The FBI is attempting to breathe new life within the Amy Lynn Bradley case — 28 years after she vanished from her cruise.
Bradley was 23 when she launched into a Royal Caribbean Worldwide cruise together with her household for a seven-day journey to the tropics – then seemingly vanished in skinny air from her stateroom within the early morning hours of March 24, 1998.
The case has baffled investigators — and a brand new three-part Netflix docuseries titled “Amy Bradley is Lacking” final yr has reinvigorated curiosity within the case.
Final week, the FBI made a brand new push to usher in extra leads — asserting a $25,000 reward for particulars resulting in her restoration, and “data that results in the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual(s) accountable for her dying.”
Within the hours earlier than she disappeared, Bradley and her brother Brad partied on the nightclub aboard their ship, Rhapsody of the Seas, then returned to their household’s shared room.
Her father reported woking up and seeing her legs on a chair of the balcony at round 5:30 a.m.
Half an hour later, she was gone.
Her household, which lives exterior Richmond, Virginia, has tirelessly looked for her since.
Her mother and father are adamant that she’s nonetheless alive.
“The hope doesn’t go away,” brother Brad instructed NewsNation final month. “As unrealistic as it might be to some folks, it’s potential that she’s nonetheless alive and nonetheless on the market.
“It’s only a intestine feeling. My mother and father and I’ve shared the identical feeling ever since Day 1…I don’t know how you can clarify that to folks or make it make sense to all people.”
Intensive searches for the Longwood School basketball participant turned up nothing, and the FBI beforehand said authorities had no proof of foul play.
However a number of witnesses declare they’ve seen her all through the years, together with a taxi driver on the Caribbean island of Curacao, the place the cruise ship docked simply minutes after Bradley vanished.
The driving force instructed the Bradley household that he’d seen her operating and looking for a telephone inside hours of the boat pulling into port.
Years later, one other individual stated they noticed Bradley, who can be 52 immediately, in Barbados.
Theories embody that she was kidnapped and compelled into intercourse work within the Caribbean, or that she voluntarily left to begin a brand new life there.
After the favored Netflix docuseries aired, a supply near this system instructed NewsNation that it spurred three new leads – together with a declare {that a} ship bartender heard Bradley yelling “Senorita kidnapped! Senorita kidnapped!” on the night time she disappeared.
“We imagine she was focused, we imagine she was taken, and we imagine she was faraway from the ship,” stated her brother, who has maintained that Bradley was not suicidal and wouldn’t have jumped from the ship.
The FBI’s investigation into the case stays ongoing.
