One of the main theories about what might have happened to Amy Bradley is that she fell overboard. The first episode of Amy Bradley Is Missing seemed to have everyone thinking that, before episodes two and three addressed different and more wider theories of what might have happened.
To this day, nobody truly knows what happened to Amy Bradley. She was last seen in March 1988, on a Royal Caribbean cruise with her family. Some think she fell overboard over the balcony of the family cabin, and others think she was kidnapped. Since the Netflix show, Amy’s brother Brad Bradley has done loads of interviews sharing updates, and what the family thinks might have happened.
Brad appeared on Courtroom Insider with Nate Eaton, and shared a detail that disproves the theory his sister fell overboard. Netflix didn’t go into much detail about this at all. Brad explained the ship had already docked when Amy went missing, and then full searches of the surrounding waters were done. He said given the ship was at the port, and not out at sea, if Amy had been in the water, they would have found her.
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“Did she fall off? No,” Brad said in the interview. “The first time we got on the boat, we all looked out to see the balcony. Amy trailed behind me. I got up to the railing, we were on the eighth story up. You can look straight down to the water. I was like, ‘Oh my god Amy look at this.’ She was like, ‘Nope.’ She stood back by the sliding doors. At no point during our time on the boat would she even get near the rail.”
Brad then addressed that some people thought she might have needed to be sick after their night out on the boat prior, and he said there was no way she would have leant over the rail to do that, and said she was tall enough to stand near the rail and not have to climb it to be sick – in a worst case scenario.
Brad Bradley then went on to explain the fundamental reason there’s no truth in the theory Amy fell overboard. “The boat is not at sea,” he said. “I know a lot of people may have that misconception that we’re out in the middle of the ocean when this happened. We were at Curaçao.”
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He explained it should have taken at max just over three hours to get from Aruba to Curaçao. The boat left Aruba at 1am, and Amy’s father recalled seeing Amy at around 5am. Brad then went on to explain the entire docking process at Curaçao, and said at max that’ would take an additional 90 minutes.
Brad explained a member of staff had also confirmed “the boat was sitting completely still” during the window Amy is believed to have disappeared. “The time frame Amy disappeared we were no further than right in front, we’re talking 100ft, from the shore,” Brad said.
“With tides being as predictable as they are, and the search efforts that were made, for days, they assured us that if she was in the water they would have found something.”
Watch the full interview with Brad Bradley here:
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