"Amy Bradley Is Missing" Vanished at Sea

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:00:19,686 --> 00:00:21,521 What do you think happened to Amy? 3 00:00:23,982 --> 00:00:25,150 I don't know. 4 00:00:26,317 --> 00:00:28,153 Amy! 5 00:00:28,737 --> 00:00:30,113 Something terrible did happen. 6 00:00:30,196 --> 00:00:31,614 Amy! 7 00:00:31,698 --> 00:00:35,618 I gotta think that somebody killed her. 8 00:00:36,995 --> 00:00:43,752 Maybe she was killed, put in a suitcase, and taken off the ship. 9 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:47,881 I think she jumped or fell off. 10 00:00:49,799 --> 00:00:53,511 I do not believe that Amy committed suicide. 11 00:00:53,595 --> 00:00:56,848 There's no room for me to believe that. 12 00:00:57,974 --> 00:01:00,685 I'm reticent to tell you what I think has happened. 13 00:01:00,769 --> 00:01:04,606 I don't want to say it out loud as I don't want to speak it into being. 14 00:01:04,689 --> 00:01:06,483 How would I know she got off the boat? 15 00:01:06,566 --> 00:01:09,277 I had nothing to do with that. Nothing! 16 00:01:10,278 --> 00:01:13,573 Exactly what has happened to their daughter is a mystery, 17 00:01:13,656 --> 00:01:16,743 and FBI agents have now boarded the cruise ship to try to solve it. 18 00:01:16,826 --> 00:01:19,746 If someone has her, please let her go. 19 00:01:19,829 --> 00:01:22,540 Leave her somewhere in the middle of the night, blindfolded. 20 00:01:22,624 --> 00:01:24,084 We won't ask any questions. 21 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:27,420 I still think she's alive. 22 00:01:27,504 --> 00:01:31,549 I think she got taken as a sex slave, but I don't know that. 23 00:01:32,133 --> 00:01:34,260 A dream cruise to a Caribbean paradise. 24 00:01:34,344 --> 00:01:37,097 Mystery on a cruise ship of a passenger who vanished. 25 00:01:37,180 --> 00:01:39,182 We don't know what went wrong. 26 00:01:39,265 --> 00:01:40,934 It just goes deeper and deeper. 27 00:01:41,518 --> 00:01:43,520 There's so many questions. 28 00:01:44,229 --> 00:01:46,564 Terrible accident or foul play? 29 00:01:46,648 --> 00:01:48,483 Just so many theories. 30 00:01:48,566 --> 00:01:51,528 She turned back. She was almost saying, "Help me." 31 00:01:52,195 --> 00:01:54,114 One of them is the right answer. 32 00:01:54,697 --> 00:01:57,784 If you wanted to kill somebody, just take 'em on a cruise. 33 00:01:58,827 --> 00:02:00,578 Because you'll never get caught. 34 00:02:09,838 --> 00:02:13,049 How often do you replay the trip? 35 00:02:14,592 --> 00:02:17,011 Every day. Every day. 36 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,682 Not occasionally, not every other day. 37 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:23,810 Not once a month. 38 00:02:25,395 --> 00:02:27,188 You wake up thinking about it. 39 00:02:27,272 --> 00:02:29,274 Go to bed thinking about it. 40 00:02:31,109 --> 00:02:35,155 It's just… everything around you reminds you of her. 41 00:02:39,701 --> 00:02:41,286 Hi, Mom. Hi, Amy. 42 00:02:42,495 --> 00:02:43,997 All right! 43 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,041 And it's a really, really terrible, terrible feeling. 44 00:02:48,126 --> 00:02:49,836 Let's say you're gonna go shopping, 45 00:02:50,378 --> 00:02:52,297 and you've got your children with you. 46 00:02:53,173 --> 00:02:54,883 The children are playing around 47 00:02:55,592 --> 00:02:56,968 up underneath all the clothes, 48 00:02:57,051 --> 00:02:58,178 and you look up… 49 00:03:00,138 --> 00:03:02,307 and one of the children's not there. 50 00:03:06,811 --> 00:03:07,896 It's sheer panic. 51 00:03:08,897 --> 00:03:13,193 And that feeling is something that doesn't go away. 52 00:03:18,072 --> 00:03:20,700 We're 71 and 72 now. 53 00:03:22,619 --> 00:03:26,247 And I was 45 when Amy disappeared. 54 00:03:31,753 --> 00:03:34,505 It was March 21st, 1998. 55 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,718 And I was going to stay at the Bradleys' house 56 00:03:38,801 --> 00:03:40,386 while they were on the cruise. 57 00:03:40,470 --> 00:03:43,431 'Cause I was watching the dogs, and the birds, and… 58 00:03:43,932 --> 00:03:45,850 you know, taking care of the house. 59 00:03:45,934 --> 00:03:47,852 We gotta go in just a minute. 60 00:03:49,187 --> 00:03:53,524 Growing up, I kinda was like the fifth member of the Bradleys, 61 00:03:53,608 --> 00:03:55,526 just like kinda living there all the time. 62 00:03:55,610 --> 00:03:57,153 …in your mouth. 63 00:03:57,237 --> 00:04:00,698 It was always fun. Their house was always full of laughter. 64 00:04:00,782 --> 00:04:03,117 Mom and Dad said that when you were three, 65 00:04:03,201 --> 00:04:04,410 you were designated the job 66 00:04:04,494 --> 00:04:06,454 of busting your forehead on every doorknob. 67 00:04:07,497 --> 00:04:09,666 I loved being with Amy and Brad. It was fun. 68 00:04:09,749 --> 00:04:11,125 We had fun all the time. 69 00:04:11,209 --> 00:04:13,544 They were close in a way that made you 70 00:04:13,628 --> 00:04:15,588 want your family to be, like, that close. 71 00:04:17,257 --> 00:04:22,011 When I picture my sister, I don't envision her much different than 72 00:04:22,095 --> 00:04:23,721 when I last saw her. 73 00:04:23,805 --> 00:04:27,016 I still see the same sis I always did. 74 00:04:28,059 --> 00:04:31,479 As you head for the future, be confident and take advice from no other. 75 00:04:31,562 --> 00:04:34,232 I'll always be there for you. I love you, little brother. 76 00:04:34,315 --> 00:04:35,900 -Hey! -Thank you. 77 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:41,114 Brad actually was my boyfriend at the time. 78 00:04:41,197 --> 00:04:43,533 But, I mean, we were all such good friends. 79 00:04:43,616 --> 00:04:44,742 You know, young love. 80 00:04:46,119 --> 00:04:50,373 At the time, Brad was 21 years old. Two years younger than Amy. 81 00:04:50,456 --> 00:04:53,710 Amy was 23. She was a year older than me. 82 00:04:53,793 --> 00:04:56,796 She had just gotten a new apartment, a new dog. 83 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:59,424 So it was sort of like this family trip that you're going on, 84 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:02,927 kinda before you start your big girl life. 85 00:05:03,011 --> 00:05:05,638 How ya doin'? 86 00:05:07,348 --> 00:05:11,019 I remember us shopping, and talking about bathing suits, 87 00:05:11,102 --> 00:05:12,895 and packing for the trip. 88 00:05:12,979 --> 00:05:15,898 And she seemed excited to go. 89 00:05:15,982 --> 00:05:17,567 I mean, they all did. 90 00:05:19,861 --> 00:05:22,322 I just remember them pulling out of the driveway. 91 00:05:22,989 --> 00:05:26,492 I didn't realize that life was never gonna be the same after that. 92 00:05:47,805 --> 00:05:50,350 I was cruise director for Royal Caribbean for 20 years. 93 00:05:50,433 --> 00:05:52,685 I was cruise director on the Rhapsody of the Seas. 94 00:05:54,645 --> 00:05:57,523 Hi, folks, I'm Kirk Detweiler, your cruise director… 95 00:05:57,607 --> 00:05:58,983 Oh, Jesus. 96 00:05:59,692 --> 00:06:00,735 I'm a baby. 97 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:04,697 This video we played at the beginning of the Welcome Aboard show. 98 00:06:04,781 --> 00:06:07,241 I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you aboard 99 00:06:07,325 --> 00:06:09,118 the MS Rhapsody of the Seas. 100 00:06:09,202 --> 00:06:11,829 One of the largest and most beautiful cruise ships afloat. 101 00:06:11,913 --> 00:06:14,332 My job? The cruise director is the face of the ship. 102 00:06:14,415 --> 00:06:16,334 Every cruise was different. 103 00:06:16,417 --> 00:06:18,127 You get a different crowd every week. 104 00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:21,756 My soft spot was for the old ladies. 105 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:23,591 I would go dance with the old ladies. 