"Amy Bradley Is Missing" I Saw Her

1 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:07,799 [wave crashing] 2 00:00:09,259 --> 00:00:11,052 [intriguing music playing] 3 00:00:15,056 --> 00:00:16,641 [seagulls squawking] 4 00:00:17,434 --> 00:00:19,352 [man] I'm on a vacation with a friend. 5 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:24,149 I went from Calgary to Curaçao 6 00:00:24,232 --> 00:00:25,525 to do this diving trip. 7 00:00:26,901 --> 00:00:29,738 The site that we agreed on was the best, 8 00:00:29,821 --> 00:00:32,407 and we kept going back there, was Porto Marie. 9 00:00:32,490 --> 00:00:33,700 [waves gently lapping] 10 00:00:33,783 --> 00:00:36,453 [David] Porto Marie, it was kinda set up for locals. 11 00:00:37,078 --> 00:00:39,664 You have to know where this is 12 00:00:39,748 --> 00:00:41,666 and you have to want to go there. 13 00:00:43,668 --> 00:00:48,173 If you saw more than half a dozen people, you'd be lucky. 14 00:00:48,965 --> 00:00:49,841 [water splashing] 15 00:00:49,924 --> 00:00:51,134 [bubbles foaming] 16 00:00:51,217 --> 00:00:53,219 [intriguing music continues] 17 00:00:54,262 --> 00:00:55,430 [water gurgling] 18 00:00:55,513 --> 00:00:58,516 [David] The reef is great. The water's warm. 19 00:00:59,934 --> 00:01:01,770 It's got good visibility. 20 00:01:01,853 --> 00:01:03,688 There's lots of sea life in it. 21 00:01:07,901 --> 00:01:09,694 We'd just come out of the water. 22 00:01:10,195 --> 00:01:13,531 We were washing our equipment in the wash area. 23 00:01:14,449 --> 00:01:18,745 I look down the beach, and I see three people walking towards us. 24 00:01:20,205 --> 00:01:23,458 There's one guy, there's a girl in the middle, 25 00:01:23,541 --> 00:01:27,003 and then there's another person who looked like he was from the island. 26 00:01:27,087 --> 00:01:28,963 As they came closer to me, 27 00:01:30,090 --> 00:01:31,883 she comes right up to me. 28 00:01:32,801 --> 00:01:36,387 She was in good shape. She was tan. She was a smoker. 29 00:01:38,389 --> 00:01:41,101 I see a tattoo that looks like a… 30 00:01:43,394 --> 00:01:44,646 Tasmanian Devil. 31 00:01:44,729 --> 00:01:48,233 And she's just about to say something to me 32 00:01:49,025 --> 00:01:52,695 when the person who was on the inside comes up. 33 00:01:52,779 --> 00:01:54,114 I'm looking right at him. 34 00:01:54,197 --> 00:01:56,282 He stared at me. 35 00:01:56,366 --> 00:01:57,992 Doesn't say a word 36 00:01:59,494 --> 00:02:00,912 and motions her away. 37 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:02,455 [mysterious music playing] 38 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:06,793 If he had not stared at me, I would have forgotten everything. 39 00:02:08,461 --> 00:02:09,587 But I can't. 40 00:02:11,172 --> 00:02:12,715 I think about this every day. 41 00:02:14,425 --> 00:02:16,845 There isn't a day that goes by that I don't. 42 00:02:16,928 --> 00:02:18,471 [clock ticking] 43 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:21,641 And I think, "If I had ten seconds more, what would I have done?" 44 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:25,145 [darkly intriguing music playing] 45 00:02:28,189 --> 00:02:29,732 [waves breaking] 46 00:02:30,859 --> 00:02:32,735 [suspenseful music playing] 47 00:02:35,363 --> 00:02:38,533 About two and a half weeks after Amy's disappearance, 48 00:02:38,616 --> 00:02:44,414 we decided to go back down to Curaçao to have a press conference. 49 00:02:49,794 --> 00:02:54,007 [Brad on video] The purpose of this press conference is to… 50 00:02:54,090 --> 00:02:57,093 not only let people know what happened and how we feel, 51 00:02:57,177 --> 00:03:00,180 but it's to try to find Amy, to get our plea out. 52 00:03:00,263 --> 00:03:03,474 We asked the captain of the ship 53 00:03:03,558 --> 00:03:08,188 to please notify the passengers that she was missing. 54 00:03:08,271 --> 00:03:12,734 And he said that he could not do that because it would disturb the passengers. 55 00:03:12,817 --> 00:03:16,487 We went back to Curaçao because I felt like I had to do something. 56 00:03:17,530 --> 00:03:23,745 [man on video] Who was the member of the family that last saw Amy alive? 57 00:03:24,704 --> 00:03:25,747 [Ron] It was me. 58 00:03:25,830 --> 00:03:26,789 [man] You? 59 00:03:28,625 --> 00:03:32,045 [Ron] You know, it's very difficult to talk about the last time I saw her. 60 00:03:32,128 --> 00:03:33,838 [mysterious music plays] 61 00:03:34,589 --> 00:03:36,799 [man] You don't believe that she fell overboard? 62 00:03:36,883 --> 00:03:37,842 [Ron] Absolutely not. 63 00:03:37,926 --> 00:03:40,011 [man] What color clothing she had on? 64 00:03:40,094 --> 00:03:41,888 -[wind howling] -[sea spray hissing] 65 00:03:42,388 --> 00:03:43,723 [Ron] She had on a white top. 66 00:03:44,515 --> 00:03:46,434 Silver watch and silver earrings. 67 00:03:46,517 --> 00:03:47,936 [man] Was she intoxicated? 68 00:03:48,519 --> 00:03:52,398 She had been drinking. Everyone on the ship had been drinking. 69 00:03:52,482 --> 00:03:53,650 We checked the bar tab, 70 00:03:53,733 --> 00:03:59,322 and she had had seven light beers from starting at about 6:00 p.m. 71 00:03:59,405 --> 00:04:01,074 [pensive music plays] 72 00:04:01,157 --> 00:04:03,117 I try to hold back my feelings. 73 00:04:04,327 --> 00:04:05,161 [producer] Why? 74 00:04:07,247 --> 00:04:12,418 I don't know. I guess just… even though she's 23 years old, 75 00:04:13,628 --> 00:04:15,922 you still try to protect her. 76 00:04:16,422 --> 00:04:19,509 And sometimes I think I didn't do enough. 77 00:04:21,761 --> 00:04:23,513 -[ominous music playing] -[clock ticking] 78 00:04:23,596 --> 00:04:26,683 [Iva] I stayed back, manned the phones 79 00:04:26,766 --> 00:04:30,144 because I didn't think I could go to Curaçao 80 00:04:30,228 --> 00:04:32,313 and not come home with her a second time. 81 00:04:34,190 --> 00:04:37,735 I don't remember eating. I don't remember showering. 82 00:04:37,819 --> 00:04:39,779 [crying] I don't remember sleeping. 83 00:04:39,862 --> 00:04:41,698 [soft music plays] 84 00:04:41,781 --> 00:04:47,662 I was hoping and praying someone would call with information. 85 00:04:47,745 --> 00:04:48,871 [sniffles] 86 00:04:48,955 --> 00:04:51,958 [Brad on video] The reward has been raised to $260,000. 87 00:04:52,041 --> 00:04:55,753 It's been raised, and we're still trying to get more and more money 88 00:04:55,837 --> 00:04:57,880 from associates, and friends, and family. 89 00:04:57,964 --> 00:05:01,718 And if someone has her, please let her go. 90 00:05:01,801 --> 00:05:02,635 Um… 91 00:05:02,719 --> 00:05:05,513 Leave her somewhere in the middle of the night, blindfolded. 92 00:05:05,596 --> 00:05:07,056 We won't ask any questions. 93 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:08,057 Um… 94 00:05:08,766 --> 00:05:10,351 You can remain anonymous. 95 00:05:10,435 --> 00:05:11,602 Uh… 96 00:05:11,686 --> 00:05:13,438 Whatever, we just need her back. 97 00:05:13,521 --> 00:05:15,315 [intriguing music plays] 98 00:05:15,398 --> 00:05:17,483 After the press conference was over, 99 00:05:18,192 --> 00:05:21,696 we were out standing in a lobby area outside, 100 00:05:21,779 --> 00:05:25,033 hanging flyers, talking to officials, newspaper people. 101 00:05:25,908 --> 00:05:29,162 And we saw this gentleman come up to us. 102 00:05:29,245 --> 00:05:31,080 He introduced himself. 103 00:05:31,164 --> 00:05:35,043 His name was Deshi and he was a taxi driver. 104 00:05:35,126 --> 00:05:38,421 And he had one of Amy's flyers in his hand. 105 00:05:39,589 --> 00:05:43,134 And he said, "Are you the father of the girl that's missing?" 