"Amy Bradley Is Missing" Message in a Bottle

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At least it's not a thousand degrees up here. 3 00:00:22,188 --> 00:00:25,567 Amy's two bags are over here, 4 00:00:25,650 --> 00:00:30,655 and all of her belongings are in boxes over in the eaves there. 5 00:00:37,746 --> 00:00:39,205 That's the bag she packed? 6 00:00:39,289 --> 00:00:41,124 She packed this bag… 7 00:00:42,917 --> 00:00:44,544 and this bag, and… 8 00:00:45,295 --> 00:00:47,297 When's the last time you looked in there? 9 00:00:47,380 --> 00:00:49,841 Probably about 20 years ago. 10 00:00:50,425 --> 00:00:52,343 We have all of her things, 11 00:00:52,427 --> 00:00:55,513 right down to her wallet, and her change, and her toothbrush. 12 00:01:04,355 --> 00:01:06,941 This is what she had on during dinner. 13 00:01:17,368 --> 00:01:19,037 She was supposed to come home… 14 00:01:20,497 --> 00:01:21,664 …and have her things. 15 00:01:26,544 --> 00:01:28,213 After Amy disappeared, 16 00:01:28,296 --> 00:01:32,550 watching Dad hold Mom while she's losing it was super hard. 17 00:01:33,134 --> 00:01:37,347 Before that, I don't know if I'd ever seen my dad, um… kinda break down. 18 00:01:39,099 --> 00:01:43,436 Before Amy's disappearance, life is good, 19 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,855 everything's great, everything's going well. 20 00:01:47,023 --> 00:01:50,235 And then all of a sudden, the rug gets pulled out from under us, 21 00:01:50,318 --> 00:01:55,865 and everything kinda came to a screeching halt. 22 00:01:56,908 --> 00:02:00,870 I stopped school for a period of time, came back home. 23 00:02:01,621 --> 00:02:03,623 It felt like this depressing period 24 00:02:03,706 --> 00:02:10,463 where one of the most important people in my life was gone, was missing. 25 00:02:11,047 --> 00:02:15,218 We've lost a lot of years, you know, of our life… 26 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,015 searching, but we won't stop. 27 00:02:22,308 --> 00:02:23,768 I don't have children, 28 00:02:24,727 --> 00:02:26,855 and I'll be 48 in December. 29 00:02:27,730 --> 00:02:33,570 Subconsciously, I think I'd have to admit, you know, watching my parents lose a child 30 00:02:33,653 --> 00:02:38,074 was so traumatic for me that I'm not willing to put myself 31 00:02:38,158 --> 00:02:39,784 in a position to go through that. 32 00:02:50,336 --> 00:02:52,380 Somebody knows something. 33 00:02:52,463 --> 00:02:54,716 Somebody saw something. Somebody heard something. 34 00:02:54,799 --> 00:02:57,093 Somebody told somebody something. 35 00:02:58,469 --> 00:03:00,763 We were told by an FBI agent, 36 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,224 "Keep your lights on." 37 00:03:04,434 --> 00:03:07,145 "Nobody can keep a secret their entire life." 38 00:03:21,784 --> 00:03:23,203 Message two. 39 00:03:25,622 --> 00:03:29,209 Hi, my name's Amica Douglas. Um… 40 00:03:29,834 --> 00:03:31,961 I'm the daughter of Alister Douglas. 41 00:03:33,254 --> 00:03:35,924 I'm not really good at this, but um… 42 00:03:36,466 --> 00:03:39,469 …I would really, really love to talk to you. 43 00:03:40,970 --> 00:03:43,598 Um… I know what you guys are going through. 44 00:03:43,681 --> 00:03:48,645 And if it was me in this situation, I would want information about, 45 00:03:48,728 --> 00:03:51,689 you know, why my daughter isn't here right now. 46 00:03:53,733 --> 00:03:55,193 I couldn't believe it. 47 00:03:55,902 --> 00:03:58,613 I couldn't believe, of all the people, 48 00:03:58,696 --> 00:04:00,698 find our number, go through the effort, 49 00:04:00,782 --> 00:04:04,661 and call, it would be Alister Douglas' daughter. 50 00:04:10,291 --> 00:04:11,626 I was born in Grenada. 51 00:04:14,462 --> 00:04:16,965 Me and my dad was like two peas in a pod. 52 00:04:17,048 --> 00:04:19,092 Like, I say to everybody, "I'm a daddy's girl." 53 00:04:19,175 --> 00:04:20,385 "My dad made me that way." 54 00:04:21,052 --> 00:04:26,391 He took me on a lot of fun adventures, going to the beach, going out for food, 55 00:04:26,474 --> 00:04:28,142 seeing him play with his band. 56 00:04:28,226 --> 00:04:30,645 But growing up, it was just all about his music. 57 00:04:31,229 --> 00:04:34,857 And he was just constantly away, playing music on cruise ships. 58 00:04:36,150 --> 00:04:38,569 When he and my mom got divorced, 59 00:04:38,653 --> 00:04:40,947 I think I was probably like one or two. 60 00:04:42,323 --> 00:04:44,951 And then when I got older, 61 00:04:46,244 --> 00:04:51,457 my mom said, "Something happened on a cruise ship your dad was on." 62 00:04:51,541 --> 00:04:55,336 "And if you go research his name, you'll probably find this about him." 63 00:04:56,504 --> 00:05:01,092 I wasn't born at the time, but my mom told me, 64 00:05:01,175 --> 00:05:04,971 one night when he came back from the cruise ship, 65 00:05:05,054 --> 00:05:07,348 my mom said everything just changed. 66 00:05:10,601 --> 00:05:13,938 I guess my mom was just trying to, you know, have a conversation with him. 67 00:05:14,022 --> 00:05:16,649 I mean, she's been home by herself for months, you know, 68 00:05:16,733 --> 00:05:19,527 and then just to see her husband come home, 69 00:05:19,610 --> 00:05:22,780 and he's upset and just saying a lot of hurtful stuff to her. 70 00:05:23,781 --> 00:05:25,491 It's just really weird 71 00:05:25,575 --> 00:05:29,245 that he would disrespect his pregnant wife like that, you know? 72 00:05:29,329 --> 00:05:31,080 It's scary too. 73 00:05:32,415 --> 00:05:36,711 And then my mom saw that he came home with a bag. 74 00:05:37,670 --> 00:05:39,464 My mom looked in the bag… 75 00:05:41,507 --> 00:05:43,176 and it was pictures. 76 00:05:45,553 --> 00:05:47,013 Pictures of women. 77 00:05:47,889 --> 00:05:49,557 Just all Caucasian women. 