bradley?
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