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On March 24, 1998, Amy Bradley's family begins to fear that she's been kidnapped off of their Caribbean cruise ship. They don't know who would want to do something like that, but Amy's not the type of person to let her family worry, so it's the only explanation they can think of. And if they're right, they are not about to leave their daughter behind. However, officials don't allow this either. Instead, they offer up a different theory about what could have happened. They think Amy fell overboard. They say maybe it was an accident. After all, she had been drinking the night before, or maybe she even jumped on purpose. The Bradleys do not believe that Amy would have thrown herself overboard. They also don't think she would have gotten so drunk that she would have stumbled over the railing somehow. But at her height, that would have been extremely hard. Anyways, to the Bradleys, this is still pretty far fetched. They know Amy's afraid of heights and was refusing to even look over the side of the ship. They also say that Amy had so much she was excited about at home and so many plans she was making, they don't think it's possible she jumped at the same time. Ship officials have them convinced that Amy falling is the only explanation. Officials tell the family they can disembark and contact authorities to launch a formal search of the waters. And that's what the Bradleys do. Once they're on the island, they contact the US Embassy and a full scale search ensues. Airplanes fly over the ship's path to see if they can spot Amy out on the water and divers join the search as well. But by March 27, three days after Amy disappears, authorities don't find anything and they call off the search. Professional divers and Search teams believe there is no way Amy fell or was even thrown off the ship because they would have found some kind of remains, whether it was her body or even just a piece of clothing. At this point, they weren't in the middle of the ocean. They were close to the port. However, by this point, the FBI has been brought in to look into whether Amy might have remained on the ship after all. By the time the water search ends on the 27th, the cruise only has about one day left, so the agents have to act fast. Soon they start to wonder if ship officials didn't search for Amy as thoroughly as they had let on. First, agents learned that when the ship's employees conducted a search for Amy, all they did was look inside bathrooms and common areas. Anyone who's been on a cruise ship or has seen the movie Titanic knows there are a lot of small corridors and back rooms that only staff members have access to. In other words, the search of the ship basically only scratched the surface. Agents also speak to a man who was filming a promotional video for the Royal Caribbean. He realizes he caught Amy on camera. She's dancing in the nightclub the night before she disappeared, and she's with the band member Yellow. They show up on the video together a few times until about 3am when agents speak with Yellow, he tells them that he and Amy hung out until about 1am before he went back to his room. But the footage tells a different story, so they keep Yellow on their radar. The Bradleys also catch up to the ship to help with the investigation and search for their daughter. When Brad hears that agents have been questioning Yellow, he thinks back to the day when Amy went missing, when Yellow said he was sorry about his sister. Brad now realizes that at that point, ship officials hadn't told crew members about Amy's disappearance yet. So what did Yellow mean when he said he was sorry? Did he know that something terrible had happened to her? Investigators barely have time to ask Yellow these questions because soon the cruise comes to an end and all of their potential witnesses are scattered. However, they continue to question Yellow, but he is eventually cleared of any involvement. The Bradleys still remain suspicious of him, though. After they returned home to Virginia, two young women who were also on the cruise contact them. The women say that they saw Amy with Yellow at 5:45am and that he handed her a drink. If this is true, it could mean that Amy left the cabin and met up with Yellow before he potentially aided in her kidnapping. Unfortunately, this new information doesn't seem to change the FBI's opinion of him. So the Bradleys try other methods of finding Amy. About a month after they return home, they create a website in hopes of raising awareness about Amy's disappearance. The family is certain that Amy is alive. They can't explain it. But Iva, Ron, and Brad all have a gut feeling that she's out there somewhere. They just need to find her. Over the next year, Ron and Brad return to Curacao a handful of times to search for her. 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One year after Amy Bradley disappears, a man named Frank Jones contacts her family and says he wants to enlist his team of specially trained former military operatives to try and track her down and rescue her. The Bradleys hire Frank and his team. They pay him with money raised from a nonprofit. Over the span of a few months, Frank contacts the family from Curacao and fills him in on different, seemingly promising leads. He makes it sound like his team is closing in on Amy's captors and will soon be able to bring her home safely. He even sends him photographs of a woman who looks a lot like Amy, with men who look just like the ones described in the Tip to America's Most Wanted. Frank has given the Bradleys renewed hope. But then one day someone calls him and says they're with Frank and Curacao and he's not looking for Amy. He's not even who he says he is. He's just using their money to live it up on the island. In my opinion, if anyone does this and uses a family's grief to make money like this and scam them, they deserve to be in jail for life. Understandably, the Bradleys are devastated. Fortunately, in 2002, Frank is convicted of mail fraud for what he did to the Bradleys. He's sentenced to five years in prison and is required to pay back all