106 00:06:23,674 --> 00:06:26,010 "Oh, my God, I have a granddaughter," you know? 107 00:06:28,513 --> 00:06:31,641 Grapevine to the right, grapevine to the left. 108 00:06:31,724 --> 00:06:35,645 Three steps back, rock forward, rock back. 109 00:06:35,728 --> 00:06:37,647 Step, turn, and start again. 110 00:06:40,066 --> 00:06:41,442 It was just a great life. 111 00:06:41,526 --> 00:06:44,695 I probably have 500 best friends that I worked with, you know? 112 00:06:45,988 --> 00:06:47,240 That was a good time. 113 00:06:48,241 --> 00:06:52,745 This particular cruise is March of 1998, and I remember that cruise very well. 114 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:57,083 We were doing seven-day cruises out of San Juan. 115 00:06:57,166 --> 00:07:01,712 And we did Aruba, Curaçao, St. Maarten, St. Thomas. 116 00:07:06,926 --> 00:07:10,430 That's supposed to be the biggest ship in the world. Pretty big. 117 00:07:13,516 --> 00:07:17,186 My wife and I are both insurance agents with Illinois Mutual Insurance Company. 118 00:07:17,270 --> 00:07:19,480 And they would run contests every year. 119 00:07:19,564 --> 00:07:22,316 And this particular year, we were rewarded with a cruise. 120 00:07:23,609 --> 00:07:25,361 I'm going in my room. 121 00:07:27,447 --> 00:07:28,906 That's pretty neat. 122 00:07:28,990 --> 00:07:31,451 We were pumped about the trip as a couple. 123 00:07:31,534 --> 00:07:35,455 But when we realized that they were going to actually let us bring 124 00:07:35,538 --> 00:07:38,166 Amy and Brad with us, we couldn't have been more thrilled. 125 00:07:38,249 --> 00:07:40,960 The pull-out couch, the sliding glass door. 126 00:07:41,711 --> 00:07:44,881 They would probably have liked to have had their own cabin, 127 00:07:44,964 --> 00:07:48,509 being 21 and 23 years old, but it didn't work out that way. 128 00:07:53,306 --> 00:07:56,392 San Juan. San Juan Harbor. 129 00:07:56,976 --> 00:07:58,186 Gotcha on film. 130 00:07:58,269 --> 00:07:59,437 We did stop. 131 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,230 Amy bought some postcards, 132 00:08:01,314 --> 00:08:03,858 and we picked up about a dozen rolls of film. 133 00:08:04,442 --> 00:08:07,820 Amy was taking pictures to enter a photo contest. 134 00:08:09,655 --> 00:08:13,493 Horns are going off. We're leaving the dock. 135 00:08:20,583 --> 00:08:23,961 I remember going up to the pool deck and looking around. 136 00:08:24,045 --> 00:08:27,798 There was a band playing. Typical kind of steel kettle drum band. 137 00:08:32,970 --> 00:08:35,515 The next day, we were at sea. 138 00:08:36,516 --> 00:08:39,185 The water, it was crystal clear. 139 00:08:39,268 --> 00:08:41,646 Just like they talk about on TV. 140 00:08:48,653 --> 00:08:52,156 And then day three was the stop on Aruba. 141 00:08:54,033 --> 00:08:57,245 I remember we rented a vehicle and got lost in the desert, 142 00:08:57,328 --> 00:09:00,081 and all that stuff, and we got baked by the sun. 143 00:09:00,164 --> 00:09:03,501 We were talking about what we were going to do the next day on Curaçao. 144 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:05,962 We went on back on the ship. 145 00:09:06,796 --> 00:09:08,839 I'm getting this for Erin. 146 00:09:09,465 --> 00:09:12,552 This is a boy who is very, very tired. 147 00:09:12,635 --> 00:09:14,887 Had a hard day on the island of Aruba. 148 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:16,847 He is passed out! 149 00:09:17,598 --> 00:09:22,270 That night, we were getting ready for dinner, and that was the formal night. 150 00:09:25,356 --> 00:09:28,401 The photographer said that he wanted to take a picture of Amy. 151 00:09:29,860 --> 00:09:33,489 And Amy was standing there, he said, "Okay, now her and her boyfriend." 152 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,866 Amy laughed, and she said, "That's not my boyfriend." 153 00:09:35,950 --> 00:09:37,076 "That's my baby brother." 154 00:09:39,245 --> 00:09:44,083 At the dinner table, the waitstaff was noticeably attentive to Amy 155 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:46,294 and kinda flirting a little bit. 156 00:09:46,377 --> 00:09:48,796 We actually went as far as to make jokes at the table. 157 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:52,091 Like, "Hey, if anybody needs anything, just tell them Amy wants it." 158 00:09:52,174 --> 00:09:54,051 "You know, it'll be here right away." 159 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:58,598 After dinner, we went back to the room 160 00:09:58,681 --> 00:10:00,641 and, you know, got out of our formals, 161 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:03,728 and went up to the pool deck. 162 00:10:04,437 --> 00:10:06,772 Going out. Gonna get really fun! 163 00:10:09,108 --> 00:10:11,319 Pool party started at ten o'clock. 164 00:10:11,402 --> 00:10:15,573 It was like Dancing Under the Stars, or something like that, they called it. 165 00:10:16,574 --> 00:10:19,243 It almost seemed like everybody was up there. 166 00:10:19,327 --> 00:10:24,040 There was a limbo contest that, somehow or another, I ended up winning. 167 00:10:24,540 --> 00:10:25,416 Winner! 168 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:30,171 The crown that I won, when I won the limbo contest, 169 00:10:30,254 --> 00:10:31,756 I put it on Amy's head. 170 00:10:34,008 --> 00:10:37,678 The boat had left Aruba during the pool party at, like, 1:00 a.m. 171 00:10:38,220 --> 00:10:42,558 At that point, Iva and I were tired, so we decided to call it a night. 172 00:10:42,642 --> 00:10:45,019 And we told Amy and Brad we were going to bed. 173 00:10:45,936 --> 00:10:49,148 And I said, "I love you." She said, "I love you too, Mom." 174 00:10:49,231 --> 00:10:53,861 She said, "I'll see you in the morning." I said, "Okay." And so we went to bed. 175 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:03,120 Went up to the disco 'cause that was the last place that was open, 176 00:11:03,204 --> 00:11:05,414 and we weren't ready to turn in yet. 177 00:11:05,498 --> 00:11:08,501 We were having drinks and listening to music, 178 00:11:08,584 --> 00:11:10,336 and having a great time. 179 00:11:11,212 --> 00:11:12,797 We had a lot of fun together. 180 00:11:14,048 --> 00:11:16,592 I was walking out of the club. 181 00:11:16,676 --> 00:11:19,762 I motioned up to Amy, who was up in the upper level, 182 00:11:19,845 --> 00:11:22,515 the DJ booth area, it was like a round table 183 00:11:22,598 --> 00:11:26,936 where four, five, six people were sitting up there, and we kinda, 184 00:11:27,019 --> 00:11:29,146 motioned at each other. You know, I said, 185 00:11:29,230 --> 00:11:30,981 "I'm gonna be out here." 186 00:11:32,817 --> 00:11:35,611 And so I go out and hang out on the upper deck 187 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:37,822 for a half hour or something like that, 188 00:11:37,905 --> 00:11:42,743 and then go back to my room, our room, the room we all shared. 189 00:11:47,415 --> 00:11:50,876 My parents were sleeping. I went out onto the balcony. 190 00:11:56,465 --> 00:12:00,886 And, like, not five minutes later, it seemed, Amy came back to the room. 191 00:12:07,768 --> 00:12:11,063 And we're both kinda just finishing our drinks and, you know, hanging out 192 00:12:11,147 --> 00:12:12,732 and talking about the next day… 193 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:20,448 She brought up that someone she had been dancing and talking to 194 00:12:20,531 --> 00:12:24,744 during the course of the evening made some sort of physical pass at her. 195 00:12:24,827 --> 00:12:28,205 She told me it was the bass player from the band. 196 00:12:29,957 --> 00:12:31,667 She didn't make a big deal of it. 197 00:12:32,418 --> 00:12:34,170 Just kinda mentioned in passing. 198 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:38,799 At that point, yeah, we were both tipsy. 199 00:12:38,883 --> 00:12:41,177 You know? Not, like, not crazy. 