106 00:05:43,217 --> 00:05:44,427 And I said, "Yes, I am." 107 00:05:44,510 --> 00:05:47,013 And he pulled me to the side, and he said, 108 00:05:47,096 --> 00:05:48,723 "I want you to know 109 00:05:48,806 --> 00:05:52,060 that your daughter did not fall from the ship." 110 00:05:52,143 --> 00:05:54,729 "Your daughter did not jump from the ship." 111 00:05:54,812 --> 00:05:55,730 [breathes shakily] 112 00:05:55,813 --> 00:05:57,815 "Your daughter was not thrown from the ship." 113 00:05:57,899 --> 00:06:00,401 "She's on this island, and I hope you can find her." 114 00:06:00,485 --> 00:06:02,695 [suspenseful music playing] 115 00:06:02,779 --> 00:06:04,322 [Ron] My heart started beating. 116 00:06:04,405 --> 00:06:05,406 [heartbeat pounding] 117 00:06:05,490 --> 00:06:07,909 [Ron] And he said, "She approached my taxi." 118 00:06:08,868 --> 00:06:11,162 "She seemed like she was a little frantic." 119 00:06:11,245 --> 00:06:13,998 He said, "I never will forget her green eyes." 120 00:06:14,082 --> 00:06:18,336 And he said she was wearing a white top with jeans, 121 00:06:18,419 --> 00:06:21,881 which is what she had on underneath that yellow shirt, 122 00:06:21,964 --> 00:06:23,716 and the jeans that were missing. 123 00:06:25,009 --> 00:06:27,345 [Ron] She says, "I need to use a phone." 124 00:06:27,428 --> 00:06:30,598 And he said, "I pointed in the direction of the phones," 125 00:06:31,599 --> 00:06:34,185 and he said, "Amy went the other way." 126 00:06:34,811 --> 00:06:36,437 [suspenseful music continues] 127 00:06:38,147 --> 00:06:41,859 It was the first indication that she's alive. 128 00:06:44,028 --> 00:06:46,364 -And she's out there. -[dramatic music plays] 129 00:06:46,447 --> 00:06:51,452 He said, "You need to go to a place called Coral Cliffs, which is a resort." 130 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,831 "You need to go to a place called Kadushi Cliffs." 131 00:06:55,998 --> 00:06:58,626 And he said, "When you go to these places," he said, 132 00:06:58,709 --> 00:07:00,920 "You want to look around, don't talk to anybody, 133 00:07:01,003 --> 00:07:02,713 just look, observe." 134 00:07:02,797 --> 00:07:05,007 -[indistinct chatter] -[seagulls squawking] 135 00:07:05,091 --> 00:07:09,220 [Ron] We met a fellow named John Mentar with the harbor police. 136 00:07:09,303 --> 00:07:11,431 [Adtzere "John" Mentar] April of 1998, 137 00:07:11,514 --> 00:07:14,600 the family came down to see if we could see anything. 138 00:07:14,684 --> 00:07:18,062 Taxi driver was positive that he had seen Amy Bradley 139 00:07:18,646 --> 00:07:20,356 and that she had gotten off the ship. 140 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,733 You know, it struck me, it struck me. 141 00:07:23,860 --> 00:07:27,613 They were not that familiar with the island, so I went with them. 142 00:07:27,697 --> 00:07:29,073 [car motor rattling] 143 00:07:29,157 --> 00:07:32,660 [Ron] He said it was dangerous and he needed to be with us. 144 00:07:33,786 --> 00:07:38,040 [John] They cannot be there by themselves. Locals will attack them or mess them up. 145 00:07:39,041 --> 00:07:42,295 As a policeman, it won't be a problem, but by themselves, no. 146 00:07:42,378 --> 00:07:44,005 [waves lapping] 147 00:07:45,339 --> 00:07:47,717 [Brad] We were told, in these places, 148 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,597 that they were owned and controlled by different mafia groups. 149 00:07:53,264 --> 00:07:56,726 Couple of 'em had open water access. 150 00:07:57,351 --> 00:07:59,312 You know, that you could come and go from 151 00:07:59,395 --> 00:08:03,316 and not be checked by authorities and that kind of thing. 152 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:05,234 Some of those areas we were looking, 153 00:08:05,318 --> 00:08:08,905 there were makeshift kind of landing strips that could have been 154 00:08:08,988 --> 00:08:12,283 drug trafficking trade or maybe even sex trade. 155 00:08:13,367 --> 00:08:15,077 [John] Curaçao is a very lovely island, 156 00:08:15,161 --> 00:08:17,580 but the crime we have here are drug-related 157 00:08:17,663 --> 00:08:19,624 because we are not too far from Venezuela. 158 00:08:20,208 --> 00:08:22,877 And we also have some prostitution on the island, 159 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,921 and sometimes sex trafficking. 160 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:27,965 She could have been lured off the ship. 161 00:08:28,049 --> 00:08:30,718 Someone might be able to sweet-talk her. 162 00:08:32,678 --> 00:08:36,474 [Ron] We went down one particular road and… 163 00:08:36,557 --> 00:08:38,601 [mysterious music playing] 164 00:08:39,268 --> 00:08:41,687 …we came upon like a junkyard kinda thing. 165 00:08:41,771 --> 00:08:44,440 -[ominous music playing] -[dog barking] 166 00:08:44,524 --> 00:08:46,275 [Ron] Old cars, old shacks. 167 00:08:48,694 --> 00:08:51,280 And there was one shack that we went in… 168 00:08:51,364 --> 00:08:52,365 [door creaks] 169 00:08:52,448 --> 00:08:54,617 …and one thing that stood out to me 170 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:59,413 was there was a container of Tic Tacs that were laid up on the bed. 171 00:08:59,497 --> 00:09:01,499 [ominous music continues] 172 00:09:01,582 --> 00:09:04,168 And my first thought is, "I wonder if Amy was here," 173 00:09:04,252 --> 00:09:05,962 'cause Amy loved Tic Tacs. 174 00:09:07,755 --> 00:09:09,715 And this is where they maybe brought her. 175 00:09:10,550 --> 00:09:13,052 Somebody got her off the ship and they brought her here. 176 00:09:14,136 --> 00:09:16,138 So, that was what my mental state was. 177 00:09:16,222 --> 00:09:17,765 [van motor rattling] 178 00:09:19,016 --> 00:09:21,394 And I remember driving through 179 00:09:22,061 --> 00:09:25,314 these thorn or briar patches. 180 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:27,191 We're basically on this little 181 00:09:27,275 --> 00:09:29,402 five-foot-wide dirt path 182 00:09:29,986 --> 00:09:34,115 with thorns two, three inches long scraping down both sides of the vehicles 183 00:09:34,198 --> 00:09:36,117 at one o'clock in the morning. 184 00:09:36,867 --> 00:09:39,453 And I distinctly hear 185 00:09:39,537 --> 00:09:43,040 what was obvious to me was Amy's voice say, "Brad!" 186 00:09:44,709 --> 00:09:47,420 In what seemed like a vehicle that was passing us. 187 00:09:48,671 --> 00:09:50,089 And I freaked out. 188 00:09:50,172 --> 00:09:53,509 I mean, I spun around and, like, asked everybody, "Did they hear that?" 189 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:54,802 And, you know, they did. 190 00:09:54,885 --> 00:09:56,137 And so we whipped around… 191 00:09:56,220 --> 00:09:58,014 [tires squeaking, engine revving] 192 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:03,352 [Brad] followed 'em all up into the hills and these backstreet neighborhoods 193 00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:07,023 fully expecting we're gonna pull the guy over and she's gonna be in the car. 194 00:10:08,691 --> 00:10:10,109 And then car pulled over. 195 00:10:10,735 --> 00:10:11,694 [car door shuts] 196 00:10:14,822 --> 00:10:17,158 [Brad] It ended up just an old dude by himself. 197 00:10:18,492 --> 00:10:20,202 [Amy on video] Brad, Brad, Brad. 198 00:10:20,286 --> 00:10:21,787 Say goodbye, Brad. 199 00:10:21,871 --> 00:10:24,498 [Brad] I know what it sounds like when Amy calls me, 200 00:10:24,582 --> 00:10:26,667 and it was very distinct. 201 00:10:26,751 --> 00:10:28,502 [Amy on video] Here comes a car! 202 00:10:28,586 --> 00:10:31,088 Never been so sure of anything in my life 203 00:10:31,172 --> 00:10:33,633 that that's what I heard and what that was. 204 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,469 -[Amy on video] What, Brad? -[Brad] Amy! 205 00:10:36,552 --> 00:10:39,680 -[mysterious music playing] -[Ron] We didn't find her anywhere. 