Amy Bradley Is Missing

Such a frustrating documentary. So many egregious failures... The spineless twit of a former navy man who Amy approached for help, and who didn't report the incident until years later when he was retired, for fear of getting into trouble. Ugh, you couldn't report it anonymously??

The blonde tourist woman who ran into Amy in obvious danger and distress in a public restroom, and didn't immediately call the police?

Royal Caribbean, who derailed investigation efforts, in an effort to cover themselves.

The captain who forsaked his fundamental duty to protect his passengers.

What is wrong with people??

And then there is our illustrious FBI. Despite multiple credible reports of this woman being sighted in a small geographic area, they didn't send undercover agents to visit the brothels? To walk the streets? They didn't track the IP addresses in Barbados? Despicable and inexcusable. Lazy and incompetent. Your tax dollars at work folks! This shows you how much trouble your government would go to to help you if you were in trouble - virtually none.

Such a frustrating documentary. And all those insisting she went overboard are suffering from cognitive dissonance because they don't want to admit what a widespread problem trafficking is, and that this horror story can happen to literally anyone. Yes, including YOU reading this, or your kids. It's much easier for most to blame the victim than face reality.

So sad and frustrating.

This was interesting. I hope the family can get some closure.

I am probably getting downvoted but I don't care. I disagree with the kidnapped theory. Would the kidnappers risk getting caught taking someone surrounded by cameras and crowds of people?

Also prostitution is legal on that island so why kidnap someone ?

I don't think yellow did anything nefarious to her.,I think he was a horndog that was good at his job.

I think she either had a accident and drowned or left on her own free will and doesn't want to be found. She sounded deeply unhappy and done trying to fit in where she didn't in the message in a bottle to her ex gf. There are pictures of a couple middle aged lesbian Amy's that live in neighboring Islands and they look happy and way more like her that infamous picture.

Netflix's three-part documentary on Amy Bradley grips with emotion but fails as investigation. Instead of cutting implausible theories, it indulges them. Witness accounts are treated as fact, though any detective knows memory under fatigue, alcohol, and hindsight is unreliable. Hard evidence is what matters, and the series barely touches it.

The "crew conspiracy" theory collapses immediately. Twenty-seven years, no anomalies, no leaks, no history of criminal activity among the staff. A smuggling plot would have required multiple conspirators, sustained silence, and operational risk that simply never happened. The idea she walked off is equally implausible: Amy was young, attractive, and would have been noticed-especially barefoot at dawn, carrying no bag, after a sleepless night. Male crew in particular would have seen her. She did not disembark unseen.

She was also safe on her balcony. Extraction from there was not possible without family or nearby passengers hearing or seeing. What remains, after eliminating noise and fantasy, is the only plausible explanation: Amy, overwhelmed, in acute distress but without a planned suicide, went overboard. No attempt to swim, carried out by currents, never recovered. Painful, but parsimonious.

Netflix could have told that disciplined story-constraints, timelines, elimination of the impossible. Instead, it served speculation. Compelling television, yes, but not forensic truth.

With all that was said and watch...I just feel so very sorry for her parents and her brother. I can't even imagine the pain that they have carried for so many years. Everyday, they continue to hope against hope that they will be reconnected with Amy! What surprised me the most, was that her parents were still married. That the stress of all this, did not drive them apart, to divorce. That says a lot about their love for Amy and their love for each other. I'm not sure how I would react in this situation. Do I give up? But then to have multiple, possible sightings...whew!..My heart goes out to them...

Back in 1998, a family set off for a holiday on board a cruise ship. One evening, their daughter, Amy Bradley, vanished without a trace. Efforts to find her proved fruitless, and over the years, Amy has apparently been spotted regularly.

This is such a chilling and incredibly sad story; her poor family is clearly haunted by her disappearance, and the lack of closure must be the worst thing.

This is a very well-made documentary. Three episodes were about right; it explores some interesting ideas and some fairly baffling conspiracy theories.

It makes you aware of one thing: if you go missing on a ship, you are in serious trouble; international waters, etc. You are very much in the hands of the captain, and if they don't want to know...

Several powerful interviews, primarily from her friends and loved ones, as well as an eye-opening one from Kirk Detweiler, a staff member whose attitude is somewhat remarkable.

Judy Maurer came across as the most sincere of the witnesses, all I could think think of, was why didn't she fall the Police?

Decades on, we can hope she's living well somewhere; it just seems so unlikely. People love a conspiracy theory, but she seemed to have a closeness with people at home, especially her brother, she'd have made contact somehow.

7/10.