200 00:12:41,260 --> 00:12:44,054 I mean, I could tell it was time for bed. 201 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,891 We were getting up pretty early the next morning, 202 00:12:46,974 --> 00:12:49,226 so I was going to try to get a few hours of sleep. 203 00:12:51,061 --> 00:12:53,063 She said, "I don't feel too good, 204 00:12:53,147 --> 00:12:56,317 I'm going to sit right here with all the fresh air and the wind." 205 00:12:59,111 --> 00:13:01,447 Told her I loved her and see her tomorrow, 206 00:13:01,530 --> 00:13:03,699 and shut the glass door behind me. 207 00:13:08,329 --> 00:13:09,830 And I went to bed. 208 00:13:19,507 --> 00:13:22,968 I remember waking somewhere around 5:30 in the morning. 209 00:13:23,052 --> 00:13:25,054 Brad had come in and gone to bed, 210 00:13:25,805 --> 00:13:27,181 but I didn't see Amy in there. 211 00:13:27,765 --> 00:13:30,976 So, I made sure that Amy was okay, and I saw her legs 212 00:13:31,685 --> 00:13:35,064 and her feet, sitting in a lounge chair on the balcony. 213 00:13:36,065 --> 00:13:37,525 So, I said, "Well, she's safe." 214 00:13:46,492 --> 00:13:49,411 And about ten to 6:00, six o'clock, somewhere in there, 215 00:13:49,495 --> 00:13:51,163 something woke me up again. 216 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:54,124 I don't know what it was, 217 00:13:54,667 --> 00:13:58,963 but when my eyes opened, I looked out again, and she wasn't there. 218 00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:07,304 I noticed that the balcony door was open 219 00:14:07,388 --> 00:14:09,306 about 12 to 14 inches. 220 00:14:10,474 --> 00:14:12,685 I noticed that her cigarettes weren't out there. 221 00:14:14,770 --> 00:14:17,690 And the shirt that she had on that night 222 00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:21,068 was laying on the chair in the room. 223 00:14:21,151 --> 00:14:23,320 It was a yellow polo shirt. 224 00:14:25,990 --> 00:14:30,077 So, the first thing that I'm thinking is she's changed her clothes and went up. 225 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,455 She's left the room, and she's up getting a cup of coffee, 226 00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:35,875 taking pictures, 'cause we were coming into port. 227 00:14:39,295 --> 00:14:41,130 That's when I left the room. 228 00:14:41,213 --> 00:14:45,092 I figured that by leaving myself and letting them sleep, 229 00:14:45,175 --> 00:14:49,763 that I would find Amy, you know, in just a few minutes. 230 00:14:50,931 --> 00:14:52,558 And then everything would be good. 231 00:14:54,643 --> 00:14:55,853 But when I didn't, 232 00:14:56,687 --> 00:15:00,733 that's when I came back and told Iva, you know, I was… "I can't find Amy." 233 00:15:02,318 --> 00:15:03,652 He touches my foot… 234 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:06,113 and he said, 235 00:15:06,196 --> 00:15:09,658 "I've been looking for Amy, and I can't find her." 236 00:15:22,588 --> 00:15:24,006 All of a sudden… 237 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:29,053 the ship is close to docking. 238 00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:37,311 One of my staff came to me and said, 239 00:15:37,394 --> 00:15:40,940 "Brent, I've got some parents who are at the desk." 240 00:15:41,023 --> 00:15:43,359 "They are concerned about their daughter." 241 00:15:43,442 --> 00:15:46,236 I went out to the desk, and I spoke to Mr. and Mrs. Bradley. 242 00:15:47,237 --> 00:15:49,531 They were really, really concerned, 243 00:15:49,615 --> 00:15:55,871 and, you know, a bit forceful in wanting to know what we could do. 244 00:15:56,789 --> 00:16:01,377 They did ask for the ship to put out a voice page. 245 00:16:03,379 --> 00:16:08,300 I did explain that we wouldn't do a voice page at seven o'clock in the morning. 246 00:16:08,384 --> 00:16:12,596 For the rest of our guests, that could be seen as intrusive. 247 00:16:13,681 --> 00:16:15,307 What I said to them was, 248 00:16:15,391 --> 00:16:18,143 "It sounds like you've had a really good look around." 249 00:16:18,227 --> 00:16:22,648 "Keep looking, but if you can't find your daughter within a half an hour, 250 00:16:22,731 --> 00:16:26,402 come back, I'll be here, and I'll get you the security officer." 251 00:16:28,696 --> 00:16:31,907 The ship was ten decks, and it was 1,000 feet long. 252 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:34,618 She could have been anywhere. 253 00:16:34,702 --> 00:16:37,705 Two thousand people were ready to get off the ship in Curaçao. 254 00:16:38,455 --> 00:16:42,710 I had bouffant hair at the time, so I was probably spritzing my hair, 255 00:16:42,793 --> 00:16:45,129 getting ready to make my appearance on the gangway. 256 00:16:48,924 --> 00:16:50,509 And I heard an announcement… 257 00:16:50,592 --> 00:16:53,971 "Would Amy Bradley please contact the purser's desk?" 258 00:16:54,722 --> 00:16:56,890 We could see people gathering their things up. 259 00:16:58,058 --> 00:17:01,520 We're just saying, "You can't let people off of this boat until we find her." 260 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:05,566 The hotel director debriefed me, 261 00:17:05,649 --> 00:17:06,984 "Oh, this girl's missing." 262 00:17:07,067 --> 00:17:09,987 But at the time, I still had to make the clearance announcement. 263 00:17:11,363 --> 00:17:13,365 I was begging them, 264 00:17:14,241 --> 00:17:16,118 "Can you back the ship off of the dock?" 265 00:17:16,201 --> 00:17:19,246 "Don't put the gangways down. Stop everything." 266 00:17:26,128 --> 00:17:28,464 "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Curaçao." 267 00:17:28,547 --> 00:17:31,592 "The gangway's located on deck number two using the aft set of stairs." 268 00:17:32,384 --> 00:17:36,138 We're not going to stop everybody's cruise because there was a missing girl. 269 00:17:36,847 --> 00:17:38,807 That's one family's unfortunate incident, 270 00:17:38,891 --> 00:17:41,602 but we still had 2,400 people who paid a lot of money, 271 00:17:41,685 --> 00:17:43,854 and as cold as that sounds, that's the reality. 272 00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:51,195 It was nothing like we've ever felt before. 273 00:17:53,113 --> 00:17:55,574 People still going on their merry way. 274 00:17:56,408 --> 00:17:58,410 Having a vacation, laughing, talking. 275 00:18:00,788 --> 00:18:02,790 And there we are, looking for my daughter. 276 00:18:04,083 --> 00:18:05,334 It was, uh… 277 00:18:06,293 --> 00:18:08,462 It was what nightmares are made of. 278 00:18:11,006 --> 00:18:13,175 After her family didn't find her, 279 00:18:14,843 --> 00:18:16,804 we decided to do a search of the ship. 280 00:18:17,596 --> 00:18:19,389 We had a… What they call "Charlie drill." 281 00:18:19,473 --> 00:18:22,434 They call it a Charlie drill. It's basically a bomb search drill. 282 00:18:23,268 --> 00:18:26,688 We check every drawer of every closet, of every room, 283 00:18:26,772 --> 00:18:28,357 of every nook, of every cranny. 284 00:18:28,982 --> 00:18:32,694 It takes 45 minutes to an hour. You have 800, 900 people doing it. 285 00:18:33,362 --> 00:18:38,867 Every crew member has to check their own cabin, every inch of the ship. 286 00:18:41,995 --> 00:18:43,247 For the search, 287 00:18:43,330 --> 00:18:46,291 the security guard had told us to go back to the room and wait. 288 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,336 So, we didn't see anyone search the ship. 289 00:18:49,837 --> 00:18:51,797 But that's when the captain came in. 290 00:18:52,881 --> 00:18:58,762 He says, "We have searched, and your daughter's not on this boat." 291 00:19:02,641 --> 00:19:04,017 Nothing was found. 292 00:19:05,018 --> 00:19:06,728 She just disappeared. 293 00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:09,398 Everybody, at least from the employees' side, 294 00:19:09,481 --> 00:19:12,609 was just assuming that she either jumped or fell overboard. 