78 00:05:51,809 --> 00:05:54,896 And I think that's what raised a red flag for me. 79 00:05:57,273 --> 00:05:59,776 It's just… There's a lot of questions behind it. 80 00:06:02,945 --> 00:06:06,407 When I ask my dad what happened with Amy, 81 00:06:07,408 --> 00:06:09,869 his reaction was just weird. 82 00:06:10,870 --> 00:06:13,539 He gets upset when I bring it up. 83 00:06:14,499 --> 00:06:18,378 To me, his story feels like it is missing a lot of parts. 84 00:06:21,631 --> 00:06:24,801 And that's what's making this so nerve-wracking. 85 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:30,598 I want this to end. I want, you know, answers. 86 00:06:31,432 --> 00:06:32,308 Yes, Amica? 87 00:06:33,810 --> 00:06:35,061 Hi, Daddy. 88 00:06:39,482 --> 00:06:41,067 I don't know, I mean… 89 00:06:41,859 --> 00:06:43,903 I don't wanna go through this again. 90 00:06:43,986 --> 00:06:45,446 I didn't do anything wrong. 91 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:47,949 So, tell me, now what am I supposed to? 92 00:06:48,783 --> 00:06:51,160 I have no problem with you calling to ask me questions. 93 00:06:51,244 --> 00:06:53,871 I would wish that you put yourself in my shoe 94 00:06:53,955 --> 00:06:56,124 and understand how I feel about this. 95 00:06:56,207 --> 00:06:57,041 Amica… 96 00:06:57,125 --> 00:06:59,335 They brought the FBI on immediately. 97 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:02,755 And then he said to me that they're trying to find 98 00:07:03,256 --> 00:07:05,216 this girl, that I was seen dancing with her. 99 00:07:05,299 --> 00:07:07,844 Everybody that had anything to do with cleaning her room, 100 00:07:07,927 --> 00:07:10,513 serving her drinks, we were grounded. 101 00:07:10,596 --> 00:07:15,101 When they realized nothing was involved, we continued to work. 102 00:07:15,184 --> 00:07:19,772 And I continued to work on the cruise ship until two years later. 103 00:07:19,856 --> 00:07:25,736 Why am I hearing that you were seen on the beach with her, like, months later? 104 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:26,821 Which beach? 105 00:07:26,904 --> 00:07:29,407 Which beach they saw me on? 'Cause I don't like beaches. 106 00:07:30,074 --> 00:07:31,451 Amica… 107 00:07:34,162 --> 00:07:38,416 We danced at the club, like I danced with many people at the club. 108 00:07:38,499 --> 00:07:39,333 So, you… 109 00:07:39,417 --> 00:07:40,376 I did nothing. 110 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:42,712 You don't know if she ever got off the boat? 111 00:07:43,588 --> 00:07:47,467 How would I know that? I left her in the club at one o'clock, 112 00:07:47,550 --> 00:07:50,428 and I went to my room. How would I know if she got off the boat? 113 00:07:51,304 --> 00:07:52,889 I'm a little boy from Grenada 114 00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:56,184 who have never had any experience like this before. 115 00:07:56,267 --> 00:07:58,311 I'm sitting there. My name was called. 116 00:07:58,394 --> 00:08:00,897 I'm being questioned about something I don't know. 117 00:08:00,980 --> 00:08:06,402 Mommy found a bag of pictures of Caucasian women 118 00:08:06,486 --> 00:08:09,405 that you came home with, you know? 119 00:08:09,489 --> 00:08:12,325 -Which people? -It raised a lot of questions, Daddy. 120 00:08:12,408 --> 00:08:14,911 Which one of the pictures was with her? 121 00:08:14,994 --> 00:08:15,828 I don't know. 122 00:08:15,912 --> 00:08:17,079 I had many pictures. 123 00:08:17,163 --> 00:08:18,122 Yeah, why? 124 00:08:18,206 --> 00:08:22,502 But it's hard to hold this conversation with you because you get upset. 125 00:08:22,585 --> 00:08:24,170 I took pictures with everybody. 126 00:08:24,253 --> 00:08:27,465 As a band, people come and wanna take pictures with you. 127 00:08:27,548 --> 00:08:29,842 If this happened to me, how would you feel? 128 00:08:29,926 --> 00:08:32,220 If you were missing, I'd do everything in my power 129 00:08:32,303 --> 00:08:33,763 to find out where you are. 130 00:08:34,263 --> 00:08:38,726 I understand that her family is trying… maybe trying to find her all these years. 131 00:08:38,809 --> 00:08:42,271 And I'm in sympathy with that, but I had nothing to do with that. 132 00:08:42,772 --> 00:08:43,981 Nothing at all. 133 00:08:45,274 --> 00:08:46,275 Nothing. 134 00:08:52,198 --> 00:08:55,785 It's like a puzzle you can't put together. 135 00:08:57,245 --> 00:08:59,205 Like, there's just so much missing pieces. 136 00:09:00,289 --> 00:09:04,418 When I spoke to the Bradleys, it was emotional. 137 00:09:04,502 --> 00:09:07,713 Everything that they were saying, it just kept hitting. 138 00:09:08,214 --> 00:09:13,386 Like, I have a daughter, and I'd be losing my mind every single day. 139 00:09:14,095 --> 00:09:18,558 I would not rest until, you know, I know what's going on. 140 00:09:18,641 --> 00:09:25,606 There's gotta be something at the deepest level in her, I believe, 141 00:09:25,690 --> 00:09:28,985 to go through the effort to find us and try to help us. 142 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:32,405 I want peace for everybody. 143 00:09:33,698 --> 00:09:38,035 I just wish that I could help 'em to get answers. 144 00:09:42,373 --> 00:09:45,585 You know, if we had evidence, someone would have been arrested. 145 00:09:45,668 --> 00:09:48,879 But, Alister, he had some behavior that is definitely suspicious. 146 00:09:48,963 --> 00:09:51,841 The young women saw Amy and Alister Douglas together, 147 00:09:51,924 --> 00:09:54,552 going up to the disco through the elevator, 148 00:09:54,635 --> 00:09:56,929 which was after the disco closed. 149 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:00,224 And that timeline does make sense. 