Following the release of Amy Bradley Is Missing on Netflix, people have taken a deep dive into every detail of the 1998 case, but one timeline inconsistency theory is suddenly getting more attention than ever.
Amy vanished while on a family cruise in the Caribbean. The Netflix series lays out a full breakdown of the early morning she disappeared. But now, people are revisiting old reports and noticing something strange: The times don’t add up.
There might be a full hour missing from the story
Just came across this article from days after Amy Bradley went missing and there are some interesting things that were left out of the documentary…
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In the doc, Amy’s dad, Ron Bradley, says he last saw Amy at 5:30 a.m. while she was sitting out on the balcony. But in earlier interviews from 1998, he reportedly told media that it was closer to 4:30 a.m., not 5:30.
Other reports claim that Ron even went looking for Amy and her brother Brad around 3:00 a.m., because they hadn’t yet come back from the ship’s nightclub. He allegedly brought them both back to the cabin himself, a detail that also doesn’t appear in the documentary.
Now, 27 years later, viewers are pointing out that these details might have quietly shifted over time.
“It seems like their main source is Amy’s aunt, and this was written a couple days after Amy went missing. My guess is that there were a lot of different reports and sources may have gotten things mixed up,” one person wrote on Reddit.
Could daylight saving time explain the mix-up?
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Some viewers have brought up another possibility: Time confusion.
When the cruise ship moved between international waters and different island territories, the clocks on board may have been adjusted.
One Reddit user explained: “Aruba/Curacao was an hour behind Virginia/ East Coast time in March 1998 due to daylight savings time. Could there have been a mix up with the time difference and he thought it was 5:30 when it was actually 4:30 locally? Makes a huge difference in the position of the ship and why they might not have found the body.”
So even though it’s a small detail, the time inconsistency is still raising eyebrows. Especially because so much of the case hinges on a precise timeline.
Viewers are asking why the doc didn’t clear this up
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To be fair, memory is complicated, and it’s possible that certain details have changed or been misreported over the years.
But what’s confusing to many people is that the Netflix documentary never brings up the original time discrepancies.
One person wrote that if there were different timelines in the press early on, that should’ve been addressed. Even if just to explain it.
Others think it’s a small detail with massive implications. If Amy was last seen earlier than we thought, or if clocks were misaligned on the ship, then the theories about her going overboard, being taken, or voluntarily leaving all take on new meaning.
Someone else commented, “Also, I don’t believe the documentary said the dad woke up and got them and brought them back to bed. Their timeline has switched up over the years, and not in a clarifying way, a confusing way.’”
Well the theory actually doesn’t crack the case. But people have said that it’s a detail that deserved more airtime. It might have shifted the way people look at everything else.
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