295 00:19:13,694 --> 00:19:16,822 We were thinking it was possible that she went overboard. 296 00:19:16,905 --> 00:19:20,659 It's not so common as people might think, but it's possible. 297 00:19:24,121 --> 00:19:26,290 When we didn't find her on the ship, 298 00:19:26,373 --> 00:19:28,625 local authorities to Curaçao were called immediately. 299 00:19:29,209 --> 00:19:32,588 I was chief of island police, and when something like that happens, 300 00:19:32,671 --> 00:19:35,174 automatically it comes in my lap. 301 00:19:35,841 --> 00:19:38,135 They thought she had fallen overboard. 302 00:19:38,218 --> 00:19:43,098 Our waters have a very strong current, so something should wash ashore. 303 00:19:45,225 --> 00:19:46,476 I remember the search. 304 00:19:47,311 --> 00:19:49,730 I could see the boats and the helicopters out looking. 305 00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:53,567 It was the biggest search that we ever had. 306 00:19:57,237 --> 00:20:00,657 Our search grid was between Curaçao and Aruba. 307 00:20:01,450 --> 00:20:04,203 The Marines, the Venezuelan Coast Guard, the Navy, 308 00:20:04,286 --> 00:20:06,413 everybody was looking in that area. 309 00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:13,795 Because of the position of the boat, wind force, sea current, the wave height, 310 00:20:13,879 --> 00:20:16,089 the body would have washed up. 311 00:20:16,173 --> 00:20:18,133 But she was nowhere to be found. 312 00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:22,054 Not even a piece of clothing, nothing. 313 00:20:23,847 --> 00:20:26,308 It was very unusual. Very, very unusual. 314 00:20:26,975 --> 00:20:27,935 I was born here. 315 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:29,436 I know about the water. 316 00:20:30,103 --> 00:20:33,690 We searched. I'm telling you, if she came off the ship or fell off the ship… 317 00:20:35,943 --> 00:20:37,069 we would get a body. 318 00:20:38,278 --> 00:20:39,738 She would have washed ashore. 319 00:20:39,821 --> 00:20:44,243 Our waters have sharks, but the shark will not eat her completely. 320 00:20:44,868 --> 00:20:47,621 Something, maybe a leg or an arm, 321 00:20:48,580 --> 00:20:50,415 something would have washed ashore. 322 00:20:51,541 --> 00:20:54,461 E kos ta straño. It means, "The thing is strange." 323 00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:03,095 They called me March 24th, 1998. 324 00:21:03,971 --> 00:21:05,973 The phone rang. I said, "Hello." 325 00:21:07,224 --> 00:21:09,768 And it was awful. It was awful. 326 00:21:10,477 --> 00:21:14,147 Just three people crying uncontrollably. 327 00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:19,027 I mean, pain that I've never heard before. 328 00:21:21,113 --> 00:21:24,825 'Cause I was alone, and I'm sitting there thinking, 329 00:21:24,908 --> 00:21:27,411 "Oh, my God, what next?" 330 00:21:27,494 --> 00:21:29,162 "What's gonna happen next?" 331 00:21:34,626 --> 00:21:36,420 We left five or six o'clock. 332 00:21:37,838 --> 00:21:40,424 We still had a couple thousand people to entertain, feed. 333 00:21:40,507 --> 00:21:43,385 They were still on vacation, so we went back to, you know, 334 00:21:44,177 --> 00:21:46,054 normal operating procedure. 335 00:21:46,138 --> 00:21:47,180 Life goes on. 336 00:21:49,057 --> 00:21:50,183 Cruises go on. 337 00:21:53,103 --> 00:21:55,188 That's when word got to America. 338 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:59,067 And we begin tonight with a mystery on the high seas. 339 00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:00,652 It was like "breaking news." 340 00:22:00,736 --> 00:22:03,739 This picture of 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley 341 00:22:03,822 --> 00:22:06,825 was taken just hours before she mysteriously vanished 342 00:22:06,908 --> 00:22:09,286 from a cruise ship early Tuesday morning. 343 00:22:09,369 --> 00:22:12,456 Like, "That's not our Amy that they're talking about." 344 00:22:12,539 --> 00:22:17,169 Stephanie had called me. We all were kinda like, "Oh, my gosh." 345 00:22:17,252 --> 00:22:18,795 And I'm an eternal optimist. 346 00:22:18,879 --> 00:22:22,341 "Everything's gonna be okay. They're gonna find her. It's fine." 347 00:22:22,424 --> 00:22:24,301 "It was a mistake. She's on… " 348 00:22:24,384 --> 00:22:29,973 "She got drunk and was somewhere lost or something." 349 00:22:30,057 --> 00:22:33,477 I was so just, like, numb. 350 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,271 In college, we had all lived in the same dorm. 351 00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:39,358 I mean, we literally all met because of Amy. 352 00:22:39,941 --> 00:22:42,611 It happened while I was on this work trip. 353 00:22:43,111 --> 00:22:44,905 There weren't a lot of details. 354 00:22:45,697 --> 00:22:49,284 I just remember not being able to stand. 355 00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:51,953 "We have to find her now. Now." 356 00:23:00,420 --> 00:23:03,423 Most people have no idea 357 00:23:03,507 --> 00:23:09,513 when they board a cruise ship the dangers that are inherent there. 358 00:23:09,596 --> 00:23:11,973 But the things that have happened to me, 359 00:23:12,808 --> 00:23:16,436 things that have happened to Amy Bradley and her family, 360 00:23:17,354 --> 00:23:19,106 can happen to anyone, 361 00:23:19,189 --> 00:23:22,776 anyone, and they do happen all the time. 362 00:23:23,443 --> 00:23:28,865 My daughter died on a three-day cruise out of Long Beach to Mexico. 363 00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:32,035 And after that, I began working for 364 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,705 improved safety and security on cruise ships. 365 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:40,293 This ship is like a small city. 366 00:23:40,377 --> 00:23:42,212 You cannot let your guard down. 367 00:23:42,295 --> 00:23:45,549 You must remain vigilant at all times. 368 00:23:46,091 --> 00:23:50,846 Once you're 12 miles offshore, you're in international waters, 369 00:23:50,929 --> 00:23:55,142 and that's about as lawless as you can get. 370 00:23:55,225 --> 00:23:58,562 The closest thing to police is the security crew. 371 00:23:58,645 --> 00:24:01,857 Well, that's an inherent conflict right there 372 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:03,942 because they're hired by the cruise line. 373 00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:07,028 And so if you have a disappearance, 374 00:24:08,029 --> 00:24:09,531 you're hundreds of miles away 375 00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:14,369 before the US investigative authorities are able to get on that ship. 376 00:24:17,581 --> 00:24:21,751 In 1998, I was just freshly out of college. 377 00:24:22,377 --> 00:24:25,130 Our office on St. Thomas was small with several agents. 378 00:24:26,006 --> 00:24:29,718 I heard about the case, and then I hopped on to assist. 379 00:24:29,801 --> 00:24:32,762 The initial information that comes in is very sparse. 380 00:24:32,846 --> 00:24:35,182 It was an American citizen that had gone missing. 381 00:24:35,265 --> 00:24:38,685 Her age was 23, and she was on her family vacation. 382 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:49,571 We flew down from St. Thomas to St. Maarten. 383 00:24:49,654 --> 00:24:53,116 And in St. Maarten, the cruise ships don't pull up to port, 384 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,951 they dock out at sea, 385 00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:57,621 and then they run these little dinghies to shore. 386 00:24:57,704 --> 00:25:01,458 And so we hopped on one of the dinghies that was going back to the boat. 387 00:25:02,751 --> 00:25:04,169 The boat was huge. 388 00:25:04,753 --> 00:25:07,130 It's like pulling up to the Empire State Building. 389 00:25:07,214 --> 00:25:08,632 It's this massive thing. 