150 00:10:01,225 --> 00:10:06,480 Because we know Alister was in his room approximately by 3:35 a.m. 151 00:10:06,564 --> 00:10:09,609 But then after that, the timeline can't be confirmed 152 00:10:09,692 --> 00:10:13,195 because the door lock would have when passengers entered their cabin… 153 00:10:15,156 --> 00:10:17,742 …but not, of course, when they exited their cabin. 154 00:10:18,451 --> 00:10:21,871 We can't track when Alister Douglas next left the cabin. 155 00:10:22,663 --> 00:10:25,333 Two young women saw Amy and Alister Douglas together. 156 00:10:25,916 --> 00:10:29,128 You just don't know, is the time actually correct? 157 00:10:31,547 --> 00:10:34,050 Lori Renick saw Alister Douglas with Amy 158 00:10:34,133 --> 00:10:39,221 going up the glass elevator to the disco approximately 5:30 or so. 159 00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:42,725 They go back to their room a few minutes later 160 00:10:42,808 --> 00:10:44,935 and have forgotten their keys. 161 00:10:45,895 --> 00:10:47,688 And so they knock on the door, 162 00:10:48,189 --> 00:10:53,402 and the mother of one of the girls opens the door and lets 'em in. 163 00:10:53,486 --> 00:10:57,990 So, there's no lock link showing key entry 164 00:10:58,074 --> 00:11:00,201 as to when they said they were going in. 165 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,580 I can't find any evidence anyone interviewed the mother 166 00:11:05,122 --> 00:11:08,417 who let 'em in the room at 5:30, six o'clock in the morning 167 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:09,752 to confirm that time. 168 00:11:11,295 --> 00:11:14,215 The fact Alister Douglas is not in the United States 169 00:11:14,298 --> 00:11:15,383 makes it very difficult. 170 00:11:16,092 --> 00:11:17,927 We have no jurisdiction. 171 00:11:18,010 --> 00:11:20,012 You can't just go into another country, 172 00:11:20,096 --> 00:11:24,392 without the permission, of course, or, "Hey, can I speak to your citizen?" 173 00:11:25,768 --> 00:11:29,397 I just remember he was very nice, very chill. 174 00:11:29,980 --> 00:11:31,023 Good guy, you know? 175 00:11:31,107 --> 00:11:34,860 Had no bad thoughts about… No bad experiences with him at all. 176 00:11:34,944 --> 00:11:38,030 He was in the wrong place, wrong time, dancing with the wrong girl. 177 00:11:38,739 --> 00:11:41,242 And he told them what he knew. 178 00:11:41,951 --> 00:11:46,247 No one even thought he would be capable of doing anything wrong or bad. 179 00:11:47,665 --> 00:11:52,753 It's surprising how few people realize the dangers of cruising. 180 00:11:52,837 --> 00:11:55,423 But the things that have happened to Amy Bradley 181 00:11:55,506 --> 00:11:57,633 and her family do happen. 182 00:11:57,717 --> 00:12:00,511 I don't know what kind of background check 183 00:12:00,594 --> 00:12:03,848 is done on the crew that's hired there, 184 00:12:03,931 --> 00:12:08,477 because they're hired in countries where the vetting practices 185 00:12:08,561 --> 00:12:12,732 might be incredibly different from what we're accustomed to in the US. 186 00:12:12,815 --> 00:12:15,943 There are stories after story, after story 187 00:12:16,026 --> 00:12:20,614 of disappearance, or suspicious deaths, sexual assault. 188 00:12:21,782 --> 00:12:25,286 When something happens, I suspect the first person they call 189 00:12:25,369 --> 00:12:26,746 is the legal department. 190 00:12:26,829 --> 00:12:29,165 "What do we do? How do we cover this up?" 191 00:12:29,248 --> 00:12:30,791 "How do we make this go away?" 192 00:12:32,334 --> 00:12:36,422 I think people forget, when you get on one of these cruise ships, 193 00:12:36,505 --> 00:12:38,883 you're in basically your own country. 194 00:12:39,550 --> 00:12:41,510 You might be a US citizen, 195 00:12:42,094 --> 00:12:44,346 and this may look like Main Street, USA, 196 00:12:44,930 --> 00:12:45,806 but it's not. 197 00:12:46,849 --> 00:12:50,227 Because the sheriff of this town, 198 00:12:50,311 --> 00:12:55,149 the boss of this little floating village, is the captain. 199 00:12:55,232 --> 00:13:00,279 And the captain is an employee of a multi-billion-dollar company. 200 00:13:01,071 --> 00:13:05,034 What's at stake is money. 201 00:13:05,117 --> 00:13:08,412 It is profit over people. 202 00:13:08,496 --> 00:13:10,414 Profit over protection. 203 00:13:12,041 --> 00:13:16,587 Being a proud Royal Caribbean employee, it was kind of heartbreaking 204 00:13:16,670 --> 00:13:19,465 that we were accused of, you know, either wrongdoing, 205 00:13:19,548 --> 00:13:22,259 or not doing our job properly, or not caring. 206 00:13:22,343 --> 00:13:24,720 You know, we had a business to run. 207 00:13:24,804 --> 00:13:28,891 And it was a very unexpected happening. 208 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:36,190 I've concluded that the conspiracy theories 209 00:13:36,273 --> 00:13:39,068 about Amy Bradley are BS. 210 00:13:40,152 --> 00:13:42,446 I think she jumped or fell off. 211 00:13:45,282 --> 00:13:47,993 And I just think it's grasping at straws. 212 00:13:48,077 --> 00:13:53,958 A family that is not facing… reality. 213 00:13:56,001 --> 00:14:02,299 A family who cannot come to terms with the fact that their daughter's gone, 214 00:14:03,509 --> 00:14:05,219 looking for somebody to blame. 215 00:14:05,302 --> 00:14:10,182 The front cover shows Chandra Levy, 216 00:14:10,266 --> 00:14:13,727 Molly Bish, Jill Berman, and here's Amy. 217 00:14:14,562 --> 00:14:19,149 Twenty-six years of looking for Amy every day. 218 00:14:20,609 --> 00:14:22,236 It's a life goal. 219 00:14:22,319 --> 00:14:24,572 Two chairs, and then the balcony. 220 00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:27,408 You had the sun deck, and then you had the compass deck. 221 00:14:27,491 --> 00:14:31,203 That would be the island, and then this would be the search grid. 222 00:14:32,872 --> 00:14:38,836 In my quiet times, I mean, it's just like, "What did we miss?" 223 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:42,131 Looking for a clue and looking for somebody who has something, 224 00:14:43,132 --> 00:14:46,260 but they don't know what to do with it, or they're afraid. 