Post by CrepedCrusader on Aug 6, 2019 23:23:24 GMT
On the morning of March 24, 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley was in the middle of a weeklong cruise to Curaçao with her parents and her brother. Between 5:15 and 5:30 am, her father found her asleep on the balcony of their room. When he checked on her again at 6 am, she was gone. The ship docked in Curaçao shortly after she was discovered missing, and an extensive search of the ship turned up no clues.
Her family recalled several men onboard, including a waiter and a bass player who played for a dance troupe, who had at various times hit on her, though she had not reciprocated. Amy told her family that at least one of the men who had hit on her was "creepy", and another was a "jerk".
There have been several alleged sightings of Amy over the years. In 1998, two Canadian tourists said they saw a woman on the beach in Curaçao walking with two men. She resembled Amy, and had tattoos that seemed to match hers. When the woman tried to speak with them, the two men whisked her away. It wasn't until a year later, after seeing a segment about Amy on Unsolved Mysteries, that they reported the incident.
In 1999 a member of the U.S. Navy visiting Curaçao claims that a woman in a brothel told him that her name was Amy Bradley, and that she wasn't allowed to leave the brothel. She begged him to help her. Not being familiar with the Bradley case, and worried about being punished for visiting a brothel, the sailor failed to report the incident until some time later, after reading a story about Bradley's disappearance in People Magazine.
There was another potential sighting in 2005, in the restroom of a department store in nearby Barbados. A witness claims that a woman entered the restroom with a couple of men who were threatening her if she did not follow through on a deal. When the witness approached the woman after the men had left, the woman said that her name was Amy and that she was from Virginia. (It's worth noting here that Amy Bradley was, indeed, from Virginia.) The two men then entered the bathroom and took the woman away.
Some time after Amy's disappearance, her parents received a photo that was emailed from a person who wanted to remain anonymous. (Not certain when they received the photo, but it was first shown publicly on a 2005 episode of Dr. Phil.) The photo shows a woman posing on a bed wearing lingerie. The woman in the photo bears a resemblance to Amy, and her parents believe that it is her.
Her family believes that Amy is a victim of sex slavery, and all of these reported sightings seem to back up that claim. Is it possible that she was, in fact, caught up in the sex trade? Is it possible that these sightings were perhaps coincidental, and that some of the details reported were incorrect (e.g. maybe the woman in the brothel gave another name, and the sailor only misremembered it as "Amy Bradley" after reading about her)? Is it even possible that some of the sightings never happened, and were the result of people trying to worm their way into an unsolved case?
Links:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley
www.drphil.com/slideshows/the-search-for-natalee-amy-bradley/
Her family recalled several men onboard, including a waiter and a bass player who played for a dance troupe, who had at various times hit on her, though she had not reciprocated. Amy told her family that at least one of the men who had hit on her was "creepy", and another was a "jerk".
There have been several alleged sightings of Amy over the years. In 1998, two Canadian tourists said they saw a woman on the beach in Curaçao walking with two men. She resembled Amy, and had tattoos that seemed to match hers. When the woman tried to speak with them, the two men whisked her away. It wasn't until a year later, after seeing a segment about Amy on Unsolved Mysteries, that they reported the incident.
In 1999 a member of the U.S. Navy visiting Curaçao claims that a woman in a brothel told him that her name was Amy Bradley, and that she wasn't allowed to leave the brothel. She begged him to help her. Not being familiar with the Bradley case, and worried about being punished for visiting a brothel, the sailor failed to report the incident until some time later, after reading a story about Bradley's disappearance in People Magazine.
There was another potential sighting in 2005, in the restroom of a department store in nearby Barbados. A witness claims that a woman entered the restroom with a couple of men who were threatening her if she did not follow through on a deal. When the witness approached the woman after the men had left, the woman said that her name was Amy and that she was from Virginia. (It's worth noting here that Amy Bradley was, indeed, from Virginia.) The two men then entered the bathroom and took the woman away.
Some time after Amy's disappearance, her parents received a photo that was emailed from a person who wanted to remain anonymous. (Not certain when they received the photo, but it was first shown publicly on a 2005 episode of Dr. Phil.) The photo shows a woman posing on a bed wearing lingerie. The woman in the photo bears a resemblance to Amy, and her parents believe that it is her.
Her family believes that Amy is a victim of sex slavery, and all of these reported sightings seem to back up that claim. Is it possible that she was, in fact, caught up in the sex trade? Is it possible that these sightings were perhaps coincidental, and that some of the details reported were incorrect (e.g. maybe the woman in the brothel gave another name, and the sailor only misremembered it as "Amy Bradley" after reading about her)? Is it even possible that some of the sightings never happened, and were the result of people trying to worm their way into an unsolved case?
Links:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley
www.drphil.com/slideshows/the-search-for-natalee-amy-bradley/
