Disappearance Of Amy Bradley

AMY BRADLEY, MISSING FROM CARIBBEAN CRUISE IN 1998, MYSTERY CRIME CASE:

Amy Lynn Bradley (born May 12, 1974) was a 23-year-old American resident who disappeared during a Caribbean tour on the Royal Caribbean International tour ship Rhapsody of the Seas in late March 1998, while en-route to Curaçao. Widespread investigations of the ship and at sea generated no clue of her location and detectives told that there was no information that she had fallen overboard or died by suicide. There have been valid sightings of Bradley in Curaçao; in 1998, travelers had seen a woman resembling Bradley on a shore, and in 1999, a Navy member declared a woman in a brothel had told she was Bradley and had begged him for help. On March 21, 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley, her parents Ron and Iva, and her brother Brad, left for a weeklong trip on Rhapsody of the Seas.

On the morning of March 24, Bradley had been drinking in the dance club with the ship's team, Blue Orchid. One of the team's members, Alister Douglas, recognized as Yellow, explained he parted with Bradley at about 1 am. Some time between 5:15 and 5:30 am, Bradley's father, Ron, saw her sleeping on the cabin corridor. When he awoke at 6 am, she was no longer there. He later announced, "I left to attempt and go up and discover her. When I couldn't discover her, I didn't realize what to believe, because it was very much unlike Amy to leave and not warn us where she was going."

The ship was on its way to Curaçao, Antilles, at the time she was last glimpsed. The ship arrived in Curaçao shortly after she was found missing. Widespread searches on the ship and at sea produced no clues of her position. Bradley was a skilled lifeguard and detectives said there was no information that she had fallen overboard or she committed suicide.

There were probable sightings of Bradley in Curaçao in 1998 and 1999. Two Canadian travelers reported seeing a woman matching Amy on a beach in Curaçao in August 1998. The woman's tattoos were reportedly similar to Bradley's. Bradley's tattoos including a Tasmanian Devil rolling a basketball found on her shoulder, the sunspot on her lower back, a Chinese badge discovered on her right ankle, and a gecko lizard on her navel. She also had a navel band. A member of the Navy noted that he saw Bradley in a bordello in 1999. He declared she said to him that "her name was Amy Bradley and [she] asked him for support," clarifying that she was not permitted to leave.

There was another likely sighting in 2005 when a witness named Judy Maurer declared to have seen Bradley in a department store washroom in Barbados.

Bradley's mama and father appeared on the November 17, 2005, episode of Dr. Phil. An image of a young woman matching Bradley that was emailed to her parents was exhibited on the program, and it indicates that she might have been traded into sexual slavery.

There is a $250,000 prize for evidence leading to Bradley's return. Her case has been featured by America's Most Wanted and by the television show Vanished

 Renewed awareness was paid to her case after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005.