225 00:14:48,554 --> 00:14:50,931 Because I know somebody knows something. 226 00:14:51,432 --> 00:14:56,645 Please give us that one thing that we need. 227 00:14:58,147 --> 00:14:59,565 What are you holding? 228 00:14:59,648 --> 00:15:00,649 Um… 229 00:15:04,153 --> 00:15:05,362 It's a… 230 00:15:06,322 --> 00:15:07,781 It's a message in a bottle 231 00:15:07,865 --> 00:15:11,243 that she sent me in February of 1998. 232 00:15:13,329 --> 00:15:15,789 It is one of the most personal things. 233 00:15:15,873 --> 00:15:21,003 And I am incredibly reluctant to share it 234 00:15:22,046 --> 00:15:24,840 with anyone. 235 00:15:25,716 --> 00:15:27,301 I can't… This can't… 236 00:15:36,477 --> 00:15:38,479 Why don't we start from the beginning? 237 00:15:38,562 --> 00:15:39,396 Okay. 238 00:15:42,107 --> 00:15:46,070 We met at a basketball tryout. 239 00:15:49,406 --> 00:15:54,995 I was 14, and I am shy, introverted, insecure. 240 00:15:56,038 --> 00:16:01,752 And I see this very confident, loud… 241 00:16:01,835 --> 00:16:07,549 …playful person that was doing trick shots, 242 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:12,888 and she couldn't just take a layup, she had to put, like, style in it. 243 00:16:14,098 --> 00:16:17,434 And so I was like, "Whoa, who is this?" 244 00:16:19,269 --> 00:16:21,105 We were both on the travel team. 245 00:16:21,188 --> 00:16:26,026 So, you're staying in hotels, you're playing all day long. 246 00:16:26,610 --> 00:16:29,405 Pretty quickly, we were really close friends. 247 00:16:30,030 --> 00:16:32,574 We'd get along on different levels. 248 00:16:32,658 --> 00:16:34,743 We'd go to each other's houses, 249 00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:37,788 and these dynamics started to come in. 250 00:16:37,871 --> 00:16:41,917 I was like, "Okay, who is this person that you're hanging out with?" 251 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:44,378 I had a sleepover at her house. 252 00:16:44,461 --> 00:16:47,214 I can't sleep. Why can't… My heart is pounding. 253 00:16:47,297 --> 00:16:51,427 But clearly, I was falling for her. 254 00:16:52,052 --> 00:16:57,224 But then we went to different colleges, and both came out in college. 255 00:16:58,267 --> 00:17:02,062 But we didn't really know it until graduation. 256 00:17:03,814 --> 00:17:06,108 We went to the gay bar 257 00:17:06,191 --> 00:17:09,528 and hung out all night and danced and caught up. 258 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:13,699 And she's dropping me off in the driveway. 259 00:17:15,159 --> 00:17:16,910 We both lean in. 260 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:22,416 I had never been kissed before like that. 261 00:17:22,499 --> 00:17:27,212 I think we stayed in that car for like an hour kissing. 262 00:17:27,296 --> 00:17:29,214 And it felt like… 263 00:17:30,507 --> 00:17:31,550 "Finally." 264 00:17:32,843 --> 00:17:33,969 It was magical. 265 00:17:35,721 --> 00:17:40,100 I had just gotten a job at University of Kentucky. 266 00:17:40,184 --> 00:17:42,311 So, I was getting ready to leave. 267 00:17:42,394 --> 00:17:46,982 But we both intuitively knew we wanted to be together, 268 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:50,110 and we were gonna pursue long distance. 269 00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:52,905 She'd come for weekends. 270 00:17:52,988 --> 00:17:56,158 And I was very much in love with her. 271 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,830 But in January of '98, she calls me. 272 00:18:01,914 --> 00:18:06,835 She wanted to tell me that she had kissed someone. 273 00:18:07,461 --> 00:18:08,712 They had been drinking. 274 00:18:08,796 --> 00:18:11,548 What she said was it didn't mean anything. 275 00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:17,971 She said it helped her confirm her feelings for me. 276 00:18:18,055 --> 00:18:22,643 And I said, "Amy, I need some time to process this." 277 00:18:23,352 --> 00:18:27,147 I wasn't returning her phone calls, so she resorted to writing letters, 278 00:18:27,815 --> 00:18:30,359 and a message in a bottle. 279 00:18:36,990 --> 00:18:41,912 "Mollie, I hurt you deeper than you can ever forget." 280 00:18:41,995 --> 00:18:45,082 "I'm not asking you to forget, because that'll never happen." 281 00:18:45,165 --> 00:18:50,003 "I just wanted to ask you if you could find it in your heart to forgive me." 282 00:18:50,838 --> 00:18:52,923 "Mollie, will you please forgive me?" 283 00:18:53,674 --> 00:18:57,386 "I have been insensitive, immature, and selfish." 284 00:18:57,469 --> 00:19:01,515 "I didn't like the person I was, and I'm not proud of how I acted." 285 00:19:02,099 --> 00:19:05,102 "I feel like there is an ocean between us." 286 00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:10,190 "Like I'm on a desert island waiting for you to rescue me." 287 00:19:10,858 --> 00:19:14,027 "A message in a bottle, my only hope." 288 00:19:14,778 --> 00:19:18,198 "I miss you, Mollie. Save me, please." 289 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:21,952 "Stranded, Amy." 290 00:19:37,217 --> 00:19:38,886 Years had passed. 291 00:19:38,969 --> 00:19:41,972 Because the 20th anniversary was coming upon us, 292 00:19:42,055 --> 00:19:44,558 that's a great way to get more information out there 293 00:19:44,641 --> 00:19:47,394 to really push that the FBI still has the case open, 294 00:19:47,477 --> 00:19:50,939 that we are soliciting and garnering, we love information to come in. 295 00:19:51,648 --> 00:19:53,192 It's been all these years. 