206 00:10:39,764 --> 00:10:40,931 [stirring music plays] 207 00:10:41,015 --> 00:10:45,728 [Ron] But with this, I know that she's still out there somewhere. 208 00:10:47,063 --> 00:10:50,399 [Erin S] We have the taxi driver coming forward saying that they saw her. 209 00:10:51,359 --> 00:10:53,527 It really changes everything. 210 00:10:54,403 --> 00:10:56,989 We have to try our best to find 211 00:10:57,073 --> 00:10:59,617 any other individuals that might have seen her, 212 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:03,621 to try to get the public or anybody to report information. 213 00:11:04,747 --> 00:11:06,624 [exciting theme music plays] 214 00:11:10,294 --> 00:11:11,545 [theme music fades] 215 00:11:11,629 --> 00:11:14,757 Our next case involves a mystery on a cruise ship. 216 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,843 The mystery of a passenger who vanished. 217 00:11:18,427 --> 00:11:20,888 [Iva] We contacted America's Most Wanted. 218 00:11:21,514 --> 00:11:24,392 She's our life. She's our heart. She's one of us. 219 00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:25,601 [tense music plays] 220 00:11:25,685 --> 00:11:27,853 We wanted to get Amy's face out there. 221 00:11:27,937 --> 00:11:31,107 [host on TV] …she may have reappeared hundreds of miles away. 222 00:11:31,649 --> 00:11:33,234 [upbeat tropical music plays] 223 00:11:33,317 --> 00:11:36,821 [host] Off to a tropical paradise for some R&R. 224 00:11:36,904 --> 00:11:39,615 That's what the Bradley family was after. 225 00:11:39,699 --> 00:11:41,575 [David] America's Most Wanted was on. 226 00:11:42,493 --> 00:11:45,329 The focus was a missing girl from a cruise ship line, 227 00:11:45,413 --> 00:11:47,373 and missing on the island of Curaçao. 228 00:11:47,456 --> 00:11:50,126 [host on TV] Amy Bradley has a tattoo of the Tasmanian Devil 229 00:11:51,836 --> 00:11:54,714 with a basketball on her left shoulder blade. 230 00:11:54,797 --> 00:11:55,840 [dramatic music plays] 231 00:11:55,923 --> 00:11:59,844 [David] There's a picture of the Bradleys standing on a gangway or something. 232 00:11:59,927 --> 00:12:04,724 The minute I saw the picture, I went like, "Are you kidding me?" 233 00:12:04,807 --> 00:12:09,061 That girl was the girl on the beach in Curaçao. It was. 234 00:12:12,857 --> 00:12:15,651 [David] The tattoos and the piercings, they were the same. 235 00:12:15,735 --> 00:12:20,072 I'm 100% sure. Not 99% sure, 100% sure. 236 00:12:20,156 --> 00:12:22,408 -[pensive music playing] -[seagulls squawking] 237 00:12:22,491 --> 00:12:24,285 [David] I spoke to the FBI. 238 00:12:24,368 --> 00:12:28,581 I recounted in detail my story of my sighting 239 00:12:28,664 --> 00:12:31,041 and the people that were with her at the time. 240 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:35,337 Now, one of the two men stared at me, 241 00:12:35,963 --> 00:12:37,506 and he's a big guy. 242 00:12:37,590 --> 00:12:41,218 He's got a very distinctive face to me. 243 00:12:41,302 --> 00:12:43,345 I see that same face on America's Most Wanted. 244 00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:44,680 [musical sting] 245 00:12:47,641 --> 00:12:48,893 [ominous music plays] 246 00:12:49,769 --> 00:12:51,604 [David] Amy was with two men, 247 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,066 and the one that I could identify was Alister Douglas. 248 00:12:56,734 --> 00:12:57,985 [dramatic music plays] 249 00:12:58,736 --> 00:13:02,948 We have a witness saying that they saw Amy on the beach with some individuals. 250 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:08,454 This witness identified one of them as Alister Douglas, 251 00:13:08,537 --> 00:13:10,289 the bandleader from the cruise. 252 00:13:11,957 --> 00:13:16,337 You also have the taxi driver saying that he saw Amy and spoke to Amy, 253 00:13:16,420 --> 00:13:18,214 and we can't confirm these sightings, 254 00:13:18,297 --> 00:13:22,301 but we have to ask, if Amy was still alive and on Curaçao, 255 00:13:22,384 --> 00:13:23,636 did she walk off the ship… 256 00:13:23,719 --> 00:13:25,387 [foghorn blaring] 257 00:13:26,514 --> 00:13:27,807 …or was she smuggled off? 258 00:13:28,766 --> 00:13:32,603 [woman] If Amy was abducted or taken off the ship, 259 00:13:33,562 --> 00:13:35,481 they'd have had their hands full. 260 00:13:35,564 --> 00:13:37,358 I mean, she is a fighter. 261 00:13:37,441 --> 00:13:39,026 [announcer on video] Amy Bradley! 262 00:13:39,109 --> 00:13:39,944 [cheering] 263 00:13:40,027 --> 00:13:42,530 [Sarah] Amy was strong, super athletic. 264 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,951 If somebody took her off the boat, Amy put up a fight. 265 00:13:47,034 --> 00:13:50,496 [Amy on video] Yes! Two big plays in the trash pile. 266 00:13:50,579 --> 00:13:53,082 Certainly, I feel like she could hold her own. 267 00:13:53,165 --> 00:13:55,751 You know, she was a star basketball player. 268 00:13:56,335 --> 00:14:00,965 [Erin C] Amy was the first female to get a full college scholarship to Longwood. 269 00:14:01,048 --> 00:14:03,384 She was very mentally and physically strong. 270 00:14:04,510 --> 00:14:09,431 [Sarah] But although Amy was strong, Amy was not large. 271 00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:12,768 I mean, they could have put her in something 272 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:18,023 and, you know, disguised it as luggage and taken her off the ship. 273 00:14:19,859 --> 00:14:21,485 [Julia] Amy was pretty tiny. 274 00:14:22,528 --> 00:14:25,531 And, you know, she drank. She liked to party. 275 00:14:25,614 --> 00:14:27,992 I mean, she could throw down. 276 00:14:28,075 --> 00:14:30,703 She could handle alcohol. 277 00:14:30,786 --> 00:14:33,706 We're thinking, "Did she meet the wrong person?" 278 00:14:33,789 --> 00:14:35,666 "Did someone buy her a drink?" 279 00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:38,711 I mean, I don't know. Could that have happened? 280 00:14:39,420 --> 00:14:41,672 -[intriguing music plays] -[indistinct chatter] 281 00:14:41,755 --> 00:14:44,174 [woman] I think she was so much more complicated, 282 00:14:44,258 --> 00:14:47,803 and textured, and layered than people really can even understand. 283 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:49,763 Amy always knew who she was. 284 00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:53,350 I didn't get a car on my 16th birthday. 285 00:14:54,101 --> 00:14:57,897 By college, she was ready to share it with everybody. 286 00:14:57,980 --> 00:14:59,732 [intriguing music plays] 287 00:15:02,067 --> 00:15:07,406 The best memory I have of Amy was probably when she came out to me. 288 00:15:08,115 --> 00:15:12,828 And she said, "I'm gay." And I said, "Well, what about me?" 289 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:15,456 And she said, "I'm not your… You're not my type, Sarah." 290 00:15:15,539 --> 00:15:19,919 I mean, that still makes me laugh because, you know, I was 17, 18 years old. 291 00:15:20,002 --> 00:15:23,047 Well, why the hell am I not your type? What's wrong with me? 292 00:15:24,131 --> 00:15:26,592 [woman] At Longwood, a feeling between the two of us 293 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:28,594 just started to evolve. 294 00:15:28,677 --> 00:15:33,265 And she kissed me one night, and that was my clue. 295 00:15:33,349 --> 00:15:34,892 [intriguing music intensifies] 296 00:15:36,685 --> 00:15:40,439 [Sarah] Junior year, we were suite mates. 