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After 27 Years Of Mysterious Leads & Strange Sightings, Why Hasn’t Amy Bradley Been Found?

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Amy Bradley missing

For true crime lovers, the case of missing person, Amy Bradley, has proved utterly perplexing.

Why? Because Amy didn’t simply walk out the front door one day and never return nor did she run off with a wayward boyfriend. No, the 23-year-old vanished during a family vacation on a cruise ship while sailing through the Caribbean.

As though into thin air, Amy was holidaying with her family one moment, and simply gone the next.

According to the FBI, the young woman disappeared 27 years ago on March 23, 1998 while the Rhapsody of the Seas ship was sailing through international waters between Aruba and its next port destination, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

It’s believed that Amy went missing in “the early morning hours” of the 24th and despite extensive searching was nowhere to be found. Further fuelling interest in the mysterious case has been the many alleged sightings of Amy in the years since.

With renewed interest in the case thanks to the Netflix documentary, Amy Bradley Is Missing, here’s what we know about the mysterious case. 

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Amy Bradley missing

The Amy Bradley Website 

Internet sleuths have been running a website called Amy Lynn Bradley is still missing for some years. The site serves as a noticeboard to share tips, leads and information regarding the possible whereabouts of Amy.

The website has provided some leads in the missing persons case including an anonymous tip that included a link to sex workers for hire, on which “FBI forensic analysis determined that one of the women looked like Amy” Time reveals.

According to the publication, the family regularly updates the website posting “family pictures because they’ve noticed that an IP address from Curaçao and Barbados visits it around holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries—and dwells on the site for about 45 minutes.” 

Was Amy Bradley Ever Found? 

Sadly, Amy Bradley is still missing to this day and is currently listed as such on the FBI website’s missing persons list.

As detailed in the documentary, there are a number of alleged sightings of Amy through the years including retired US Navy seaman Bill Hefner, who believes he met a distressed Amy in a bar in Curacao around January 1999.

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This lends itself to the family’s website lead and theory that perhaps Amy had been kidnapped and sex trafficked.

Other theories and speculation suggest Amy could have fallen from the ship and drowned while some believe, mostly due to the IP address regularly visiting the website, that she may have snuck off the ship and run away. The many possibilities and lack of answers is exactly what makes this case so fascinating.

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