296 00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:55,235 I had age progression photos of Amy done 297 00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:58,864 because I myself don't look the same as when I graduated college. 298 00:19:59,948 --> 00:20:02,701 She could have a different hairstyle, long hair, short hair, 299 00:20:02,784 --> 00:20:04,578 and of course she has aged. 300 00:20:04,661 --> 00:20:07,831 If you have any information, whether it be that you were a passenger 301 00:20:07,915 --> 00:20:10,375 or a crew member, we ask that you come forward. 302 00:20:10,459 --> 00:20:14,254 The smallest detail could assist us in finding out what happened to Amy. 303 00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:19,635 Back in 1998, there wasn't a whole lotta internet going on. 304 00:20:19,718 --> 00:20:21,553 Things have changed quite a bit. 305 00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:27,267 Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. 306 00:20:27,351 --> 00:20:30,854 Today, we're going to be talking about an unsolved missing persons case. 307 00:20:30,938 --> 00:20:32,231 Amy Lynn Bradley. 308 00:20:32,314 --> 00:20:34,316 -Amy Bradley. -Amy Lynn Bradley. 309 00:20:34,399 --> 00:20:36,401 One of the biggest mysteries at sea. 310 00:20:36,485 --> 00:20:39,529 I really, really don't think she would have intentionally jumped. 311 00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:42,532 Okay, first off, even if she did fall off the boat, 312 00:20:42,616 --> 00:20:45,369 they were so close, she could have swam. 313 00:20:45,452 --> 00:20:48,205 As disturbing as it is, it is entirely possible 314 00:20:48,288 --> 00:20:51,124 Amy Lynn Bradley was smuggled off this cruise ship. 315 00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:54,044 -Ships have so many closets, and weird… -Yeah. 316 00:20:54,127 --> 00:20:57,256 …little corners and nooks and crannies that you could hide someone in. 317 00:20:57,339 --> 00:21:02,219 He was an employee of the cruise ship and had access to restricted areas. 318 00:21:02,302 --> 00:21:04,471 -Maybe the band members of Blue Orchid… -Yeah. 319 00:21:04,554 --> 00:21:07,557 …were working for some sort of nefarious operation. 320 00:21:07,641 --> 00:21:09,977 Maybe the whole entire crew was in on it. 321 00:21:10,060 --> 00:21:12,604 I think that she was, like, marked. 322 00:21:13,188 --> 00:21:15,732 So, if you have any information leading to the recovery, 323 00:21:15,816 --> 00:21:19,111 identification of Amy Lynn Bradley, please contact the FBI. 324 00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:28,620 I first became aware of Amy's case, it was in 2014. 325 00:21:28,704 --> 00:21:29,997 True crime discussion boards 326 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,666 really were only really starting to begin at that point. 327 00:21:32,749 --> 00:21:34,960 I had a pretty strong interest in true crime. 328 00:21:35,043 --> 00:21:38,463 I was googling and researching everything I could find about Amy. 329 00:21:39,047 --> 00:21:43,802 Articles, Websleuths threads, there was discussion forums. 330 00:21:44,511 --> 00:21:47,723 I was pretty shocked that, for one, I had never heard of the case 331 00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:50,267 and that Amy had never been found. 332 00:21:50,350 --> 00:21:55,230 Amy's story moved me in a lot of ways, and I really felt like there needed to be 333 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:56,773 a go-to resource 334 00:21:56,857 --> 00:22:00,319 where all the information that pertained to Amy's case could be posted. 335 00:22:01,737 --> 00:22:05,657 Because if they're not, these cases, a lot of time, do get forgotten about. 336 00:22:06,491 --> 00:22:12,331 So, that was why, in 2018, I created my website, amybradleyismissing.com. 337 00:22:17,919 --> 00:22:20,255 It has photographs, sightings, 338 00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:24,926 a lot of archived links, all of the tips, leads, different theories. 339 00:22:27,554 --> 00:22:32,434 Obviously, a case of this magnitude, the speculation, it goes completely crazy. 340 00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:42,152 And that's where I was standing when I saw Amy. 341 00:22:44,821 --> 00:22:46,198 I worked in telecommunications. 342 00:22:46,281 --> 00:22:48,367 I'm a networking and telecommunications specialist. 343 00:22:48,450 --> 00:22:49,284 That's what I do. 344 00:22:50,535 --> 00:22:54,539 Now, one day Iva tells me, "Hey, this guy, Anthony Willis, 345 00:22:54,623 --> 00:22:56,041 he built this website." 346 00:22:57,542 --> 00:23:01,296 So, Anthony and Iva strike up this kind of friendship. 347 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:06,218 So, then we start thinking, "Well, wait a minute, we have a website." 348 00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:09,429 "We have string data that comes from that website." 349 00:23:09,513 --> 00:23:12,015 "We have IP tracking on that website." 350 00:23:12,724 --> 00:23:15,644 "Why don't we start to mine that data?" 351 00:23:18,563 --> 00:23:22,901 The great thing about my website is I can log into the analytics. 352 00:23:22,984 --> 00:23:26,947 I can find each and every IP that has visited my site. 353 00:23:27,030 --> 00:23:30,826 I can then… What you do is you copy and paste those IPs 354 00:23:30,909 --> 00:23:32,828 into a IP reader, and it will give you 355 00:23:32,911 --> 00:23:36,123 the general geolocation of where that IP is coming from. 356 00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:42,045 Anthony starts sending me information, the data. 357 00:23:43,046 --> 00:23:44,881 I start filtering through the data. 358 00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:47,384 We're looking for patterns. 