297 00:15:40,522 --> 00:15:42,191 We sat on the bathroom floor, 298 00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:45,235 and she said, "Can you help me tell my parents?" 299 00:15:45,319 --> 00:15:46,362 "Can you come with me?" 300 00:15:47,571 --> 00:15:51,033 I remember the drive home with her. 301 00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:52,743 That scared her… 302 00:15:54,411 --> 00:15:57,665 because she never wanted to disappoint her parents. 303 00:15:57,748 --> 00:16:01,085 I've never seen anybody as close to their family as Amy was. 304 00:16:01,168 --> 00:16:03,587 -[indistinct chatter] -[Iva on video] Amy! 305 00:16:03,671 --> 00:16:06,382 [Erin C] The Bradleys, they're a very special family. 306 00:16:06,465 --> 00:16:08,384 They love hard. 307 00:16:08,467 --> 00:16:12,096 I don't think they missed a single sporting event or activity 308 00:16:12,930 --> 00:16:15,265 that they ever did, ever. 309 00:16:15,349 --> 00:16:17,142 [cheering and whooping] 310 00:16:17,977 --> 00:16:19,770 [pensive music playing] 311 00:16:20,688 --> 00:16:24,608 She did tell her parents about us specifically, 312 00:16:24,692 --> 00:16:28,904 and they were not happy. 313 00:16:29,947 --> 00:16:32,616 They were surprised and disappointed. 314 00:16:35,577 --> 00:16:40,666 Her dad wrote a letter to me that was very clear on how he felt. 315 00:16:40,749 --> 00:16:43,002 It was a, you know, a three-page letter 316 00:16:43,877 --> 00:16:46,422 outlining in all the ways in which he was disappointed. 317 00:16:47,506 --> 00:16:49,008 [pensive music continues] 318 00:16:49,758 --> 00:16:52,052 [Ron] It's Amy's life. It wasn't… 319 00:16:52,136 --> 00:16:55,639 It wasn't what we would choose for her, 320 00:16:55,723 --> 00:16:58,392 but it's her life, and we loved her unconditionally, 321 00:16:58,475 --> 00:17:00,853 and I remember putting that in the letter. 322 00:17:02,563 --> 00:17:05,399 [Kat] It just put a lot of stress and strain on us. 323 00:17:06,108 --> 00:17:08,777 I think we all drank a lot in college. 324 00:17:10,112 --> 00:17:13,240 But I think Amy used it as a tool 325 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:17,703 to kind of numb some of those big feelings. 326 00:17:18,704 --> 00:17:21,623 And I think she carried a heaviness 327 00:17:21,707 --> 00:17:23,792 that not all of us carried. 328 00:17:26,712 --> 00:17:28,756 [Sarah] I do think that it weighed heavy on her 329 00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:33,135 that her parents were still processing it and didn't quite understand it. 330 00:17:33,218 --> 00:17:37,931 [Iva] As parents, we were concerned that in 1995, 331 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:41,226 those feelings would not be welcomed 332 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:44,104 by the general population. 333 00:17:44,688 --> 00:17:47,107 [Sarah] It was the '90s, for crying out loud. 334 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:49,526 That was taboo. 335 00:17:50,652 --> 00:17:54,406 It's difficult for a parent to say, "I have a child that's gay." 336 00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:57,076 But they loved her regardless. 337 00:18:01,330 --> 00:18:03,207 [suspenseful music playing] 338 00:18:05,793 --> 00:18:08,629 [Erin S] The Bradley family, from the beginning, was very honest, 339 00:18:08,712 --> 00:18:12,800 and they spoke to investigators about her relationships and, 340 00:18:12,883 --> 00:18:14,802 you know, the challenges that she had. 341 00:18:14,885 --> 00:18:16,678 [suspenseful music intensifies] 342 00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:22,059 When we went to the cabin to take a look, search it and all that, 343 00:18:22,142 --> 00:18:24,561 then we see shoes and a small table 344 00:18:24,645 --> 00:18:26,772 pushed up against the balcony and so forth, 345 00:18:26,855 --> 00:18:30,234 we have to look at the potentiality of suicide. 346 00:18:31,735 --> 00:18:35,864 [Erin S] We did many interviews with, you know, numerous friends and family, 347 00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:39,034 and also, you know, outside that immediate bubble, 348 00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:42,287 just to have a better understanding of Amy's state of mind, 349 00:18:42,371 --> 00:18:43,914 the headspace of the victim. 350 00:18:44,748 --> 00:18:48,961 [Kat] I do believe that we should be looking at every possibility. 351 00:18:52,631 --> 00:18:55,801 The notion of suicide, I thought that. 352 00:18:56,301 --> 00:18:57,469 But I also thought, 353 00:18:57,553 --> 00:19:01,723 "Man, but Amy loved to be." 354 00:19:02,474 --> 00:19:04,434 "She would not want to not be here." 355 00:19:04,518 --> 00:19:06,311 [soft piano music plays] 356 00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:12,234 I do not believe that Amy committed suicide. 357 00:19:13,443 --> 00:19:16,738 There's no room for me to believe that. 358 00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:18,866 And by the time they went on the trip, 359 00:19:19,449 --> 00:19:21,285 she was excited about life. 360 00:19:21,952 --> 00:19:24,997 She had just gotten a new job. 361 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,166 [Erin C] She had gotten this new bulldog, 362 00:19:27,249 --> 00:19:28,917 got an adorable apartment 363 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:30,627 that we were all so excited about 364 00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:33,755 because Amy was gonna have this space that we could hang out. 365 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:36,300 The second day, they called home from the cruise, 366 00:19:36,383 --> 00:19:38,093 and they were having a blast. 367 00:19:39,845 --> 00:19:41,763 And she sounded so upbeat, 368 00:19:41,847 --> 00:19:45,684 and she and Brad had gone shopping, saying, "See you when I get back home." 369 00:19:45,767 --> 00:19:48,896 "Can't wait to tell you all about my trip. I got you this gift." 370 00:19:48,979 --> 00:19:54,443 I mean, to me, that's not somebody who is wanting to commit suicide. 371 00:19:54,526 --> 00:19:56,195 [indistinct chatter and laughter] 372 00:19:56,737 --> 00:20:00,699 [Erin S] Amy was very confident, you know, very happy individual. 373 00:20:00,782 --> 00:20:04,369 She definitely felt like her life was moving forward. 374 00:20:04,453 --> 00:20:06,747 I do believe in my, you know, in my being 375 00:20:06,830 --> 00:20:08,790 that I don't believe she committed suicide, 376 00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:11,460 but the door is still open on any of these possibilities, 377 00:20:11,543 --> 00:20:12,836 any of these scenarios. 378 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,671 If you didn't have these sightings, 379 00:20:14,755 --> 00:20:16,798 would you think something different? Possibly. 380 00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:18,800 [dramatic music playing] 381 00:20:24,348 --> 00:20:26,850 My name is Bill Hefner. I live in Fallon, Nevada. 382 00:20:26,934 --> 00:20:29,019 I was in the Navy 20 years. 383 00:20:32,606 --> 00:20:34,149 [foghorn blowing] 384 00:20:34,942 --> 00:20:36,652 [Bill] I was on the USS Chandler. 385 00:20:38,654 --> 00:20:40,656 My ship pulled into Curaçao. 386 00:20:41,323 --> 00:20:43,158 I think we were there for an overnight. 387 00:20:43,909 --> 00:20:47,371 When I went out that night, I was a long ways from the harbor. 388 00:20:48,455 --> 00:20:51,625 And I stopped in a bar I wasn't supposed to be in. 389 00:20:51,708 --> 00:20:55,796 I saw the hotel up above, and it looked like a bar on the bottom. 390 00:20:55,879 --> 00:20:59,049 So, I stop in there, and there's a guy 391 00:20:59,132 --> 00:21:02,261 with a snub-nosed .38 in his belt, and says, "Where are you going?" 