All the many reported sightings there have been of Amy Bradley since she vanished

Since her baffling disappearance, there have been a number of reported sightings of Amy Bradley. On March 23rd 1998, Amy Bradley went missing. To this day, the case remains unsolved.

What happened to Amy Bradley is back in conversation, following the release of Amy Bradley Is Missing on Netflix. It tells the story of how Amy had been on a family holiday on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. She and her brother had been out at a club on board, and returned to the family cabin in the early hours. Amy had also been seen in footage, hanging out with an entertainer called Alister “Yellow” Douglas on the ship.

Later that morning, when Amy’s father went to check on her, she wasn’t in the cabin. There are a number of theories about what might have happened. And over the years, many people have reported possible sightings of Amy Bradley.

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Amy was apparently seen in Curaçao weeks after she went missing

Just weeks after Amy went missing, her father Ron and brother Brad returned to Curaçao in an attempt to continue the search. A taxi driver recognised them, and claimed he had seen Amy. 

He said it was not long after the ship had docked, and Amy had been running through a car park, trying to find a phone. Brad also said he thought he heard Amy calling out for him. “It ended up just being an old dude by himself,” he said on the Netflix show.

A tourist claimed they spotted Amy in Curaçao, in August 1998

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In August 1998, a Canadian tourist called David Carmichael had a possible sighting of Amy Bradley, on a popular Curaçao diving beach known as Playa Porto Marie. He claimed he saw a woman who had the same recognisable tattoos as Amy, with two individuals. Carmichael claimed the woman looked him up and down a few times, and he believed she was trying to communicate with him.

It was also said one of the men looked at him, before ushering the woman believed to be Amy away. “If he had not stared at me, I would have forgotten everything, but I can’t,” Carmichael said on Amy Bradley Is Missing. “I think about this every day. There isn’t a day goes by when I don’t.”

A Navy officer said they saw Amy in a Curaçao brothel in 1999

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Navy officer Bill Hefner featured in the Netflix series to share his story. He claimed he met a woman in January 1999, at a brothel in Curaçao. The woman identified herself as Amy, and told him she was being held against her will.

“She told me she got off that ship and she left on her own, cause she was going to score drugs,” he claimed. “She said, ‘Well, me and my brother were partying, and I went ashore to get drugs, and now I’m stuck here with these guys.’ ”

The FBI are said to have investigated the claims, but found that the brothel had since burned down. There was therefore no evidence to support the story.

Witnesses reported a possible sighting of Amy Bradley in 2003

In 2003, witnesses reported observing a woman who matched Amy Bradley’s description in the company of two men. They were said to be watching a street musician in San Fransisco.

When the witnesses made it clear they believed the woman was Amy, it was said the two men seized her and fled the scene. The woman is said to have looked back at the witnesses with a “pleading look”. Sketches were made by police of all those seen and released to the public.

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There was a sighting in a department store

In 2005, a woman reported seeing someone who matched Amy’s description in a department store. It was claimed the woman who looked like Amy had been seen entering a restroom in the store in Bridgetown, Barbados, with four men.

The woman who saw this said she spoke to the woman, after it sounded as though the group were discussing an “illegal deal”. She said the woman told her that her name was Amy. This was passed on to police, and composite sketches of the men and the woman were created.

The most recent reported sighting of Amy Bradley was in 2005

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The most recent of the known reported sightings of Amy Bradley was 20 years ago, in 2005. The Bradley family received a number of photos from an anonymous source, claiming to be of Amy – under a different name – on an adult website.

The woman was called Jas, and the site was based in the Caribbean. An FBI analysis concluded that the woman in the photos was Amy, but the IP address for the site couldn’t be tracked.

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