359 00:23:47,467 --> 00:23:49,719 Where these IP addresses come from. 360 00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:54,266 What was pretty shocking to me 361 00:23:54,349 --> 00:23:58,562 was the amount of IPs that were coming from Bridgetown, Barbados. 362 00:24:03,066 --> 00:24:05,026 The last sighting of her… 363 00:24:06,194 --> 00:24:07,612 …was in Barbados. 364 00:24:08,238 --> 00:24:11,032 So, we start taking pictures of Amy's family, 365 00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:13,660 and we start putting that information up there. 366 00:24:14,327 --> 00:24:16,997 I start pulling out all the IP addresses. 367 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,376 It tells us how many times that IP address visited the site. 368 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:26,339 It tells us what pages they went on and how long they rested on that page. 369 00:24:28,091 --> 00:24:32,846 Why, why, why, on birthdays, 370 00:24:32,929 --> 00:24:37,642 anniversaries, Christmas does somebody keep hitting that site? 371 00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:41,938 They dwell on Thanksgiving… 372 00:24:43,857 --> 00:24:44,691 Christmas, 373 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:47,694 and birthdays. 374 00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:51,490 And hitting it from Curaçao, hitting it from Barbados, 375 00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:54,284 and sit on there for 45 minutes or something. 376 00:24:54,367 --> 00:24:55,744 It doesn't make sense. 377 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,457 So, here's my theory, 378 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,667 and it's just that. 379 00:25:02,751 --> 00:25:06,463 It's either the people that are involved in this are curious 380 00:25:06,546 --> 00:25:09,841 and they want to know how close they are to being caught. 381 00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:12,719 The second thing is, it's Amy. 382 00:25:15,472 --> 00:25:18,892 We put a lot of new pictures up, sentimental things. 383 00:25:19,809 --> 00:25:23,522 We've got her Miata, had pictures of the dog. 384 00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:27,567 If in case she happens to be able to look at it, 385 00:25:27,651 --> 00:25:30,153 hopefully she'd see it and know that we're still trying, 386 00:25:30,237 --> 00:25:31,446 still thinking about her. 387 00:25:32,405 --> 00:25:34,699 The pages that they dwell on, right? 388 00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:37,035 Why are you looking at this page, 389 00:25:37,118 --> 00:25:40,622 and why are you spending minutes on it, right? 390 00:25:40,705 --> 00:25:42,874 Why do you keep coming back to these pages? 391 00:25:42,958 --> 00:25:45,210 Why are you interested in these pages? 392 00:25:47,087 --> 00:25:50,048 Maybe you're doing this because you want to reach back. 393 00:25:50,131 --> 00:25:52,592 You want to reach back, it's a memory, right? 394 00:25:52,676 --> 00:25:55,178 You want to see how your mom and dad 395 00:25:55,262 --> 00:25:57,806 have aged over the years and what your brother is doing, 396 00:25:57,889 --> 00:25:59,891 or something is happening in their lives. 397 00:25:59,975 --> 00:26:02,936 Maybe they're looking to make sure they're still alive. 398 00:26:04,271 --> 00:26:07,649 When Amy disappeared, was there a threat out there that said, 399 00:26:07,732 --> 00:26:10,443 "If you ever tell your parents, we'll kill them"? 400 00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:14,155 Might be she still believes that her family might be threatened. 401 00:26:15,865 --> 00:26:18,994 I think the idea that she's being held against her will 402 00:26:19,077 --> 00:26:23,373 and that she will go to the website to see her own photographs… 403 00:26:23,456 --> 00:26:24,457 Anything is possible. 404 00:26:25,792 --> 00:26:29,212 You can track those that, you know, come to the site, 405 00:26:29,296 --> 00:26:32,882 but you have to go through a legal process to get the subscriber information. 406 00:26:32,966 --> 00:26:36,511 If people are international and they're not from a US carrier, 407 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,889 we're not going to at all obtain, you know, any information 408 00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:41,600 on who could be hitting that site. 409 00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:44,311 A question I'm sure you've been asked is, 410 00:26:44,394 --> 00:26:48,356 "Why the hell doesn't Amy call home, email home, if she's alive?" 411 00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:51,192 Okay, so… 412 00:26:52,861 --> 00:26:54,237 that's a good question. 413 00:26:56,239 --> 00:26:59,075 I don't understand why she wouldn't have reached out 414 00:26:59,159 --> 00:27:01,786 if she has access to a computer. 415 00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,663 However, we don't know, you know, 416 00:27:03,747 --> 00:27:05,915 what she has experienced, what she has endured. 417 00:27:10,295 --> 00:27:12,964 Back when I saw Amy in Barbados, 418 00:27:13,923 --> 00:27:17,636 one thing that I always remember, when the man said, 419 00:27:17,719 --> 00:27:21,806 "You better be all set to go and don't try to leave or do anything, 420 00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:26,478 because we're going to be outside waiting and watching all night." 421 00:27:26,561 --> 00:27:29,648 The woman, she goes, "Can we stop and see the children?" 422 00:27:31,232 --> 00:27:33,902 He said, "Yeah, we can stop and see the children." 423 00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:37,113 He says, "Are you gonna cooperate, not try to leave?" She said, "Yes." 424 00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:42,118 I don't know whose children they were gonna go see. 425 00:27:42,202 --> 00:27:46,915 But she really got excited about that. 426 00:27:47,832 --> 00:27:49,626 Maybe it was her children. 