of the money he received. The investigation is back to square one. The Bradleys don't hear anything else Until May of 2002, when a US Navy sailor comes forward with a story from years earlier. He says he visited a brothel in Curacao where one of the women asked for his help. He didn't know what to do, so he told her she should go to the naval ship nearby and speak to someone there. But the woman told him she wasn't allowed to leave the brothel before he could ask her anything else. Two Men pulled her away. The sailor never reported it because he was on duty at the time and wasn't supposed to be at the brothel. But now he's seen Amy's story on tv, and he thinks she was the woman who approached him. Unfortunately, when investigators go to Curacao to check out the brothel, they learn that it's since been burned down. Three more years go by, and there's still no sign of amy. But in 2005, the Bradleys find a clue that she may be alive. That year, they get a tip on their amybradleyismissing.com website and are sent pictures of an online advertisement for sex workers in the Caribbean. There's a listing for a woman named Jazz, and she's identical to Amy. The photo is grainy, and the woman's hair is much longer than Amy's was when she went missing. But her face is exactly the same. The Bradleys believe it is Amy. They show the picture to an FBI photo analyst who also agrees. Investigators are able to tie a phone number connected with the website to a man named Alfred Cotton. And get this. Alfred and his wife, Jennifer Cotten, were arrested for facilitating sex tourism by US Citizens to the Dominican Republic through their company, Tropical Adult Vacations, or tav. Their company provided US Citizens with room, board, and the services of prostituted women at their hotel, located in Boca Chica, a small town near the capital of the Dominican Republic. Over the course of hundreds of trips, the couple managed the TAV's business operations from their Florida residents, including posting ads on backpage.com to solicit customers. The even crazier part is someone reported seeing Amy Bradley in San Francisco with a man. And if you're watching, this is the sketch of the man. And this is a picture of Alfred Cotten. Insanely uncanny, if you ask me. After that, leads dry up for another five years. In 2010, Amy is officially declared dead because of how long she's been missing, with no confirmed leads as to her whereabouts. But she remains on the FBI's missing persons list, and the official notice of her death can be reversed if something changes. But unfortunately, nothing does until 15 years later. Then, in July 2025, when Amy's been missing for 27 years. Everything changes by this point. For the Bradleys, it might feel like the world, including US Authorities, have given up. But there are some people outside of the investigation who haven't stopped thinking about Amy. Netflix releases their latest documentary titled Amy Bradley Is Missing. The documentary spends four weeks on Netflix top 10, bringing the story back into the national Spotlight. Pretty soon, the producers of the documentary are flooded with tips from people who think think they've spotted Amy or have information on her whereabouts. As with many cases, many of these tips are unreliable, especially because even before the documentary was released, the FBI posted a $25,000 reward that leads to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person or persons responsible for her disappearance. So people have a motive to get involved. However, Netflix producers do receive some valuable information. The first one is an anonymous tip from someone who was on the ship the night Amy disappeared. The source says that on that night, a female bartender was heard yelling, quote, senorita kidnap, repeatedly. It's worth noting that according to the sources, the bartender didn't speak much English. At the same time, the bartender never had a chance to elaborate on what she was shouting about because another employee told her to shut up before taking her to the back. Some outlets have claimed that the bartender has since come forward and is currently speaking to investigators. But Amy's mother, Iva, says this isn't true. Federal investigators also noticed some suspicious activity online. They've been monitoring Amy's missing persons website and believe Amy herself might be visiting the site as a way to feel connected to her family and her old life and not just Amy. They also think her captors may view the site as a way to keep tabs on the investigation. And it seems like that might actually have happened, because after the documentary airs, investigators notice a suspicious hit. They trace the IP address back to a boat off the coast of Barbados. According to federal authorities, a lot of trafficking activity occurs out on the water between countries, so they're not surprised when the IP address points there. But they also have another reason to think the boat and the website hit are connected to Amy. Apparently, an anonymous source has contacted them with claims that they spotted Amy in Barbados as of October 2025. The FBI is still speaking with this witness, which gives many hope that there's a good chance Amy is still alive and could return home. Amy would be 51 years old today. Iva Bradley is now 71 years old, and Ron Bradley is 72. Iva says that not a day goes by that she doesn't think about the day her daughter disappeared. Ron says they still keep her car tuned up in the garage so it will be ready for Amy to drive again. One thing I do want to note that I saw recently in an interview with Amy's brother Brad is that he said that in the Netflix documentary, they focused a lot on her sexuality, but that she had actually come out to the entire family. Years before this trip and that that wouldn't have been a source for her to potentially jump off the boat, he says. She was extremely happy and had so much to look forward to. The FBI is still offering a reward for information. Tips can be submitted via 1-800- call FBI or@tips.FBI.gov what did you think of tonight's case? 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