392 00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:05,847 Said, "Thought I'd go in to have a beer," and he said, "Oh, okay." 393 00:21:07,224 --> 00:21:10,894 And so I went in there, and four people come down the stairs, two guys, two girls. 394 00:21:12,646 --> 00:21:14,982 And I see the two guys got guns. 395 00:21:15,607 --> 00:21:18,777 I sat down with the two girls, and the guys went over to the bar. 396 00:21:20,195 --> 00:21:22,072 It was a white girl and a Hispanic girl. 397 00:21:22,823 --> 00:21:26,326 White girl was petite, dark hair, 398 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:28,578 some tattoos on her. 399 00:21:29,621 --> 00:21:33,041 And then one of the girls got up, went over to the bar. 400 00:21:33,709 --> 00:21:35,752 I should have just turned around and left… 401 00:21:35,836 --> 00:21:36,712 [ominous music plays] 402 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:39,214 …because that's when the other girl, she said, 403 00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:43,552 "Hey, you know, they're holding me against my will. I need help." 404 00:21:44,052 --> 00:21:48,140 She says, "I owe 'em $200, and I can't… I can't get my freedom." 405 00:21:49,516 --> 00:21:51,601 This was my 18th year in the Navy. 406 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:54,896 I've heard all kinds of stories from working girls… 407 00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:57,691 Singapore, Thailand. 408 00:21:57,774 --> 00:21:59,776 [chuckling] I've heard it before, you know? 409 00:22:00,569 --> 00:22:03,739 And that's when she said, with a Southern accent, 410 00:22:03,822 --> 00:22:05,449 "My name is Amy Bradley." 411 00:22:06,575 --> 00:22:08,410 [dramatic violin music plays] 412 00:22:08,493 --> 00:22:10,370 [Bill] She pronounced it "Bradley." 413 00:22:10,454 --> 00:22:12,664 Not too Southern, but Southern accent. 414 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:17,419 And then she had told me she got off that ship, 415 00:22:17,502 --> 00:22:21,548 and she left on her own 'cause she was going to score drugs. 416 00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:25,093 She said, "Well, me and my brother were partying, 417 00:22:25,177 --> 00:22:29,306 and I went ashore to go get drugs, and now I'm stuck here with these guys." 418 00:22:29,931 --> 00:22:33,352 She was trying to keep it on the down-low that she'd told me anything. 419 00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:35,562 She didn't want the guys or the other girl 420 00:22:35,645 --> 00:22:37,272 to know that she'd told me. 421 00:22:37,356 --> 00:22:40,442 So, when the other girl came back, she… she shut up again. 422 00:22:42,819 --> 00:22:45,197 I didn't know what it was. 423 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,284 I just kinda took it with a pinch of salt, and I left, you know. 424 00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:51,411 I knew there was a guy out front with a gun. 425 00:22:51,495 --> 00:22:55,248 [chuckling] I didn't want to try and… try and cause no trouble. 426 00:22:55,332 --> 00:22:57,209 [suspenseful music plays] 427 00:22:57,292 --> 00:23:00,212 [Bill] It wasn't until, like, 2001. 428 00:23:00,295 --> 00:23:04,633 It was three or four years before I even got reminded of it 429 00:23:04,716 --> 00:23:06,134 and said, "Whoa," you know? 430 00:23:07,969 --> 00:23:10,347 I saw the picture and connected the dots. 431 00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:12,974 [thunder rumbles] 432 00:23:13,058 --> 00:23:15,602 [Erin S] There was a lead that came from a Navy serviceman, 433 00:23:15,685 --> 00:23:19,106 but it had come in years later after he had been on the island. 434 00:23:19,189 --> 00:23:22,484 He never reported it originally because he was obviously in the military, 435 00:23:22,567 --> 00:23:24,486 and that was, you know, frowned upon. 436 00:23:25,278 --> 00:23:29,908 Agents back then tried to confirm that or tried to at least see if the brothel, 437 00:23:29,991 --> 00:23:32,702 you know, had any kind of connection. 438 00:23:32,786 --> 00:23:35,664 But the information… You're talking years and years later. 439 00:23:35,747 --> 00:23:38,542 And it's not something that could be corroborated 440 00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:40,001 and could be confirmed. 441 00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:43,296 But it does make you wonder, could trafficking have occurred? 442 00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:44,589 [foghorn blaring] 443 00:23:45,215 --> 00:23:48,593 [Bill] I didn't report it 'cause I didn't want to get busted, 444 00:23:48,677 --> 00:23:50,220 restricted to the ship. 445 00:23:50,303 --> 00:23:53,014 I didn't want anyone to know that I went to the illegal bar. 446 00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:58,645 I was two years away from retirement. 447 00:23:58,728 --> 00:24:01,398 If I would have got busted down, I would have been, 448 00:24:01,481 --> 00:24:03,400 you know, retired lower rank. 449 00:24:03,483 --> 00:24:06,278 So, I didn't want to do that. 450 00:24:07,654 --> 00:24:08,738 [somber music plays] 451 00:24:08,822 --> 00:24:11,700 [producer] How sure are you that the person you saw 452 00:24:11,783 --> 00:24:12,909 was Amy Lynn Bradley? 453 00:24:13,618 --> 00:24:15,203 She said she was. 454 00:24:16,329 --> 00:24:18,665 And she looked like the picture I saw. 455 00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:20,959 So, yeah. 456 00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:23,253 [mysterious music plays] 457 00:24:23,336 --> 00:24:28,467 The FBI put me in for an interview, a lie detector test. 458 00:24:30,260 --> 00:24:32,929 They asked if I could identify the guys from pictures. 459 00:24:33,013 --> 00:24:36,641 The picture that they showed me, I think, was Yellow. 460 00:24:37,184 --> 00:24:39,978 When they said, "Is that the guy that was at the bar?" 461 00:24:40,061 --> 00:24:42,481 And I couldn't be sure, so… 462 00:24:44,274 --> 00:24:46,693 [producer] And why should people believe you? 463 00:24:46,776 --> 00:24:49,571 You don't have to believe me, but the FBI did, 464 00:24:49,654 --> 00:24:52,616 and they did a lie detector test on me. So… 465 00:24:53,909 --> 00:24:55,994 Yeah, I have nothing to gain. 466 00:24:56,077 --> 00:24:58,622 I came forward 'cause it's the right thing to do. 467 00:24:59,122 --> 00:24:59,956 [grunts] 468 00:25:00,457 --> 00:25:03,835 You know, so nothing more than that. 469 00:25:03,919 --> 00:25:05,921 [somber music continues playing] 470 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,090 Amy and I, we were together the whole cruise. 471 00:25:09,174 --> 00:25:12,135 I don't know what the hell… what she could have gotten into to, 472 00:25:12,219 --> 00:25:14,262 you know, be in this type of situation 473 00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:17,307 where she's owing people money for drugs. That's just… 474 00:25:17,390 --> 00:25:20,685 Miller Lite and Marlboro Light, that was kind of her MO. 475 00:25:22,437 --> 00:25:25,899 To get off of a boat to score a drug deal, 476 00:25:26,608 --> 00:25:28,652 none of that made any sense to me. 477 00:25:29,986 --> 00:25:35,116 But on the other hand, you've got yourself a really legitimate witness. 478 00:25:36,076 --> 00:25:37,702 Everything lines up. 479 00:25:38,453 --> 00:25:42,123 So, if she was being used in a brothel situation, 480 00:25:42,874 --> 00:25:46,836 we thought, "Well, how did she get there?" 481 00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:48,672 "What happened?" 