390 00:25:10,008 --> 00:25:11,593 We knew that the Coast Guard 391 00:25:11,676 --> 00:25:15,555 and the local police department in Curaçao did not find a body. 392 00:25:15,639 --> 00:25:18,725 So, did something occur that was nefarious and criminal? 393 00:25:18,808 --> 00:25:21,353 In this particular case, anything could have occurred. 394 00:25:23,313 --> 00:25:26,358 We boarded the ship the late afternoon. 395 00:25:27,651 --> 00:25:29,903 The captain gave us a briefing on what he knew. 396 00:25:30,612 --> 00:25:33,782 Last place she was seen was in the cabin on the balcony. 397 00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:37,285 So, the first thing we wanted to do was look at the cabin. 398 00:25:40,205 --> 00:25:42,749 The room was organized well, 399 00:25:42,832 --> 00:25:44,626 and it was very small. 400 00:25:47,254 --> 00:25:49,714 There was basically just enough room for the two beds, 401 00:25:49,798 --> 00:25:52,968 and just to walk in between them to get to the balcony and back out. 402 00:25:54,678 --> 00:25:57,472 In the room, there was no signs of a struggle, 403 00:25:57,556 --> 00:26:01,560 but we couldn't be certain the ship had locked down the cabin 404 00:26:01,643 --> 00:26:03,186 as a potential crime scene. 405 00:26:04,437 --> 00:26:08,567 The Bradley room had been cleaned before the FBI even was able to board. 406 00:26:11,236 --> 00:26:14,114 Which was unfortunate because if there was evidence, 407 00:26:14,197 --> 00:26:17,450 there was no preservation of that evidence. 408 00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:23,623 We tried to take fingerprints, we tried to take fibers from the sheets, 409 00:26:23,707 --> 00:26:25,500 but it had already been cleaned. 410 00:26:26,126 --> 00:26:27,836 We looked at the balcony. 411 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:33,425 Based on what the captain briefed us on, 412 00:26:33,508 --> 00:26:36,219 the last place that she was physically seen was here. 413 00:26:37,637 --> 00:26:39,723 The railing on the balcony is… 414 00:26:39,806 --> 00:26:41,016 was relatively high. 415 00:26:41,099 --> 00:26:42,976 I'm over six feet tall. 416 00:26:43,059 --> 00:26:46,479 And the railing, you know, came up relatively high on me. 417 00:26:46,563 --> 00:26:49,399 And it was a sheer drop all the way down to the water. 418 00:26:51,735 --> 00:26:55,488 The balcony was arranged so that there were two lounge chairs 419 00:26:55,572 --> 00:26:56,781 and then a small table. 420 00:26:56,865 --> 00:26:59,743 The little table was pushed up against the glass of the balcony. 421 00:27:00,577 --> 00:27:03,705 Amy's shoes were found on the balcony, 422 00:27:03,788 --> 00:27:06,666 neatly placed together beside the little table. 423 00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:08,668 Like a Birkenstock kind of sandals. 424 00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:11,838 You could speculate, "Did she jump?" 425 00:27:12,339 --> 00:27:14,758 But there's no direct evidence of that. 426 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,262 I don't take a table being moved as a key piece of evidence 427 00:27:19,346 --> 00:27:21,264 because things, of course, have been moved 428 00:27:21,348 --> 00:27:23,975 because of the cleaning crew. So, it gets very difficult. 429 00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:28,271 At this point, we need to speak to the family 430 00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:30,899 because they were the last ones to see her. 431 00:27:33,109 --> 00:27:34,986 We're taken to a room, 432 00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:37,322 and there's two FBI agents, 433 00:27:37,405 --> 00:27:40,116 you know, it was basically an interview. 434 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,286 We met the family as a whole, all three together initially, 435 00:27:43,370 --> 00:27:44,829 and then we broke them out, 436 00:27:44,913 --> 00:27:47,248 and interviewed each family member separately. 437 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,044 You know, we were sensitive to their situation, 438 00:27:51,127 --> 00:27:53,588 but at the same time, we have to start asking questions 439 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:56,383 because we need to determine what they knew. 440 00:27:58,176 --> 00:28:01,388 We were taking turns going in, talking to the FBI. 441 00:28:01,971 --> 00:28:07,811 He assured us, he said, "We will leave no stone unturned to help you." 442 00:28:07,894 --> 00:28:10,188 They asked me simple things like, you know, 443 00:28:10,271 --> 00:28:13,066 "What happened in the timeline of the…" you know, 444 00:28:13,149 --> 00:28:15,443 "that night in question," and all that kinda stuff. 445 00:28:17,779 --> 00:28:21,825 We're not only looking for evidence of what possibly did happen. 446 00:28:21,908 --> 00:28:24,786 We're also looking to eliminate potential alternatives. 447 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,539 I spoke up and said, 448 00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:33,378 "I don't understand why you're taking so much time with us." 449 00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:36,172 When I came back out, 450 00:28:36,256 --> 00:28:38,633 I told Iva, I said, "You understand why they're… 451 00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:41,761 why they're talking to us like this and interviewing us separately?" 452 00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:43,263 "That's 'cause we're suspects." 453 00:28:43,346 --> 00:28:46,182 "They think that one of us had something to do with it, maybe." 454 00:28:49,477 --> 00:28:51,813 We had to look at the Bradley family. 455 00:28:51,896 --> 00:28:54,357 The last place they had seen Amy was in their cabin 456 00:28:54,441 --> 00:28:56,151 and in the middle of the night. 457 00:28:57,235 --> 00:29:01,030 But we found no evidence that led us to consider 458 00:29:01,114 --> 00:29:03,658 a family member as a possible culprit. 459 00:29:07,454 --> 00:29:10,415 Initially, you are trying to figure out that timeline, 460 00:29:10,498 --> 00:29:13,626 to really pick apart and peel that onion back 461 00:29:13,710 --> 00:29:15,086 on what could have occurred. 462 00:29:16,045 --> 00:29:18,465 We do have one concrete point of fact. 463 00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:21,593 We do have confirmation of when 464 00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:23,845 the family re-entered their cabin, 465 00:29:23,928 --> 00:29:27,182 when Bradley went back in, as well as Amy, because of their key card. 466 00:29:28,975 --> 00:29:31,644 The staterooms at that time had key cards 467 00:29:31,728 --> 00:29:34,606 that when you would use the key card, it would create 468 00:29:34,689 --> 00:29:36,983 an electronic record of entry into the room. 469 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:41,070 So, we know what time Amy got back into her room. 470 00:29:41,154 --> 00:29:43,782 She was in her room approximately by, you know, 3:40 a.m. 471 00:29:44,491 --> 00:29:46,409 She's out on the balcony with her brother. 472 00:29:46,493 --> 00:29:48,787 They're chatting, and having a smoke out there. 473 00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:53,792 And that is the only true fact that we have. 474 00:29:54,417 --> 00:29:56,211 And then it does get a little murky. 475 00:29:56,961 --> 00:29:59,339 After interviewing the Bradleys, 476 00:29:59,422 --> 00:30:02,050 what we know is approximately 477 00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:05,220 5:30 or so in the morning, she was on the balcony. 478 00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:09,974 At 6:00 a.m. or sometime right thereafter, she wasn't on the balcony. 479 00:30:13,186 --> 00:30:17,440 The ship did have security cameras in certain places, mostly in common areas. 