Amy Bradley is Missing - Netflix documentary

Is she the one that fell off the boat and drowned but her family insists that she was kidnapped?

Definately an all time favorite but is there anything new to tell? It's an old case. I think her parents might be dead. Maybe her brother has more to tell.

Just got done watching this. I remember this case from Unsolved Mysteries years and years ago. I long thought that she'd somehow fallen overboard (or been pushed by someone else) as this seemed like the most straightforward explanation, but the photos that surfaced of the unknown woman certainly look a lot like her and does make me wonder if she could have been a sex trafficking victim.

I thought it was interesting that the documentary went into elements of her personal life that were not previously made public, like that she was a lesbian and had a girlfriend (though by the looks of her, it isn't surprising whatsoever—she was very butch). I really felt awful for her parents while watching this. You can tell it destroyed them as well as her brother.

But how would she have been trafficked from a cruise ship in the middle of an ocean?

So boring. She fell over or was pushed. End of story.

Another possibility is that Amy ended her own life, her parents were not supportive of her being gay, her father wrote a three page letter telling how disappointed in Amy he was when she came out, that's a very painful thing when you're young.

Did they go into her sexuality and her parents reaction in the documentary?

They found the Birkenstocks she was wearing that evening on the cabin balcony.

Does U-Haul rent boats?

People love to jump to the sexual trafficking angle.

I suspect Alister Douglas wanted to hook up with her, found she was a lesbian, and raped and killed her. Or just killed her outright.

[R3], I agree there is a resemblance. Is there modern technology that could determine if the two photos are of the same person?

R11 in the Netflix series it was stated that a forensic analyst from the FBI did a comparison of the photo with numerous other photos of Amy, using overlays and taking measurements of all of her features (especially features that don't tend to naturally change over time, such as jawline, brow, ears) and his conclusion was that it was her.

R7 maybe I missed it, but I didn't catch the parents talking much about it. At the end, they did make comments about the prospect of having grandchildren from Amy that they've never met (under the presumption that she could still be alive under an assumed identity and have had children). I found this perverse because A) It is evident just by looking at her that Amy was very butch I find it doubtful she would have ever willingly carried a child and B) If she actually is alive and did give birth, those children would have been born out of circumstances in which their daughter had been prostituted and/or raped.

They did interview the girlfriend she was with at the time she went missing. The two had met in high school and reconnected after college. The way she described their relationship was very much typical of what a lot of gays/lesbians go through when they find each other. The girlfriend seemed like a good person who was very much in love with her. It was sad.

R6 the letter was written to Amy's girlfriend, not Amy, though I'm not sure that matters—I am sure Amy also read it. It did seem like Amy's childhood and college friends were all very supportive of her, at least, which was nice to hear. One of her best friends from college (who was straight) was the first person Amy came out to, and she made the trip back to Amy's house with her when she decided she wanted to tell her parents. That's a good friend.

Sex trafficking is the new fibromyalgia.

Do they go into her parents’ homophobia?

R16 I don't believe the family discussed her sexuality at all unless I missed it

Has there been instances of people hidden in trunks and kidnapped off cruise liners?

There's got to be an easier way if sex trafficking is the endgame.

I don't think gay issues played a part.....

and I don't know that I think any of the witnesses who saw her later in random locations were particularly credible somehow.

the show tried to paint the musician as a sinister figure, the suitcase of pics of white women I found to be very strange..... but I guess he checked out .

it seems some fluke fall overboard makes as much sense as anything.

[quote]I didn't catch the parents talking much about it. At the end, they did make comments about the prospect of having grandchildren from Amy that they've never met (under the presumption that she could still be alive under an assumed identity and have had children). I found this perverse because A) It is evident just by looking at her that Amy was very butch I find it doubtful she would have ever willingly carried a child and B) If she actually is alive and did give birth, those children would have been born out of circumstances in which their daughter had been prostituted and/or raped.

Honestly, many parents like hers wouldn't care how their grandchildren came into this world.

Since she wasn't into men, I think she was hanging out with Alistair because he had drugs, and/or he said he knew where they could get some in Curacao. She went off with him willingly and then he kidnapped her or passed her over to some local traffickers.

The trafficking just seems far fetched.

Sad that her family was cold about her being a lesbian

Occam's Razor. She was drunk and went overboard. Some suggest she was vomiting over the side and leaned too far forward.

So multiple witnesses and photos that were forensically confirmed to be a match mean nothing? Creepy bass player collecting white women's photos who was the last person to be seen with her?

Witnesses are notoriously unreliable and forensics from who and where? A vetted source? Crackpot?

There are just too many unlikely and implausible scenarios involved in the trafficking scenario. It’s more likely she jumped. Her family seemed superficially close but also highly controlling. Her father had just written a three page rant to her girlfriend before the cruise, They were homophobic at worst and not thrilled with her being a lesbian at best. At 5’4”, she had drank at least seven beers that night. She was likely drunk and made a fateful decision. They are in denial about their role in this and would rather chase the racist ‘white slavery’ trafficking trope. It made me a bit angry that people think this kind of scenario is typical of trafficking while the plight of the majority of victims goes ignored because they come from less advantaged backgrounds. Couldn’t ignore the major MAGA vibes from the family.

Holy Cow! She was only 5'4"? All these years I pictured her as a girl who played softball.

In the doc, her father and mother say they were disappointed to learn Amy was gay. The dad admits he wrote the 3 page letter to Amy’s girlfriend, but also says they never stopped loving Amy. IMO Dad shows guilt and premature aging, as if he gets that they didn’t know Amy really, whether she jumped or went ashore to get drugs. Actually, I thought the witnesses seemed pretty credible. If Amy went ashore and was drugged and or told they’d murder her parents if she talked, couldn’t the whole sex trafficking thing be plausible? I mean it was the nineties. Dark side of the Caribbean and all. And poor brother whose life just stalled and his hair turned grey.

There is no evidence she went ashore

I don't think you can just leave the ship that easily at night.

R29, that's correct. Which makes the assertion that she was somehow smuggled off the ship that much sillier