482 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:50,006 "How did it happen?" 483 00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:52,551 We're thinking about the cruise 484 00:25:52,634 --> 00:25:53,969 over and over and over. 485 00:25:54,594 --> 00:25:56,471 "Did we miss anything?" 486 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:59,891 And, you know, when we go back and take a look at the different things 487 00:25:59,975 --> 00:26:02,686 that happen prior to her disappearance, 488 00:26:02,769 --> 00:26:06,940 it's like, "Whoa! What about this? What about that?" 489 00:26:07,023 --> 00:26:08,525 [dramatic music playing] 490 00:26:09,234 --> 00:26:12,028 [Brad] The thing that sticks out the most, I think to me anyway, 491 00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:17,158 is the attention that the waitstaff seemed to pay to Amy. 492 00:26:18,076 --> 00:26:22,163 [Iva] But then at some point, the waiter walked right up to us 493 00:26:22,247 --> 00:26:25,750 and looks at me and says, "Where's Amy?" 494 00:26:25,834 --> 00:26:29,087 "We want to take her to Carlos'n Charlie's." 495 00:26:29,671 --> 00:26:33,341 At the time, all I knew, it was a bar that was on Aruba. 496 00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:36,845 When I told Amy, she went, "We're not getting off the boat. No way." 497 00:26:37,846 --> 00:26:41,850 Later, I did notice a man a couple decks up 498 00:26:41,933 --> 00:26:44,728 that I caught eye contact with a couple times. 499 00:26:45,729 --> 00:26:48,189 I couldn't figure out what this fellow was looking at. 500 00:26:48,273 --> 00:26:51,526 I'm wondering if he's looking at Amy or looking at us. 501 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:54,404 At one point, I just kinda did this. 502 00:26:54,487 --> 00:26:55,780 "Can I help you?" 503 00:26:55,864 --> 00:27:00,910 And then I looked down to get my things, and when I looked up, he was gone. 504 00:27:01,703 --> 00:27:06,041 After dinner, I told Amy, I said, "Hey, let's go get our pictures." 505 00:27:06,708 --> 00:27:11,087 So, we go into the gallery, and there's pictures hanging on the boards 506 00:27:11,171 --> 00:27:15,675 for passengers to purchase from the gallery guy. 507 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:19,846 He recognized her immediately and said, "Oh, you're over here." 508 00:27:19,929 --> 00:27:24,142 So, he went over and looked, and he took some out and looked behind him 509 00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:26,186 and looked again, then he looked into a box, 510 00:27:26,269 --> 00:27:29,064 and he said, "Well, I put 'em there." 511 00:27:29,147 --> 00:27:31,566 "Would anybody from your group 512 00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:34,319 have come in here and purchased those pictures?" 513 00:27:35,236 --> 00:27:36,154 We said, "No." 514 00:27:36,237 --> 00:27:37,572 [dramatic music continues] 515 00:27:38,281 --> 00:27:41,034 [Iva] I didn't think much of it, except I said to him, 516 00:27:41,117 --> 00:27:44,120 "Can you redo those pictures?" And he goes, "Well, sure." 517 00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:50,168 Who was looking at Amy? 518 00:27:51,586 --> 00:27:53,630 Why did they try to get her off the boat? 519 00:27:54,756 --> 00:27:56,633 Why are Amy's photos missing? 520 00:27:56,716 --> 00:27:58,843 [dramatic music crescendos, fades] 521 00:27:58,927 --> 00:28:02,055 Somebody saw her and wanted her and took her. 522 00:28:02,138 --> 00:28:03,223 [musical sting] 523 00:28:06,726 --> 00:28:08,186 [somber music playing] 524 00:28:09,312 --> 00:28:11,439 [man] I took over the case in 2001. 525 00:28:11,981 --> 00:28:13,733 And talking to the Bradleys, 526 00:28:13,817 --> 00:28:17,821 you could hear the pain in their voices and their desperation to get some answers. 527 00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:20,573 People will do anything for their kids, right? 528 00:28:20,657 --> 00:28:22,701 They'll do anything for their daughter. 529 00:28:22,784 --> 00:28:25,787 So, they were doing everything they could to try to solve the mystery. 530 00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:30,458 [Iva] We checked embassies, hospitals, prisons. 531 00:28:30,542 --> 00:28:34,045 We talked to anybody that would talk to us 532 00:28:34,129 --> 00:28:37,590 about what was going on in that region of the world. 533 00:28:38,591 --> 00:28:42,512 And we had a hotline, we started calling the news, 534 00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:46,182 and we told the story hundreds of times. 535 00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:48,727 [reporter 1] Joining us are Amy's parents, Iva and Ron Bradley. 536 00:28:48,810 --> 00:28:51,479 -[reporter 2] Iva and Ron Bradley. -[reporter 3] Iva and Ron Bradley. 537 00:28:51,563 --> 00:28:53,773 Her parents have never given up the search. 538 00:28:53,857 --> 00:28:57,527 I remember the phones ringing all times of the night, 539 00:28:57,610 --> 00:28:59,946 you know, people calling from different places. 540 00:29:00,530 --> 00:29:03,366 [Iva crying on video] There's no way I could ever explain 541 00:29:03,450 --> 00:29:07,203 what it would feel like to not bring one of your children home. 542 00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:13,752 It's reliving it every time we tell it, year… 543 00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:16,921 Amy's very responsible. She's very conscientious. 544 00:29:17,005 --> 00:29:18,214 [Iva] …after year… 545 00:29:18,298 --> 00:29:22,385 If she was leaving for more than ten or 15 minutes, she would've left a note. 546 00:29:22,469 --> 00:29:23,636 [Iva] …after year. 547 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,515 Go to bed every night thinking about her. She's never off our mind. 548 00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:30,351 [Iva] Any time the computer would ding, 549 00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:33,897 we'd all run to the computer to check what the email was. 550 00:29:33,980 --> 00:29:35,690 [ominous music playing] 551 00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:38,276 [Iva] Some of 'em were about torture. 552 00:29:40,487 --> 00:29:44,365 "Amy's feet were cut with razor blades so she couldn't escape." 553 00:29:44,449 --> 00:29:46,242 "Amy's being tied to a tree." 554 00:29:47,118 --> 00:29:49,871 [Iva] "Your daughter's been hit in the head with a hatchet, 555 00:29:49,954 --> 00:29:53,458 and she's buried in a shallow grave in Venezuela, 556 00:29:53,541 --> 00:29:56,002 and here are the coordinates." 557 00:29:56,085 --> 00:29:59,130 And so what you do at that moment is you take a deep breath 558 00:29:59,964 --> 00:30:01,424 and you check it out, 559 00:30:01,508 --> 00:30:04,969 and you're able to determine there are no such coordinates. 560 00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:07,013 [ominous whooshing] 561 00:30:09,516 --> 00:30:11,059 [Iva] It was frustrating. 562 00:30:13,937 --> 00:30:15,897 And then one day we get an email. 563 00:30:16,731 --> 00:30:18,733 [suspenseful music plays] 564 00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:20,360 [mouse clicking] 565 00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:22,821 [musical sting] 566 00:30:23,571 --> 00:30:27,951 In 2005, there was a series of photos that the family received, 567 00:30:29,285 --> 00:30:32,121 allegedly from a website 568 00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:38,795 where people would meet for free sex or to engage with prostitutes. 