480 00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:20,985 But there weren't many. 481 00:30:21,069 --> 00:30:23,613 We looked at that footage, and we didn't find anything. 482 00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:26,199 To get a full timeline, 483 00:30:26,282 --> 00:30:29,077 you're just hoping that someone would come forward to say 484 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,538 that they heard something or they saw something. 485 00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:36,876 I had the room next door to Iva and Ron Bradley. 486 00:30:37,794 --> 00:30:41,047 I remember the FBI, they were looking for clues 487 00:30:41,130 --> 00:30:43,716 and they had the room 488 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,136 open by the door so you could see in. 489 00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:51,307 They had yellow tape across things. 490 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:53,643 I leave my room, 491 00:30:53,726 --> 00:30:56,813 and I'm getting a little feeling… weird stuff going on. 492 00:30:57,522 --> 00:31:00,900 You know, people gossip when they're hanging out. 493 00:31:03,278 --> 00:31:06,406 When I first heard the news, it was apparently somebody fell overboard. 494 00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:10,952 I'm like, "Oh, that's horrible." "Yeah, they're searching for her." 495 00:31:11,035 --> 00:31:15,331 Later, by like the next day, I'm hearing that she committed suicide. 496 00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:17,709 I'm like, "What?" 497 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,004 From what I heard through the grapevine, 498 00:31:21,087 --> 00:31:23,256 she'd kinda bragged that she was a good swimmer. 499 00:31:23,339 --> 00:31:26,301 And when she saw the lights of Curaçao, 500 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:29,846 she was gonna jump in the water and try to beat the ship ashore. 501 00:31:31,139 --> 00:31:35,935 I remember hearing someone say that someone could have drugged her 502 00:31:36,019 --> 00:31:37,729 and abducted her. 503 00:31:40,023 --> 00:31:44,360 And then I heard, yeah, apparently, maybe she didn't jump. 504 00:31:44,444 --> 00:31:45,737 I was like, "What?" 505 00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:49,157 He goes, "Yeah, they think there was some sort of foul play." 506 00:31:50,491 --> 00:31:52,869 There was a lot of rumors. 507 00:31:52,952 --> 00:31:57,040 Everybody's talking about it. "Nah, I seen her here, I seen her there." 508 00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:02,003 The FBI wanted to interview me. 509 00:32:04,047 --> 00:32:07,675 The first thing out of my mouth was, "I seen her last night." 510 00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:14,140 And I told them that I seen Amy Bradley up at the disco that night 511 00:32:14,223 --> 00:32:15,308 at about two o'clock, 512 00:32:15,391 --> 00:32:18,311 'cause I went up to the disco just to see what was going on. 513 00:32:18,394 --> 00:32:22,732 And I just observed and sat down and, yeah, looking for, 514 00:32:22,815 --> 00:32:25,193 you know, looking at girls, whatever. 515 00:32:26,569 --> 00:32:30,239 I told the FBI, Wayne Breitag, 516 00:32:30,323 --> 00:32:32,909 he would come out on his balcony that was next to us, 517 00:32:32,992 --> 00:32:34,619 and there was a partition. 518 00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:37,956 But he would lean over to talk to Amy. 519 00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:41,042 He was just odd. 520 00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:43,169 He was just an odd individual. 521 00:32:43,252 --> 00:32:46,255 During the cruise, I'd go to the casino for a while, 522 00:32:46,339 --> 00:32:49,592 then I'd always come back to the room, and I'd go out to the balcony 523 00:32:49,676 --> 00:32:51,094 till 3:00, 4:00 in the morning. 524 00:32:52,095 --> 00:32:56,015 Earlier on the trip, Amy and I… we talked. 525 00:32:58,977 --> 00:33:01,771 Their balcony, you know, those balconies on those ships, 526 00:33:01,854 --> 00:33:05,483 even though that rail's right there, well, you can step up to that rail, 527 00:33:05,566 --> 00:33:08,611 you can lean right and look right around in that other balcony. 528 00:33:10,113 --> 00:33:13,449 That's where we talked about how she was a good athlete. 529 00:33:13,950 --> 00:33:15,910 And she'd just graduated college, 530 00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:18,413 and she was going to some job or something. 531 00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:25,336 We interviewed Mr. Breitag. 532 00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:30,008 He mainly talked about, you know, his interactions or conversations with Amy 533 00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:32,510 and how pleasant she was and this sort of thing. 534 00:33:32,593 --> 00:33:34,554 But he was there by himself. 535 00:33:34,637 --> 00:33:38,016 I don't think he had a spouse, or friend, or anything with him. 536 00:33:38,099 --> 00:33:42,437 All my cruises I went on by myself. I never took anybody or anything, so I… 537 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,563 I kinda… 538 00:33:43,646 --> 00:33:45,565 My chiropractor always says, 539 00:33:45,648 --> 00:33:49,694 "Your filter's only this big anymore," so my filter is… 540 00:33:49,777 --> 00:33:53,364 I like solitude. I like being alone, and… 541 00:33:54,824 --> 00:33:59,370 That night, I probably was back in the room by 2:30 and whatever, 542 00:33:59,454 --> 00:34:04,709 but I don't remember hearing anything from in that room. 543 00:34:05,501 --> 00:34:11,174 That's why it was a real surprise to me that this stuff had happened. 544 00:34:12,633 --> 00:34:17,263 The passengers in the cabin on the other side of him 545 00:34:17,346 --> 00:34:22,226 said that after Amy disappeared, his TV, or either radio, 546 00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:25,480 was at a level of, "You gotta be kidding me." 547 00:34:25,563 --> 00:34:29,525 And then they could hear him talking inside of his room, 548 00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:33,279 even over the sound of the loud TV or the radio, 549 00:34:33,362 --> 00:34:35,740 and the thought was, "Well, who's he talking to?" 550 00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:41,537 We did search his room, and didn't find evidence of her presence. 551 00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:46,250 There was a version that somebody had mentioned to us 552 00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:48,503 that she tried to climb over and fell… 553 00:34:49,087 --> 00:34:50,505 Somebody could say that. 554 00:34:53,049 --> 00:34:54,592 Yeah, somebody could say that. 555 00:34:54,675 --> 00:34:57,637 But I never had nothing to do with Amy Bradley. 556 00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:00,264 Nothing. 557 00:35:01,265 --> 00:35:03,810 She just was the girl next door in the room. 558 00:35:15,571 --> 00:35:17,532 At some point on Thursday, 559 00:35:18,157 --> 00:35:21,494 somebody puts a notice on my door. 560 00:35:22,495 --> 00:35:25,373 It said, "Amy Bradley missing," 561 00:35:25,456 --> 00:35:27,458 you know, "please contact," whatever. 562 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:32,380 When I saw her face, I went, "Oh, I know her." 563 00:35:33,339 --> 00:35:38,845 I remember seeing her on the boat, and she was just the life of the party. 564 00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:44,851 Amy had this, like, magnetic, magic bubble around her. 565 00:35:44,934 --> 00:35:48,146 And when she'd walk into the room, everybody noticed her. 566 00:35:50,022 --> 00:35:51,816 I'd heard about the missing girl, 567 00:35:51,899 --> 00:35:55,236 but when I saw the xeroxed flyer on my door, 568 00:35:55,319 --> 00:35:58,364 that's when I went, "Oh, that's the girl?" 569 00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:01,492 "That's the one? Interesting." 