10 Murky Details Surrounding The Mysterious Case Of Amy Lynn Bradley, Who Vanished From A Cruise Ship

6 /10 First Sighting

Amy’s been missing for 22 years. She would be 45 now, or might reasonably be 45, as several sightings of a woman looking like Amy have been reported since.

Amy’s parents went back to Curacoa to search for their daughter, and within 24 hours, a cab driver came forward.

He said a young woman matching Amy’s description had frantically asked him where she could find a payphone the morning of her disappearance, then ran off panicked.

5 /10 Amy On The Beach

Two Canadian tourists and a third man named David Carmichael also claimed they saw Amy on a beach, with Carmichael sure he had seen to burly, tattooed men escorting her.

By the time Carmichael reported this, a search of the area was rendered moot by authorities. Too much time had passed.

4 /10 The Brothel

Sightings didn’t slow down. A year after Amy disappeared, an enlisted Navy man claims to have met a woman who said she was Amy at a brothel. Amy begged him for help.

The navy man told Amy where his ship was docked, but he never reported it initially for fear of being sanctioned for being at a brothel in the first place.

Either way, Amy never appeared on his ship. By the time he did make a statement, the brothel had burned to the ground.

3 /10 A Frightening E-Mail

The sightings continued well into the 2000s, with Judy Maurer saying she encountered Amy in Barbados in a public restroom in 2005. Again, Amy was escorted by a mysterious man, but even a sketch didn’t help with any leads.

Finally, the family received an email that same year. It was a picture of a woman who resembled Amy. The FBI tried to trace the origin, to no avail.

But for those investigating, it felt like confirmation, both that Amy was still alive and probably sold into the sex slave trade.

2 /10 A Desperate Plea

Amy’s parents appeared on Dr. Phil after the email was sent. Her case has also appeared on America’s Most Wanted and the program Disappeared, but no further information has come from media attention.

Amy’s vanishing has also been the subject of a podcast, and new attention has been brought to her since Natalie Holloway’s disappearance the same year of the email.

The FBI has offered a $25,000 reward for any information that leads to her recovery, but they’ve yielded nothing since the email emerged.

1 /10 Retribution For The Band

It took 22 years before footage of Alister Douglas and Amy finally turned up. He was the prime suspect during the initial search, and without anything but his word, there was no way to ensure he could be completely crossed off.

Some investigators claim that the initial focus on Douglas had stymied other leads. 

Sure enough, it appeared she left at once. But it offered no further insight into what could have happened between the hours of one and five. For now, we don’t know.