569 00:30:39,546 --> 00:30:43,258 When I got the case, I was recently assigned to the San Juan Division, 570 00:30:43,341 --> 00:30:46,052 and I was responsible for from Puerto Rico 571 00:30:46,135 --> 00:30:49,681 all through the West Indies down to Trinidad and Tobago. 572 00:30:49,764 --> 00:30:52,642 It's a hotbed for human trafficking. 573 00:30:52,725 --> 00:30:55,144 There's lots of people going through that area 574 00:30:55,228 --> 00:30:57,939 and lots of money going out to places it shouldn't go. 575 00:30:58,022 --> 00:30:59,357 [tense music playing] 576 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,441 [mouse clicking] 577 00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:02,151 [Iva] Seeing the photos… 578 00:31:03,361 --> 00:31:05,113 that's a terrible thing. 579 00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:06,698 [inhales shakily] 580 00:31:07,740 --> 00:31:08,658 [crying] It's a… 581 00:31:10,785 --> 00:31:14,789 It's a panic. It's a level of panic. 582 00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:19,085 All I can keep thinking is, "Is that my daughter?" 583 00:31:20,295 --> 00:31:22,964 [Brad] It's a pretty unsettling set of images. 584 00:31:23,047 --> 00:31:24,507 Just sickening. 585 00:31:24,591 --> 00:31:29,220 I mean, it's, you know, certainly not somewhere 586 00:31:29,304 --> 00:31:31,514 Amy would want any part of. 587 00:31:32,682 --> 00:31:35,143 We don't know what Amy looks like at this point. 588 00:31:35,768 --> 00:31:39,689 You know, seven years can change a person's appearance. 589 00:31:39,772 --> 00:31:41,232 [dramatic music playing] 590 00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:42,775 [Iva] We all looked at it. 591 00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:47,405 The nose, the chin, and the hair. 592 00:31:48,323 --> 00:31:49,866 It took my breath away. 593 00:31:50,658 --> 00:31:51,534 I thought… 594 00:31:53,745 --> 00:31:56,623 -"That could be Amy." -[tense music playing] 595 00:31:58,374 --> 00:32:00,251 [Michael] It's a huge, tangible lead. 596 00:32:01,794 --> 00:32:04,714 Our job is to figure out where it came from, where it was taken. 597 00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:08,885 [Erin S] The photograph itself has been on 598 00:32:08,968 --> 00:32:11,512 a particular website that dealt with prostitution 599 00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:14,140 down in the Caribbean and Venezuela area. 600 00:32:14,807 --> 00:32:17,518 The individuals in the photographs, they're women, 601 00:32:17,602 --> 00:32:19,729 and they're in risqué attire. 602 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:24,609 The FBI had a forensic analysis done of this photo. 603 00:32:24,692 --> 00:32:26,235 [tense music intensifies] 604 00:32:27,278 --> 00:32:30,657 [Erin S] We have several photos of Amy where we have her side profile, 605 00:32:31,658 --> 00:32:33,326 where she's looking straight on. 606 00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:36,829 We did measurements with the ear. 607 00:32:40,124 --> 00:32:42,251 We did measurements with, you know, the chin. 608 00:32:45,838 --> 00:32:47,966 We looked at the shoulder, the arm. 609 00:32:50,051 --> 00:32:52,428 A forensic analyst looked at the photo… 610 00:32:56,057 --> 00:32:57,725 [tense music crescendos, fades] 611 00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:59,686 and believed that that was Amy Bradley. 612 00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:04,232 [suspenseful music playing] 613 00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:11,948 It is like a stab in the heart. 614 00:33:13,074 --> 00:33:15,535 I've never thought that she wasn't out there. 615 00:33:15,618 --> 00:33:16,995 Neither has her dad. 616 00:33:17,495 --> 00:33:19,205 Neither has her brother. 617 00:33:20,123 --> 00:33:21,374 We gotta get to her. 618 00:33:22,166 --> 00:33:24,168 -[applause] -[upbeat theme music] 619 00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:27,505 [applause subsides] 620 00:33:27,588 --> 00:33:30,550 Amy Bradley disappeared seven years ago. 621 00:33:30,633 --> 00:33:35,346 Now, Iva and Ron were forwarded a picture via e-mail 622 00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:38,266 by someone who wants to remain anonymous. 623 00:33:38,349 --> 00:33:43,271 I want to show you this picture of who may very well be Amy Bradley 624 00:33:43,354 --> 00:33:46,107 seven years after her disappearance. 625 00:33:47,191 --> 00:33:52,113 Why don't we go through the features that the experts have picked out? 626 00:33:52,196 --> 00:33:56,034 What they do is they measure things that don't change in time. 627 00:33:56,117 --> 00:33:59,746 And you can see the cheekbones here that have some similarity. 628 00:33:59,829 --> 00:34:04,125 Now look at her chin and even her hair widow's peak, 629 00:34:04,208 --> 00:34:05,460 which doesn't change. 630 00:34:05,543 --> 00:34:08,546 And if you look at it, it is dramatically similar. 631 00:34:08,629 --> 00:34:12,008 We know that Amy has four distinctive tattoos. 632 00:34:12,091 --> 00:34:16,012 Now, the picture, she was positioned in such a way 633 00:34:16,095 --> 00:34:19,682 as to cover every one of those areas. We want to look… 634 00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:21,476 [woman] After work one day, 635 00:34:23,019 --> 00:34:25,605 I was just watching the Dr. Phil show. 636 00:34:25,688 --> 00:34:27,106 [intriguing music plays] 637 00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:30,276 [woman] And I'm watching it, and a couple comes on. 638 00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:36,407 And they show this picture of this girl that went missing in the Caribbean, 639 00:34:37,158 --> 00:34:38,743 and I couldn't believe it. 640 00:34:38,826 --> 00:34:41,871 Couldn't believe it. I said, "That's the girl I saw in Barbados." 641 00:34:41,954 --> 00:34:42,872 I saw her. 642 00:34:44,290 --> 00:34:45,208 I saw her. 643 00:34:45,792 --> 00:34:47,960 -[suspenseful music plays] -[clock ticking] 644 00:34:50,671 --> 00:34:53,466 [Judy] My husband and I, we were on a cruise. 645 00:34:55,468 --> 00:34:57,720 One of the stops was Bridgetown, Barbados. 646 00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:01,307 I wanted to get some souvenirs for my family. 647 00:35:02,183 --> 00:35:05,186 So we went into this store, it was downtown. 648 00:35:07,313 --> 00:35:08,731 We were looking around, I said, 649 00:35:08,815 --> 00:35:10,525 "There's nothing here I want to buy." 650 00:35:10,608 --> 00:35:13,361 He goes, "Well, it's hot. Let's go back to the ship and eat." 651 00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:17,281 And I said, "Okay, but I need to use the restroom first." 652 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,410 [ominous music plays] 653 00:35:21,494 --> 00:35:22,912 [Judy] So, I went in there, 654 00:35:23,871 --> 00:35:26,958 and I wasn't in there maybe three or four minutes, 655 00:35:27,041 --> 00:35:29,252 and all of a sudden I heard people coming in. 656 00:35:29,335 --> 00:35:30,419 [door opening] 657 00:35:31,003 --> 00:35:32,630 They were talking. And I thought, 658 00:35:32,713 --> 00:35:34,382 "Men are in this restroom." 659 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,427 There was a man over by the door talking. 660 00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:41,305 I can't remember everything he said, 661 00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:44,600 but I heard him say, "The deal's at eleven o'clock, 662 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:47,812 and I'm warning you, you better be ready to go." 663 00:35:48,521 --> 00:35:49,939 [indistinct talking] 664 00:35:50,690 --> 00:35:53,067 [Judy] I didn't know what actually it was. 665 00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:56,571 Maybe a drug deal. I didn't know what was going on. 666 00:35:57,697 --> 00:35:59,949 And then all of a sudden, the men left. 667 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:04,120 And I open the door, and there's this young woman 668 00:36:04,203 --> 00:36:05,580 standing by the sinks. 