570 00:36:03,744 --> 00:36:05,454 My mind starts racing, I'm thinking, 571 00:36:05,538 --> 00:36:08,541 "Well, we were in that dance club that night shooting, 572 00:36:08,624 --> 00:36:09,917 the night she went missing." 573 00:36:11,919 --> 00:36:15,464 I worked for a computer company in the San Francisco Bay Area. 574 00:36:16,132 --> 00:36:21,345 They were doing a trip for all their best salespeople on this cruise ship. 575 00:36:22,597 --> 00:36:27,935 My job was to edit a little "highlights reel." 576 00:36:28,019 --> 00:36:31,272 As a job, I'm thinking, "Yay, I'm going to be on a boat." 577 00:36:31,355 --> 00:36:34,442 No, I was in a stateroom almost the entire time. 578 00:36:36,235 --> 00:36:41,240 After I saw the picture of Amy, I sit down, I go through my box of tapes, 579 00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:43,451 and I start going through 'em. 580 00:36:43,534 --> 00:36:46,787 You drop it in, and you shuttle, and you scan, and you look. 581 00:36:46,871 --> 00:36:48,581 No. Take the next one, 582 00:36:49,707 --> 00:36:50,917 shuttle and scan. 583 00:36:51,792 --> 00:36:53,920 No. The next one. 584 00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:00,092 Boom. 585 00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:03,387 And there's Amy. Clear as a bell. 586 00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:09,268 And she's dancing with Yellow. 587 00:37:11,270 --> 00:37:15,107 Yellow was a bass player who played out on the pool deck. 588 00:37:21,113 --> 00:37:24,408 And there was a second shot of her dancing with Yellow. 589 00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:32,208 His name was Alister. He went by "Yellow." 590 00:37:32,291 --> 00:37:35,211 I don't know if he had yellow hair at that point, 591 00:37:35,294 --> 00:37:36,671 but he dyed his hair yellow. 592 00:37:36,754 --> 00:37:38,506 So, that's how he got his nickname. 593 00:37:42,510 --> 00:37:44,637 Later that afternoon, 594 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,848 I'm in my stateroom, and I got a call. 595 00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:50,017 The voice on the other end of the phone says, 596 00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:53,354 "Hi, I'm the head of security on the boat." 597 00:37:53,437 --> 00:37:57,566 And he said, "I'm gonna need to get your master tapes from you." 598 00:37:58,609 --> 00:38:03,614 The cruise ship knew my camera guy had been shooting in the dance club. 599 00:38:04,282 --> 00:38:05,616 I'm like, "Really?" 600 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:07,243 "That's not gonna happen." 601 00:38:08,244 --> 00:38:10,913 "I don't give my master tapes to anybody." 602 00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:12,415 "No, screw you." 603 00:38:15,835 --> 00:38:17,211 I took this tape, 604 00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:20,506 and I did a digital dub of the Beta SP, 605 00:38:20,589 --> 00:38:22,258 popped it in a cassette shell, 606 00:38:22,341 --> 00:38:26,887 labeled it with my name and room number, and I gave it to the FBI. 607 00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:32,393 The footage is significant because it would help 608 00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:35,354 basically find, you know, anybody that she was with 609 00:38:35,438 --> 00:38:36,897 before she went missing. 610 00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:40,401 You can see Amy and Alister Douglas together throughout the night. 611 00:38:40,484 --> 00:38:42,945 Now we are beginning to find that timeline, 612 00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:45,865 to really pick apart and peel that onion back 613 00:38:45,948 --> 00:38:47,658 on what could have occurred, 614 00:38:47,742 --> 00:38:49,744 who saw her, where she was, 615 00:38:49,827 --> 00:38:51,370 what was going on at that time. 616 00:38:54,749 --> 00:38:59,503 When I saw the flyer with Amy's picture on it, I was like, 617 00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:03,424 "Oh, my God," you know, "I saw her." 618 00:39:03,507 --> 00:39:10,264 My friend and I, we had gone to the nightclub that night, and I saw Amy. 619 00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:13,142 She did kinda stand out to me 620 00:39:13,225 --> 00:39:16,395 because there wasn't a lot of young people on the boat. 621 00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:19,148 Yeah, I remember talking to them. 622 00:39:19,231 --> 00:39:21,567 Amy, she had graduated, 623 00:39:21,650 --> 00:39:23,069 she'd gotten an apartment. 624 00:39:23,152 --> 00:39:26,197 You know, she had all these things going for her. 625 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,952 And, you know, at the time, I'm 18 and still trying to figure it out. 626 00:39:34,413 --> 00:39:35,581 My friend and I, 627 00:39:35,664 --> 00:39:38,459 we went back to the room after the nightclub closed. 628 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:41,545 Then we decided we weren't sleepy. 629 00:39:42,254 --> 00:39:45,966 So we just decided to go hang out on the top deck. 630 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:53,057 We were sitting on that deck for a while. We weren't ready to go back to the room. 631 00:39:53,849 --> 00:39:56,018 It was wee morning hours. 632 00:39:56,102 --> 00:39:57,812 Sometime between 5:00 and 6:00. 633 00:40:01,065 --> 00:40:06,153 I saw Amy and this guy that worked on the boat 634 00:40:06,237 --> 00:40:09,949 together in this glass elevator that I could see to my right. 635 00:40:12,034 --> 00:40:17,206 The glass elevator went up to the nightclub even though it was closed. 636 00:40:17,289 --> 00:40:21,252 It was a very well-lit elevator. I could… 637 00:40:21,335 --> 00:40:25,131 I could tell right away who it was. It was the bass player and Amy. 638 00:40:27,383 --> 00:40:30,761 Amy looked like she was staring at something. 639 00:40:30,845 --> 00:40:36,934 I watched them until they rode completely to the top and they exited the elevator. 640 00:40:39,728 --> 00:40:42,106 Ten, fifteen minutes after I saw them, 641 00:40:42,898 --> 00:40:46,318 he was coming from the front of the boat. 642 00:40:46,402 --> 00:40:48,070 So, to my left. 643 00:40:48,154 --> 00:40:51,031 He walked down the top deck. 644 00:40:51,740 --> 00:40:55,995 Never says a word, just kind of a brisk walk past us, alone. 645 00:40:56,662 --> 00:41:00,082 I thought it was very strange, because in the nightclub 646 00:41:00,166 --> 00:41:03,002 he had tried to, you know, get us to talk to him. 647 00:41:03,085 --> 00:41:06,005 We're alone on this top deck. 648 00:41:06,088 --> 00:41:09,758 You know, he just walks right by us. 649 00:41:10,759 --> 00:41:12,052 Doesn't even look at us. 650 00:41:12,636 --> 00:41:16,015 You know, I just kinda got a bad vibe. 651 00:41:16,098 --> 00:41:19,894 You know, immediately I thought, "Well, where's Amy?" 652 00:41:22,271 --> 00:41:25,316 If the two young women saw Amy and Alister Douglas together 653 00:41:25,399 --> 00:41:29,320 after 5:30 or whatever it may be, it could be a game changer. 654 00:41:29,403 --> 00:41:33,324 You would know and confirm that she actually could have left the cabin. 655 00:41:34,408 --> 00:41:37,495 But unfortunately, we can't confirm the time because 656 00:41:37,578 --> 00:41:40,706 the door lock would have when passengers entered their cabin… 657 00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:46,086 …but not, of course, when they exited their cabin. 658 00:41:50,299 --> 00:41:53,886 To us, you know, it looked like he could be suspect number one. 659 00:41:54,470 --> 00:41:57,806 This was international waters, so we can't detain anyone. 