427 00:27:49,709 --> 00:27:52,379 A lot of things could have happened in that time period. 428 00:27:52,462 --> 00:27:55,423 We don't know if she has children. She could be a mother now. 429 00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:58,301 We don't know if there's been threats made against her family. 430 00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:01,137 That might explain why she hasn't reached out. 431 00:28:01,221 --> 00:28:05,725 Even though she has been seen in Curaçao, she's been seen in Barbados. 432 00:28:08,395 --> 00:28:10,563 I look at all of these sightings, 433 00:28:11,731 --> 00:28:14,442 and people say, "Well, why hasn't she called you?" 434 00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:17,404 That's probably the biggest question that we get. 435 00:28:17,487 --> 00:28:19,864 "If she's out there, why doesn't she call you?" 436 00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:21,116 There's a lot of reasons. 437 00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:24,869 Maybe she's a victim of Stockholm syndrome, 438 00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:29,457 where the captive person starts to identify with their captors. 439 00:28:32,627 --> 00:28:36,172 Maybe is in a situation where she's had children. 440 00:28:36,923 --> 00:28:39,759 Maybe they threatened her. Maybe they threatened her children. 441 00:28:40,468 --> 00:28:42,262 We don't know any of these answers. 442 00:28:43,012 --> 00:28:46,349 It just gives me hope that she's still out there somewhere. 443 00:28:46,433 --> 00:28:49,394 To think that I've got grandchildren that I don't know, 444 00:28:49,477 --> 00:28:54,023 I'm still on Earth, I'm still here, so if I do, 445 00:28:54,107 --> 00:28:56,317 and we're able to locate Amy, 446 00:28:56,401 --> 00:28:58,737 and if she has children, locate her children, 447 00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:00,572 um… 448 00:29:00,655 --> 00:29:01,698 I'd be happy. 449 00:29:06,661 --> 00:29:09,622 There's a few things in here that are pretty special. 450 00:29:09,706 --> 00:29:14,002 We have all of Amy's possessions… 451 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,422 even down to… 452 00:29:23,636 --> 00:29:25,263 …the change in her wallet. 453 00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:31,394 The not knowing, how does it not wear them down? 454 00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:32,353 It doesn't. 455 00:29:33,396 --> 00:29:38,485 Thirty years later, they still come across as hopeful and optimistic. 456 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:42,405 But hope is a double-edged sword, you know? 457 00:29:43,364 --> 00:29:45,116 And I wonder what's better, 458 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:50,371 having that hope, having the belief that she's coming home, 459 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,542 or getting the closure that you need? 460 00:29:59,422 --> 00:30:02,550 If she is drinking Mai Tais on a beach somewhere, 461 00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:04,469 and we find her, and she's happy, 462 00:30:05,887 --> 00:30:08,348 I would be the happiest person in the world. 463 00:30:10,725 --> 00:30:14,521 But I don't think that's… the ending we're gonna get. 464 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,904 Because of the circumstances, 465 00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:27,283 her going missing a month later to the day 466 00:30:27,367 --> 00:30:30,745 that she sent me this letter, 467 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:34,958 and also it being a message in a bottle, 468 00:30:36,125 --> 00:30:39,879 the convenience of the metaphor 469 00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:43,049 is ripe for misunderstanding. 470 00:30:44,801 --> 00:30:47,095 It could suggest suicide… 471 00:30:48,972 --> 00:30:51,182 but I don't connect with it in that way. 472 00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:54,269 For me, I read a love letter. 473 00:30:55,603 --> 00:30:57,230 It is a love letter. 474 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,443 After the message in a bottle, 475 00:31:03,236 --> 00:31:06,865 I reach out to her, and we actually got together. 476 00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:10,994 This was days before she left for the cruise. 477 00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:14,455 She wanted me to meet her dog she had adopted, Bailey, 478 00:31:14,539 --> 00:31:16,708 and she really wanted me to see her apartment. 479 00:31:19,752 --> 00:31:24,424 I knew, in her presence, we were gonna make it work, 480 00:31:25,008 --> 00:31:27,510 and we had planned that we would see each other 481 00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:31,097 after the cruise on Easter. 482 00:31:31,764 --> 00:31:34,267 I don't think that she'd been on a cruise before. 483 00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:36,311 She was incredibly excited about it. 484 00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:40,940 She had written me a postcard. 485 00:31:41,649 --> 00:31:47,363 It arrived after I had gotten word she was missing. 486 00:31:50,283 --> 00:31:53,912 I'm a photographer, so she referenced taking photos, 487 00:31:55,538 --> 00:31:57,707 and then she said, "I wish you were here." 488 00:32:02,128 --> 00:32:06,049 I can't help but want to, like, stop her from going on the cruise. 489 00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:08,843 You know, I was right there. 