669 00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:06,706 [water running] 670 00:36:06,789 --> 00:36:11,210 [Judy] She had real long, dark hair, and it was kind of wild and crazy. 671 00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:15,548 Had a skirt on, a straight skirt and a sleeveless top. 672 00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:21,012 She had this awful look on her face, kinda crying. 673 00:36:22,930 --> 00:36:28,603 I walked over to the sink to wash my hands, and I said, "Hi." 674 00:36:28,686 --> 00:36:30,897 [water running] 675 00:36:30,980 --> 00:36:34,233 [Judy] "Are you on vacation here?" And she just shook her head no. 676 00:36:34,859 --> 00:36:38,070 "Do you live here?" She shook her head no, wouldn't talk. 677 00:36:40,573 --> 00:36:42,575 And then I says, "Well, what's your name?" 678 00:36:43,993 --> 00:36:46,412 She said, "Amy." 679 00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:50,333 I could tell she had a Southern American accent. 680 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,503 So, I said to her, "Where are you from?" 681 00:36:55,379 --> 00:36:58,674 She was talking so low, I thought she said West Virginia. 682 00:37:00,551 --> 00:37:04,263 I went, "Oh!" I thought I was cheering her up. 683 00:37:04,347 --> 00:37:08,392 "I'm from near where you're from, and I have a daughter named Amy, 684 00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:10,519 and she's just about your age." 685 00:37:11,562 --> 00:37:12,855 And when I said that… 686 00:37:13,648 --> 00:37:14,732 [running water stops] 687 00:37:14,815 --> 00:37:18,527 …she starts walking towards me, getting up in my face, 688 00:37:18,611 --> 00:37:20,196 and she backs me into a wall, 689 00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:22,531 and I just froze. 690 00:37:22,615 --> 00:37:25,826 So, I'm talking real fast, I'm going, "Oh, it's so nice meeting you." 691 00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:28,287 "I hope you have a good time whatever you're doing." 692 00:37:29,622 --> 00:37:31,707 And she just watches me. She never moves. 693 00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:34,585 It's like she's frozen, her back is to the door. 694 00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:38,172 So, I open the door, and here's this man standing in the door, 695 00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:40,174 blocking my exit. 696 00:37:40,883 --> 00:37:42,677 So, I play dumb tourist. 697 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,722 I go, "Excuse me! I'm sorry, I gotta get out. Excuse me!" 698 00:37:46,806 --> 00:37:48,891 Like that, and I just kept inchin'. 699 00:37:50,810 --> 00:37:53,813 Her back was to the door the whole time I'm leaving. 700 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,274 [dramatic music crescendos, fades] 701 00:37:56,357 --> 00:38:00,945 And I get up to my husband, and he says, "Gosh, you were in there a long time." 702 00:38:01,028 --> 00:38:03,489 And I'm telling him, "There's something going on." 703 00:38:03,572 --> 00:38:06,575 "They're forcing that girl to do something she doesn't want to do." 704 00:38:08,911 --> 00:38:12,832 They all came out with their arms through her arms. 705 00:38:13,708 --> 00:38:16,419 I stood there and watched them until they disappeared. 706 00:38:17,545 --> 00:38:20,631 My husband's saying, "Well, there's nothing you can do, Judy." 707 00:38:21,424 --> 00:38:23,259 So, we got back on the ship, 708 00:38:23,342 --> 00:38:25,761 and I remember we went to get something to eat. 709 00:38:25,845 --> 00:38:28,014 The cafeteria where we were sitting, 710 00:38:28,097 --> 00:38:30,057 they had windows, and I could see Barbados, 711 00:38:30,141 --> 00:38:32,143 and all I could think about was that girl. 712 00:38:32,226 --> 00:38:33,311 [water trickling] 713 00:38:33,394 --> 00:38:36,314 It was all I could think about for weeks, 714 00:38:36,397 --> 00:38:39,150 but I didn't know what to do, I didn't know who she was. 715 00:38:40,776 --> 00:38:43,237 All I knew was that her name's Amy, 716 00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:44,822 she's got an American accent, 717 00:38:44,905 --> 00:38:48,075 and she said she's from West Virginia. I thought it was West Virginia. 718 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:50,870 I tried to just put it out of my mind 719 00:38:50,953 --> 00:38:53,372 until I saw that on Dr. Phil. 720 00:38:54,582 --> 00:38:56,292 I called the FBI. 721 00:38:56,959 --> 00:39:00,254 And I said it was her. Exactly. When they showed the picture, it was her. 722 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:02,840 It was the same girl, that's what she looks like. 723 00:39:04,425 --> 00:39:07,303 [Erin S] Our agents in Barbados went out trying to figure out, 724 00:39:07,386 --> 00:39:11,057 "Could it have been Amy? Could she have been in that restroom?" 725 00:39:11,891 --> 00:39:14,602 They spoke to those folks. 726 00:39:14,685 --> 00:39:17,646 There's no cameras, there's no video, and tried to track down 727 00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:20,149 as best as possible, but it did not furnish anything. 728 00:39:21,650 --> 00:39:26,322 We looked at everything in that picture, and anything that could be identified, 729 00:39:26,405 --> 00:39:28,491 pieces of furniture that had markings on them. 730 00:39:29,325 --> 00:39:31,243 You know, you look at the bed, 731 00:39:31,327 --> 00:39:34,413 could we possibly find out the manufacturer? 732 00:39:34,497 --> 00:39:39,210 Anything that could possibly give us a lead to where this photo was taken. 733 00:39:40,044 --> 00:39:42,588 Everything under the sun comes into play, 734 00:39:42,671 --> 00:39:47,385 but victims of human trafficking can be very, very difficult to find. 735 00:39:47,468 --> 00:39:51,514 Survivors, after they've been rescued, have told us that the trafficker said 736 00:39:51,597 --> 00:39:54,683 that their entire families would be killed back in their home country 737 00:39:54,767 --> 00:39:57,478 if they didn't continue to do what they had to do. 738 00:39:59,563 --> 00:40:01,857 I do remember leads coming in. 739 00:40:01,941 --> 00:40:05,694 In all those grains of sand that come in, there may be, you know, something 740 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,739 that actually solves the mystery. 741 00:40:10,616 --> 00:40:14,954 But to look at it as an investigative lead, you need something else. 742 00:40:16,789 --> 00:40:21,168 You need somebody that knew that person, that was close to that person. 743 00:40:21,961 --> 00:40:23,087 [crickets chirping] 744 00:40:23,170 --> 00:40:25,631 -[automated voice] Message one. -[beep] 745 00:40:25,714 --> 00:40:28,634 [on recording] Hi, my name is Amica Douglas. 746 00:40:28,717 --> 00:40:31,554 I'm the daughter of Alister Douglas. 747 00:40:31,637 --> 00:40:33,639 [ominous music plays] 748 00:40:34,306 --> 00:40:38,978 [Amica] I was just wondering if we can talk about Amy Bradley. 749 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:40,354 Um… 750 00:40:41,021 --> 00:40:46,110 I'm not really good at this, but I have information. 751 00:40:46,694 --> 00:40:49,780 I would really, really love to talk to you. 752 00:40:49,864 --> 00:40:51,532 [mysterious music playing]