660 00:41:58,432 --> 00:42:00,893 We can ask questions, but that's about it. 661 00:42:02,269 --> 00:42:06,190 We interviewed him, and subsequently, he was polygraphed. 662 00:42:09,652 --> 00:42:14,281 He admitted that he knew who Amy was. He admitted that he had flirted with her. 663 00:42:15,115 --> 00:42:17,993 He said, you know, "I did that, and that's kind of what I do." 664 00:42:18,077 --> 00:42:21,038 That he's kind of a flirt, and he would, you know, get flirtatious 665 00:42:21,121 --> 00:42:23,290 with many of the female passengers. 666 00:42:24,166 --> 00:42:27,628 But anything to do with her disappearance, 667 00:42:27,711 --> 00:42:29,755 no, he vehemently denied. 668 00:42:30,798 --> 00:42:33,425 The unfortunate part is the timing. 669 00:42:33,509 --> 00:42:37,263 Those statements where two young women saw Amy and Alister Douglas together, 670 00:42:37,346 --> 00:42:38,556 you just don't know, 671 00:42:38,639 --> 00:42:40,558 is the time actually correct? 672 00:42:42,643 --> 00:42:46,313 Ultimately, the polygraph results were not conclusive. 673 00:42:46,981 --> 00:42:48,649 If we had concrete evidence, 674 00:42:48,732 --> 00:42:50,943 were working with the local police department, 675 00:42:51,026 --> 00:42:52,945 Alister Douglas would have been arrested, 676 00:42:53,028 --> 00:42:54,655 but we didn't have that. 677 00:42:54,738 --> 00:42:58,450 But, I mean, he was bothered, you know, by what was going on, 678 00:42:58,534 --> 00:42:59,952 you know, for whatever reason. 679 00:43:00,035 --> 00:43:02,079 Either because he had something to do with it, 680 00:43:02,162 --> 00:43:04,915 or because he had nothing to do with it, but he was bothered. 681 00:43:08,043 --> 00:43:10,379 The cruise was coming to its end. 682 00:43:12,715 --> 00:43:14,049 So, at that time, 683 00:43:14,133 --> 00:43:16,385 we were losing access to anything on the boat, 684 00:43:16,468 --> 00:43:20,556 any witnesses, suspects, and the potential crime scene. 685 00:43:22,182 --> 00:43:25,394 If you don't have a body, you can't determine exactly what happened. 686 00:43:26,145 --> 00:43:29,857 You have several scenarios. Many things could have occurred. 687 00:43:29,940 --> 00:43:31,692 Did she inadvertently fall off, 688 00:43:31,775 --> 00:43:33,819 wasn't feeling well, felt sick, 689 00:43:33,902 --> 00:43:36,905 by mistake was on the balcony, fell off into the water? 690 00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:39,783 Did she commit suicide? 691 00:43:40,826 --> 00:43:41,744 Was furniture moved? 692 00:43:41,827 --> 00:43:44,872 Did she step on something? And did she jump overboard? 693 00:43:45,706 --> 00:43:48,042 The sliding door on the balcony was ajar. 694 00:43:48,125 --> 00:43:50,252 Did she walk back through? 695 00:43:50,336 --> 00:43:52,504 Did she go up to the deck to watch the sunrise? 696 00:43:52,588 --> 00:43:54,089 Did she go out to smoke? 697 00:43:54,173 --> 00:43:56,467 Did something occur when she was up on the deck? 698 00:43:56,550 --> 00:43:57,718 Did she meet somebody? 699 00:43:57,801 --> 00:44:00,346 Whether it was that night and the previous night. 700 00:44:00,888 --> 00:44:02,848 Did she walk off the ship, never return? 701 00:44:03,682 --> 00:44:07,728 Did something nefarious occur where she's smuggled off the ship? 702 00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:11,398 That puzzle is extremely difficult to put together. 703 00:44:19,031 --> 00:44:21,241 We had a very close friend. 704 00:44:21,325 --> 00:44:22,993 He basically said to us, 705 00:44:23,077 --> 00:44:27,498 "I do not want you to dock in Puerto Rico 706 00:44:27,581 --> 00:44:31,877 because I think it's just going to be too tough on you with the news." 707 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:37,299 "Would you rather just go home now and be with your family?" 708 00:44:41,095 --> 00:44:44,181 So we flew out of St. Thomas on the 27th. 709 00:44:49,144 --> 00:44:52,940 I don't remember a whole lot about the flight coming back home, 710 00:44:53,649 --> 00:44:56,527 except that we were leaving her. 711 00:44:58,237 --> 00:45:00,447 You know, she was supposed to be with us. 712 00:45:01,323 --> 00:45:05,786 If she is out there lost, or being held against her will, 713 00:45:05,869 --> 00:45:09,415 or being in a bad situation, whatever it is, then, you know, 714 00:45:09,498 --> 00:45:11,542 flying home felt like giving up. 715 00:45:13,877 --> 00:45:16,505 As we were coming into Chesterfield Airport… 716 00:45:18,090 --> 00:45:20,551 …the wind was blowing like crazy, 717 00:45:20,634 --> 00:45:24,972 and the jet was just all over the place coming in for a landing. 718 00:45:25,764 --> 00:45:28,934 I'd never been on a plane that had that much turbulence 719 00:45:29,017 --> 00:45:31,270 or that much, you know, wind trying to land. 720 00:45:32,187 --> 00:45:34,815 The wings tiltin' to the sides. 721 00:45:35,774 --> 00:45:37,901 The funny thing about it is my heart… 722 00:45:38,902 --> 00:45:42,239 You know, I wasn't scared. My heart wasn't beating. 723 00:45:42,322 --> 00:45:44,616 I was just thinking to myself, 724 00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:48,704 "If the thing crashes on the runway, then this thing will be over." 725 00:45:53,333 --> 00:45:55,419 We were picked up at the airport 726 00:45:56,336 --> 00:45:58,046 and taken to our home. 727 00:45:58,922 --> 00:46:01,258 All of my brothers and sisters were there. 728 00:46:02,176 --> 00:46:03,385 My mom was there. 729 00:46:05,179 --> 00:46:08,182 Iva just collapsed in her mom's arms when she walked in. 730 00:46:08,265 --> 00:46:13,228 Just watching Iva with her in her comfort, it was like, you know, 731 00:46:13,312 --> 00:46:15,439 watching a little kid be in their mom's arms. 732 00:46:15,522 --> 00:46:18,275 Nobody knew what to say, what to do. 733 00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:21,236 We had a prayer vigil, 734 00:46:22,196 --> 00:46:25,824 asking God to watch over Amy and get her back home to us. 735 00:46:26,825 --> 00:46:30,496 And I remember it bringing me to my knees, 736 00:46:30,579 --> 00:46:35,375 and Iva Bradley came over and held me up. 737 00:46:35,459 --> 00:46:39,296 I mean, her daughter is missing, and Iva held me up. 738 00:46:41,465 --> 00:46:43,967 It took a few days to be able to 739 00:46:44,676 --> 00:46:47,304 eat again and form a sentence. 740 00:46:48,555 --> 00:46:50,265 But from that point forward, 741 00:46:50,349 --> 00:46:53,227 we never even thought about laying down. 742 00:46:53,936 --> 00:46:57,856 We started a command center to reach out to 743 00:46:57,940 --> 00:47:00,067 every authority that we could think of, 744 00:47:00,818 --> 00:47:03,570 the different countries' embassies. 745 00:47:03,654 --> 00:47:06,198 We had hotlines, contacted media. 746 00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:10,160 A young woman traveling with her parents vanishes from the ship 747 00:47:10,244 --> 00:47:11,578 in the open sea 748 00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:14,748 Amy Bradley vanished just as the ship was docking. 749 00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:17,251 She hasn't been seen since. 750 00:47:18,168 --> 00:47:21,964 We tried to have faith and hope. 751 00:47:22,047 --> 00:47:24,049 Because I knew somebody knew something. 752 00:47:24,132 --> 00:47:26,844 If you have information on the whereabouts of Amy Bradley, 753 00:47:26,927 --> 00:47:28,887 please call the number on your screen. 754 00:47:29,888 --> 00:47:32,140 The minute I saw the picture, I went, like, 755 00:47:32,224 --> 00:47:34,059 are you kidding me? 756 00:47:34,977 --> 00:47:37,020 This is not right. 757 00:47:37,104 --> 00:47:38,772 I was there four months later. 758 00:47:38,856 --> 00:47:40,107 And I saw her. 759 00:47:40,732 --> 00:47:42,150 I know where she is. 760 00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:48,282 Amy's alive. 760 00:47:49,305 --> 00:48:49,838