490 00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:12,347 I was right there with her in that apartment right before, and… 491 00:32:14,015 --> 00:32:17,185 It's like I can see her, I can, like, see her clearly. 492 00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:18,561 I can smell her. 493 00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:21,272 I can feel her. 494 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:31,366 'Cause we're bringing her alive, you know? 495 00:32:31,449 --> 00:32:33,785 Like, we're bringing her alive. 496 00:32:39,248 --> 00:32:43,962 Today is the 9,758th day 497 00:32:44,045 --> 00:32:47,131 that we've been working to get Amy. 498 00:32:50,468 --> 00:32:52,470 We will never give up on her. 499 00:32:53,471 --> 00:32:56,432 In the morning, when we wake up, we say, "Well, maybe today." 500 00:32:56,516 --> 00:32:58,434 And when we get ready to go to bed, 501 00:32:58,518 --> 00:33:02,355 we have a special little kiss for Amy, and we say, "Maybe tomorrow." 502 00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:05,817 We keep her car in the garage at home. 503 00:33:06,401 --> 00:33:09,654 We keep it out of the weather and keep it shined up. 504 00:33:10,321 --> 00:33:15,326 That's hers, and she would… She'd love to be able to get back in it. 505 00:33:16,619 --> 00:33:20,415 So, it's going to be pristine when she gets here. 506 00:33:23,251 --> 00:33:25,503 And then she'll get to drive it again. 507 00:33:29,257 --> 00:33:33,594 We all have this gut feeling that she's out there. 508 00:33:38,433 --> 00:33:42,895 The lack of closure or the not knowing allows us to continue to hope. 509 00:33:44,105 --> 00:33:47,483 So, I actually prefer it that way, 510 00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:50,653 you know, than the finality of having an answer. 511 00:33:53,531 --> 00:33:56,200 Ron Bradley was over at my house a month ago, 512 00:33:56,284 --> 00:33:59,829 and he said to me, "When Amy comes home." 513 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,669 Sometimes, like, I see her in my brain. 514 00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:10,339 I think about her in certain places. 515 00:34:10,423 --> 00:34:12,675 I see her playing basketball a lot. 516 00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:18,181 Like, I see her drinking a beer a lot and hanging out and dancing. 517 00:34:20,099 --> 00:34:23,394 You wonder what she would think of all of our life choices, 518 00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:25,563 and, you know, what we've done, 519 00:34:25,646 --> 00:34:28,441 and, you know, and then there's just that hope 520 00:34:28,524 --> 00:34:31,944 that she knows that, like, how much we've all missed her. 521 00:34:35,114 --> 00:34:39,035 Brad and I broke up within a couple months of when Amy disappeared. 522 00:34:40,787 --> 00:34:44,874 I just think there was just a lot going on for all of us, you know? 523 00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:48,169 I still love them. 524 00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:53,341 I think the situation was obviously so overwhelming that, 525 00:34:54,467 --> 00:34:56,761 you know, I probably distanced myself. 526 00:34:58,679 --> 00:35:02,850 I think they probably all felt like they just couldn't handle anything else. 527 00:35:03,559 --> 00:35:06,354 I mean, it's never going to be the same. 528 00:35:08,898 --> 00:35:12,318 The Amy Bradley case is… You're never going to forget it 529 00:35:12,401 --> 00:35:15,780 because you can't. It's so many questions. 530 00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:19,325 For an FBI agent, that is very, very frustrating, 531 00:35:19,408 --> 00:35:21,869 'cause that's our business. We like to solve mysteries. 532 00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:23,746 We don't like to leave loose ends, 533 00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:26,374 and this case is just full of them. 534 00:35:29,335 --> 00:35:30,962 I think that's the… 535 00:35:32,755 --> 00:35:33,673 struggle. 536 00:35:34,382 --> 00:35:36,884 All these different sightings, 537 00:35:36,968 --> 00:35:39,679 I desperately wanted them to be true. 538 00:35:40,763 --> 00:35:45,226 Any scenario about what could have happened 539 00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:46,936 around her disappearance 540 00:35:47,770 --> 00:35:52,191 has doubt and possibility mixed in. 541 00:35:53,609 --> 00:35:56,696 But for me and my making peace 542 00:35:57,989 --> 00:36:00,658 with that she's no longer here, 543 00:36:00,741 --> 00:36:03,619 the one that I have loved, is… 544 00:36:04,579 --> 00:36:07,874 The fact is, I'm living my life without her. 545 00:36:08,666 --> 00:36:09,959 That's not gonna change. 546 00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:12,336 That doesn't change. 547 00:36:20,636 --> 00:36:23,472 Amy's case today is considered an open investigation. 548 00:36:23,556 --> 00:36:26,767 If anybody knows anything, were you on that ship? 549 00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:29,896 Did you see or hear something? It's been all these years. 550 00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:32,273 Maybe you took notes, you wrote something down, 551 00:36:32,356 --> 00:36:35,151 whatever it may be, that information could help. 552 00:36:38,821 --> 00:36:41,282 Something happened to Amy. 553 00:36:41,365 --> 00:36:45,786 We don't know what that is, but we have got to have answers. 554 00:36:58,174 --> 00:37:00,009 If you know something, 555 00:37:00,092 --> 00:37:05,139 please give us that one thing that we need. 556 00:37:05,765 --> 00:37:08,267 Please do that for us and do that for Amy. 557 00:37:09,435 --> 00:37:10,353 Amy! 558 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:12,355 Amy! 558 00:37:13,305 --> 00:38:13,365