Chapter 1: What led to the Bradley family's cruise vacation in 1998?
hey weirdos i'm ash and i'm elena and this is morbid this is morbid early morning afternoon Exactly. It's brunch morning. Early afternoon. Yeah. I would love some brunch right now. I know.
Me too. I'm really hungry. Yeah. She just said at 1130 a.m. not even that she wants a burrito.
Yeah. Honestly, burritos are for any time because there's also breakfast burritos.
I was actually just going to say. I was like, you know what? That is valid because breakfast burritos are in fact a thing.
So saying burrito could span space and time. All encompassing, really.
and i really want one my mouth is kind of watering now i want a burrito maybe we can get some for lunch i might get a burrito okay girl maybe i'll order one while you're talking you're gonna get taco bell maybe i cannot get taco burritos sick nasty we've been eating so much fast food lately i know my stomach is like bitch would you just eat a vegetable
Because I also just moved and I don't have an oven right now. Oh, so you've been eating takeout. Oh my God. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, takeout, takeout, takeout. I'm not functioning. Every food that I'm eating right now is beige. It's not good. You're like a toddler. I'm on a beige toddler diet. Damn. It's no bueno. No way. You know what I did get last night? What?
If you're from like, I think it is the 99 only in New England thing. No. I think it is. Is it? I think it might be. I think it was invented in Boston. Not invented, but you know what I'm saying. The headquarters is Woburn. Woburn. Yeah, I got the 99 last night. If you're ever in the East Coast area and New England in specific, you got to get the 99.
I got, you can get a side of a biscuit and gravy. Oh, damn. So it was so beige and so delicious.
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Chapter 2: What happened to Amy Lynn Bradley during the cruise?
You're so weird. Thank you for coming. You are inherently such a weird girl. Like I'm pretty weird and like... like obnoxious i would say but you're just deep down a weird bitch and i love that you are correct i love it you are very correct so but yeah you you meet weird people and you see weird things going on so you're just like i don't know like i'm gonna stick to myself yeah
So the night went on and their parents relaxed after dinner with some drinks and Amy and Brad changed into more comfortable clothes. And then they went to the casino, they played some slot machines, and then they went to the top deck for the Calypso party, which featured the house band Blue Orchid.
Nancy and Ron finally made their way up to that deck and they found Amy and Brad in the middle of this big limbo contest going on. Brad eventually won the contest. Hell yeah, Brad. And he gave his crown to Amy. It was literally like a prom king crown. Oh, that's cute. So they were just like really having a nice time together.
Yeah, just doing the cruise thing, man.
Yeah. Now, while they were at the party, like on this top deck, the boat was leaving Aruba and heading to Curacao. Curacao, excuse me. So Brad chatted with some of the other passengers after the limbo competition. They were like, hey, limbo king. Hey, limbo king. And Amy struck up a conversation with Blue Orchid's bass player, a man named Alistair Douglas, and his nickname was Yellow. Okay.
So she danced with him for a while. They chatted, whatever. Okay. Around 1 a.m., Ron and Ivor were like, hey, we're going to bed for the night. And a few hours later, Brad headed back to the cabin alone, but he had motioned to Amy that, like, he was going to go down. Like, she knew that she was by herself. Yeah. And she was just finishing her drink on the top deck.
So she got back to the room about half an hour later, and she and Brad decided to have one more drink together on the balcony before calling it a night. So they're back at their cabin, but on their private balcony. Okay.
Yeah.
So they're drinking. They're looking out at the ocean. They talked about their plans for the next day, about what they were going to do when they got home. Amy did mention during this conversation that Alistair Douglas from the band had made a pass at her while they were dancing. Oh. Which like, I think she didn't, she wasn't super comfortable with that, but she wasn't super upset either.
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Chapter 3: What were the initial responses to Amy's disappearance?
And the thing is, in that area, the current is really strong. So had she jumped off the boat or been pushed off the boat, it was likely that she would wash up at some point because of how strong the current is, especially like where it would have happened. So the fact that she never has is very interesting.
Interesting.
Now, having little success with the local authorities and virtually none with the ship's captain, the next morning, Ron called his brother in the U.S. and had his brother get in touch with the FBI to report Amy's disappearance. And that's when the investigation truly got moving. But at that point, it's two days later.
Yeah. We've all seen the first 48.
Yeah. So a liaison from the FBI got in touch with the captain of the ship and several agents along with the Bradleys ended up flying to St. Martin to reboard the ship. Oh, wow. So the involvement of the FBI made the ship's captain and Royal Caribbean much more cooperative. But because they were docked in foreign territory, the FBI didn't have jurisdiction. Oh, Jesus.
And they weren't able to make all the demands that they might have been able to make if they were on our soil.
Yeah.
But still, the captain agreed to let two agents board the ship to conduct interviews as long as they were inconspicuous and dressed in regular clothing.
We're so worried about freaking everyone out here. They really were.
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Chapter 4: How did the Bradley family react to the investigation process?
Iva said it was a sleepless, exciting, but terrifying nightmare that any minute we were going to have Amy. Oh, this is literally destroying my heart. Ron and Iva spent the following week in a Miami hotel room just anxiously awaiting any word from Frank. When finally he called with some distressing news.
They had started the rescue operation, he said, just as he'd planned, but they had to abort the mission when some of his men were, quote, injured in a gunfight with Amy's captors. He insisted that they would try again, but now they needed to regroup and let some time pass because the kidnappers were alerted now. Disappointed, they started packing up and were just going to return back to Richmond.
And that's when the hotel phone rang a second time. This time it was Tim Buchholz, who I mentioned before, a member of Frank's agency, with very surprising and very devastating news. He had been working with Frank.
on what he believed to be a genuine human trafficking case but in recent days he discovered that jones was nothing more than a con artist who was using the bradley family's money to fund a lavish vacation in curacao if that is true it is he is the epit that is so evil yeah i can't even
I can't even. It gets so much worse. These grieving parents. You have them fly to Miami. You make them and give you hundreds of thousands of dollars claiming that you know their daughter is alive. You know she's being held in this horrific situation. So putting that in their heads, that every night they're going to sleep being like she's there. God knows what's happening to her.
And then telling them, I'm going to get her out. You just have to pay me more money.
I'm so close. book a trip to florida and just wait for my word that that's how close i am the fact that that family like the hundreds of thousands of dollars is one thing in and of itself but for some reason for me it's the fact that he had them fly out and sit in a hotel room and wait for his word oh yeah and it was all a lie and just excited to see their daughter like i can't my my
I don't know how you have that in you.
To be that evil.
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